Re: U.S.FASCIST GOVT. HELLBENT FOR WWIII-MY THREAD#7-WWIII-2007
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DOWN, NOT THE BUSH LIES RE "THE SURGE", THAT EVEN MCCAIN IS TAKING
CREDIT FOR":
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(1) THE BUSH REGIME, PER USUAL, DECIDED TO USE MONEY TO BRIBE THE
SUNNIS TO STOP KILLING AMERICANS AND INSTEAD, KILL AL-QAEDA".
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IT WORKED BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF IRAQIS HAVE NO JOBS.
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NOTE: THE MILITARY COMMANDERS "ADMIT" THAT "THESE FIGHTERS" WERE
ACTUALLY IRAQI "INSURGENTS", I.E. IRAQI CITIZENS WHO WERE "FIGHTING
THE ILLEGAL OCCUPIERS OF THEIR COUNTRY", NOT TERRORISTS OR EXTREMISTS.
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BUT, THEN THE BUSH REGIME SCREWED AROUND AND:
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(2) STOPPED PAYING THE SUNNIS THE MEAGER $10 DOLLARS A DAY;
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(3) U.S. TROOPS KILLED THESE SAME SUNNIS WHILE THEY WERE WORKING, I.E.
THE U.S. TROOPS HAVE "NEVER KNOWN" WHO THE ACTUAL TERRORISTS WERE, NOR
DID THEY GIVE THESE SUNNIS SECURITY GUARDS IDENTIFIABLE UNFORMS, WHICH
IS WHY THE "BUSH REGIME" HAS FAILED IN BOTH IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN AND
CAUSED "MORE KILLINGS OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS.
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(4) THE BUSH REGIME IS "NOW REFUSING TO PUT IRAQIS TO WORK EVEN THOUGH
THE ENTIRE COUNTRY NEEDS TO BE REBUILT AFTER THE MASSIVE BOMBINGS THE
U.S. MILITARY DID DURING THE "SHOCK AND AWE" AND CONTINUED BOMBINGS.
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(5) INSTEAD, THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS HAVE BEEN PLACED IN EXTREME DEBT
DUE TO PAYING PRIVATE CORPORATIONS, LIKE HALIBURTON AND THE 100,000
MERCENARY AGENTS BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO DO "THE VERY JOBS THAT IRAQIS
SHOULD BE DOING FOR THIS PAY.
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CLEARLY THIS U.S. FASCIST GOVT. HAS INTENTIONALLY CREATED THIS MASSIVE
ILLEGAL CON-GAME FRAUD OF WHICH THE DEMOCRATS ARE OBVIOUSLY SUPPORTING
VIA VOTING FOR THE ROBBERY OF OUR TREASURY, AND "AGAINST HOLDING THESE
BUSH FASCISTS ACCOUNTABLE, VIA IMPEACHMENT."
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Subject:2-29-08-
SUNNIS SAY THEY WILL QUIT JOBS, DUE TO LACK OF PAYMENT
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Sunni forces losing patience with U.S.
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The Washington Post
3:01 AM EST February 29, 2008
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(PHOTO)
Sunni security volunteers stand guard at the Imams bridge that links
the Sunni-dominated Azamiyah neighborhood with the Shiite-dominated
Kazimiyah neighborhood, in Baghdad, on Dec. 29, 2007. Copyright AP
2007
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U.S.-backed Sunni volunteer forces, which
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have played a vital role in reducing violence
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in Iraq, are increasingly frustrated with the American military and
the Iraqi government over what they see as a lack of recognition of
their growing political clout and insufficient U.S. support.
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Since Feb. 8,
thousands of fighters in restive Diyala province
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have left their posts in order to pressure the
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government and its American backers to replace the province's Shiite
police chief.
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On Wednesday, their leaders warned that they would disband completely
if their demands were not met.
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In Babil province, south of Baghdad, fighters have refused to man
their checkpoints
"after U.S. soldiers killed several comrades"
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in mid-February in circumstances that remain in dispute.
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Some force leaders and ground commanders also reject a U.S.-initiated
plan that they say offers too few Sunni fighters the opportunity to
join Iraq's army and police, and
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warn that low salaries and late payments are
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pushing experienced members to quit.
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The predominantly Sunni "Awakening" forces, referred to by the U.S.
military as the
"Sons of Iraq" or "Concerned Local Citizens", are made up mostly of
"former insurgents" who
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have turned against extremists because of their harsh tactics and
interpretation of Islam.
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The U.S. military pays many fighters roughly
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$10 a day to guard and patrol their areas.
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Thousands more "unpaid volunteers" have joined out of tribal and
regional fealties.
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CONTINUED": PG 2 OF 6
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U.S. efforts to manage this fast-growing movement of about "80,000
armed men"
are still largely effective, but in some key areas the control is
fraying.
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The tensions are the "most serious" since "the Awakening" was launched
in Anbar province in late 2006, according to Iraqi officials, U.S.
commanders and 20 Awakening leaders across Iraq.
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Some U.S. military officials say
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they are growing concerned that:
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the Sunni insurgent group "al-Qaeda in Iraq"
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has "infiltrated Awakening forces" in some areas.
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"Now, there is no cooperation with the
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Americans,"
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said Haider Mustafa al-Kaisy,
an "Awakening commander" in Baqubah,
the capital of Diyala province,
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"an insurgent stronghold" that
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��U.S. and Iraqi forces are still struggling to control. "We have
stopped fighting al-Qaeda."
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U.S. military officials and commanders say they "are seeking to defuse
the rising tensions" before hard-won U.S. gains are jeopardized.
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"Despite some of the frustrations, the frictions and "the attacks on
the Sons of Iraq",
they are continuing to volunteer.
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As an "interim solution", it seems to be working well," said Col. Bill
Buckner, a senior U.S. military spokesman.
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"It's clear "Iraq remains a fragile
security environment." We want to address many of their concerns as
best as we can, so that they continue to be part of the solution to
the security situation in Iraq."
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Growing threats
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"Awakening" leaders say threats against their fighters are rising.
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Attacks against Awakening members went from 26 in October to 100 in
January, according to a U.S. military official, who added that
February's numbers are on track to be nearly as high as January's.
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But the growing threats "have not"
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been matched with "added resources."
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Rafah Kassim, 37, an Awakening leader in the "oil-producing city of
Baiji", lost two fighters in mid-February when gunmen ambushed their
car. Speaking at their funeral, Kassim said he did not expect the
Shiite-led Iraqi government, which fears the Awakening movement could
one day turn against it, to embrace his fighters.
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He had applied six times to join the Iraqi army and police, he said,
but was never accepted.
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He said he expected his new ally, the U.S.
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military, to back his struggle.
