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I just wish to lay down a couple of data riffs here about Weldon, data mining technology companies, and contributions, in the hopes that someone much better than I at manipulating FEC data would have a peek.

In an interview for Government Secrecy News published September 5, 2005, Shaffer identified Battelle, Raytheon Company, and Orion Scientific (acquired by SRA International, Inc,) as companies that LIWA, and Able Danger had used for technology, as well as data-base miners. He aslso mentioned Spire, Parentage, and Starlight software.

http://www.gsnmagazine.com/sep_05/shaffer_interview.html

Raytheon is a hydra of a corporation, with many more subsidiaries than I know of.

SRA has been on an acquisition binge; along with their picking-up Orion, SRA has acquired, or is acquiring Galaxy Scientific Corporation, Touchstone Consulting Group, Inc., and Adroit Systems, Inc.

I haven't the patience or expertise to play with the FEC databases properly in a manner that would produce results that would transparently show exactly what employees of these companies and their subsidiaries have contributed to Weldon, but I did come up with a tiny bit of data.

Weldon's leadership PAC, The Commmittee for a United Republican Team (CURT), reported that in the '02, '04 and '06 cycles combined Galaxy Scientific Corporation accounted for $67,850, and SRA International accounted for $76,825, plus many other tech company donations.

good hunting...

To; zz ziled

Your Welcome.

Lets just keep the facts real so everyone does not get dicouraged with reading this BLOG and Article's of Mr. Arkin.

Then we may all accomplish a voice in our oppions.

WILL THE IRON NATIONAL SECURITY BLANKET OF 1917 SOON SMOTHER THE US PUBLIC'S RIGHT TO KNOW ABOUT AND DISCUSS NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES?

"In its prosecution of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Bush Administration is staking out new legal territory, arguing that it is a crime for a reporter or any other non-government employee who does not hold a security clearance to receive and communicate classified information.

"The government respectfully submits that an 'ordinary person exercising ordinary common sense' [...] would know that foreign officials, journalists and other persons with no current affiliation with the United States government would not be entitled to receive information related to our national defense," according to the government's January 30 response (pdf) to a motion to dismiss (pdf) filed by the AIPAC defendants.

This is a novel view of the press and the American public.

The idea that the government can penalize the receipt of proscribed information, and not just its unauthorized disclosure, is one that characterizes authoritarian governments, not mature democracies.

The government bases its position on a narrow reading of the Espionage Act of 1917 (18 U.S.C. 793), which prohibits certain communications of national defense information by "whoever" may do so."
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"What's Classified and What's Not
It is important to understand that there is no rigorous, consensual definition of what constitutes classified information. Instead, in a practical sense, classified information is whatever the executive branch says it is."

"The conclusion that emerges from the chaos of government information policy is that the classification system is essentially an administrative tool used by the executive branch for its own internal purposes. It is a poor index of what is sensitive and what is not."

Source & More on both stories @: Aftergood's Secrecy News Blog: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/
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To SOG & Lone Mule,
Thank you both so much for your keen slurs, personalized snivelings and heartfelt slobberings about my postings on this blog. ---I admit that I am totally charmed and surprised, that rather than skip over my humble comments and posts, you would be so very attentive and admiring!!! So from the back of my hand, I blow cyber smooches to you both for your sweet flattery!

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www.onlinejournal.com
www.takingaim.info
www.wsws.org

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/20/uae-military-equipment/

UAE Would Also Control Shipments of Military Equipment For The U.S. Army

There is bipartisan concern about the Bush administration's decision to outsource the operation of six of the nation's largest ports to a company controlled by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) because of that nation's troubling ties to international terrorism. The sale of P&O to Dubai World Ports would give the state-owned company control of "the ports of New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia."

A major part of the story, however, has been mostly overlooked. The company, Dubai Ports World, would also control the movement of military equipment on behalf of the U.S. Army through two other ports. From today's edition of the British paper Lloyd's List:

[P&O] has just renewed a contract with the United States Surface Deployment and Distribution Command to provide stevedoring [loading and unloading] of military equipment at the Texan ports of Beaumont and Corpus Christi through 2010.

According to the journal Army Logistician "Almost 40 percent of the Army cargo deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom flows through these two ports."

Thus, the sale would give a country that has been "a key transfer point for illegal shipments of nuclear components to Iran, North Korea and Lybia" direct control over substantial quantities U.S. military equipment.

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The War of Terror is a Lie! Break free of the Cult of Bush!

listen to what Shaffer has to say for himself on this interview

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4803987

Arkin is right: Weldon has the wrong end of the stick on this one. Weldon wants to essentially prove that data mining works, and Shaffer is right there with him because this would benefit Shaffer's career big time.

