Democrats.com and the anti-Bush movement
here is a newsletter that was fowarded to me. it has some interesting stuff in it, some of which i find quite funny. too bnad we don't know if any of it is true for sure... but still is an interesting read...
>__Anti-Bush Protests
>
>On Friday 3/1, Protest Bush in Des Moines, IA. On Monday 3/4,
>Protest Bush in Minnesota. On Wednesday 3/13, Protest Scalia in
>Buffalo, NY.
>http://legitgov.org/action.html
>
>
>__Thanks to the Internet, the Corporate Media's Big Lie About
>Clinton & Lay is Finally Exposed
>
>As the Enron scandal exploded in January, Republicans moved quickly
>to shift the blame AWAY from Bush and the Republicans. On Jan. 11,
>Matt Drudge posted a Big Lie, in which he blamed - you guessed it! -
>Bill Clinton. "[Ken] Lay also played golf with President Bill
>Clinton and slept in the Clinton White House." From Drudge, this Lie
>then made its way throughout the Corporate Media - Chicago Tribune,
>Weekly Standard, Washington Times, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,
>Newhouse News Service, Times of London, ABC's This Week, Greta van
>Susteren's Fox News. Finally, the Big Lie was exposed by Gene Lyons,
>Salon.com, DailyHowler.com and Mediawhoresonline.com. This episode
>proves once again that the Corporate Media routinely lies for the
>Republicans, and the Internet is the only weapon we citizens have to
>insist on the Truth.
>http://www.observer.com/pages/conason.asp
>
>
>__Tampa Three Video of Arrest for Saying 'BOOO' to Bush at Public
>Rally
>
>On June 4, 2001, three citizens were arrested at a public
>presidential rally in Tampa, Florida for displaying negative signs.
>The rally was held at the Legends baseball field and was open to the
>general public. All three participants entered the field, signs in
>hand, without incident. The signs were letter size and read "BOOO,"
>"Investigate Florida Votergate," and "June is Gay Pride Month." Once
>on the field some republican volunteers began to shout "Get Out of
>here!" "Go Home!" The police were contacted and came down into the
>field. The police told the participants, "Lose the signs and you can
>stay." When the trio refused to give up their signs they were
>forcibly removed and subsequently arrested. Fortunately, the entire
>incident was caught on video, the charges were dropped and now the
>trio is suing. The video is now up on the Internet for everyone to
>see.
>http://www.voiceoffreedom.com/voices.html
>
>
>__Theft of the Presidency Day 474: Another Statistical Analysis
>Shows Gore Won Florida
>
>On 7-15-01, NY Times reporters David Barstow and Don Van Natta Jr.
>documented how the Bush campaign pressured numerous Florida counties
>to count illegal overseas military ballots. A thorough statistical
>analysis of this data estimates that Bush gained 286 votes as a
>result of this massive fraud. Without those 286 illegal votes, the
>Florida Supreme Court would have declared Gore the winner on
>12-8-00, when it overruled Katherine Harris and accepted the results
>of partial recounts from Palm Beach and Miami-Dade and cut Bush's
>lead to 154. These 286 votes also put Gore over the top in most of
>the media recount scenarios.
>http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~k...h/ballots.html
>
>
>__Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) Offers a Powerful 'Prayer for America'
>
>"Let us pray that our nation will remember that the unfolding of the
>promise of democracy in our nation paralleled the striving for civil
>rights. That is why we must challenge the rationale of the Patriot
>Act. We must ask why should America put aside guarantees of
>constitutional justice? How can we justify in effect canceling the
>First Amendment and the right of free speech, the right to peaceably
>assemble? How can we justify in effect canceling the Fourth
>Amendment, probable cause, the prohibitions against unreasonable
>search and seizure? How can we justify in effect canceling the Fifth
>Amendment, nullifying due process, and allowing for indefinite
>incarceration without a trial? How can we justify in effect
>canceling the Sixth Amendment, the right to prompt and public trial?
>How can we justify in effect canceling the Eighth Amendment, which
>protects against cruel and unusual punishment?" So begins a powerful
>Prayer for America by House Progressive Caucus chair Dennis Kucinich
>(D-OH).
>http://truthout.com/02.23C.Kucinich.Prayer.htm
>
>
>__Dems Will Win in November if They Make Line 47 a Campaign Issue
>
>When taxpayers discover Line 47, the GOP is in deep doodoo. Paul
>Krugman writes: "Here's the story. The Bush administration didn't
>want to give those famous $300 rebate checks; its original plan
>would have pumped hardly any money into the economy last year. Under
>prodding from Democrats the plan was changed to incorporate
>immediate cash outlays. But those outlays were included only
>grudgingly, and with a catch: they really weren't rebates. Instead,
>they were merely advances on future tax cuts. What that means is
>that most taxpayers, when they reach line 47 of their 1040's, will
>discover that they owe $300 more in taxes than they expected. In
>other words, the one piece of the Bush tax cut that probably did
>help the economy last year is about to be snatched away. The direct
>monetary impact will be significant; the psychological impact, as
>taxpayers realize that they've been misled, may be even greater."