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CONTINUED: PG 3 OF 6
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Instead, he said, U.S. commanders have limited his force to "40
fighters"
"when he needs at least 100" to protect his area of 2.7 square miles.
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"They should make me stronger. They should not weaken me," said
Kassim, a former commander
in the Islamic Army, "an insurgent group."
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"We need weapons. We need vehicles. We do not even have gas for the
few cars we have.
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When we joined, the Americans promised to
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provide all necessities. Now we know
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"those were only words."
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In the past two months, he said,
20 of his fighters have quit.
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Many felt their monthly salary was no longer
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worth the risk of fighting al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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His men also "have not received" their salaries
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in two months, he said.
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"We'll all be patient for another two months. If nothing changes, then
we'll suspend and quit," Kassim said.
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"Then we'll go back to fighting the Americans."
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'Why am I standing there?'
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"Inadvertent U.S. killings of Awakening fighters"
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-- five such incidents have occurred in the
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past three weeks -- are adding to the frustrations.
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In the southern town of Jurf al-Sakr,
U.S. soldiers killed three fighters Feb. 15.
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U.S. commanders said that the men had
fired upon the soldiers first and that the troops acted in self-
defense.
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Within hours, more than 1,000 fighters walked
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away from their posts.
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Sabah al-Janabi, who heads the Awakening in the area, publicly
criticized the U.S. military, alleging:
it had killed 19 of his men in the past 45 days,
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which U.S. commanders deny.
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"Now, I have fighters who refuse to go back to their positions," said
Fadhil Youssef, another Awakening leader in the area.
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"They are saying, 'I am standing on road, securing my neighborhood,
and Americans come and kill me. So why am I standing there?' " In the
village of Zaab, west of the northern city of Kirkuk, police officials
and witnesses said:
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U.S. forces on Feb. 14 killed 6 relatives of
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an Awakening leader, Issa Muhsin al-Jubouri, and detained him and
others.
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In an interview last week, after his release, he said:
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U.S. soldiers had "raised their weapons in my face and shouted at me,
'Confess or I will shoot you.'
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CONTINUED: PG 4 OF 6
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"They beat me and cursed me and made me face the wall, saying to me,
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'You have exploited the Awakening to support the terrorists,' " Jubouri
said.
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"I kept saying, 'You are mistaken, because I and my family have been
victims of terrorists.' "
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U.S. military officials confirmed that:
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six people, including two women, were killed, among them several
Awakening members, and that a dozen were detained.
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But the officials said:
U.S. troops were targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq and acted in self-defense
after being fired upon.
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When asked about Jubouri's allegations,
Maj. Brad Leighton, a U.S. military spokesman, replied:
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"It's combat. I would not expect our guys to be gentle when conducting
an operation on a place where "we suspect" there are terrorists."
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The incidents illustrate a vexing problem for the American military:
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"The Awakening" movement has grown so
fast that it has become difficult for U.S. commanders to monitor the
fighters and
their loyalties.
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"It's clear there are extremist groups that have penetrated the
"Concerned Local Citizens"
AKA (the Awakening), that:
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there "may be" in fact al-Qaeda amongst
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the Concerned Local Citizens," said
Rear Adm. Gregory J. Smith,
a senior military spokesman.
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Jubouri said his 800 fighters had taken huge
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risks to ally with the U.S. military and
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faced allegations that they are
"agents for the Americans."
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"If there is:
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no apology, or no compensation, or
failure to produce the informers before us, we will carry arms against
the Americans,"
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Jubouri said.
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Demands in Diyala
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No where are the tensions more serious than in Diyala, "one of the
major battlegrounds"
in the U.S. fight against al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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"Awakening" groups, also known here
as "Popular Committees", are demanding
the resignation of the Shiite provincial police chief, Maj. Gen.
Ghanem al-Qureishi.
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They accuse him of running death squads and torturing Sunnis,
allegations that Qureishi denied in an interview. The Awakening
leaders are also seeking recognition as an official force.
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CONTINUED: PG 5 OF 6
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On Wednesday, they vowed to dissolve the committees if their demands
were not met.
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"In the last 10 months, we haven't received any kind of assistance or
help from Americans or Iraqi government," said Abu Talib, a top
Awakening leader.
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"On the contrary, the police started to hunt us down."
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Interior Minister, Jawad al-Bolani said
that Qureishi was highly valued and that such "good men" would be
protected. "An accusation does not mean the crime actually took
place," Bolani said.
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The U.S. military acknowledges that:
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it is caught in the middle of a political struggle.
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"Yes, they are frustrated," said Lt. Col. Ricardo Love, commander of
the 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, who works in Baqubah, the
provincial capital.
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"They think we can make the government of Iraq do anything. We tell
them we don't control the government. But they think we are the mighty
power."
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"The position of Americans is hesitation,"
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said Abu Imad al-Zuhaidi, another Awakening official in Baqubah. "They
don't have any independent opinion, despite the fact "they know it is
the "Awakening" who
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restored order."
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U.S. commanders said:
the Awakening's strike has not affected security, but Love and others
are concerned about fighters who may be tempted, or forced, to rejoin
the insurgency.
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"AQI (AL-QAEDA IN IRAQ) and JAM (MAHDI ARMY) will take advantage of
the situation," he said, using military abbreviations for: "al-Qaeda
in Iraq" and the "Mahdi Army",
the "country's largest Shiite militia",
which is loyal to anti-American cleric,
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Moqtada al-Sadr.
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In Baghdad and other parts of Iraq,
concern is mounting over:
"a U.S. proposal" that calls for:
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about 20 percent of the volunteer forces to be integrated into the
nation's army and police.
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The rest would be provided with civilian jobs
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and vocational training.
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"The Sunnis were always the leaders of the country. Is it reasonable
that they are turned into service workers and garbage collectors?"
said Khalid Jiyad Abed, an Awakening leader in the city of Latifiyah
and an engineer.
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"We had not anticipated this from the American forces. Of course we
will not accept that,"
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Abed added.
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CONTINUED: PG 6 OF 6
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Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, who for the past 14 months was the second-
ranking U.S. commander in Iraq, said:
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only 20 to 30 percent of the Awakening fighters could pass physical
and written exams to enter Iraq's security forces.
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"Overall, you will never satisfy everybody," Odierno said, adding
that: 10,000 fighters had been accepted so far.
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But Awakening leaders view the plan as an attempt by the Iraqi
government to marginalize them.
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"This is a big failure -- either they take us all in
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or this is not going to work," said:
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Brig. Gen. Shija al-Adhami, who heads the Awakening force in Baghdad's
Ghazaliya neighborhood.
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Sami al-Askari, an adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, said:
recruiting too many Awakening fighters
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"would allow "al-Qaeda in Iraq" to
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infiltrate the security forces,
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in much the "same way Shiite militias have."