In regards to Osama Bin Laden and Pakistan. I hope this answers some of your questions.

SOG not used in Pakistan because Bush government did not want to catch the ones they have been supporting, financing, supplying, training and using as world wide mercenaries since the 80's.

If Bush catches or kills his buddy Osama.

Then Osama's friends have threatened to expose documents and evidence that proves Bush was behind the 9/11 attacks such as the fact that all 19 alleged terrorists were trained by the U.S. Government at a place called the "School of the America's" down south here in the U.S.A..

School of the America's

United States Army School of the Americas ,Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga.

http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usamhi/usarsa/main.htm

Check CBS 60 minutes report from the 80's and their follow up report in early 90's.
See the place first hand for yourselves.

CBS had some real good footage.

School currently has a sister camp/training compound in Texas which is also run by the CIA.

Which by the way is a school owned, financed and operated by the CIA.

And the fact that 15 of the 19 alleged terrorists were from Bush's friends in Saudi Arabia. The other 4 were from two smaller countries in Africa. And that NONE of the 19 alleged terrorists of 9/11 had ever been to Iraq and or Afghanistan and or Iran.

Also that G.W. Bush and his daddy have personally had meetings with Osama Bin Laden in the past and that there are press photos to prove this from the 80's and the 90's.

Just like there are press photos showing Ollie North and Collin Powel shaking hands with the Sandinistas (recently reprinted in the "Nation" magazine by William F. Buckley.

I was an instructor at the School of the America's. I know. I know who signed my paycheck.

Payback is a b----.
Because I am going to rat out everybody in the government who has participated in screwing me in the past.

I have knowledge of most all their crimes from the 70's to present.

Yes I have a personal agenda, that being that I will see ALL the CRIMINALS in the U.S. government in prison at minimum for the rest of their lives.

To; zz zilled,
Independent is fine.
But filling the BLOG with stuff/info that is Irrelevant to and not directly related the Blog original topic is SPAMMING and an obvious attempt to disrupt the BLOG.

We all can read for ourselves the news in other publications or see it on TV with out you or someone else taking up space on the Washington Post Blogs like you have by posting info/news/false statements(such as the alledged Senator from Kansas Pat Roberson).

These actions of yours which deters and disrupts people from being able to read the comments that do relate to the original articles.

There appears to be reluctance for DoD to show the actual records. Ever though of some creative ways to find out what DoD was or was not doing?

There's a way. Here's how DoJ employee time records have been reviewed, showing they were not working on FISA as the President and Gonzalez have said: [http://tinyurl.com/mbdzw]

zz ziled,

You're an IDIOT!

First and foremost I think Mr. Arkin can explain his censorship tactics. He certainly doesn't need an out of touch liberal who doesn't even know who Pat Roberts of Kansas is (roberts.senate.gov)

You and Arkin run around screaming about the injustice and in competency of the current administration to the degree you won't let facts get in the way of your message.

Perhaps, Arkin didn't like the fact that I referred to him as a "walking, talking, bowel movement of a man". Or maybe he didn't like the fact that I (and many others) identified his piece on the USS Virginia as stupid, amateurish, and WRONG!!

I think the George Bush and the Republicans are doing a poor job. However, if the Left is every to gain any relevancy (other than on little read, left-wing, circle jerks like "Early Warning", then I'm afraid Karl Rove will be picking the next President.....Again!

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www.onlinejournal.com
www.takingaim.info

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Only 25% of Americans Approve of Current Congress

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:48:38 -0800
Summary:

This new poll indicates American discontent with Congress, but may also indicate a change in tide that the Democrats could capitalize on. No doubt that both parties are quite horrible, but there may be a collective sentiment within the United States for party change?
American voters will renew the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate on Nov. 7.
[Posted By supercanuk]
By N/A
Republished from Angus-Reid Consultants
Angus Reid Poll Indicates 25% of Americans Approve

(Angus Reid Global Scan) - Few adults in the United States are satisfied with the performance of the House of Representatives and the Senate, according to a poll by Harris Interactive. Only 25 per cent of respondents have a positive opinion of the current Congress, unchanged since January.

In the November 2004 congressional ballot, the Republican Party elected 232 lawmakers to the House of Representatives, while the Democratic Party secured 202 seats. The Republicans also have a majority in the Senate, with 55 members in the 100-seat upper house.

In his Jan. 31 State of the Union address, U.S. president George W. Bush declared, "Keeping America competitive requires affordable energy. And here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world. The best way to break this addiction is through technology. Since 2001, we have spent nearly $10 billion to develop cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable alternative energy sources--and we are on the threshold of incredible advances."