>And the political impact will be huge, if Dems make an issue of Line
>47.
>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/22/opinion/22KRUG.html
>
>
>__Democrats.com Exclusive: Bush DOUBLE-SCRUBBED His SCRUB of WWII!
>
>On 2-20-02, we reported that Bush scrubbed WWII from history by
>declaring "for a century and a half now, America and Japan have
>formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times." Our
>source was the videotape from the BBC, which remains unscrubbed. But
>Democrats.com member William Sterner discovered that Bush
>double-scrubbed history, by scrubbing the official transcript of his
>speech - which now reads "for half a century now." There is no
>footnote, no assertion that an "error" was made - Bush simply
>rewrote history, just the way it was done in Orwell's 1984.
>Unfortunately, Rove & Hughes are the Abbott & Costello of scrubbing,
>because they missed the printer-friendly version (thanks to Zenia
>Brickheimer) and the USIA writeup at
>http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/02021803.htm (thanks to
>Anthony Espinosa). (Don't worry, we saved copies.) We demand a full
>explanation from Bush himself, in his own unscrubbed words!!
>http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0020218-2.html
>
>
>__NY Times ADMITS Scrubbing 9-09 Warning
>
>On Feb 14, Democrats.com revealed that the NY Times "scrubbed" from
>its Web site a crucial warning about Osama Bin Laden that it
>published on 9-9-01 - just 2 days before Bin Laden's attack on the
>U.S. In response to our expose, the NY Times has admitted that it
>scrubbed the article (which was actually posted on 9-8-01) because
>the article was never published in the PRINT newspaper. This led us
>to ask: why was John Burns' prescient warning deemed NOT "fit to
>print"? Read our exchange and draw your own conclusion. We stick to
>ours! We believe it demonstrates the gross negligence of the CIA,
>NSA, Justice Department, and the White House in the events leading
>to 9-11. These agencies had MANY warnings, but the people at the top
>IGNORED them, at a cost of over 3,000 lives and billions of dollars.
>All of these screwups remain in their jobs! We demand a Blue Ribbon
>Commission on 9-11 and a thorough housecleaning - not a
>Congressional Coverup!
>http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=6021
>
>
>__US Says Osama Had No Nukes or Bioweapons
>
>"An analysis of suspected radioactive substances seized in
>Afghanistan has found nothing to prove that Osama bin Laden reached
>his decade-long goal of acquiring nuclear materials for a bomb,
>administration officials say. The analysis of suspicious canisters,
>computer discs and documents conducted by the government suggests,
>in fact, that Mr. bin Laden and Al Qaeda may have been duped by
>black-market weapons swindlers selling crude containers hand-painted
>with skulls and crossbones and dipped, perhaps, in medical waste to
>fool a Geiger counter, officials said. More than 110 government
>buildings, military compounds, terrorist camps, safe houses and
>caves in Afghanistan have been searched for clues about Al Qaeda's
>plans and development of advanced terror weapons." So reports the NY
>Times.
>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/26/in...ia/26NUKE.html
>
>
>__Mohamed Atta's Florida Flight School Is Linked to CIA
>
>911 pilots Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi learned to fly at
>Huffman Aviation in Venice, Florida. This small flight school is
>owned by a Dutchman named Rudi Dekker. Investigator Daniel Hopsicker
>has been researching Dekker's shady ties, and has now discovered a
>connection to the CIA - Dekker provides (through a small subsidiary
>called Brittnia Aviation) maintenance for Caribe Air, a notorious
>CIA "proprietary." Caribe Air is now owned by Banc Caribe, an
>offshore bank based in Dominica tied to money laundering - and
>possibly Enron's secret partnerships. Dekker's company has a "green
>light" from the DEA, which told the Venice Police to leave them
>alone. Interestingly, Dekker's company is also tied to both Jerry
>Falwell and Pat Robertson. Stay tuned...