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But Sunni leaders warn that:
without the Awakening's help in securing the country,
Iraq's future will be grim.
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"You need these people," said
Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, a Sunni.
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"What sort of risk are you going to take
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if this 100 percent is stripped to 20?
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We cannot afford to lose all this success, which is paid by the blood
of the people."
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Special correspondents,
Zaid Sabah, Saad al-Izzi and K.I. Ibrahim in Baghdad and
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Washington Post staff in:
Diyala province, Anbar province, Najaf, Tikrit, Baiji, Kirkuk and
Mosul contributed to this report.
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JACKEL
AFGHANISTAN, THEY ALL HAVE THE SAME MANTRA OF "HOW BIG THE DIFFERENCE
IS NOW ABOUT THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE LIVES OF THE AFGHAN WOMEN.
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PER USUAL, HERE IS A REPORT THAT PROVES THE LIES OF THE FASCIST BUSH
REGIME.
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Subject:2-25-08-
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Afghanistan: Women's Lives Worse Than Ever
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JACKEL
AGAINST THE USA IN THE ONLY WAY THAT THE FASCIST CAPITALISTS, I.E.
U.S.A. WOULD UNDERSTAND, I.E. THRU IT'S CAPITALISTIC POCKET
BOOK....MONEY..MONEY
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MONEY "IS" THE ONLY THING THE AMERICAN FASCIST CARE ABOUT, WHICH IS
WHY THE TWIN TOWERS WERE ATTACKED, I.E. BIN LADEN WANTED TO SEND A
MESSAGE TO THESE FASCIST CAPITALISTS, AND IT WAS UNDERSTOOD.
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IT IS THIS "SAME TACTIC" THAT THE U.S.A. USED TO BANKRUPT THE SOVIET
UNION WHEN THE SOVIETS INVADED AFGHANISTAN.
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THE CIA USED THE TALIBEN, UNDER BIN LADEN, AND SUPPLIED THEM WITH ARMS
AND MONEY TO DRIVE THE SOVIETS OUT. THE SOVIET UNION USED UP IT'S
TREASURY FOR THIS FIGHT, JUST LIKE THE BUSH REGIME HAS DONE IN HIS TWO
INVASIONS/OCCUPATIONS AND THE BILLIONS SPENT ON CHENEY'S HALIBURTON
SCAMS.
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THE ARABS VIA OPEC SAW THAT THE BUSH OIL FAMILY WERE AGAIN GOING TO
THREATEN THEN INVADE AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, AND NOW IRAN, BECAUSE "THAT'S
WHERE THE OIL IS".
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WHAT THE AM. FASCISTS DIDN'T COUNT ON WAS; THEY WERE NOT GOING TO BE
ABLE TO CONQUER THESE NATIONS WITHOUT BANKRUPTING THE U.S. TREASURY.
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OPEC IS USING IT'S USUAL MANTRA OF "THEY HAVE TO INCREASE THE PRICE OF
OIL BECAUSE OF "SUPPLY AND DEMAND". THIS MANTRA IS AS FALSE AS BUSH'S
"WMD" WAS.
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WITHOUT OIL, OUR TRUCKS THAT TRAVEL ACROSS OUR NATION BRINGING THE
FOOD AND BUILDING MATERIALS WE NEED TO KEEP US ALIVE, IS NOW CAUSING
OUR NATION FINANCIAL HARM; LOSS OF JOBS; AND LOSS OF NATIONAL SECURITY.
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THE FASCIST BUSH REGIME HAS BEEN WARNED ABOUT THIS FROM THE GIT-GO IF
THEY INVADED IRAQ. YET THE DELUSIONAL KING GEORGE, "I AM THE WAR
PRESIDENT" OBVIOUSLY THOUGHT THAT HE COULD BOMB THE HELL OUT OF THESE
TWO COUNTRIES AND ALL NATIONS WOULD BE TERRIFIED ENOUGH TO LET HIM DO
WHAT EVER HE WANTS.
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HIS FASCIST ACTS DID THE EXACT OPPOSITE, I.E. THE WORLD HAS SEEN THIS
U.S. FASCIST REGIME FOR WHAT IT IS AND REFUSED TO KILL THE PEOPLE OF
THESE TWO NATIONS.
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IN FACT, BUSH ILLEGALLY BOMBED AND INVADED IRAQ AFTER HE FOUND OUT
THAT THE U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL WAS REFUSING TO ALLOW HIM TO INVADE
IRAQ, SO BUSH DECIDED HE WOULD "BE KING" AND IGNORE ALL TREATIES AND
LAW AND BOMB THE HELL OUT OF IRAQ, KILLING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF
IRAQI CITIZENS.
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THE BUSH REGIME IMMEDIATELY PUT IN PLACE THEIR "PUPPET GOVT." AND
DEMANDED TO CONTROL WHAT THE IRAQ LAWS AND CONSTITUTION WOULD SAY
(ESPECIALLY THE OIL LAWS) AND BUILT THE BIGGEST EMBASSY IN THE WORLD,
IN IRAQ WHERE "HIS BUDDIES" COULD CONTINUE TO CONTROL
IRAQ.
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AND, OF COURSE, THE FIRST THING THEY HAD TO DETERMINE BEFORE DOING
THIS WAS...WHAT REACTION WILL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE IF THEY DO
THIS?
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THE ANSWER WAS SIMPLE, "THEY WOULDN'T DO ANYTHING AND MANY, IF NOT
MOST OF THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, SUPPORTED THESE ILLEGAL ACTS", OF
INVADING NATIONS TO TAKE CONTROL OF THEIR OIL.
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THE WORST OF THESE MEMBERS SIT ON THE CONGRESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE
COMMITTEES, WHERE THEY HAVE THE SECRET CLEARANCE TO READ ALL OF THE
"CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS", WHICH ANY MORON COULD SEE WERE NOTHING BUT
BLATANT PROPAGANDA THAT THESE CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS COULD USE TO SCARE
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND JUSTIFY THEIR SUPPORT.
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REMEMBER THIS..EVERYTIME YOU HEAR THESE FASCISTS TALK ABOUT "U.S.
NATIONAL SECURITY INTERESTS", THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT "OIL". ---
Subject: 3-10-08-
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OIL HITS HIGHEST COST OF $107.44 A BARREL
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Oil hits record 107.44 dollars
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1 hour ago
LONDON (AFP) � Oil prices hit a record high 107.44 dollars on Monday
as the White House announced that US Vice President Dick Cheney will
head to OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia next week to seek increased
production.
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Dealers said oil had fallen in early trade on profit-taking but
concerns over the weakness of the dollar and tightening supplies
provided support and news of the Cheney trip then added an extra
twist.
