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Investigate Big Dick

By Stephen Pizzo, News for Real. Posted May 3, 2006.


Did Cheney and oil company execs lick their chops over Iraqi oil less than two years before we invaded Iraq? Shouldn't someone find out?
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If the US Senate really wants to earn our respect, I have a suggestion for them: Hold bipartisan hearings into Dick Cheney's 2001 Energy Task Force.

If not now, when?

Low-wage working Americans can't afford to drive to their jobs? Already some folks have been forced to pawn personal items just to fill their tank for another week. How bad does it have to get before you guys up there start asking the questions you should have asked years ago -- and this time, demanding real answers.

So, Bill Frist, Harry Reid, pull together a bipartisan panel made up of your toughest, most skeptical prosecutional-minded members, hire a couple of junkyard dog lawyers to act as GOP and Dem counsels, and let the long overdue hearings begin.

Subpoena everyone who had anything to do with those meetings, including secretaries who transcribed the original minutes. Oh, and when you call oil industry execs back, put them under oath this time. Because they lied last time when they said they had no idea...

(Washington Post, May 2005) A White House document shows that executives from big oil companies met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force in 2001 -- something long suspected by environmentalists but denied as recently as last week by industry officials testifying before Congress ...The document, obtained this week by The Washington Post, shows that officials from Exxon Mobil Corp., Conoco (before its merger with Phillips), Shell Oil Co. and BP America Inc. met in the White House complex with the Cheney aides who were developing a national energy policy, parts of which became law and parts of which are still being debated. a>

I mean really guys -- if not now, when?

Almost everyone else except Congress has tried to get this information out of the administration. The non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) filed suit in April 2002 seeking access to the records of Cheney's energy task force. But one of those "liberal activist federal judges" dismissed the suit. The Sierra Club carried its fight for those records all the way to the US Supreme Court, which in 2004 voted 7-2 to uphold "a paramount necessity of protecting the executive branch from vexatious litigation."

But just to make sure no one got lucky in court, the administration built a wide moat around all things it feels are none of our damn business; including whatever deals Cheney made in 2001 with energy company CEOs.

"WASHINGTON - As the Bush administration has dramatically accelerated the classification of information as 'top secret' or 'confidential,' one office is refusing to report on its annual activity in classifying documents: the office of Vice President Dick Cheney ... A standing executive order, strengthened by President Bush in 2003, requires all agencies and 'any other entity within the executive branch' to provide an annual accounting of their classification of documents. More than 80 agencies have collectively reported to the National Archives that they made 15.6 million decisions in 2004 to classify information, nearly double the number in 2001, but Cheney continues to insist he is exempt. (Full Story)

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Stephen Pizzo is the author of numerous books, including "Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans," which was nominated for a Pulitzer.

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Our Leaders have FAILED US... and it's time for a change
Posted by: thinkverybig on May 3, 2006 12:10 AM   
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First and foremost is to represent the people not corporations or an individual party. The Republicans and Democrats have failed us all dearly and we should send them all a message that is loud and clear. NO MORE ignoring the poor and middle class. No more favoring the rich over the poor, corporations over the people etc. It's truly time for a change.

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big Dick
Posted by: rsaxto on May 3, 2006 2:10 AM   
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If there ever was a big dick that needed to be investigated it is Cheney's big dick. Investigate and impeach Cheney's big dickerings.

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» RE: big Dick Posted by: charemor
» Really?: big Dick Posted by: rsaxto
gop vs dems, red state vs blue state, jew vs palestinian, catholic vs protestant
Posted by: cry0fan on May 3, 2006 2:56 AM   
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the overclass controls the pseudoLeft and the Right, making sure that the focus of American political debate is on issues that do not harm the overclass. So instead of focusing on progressive taxation, universal healthcare, mass immigration & labor supply and demand, workplace protections, more national holidays, and other populist economics issues that would empower the workers and disempower the overclass, the overclass makes sure we focus the political debate on worthless and wasteful political tribalism.

Ever read Orwell's 1984? Do you understand why the overclass there used Emmanuel Goldstein and the 2 minute hate?
Same thing going on here....

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» RE: Upperclass has its balance Posted by: AlienSlave
circumcise that dick
Posted by: mywalea on May 3, 2006 3:49 AM   
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If there every was a dick that needed to be circumcised, this is it!