>http://www.madcowprod.com
>
>
>__Hazar Qadam Massacre Story Was A Pentagon Big Lie
>
>The Pentagon claims to have abandoned its plan to feed outright lies
>to the media. But as Alan Balch reports, in January several branches
>of Rupert Murdoch's evil global media empire reported the same lie,
>which was obviously concocted by the Pentagon. Murdochnews claimed
>US forces killed 15 Taliban and Al Qaeda soldiers in Hazar Qadam -
>which was the tip of the iceberg of 5,000 Taliban soldiers with 450
>tanks who were "regrouping" after they were routed in December. In
>reality, there were no Taliban or Al Qaeda fighters in Hazar Qadam -
>it was simply a massacre now blamed on "faulty intelligence." This
>means the Pentagon HAS been lying to the foreign media. We demand an
>investigation by the Armed Services Committees!
>http://www.geocities.com/thepolemic/talibanrises.html
>
>
>__Northern Alliance Soldiers Rape Pashtun Women and Girls, But Bu$h
>is Silent About US-Backed EVIL
>
>"The ouster of the Taliban by the US-backed Northern Alliance did
>not stop the use of rape as a way to demoralize and dominate. But
>what has changed since the fall is the identity of the victims, now
>mostly Pashtun families and displaced people living in camps, the
>losers following the defeat of the Pashtun-dominated Taliban. The
>crime is perpetrated, say victims and aid workers, by the men who
>answer to warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, a Northern Alliance commander
>whose 3,000-man army, Junbish-e-Millie, now rules much of the
>country's north. Most women are too afraid and ashamed to talk about
>being raped. But, Nazu, a Pashtun mother of 10, was willing to
>describe what happened to her, and to her girls." Dostum has long
>been known for his gross abuse of human rights, but under the
>Bush/Russert doctrine, our government stands behind him 1000%. What
>happened to Bush's fight for Afghan women's rights? Where is Laura
>Bush? Their silence is more confirmation that the war was really
>about OIL.
>http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/05...Taliban+.shtml
>
>
>__Judge Orders Energy Dept to Release Cheney Task Force Docs
>
>"A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Energy Department to
>release thousands of records on Vice President Dick Cheney's energy
>task force, criticizing the government for moving at 'a glacial
>pace.' The ruling by U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler could
>undermine the Bush administration's effort to keep secret the names
>of industry executives and lobbyists who met with the White House as
>it formulated its energy plan last spring…Starting March 25, the
>Energy Department must turn over its documents to the Natural
>Resources Defense Council, an environmental group. It must complete
>the task by April 10...In a statement, the environmental group
>expressed confidence that with the court victory in hand, the NRDC
>'expects to make public -- for the first time since the task force
>was formed more than a year ago -- the names of participants, dates
>of meetings, and the topics discussed.'" Will it at last find out
>about Enron's influence – or will it get appealed up to the 5
>Supreme Felons?
>http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2002/...rds/index.html
>
>
>__How Cheney Screwed Florida for Bush's Energy Donors by Approving
>Offshore Oil Drilling
>
>Cheney will fight to the death before releasing details of his
>Energy Task Force. But here's a glimpse at one key decision,
>approving oil drilling off Florida's West Coast. In Feb. 2001, just
>3 weeks after stealing the White House, Cheney met with the Chairman
>of Shell Oil, Steven Miller, and the Chairman of Andarko Petroleum,
>Robert Allison Jr. How did they get access to Cheney so quickly?
>"Allison gave $150,000 to the Republican Party; Miller gave $10,500
>to the party and $1,000 to Bush's presidential campaign." Moreover,
>Lynne Cheney made $250,000-$500,000 when a company on whose board
>she sat, Union Pacific, merged with Andarko. In May, Cheney told
>Florida's Congressional delegation "the administration would not
>agree to a ban on new offshore drilling in the Gulf." In July,
>Cheney approved the lease of 1.5 million acres. "In a December
>auction, Anadarko and Shell won the right to develop several prime
>sites." This is blatant corruption. We demand a Special Prosecutor!
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2002Feb26.html
>
>
>__Cheney's Ailing Halliburton Gets BushCheney Bailout - BIGTIME!
>
>Here's a mega-scandal we somehow missed. According to the Institute
>for Southern Studies, "Last December, the US Department of Defense
>made a no-cap, cost-plus-award contract to Halliburton KBR's
>Government Operations division. The Dallas-based company is
>contracted to build forward operating bases to support troop
>deployments for the next nine years wherever the President chooses
>to take the anti-terrorism war." This explains why BushCheney want
>PERMANENT war. It also positions Halliburton perfectly to go after
>oilfield services contracts near US military bases - especially all
>the new bases around Afghanistan in Caspian oil country. When this
>deal was negotiated, Halliburton was facing possible bankruptcy over
>asbestos lawsuits. Did Halliburton get the BushCheney bankruptcy
>bailout that Enron was allegedly denied? We want to know more, but
>the Pentagon scrubbed the contract from its Web site. We demand a
>Special Prosecutor!