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The New York contract for April delivery hit a record 106.54 dollars
per barrel on Friday.
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The latest spike came as the White House said Monday that Cheney would
next week urge Saudi Arabia to push OPEC to boost output in an effort
to rein in sky-high prices.
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"I'm sure that energy issues will come up," spokeswoman Dana Perino
said in a preview of Cheney's trip to the Middle East next week.
"Obviously we want to see an increase in production."
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The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which
produces 40 percent of the world's crude, decided at a policy meeting
last week to maintain its daily production target of 29.67 million
barrels despite calls by US President George W. Bush for it to do
more.
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OPEC blamed the high cost of crude on speculative buying as investors
sought a hedge against a weakening dollar and rising inflation.
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The weak US currency, which fell to a new low of 1.5464 against the
euro on Friday, encourages demand for dollar-priced commodities like
oil because it makes them cheaper for buyers using other currencies.
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"Tight fundamentals remain the dominant force underpinning prices in
our view, with the combination of disappointing non-OPEC production,
solid non-OECD demand and defensive OPEC output policy all exerting
upward pressure on prices," said Barclays Capital analyst Kevin
Norrish.
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At about 1550 GMT, New York's main oil contract, light sweet crude for
delivery in April, stood at 106.25 dollars, up 1.10 dollars from
Friday's close.
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Brent North Sea crude for April gained 45 cents to 102.83 dollars. It
had struck an historic peak of 103.98 dollars on Friday.
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Oil prices had dropped in early trade on Monday amid concerns that
energy demand would drop in the United States because of its weak
economy, analysts said.
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Prices also fell on easing geopolitical tensions involving crude
producer Venezuela, they added.
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Markets were thinking in terms of a US recession after official data
Friday showed that the US economy lost 63,000 jobs in February, the
steepest drop since March 2003.
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"If more of such bad economic data comes out, it will weigh down on
the oil market as it triggers investors to exit oil as fast as they
came in," said Victor Shum, an analyst with energy consultancy Purvin
and Gertz.
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Analysts say that a recession would lead to a drop in oil demand from
the United States, which is the world's biggest energy consumer.
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Elsewhere on Monday, prices fell as Latin America's largest oil
exporter, Venezuela, normalised diplomatic ties with neighbouring
Colombia, a week after it severed relations over Bogota's cross-border
raid into Ecuador -- which is also a producer of oil.
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"Crude futures were lower as geopolitical tensions surrounding
Venezuela and Colombia eased, after Venezuela recalled troops from the
Colombian border after a week of talks," said Nimit Khamar, an oil
analyst for the Sucden brokerage firm.
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Oil prices had risen to new heights Friday as speculators bought crude
on the back of a tumbling dollar, news of declining US crude reserves
and OPEC's decision to maintain current output levels.
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AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ, THE MIDDLE EAST OIL CABAL, (OPEC) IS USING "IT'S
INFLUENCE, I.E. IT'S OIL, TO BRING THE U.S.A. DOWN INTO TOTAL POVERTY,
WITHOUT SHOOTING OFF ONE NUKE".
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AS YOU WILL READ IN THIS ARTICLE, OPEC REJECTED BUSH'S PLEA FOR LOWER
OIL COSTS..SO...CHENEY IS NOW ON HIS WAY TO SAUDI ARABIA TO EITHER BEG
OR THREATEN THEM.
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WE SHOULD ALL KNOW NOW, CHENEY HAS BELIEVED HE WAS A GOD FROM THE TIME
HIS MORON PRESIDENT, GW, MADE HIM HIS VICE PRESIDENT.
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THIS DELUSIONAL PSYCHO (CHENEY) WILL OF COURSE THREATEN THE SAUDIS,
SINCE HE DOESN'T HAVE "THE PERSONAL TIES THAT THE BUSH FAMILY HAS".
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WE CAN ALL THANK THE FASCIST BUSH REGIME'S BIG BRAGGING AND
THREATENING ACTS FOR THIS, AS WELL AS...
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THE UNBELIEVABLE REPUBICAN MORONS WHO WILL NEVER GET IT; AND
THE COWARDS IN THE DEMO PARTY WHO REFUSED TO USE THEIR POWER TO "AT
LEAST" START THE PROCESS FOR IMPEACHMENT OF BUSH CHENEY, WHICH WOULD
AT LEAST SHOW TO THE WORLD THAT THE DEMOS HAVE A BACKBONE AND "IF" A
DEMO IS ELECTED AS PRESIDENT LATER THIS YEAR, THE WORLD CAN BE
GUARANTEED A "SANE AND COMPASSIONATE GOVERNMENT".
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BUT SINCE THE DEMOS CAN ONLY BE CONSIDERED AS MORONIC AS THE REPUBS,
WE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE WORST DURING THE NEXT 8 MONTHS THAT THE
FASCISTS HAVE CONTROL OF OUR GOVT. AND OUR TREASURY AND NUKES.
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
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SEE WHAT THE REASONS FOR OPEC'S DECISION IS: I.E. THE "SECURITY
CONCERNS" IN:
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SOUTH AMERICA-WHERE BUSH HAS TRIED TO KILL CHAVEZ & OVERTHROW THE
VENEZUELA GOVT, "FOR THEIR OIL";
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THE MIDDLE EAST: WITH 2 INVASIONS & OCCUPATIONS "FOR OIL" AND
CONTINUED PROVOCATIONS ON IRAN;
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AND "WEST AFRICA" WHERE BUSH IS ALREADY INVOLVED IN GETTING THEIR OIL.
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"IT'S ALL ABOUT THE FASCISTS AND OIL"-THE ENEMY LIES WITHIN". SO WHAT
ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT AMERICANS?
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Subject: 3-13-08-
OIL HITS RECORD $110 @ BARREL WITH NO FALL IN SIGHT
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Oil price hits new high of $110 a barrel with no sign of a fall
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By Tom Stevenson
Last Updated: 1:01am GMT�13/03/2008
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The oil price hit a new record for the fifth consecutive trading
session, coming within a whisker of $110 a barrel, as
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the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned there was little prospect
of energy costs falling far.
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The oil producers cartel says that:
a weak dollar,
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inflation and
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speculative fund flows
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are responsible for high prices
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The developed countries' energy watchdog said that the buoyant
economies of China and the Middle East would offset weaker demand in
the US to keep prices close to today's record levels.
---
The April contract for widely traded West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil
hit a new peak of $109.72 as speculators continued to pile into
commodities as a hedge against a falling dollar and rising
inflationary pressures.
---
Later, the price eased back as the dollar perked up in response to a
fresh $200bn (�100bn) cash injection into financial markets by the US
Federal Reserve.
---
The price of Brent North Sea oil came close to $106.