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» RE: circumcise that dick Posted by: ladybug1@carrollsweb.com
A White House Log search
Posted by: amazed again on May 3, 2006 5:39 AM   
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Federal Court Orders Logs Produced on May 10, 2006
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that Judge John Garrett Penn of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ordered the United States Secret Service to produce White House logs detailing the visits of corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff to the White House. The logs are to be produced to Judicial Watch without redactions or claims of exemption by May 10, 2006.

This is excerp from Judicial Watch site.

Now the next white house log search please!
How many times and dates did executives from big oil companies and Vice President Dick Cheney and his Energy Task Force meet prior to Iraq invasion?

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» RE: A White House Log search Posted by: symcokid
Not into conspiracy theory...
Posted by: cstriker on May 3, 2006 5:56 AM   
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But I am firmly entrenched in the belief that if you relinquish all of your reasons for manipulation you no longer have anything to hide. OK, the U.S. is the only superpower left. Why should anything be Top Secret in this country anymore? It doesn't matter that we are building a new war plane. The only information about it that should be secret are the specific designs of that plane, not that it exists. The only reason any branch of the U.S. government should have any thing to hide, is if it is trying to pull the wool over someones eyes. Namely ours. It is easier for the Israeli government to find out what our government is doing than it is for it's own people.

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Understanding Cheney and big oil
Posted by: jreinhart1 on May 3, 2006 6:08 AM   
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Cheney was instrumental in killing alternative fuels during the Ford administration or peace after the cold war. He and his type remind me of Goya's painting of Saturn eating his child. His lust for war and oil have gone hand in hand and he has plenty of followers. Both Iraq wars were fabricated by this man. He feels no remorse in ordering out the death squads and has even been instrumental in making ties that still bind with the Afghan "freedom fighters". He and his ilk see no problem in using others to an end of profiteering and grabbing power by lying, cheating and stealing from all people in all nations around the world including his own, the USA. He is at the pinnacle of the Military Industrial & Government complex of America. Death and misery for money and power are the motto for people of his ilk. In any other country, he would have been a leader condoning genocide to line his fame and fortune, just as many other leaders around the world like that are our friends until they are not needed.

His deals with the oil companies are part of the PNAC agenda that believes that the US has the right to take over sovereign nations to make to world safe for corporatism. PNAC neocons and Zbignew Brzezinski neolibs and their agenda have been performed to the letter. I would urge anyone to review the PNAC website www.newamericancentury.org/ . This was created from the Wolfowitz doctrine of 1992, which is based on many of Cheney's concepts for the US since working in the Nixon administration along with Rumsfeld. Additional documentation and even country names are in the literature or Zbiggy's book "The Grand Chess Board". The goal is to control the oil and lines from the Caspian Sea through the Balkans which requires Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Bosnia.

It should be obvious to anyone after reading this information that Plame's front corporation, Brewster and Jennings, had to be outed to make these countries available to seize while providing the American public with misinformation regarding how dangerous they are. We all should remember that Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait and Pakistan are our friends but were far more instrumental in the execution of 911 than Afghanistan. Iraq has been a target of the neocons and neolibs since the early 1980s.

I would also recommend www.juancole.com/2005/08/ fisking-war-on-terror-once-upon-time.html for some background. Research on America's oil puppet, the Shaw of Iran would be helpful in understanding how this ball of corrupt oil started rolling in the first place.

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There's oil in Iraq, and hey!
Posted by: nbrown on May 3, 2006 6:40 AM   
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From the Iraq War Timeline:

There's a lot of money to pay for this. It doesn't have to be U.S. taxpayer money. We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon. -- Paul Wolfowitz, March 27, 2003.

Wolfowitz, a PNAC member, fully admitted that the government intended to steal Iraqi oil assets.

There's a push now to stop pretending about the imperialist aims of the government, and to just be more upfront about killing people for money. This is one example of that.

This war has to stop!

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Like this will happen!
Posted by: linguizic on May 3, 2006 6:51 AM   
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As much as we would love to see this happen it ain't.

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» RE: Like this will happen! Posted by: cry0fan
» RE: Like this will happen! Posted by: the poet
Stephen, you ALWAYS have it right!
Posted by: woodford54 on May 3, 2006 7:21 AM   
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As usual, I agree w/you 100%. So what are we going to do about it? Lots of us are working toward the same goals. I want to see some progress, damn it!

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Wake up, people!
Posted by: Rowdy714 on May 3, 2006 7:27 AM   
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Congress is IN on it! Those people have nothing to gain and everything to lose by making enemies in big business. It's not just oil and energy, it's everything. The United States of America, LLC was on deck for a long time. Now it's hitting balls out of the park and we're pouring ashes on our head, acting like we didn't see it coming. God help us, we've all been a party to it for at least two generations.

