What I want investigated...

[Independent_Liberal]

Here it is. What I want Congress to investigate.

Downing Street Memos
Plame
Iraq Intelligence
WMDs
WHIG
Iran-Syria Operations Group
AIPAC/Larry Franklin/Steven Rosen/Keith Weissman/Michael Ledeen/Manucher Ghorbanifar
Niger/Yellowcake Forgeries
Chalabigate
Depleted Uranium
Energy Task Force and secret energy meetings
Security breaches and leaks of classified information
Dubai Ports deals
Mining disasters
Patriot Act and IRS abuses
Indefinite detainment without charge
NSA and wiretapping without FISA court approval
FEMA's Katrina response
Aragoncillo
Gannon
Abramoff
Cunnigham/Wilkes/MZM/Hookergate
Sibel Edmonds FBI Whistleblower Case
Torture of prisoners
Secret government propaganda operations
Election Fraud
Diebold
Choice Point
Coingate
New Hampshire Phone Jamming
Office of Special Plans
Whistleblower rights violations by the US Office of Special Counsel
Pat Roberts/Richard Shelby Intelligence Leak Cover-Ups
The cover-up of the cost of the Medicare bill
John Negroponte and the School of the Americas
Greenberg Traurig
Marsh & Kroll Management
AIG
Citigroup
Enron
Halliburton-Kellogg Brown & Root
Lockheed Martin
The Carlyle Group
Harken Energy
Bechtel
WorldCom
Tyco
Financial improprieties involving former FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford
Alphonso Jackson and HUD contracts
Cover-ups of pre-9/11 intelligence
9/11 Commission cover-ups
9/11 Commission members with ties to oil companies and lobbyists
Key witnesses left out of the official 9/11 Report
Illegal weapons sales
Drug trafficking
Money laundering
9/11 related corruption in government offices
Cover-ups involving Congress people, Federal Judges and DOJ personnel
Corruption surrounding Supreme Court Justices
DC 9 and the 5.5 tons of cocaine
Christine Todd Whitman and the EPA
Money from foreign entities funneled to Congress people and Pentagon and State Department personnel
FBI wiretap translations
NORAD tapes
Pentagon tapes
Manipulation of pre-9/11 FBI intercepts
Hastert-Abramoff-Turkey-Israel-MIC Inc.-Brewster Jennings-American Turkish Council-AIPAC-Feith-Perle connections
Actions by the White House Communications Agency (WHCA) before and after 9/11
Larry Silverstein
Paul Bremer
Destruction of 9/11 FAA tapes
Domestic espionage
DeLay's misuse of the FAA and the DHS
Titan Corporation's involvement in the Abu Ghraib and Cunningham/Wilkes scandals and how it corrupted the defense and intelligence agencies
DeLay-Abramoff-Kidan-SunCruz-Boulis-Mob-Atta connections
Espionage in the Abramoff and Cunningham scandals linked to the Total Information Awareness (TIA) program and COINTELPRO
Group W Advisors
Archer Logistics
ACDS Inc.
Pakistan-ISI connections
Saudi-Binladen Group (SBG) connections
Defense contractors
Enron Afghani pipeline deals
The death of Enron executive Cliff Baxter
Arthur Anderson's destruction of Enron documents
Penetration of the FBI, State Department and Pentagon
Turkish spies infiltrating the government
The Boulis mob hit
Kidan's ties to a Sicilian mafia figure
The identification of Atta by "Able Danger"
That massive FBI cover-up in Florida exposed by an Army Intel Unit
Terrorists at casinos
Abramoff's ties to Turkey, Israel and Pakistan
Laundered Casino Money
Foreign Influence Peddling
Ties to the Russian government
Saudi money
Penetration of that FBI New York Field Office by an Iranian Rouge Agent
Ney's use of illegal wiretaps with the complicity of MCI/WorldCom
John O'Neill's murder
Pat Tillman's death
Missing billions from Iraq
Wellstone's plane crash
Melek Can Dickerson and the American Turkish Council
Cases reported by John M. Cole
The firing of the those 60 House Approprations Committee Investigators from the investigative staff by Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis in the Hastert/Bid-Rigging/Approprations/Contractors cover-up
The firing of Abramoff Prosecutor Frederick A. Black
Homeland Security rackets
Child prostitution and sex trafficking in the Northern Marianas
Carlyle and Dubai
Enron power plant deals
Halliburton, Iraq contractors, Iraq corruption, and the selling of key nuclear reactors to Iran
War Profiteering
Nigerian bribes
Bid-rigging
Ney's ties to MZM
K Street lobbyists' ties to foreign entities
Homeland Security sex predator operations
David Kelly's death
Chris Matthew's involvement in the Abramoff scandal
Pre-9/11 terrorism cases including the Ramzi Yousef/Bojinka Two case and the Ali Mohamed case
Zeliow and the 9/11 Commission