---
The IEA has warned in its latest monthly oil market report:
---
"We are in an era of higher oil prices.
"If we look at $100 a barrel oil, we have to do so with an
understanding that prices are unlikely to return to levels seen in the
early part of this decade."
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The oil price has risen five-fold in:
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"the past six years" and
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traded under $70 a barrel
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as recently as last August.
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The IEA warned that "only a protracted and severe global recession"
would justify a move below the $60 a barrel level that Saudi Arabian
oil minister Ali Al Naimi last week described as a floor for the oil
price.
---
A spokesman for President George W Bush yesterday warned that soaring
oil prices "are not going to be solved overnight".
---
Dana Perino said: "There are some things we can't do. This is
something that we're all going to have to work through."
---
As well as speculative interest,
---
the IEA blamed this fresh oil price spike on:
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OPEC's recent decision "not to increase" supply ---- and "geopolitical
tensions" in:
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South America,
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West Africa and
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the Middle East.
******************
Despite pressure from western governments, OPEC member countries
rolled over existing supply quotas last week and stated that:
---
they "would not meet again until September", dashing hopes of an early
boost to supplies.
---
The IEA predicted that:
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global oil demand would rise by
1.7m barrels a day to 87.5m barrels in 2008,
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with the 2pc growth rate running at almost twice the 1.1pc increase
reported for 2007 over 2006.
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Global oil supply is expected to level off over the next two months,
the IEA added, with OPEC producers sticking to the line that "the
world market is well-supplied."
---
The oil producers cartel says:
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high prices are more to do with:
a weak dollar,
inflation and
speculative fund flows
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than a fundamental
mis-match between supply and demand.
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Example
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AS YOU CAN SEE BY THE ABOVE ARTICLE, OPEC IS CLEARLY CHARGING THESE
HIGH OIL PRICES DUE TO G.W. BUSH'S ACTS IN:
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SOUTH AMERICA, I.E. VENEZUELA WHERE THE U.S. GETS OIL--
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READ FOLLOWING ARTICLE:
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Subject:3-06-08-
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OPEC REJECTS BUSH PLEA FOR MORE OIL & SUPPORTS VENEZUELA
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml;jsessionid=TBHCKMXVHZYCVQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/money/2008/03/06/cnoil106.xml&site=1&page=0
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Opec rejects Bush plea to increase oil output
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By Russell Hotten, Industry Editor
Last Updated: 12:14am GMT�06/03/2008
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Oil prices surged last night on news that the Opec producers' cartel
will not increase output.
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(LINK-TO OPEN USE URL ABOVE)
The latest news from the oil, mining and gas industries
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On Tuesday President George Bush asked for a production increase to
help dampen record oil prices, which it is feared:
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are helping to push the US economy
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towards recession.
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�Opec expressed support for Venezuela
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in its legal dispute with Exxon Mobil
over production rights
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But at their meeting in Vienna yesterday, ministers from the 134 Opec
countries agreed to hold production levels steady, saying that the
world was already well supplied with oil.
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Opec pointed to figures showing a
"slowdown in demand for oil."
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In the US:
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oil for delivery in April rose $3.25 a barrel to $102.77.
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In London:
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Brent crude rose $3.83 to $101.35.
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Harry Tchilinguirian, an analyst at BNP Paribas, said Opec's decision
"will support prices around $100 a barrel for the time being, which
adds to the inflationary pressure in consuming countries."
---
Meanwhile Opec expressed support for Venezuela in its legal dispute
with Exxon Mobil over production rights in the country, one of the
cartel's founding members.
---
Venezuela briefed Opec on Exxon's court orders freezing assets
belonging to state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela.
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Venezuelan Oil Minister, Rafael Ramirez
called it an attack on all oil-producing nations.
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Opec president, Chakib Khelil said:
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"We support Venezuela in its sovereign rights
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to exploit its natural resources for the good of its own citizens and
also to favour negotiated settlements of disputes."
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Rico
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OH YEAH REPUBS, BUSH HAS MADE OUR LIFE SOOO MUCH BETTER. BE SURE TO
VOTE FOR MCCAIN, HE LOVES BUSH'S WAY OF DOING BUSINESS.
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Subject: 4-22-02-BUSH; OIL; & POLITICS IN W.AFRICA
This article can be found on the web at
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020422/silverstein
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U.S. Oil Politics in the 'Kuwait of Africa' by KEN SILVERSTEIN
[from the April 22, 2002 issue]
----
"We've found in excess of 500 million barrels of oil here, and we
expect that to grow to at least 1 billion--and that's not to say that
we won't find more. This is one of the hottest spots in the world
right now."
---
The speaker is Jim Musselman, head of Triton Energy, and the spot he's
talking about is Equatorial Guinea, a tiny nation located on the west
coast of Africa. We're sitting in the front room of his comfortably
appointed government villa in the capital city of Malabo, and though
it's blistering hot outside, the villa's interior is pleasantly cool.
---
It's one of dozens that the government, flush with oil revenues, has
built for visiting foreign dignitaries and businessmen, and that sit
inside a walled compound guarded by soldiers posted in towers spaced
alongside the perimeter.
---
Equatorial Guinea has long been one of the poorest and most neglected
nations on the planet, but within a few years the country could be
producing as much as 500,000 barrels a day--one per capita--which
would make it sub-Saharan Africa's third-largest producer behind
Nigeria and Angola.
----
Thanks to oil, Equatorial Guinea's economy is projected to grow by 34
percent this year, more than twice the rate of any other nation's.
---
It is also thanks to oil that under George Bush there's been a slow
but steady blossoming of relations between the United States, which
buys almost two-thirds of Equatorial Guinea's petroleum, and the
government of Brig. Gen. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who took power
in a coup in 1979.
---
Musselman, an affable, balding man wearing a blue dress shirt and
cowboy boots embossed with his initials, describes himself as "an
unabashed fan" of Equatorial Guinea, and it's easy to see why.
---
Dallas-based Triton was founded by William Lee, who ran the firm until
1993, when Triton was accused (and later convicted) of bribing
Indonesian government officials.
---
Musselman took charge five years later, after putting together a $350
million rescue package, but Triton was still floundering until it made
a big oil strike here in 1999. ---
Largely due to its Equatorial Guinea stake, Triton was recently
purchased by oil giant Amerada Hess, and Musselman is here with that
company's chairman, John Hess, for meetings with Obiang.
---
What makes Equatorial Guinea especially important today, Musselman
says, is political turmoil in the Persian Gulf and other regions from
which the United States imports petroleum. "There is plenty of
instability in the world, and the more diverse supplies of oil we
have, the better off things are," he says.
---
"Knock on wood, this country is stable and the president is sincerely
trying to improve things. It's not going to turn into suburban
Washington, but it could be a model for this part of the world."