Earlier this month, Republican New Mexico senator Pete Domenici and Democratic New Mexico senator Jeff Bingaman--both members of the Senate Energy Committee--proposed a bill that would open 3 million acres off the Florida coast for oil exploration. A federal moratorium on all new off-shore drilling--established in 1981--will expire in 2012.

American voters will renew the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate on Nov. 7.

Polling Data

How would you rate the job the Congress is doing--excellent, pretty good, only fair, or poor?

Feb. 2006
Jan. 2006

Positive 25% 25%

Negative 71% 72%

Source: Harris Interactive
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,002 American adults, conducted from Feb. 3 to Feb. 7, 2006. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

Over the long President's Day Weekend, here is more of what you won't see reported on the Sunday morning political GAME SHOWS that pass for our Television Mass Media:
[They are busy talking about the US Port Sale Controversy.....]

So let's talk about:

US Constitution plays second fiddle to the U.S. of America, Inc's Transnational Corporate Mission Statement.

Excellent interview of John Nichols of the Nation's and others such as Scott Ritter (talks about the coming war with Iran) and Alfred McCoy (talks on US Torture Roots @ the CIA) by Ian Masters 3 hour Fund raising Background Briefing & Live from the Left Coast extravaganza. http://www.ianmasters.org/
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[At least: Tune in to hear that new Country Western Hit: kick-a** new satirical song on Birdshot' "F**k-YOU"]
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John Nichols tells us about what should be becoming apparent to Voter Citizen Gump:

America the nation-state, becomes US of America, Inc. under our nation's first Harvard MBA president....

The story of President Bush's Chief Executive Operating Officer, sometimes known as our Vice President. Cheney, who designs, plans and runs our Foreign policy along with Rummy of course...

Listen to how the GOP Congress becomes the Executive's subsidiary.....

Ask yourself with 2 new judicial appointees can the Supreme Court Judiciary be far behind from becoming another of the Executive's subsidiary?

The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Most Powerful Vice President in American History (Dick Cheney) (now in Paperback) by John Nichols.

Here is Nichol's Nation blog to read more dirt on: "Birdsh*t Cheney":
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1

Bush had to lean on Cheney to get him to talk
[Time Magazine tells us]

"President Bush had to lean on Vice President Cheney to get him to talk about his hunting accident, TIME Magazine's Nancy Gibbs and Mike Allen report in Monday editions.
Excerpts from the registration-restricted story at Raw Story:

"How do you make a powerful Vice President do something he doesn't want to do, however much the President needs it? From the earliest days of this Administration, the President has been comfortable having a Vice President who answers only to him and pretty much scares everyone else. When Cheney simply shut down after the accident, there was no one else in the White House with the nerve or clout to bring him back online. Cheney "has a very protective family, plus there is an unfortunate intimidation factor," says a former Administration official. "Very few staff--either in Cheneyworld or Bushworld--are comfortable raising issues in a straightforward manner or giving constructive advice."

Bush and Cheney are not as close as they were in their first term, TIME reports.

"But in recent months the internal dynamic has shifted. Through the first term, Cheney's dominion over foreign policy was unchallenged. And while he remains the Administration's voice on national security, the ascendance of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the distraction of the cia-leak investigation and public doubts about the handling of the Iraq occupation mean the Vice President often finds himself advocating rather than orchestrating. An overstretched military narrows Administration options; Rice talks often about realistic approaches, and the Administration is more willing to acknowledge the utility of allies and even the U.N. than to pursue the more confrontational approach of Cheneyland... Cheney was the White House point man in trying to thwart Senator John McCain's effort to ban torture of detainees in U.S. custody anywhere in the world. Even after Bush yielded to McCain, Cheney's staff worked hard to try to narrow the restrictions in the legislation."

[Source: http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Time_Mag_Bush_had_to_lean_0219.html]
Also on Raw Story:
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"AP reports on 'discrepancies' of VP Birdshot's Mother Goose Tale on the Hunting Accident" [Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060218/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_fact_check]
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Maybe we need to call SADS to investigate :

" SPORTSMEN AGAINST DRUNK SHOOTERS" to tell us what is the pre-requisite blood alcohol level for handling a weapon in sports safety circles---too bad 'Birdshot' Cheney avoided a police administrated 'blow test' in this incident....like Citizen Gump would have had to ...but then we should just understand that the Executive is the law and thus above it.