>http://www.southernstudies.org/issma...ml#Commentary1
>
>
>__Halliburton Got a Multi-Billion Dollar Contract After Stealing
>Millions from the Pentagon
>
>The last time Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) got
>military a contract, it fraudulently overbilled by $6 million,
>according to whistleblower Dammen Gant Campbell. Ashcroft's
>Injustice Department settled for $2 million, letting Halliburton
>keep $4 million that it stole of YOUR money. But that settlement was
>not reached until 2/8/02. So how did Halliburton get a new 10-year
>military contract on 12/17/01 that is worth untold billions? We
>demand an investigation by the Pentagon's Inspector General!
>http://www.halliburton.com/KBR/KBRNWS/KBRNWS_121701.asp
>
>
>__King George I Made $4.5 Million on Global Crossing
>
>According to Business Week, "The elder Bush and his wife, Barbara,
>sold 100,000 Global Crossing shares on Nov. 16, 1999, for $4.45
>million, according to the documents. Then, the Bushes notified the
>SEC they were selling an additional 1,000 shares on Mar. 13, 2000,
>for $55,000. The former First Family had acquired at least 100,000
>shares of Global Crossing stock as a private investment on Apr. 21,
>1998, the documents say. The shares listed in the documents may have
>been payment for appearances the elder Bush, whose normal speaking
>fee ran $80,000, made at Global Crossing conferences... The Bushes
>acquired the 100,000 shares four months before Global Crossing went
>public at $19 a share (the stock split two-for-one six months
>later). The documents don't indicate how much Bush paid for the
>shares since he acquired them before the company was public. It's
>also not known whether he bought additional shares of Global
>Crossing before or after it went public."
>http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/...20222_2866.htm
>
>
>__'Enronitis' (Greed Disease) Epidemic in GOP: Orrin Hatch's Pal
>Earl Holding Uses Deceit to Make Killing off Olympics at Taxpayer
>Expense
>
>With the help of friends in high places, including Orrin Hatch, oil
>billionaire Earl Holding got pretty most of his wish list -
>including a $15 million road that will make access to his new
>development a breeze. Not only is the road being paid for by
>taxpayers, it was exempted from basic environmental reviews. Holding
>also used the Olympics as a pretext for conducting a sneaky land
>swap with the U.S. Forest Service that handed him 1,320 prime acres
>for his development. How could this be? Holding's pals in Utah's
>Congressional delegation (including Hatch, who received $30,000 from
>Holding) ensured that Holding got all he wanted, complete with
>special riders tucked neatly into massive spending bills and other
>complex legislation, where nobody would pay attention. Not only
>that, but these folks lied for Holding, claiming the land swap and
>road were necessary for the Games' success--even though most of the
>building on the land he acquired is years away from completion.
>http://www.publicampaign.org/ouch02_15_02.htm
>
>
>__Tom DeLay's Top Aide Broke the Law to Get Enron Lobbying Contract
>
>Roll Call has scored a MAJOR investigative coup that could bring
>down Tom DeLay's top aide. "At the top of the DeLay political
>hierarchy sits Edwin Alexander Buckham, a 43-year-old ordained
>evangelical minister with a dense political and legislative resume
>who rose to become DeLay's chief of staff after Republicans won the
>majority in 1994... Buckham left DeLay's staff Dec. 20, 1997, but
>was immediately hired as a consultant for the lawmaker's leadership
>PAC, Americans for a Republican Majority." BEFORE he left - on
>11-12-97 - Buckham was working on a lobbying proposal to Enron that
>led to a $750,000 contract to promote electricity "deregulation,"
>Enron-style - after DeLay pushed Enron to hire his aide. Buckham
>says he had nothing to do with the proposal, and that his letterhead
>was forged. Hey Rev. Ed - put your hand on a Bible and tell that lie
>to a jury. We demand a CRIMINAL investigation!
>http://www.rollcall.com/pages/news/0...news0225a.html
>
>
>__Enron-Stained Army Secretary Thomas White Must Resign Immediately
>
>"Thomas White, the former Enron vice chairman appointed by George W.
>Bush to be Secretary of the Army, should resign immediately. The
>case against White is self-evident. Touted as "one of the most
>outstanding managers in corporate America" by Enron's favorite
>senator, Phil Gramm, he was named Army Secretary, promising to bring
>"sound business practices" to the Pentagon. But White's entire
>business experience was at Enron, where he participated directly in
>the lies and mismanagement that resulted in its bankruptcy and the
>betrayal of investors and employees. Enron's business practices
>generally, and White's in particular, are the last thing that should
>be inflicted upon the Department of the Army." So writes Robert
>Borosage in The Nation.