---
With its newfound oil wealth and tiny population, Equatorial Guinea
could indeed be a model in a region known for dictatorial rule and
gross corruption.
---
But that prospect seems unlikely given that the Obiang regime is
generally considered to rank among the world's worst--an assessment
shared not only by human rights groups but also the CIA.
---
The agency's current World Factbook says that America's new strategic
partner is a country "ruled by ruthless leaders who have badly
mismanaged the economy." From outside the villa walls, it's easy to
see how the CIA reached that conclusion.
---
Bringing the Oil Home
***************
During the cold war, the United States viewed Africa as a major
battleground with the Soviet Union and poured billions of dollars of
economic and military aid into the continent. After the collapse of
Communism, though, American interest waned.
---
As recently as 1995, a Pentagon report concluded that the United
States had "very little traditional strategic interests in Africa."
But during the past few years, Africa has become a growing source of
American oil imports--especially West Africa, which in oil parlance is
considered to include:
---
Angola;
Nigeria,
Congo Republic,
Gabon,
Cameroon and now;
Equatorial Guinea.
---
The United States already buys 15% of its oil from West Africa-
---
-nearly as much as comes from Saudi Arabia--
---
a figure expected to grow to 20% within the next five years and,
---
according to the "National Intelligence Council", to as high as 25% by
2015.
---
The Bush Administration's national energy policy, released last May,
predicted that:
---
West Africa would become "one of the fastest-growing sources of oil
and gas for the American market."
---
The year before, Paul Michael Wihbey of "Washington's Institute for
Advanced Strategic and Political Studies" described:
---
West Africa as "an area of vital US interest" in testimony before
Congress.
---
He proposed the creation of a new South Atlantic Military Command that
would "permit the US Navy and armed forces to more easily project
power to defend American interests and allies in West Africa."
---
The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
further heightened American attention to Africa, with national
security planners urging that the United States seek to diversify
supplies of oil away from the Middle East.
---
There's been "virtually no public discussion" or debate about:
----
America's growing appetite for West African oil,
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though it has significant economic, military and geopolitical
implications.
---
While these countries are "not Islamic" regimes--a fact frequently
emphasized by American strategists--US allies in West Africa are not
especially attractive.
-----
"In Angola, petroleum revenues"
have allowed the government of Jos� Eduardo dos Santos to build a vast
military and internal security apparatus.
-----
"Other than oil, Angola" produces little besides artificial limbs for
war victims, but dos Santos has become by some estimates one of the
world's fifty richest people.
---
"Nigeria", though it formally made the transition from military
dictatorship to democratic rule in 1999, is also a disaster.
---
The army has committed several massacres of civilians since President
Olusegun Obasanjo took power, and a parliamentary report recently
accused his administration of corruption and ineptitude.
---
"The Middle East presents a number of problems, but most West African
regimes are neither stable nor democratic," says Terry Karl, a
professor of political science at Stanford University and author of
The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States.
---
"Oil development in that context is likely to buffer authoritarian
rule and foster corruption, instability and environmental
destruction."
None of this has dimmed West Africa's allure in foreign policy
circles.
---
In January, the
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
hosted an event on the growing importance of Africa:
---
("America's Response to Terrorism:
Managing Africa's Oil Revenues
in a Changing Global Climate"), and
---
Wihbey's institute held a similar affair.
---
The latter, at downtown Washington's Tony University Club, was
attended by oil company executives, Bush Administration officials,
corporate lobbyists and representatives from a number of African
embassies, including Teodoro Biyogo Nsue, Equatorial Guinea's
ambassador to the United States (and General Obiang's brother-in-law).
---
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Walter Kansteiner
gave the introductory talk, which had the vague ring of a revival
meeting sermon.
---
"African oil is a national strategic interest," he told the crowd.
"It's people like you who will...bring the oil home."
---
Other speakers included Lieut. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, an Air Force
officer assigned to the Defense Secretary's office, who said the
United States needs to step up military training for African oil
producers so that those countries can "secure their property, their
investment and "our investment."
---
Washington and Malabo: The Ice Age
Not so long ago, Equatorial Guinea didn't register as even the tiniest
blip on Washington's radar screen.
---
Roughly the size of Maryland, the country is composed of a few
islands--including Bioko, home to Malabo--and a square of land on the
continent wedged between Gabon and Cameroon.
---
Average life expectancy is 54; malaria, yellow fever and other
diseases are rampant; and much of the population is engaged in
subsistence farming of rice, yams and bananas.
---
The political picture is as grim as the economic one. ---
The only former Spanish colony in sub-Saharan Africa, Equatorial
Guinea gained independence in 1968.
---
The country's first ruler was Francisco Macias Nguema, a West African
version of Idi Amin who banned opposition parties and in 1970
appointed himself "President for Life"--the first of a string of self-
decreed titles that included "Leader of Steel," "Implacable Apostle of
Freedom" and "The Sole Miracle of Equatorial Guinea."
---
As many as 50,000 people, roughly 10 percent of the population, were
murdered during the Macias years--some were crucified along the road
to the airport, for the benefit of visiting diplomats--and 80,000 fled
the country.
----
In 1979 the Sole Miracle was overthrown and subsequently executed by
Obiang, his nephew. ----
Obiang was no reformer:
----
As head of the National Guard and later commander of the armed forces,
he played a major role in carrying out the terrible repression of the
Macias years. And while he hasn't ruled as brutally as his
predecessor, he's been sufficiently cruel that one Western diplomat
has called him "a known murderer."
---
The State Department's most recent report on worldwide human rights,
released March 4, says that the government employs "the psychological
effects of arrest, along with the fear of beatings and harassment, to
intimidate opposition party officials and members," and that the
country has never had a "free, fair and transparent" election.
---
A case in point was Obiang's "re-election" to a seven-year term in
1996, which he won with 99.2 percent of the vote.
---
Three years later his ruling Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea won
seventy-five of eighty seats contested in national legislative
elections that were flagrantly rigged.
---
Obiang's economic record is also abysmal, and only the discovery of
oil has prevented the country from sinking into complete misery.
----
"It's a corrupt, rotten government," says Frank Ruddy, US ambassador
to Equatorial Guinea during the Reagan years. "The people there
deserve better than the crooks they've got."
---
For years US officials looked upon the country as a laughingstock.
---
Ruddy told the story of how one of Obiang's top aides, who was
fortunate to benefit from diplomatic immunity, was once stopped at New
York's JFK airport with a suitcase full of marijuana.
----
The police had little trouble making the bust: The aide's bag had a
hole in the side, and he was trailing pot as he strolled through the
terminal.
---
There's a story famous in CIA circles about how two of Obiang's
intelligence operatives came to Washington in the mid-1980s to meet
top agency officials.