The Executive Branch's Masters of Deception:

"All indications are that an active campaign to set up Iran for attack was going full gear even as George W. Bush was declaring "mission accomplished" in Iraq. As we look at the different pieces of the puzzle, a definite picture begins to emerge: what we are seeing are the outlines of a coordinated covert action, engineered by neoconservative ideologues in and around the Pentagon and Dick Cheney's office, and carried out in cooperation with the Israelis. Their objective: gin up a war with Iran, even as we marched into Iraq. A one-two punch that will speed the forces of "democratization" and visit upon the region what Ledeen lauds as "creative destruction."

"More on the exposure of Ms. Valerie Plame-Wilson and her entire operation - Brewster Jennings & Associates, the CIA front company that cloaked this super-secret tracking program - effectively blinded the U.S. to the evolution of Iran's nuclear program.

Not long after the outing of Plame - and just after a grand jury began hearing testimony in the Fitzgerald investigation - another security breach involving Iran made headlines: the Iranians had been alerted to the fact that the U.S. had broken the code governing their internal government communications, with the chief suspects being the neoconservative version of Che Guevara, Ahmed Chalabi, and his Iraqi National Congress, the source of much of the phony pre-invasion "intelligence" about Iraq.

The truth about Iran's WMD (or lack of same) was rendered inaccessible, leaving the field open for the neocons and their foreign operatives to move into the vacuum and keep their very effective lie factory working overtime.
At the same time, the chief analyst at the Pentagon's Iran desk, Larry Franklin, a committed neoconservative, was making contact with two officials of the American Israel Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the heavy-hitting Washington lobby, feeding them information that they subsequently passed on to Israeli embassy officials, including Naor Gilon, the embassy's chief of political affairs, and another yet-to-be-named official (who some speculate may be Danny Ayalon, Israel's ambassador to the U.S.). The focus of the Franklin-AIPAC spy cabal: U.S. intelligence on Iran."
[Source: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/"
Posted Feb 19, 2006 08:03 AM PST
Category: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS]

And from the BBC Archives a hint of the mission vision of the Executive's COO:
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Thursday, 6 October 2005, 03:23 GMT 04:23 UK

"Cheney warns of 'decades of war"
By Jonathan Beale
BBC News, Washington
"US Vice-President Dick Cheney has said that the US must be prepared to fight the war on terror for decades." "Mr Cheney made a direct appeal to the American people"

[Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4314234.stm ]
But as the Bush administration marches us towards full confrontation with the Axis of Evil Iran, here is what the CIA's (ret) Paul Pillar is telling the Media...
U.S. missed an opportunity with Iran
Iran said to have notified State Department in '03 of willingness to negotiate over WMDs, but ex-officials say Bush team didn't want to deal

BY GREGORY BEALS
SPECIAL TO NEWSDAY

February 18, 2006, 10:38 PM EST
"In May 2003, shortly after the U.S. military destroyed the army of Saddam Hussein, a fax arrived at the State Department with an Iranian offer to open talks that would include a discussion of weapons of mass destruction."

"Influenced by Iraq

The fax was one of a series of informal soundings that emanated from Tehran in the months after the United States invasion of Iraq. Iran's envoys to Sweden and Britain also began sending signals that the regime was ready to negotiate a deal, according to a former Western diplomat closely familiar with the messages. Iran was sending messages through other back-channels as well, according to Paul Pillar, who served as the CIA's national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia from 2000 to 2005.

"There were several other informed intellectuals who visited Iran at the time," he said. "They were being used to receive and deliver similar sorts of messages. There was an interest in Tehran in engaging and talking."

But the Bush administration was in no mood for conversation or grand political bargains, the former officials said. According to Leverett, who left government in mid-2003, the administration rejected the Iranian probe and instead sent a complaint to Swiss Ambassador Tim Guldimann, saying he had overstepped his role as an intermediary by passing it on in the first place.

Critics, including the two former Bush administration officials, European diplomats, and policy experts, say the United States may have squandered an opportunity to negotiate an end to Iran's nuclear program by not talking with Tehran. According to both Leverett and Pillar, the administration's priority was to avoid negotiations with the regime, out of concern it would imply acceptance of its continuation in office. Since then, Iran's government has become even more conservative, making the prospect of further negotiations more problematic."
[ More of this important Read @ Source:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-woiran0219,0,3516208.story?track=mostemailedlink]
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Least we forget, WAPO's
Power We Didn't Grant
By Tom Daschle
That the former Minority leader of the Senate for South Dakota in 2001.

