Worries Raised on Handling of Funds in Iraq; A hearing details the transfer of $2.4 billion in $100 bills to Baghdad in 2004
Worries Raised on Handling of Funds in Iraq; A hearing details the transfer of $2.4 billion in $100 bills to Baghdad in 2004 and the billions more sent before. U.S. oversight is questioned.
T. Christian Miller, Times Staff Writer Los Angeles Times, A8 June 22, 2005 WASHINGTON
It weighed 28 tons and took up as much room as 74 washing machines. It was $2.4 (...)
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Worries Raised on Handling of Funds in Iraq
23 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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New - Video That Got Unilect Voting Machine Decertified in Pennsylvania
19 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
New: See the 2nd video exam that got the Unilect Patriot decertified in PA:
The videos show that: the votes are lost because of the defects in the voting machines. The fault is not the election director’s The election officials/precinct workers cannot prevent most or all of the undervotes The votes can be changed on the central tabulator without leaving an audit trail
The tapes have been ripped to a video format the should be view-able under Windows. If you’ve got BitTorrent — which (...) -
Why I LEFT the GOP and joined the Earth People Life Support System
10 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
The GOP. That party that stands for Greater Operational Profits at ANY COST.
Yes it was tuff but now I am out of GOP rehab and feel HUMAN again and seem to have feelings of peace and happiness that my "balance" sheet just seemed to lack. If your thinking about giving up your addiction to money think about the following it may help align your mind with realities of life on earth... As a GOP memeber the following kept going through my mind until I made the call and got help... I called
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Money is the problem, so is the Idea of ownership for profit. It is just exploitation.
8 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentEconomics is the science of abstrct numbers used against those that do not understand it to exploit the earth and human labor by enabling a system of exchange to dominate human culture.
Economics is equal to selling a piece of bread to your own child. But that is what they want us to believe will help us develop. That is why their is NOT economic bill of rights. That would be WRONG for PROFIT and CONTROL of the money changers. But what are the great controllers of money and banks going (...) -
Peace is a field of Human and Earth Energy that is in Alignment
6 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
Nice work. I like the use of imagery and so forth. I am of European decent, but I am not a practicing Christian or any other Money centric religious system. These systems are based on the instituationalization of a heirarchy called a priestly class and they are supported by money that is made and accepted from anyone that wishes to donate even those that commite crimes and so forth. In fact these are only shells of actual human oriented spiritual organizations as they do take sides in (...)
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2005 Digest of the E.V. Debs Speech at the 1925 Conference for Progressive Political Action
6 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsA 2005 Digest of the E.V. Debs Speech at the 1925 Conference for Progressive Political Action at the Lexington Hotel in Chicago; Plus The Cashless Utopia
The kernel of great human movements has always involved just a few individuals. What’s the pop adage from back in the nineteen eighties? ... It only takes four people to start a new hair-do.
Perhaps there’ll be a few gallant souls, women and men, who have ideas in advance of their time, who’d show the mettle to profess ideas that (...) -
Arnold Schwarzenegger received contributions from coin dealer at center of Ohio investment scandal
4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger won’t return $10,000 in contributions he received from a coin dealer at the center of an Ohio investment scandal, a spokesman said Friday.
Coin dealer Thomas Noe gave the money last year to a Schwarzenegger fund that supports the Republican governor’s legislative priorities, such as limiting state borrowing to balance the budget.
Ohio’s Inspector General is investigating Noe’s investment of $50 million in state money in rare coins, while federal (...) -
Dem Proposes taking Millionaire’s Tax Cuts back, giving it to Vets Health Care- Repub shoots it down
26 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
Wisconsin Democrat David Obey proposed an amendment to reduce tax cuts for those making $1,000,000 or more per year and give the savings to Veterans Health Care. A Republican shot it down on a technicality.
The text from the House Clerk:
1:24 P.M. - Amendment offered by Mr. Obey.
An amendment to reduce tax cuts for taxpayers with an adjusted gross income in excess of $1 million for taxable year 2006 by 8.125 percent and to use the resulting savings to increase funding for Veterans’ (...) -
House Kills First Vote on Iraq Withdrawal
26 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
The House of Representatives voted down a measure, by a 128 to 300 vote, that called on President Bush to devise a plan for a withdrawal from Iraq. It came in the form of an amendment to the $491 billion budget for the Pentagon that was passed on Wednesday night.
But the withdrawal amendment marks the first time that Congress has officially voted and debated legislation that deals with a withdrawal.
"No, it won’t pass today, but it will give us a chance to talk about it," said (...) -
Members of Congress unaware of missing 8.8 billion
23 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsLast Friday I was on the panel of Bill Maher’s season finale of his HBO show “Real Time.” Bill’s guest by satellite was Senator Norm Coleman from my home state of Minnesota. Because Coleman serves on the homeland security committee, Maher asked him to comment on former homeland security director Tom Ridge’s recent revelation that the Bush administration would often issue terror alerts that he didn’t think were warranted. Could it be that they were using terror alerts politically?
Coleman (...)