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*DUBIA PORTS
This appears to be a done deal. It has full Corporate Media backing. Congress will roar and thunder for a while, then dissenters squelched. No one will mention that corp. records to be protected in UAE, all ship manifests (Chemicals, explosives, fertilizers, etc) open to terrorist inspection - including military shipments from other 15 ports included in deal, and Bush family ties a clear conflict of interest. Hearings to whitewash. Will not lead to desperately needed, repug blocked, improvements in all port security.
*American Enterprise Institute - the Official Line
*Dubai - Myths and falsehoods
*Corporate media harmonizes with WH spin
*If it's kinked, it must be Halliburton
2000 ELECTION
Current Status:
No official action. Independent investigations ignored by congress and press. Bipartisan congressional hearings blocked by Republicans. This is essentially a dead issue.
But there is fallout
VP SECRET MEETINGS TO CRAFT ENERGY POLICY
Current Status:
All requests for information and documents blocked by WH. Currently ignored by congress and media. Bipartisan congressional hearings blocked by Republicans.
The ghost still haunts his office
911 WARNINGS
Current Status:
Ignored by congress and press. Bipartisan congressional hearings blocked by Republicans.
Terrorist of 911 ID'd 13 times
Conspiracy Review
WH OUTING OF SECRET AGENT
Current Status:
One WH indictment. Trial date Jan. 2007. Status of investigation unknown but ongoing. Rumors abound. Bipartisan congressional hearings blocked by Republicans.
*250 pages of new VP emails
AG withholds emails
Plame was secret. Damage significant
Libby claims he was authorized to leak
Summary (Truthout)
Libby Stalls (Wash Post)
DOWNING STREET MEMOS, WH PRE-IRAQ WAR LIES
Current Status:
No official action. Independent investigations ignored by congress and media. Bipartisan congressional hearings blocked by Republicans. Now there is a WH version of the Memos.
AfterDowningStreet.orgis a good source going back to day one
The actual memos
The Guardian adds new stuff on WH memos
Downing Street Memo moves West
2004 ELECTION
Current Status:
No official action. Independent investigations ignored by congress and press. Bipartisan congressional hearings blocked by Republicans.
*Tracking Ohio 2004 voting disaster
House challenges Ohio election fraud
Election Coverage
Election Theft/Fooled Again book review
Eliminate voters
Diebold Whistle-blower faces judge
Alaska classifies 2004 elections results
INCOMPETENT PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF WAR ON IRAQ
Current Status:
No official action. No unofficial action. Independent investigations ignored by congress and press. Bipartisan congressional hearings blocked by Republicans. WH claims success.
*Bagdad coroner reports 7000 local executions - leaves town
Comments from Powell's staff
Reality in Iraq
How to Create 240,000 Terrorists in three years
Last Thoughts of an "embed"
MISSING $9 BILLION IN PRE-WAR IRAQ GOVERNMENT FUNDS
Current Status:
No official action. Independent investigations ignored by congress and press. Bipartisan congressional hearings blocked by Republicans.
The actual sums are incredible
CORRUPTION AND INCOMPETENCE OF IRAQ PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY
Current Status:
No official action. Independent investigations ignored by congress and press. Bipartisan congressional hearings blocked by Republicans. WH praises success
Iraq Contractor Fraud Trial
FAILURE OF US RUN IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION
Current Status:
No official action. Independent investigations ignored by congress and press. Bipartisan congressional hearings blocked by Republicans. WH claims success.
*Iraq Reconstruction now limited to new prisons
Life in Iraq after $20 billion Reconstruction
CPA Guilty plea
ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINE CORRUPTION
Current Status:
Republican government demanding all states and elections use corrupt machines in next election. No federal investigations of machine integrity. Independent investigations mostly ignored by congress and press. Bipartisan congressional hearings blocked by Republicans.
*Diebold whistle-blower faces judge
Summary
Maryland Gov fouls voting machines
Diebold Machine Open Infrared Port
CONGRESSIONAL ETHICS COMMITTEE INACTION
Current Status:
Potential meetings of House and Senate Ethics Committees in the future. Republicans blocking bipartisan operations and investigations.