Friday, December 23, 2005; Page A21

"On Tuesday, Vice President Cheney said the president "was granted authority by the Congress to use all means necessary to take on the terrorists, and that's what we've done."
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/22/AR2005122201101.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns]
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Weekend Edition February 18 / 19, 2006
Who Is Osama? Where Did He Come From? How Did He Escape? What About Those Anthrax Attacks? A Half-Dozen Questions About 9/11 They Don't Want You to Ask
By WERTHER
[Werther is the pen name of a Northern Virginia-based defense analyst.]
[Source: http://www.counterpunch.com/]
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Could U.S. consider Official Secrets Act, like Britain?
RAW STORY Published: February 19, 2006
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Could_U.S._consider_Official_Secrets_Act_0219.html

"Controversies over press disclosures about NSA domestic spying and CIA antiterror operations have led to renewed talk about the need for an American version of Britain's Official Secrets Act, NEWSWEEK reports in Monday editions.

Excerpts: "House intelligence committee chairman Pete Hoekstra has spoken publicly about the need for a "comprehensive law" to make it easier to prosecute leakers, and last week his Senate counterpart, Pat Roberts, said he, too, thinks new measures may be considered."
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For Wonkies:
More related information @ Aftergood's Secrecy News Blog
"Classification Laws Apply to Everyone, Judge Says" and check out blogger post by: Posted by: Kenneth Graham |on January 30, 2006 06:13 PM
> What "laws" does the judge have in mind?
I suspect they were the ones that originated during WW I and are currently to be found in 18 USC 79x.
See: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000793----000-.html
These are really scary if you take them seriously. Thankfully, they haven't been taken all that seriously, at least up to now.
Source:
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2006/01/classification_laws_apply_to_e.html#comments
Advise and Assent
The Los Angeles Times | Editorial
Sunday 19 February 2006 [Hat tip: TruthOut.org ]

"Although the committee is officially charged with overseeing the nation's intelligence-gathering operations, its real function in recent years has been to prevent the public from getting hold of any meaningful information about the Bush administration. Hence its never-ending delays of the probe into the bogus weapons intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq. And its squelching, on Thursday, of an expected investigation into the administration's warrantless spying program.
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There's a slim chance the House of Representatives might show more backbone. The same day the Senate committee was performing stupid pet tricks for White House table scraps, the House Intelligence Committee approved its own inquiry into the NSA program. Yet the House is still divided on whether the investigation's scope would involve an intensive look at operational details or merely examine the status of surveillance laws."

Potential Backbone Alert for Congress 'Party' Animals of both stripes:

Midterm Elections are A Comin' Round the Mountain....and some voters, like Citizen Gump WILL be paying attention and will be expecting that their cast votes are properly counted.
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To WAPO thank you for allowing me to blog on your site freely; I hope I have not abused your hospitality.
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Personal Message to SOG:
I don't mind criticism, but please do try to Read and fact check more carefully...and
Don't confuse patriotism with party affiliation SOG... FYI--
I am not a 'Party' Animal--- as a registered: Independent and I am an Equal Opportunity political Critic & free agent Voter.

I vote my political, civic policy interests as an individual US Citizen rather than supporting one particular "Party's interests.

That way, I find I am 'wooed for my fickle vote by both sides of the aisle.......and by other minority parties too--- I like it that way....

responses should include a modicum of ability....

what the ability is

is this....

listening to lies and truth....

and seperating the truth from the lies by contrast....

sort of like pouring grease off of a roast....

regarding Al Gores apology to arabs:

Hello, since it wasn't the arabs that blew up the world trade center...or the Iraqi's I'd say Al's right!!!

I'd say, Al Gore is demonstrating something that the current administration can't for want of being arrested....compassion and truth...

SETUP FOR THE BUSH(S) OLIGARCHY,
A CHRONOLOGICAL JOURNEY OF LARCENY:

Bush Sr. CIA, Panama, Noriega

Bush Sr. Desert Scam, Hussein, Madelaine Albright, Kuwait OIL

Bush Jr. "Remember 9/11" "Remember the Maine," "Remember the Alamo"

Remember the Alamo got us California, and Texas

Remember Silverado, and daddy bailing Neil Bush's ass out of a felony charge on that one?

yes, let's bring up the past that has led us to today...

let me see...

hmmmmmmmmm....

it's really not about the party.

only a fool really believes that the redskins, ravens, the rams or the cardinals

are what life your life is about...

you know,
kids believe in superheroes, comic books, and males are shall we say of limited attention span...

like it's all about the crotch.

for instance, the best gaurd dogs are female....

want to know why, they don't have an attention span that is "action based"

they nurture, they care, they think, they see some of the larger picture beyond

immediate gratification.

primitive males, party animals

sports/political parties/tribal-affiliations

are primitive thinkers....

that don't, they react.

the intent of customer is to provoke.

the best way to destroy him is to point out what he's doing....and then step to the side

kick him in the side of the knee,

seperating his leg into two pieces.

and then do a knee drop on his throat....get up and do a knee drop on the bridge of his nose....and drop an elbow into his ribcage, left-side...

that is what he is trying to do to you.

there is no intent to create a better world...take him out of this one....

if there isn't some openness to dialogue, he might as well be a born-again ANTICHRIST-ian trying to sell you some JESUS....

don't go there.

take him home.

nice peace don't cha think.