:crazy:

[QuestionAll...]

1. great list, but Foley's naughty bits take precedent. nt

[BOSSHOG]

2. Excellent list

I seriously believe that the republicans went into overdrive fucking things up and doing so many criminal activities that it would seem to be virtually impossible to investigate them all. Your list points out the enormity of the evil that is today's conservative republican party.

[kimmerspixelated]

3. But not necessarily in that order, right?

Our Congress will be so busy trying to decide what is tops on the list!

[wildbilln864]

4. Absolutely a great list!

as said by another, not neccesarily in that order.
K&R!

[annabanana]

5. A coupla years worth of work, there. .

I guess we'll have to extend our majority for a few more years.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

6. Where is the un-abbreviated list?

:evilgrin:

My god that is overwhelming... did you mention the unwarranted closings of EPA' libraries? :kick:

[Bakunin]

7. Someone has been doin' lotsa thinkin' lately!

I lived in NH until I came to WY two years ago so I still keep in touch. I think the phone jamming crap led to fines and some suspended sentence cop-out. And those Iranian Avon salespeople that infiltrated the NY FBI office to sell rouge have got to be brought to justice. Just kidding.

[leftofthedial]

8. why stop there?

[wildbilln864]

9. First I think should be...

911 and Iraq war.
Impeachment will surely be required then!

[Vadem]

10. You know what? I'm bookmarking this list because it is mine ....

also.....n/t

[Jcrowley]

11. K & R n/t

[petgoat]

12. Gee

I guess my small subpoena list isn't as impressive as I'd thought.


Sibel Edmonds
FBI agents who want to testify about their anti-terrorist investigations before 9/11
The CIA person who delivered the 8-6 PDB to W and was told "OK, you've covered your ass."
Indira Singh
Cheney's young man who asked "do the orders still stand?"
The pilot and crew of the C-130H that was on both the Pentagon and Shanksville crash scenes
The FAA flight controllers whose audio tape was destroyed
CIA agent Larry Mitchell
Dr. Terry Callaway
experts from Raytheon on remote controlled aircraft
The Pentagon employee who told John Judge there were missiles at the Pentagoon
Secret Service agents who decided to let Bush stay in the classroom in Florida
General Mahmoud Ahmad
The FDNY chiefs who reported structural damage to WTC7
The FDNY personnel in the video who said "Move out, there's a bomb in the building"
The FDNY official who reported explosions to the news media in live TV reports
The engineer who ordered the WTC steel destroyed
The owners of the mob-connected scrap yards that recycled some "stolen" steel
The ASCE investigators who rejected the FDNY claims of WTC7 structural damage
William Rodriguez
Indira Singh's colleague from the FBI who testified to the 9/11 Commission
Condi Rice
George Tenet, Porter Goss, Sen. Bob Graham
Jamie Gorelick
Members of the 9/11 Commission staff who were suspicious of Cheney's account of 9/11
Philip Zelikow
Personnel who collected body parts and DNA samples from the Pentagon
Witnesses to the helicopter flying around the Pentagon just before the attack
Family members of aircraft passengers which family members have never applied for
compensation from the victims compensation fund
Rudy Giuliani
Security personnel at the WTC (about the powerdown)
Scott Forbes
Security Personnel at WTC7
The alarm company at WTC7 (turned the fire alarms to TEST mode early the morning of 9/11)
NIST personnel working on the WTC7 report
Dr. Steven Jones
The authors of the FEMA Appendix C metallurgical analysis of the evaporated steel
Myers, Eberhardt, Rummy
Sen. Mark Dayton
The Able Danger guys
Colleen Rowley
Kenneth Williams
David Schippers
Frasca and Maltbie
Robert Wright
Richard Clarke
Norman Mineta
Tugboat/barge personnel who transferred the steel to Fresh Kills
Fresh Kills personnel who saw the steel
Ground Zero clean up personnel
WTC7 cleanup personnel
Thomas Eagar
Civil Engineers who reported on the Pentagon
Ali Mohammed
Patrick Fitzgerald
Peter Lance
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Abdul Hakim Murad
Ramzi Yousef
Daniel Pearl's wife

