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Welcome to the final stages of the coup...
By Larisa Alexandrovna
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. ~ Julius Caesar
In 2000, the long fought for and long admired democracy of the United States of America began a slow and steady decline toward fascism - a Bush family tradition - with the installment of a president - a man the citizens overwhelmingly rejected (although the funny math told a still believed myth) - by a few corrupt judges on the US Supreme Court. That coup is now nearly complete and checkmate is all but unavoidable.
Let me first point you to the Bush administration's so-called Wall Street bailout bill, here, so that you can see for yourself that this treachery is being conducted in the light of day. Fascism is finally and formally out of the right-wing closet even if the F word is not yet openly being used (although it should be, and often).
Now, if you do not yet understand that the Wall Street crisis is a man-made disaster done through intentional deregulation and corruption, I have a bridge in Alaska to sell to you (or Sara Palin does anyway). This manufactured crisis is now to be remedied, if the fiscal fascists get their way, with the total transfer of Congressional powers (the few that still remain) to the Executive Branch and the total transfer of public funds into corporate (via government as intermediary) hands.
Adam Davidson of NPR blogs about the so-called bailout bill as follows:
"I would guess that this has to be one of the biggest peacetime transfers of power from Congress to the Administration in history. (Anyone know?). Certainly one of the most concise.
"The Treasury Secretary can buy broadly defined assets, on any terms he wants, he can hire anyone he wants to do it and can appoint private sector companies as financial deputies of the US government. And he can write whatever regulation he thinks are needed."
Most importantly, Davidson points to this passage in the bill:
"Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency."
The Bush family, in the form of Prescott Bush, has tried a more aggressive coup before in order to install fascism in this country. This treasonous plot was called "the Business Plot," because the high-level plotters - including Prescott Bush - were Wall Street men who openly supported fascism.
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Click on the link for the complete article and for the in-text links. A must read.
Could the FEMA concentration camps all over the country be for the poor, the dispossessed, the homeless, and dissenters?
The symbol of fascism is the fasces, in case you were wondering about the illustration I chose, above:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_symbolism By Larisa Alexandrovna If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. ~ Julius Caesar ... more -
Footballer blackmailed over sex
A former Manchester City youth team goalkeeper has admitted blackmailing a top Premier League footballer over sexual images.
Goalkeeper Ashley Timms, 22, of Middleton, Greater Manchester, admitted a charge of making unwarranted demands with menaces. He admitted blackmailing the player, who cannot be named for legal reasons, between March 1 and April 3 this year. Judge Andrew Gilbart QC warned Timms that a prison sentence was inevitable. He had previously pleaded not guilty to demanding £15,000 from the player.
Judge Gilbart said: "This case carries inevitably a prison sentence, no doubt about it. "I am going to grant him bail but it must be on the clear understanding what the sentence will be." Manchester Crown Court heard how the blackmail victim, known only as Witness A, received a number of threats over the sexual images. David Friesner, prosecuting, said: "There was a long protracted series of text messages that culminated in the offence. "It is a series of messages followed by a series of threats."
The Manchester-born goalkeeper, who is currently without a club was bailed until 5 September for sentencing. He played with Manchester City's under-19 side and had spells at Shrewsbury Town and Accrington Stanley as well as a number of non-league clubs. He has also had trials at Norwich City, Bolton Wanderers, Fulham, Oldham and Macclesfield. He joined Cambridge City in January on non-contract terms but has since left. A former Manchester City youth team goalkeeper has admitted blackmailing a top Premier League footballer over sexual images. ... more -
A new and dangerous twist in the Nigerian Fraud scams...
I have just received this email which I have traced to Vietnam and sent to Interpol. It has taken Nigerian Fraud scams to a new level - death threats and extortion are serious criminal offenses. Should you receive the same mail, I advise you to forward it with full headers to your local police department. You can find the appropriate police department in your area/country here: http://www.interpol.int/Public/Links/PolJust.asp
Here is the email in question (without the full headers):
from AL-QAEDA SUICIDE NETWORKS <deadlykillers2001@gmail.com>
reply-to deadlykillers2001@gmail.com
to
date Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 2:16 AM
subject KILL
Attn,
I am very sorry for you, is a pity that this is how your life is going to
end as soon as you don't comply. As you can see we are the members of the
Deadly Networks in the world, which is responsible for the bombing of twin
tower’s in America on Sept. 11th and the bombing of London transport
services on July 7th (AL-QAEDA NETWORKS), I don't have any business with
you, my duty as I am mailing you now is just to KILL you and I have to do
it as I have already been paid for that.
Someone whom you called your friend wants you dead by all means, and this
person have spent a lot of money in this venture, This person came to us
and told me that he wanted you dead and he provided us with your name,
picture and other necessary information's we needed about you. So I sent
my boys to track you down this including bugging of your phones with
satellite tracking devices and they have carried out the necessary
investigation we needed for the operation on you, and if you doubt this
information am going to give you all the necessary information about you
back to you in your next reply so that you can believe me, and my boys are
really on you but I told them not to kill you that I will like to contact
you and see if your life is important to you and the one of your family. I
called my client back and ask him of your email address which I didn't
tell him what I wanted to do with it and he gave it to me and I am using
it to contact you now. As I am writing you this mail my men are monitoring
you and they are telling me everything about you.