To; The Lonemule,
If you were to publish responcible comments and not "SPAM" and not attack the person (W. Arkin) who has allowed this place for people to voice their oppinions.
Then maybe your comments would not be scrubbed from this blog.
If you are a Bush supporter then be honest and say so.
Your attempts to disrupt everyone elses rights to FREE SPEECH is reprsentitive of what everyone has become to know as a "G.W. Bush diversionary tactic to mislead and misinform and disrupt the public"
A True Patriotic American Citizen would NEVER do such a thing like you have done.

To; : zz ziled,
You are publishing appearently diliberate falsehoods in an attemp to SPAM this blog.
I checked Kansas State Senate Roster and there is NO "Senator Pat Roberts, Republican of Kansas".
http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-senate/searchSenate.do
And I can not find your alledged article in the "New York Times
Thursday 16 February 2006"
If you are a Bush supporter then be honest and say so.
Your attempts to disrupt everyone elses rights to FREE SPEECH is reprsentitive of what everyone has become to know as a "G.W. Bush diversionary tactic to mislead and misinform and disrupt the public"
A True Patriotic American Citizen would NEVER do such a thing like you have done.

it has to be easy to understand and to be disseminated to people that can't think that well....

if you want to have an effect you have to be able to listen, and see without delusion....

you

can

not

allow

anyone to frame things for you.

what is going on should speak for itself.

and the answer should contain no posturing.

if our citizens are at risk, then to act against the citizens best interests for your personal ones,

IF YOU ARE LEADERS

is quite simply, TREASON.

as such you should lose.

your life, as a leader with any possibility of coming back.

your liberty, in an exact total of your cost to the liberties of others.

your financial abilities to sway the fortunes of others, by being destroyed financially.

I would like to see some people arrested....

and their estates sold as reperation for their families greedieness and to redress the wrongs done to American citizens in general....

that is what I would like...

More US Port sale fun:

"After the [9-11] attacks, U.S. Treasury Department officials complained about a lack of cooperation by the UAE and other Arab countries trying to track Osama bin Laden's bank accounts." [AP article]
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So since the Treasury's CFIUS is an inter-agency committee headed by Treasury Sec Snow----
Secretary Rummy and Chertoff are not bother about this any more it seems...and were part of the approval process.
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What is CFIUS? And who are the members?

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT
EXON-FLORIO PROVISION

Introduction.

The United States has traditionally welcomed Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and provided foreign investors fair, equitable and nondiscriminatory treatment with few limited exceptions designed to protect national security.

The Exon-Florio provision is implemented within the context of this open investment policy.

The intent of Exon-Florio is not to discourage FDI generally, but to provide a mechanism to review and, if the President finds necessary, to restrict FDI that threatens the national security.

Executive Order. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS") was originally established by Executive Order 11858 in 1975 mainly to monitor and evaluate the impact of foreign investment in the United States.

In 1988, the President, pursuant to Executive Order 12661, delegated to CFIUS his responsibilities under Section 721. Specifically, E.O. 12661 designated CFIUS to receive notices of foreign acquisitions of U.S. companies, to determine whether a particular acquisition has national security issues sufficient to warrant an investigation and to undertake an investigation, if necessary, under the Exon-Florio provision.

This order also provides for CFIUS to submit a report and recommendation to the President at the conclusion of an investigation.

In 1993, in response to a sense of Congress resolution, CFIUS membership was expanded by Executive Order 12860 to include the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy.

In February 2003, the Department of Homeland Security was added to CFIUS.

This brought the membership of CFIUS to twelve under the chairmanship of the Secretary of Treasury.

The other members are the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Commerce, the Attorney General, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Trade Representative, and the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers."

[Source: US Treasury's Website http://www.treas.gov/offices/international-affairs/exon-florio/] --------------------
So Citizen Forrest, if this Port Flap isn't about terrorism could it possibly be about BUSH ADMINISTRATION CRONYISM?????

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"Bush appointee allows former employer to control U.S. ports

Associated Press: "Just a month after the White House appointed a former senior executive of Dubai Ports World to head the US Maritime Administration of the Transportation Department, the United Arab Emirates-based company looks poised to manage six American shipping ports. The transfer of control will result from the $6.8 billion sale of the fourth largest ports company in the world to DP World. The sale would affect commercial US port operations in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia." [AP]
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Comment: This AP article focused on fears of terrorism if a US port is in Arab hands, but glossed over cronyism concerns without so much as a mention. -BD"

[Source of comment: Monday, February 13 http://newstandardnews.net/content/ion/index.cfm/sectionid/2,6,7,8,9]
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BD thinks this is about croynism....
And so do I......