>http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i...311&s=borosage
>
>
>__Former Enron Programmer Says Enron Gouged California
>
>Here's a bombshell: a former computer programmer at Enron has
>written a letter to Senator Barbara Boxer, claiming "Enron congested
>the state's transmission lines and then resold the power in the
>state's wholesale electricity market at skyrocketing rates." "David
>Fabian [is] a former employee for Enron's trading unit who wrote the
>company's trading software for electricity and natural gas sales."
>"I never witnessed this but this is what the traders talked about,"
>Mr. Fabian told Dow Jones Newswires. "I spent a lot of time with
>traders writing the software programs and they discussed how they
>could use tricks to get high prices for electricity." "California is
>seeking $9 billion in refunds from generators, including Enron, for
>allegedly gouging utilities. The Federal Energy Regulatory
>Commission is investigating Enron's role in California 's power
>crisis and expects to issue a decision on the refund case in the
>summer."
>http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/020220/200...0000705_1.html
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>
>__Enron Stole $220 Million from Connecticut Taxpayers, Thanks to
>Gov. John Rowland
>
>Here's a deal that will make you laugh - if you live OUTSIDE of
>Connecticut. Enron conned the Connecticut Resources Recovery
>Authority into handing over $220 million in CASH in return for an
>IOU of $2.4 million per month until 2012. Where is the collateral,
>you ask? Don't bother asking - this was a REPUBLICAN deal, approved
>by Gov. John G. Rowland's Chief of Staff, Peter Ellef, who also
>serves as chairman of the trash authority. We'll add Rowland to the
>ever-growing list of Republicans whose careers will go down the
>tubes with Enron - joining Jeb Bush (FL), Rick "Goodhair" Perry
>(TX), and ultimately the Commander-in-Thief Himself.
>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/22/business/22ENRO.html
>
>
>__Enron Used CIA Agents and NSA's Echelon Intercepts to Coerce
>Foreign Governments
>
>Once again, the National Enquirer has scooped the corporate media
>with real investigative reporting. "The corruption at Enron went far
>beyond unbridled greed and rampant sex- it also involved
>international espionage and electronic spy warfare, the Enquirer has
>learned... 'There have been at least 20 CIA agents on the payroll of
>Enron in the past eight years [training] Enron employees in
>intelligence gathering and security, [helping Enron] get billions of
>dollars in lucrative contracts in Asia, South America and Europe.
>'Basically what the CIA operatives were able to provide was detailed
>information on bids made by foreign companies on projects of
>interest to Enron. 'They used human intelligence and also info
>gleaned from a satellite project called 'Echelon.' The satellites
>intercepted e-mails, phone calls and faxes with detailed business
>information... 'Pure and simple, U.S. intelligence agents were
>involved in corporate espionage.'" We demand a Special Prosecutor!
>http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=6076
>
>
>__'Pug' Winokur Played Crucial Role in Enron's Fraudulent
>Partnerships
>
>Enron's massively fraudulent partnerships were the brainchild of CFO
>Andrew Fastow, the current frontrunner in the "Enron Pokey" contest.
>But which Enron director did the most to promote Fastow's fraud?
>According to the NY Times, "In October 1999, Herbert S. Winokur Jr.,
>a longtime Enron director who is chairman of the finance committee,
>presented the case for the second [much larger] partnership at a
>meeting of the full board... The board approved the partnership,
>with Mr. Fastow at the helm, and waived Enron's code of ethics a
>second time." Winokur is now in charge of "scrubbing" the Enron
>investigation; here's how NY Times columnist Frank Rich described
>his testimony to Congress. "Appearing before the House Commerce
>Committee with condescension in his voice and a flag pin in his
>lapel, he contradicted himself so much under questioning that one
>member, Bart Stupak of Michigan, told me he had 'impeached his own
>testimony.'" We demand a Special Prosecutor!
>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/22/business/22BOAR.html
>
>
>__Why Didn't the NY Times Fire Katherine Seelye for Lying About Al
>Gore?
>
>In December 1999, NY Times reporter Katherine Seelye misreported a
>statement by Al Gore about Love Canal. Seelye had her mind made up
>that Al Gore routinely bragged and exaggerated, and twisted Gore's
>uncontroversial words about holding the first Congressional hearings
>on Love Canal into an allegation that Gore claimed he "discovered"
>Love Canal. After the Times declared it had a rule against
>"falsification," Democrats.com member Joseph Comstock debated
>Timesman Bill Borders on why Seelye was never fired.
>
>http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=6035
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