----
The Guineans went shopping at a suburban Virginia mall beforehand and
came to the meeting dressed in identical outfits: black business suits
and electric Nike sneakers.
---
A less amusing illustration of the Obiang regime's nature came in
1994, when the US ambassador in Malabo, John Bennett, was threatened
with death after calling for improved human rights conditions.
---
The threat came in a message thrown from the window of a passing
vehicle--which eyewitnesses said was driven by a government official--
that warned Bennett, "You will go to America as a corpse."
---
Two years later, the Clinton Administration shut down the US Embassy
in Malabo, and relations have been handled from Cameroon ever since.
---
The Thaw
****************
Just a few weeks after the embassy closed its doors, several US
companies found significant petroleum reserves off the coast of
Equatorial Guinea.
---
Subsequent discoveries led firms such as ExxonMobil and Chevron, as
well as small independents like Ocean Energy, Vanco and Triton, to
invest a collective $5 billion in Equatorial Guinea.
---
Sweetening the deal for the oil companies is the fact that the Obiang
regime gave them as much as 87 percent of the oil receipts.
-----
(That figure has now dropped to about 75 percent, but it's still far
above what they get in much of the Third World, which is frequently 50
percent or less.)
---
As US economic interests grew, a slow political shift in Washington-
Malabo relations emerged.
---
In June of 2000, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation approved
$373 million in loan guarantees for construction of a methanol plant
in Equatorial Guinea, its largest program ever in sub-Saharan Africa.
----
Two US companies--
"Noble Affiliates" and "Marathon"
---
together hold an 86 percent share in the plant.
----
Five months later, Louisiana Representative William Jefferson led the
first-ever Congressional delegation to Equatorial Guinea, taking
along:
---
representatives of Baton Rouge-based
"Shaw Global Energy Services."
----
"Several Congressional staffers"
also traveled to the country, among them Malik Chaka, a top aide to
Representative Ed Royce, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Africa.
---
"There's still a great deal of room for improvement in terms of
democracy and transparency, but they are desirous of closer relations
with the United States," he says. "We need to take advantage of that
by working with them."
---
In general, though, the Clinton Administration did little to improve
relations with Obiang.
----
The primary reason, according to oil company officials, was opposition
from Susan Rice, Clinton's Assistant Secretary of State for African
Affairs. ---
"Obiang began to reach out in the late 1990s to improve his image, but
there was little to suggest that there was any substance to it," she
recounted during a recent interview.
---
"Equatorial Guinea was a poster child of undemocratic practices."
----
All independent observers of Equatorial Guinea share that assessment.
---
"Freedom House", the conservative human rights organization, lumps the
country in a group with North Korea, Burma, Iraq and a few other
pariahs as the world's most oppressive regimes.
----
The State Department's human rights report states, "The government's
human rights record remained poor....
-----
The security forces committed numerous abuses, including torture,
beating, and other physical abuse of prisoners and suspects."
---
A Bush official I spoke to said he didn't see any signs of improvement
in the Obiang regime's practices, and he asserted that the
Administration will not ignore human rights "violations to accommodate
the oil industry."
---
"Our policy is to advance human rights and democracy," he said.
"There's no trade-off here."
---
Despite such talk, there's been a marked if unpublicized improvement
in Washington-Malabo ties since Bush took office.
*************
---
"Last November Bush quietly authorized"
the opening of a "new US Embassy" in Malabo (one site being considered
is on land owned by the oil companies), a huge victory for the Obiang
regime.
---
A well-placed government source told me that the Administration will
soon remove Equatorial Guinea from a list of fourteen African nations
that are barred on human rights grounds from receiving trade benefits
under a bill passed by Congress in 2000.
---
Meanwhile, the State Department has given the green light--barring
unforeseen Congressional opposition--to a program under which: ----
"Military Professional Resources Inc. (MPRI)," a private firm led by
high-ranking Pentagon retirees, will train a Guinean Coast Guard that
can protect the offshore oilfields.
---
"They do have a poor human rights record, but so did the Nazi
government, and we did pretty well with Germany after World War II,"
says retired general Ed Soyster, a former head of the Defense
Intelligence Agency who works at MPRI.
---
The political thaw has come in response to intense lobbying from the
oil industry, which has sought to portray Obiang as a born-again
reformer and, more credibly, Equatorial Guinea as a potentially huge
new source of oil.
---
"For a long time our relationship with Equatorial Guinea revolved
around human rights," one oil company official told me.
---
"That's a legitimate concern, but now that the energy picture is
changing, that introduces something to balance out the dialogue."
---
It helps that the companies active in
Equatorial Guinea have:
"close ties to the Bush Administration."
----
In addition to political heavyweights like ExxonMobil and Chevron,
those firms include CMS Energy (which recently sold its holdings in
Equatorial Guinea to Marathon).
----
CMS's CEO, William McCormick, gave $100,000 to the Bush-Cheney 2001
Presidential Inaugural Committee. ------
Ocean Energy's consultant on its Malabo operations is Chester Norris,
a former ambassador to Equatorial Guinea
"under George Bush Sr."
----
Perhaps best connected of all is "Triton", whose chairman, Tom Hicks,
----
"made Bush a millionaire fifteen times over" when he bought the Texas
Rangers in 1998.
----
Hicks's leveraged buyout firm, Hicks Muse, is Bush's fourth-largest
career financial patron, according to the Center for Public Integrity.
---
Bush's decision to reopen the US Embassy was taken soon after: he
received a plea to do so "from the oil industry."
---
"It is important to underscore that:
"most of the oil and gas concessions"
awarded in Equatorial Guinea to date,
---
have been awarded to US firms,"
************************************
said a memo drafted on behalf of the oil companies and sent to Bush
last year.
---
"This is in stark contrast to neighboring countries in the region,
where the United States has consistently lost out to French and other
European and Asian competitors."
---
Sisinio Mbana, first secretary at Equatorial Guinea's embassy in
Washington, told me that at least four Bush Administration officials
have consulted with Guinean leaders, including two from the State
Department who have met discreetly with Obiang.
---
"The oil companies have done a lot for us," Mbana said. "The State
Department gets its information about Equatorial Guinea from them."
---
In addition to direct lobbying, the oil industry sought to improve
Obiang's image by hiring the services of Bruce McColm, a former head
of Freedom House who now runs the Institute for Democratic Strategies
(IDS), a Virginia-based nonprofit whose stated mission is
"strengthening democratic institutions."
---
The Obiang regime's most tireless champion, McColm works closely with
the government, which now pays him directly.
----
(According to its latest nonprofit tax form, the IDS spent $223,000 in
2000, of which all but $10,000 went toward its Equatorial Guinea
work.)