To complete this tale of political cronyism, if the DP World deal goes through---

I expect that DP World and Halliburton (or KBR) will be inking a contract in the very near future for PORT protection of these US ports ---

that business side agreement will be for your National Security Citizen Forrest and for Dick Cheney's Retirement Security...;-)

STORM ADVISORY on American Ports for Sale story:

Heavy 'SNOW' and DOD 'Snowflakes' are expected from the Bush Administration representatives and their press pool of sychophant journalists on the Sunday morning political GAME SHOWS.
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Citizen Gump have your shovel ready...
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Here are some more possible facts:
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"As a sidenote, the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) meets in secret and is headed by Treasury Secretary John Snow. In 2004, DP World purchased part of the American company CSX for over $1 billion. Before he became Treasury Secretary, John Snow was Chairman and CEO of CSX.

The chairman of DP World is Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem. Since this man is about to play a role in protecting our borders from nuclear terrorism and other threats, it's probably worth getting to know him a bit. Here's the link to an interview in which he was asked to rate the corporate threats he faces on a scale of 1-10. His response, in descending order of importance:

1. U.S. dollar decline
2. Oil shocks
3. Stagflation
4. Over regulation
5. Pandemics
6. Terrorism
7. Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
8. China
9. Climate change
10. Natural catastrophes

So the head of a corporation that's about to control the ports of New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia spends his day worrying about currency volatility, oil, stagflation and over-regulation. Terrorism and WMD's rate as only slightly more threatening than that menace we know as "climate change."

How's that for alignment of priorities?"

[Source:

http://cunningrealist.blogspot.com/2006/02/in-good-hands.html

Since the source is a blog, fact verification would be appreciated---This was posted by 'The Cunning Realist']

I see Arkin has decided to "scrub" my comments from this Blog. It proves, once again, that liberals want free speech as long as it's what they want to hear.

Arkin,

The only thing more pathetic than you and this Blog is the Washington Post that sponsors it.

Rummy huffs and puffs this week about Al Queda and the media and Birdshot shows us his sensitive side on TV over the shooting of his bud.

Meanwhile Citizen Gump gets extra PROTECTION FROM THE TERRORISM BIG BAD WOLF as the Bush Administration sells off our International Trade Infrastucture...

Think of it, if an Imperial Executive Branch is firmly established in the US as the Bush Administration proposes and Rummy's DOD succeeds in exercising controls on the free press/media distribution channels of what we citizens read, here is the sort of Foreign Commerce and US Trade Information story 'Citizen Gump' may not see in the main- stream US Press.

Have a Read for yourself how Citizen Forrest Gump gets a 'SNOW' Job from the Bush Adminstrations's US Sec of the Treasury and a secretive U.S. government panel that considers security risks of foreign companies buying or investing in U.S. industry plans 'a US trade transaction present' to win some 'Arab Hearts and Minds and Pockbooks'in the UAE.
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"WASHINGTON -- A company in the United Arab Emirates is poised to take over significant operations at six U.S. ports as part of a corporate sale, leaving a country with ties to the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers with influence over a maritime industry considered vulnerable to terrorism.

The Bush administration considers the UAE an important ally in the fight against terrorism since the suicide hijackings and is not objecting to Dubai Ports World's (DP World) purchase of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation.

The $6.8 billion sale is expected to be approved Monday. The British company is the fourth-largest ports company in the world and its sale would affect commercial U.S. port operations in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia.

DP World said it won approval from a secretive U.S. government panel that considers security risks of foreign companies buying or investing in U.S. industry.

"The State Department describes the UAE as a vital partner in the fight against terrorism.

But the UAE, a loose federation of seven emirates on the Saudi peninsula, was an important operational and financial base for the hijackers who flew two 757 and two 767 jetliners into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 Americans in the nation's deadliest terrorist attack, the FBI concluded.

Last month, the White House appointed a senior DP World executive, David Sanborn of Virginia, as new administrator of the Maritime Administration of the Transportation Department.

Sanborn worked as DP World's director of operations for Europe and Latin America.

Critics of the proposed purchase said a port operator complicit in smuggling or terrorism could manipulate manifests and other records to frustrate Homeland Security's limited scrutiny of shipping containers and slip contraband past U.S. Customs inspectors.

"When you have a foreign government involved, you are injecting foreign national interests," Kreitzer said.

"A country that may be a friend of ours today may not be on the same side tomorrow. You don't know in advance what the politics of that country will be in the future."