Ethics. What ethics?
FEMA INCOMPETENCE
Current Status:
WH investigating itself. Some other investigations are underway with Brownie "telling all". Media showing some interest.
*It is not just incompetence. Ask Jeb Bush
*Key quotes from new pre-Katrina briefing video
Six Months Later
Katrina Senate Inquiry Summary
FEMA Refused Help
CS Monitor on FEMA report and November elections
NOLA is more than FEMA: Land of the free, home of fear "Gov. Kathleen Blanco bringing in National Guard troops with the words, "They have M-16s and they are locked and loaded ... These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so if necessary, and I expect they will." This is a vision of corporate security and restructuring, of handing the city over to Blackwater's armed guards and Halliburton's disaster profiteers while "redeveloping" black neighborhoods into golf courses and luxury housing. "
fema contracting horror report
WHISTLE-BLOWER PROTECTION AGENCY
Current Status:
This has become the Whistle-Blower Persecution Agency. Stoutly defended by the WH. No actions underway to correct corruption. No official action. Independent investigations ignored by congress and press. Bipartisan congressional hearings blocked by Republicans. WH demands whistle-blowers be jailed.
*THE whistle-blower
*WH Accelerates Whistle-blower attacks
A congressional Hearing at last
2005 OSC Report
NASA Watchdog Pussy
ABRAMOFF CORRUPTION OF REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS
Current Status:
Breaking scandal. Hot News. But so were most of the above at the time. Disgusting misrepresentations by media. This one just keeps getting worse for Repugs. Ethics Committee sees nothing to be concerned about.
*Chart names over 150 Repugs under investigation, indicted or convicted
AG refuses to step aside in Abramoff case
AG Replaces Abramoff Prosecutor
The guilty plea
The Master site on Congressional Corruption
Village Voice on Hastert
Doolittle's Indians
No Reforms
All the lobbyists men
Abramoff and the Russians
K. Harris Caught
Earmarks and Bribery the Repug elephant in the room
ABUSE AND TORTURE OF PRISONERS
Current Status:
Denied by WH. No official government action. Independent investigations ignored by congress and press. Bipartisan congressional hearings blocked by Republicans. Blame the enlisted men and women - it's how the WH supports our troops. WH claims legal right to continue, but deny they do it.
* New torture law "does not apply"
*Guantanamo torture documented in new government papers
*Abu Ghraib - Col. gets immunity. Sgt. faces 29 year shaft
Nearly 100 Dead Prisoners
New Abu Ghraib Pics
Village Voice Roundup
British Prisoner Abuse
Rights. What rights?
Domestic torture and abuse
Insert your name here *
The international Community Opinion
Abu Ghraib amplified
LACK OF BODY AND VEHICLE ARMOR
Current Status:
WH claims, "Problem solved". Defense Department now forbids soldiers from purchasing own body armor. Republican congress holds no one responsible, Official estimates show over 300 died directly because they had no body armor. Typically five to ten times as many are wounded as die which totals 1500 to 3000 soldiers.
*Wounded soldier charged for loss of body armor
*And Just Why Do Troops Need Body Armor?
*Lack of Armor, Mar 2003
*Lack of armor, Oct 2004
*Lack of Armor, Jan 2006
DELAY CORRUPTION
Current Status:
Trial pending soon. Investigations expanding. Media inaccuracies and misrepresentations exploding. Stay tuned. Bipartisan congressional hearings blocked by Republicans. No Ethics Committee actions. Repug ethics reforms means making it legal like the NSA wiretaps.
*Primary Challenge for Mar 7 election
The list begins:
Congressional Ethics
The costs of Repug Corruption
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CLOSING COMMENT Tidbits from the most recent issue of Grant's Interest Rate Observer dated February 24:
"Within the next 12 months, an estimated $200 billion of adjustable-rate mortgages will rest, jolting their obligors with increased monthly payments as much as 70% greater than the teaser rates originally incurred."
Now take a deep breath and laugh
*The Joy of Boys