[Independent_Liberal]

15. Awesome list man!

I think it's very comprehensive.

:wow:

You might want to check out www.madcowprod.com for an idea of who else you can add.

[wildbilln864]

25. Oh yes, petgoat...

add your list to the rest.
Excellent list! The foundation for everything since!

[exlrrp]

40. A few more

Bill Burkett
Marian Knox
Ahmed Chalabi
The CEO's of all the oil companies again but this time they get put under oath
Same for the tobacco CEOs
Mark Foley
And how could you forget Jack Abramoff?

[Gregorian]

13. Man! It's our Democratic Grail.

I have been looking for something that complete. I had no idea it was that long. Unbelievable.

I bow down before thee.

We should place these in a glass case for all to see.

[badgerpup]

14. Classical...History repeats itself, indeed it do...

http://www.mythweb.com/hercules/herc09.html

Hercules was to clean out the stables of King Augeas in a single day. Augeas possessed vast herds of cattle which had deposited their manure in such quantity over the years that a thick aroma hung over the entire Peloponnesus. Instead of employing a shovel and a basket as Eurystheus imagined, Hercules diverted two rivers through the stableyard and got the job done without getting dirty. But because he had demanded payment of Augeas, Eurystheus refused to count this as a Labor.

My first thought was "Now, where do we find the rivers?" but then I got to thinking about the effect that much dung in such a sudden 'dose' would have on the environment.

Then I remembered..."I'm using this as an ANALOGY!" :dunce::banghead:
So, what CAN we use for 'rivers' and where do we find them?

That's an awfully big mess to clean up...
Amazing how the Repubs and the Rapture-ready evangelists think alike:
"WE won't be here, so who cares if we leave things a clusterfuck? WE'RE not the ones who are going to have to deal with the consequences, because we'll all be raptured...or in our cushy new lobbyist jobs...or spending more time with our families...or in jail.
:rant:

[jwdeviant]

31. I don't know....

... the image of republicans being sprayed out of DC with fire hoses is an appealing one.

[Generic Brad]

16. The missing billions

Billions missing from Iraq.
Billions missing from the Pentagon.
Billions missing from Homeland Security.
A billion missing from Hurricane Katrina recovery.

I'm a taxpayer and I want my damned money back!

[Independent_Liberal]

17. Thanks!

I'll be sure to add those.

[Joanne98]

43. The missing trillions from the Pentagon.....

And the missing trillion from HUD during GHWB admin. The Katherine Austin Fitts story.

[Mnemosyne]

47. Ya' beat me to the trillions! lol n/t

:hi:

[Mnemosyne]

46. Trillions missing at Pentagon (9/10/01), and I want my money back too! n/t

[lonestarnot]

18. Pretty comprehensive list there. I wish it was in alphabetical order because I scanned it and

didn't see signing statements. Bookmarking and K & R!

[tridim]

19. Wow! Compare that list to "Watergate" and "Lying about sex"..

Amazing list man! Provide links for each of them and put it online as a reference. Make it a checklist.

[lonestarnot]

20. And paint signs for each and every item on the list for the peace march on D.C. on the 27th of Jan.

[Cleita]

21. So many crimes and so little time.

Thanks for doing this.

[wildbilln864]

24. Seconded!

:)

[In Truth We Trust]

22. K&R Impeach & Imprison all complicit parties!!!

bookmarked for posterity.

[jelly]

23. I'm overwhelmed.

So many egregious indiscretions to choose from -- so why is it that I feel as though getting a single one of those things to stick in an impeachment context will be a huge challenge? With Bush I get this sense like we're dealing with one of those slick mafia bosses who everyone just knows is behind about a zillion crimes, but try getting hard enough evidence to convict him, or a jury willing to convict him even when faced with hard evidence.