Shipping experts pointed to DP World's economic interest in operating ports securely and efficiently.

"Does this pose a national-security risk?

I think that's pushing the envelope," said Stephen Flynn, who studies maritime security at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Pushing the envelope? I'm afraid they could be doing a lot more than that.

Besides the obvious opportunities this affords terrorists, will these ports be allowed to carry harram objects, such as alcohol, Bibles, TVs, and cartoons of Mohammad -- or anything going to or from Israel?

Ah, I guess none of that is important. It's just business."
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[Source:
Arab firm may run 6 U.S. ports
By TED BRIDIS
February 12, 2006 found at: http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/arabs-to-control-six-us-ports/
(You can blog comments there also....)
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Related story:

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060218/1054738.asp

"Bill would stop sale of port operations to Arabs"
Democratic senators cite security issue
By NICHOLAS JOHNSTON
Bloomberg News
2/18/2006

But Rummy, I thought we were winning the GWOT against Al Queda...
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Spinning Citizen Gump to protect him from Al Queda?

...or is this a Domestic Politics guise?
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Is this the GOP Domestic re-election plan to spin and mute the global mass media to protect US Citizens from voting Democratic in the midterm Congressional elections and ousting the GOP from one Branch of Govt?
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In the US the Media's Fairness Doctrine was scrapped under Pres. Ronnie Regan and as the saying goes---

All's fair in love and war...

especially if the Bush Administratrion Executive Power remains unchecked by a cooperative Congress
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'Newsroom battles'

"Correspondents say that in recent months victory in the battle for public opinion has become a new front for the Bush administration.

In a speech to the Council of Foreign Relations, Mr Rumsfeld said some of the US' most critical battles were now in the "newsrooms".

"Our enemies have skilfully adapted to fighting wars in today's media age, but... our country has not," he said.

Mr Rumsfeld said al-Qaeda and other Islamic extremists were bombarding Muslims with negative images of the West, which had poisoned the public view of the US.

The US must fight back by operating a more effective, 24-hour propaganda machine, or risk a "dangerous deficiency," he said.

Government communications planning must be "a central component of every aspect of this struggle", he added.

"The longer it takes to put a strategic communications framework into place, the more we can be certain that the vacuum will be filled by the enemy."

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US 'losing media war to al-Qaeda'
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Al-Qaeda figures like Ayman al-Zawahri issue video messages
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The US is losing the propaganda war against al-Qaeda and other enemies, defence chief Donald Rumsfeld has said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4725992.stm
HAT Tip: http://www.rawstory.com/
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For another off- beat Raw story on the VP: http://rawstory.com/news/2005/After_request_FBI_locates_780_pages_0217.html FBI locates 780 pages of Vice President's 'FBI file,' but hasn't released after nearly two years
John Byrne
Published: February 17, 2006

We have all heard about how babies turn normally raesonable adults into babbling, blithering idiots. I sense somewhat that same phenomenon when George W. Bush encounters any grouping of American conservatives.

One poster on this blog described Bob Barr's difficulties in trying to reason with an audience of Bushphiles at a recent convention of the American Conservative Union. He describe how one woman in the audience hissingly went after Barr inisisting that the US Constitution places Bush above all other government brances and institutions.

Isn't it interesting that so many of Bush's enablers are conservative women? Like overprotective mothers, they rear up in a threatening manner when anyone comes near their young.

I suspect that the woman in question would never make such a statement about any other President. Which brings me to my point: I suspect that when Bush leaves office, a great deal of all of this divisive hubbub is going to leave with him. And, for the next President--whomever he or she is--watch out! Because the slack these obseqwueious sycophants are giving to Bush will most likely not extend to you.

I will make bet that as soon as Bush leaves office, conservatives will revert to their previously held positions of a weak central goverment, including a weakened Chief Executive. Hypocrisy is the coin of the realm among modern neoconservatives.

Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions.

Tyrannies may restrain or regulate
their words.

The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time.

But the soul of man thus held in trance
or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where
and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.

Sir Winston Churchill (Hell, what would that old British fat cat know?

After all he was only half American.

As NeoCons, we only listen to themselves and real Americans...whoever they are....:-)
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Yoo-hoo Rummy boy---

Here is a FILM to check out:

"Despotism & Democracy"

Producer: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - 1946

Produced in 1946, it attempts to explain how a society ranks on a spectrum stretching from democracy to despotism.

It explains how societies and nations can be measured by the degree that power is concentrated and respect for the individual is restricted.

Where does your community, state and nation stand on these scales in the new 21st Century?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4971.htm

Thank you Information Clearing House for these great finds...
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