Elect whomever you want, throw the entire House and Senate out for a new batch. It won't change anything. You know how Jefferson said that "a revolution now and again is a healthy thing"? Honestly, I'm beginning to think that the Constitution was designed with a built-in self-destruct mechanism. Maybe it's time for a change bigger than we've imagined so far...

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» RE: Wake up, people! Posted by: Doubtom
» RE: Wake up, people! Posted by: cstriker
» RE: Wake up, people! Posted by: Doubtom
» RE: Wake up, people! Posted by: cstriker
» RE: Wake up, people! Posted by: Doubtom
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» RE: Wake up, people! Posted by: Lincoln fan
» RE: Wake up, people! Posted by: Doubtom
» Revolution? Posted by: Lincoln fan
Oil prices fall
Posted by: schmitta1573 on May 3, 2006 8:24 AM   
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I find the following report from Steve Hargreaves, CNNMoney.com staff writer interesting:

"In its weekly stockpile report, the Energy Information Administration said crude supplies rose by 1.7 million barrels, while closely watched gasoline inventories swelled by 2.1 million barrels. Analysts were looking for a 100,000 barrel decline in crude and a 700,000 barrel drop in gasoline supplies, according to Reuters. U.S. light crude for June delivery fell $1.01 to 73.60 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Crude was trading down 16 cents just prior to the report, within striking distance of its all time trading high of $75.35 set April 21."

I'm not familiar with how the stock market works, but I'm guessing it is not difficult to manipulate. How convenient, a "surprise" build-up in oil supplies. Dick and his buddies must have enough money for the time-being.

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» RE: Oil prices fall Posted by: jearls
Pay Attention, People!
Posted by: ablain on May 3, 2006 8:39 AM   
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I totally agree that Cheney should be investigated, however back in 1974 we had a wake up call with the energy crisis then and didn't do anything about it! (with the exception of Nixon lowering the speed limit!) Auto corporations developed engines that could have 50 MPG back in the 1950's but they were in bed with the oil boys, so the engines weren't developed further. We could have had 50 years of technology and research by now if things had been different! Cheney and his group are certainly cashing in, which I think is horrible for our working class and shrinking middle class.

It's also very obvious that now people are paying attention to politics a little more because gas prices are hitting them in their pocketbooks...they should have been paying attention LONG before it came to this and complained and protested! Things are so out of hand now that things will never return to the way they were! Many people in our great country are so apathetic about current issues thinking "It'll be ok...they'll get us out of this problem", but until more people take a stand it will only get worse! No one pays any attention until it hits them in their wallet!

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» RE: Pay Attention, People! Posted by: greekTowner
Bruce Combs
Posted by: BRUCE COMBS on May 3, 2006 8:57 AM   
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Stephen Pizzos’ brilliant article is right in line with my petition to Cheney: "MR. CHENEY, We need to hear from you!"

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/263308738

Besides his economic corruption, I consider Cheney a great enemy of nature, animals, people, etc, especially if wilderness, old-growth forests, or clean water stand in the way of profits for him and his cronies and relatives. Cheney was deeply involved in our going to war in Iraq, in joining in with the Administration's stalling while people died in Katrina and then withholding information about it, in advocating TORTURE (!), illegal spying on our phones, and on and on.

Notice that this petition itself is actually very mild, not asking for impeachment, etc., but disclosure. Already people from many other countries have signed, as well as a number in the armed forces, as you can see by scrolling through the signatures. Please simply sign it and share it with your sensible friends. You may sign anonymously, and without phone number!

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Rulers and Subjects:
Posted by: mite on May 3, 2006 9:04 AM   
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HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. Monarchy is back folks. Those of you who can invest in water, gold, silver, etc. Get ready for all your debts to be called in. Get your guns and ammunition now. Stock up on food and water, because your liberties are almost gone for good.
NWO was put into motion with the Federal Resserve Act, Council of Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, and United Nations. This movement for a sercret government (world) started after WWI after those of royalty lost their power.
Our Congress can not receive classified papers from not only this president but Bush senior and Regan too.
You may laugh and others will make others along with me look insane or psychological unstable but it all starts with PROTOCOLS OF THE WISE MEN OF ZION and The United Nations Treaty and The United Nations Participation Act. Did the people of the United States know that in 1950 the General Assembly without any legal authority, met and adopted what they named the "UNITING FOR PEACE" RESOLUTION and has been greatly expanded over the years. This permits the General Assembly to execise its powers
of the security council which is the "Law of The World" overriding our Constitution. This is enforced by ALL intelligence organizations of the United States that work for the UN in concert with the Secret government for the sole purpose to destroy the U.S. and to bring about a one-world government ruled by the Blue-Bloods and the militaries that enforce this new world government.
It is to late people we all have lived in our own little selfish world in DENIAL to long get ready for a world we are not going to like.