[OneBlueSky]

26. that's okay for starters . . . do you plan to publish the complete list? . . . :) n/t

.

[tomp]

27. may i add the following:

the four "arab" men who showed up at bush's hotel in the wee ours of the morning of 9/11 without an appointment expecting to see the *resident who were not detained. i mean, come on!

[lies and propaganda]

28. YOU ROCK! Ive been trying to compile one of these

whats sad is that im sure theres tons more to add.

[autorank]

29. Independent_Liberal, you and petgoat need to form an agency;)

Great post, great list, great stuff...Waxman and Conyers could run through your list and the goats in about six months then it would be a voice vote. Make it all public befor the findings of the investigation are announced. There would be a lot of lawyers very happy in the District;)

KR

[WritersBlock]

30. Very well done! May I suggest one addition?

The FEMA Emergency Declaration, on the Saturday before Katrina, designating the *northern* parishes of Louisiana, rather than the coastal parishes, as being eligible for federal hurricane relief; an error only corrected two days later, on the morning the hurricane struck.

This is in stark contrast to the correct initial designation of counties in both Mississippi and Alabama.

Might have been nothing sinister at all; might have been merely a clerical mistake.

Might have had nothing at all to do with the fact that Louisiana has a Democratic governor, while the other two states have Republican governors.

But regardless of its origin, I believe the two-day delay in correctly designating the affected parishes resulted in a great deal of the confusion and disjointedness of the FEMA response during the Saturday and Sunday preceding, and the first week following, Katrina's landfall.

If my belief is correct, that mistake cost many lives in and around New Orleans.

I just wanna know who did it, that's all.

If it was a mistake, I wanna know what idiot needs remedial geography.

If it wasn't a mistake, I wanna know who wrote the initial draft of the letter declaring the emergency in Louisiana, and I wanna know who signed the final draft.

And I wanna know why.

'Cos the letter authorising the Emergency Declaration came from George W Bush.

Federal Register Notice

Billing Code 9110-10-P

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency



Louisiana; Emergency and Related Determinations

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate, Department of Homeland Security.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This is a notice of the Presidential declaration of an emergency for the State of Louisiana (FEMA-3212-EM), dated August 27, 2005, and related determinations.

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 27, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Magda Ruiz, Recovery Division, Federal Emergency Manage¬ment Agency, Washington, DC 20472, [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that, in a letter dated August 27, 2005, the President declared an emergency declaration under the authority of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 5121-5206 (the Stafford Act), as follows:

I have determined that the emergency conditions in certain areas of the State of Louisiana, resulting from Hurricane Katrina beginning on August 26, 2005, and continuing is of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant an emergency declaration under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 5121-5206 (Stafford Act). Therefore, I declare that such an emergency exists in the State of Louisiana.

You are authorized to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act to save lives, protect public health and safety, and property or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in the designated areas. Specifically, you are authorized to provide debris removal and emergency protective measures (Categories A and B) under the Public Assistance program, including direct Federal assistance, at 75 percent Federal funding. This assistance excludes regular time costs for subgrantees’ regular employees. In addition, you are authorized to provide such other forms of assistance under Title V of the Stafford Act as you may deem appropriate.

In order to provide Federal assistance, you are hereby authorized to allocate from funds available for these purposes such amounts as you find necessary for Federal disaster assistance and administrative expenses.

Further, you are authorized to make changes to this declaration to the extent allowable under the Stafford Act.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) hereby gives notice that pursuant to the authority vested in the Under Secretary for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Department of Homeland Security, under Executive Order 12148, as amended, William Lokey, of FEMA is appointed to act as the Federal Coordinating Officer for this declared emergency.

I do hereby determine the following areas of the State of Louisiana to have been affected adversely by this declared emergency:

The parishes of Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Catahoula, Claiborne, Concordia, De Soto, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll, East Feliciana, Evangeline, Franklin, Grant, Jackson, La Salle, Lincoln, Livingston, Madison, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Pointe Coupee, Ouachita, Rapides, Red River, Richland, Sabine, St. Helena, St. Landry, Tensas, Union, Vernon, Webster, West Carroll, West Feliciana, and Winn for Public Assistance Categories A and B (debris removal and emergency protective measures), including direct Federal assistance, at 75 percent Federal funding.

