Wednesday, October 26, 2005

See the Movie Mao-Mart Doesn't Want You to See.

The screening of the movie, Wal-Mart: The high cost of low price, by Robert Greenwald will be held November 13-19, 2005. Thousands of people in every state, Canada and internationally have already RSVP'd.

You can sign up for a screening or host your own by clicking on the title of this post. The downward spiral of everything right-wing is in full swing and this movie will help to inform more people of the criminal enterprise occupying the White House and the scum who support them.

Monday, October 03, 2005

Treason: The Right-wing's Principle.


Role of Rove, Libby in CIA Leak Case Clearer
Bush and Cheney Aides' Testimony Contradicts Earlier White House Statement

By Jim VandeHei and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, October 2, 2005; A05

As the CIA leak investigation heads toward its expected conclusion this month, it has become increasingly clear that two of the most powerful men in the Bush administration were more involved in the unmasking of operative Valerie Plame than the White House originally indicated.

With New York Times reporter Judith Miller's release from jail Thursday and testimony Friday before a federal grand jury, the role of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, came into clearer focus. Libby, a central figure in the probe since its earliest days and the vice president's main counselor, discussed Plame with at least two reporters but testified that he never mentioned her name or her covert status at the CIA, according to lawyers in the case.

His story is similar to that of Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser. Rove, who was not an initial focus of the investigation, testified that he, too, talked with two reporters about Plame but never supplied her name or CIA role.

Their testimony seems to contradict what the White House was saying a few months after Plame's CIA job became public.

In October 2003, White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters that he personally asked Libby and Rove whether they were involved, "so I could come back to you and say they were not involved." Asked if that was a categorical denial of their involvement, he said, "That is correct."

What remains a central mystery in the case is whether special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has accumulated evidence during his two-year investigation that any crime was committed. His investigation has White House aides and congressional Republicans on edge as they await Fitzgerald's announcement of an indictment or the conclusion of the probe with no charges. The grand jury is scheduled to expire Oct. 28, and lawyers in the case expect Fitzgerald to signal his intentions as early as this week.

...But a new theory about Fitzgerald's aim has emerged in recent weeks from two lawyers who have had extensive conversations with the prosecutor while representing witnesses in the case. They surmise that Fitzgerald is considering whether he can bring charges of a criminal conspiracy perpetrated by a group of senior Bush administration officials. Under this legal tactic, Fitzgerald would attempt to establish that at least two or more officials agreed to take affirmative steps to discredit and retaliate against Wilson and leak sensitive government information about his wife. To prove a criminal conspiracy, the actions need not have been criminal, but conspirators must have had a criminal purpose.

Lawyers involved in the case interviewed for this report agreed to talk only if their names were not used, citing Fitzgerald's request for secrecy.

One source briefed on Miller's account of conversations with Libby said it is doubtful her testimony would on its own lead to charges against any government officials. But, the source said, her account could establish a piece of a web of actions taken by officials that had an underlying criminal purpose.

Conspiracy cases are viewed by criminal prosecutors as simpler to bring than more straightforward criminal charges, but also trickier to sell to juries. "That would arguably be a close call for a prosecutor, but it could be tried," a veteran Washington criminal attorney with longtime experience in national security cases said yesterday.

Other lawyers in the case surmise Fitzgerald does not have evidence of any crime at all and put Miller in jail simply to get her testimony and finalize the investigation. "Even assuming . . . that somebody decided to answer back a critic, that is politics, not criminal behavior," said one lawyer in the case. This lawyer said the most benign outcome would be Fitzgerald announcing that he completed a thorough investigation, concluded no crime was committed and would not issue a report.

...By July 12, however, both Rove and Libby and perhaps other senior White House officials knew about Wilson's wife's position at the CIA and, according to lawyers familiar with testimony in the probe, used that information with reporters to undermine the significance of Wilson's trip.


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All government officials convicted of this crime should immediately be executed. No more screwing around!

Saturday, October 01, 2005

Chavez Populism is Spreading.....

and it is driving the scum crazier than ever. They hate the fact that Hugo's socialist policies work and that, their fascist policies are failing.

Posted on Sat, Oct. 01, 2005

THE AMERICAS

Martinez warns of Chávez populism spreading

Sen. Mel Martinez delivered a hard-hitting speech warning of a 'dangerous relationship' between Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro.

By PABLO BACHELET

pbachelet@herald.com

Sen. Mel Martinez warned on Friday that unless the United States adopts a more comprehensive and active approach toward Latin America, the region risks sliding into ``populist Chavismo, anti-American sentiment.''

The Florida Republican has previously voiced his concerns that the administration was doing too little for the region, but his remarks to The Herald's annual Americas Conference at the Biltmore Hotel, via a videoconference hookup with his office in Washington, were especially blunt and detailed.

Martinez, mentioning his own background as a Cuban American, made his strongest statements to date on ``the dangerous relationship between Cuba and Venezuela.''

''We are already seeing the problem of radical ideology spread like a virus in a triangle of [Venezuelan President Hugo] Chávez, [Cuban leader Fidel] Castro and populism,'' said the senator, who has been taking an increasingly higher profile on Latin American issues.


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Remember prople....buy Citgo and support a true democracy in Venezuela!!

More Hypocrisy from the Scum

I'm still here!! Work requires more than eight hours a day...driving into Denver is never fun.

I was notified about this little issue in an email. Seems that the scum only apply the rules to the rest of us but, they are exempt. Criminals....it defines the scum to a tee.

For Release
September 30, 2005

Contact: Laurie Beacham, 212/267-2801

CONSUMER GROUP CALLS BUSH A “LAWSUIT HYPOCRITE”

The Center for Justice & Democracy (CJ&D) today called the Bush Administration “the worst kind of hypocrite” for, on the one hand, denouncing injured consumers who file lawsuits, while at the same time filing its own case for civil damages against a manufacturer whose defective product endangered the President.

It was revealed this week that the secret service purchased for use by high level officials, including President and Laura Bush, defective bullet-proof vests from a company called Second Chance Body Armor. In July, the Department of Justice filed a civil case to collect compensation against the manufacturer and the maker of the defective fiber used in the vest.


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Had the vest been utilized and failed...there would have been no loss.