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» RE: ulers and Subjects: Posted by: Rowdy714
Congress is to blame!
Posted by: granz on May 3, 2006 11:06 AM   
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Congress is to blame for not taking action, in a time of war have the time to subpoena baseball players about steroid use but they don’t have time or desire to protect them American working class and get to the bottom of our energy crisis. Wake up voters! Wake up congress you work for the people not the corporations!

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RGG
Posted by: RGG on May 3, 2006 11:13 AM   
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I wote what follows on 10/17/05 "theoldindian.blogspot.com"
Oil and Information: A scarce Commodity
We pay a price for scarcity. If oil/gas are in short supply then the price goes up. If oil and gas are plentiful then the price goes down. So it is with information, when information is kept secret and in short supply our freedoms shrink. When information flows freely our freedoms expand. Secretive governments tend to be authoritarian governments; authoritarian governments do not like dissent. What's the connection between oil and secrets? Lets roll back the clock to Dick Cheney's secret meetings with the major oil companies prior to the invasion of Iraq. Rather than forgetting about it I would, more than ever, like to know the sum and substance of those meetings. What course was set or discussed that helped the impoverished oil companies to achieve even greater riches on top of the tax cut that lined their pockets. Have you ever received a thank-you note for picking up the tab at tax time or at the pump? Me neither. Cheney argued that the government had the right to secrecy. I thought they worked for us. We have a right to know what is going on especially when we are paying for it in blood and treasure. Did the oil companies get a heads up on the war in Iraq a year in advance so they could arrange to get extra oil tankers to the gulf (it takes 6-12 months to schedule a tanker into a port. Its not like calling a cab). I don't like secrets and I don't like authoritarian governments. I prefer open /transparent government and a democratic discussion on topics of national importance. Energy policy should not be a secret; it is a matter of economic survival and of national importance. How can we have energy independence by 2020 if we allow our government to have secret meetings with corporations and therefore no accountability for the possible consequences of the meetings? Is the line between government and corporations so blurred that it is difficult to know where the policies are made? (sound like fascism?) Consider this: The price of oil is up and the secrecy regarding the energy policy continues, and we are stuck with a bogus energy policy and we are not privy to the plans the administration hatched with the oil companies. You my friends are paying for it. Call you senator and tell him you are angry and to do something about it or you will find someone who will.

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Oil wars
Posted by: solrev on May 3, 2006 12:52 PM   
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It seems to me that if part of your business is pumping oil and your running out of domestic oil to pump. Whats wrong with starting a war and creating some friendly governments to get some oil pumping business? If you can get some neocons spreading democracy and some Christians doing Gods work to help you so much the better.

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» RE: Oil wars Posted by: zipper696
can we fix it ? lets try
Posted by: rxgary on May 3, 2006 2:50 PM   
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why not get a write in party started ,call it the purple faced party, where red and blue blend together. number 1 priority. enacting rico charges against the bush admin, the fed reserve chair board members, the cfr, the trilateral com.,heritage think tank,pnac members,bilderbergers, military industrial complex board members, halli, carlysle, bechtel, kbr , blackwater , custer &battles,etc........ do you realize that when charged under rico statutes, all assetes can be seized immediately, pre trial. use their offshore accounts to pay for prosecuting these weasels. also another platform would be before repealing patriot act and all other unconstitutional acts, charge all current named above under the patriot act provisions of enemy combatants as well as so we could be at our leisure before releasing the ones deemed not to be , by our special citizens review board. Here comes the real justice, then market these thugs on ppv tv humiliation series, where lottery tickets are sold daily with the chance to win a trip and humiliate the political enemy combatant of your choice for 15 minutes, we could do this nonstop for 25 years, and make enough to pay for legitimate government health care and education for all as repartation for what they have stolen away from us with their ineptness wreckless treasonous acts. hey if you agree, run with it, paint your faces purple and explain how that with breaking up into groups throughout all voting districts in america , we can coordinate and win with a certified group of candidates that will follow these 2 platforms and do away with beauracracy and insurance and take the funds from the 2 previous methods above to achieve.the purple faces alone needs no further advertisement , other than the people with the painted faces to explain the process. you dont have to be on the ballot if enough write ins are there. and when we all have purple faces on election day, how can diebold and electronic voting machines say anything different. solutions would be simple from there. a simple world can be achieved