(The following Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Numbers (CFDA) are to be used for reporting and drawing funds: 97.030, Community Disaster Loans; 97.031, Cora Brown Fund Program; 97.032, Crisis Counseling; 97.033, Disaster Legal Services Program; 97.034, Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA); 97.046, Fire Management Assistance; 97.048, Individuals and Households Housing; 97.049, Individuals and Households Disaster Housing Operations; 97.050 Individuals and Households Program-Other Needs, 97.036, Public Assistance Grants; 97.039, Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.)

/s/
_______________________________________
Michael D. Brown,
Under Secretary,
Emergency Preparedness and Response,
Department of Homeland Security.

edit for clarity & emphasis

[mogster]

32. Amazing list

:hi: That shows the true nature of the insane world we live in.

[tom_paine]

K & R

[tom_paine]

33. K & R

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

34. Smart Ass remark self removed

nm

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

35. Addition: The privately contracted $800,000 New Orleans evacuation plan

According to Greg Palast, this plan was paid for, but never delivered.

[rman]

36. kick

[indepat]

37. The beat goes on and on and is never-ending because the neonasicon agenda is

wholly corrupt and a war on this Republic, its Constitution, its people, the world.

[Tommy_J]

38. Anthrax attacks

need a proper investigation as well.

Thanks for a great summary.

K&R

[Bernardo de La Paz]

39. An oldish list of mine. There is so much criminality and skullduggery to uncover.

* 2001-08-06 Presidential Daily Briefing ignored.
* Ashcroft de-emphasizing counter-terrorism before 9/11.
* Blank seven minutes on 9/11.
* Patriot Act. Patriot Act 2.
* Bush to Clarke on 9/11: "Get Iraq".
* Faith based community grants.
* Faith based e-voting, voter intimidation, voter discrimination.
* Faith based rejection of Science: Global Warming, stem cells.
* Faith based missile defence.
* Faith based intelligence (manipulation of intelligence).
* Faith based peace (no planning for winning the peace in Iraq).
* Faith based contracts: Halliburton no-bids and overcharges in Iraq.
* Feith based invasions (Israeli spy: Pentagon: Douglas Feith, Chalabi).
* Silencing scientists on Global Warming and Environmental Protection.
* Destroying Valerie Plame's work and career.
* Abandoning Afghanistan to clobber Iraq on Bush's election timetable.
* Illegally moving $700 million out of Afghanistan Fund to seed Iraq War.
* Sending troops to Iraq without body armor.
* Planning to have Iraq pay for the post-war.
* Forbidding publishing returning coffins photos.
* Jettisoning long time foreign allies.
* Abandonment of Palestinians to Sharon's mercies or lack thereof.
* Rumsfailed incompetence and the backdoor draft.
* Abu Ghraib and Whitehouse torture memos and policies.
* Secret detentions.
* Wiretapping.
* Secret "renditions" to foreign torturers.
* Failing to secure humankind's heritage in Bhagdad museum.
* Blowing cover of MNN Khan double agent in Aug. 2004
* Politicizing terror alerts.
* Cutting and hindering port and container security.
* Mandating schools give student names, addresses to military recruiters.
* Removing asset forfeiture law pamphlets from libraries.
* Proclaiming "No child left behind" and then cutting funding.
* Cutting vet benefits and vet hospitals.
* Tax cuts for the rich.
* Passing spending cuts down, squeezing states and local government.
* Reversing huge surplus to huge deficit burdening our children.
* Stuffing Strategic Petroleum Reserve at highest prices.
* Enron. Kenneth Lay who?
* Boeing deals with Air Force are probed.
* Massive accounting irregularities under Bremer ($8.8 billion).
* 9/11 commission: avoidance, obstruction, conclusions.
* Lowered Environmental Standards: arsenic, mercury
* Closed door energy policy writing exclusively with energy companies.
* Supported military coup in Venezuela against elected Chavez.
* Lying about the cost of the Medicare drug bill.
* Plans to test all Americans for mental health.
* Complicity in the phone jamming in 2002 election in New Hampshire.
* Stealing memos from Democratic Congresspeople 2002. (verification?)
* Riggs Bank (verification?).
* Not so Swift Boat Vets. Smear McClain, Clelland, Jamie Gorelick, Kerry.
* Exploiting NY firefighters and Iraqi soccer team in political ads.
* Considering cancelling the 2004 election.
* Illegal use of Homeland Security to get Texas Democrats for redistricting.
* Recess appointments of ultra-right Judges Pryor and Pickering.
* Locking up Reagan and GHWB presidential papers.
* 2004 election rigging, vote suppression, and more.
* 2000 election vote count.
* Bush has divided America after promising to unite it.