Now do you want to LIVE OR DIE? Since all program has be made and draw to
kill you. Get back to me now if you are ready to pay some fees to spare
your Life, $25,000 is all you need to spend in this process you will first
of all Pay $15,000 and then I will send a tape to you which I recorded in
every discussion I had with the person who wanted you dead and as soon as
you get the Tape, You will pay the remaining balance of $10,000. If you
are not ready for my help, then I will carry on with my job straight-up.
WARNING: DO NOT THINK OF CONTACTING THE POLICE OR EVEN TELLING ANYONE
BECAUSE I WILL KNOW ,REMEMBER, SOMEONE WHO KNOWS YOU VERY WELL WANT YOU
DEAD!
I WILL EXTEND IT TO YOUR FAMILY, INCASE I NOTICE SOMETHING FUNNY ABOUT
YOUR TELLING THE SECURITY ABOUT IT BECAUSE A GOOD LOOK IS OUT YOU AT THE
MOMENT.
DO NOT COME OUT ONCE IT IS 7PM UNTIL I MAKE OUT TIME TO SEE YOU AND GIVE
YOU THE TAPE OF ALL DISCUSSION WITH THE PERSON WHO WANT YOU DEAD THEN YOU
CAN USE IT TO TAKE ANY LEGAL ACTION. GOOD LUCK AS I AWAIT YOUR REPLY I have just received this email which I have traced to Vietnam and sent to Interpol. It has taken Nigerian Fraud scams to a new level ... more -
Don't drink and drive, then post on Facebook
Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird."
In the age of the Internet, it might not be hard to guess what happened to those pictures: Someone posted them on the social networking site Facebook. And that offered remarkable evidence for Jay Sullivan, the prosecutor handling Lipton's drunken-driving case.
Sullivan used the pictures to paint Lipton as an unrepentant partier who lived it up while his victim recovered in the hospital. A judge agreed, calling the pictures depraved when sentencing Lipton to two years in prison. Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior at... more -
The 10 Worst Corporations of 2007
Neither Honest Nor Trustworthy: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2007
by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
The U.S. public holds Big Business in shockingly low regard.
A November 2007 Harris poll found that less than 15 percent of the population believes each of the following industries to be "generally honest and trustworthy:" tobacco companies (3 percent); oil companies (3 percent); managed care companies such as HMOs (5 percent); health insurance companies (7 percent); telephone companies (10 percent); life insurance companies (10 percent); online retailers (10 percent); pharmaceutical and drug companies (11 percent); car manufacturers (11 percent); airlines (11 percent); packaged food companies (12 percent); electric and gas utilities (15 percent). Only 32 percent of adults said they trusted the best-rated industry about which Harris surveyed, supermarkets.
With the 10 Worst Corporations of 2007, we aim to show - again - that Big Business is out of control and to connect comparable abuses to the failure of government overseers, regulators and enforcers.
Presented alphabetically, here are the 10 Worst Corporations of 2007:
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2007/112007/mokhi... Neither Honest Nor Trustworthy: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2007 by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman ... more -
Royal blackmail plotters jailed for five years
Two men have been jailed for five years after being found guilty of a £50,000 gay sex blackmail plot against a unnamed, married member of the Royal family. Two men have been jailed for five years after being found guilty of a £50,000 gay sex blackmail plot against a unnamed, married member... more
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Gay sex tape is royal blackmail
Two men tried to blackmail a member of the Royal Family over claims he had taken part in a gay sex act, a court has heard, in the first case of blackmail against a royal for more than 100 years.
The audio and video files, featured a man who had been employed for many years by the member of the extended Royal family. Most of the recordings were made when the man was drunk or "under the influences of other substances", the court heard.
The man was "shown recounting stories and alleged experiences, making allegations of impropriety as to how his employer conducted aspects of his business, and there were three audio files of the man apparently asserting that the member of the Royal family who employed him had performed an act of oral sex on him." Two men tried to blackmail a member of the Royal Family over claims he had taken part in a gay sex act, a court has heard, in the firs... more -
Boy blackmails girl for sex tape with iPod
Ridiculous...a young boy steals an iPod from a girl, then leaves a note demanding a sex video in exchange for the iPod. New kind of iPod "Touch"??? Ridiculous...a young boy steals an iPod from a girl, then leaves a note demanding a sex video in exchange for the iPod. New kind of i... more
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An agent, a green card, and a demand for sex
An NY immigration agent tells a married women that he will not give her a green card unless she agrees to a few sexual favors. He says "I need love too." No really... the 22 year old Colombian woman recorded the conversation and it is now posted (and transcribed) on the NY Times website. An NY immigration agent tells a married women that he will not give her a green card unless she agrees to a few sexual favors. He say... more
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Sex, Drugs and Royalty
That's right. A member of the royal family has been targeted in an alleged blackmailing plot. Two have been arrested and Scotland Yard is investigating. Buckingham Palace refuses to disclose the royal's name. Who could it be??? That's right. A member of the royal family has been targeted in an alleged blackmailing plot. Two have been arrested and Scotland... more
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