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Investigating Big Dick
Posted by: sabr on May 3, 2006 3:08 PM   
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A lot of people do not know about this, but since 1996 Dick Cheney has been involved in a plan to destabilize the Middle East so that certain people end up with the oil reserves and profits. This was reported in larouchepub.com in an article that appeard February 25th about Hairiri's murder. They even wrote a paper called "Operation Clean Break", I recommend you go and read this and you will know that nothing that is happening now is accidental, it is all part of a well thought out plan, masterminded by Dick Cheney.

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Normally, I Like Big Dicks...
Posted by: Steven Wanzell on May 3, 2006 4:38 PM   
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But this one's gotta go, along with the whole pack 'o weeners!

But seriously, these people have set new heights in official corruption, mainly because Americans have let them. Obviously, we're facing nothing less than taking our country back now, or losing what's left of it. It's yet another sad day in America.

So, what have we got to fight with?

Impeachment processes, Ukraine-style week-long strike(s), other massive demonstrations and work stoppages, criminal investigations through national and international bodies, the Pizzo Nascar Plan (any word on that?), a November GOP massacre at the polls, and a massive alternative media outreach effort to get America informed, demonstrations against and constant exposure of mainstream media companies who's "coverage" shows complicity with the fascist US Government, and the second ammendment in the event of a coup to suspend Nov. elections. Have I left anything out?

The more I think about the true state the county's in, the more grave the situation looks.

Steven Wanzell
artist/activist/ex-American
www.wanzellarts.com.ar

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» RE: Normally, I Like Big Dicks... Posted by: domenico234
Non-investigative media
Posted by: Gregor on May 3, 2006 7:58 PM   
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Except for the current venue (AlterNet), the Media, normally the force creating the search for investigative journalism, security leaks etc and finding these stories, our media has been hi-jacked by Big Corporations. Media is now the domain and voice piece for special interests. You do not get any investigative reporting, it is more like a Business Report. There are no current TV journalists except for FSTV and maybe LINK that actually chase down any stories relating the public good. All current media sources are business experts or some privately groomed expert. Public interest is distracted through following Entertainment news and sports and the so-called reality TV. This is where there are millions of dollars spent.

Like the Roman arenas however, it will self-destruct because there is nothing making this type of industry grow into something more. It will soon burn itself out as the long range picture of not supporting public interests and society is that soon the very public you are delivering your programs too cannot afford to go to the movies and will not be able to afford going to sports games or putting their kids into sports games. Except for the few 1% of the population. And when those people turn around and realize they are the sole beneficiaries of everything in society, as the rest of society is crumbling they will have an empire bult on sand and it all comes down.

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gathaiga
Posted by: gathaiga on May 5, 2006 11:33 AM   
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The simple answer to your first question is a question: Does a bear shit in the woods?

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» RE: gathaiga Posted by: zipper696
This rotten administration
Posted by: domenico234 on May 7, 2006 5:54 PM   
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Heating and cooling our homes? Surely you jest. I did not turn on my window AC all last summer, and this winter I kept the thermometer no higher than 60 degrees, & turned it off completely at night. Still, my bills are back-breaking.

In an attempt to save gas for my car I have been walking to the store but the other day fell, wound up in the ER & have been in awful pain since (over a month ago. I hear being 73 will do that to a person...) Bill over $2,200 but I have insurance. I'm glad; that would have bought a tank or two of gas.

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aitezazuddin
Posted by: aitezazuddin on May 8, 2006 5:53 AM   
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I entirely agree to and support the suggestion that an immediate high level investigation into how Dick Cheney and US Oil interests may have taken the US invidiouly to WAR in Iraq,is eminently called for.this war has been cause of innocent deaths among the Americans and the Iraqis by the tens of thousands.it has damaged the american economy and the good name the US enjoyed abraod for human rights, democracy,support for the poor of the world,justice and honesty.America has lost its goodwill and moral preeminance among the people of the world that it would long long time to repair.this War has had devastating impact on the US economy and the psyche of its great and generous people.this aught to be repared and approprate lessons learnt.
PLATO,the Greek philospher,was father of political science.he made a remarkable observation 2000 years ago which, to me, seem relevant to the unfortunate situation which has today afflicted the americans in particular and rest of the world in general.
Let me share PLATO's following thoughts with you :