Did I mention Halliburton?

[exlrrp]

41. You forgot the CBS memos and the coverup

No one's ever explained yet why these papers that bear the the lettterhead of a federal unit (the 111th FIS), purport to be official business of a federal unit (official orders and communications) and have the apparent signature of the commander of the federal unit in performance of his duties were never investighated by the federal government.
(see: http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/gwbush/bushang.html

Why did George Bush never demand that these papers be officially investigated and any wrongdoers brought to judgement? If false, these papers LIBEL George Bush and his former chain of command through forgery of official federal documents. Obviously, because of their content and relationship to his record, george Bush knows right now if these papers are real--and has never denied it--nor have his aides.

Why did CBS conduct an " independent investigation" of these documents (which had no legal standing whatsoever) to determine their validity when the unit whose name is at the top--the TXANG never did? This was a complete copout for the military authorities--for the whole federal government--whose papers these purport to be. Its OK to the TXANG for people to forge their orders and their commanders signatures? History has proven it so. They never even sent a federal agent to talk to Burkett to ask him where he got the papers from.

The TXANG, the USAF and the whole federal government cravenly abdicated their duty to maintain the integrity of their documents to Bloggers and the CBS Dog and Pony Show. Its hard to believe they would have done this if they even suspected the papers to be false.

If anyone ever understands why these papers are very incriminating to Bush and his superiors besides me and a few others, this story may turn completely around yet.

read all about it in the Bush Military History Project: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/exlrrp


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[tex-wyo-dem]

42. I knew the list was long, but holy s**t!

It would be interesting to go back in the DU archives and provide the relevant links for each of the items listed. In doing this exercise, undoubtedly one would come up with many more items that in normal times would warrant full investigation.

One that may have been left out:

Bushco aides rewriting environmental reports

W. House Guts Global Warming Study (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/24/politics/main564873.shtml)

Bush Aide Softened Greenhouse Gas Links to Global Warming (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/politics/08climate.html?ei=5089&en=22149dd80c073dd8&ex=1275883200&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1165939350-awNuRHs7YQqdecSv3dmY7w)

And Bushco's general assault on the environment:

Published by the December 11, 2003 issue of Rolling Stone
Crimes Against Nature
by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

George W. Bush will go down in history as America's worst environmental president. In a ferocious three-year attack, the Bush administration has initiated more than 200 major rollbacks of America's environmental laws, weakening the protection of our country's air, water, public lands and wildlife. Cloaked in meticulously crafted language designed to deceive the public, the administration intends to eliminate the nation's most important environmental laws by the end of the year. Under the guidance of Republican pollster Frank Luntz, the Bush White House has actively hidden its anti-environmental program behind deceptive rhetoric, telegenic spokespeople, secrecy and the intimidation of scientists and bureaucrats. The Bush attack was not entirely unexpected. George W. Bush had the grimmest environmental record of any governor during his tenure in Texas. Texas became number one in air and water pollution and in the release of toxic chemicals. In his six years in Austin, he championed a short-term pollution-based prosperity, which enriched his political contributors and corporate cronies by lowering the quality of life for everyone else. Now President Bush is set to do the same to America. After three years, his policies are already bearing fruit, diminishing standards of living for millions of Americans.

I am angry both as a citizen and a father. Three of my sons have asthma, and I watch them struggle to breathe on bad-air days. And they're comparatively lucky: One in four African-American children in New York shares this affliction; their suffering is often unrelieved because they lack the insurance and high-quality health care that keep my sons alive. My kids are among the millions of Americans who cannot enjoy the seminal American experience of fishing locally with their dad and eating their catch. Most freshwater fish in New York and all in Connecticut are now under consumption advisories. A main source of mercury pollution in America, as well as asthma-provoking ozone and particulates, is the coal-burning power plants that President Bush recently excused from complying with the Clean Air Act.

Furthermore, the deadly addiction to fossil fuels that White House policies encourage has squandered our treasury, entangled us in foreign wars, diminished our international prestige, made us a target for terrorist attacks and increased our reliance on petty Middle Eastern dictators who despise democracy and are hated by their own people.

When the Republican right managed to install George W. Bush as president in 2000, movement leaders once again set about doing what they had attempted to do since the Reagan years: eviscerate the infrastructure of laws and regulations that protect the environment. For twenty-five years it has been like the zombie that keeps coming back from the grave.

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1120-01.htm

[phiddle]

44. Please send it to Congressman Waxman

Good job!

[Joanne98]

45. Dubai just sold it's port holdings to AIG. Feel safer now?

Dubai port company sells its U.S. holdings to AIG
By Heather Timmons Published: December 12, 2006


LONDON: Dubai's giant port company, DP World, has sold off its U.S. holdings to American International Group, bringing to an end a contentious deal that left a bitter taste for Middle East investors.

Under pressure from politicians, DP World is selling terminal operations in six ports, including New York- New Jersey and Philadelphia, cargo- handling businesses in 16 Eastern and Gulf of Mexico ports, and a passenger terminal in New York City to a unit of AIG, an insurance company with little experience in the port business.

The price was not disclosed, though DP World said Monday that it was "fair." DP World executives said after they agreed to sell the assets in March that they expected to get about $750 million from the sale. Since then, port deals have become increasingly popular for bank infrastructure funds, like that of Goldman Sachs, which headed a group that won control of AB Ports, a British company, in June.

The DP World sale is the final chapter in a politically charged deal that many financial advisers say helped drive Middle East petrodollars away from the United States and into developing market areas like Asia instead. DP World, which is controlled by the Dubai government, acquired the U.S. ports in its $6.8 billion acquisition of Peninsular & Oriental Holdings, a British company, in February. The deal was quickly opposed by U.S. politicians from both parties, who said that Dubai's ownership of U.S. assets was a threat to security and that the deal was being rushed through without proper review.

Their objections were based in part on the fact that several of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers moved through the United Arab Emirates before coming to the United States and used its banking system. Supporters of the deal argued that Dubai was one of the United States' closest allies in the Middle East, and had a long history of allowing the U.S. military to use its ports. Foreign policy specialists worried that the opposition would cause a rift between Dubai and the United States.

[Qutzupalotl]

48. Hey, now, don't hold a grudge. That's all in the PAST.

Just kidding. Obviously you've been paying attention.

[donkeyotay]

49. It looks like a pattern of circumstantial evidence that this admin is as crooked

as it looks like it is. To this extensive list I'd like to add the blockage of the release of Poppy's presidential papers. (As well as his other presidential directives.)

[IWantAChange]

50. Outstanding - have forwarded to DNC and Olbermann.

[robertpaulsen]

51. Bookmarked for when future generations ask, "Was it that bad under Dubya?"

I'll respond, "It was worse than the history books make it out to be. Read DU instead".

[LSK]

52. awesome

[Lasthorseman]

53. Ten points

a most excellent list. One more for the road.
the SPPNA, Nascocorridor, the plan to dissolve America in favor of the north american union.

[Independent_Liberal]

54. Some links for y'all...

www.911truth.org

www.911blogger.com

http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/war-against-terrorism.htm

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/F77pentaToC.html#ToC

www.abelashes.com

www.karlschwarz.com

www.justicefor911.org

www.justacitizen.org

www.nswbc.org

www.sibeledmonds.blogspot.com

http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/10/hastert-key-to-understanding-brewster.html

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/2005_10011024.php

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/gopscorecard.php

www.copvcia.com

www.peterdalescott.net

www.reopen911.org

www.911citizenswatch.com

www.madcowprod.com