"RUIN COMES WHEN THE TRADER,WHOSE HEART IS LIFTED BY WEALTH BECOMES RULER OR WHEN THE GENERAL USES HIS ARMY TO ESTABLISH A DICTATORSHIP.THE PRODUCER IS AT HIS BEST IN THE ECONOMIC FIELD,WARRIOR IS AT HIS BEST IN THE BATTLE;THEY ARE BOTH AT THEIR WORST IN PUBLIC OFFICE;AND IN THEIR CRUDE HANDS POLITICS SUBMERGES STATESMANSHIP.FOR STATESMANSHIP IS A SCIENCE AND AN ART;ONE MUST HAVE LIVED FOR IT AND BEEN LONG PREPARED.....WHEREAS IN SIMPLER MATTERS LIKE SHOE-MAKING WE THINK ONLY A SPECIALLY-TRAINED PERSON WILL SERVE OUR PURPOSE,IN POLITICS WE PRESUME THAT THE ONE WHO KNOWS HOW TO GET VOTES KNOWS HOW TO ADMINISTER A CITY OR A STATE.WHEN WE ARE ILL WE CALL FOR A TRAINED PHYSICIAN WHOSE DEGREE IS A GUARANTEE OF SPECIFIC PREPRATION AND TECHNICAL COMPETENCE.....WE DO NOT ASK FOR THE HANDSOMEST OR THE MOST ELOQUENT PERSON;WELL THEN,WHEN THE WHOLE STATE IS ILL SHOULD WE NOT LOOK FOR THE SERVICE AND GUIDANCE OF THE WISEST AND THE BEST......"
The likes of Cheney's are those which worried Plato and which in democracies people must be weary when called upon to selection through elections...and to take them to account where democratic systems have the mechanism for doing so.

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Investigating Cheney
Posted by: marrieah on May 11, 2006 4:05 PM   
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You say Cheney was licking his chops about Iraq in 2001? I say it was long before then. How about during the time of the Gulf War.

It is obvious that Bush and Cheney were planning on going to war with someone after they stole the election of 2000. Clearly Iraq was no threat to this country. But it seems that Iraq was on their radar. The problem was how was they to sell an Iraqi War to the American public. Then incrediously 9-11 happened.

At some point we need to go back to the begaining and ask some hard and painful questions. I don't think the anwsered will paint this country in a good light, but it is only when we come face to face with what has happened to us, will we be able to regroup and grow.

Yes, investgating Cheney will be a start. But we should also investigate Bush I and II.

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The political graft and corporate manipulations is worse than you know
Posted by: GeeOh on May 17, 2006 10:32 PM   
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Oils demise was well understood in the mid 70's. And a ready solution to our society's need to transition from its petroleum dependency was conceived but never acted on. Yes our petroleum dependency was conceived and perpetuated by our providing corporations in the interest of protecting their investment and the continued stabilities of those large economic markets which surround the inplace processes.
Outstanding engineers in the mid 70's were privately asked to devise a means of transport which would allow our society to smoothly transition from its petroleum dependency. They very simply proposed the implementation of a permanent network of elevated beams along which individual electric motors could reliably travel, to which anything could be attached.
I checked into the costs and benefits of utilizing these decade old structural and technological applications. Would you believe that it could be accomplished for about 1/2 the spending on highways and generate with an 80% (out of a potential 97%) energy efficiency. A 1,040 % annual profit. Not to mention ending petroleum dependency, emissions, accidents, and congestion. While being too, far faster, easier to use, and much more convenient. And lots not forget resolving a lot of large ecological and environmental problems as well.

That simple and fully realizable marriage of permanent beams with their grade freed and controlled environment plus the precise ability to regulate and control the speeds of electrical propulsion. Means the 1st achievement of automated transport. The benefits which are staggering to say the least.

It’s a done deal. The cost and reliability is known. Yet no one absolutely no one has ever seriously pursued its development into an implementation. Because this is something the government has always done. And our political leaders cannot afford to even consider it. Its to politically sensitive is the answer I get.

We have now lost over 1 million of our most interactive citizens in auto accidents since its realization in the mid 70's. 100's of millions have been horribly mutilated and seriously injured. And an untold amount of energy and resources have been unnecessarily consumed. It’s a horrible horrible waste of life, energy and resources. That simply need not be.

Is it a awareness problem. That such a truly wonderful opportunity of positive change even exists.
One that will revolutionize even our modern levels of well-beings.

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