---
In 2000, McColm sent a team of observers to monitor Equatorial
Guinea's municipal elections, which it reported to be basically free
and fair.
---
"Electoral officials should be recognized for discharging their
responsibilities in an effective and transparent manner," said an IDS
press release at the time. "Observers generally felt that the
positives of this election far outweighed the negatives."
----
This was in marked contrast to a UN report that said the electoral
campaign "was characterized by the omnipresence of the [ruling] party,
voting in public and the intimidating presence of the armed forces."
---
The oil companies have also worked through the Corporate Council on
Africa, which represents companies with investments on the continent.
---
Last year the council published a "Country Profile" of Equatorial
Guinea, which was paid for by six oil companies and AfricaGlobal, a DC
lobby shop that at the time represented Obiang. ----
The guidebook not only promotes the country as a new investment hot
spot but also claims that the Obiang regime "has taken significant
measures to encourage political diversity and address human and worker
rights issues."
---
On February 8, the council sponsored a private luncheon for Obiang,
who was visiting Washington with a small entourage.
---
The event was held in the chandeliered dining room of downtown
Washington's Army-Navy Club, and each of the roughly fifty guests in
attendance received a biography of Obiang, prepared by McColm's IDS,
that describes him as the country's "first democratically elected
president" and a man who has "embarked on the total physical
reconstruction of his country and the improvement of the welfare of
all its citizens."
---
Sporting gold-rimmed glasses and dressed in a blue suit with American
and Guinean flag pins on the lapels, Obiang sat at the head table,
where he was:
---
"dwarfed by oilmen and
State Department officials."
----
During a lunch of fish stuffed with crabmeat and a custard tart with
raspberry syrup, a procession of five corporate executives sought to
outdo each other in heaping praise on Obiang and his nation.
---
"It will be the Kuwait of Africa," gushed one of the speakers, Gene
Van Dyke of Vanco. "It's a fabulous country."
----
After presenting Obiang with a gift of a wood letterbox, Musselman of
Triton: ---
thanked several members of the
"State Department" for successfully pressing for the "reopening of the
US Embassy", including: -----
Robert Perry, Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, who
nodded gratefully from the head table, and
---
Assistant Secretary, Kansteiner,
whom Triton's CEO said "has been a bulldog on this."
---
When it came time for him to speak, the guest of honor--who looked
vigorous despite suffering from cancer, for which he is periodically
treated at the Mayo Clinic--spoke of his nation's growing ties to the
United States.
---
He urged firms from outside the oil industry to invest in Equatorial
Guinea, saying emphatically,
---
"We can promise American companies that their investments are
guaranteed."
---
Obiang also congratulated the American people for the great faith they
displayed in the aftermath of September 11, and said that he too knew
the importance of faith. "There was a time when we thought we didn't
have oil," he said.
---
"There was oil to the north, oil to the south, but none here. But I
had faith--faith that Equatorial Guinea had oil."
---
Family Business
********************
From a certain distance, Malabo is breathtaking: This island capital
city is cut out of tropical forest and surrounded by volcanic
mountains, including one that rises to about 10,000 feet.
---
Palm trees line the hills above its horseshoe bay, and there's a
postcard-perfect square in the center of town that is bounded by a
beautifully restored Spanish church with two bell towers and an orange
and white three-story colonial building that serves as Obiang's
office.
---
Several guards sit in front of the building's arched wooden doors,
which are engraved with two golden lions and the words "Unidad, Paz y
Justicia."
----
From up close, though, Malabo, which has about 50,000 residents, looks
to have been in a state of decline ever since the Spanish withdrew
more than thirty years ago.
---
Most buildings, even government ministries, are crumbling and
unpainted, there are only a few paved roads and the city has
electricity only sporadically.
---
Smoke rises from piles of burning trash, which is also strewn down
hillsides, where people pick through it looking for scraps.
---
Foreign oil workers, of whom there
***********************
are several thousand, mostly Americans,
**********************************************
live in guarded corporate compounds with tennis courts, swimming pools
and other amenities.
---
Foreigners aren't seen much in Malabo other than at a handful of
restaurants that are considered "safe," like the Pizza Place, where
many customers wear green, blue or orange jumpsuits issued by their
respective employers.
---
Foreign workers also frequent bars like La Bamba, which is run by a
Chinese family and blares 1970s rock by the likes of Peter Frampton,
Lynyrd Skynyrd and Steely Dan.
----
La Bamba and other bars that cater to the expat community also attract
young prostitutes dressed in glittering miniskirts and high heels who
are seeking a husband and a home abroad but are willing to settle for
a good deal less.
---
Everywhere you look in Malabo there is a photograph of Obiang.
---
His serene image stares out from billboards, from portraits that hang
in most businesses--not having one can result in reprisals, so even
government opponents prudently display one--and from calendars that
the government distributes in which he is joined by the First Lady.
---
For the ultimate acolyte there's even a line of pants and shirts that
have dozens of miniature Obiang faces spread across the fabric.
---
Many government ministers, judges and military officials have no
education and no qualifications beyond the most important one--clan or
personal ties to Obiang.
---
"Go take a look at our armada down at the harbor," says one opposition
figure--who like virtually everyone I spoke to was afraid to give his
name--in a snide reference to the country's few patrol boats.
---
All our officers are friends of the president. That's democracy, my
friend." Indeed, the country is effectively run as a family bank.
---
The closer one's ties to Obiang--whose government took in about $200
million in petroleum revenues in 2001, a figure that could easily
double this year--the bigger the share of the spoils. ---
Gabriel, one of the president's two sons, is second in command but in
effective control of the ministry of mines and energy, which oversees
the oil sector.
---
The second son, Teodoro, runs the ministry of forestry and the
environment--which oversees the timber trade, the nation's only other
valuable export--and in his spare time heads two domestic logging
companies and an airline, as well as a music company called TNO in
Beverly Hills, where he spends much of his time and owns a $6 million
home.
---
Teodoro is also a regular in New York--in 2000 he offered $11 million
to buy a Fifth Avenue condominium owned by Saudi arms dealer Adnan
Khashoggi, only to be rebuffed by the board--and in Paris, where he is
often seen driving his white Rolls Royce Barclays or yellow
Lamborghini.
---
Philippe Vasset, editor of the Paris-based Africa Energy Intelligence
and an observer of Teodoro's notorious French shopping sprees and
other excesses, calls him "the closest thing there is to an African
oil sheik."
---
Spot any major new construction project or prominent business in
Equatorial Guinea and it's almost certainly owned by or built for the
benefit of Obiang and his cronies.
---
The terminal at the Malabo International Airport is a dilapidated
shack, yet a few hundred yards away sits a gleaming new presidential
wing.
---
On the road into town, soldiers guard two vast homes sitting across
the road from each other:
---
Obiang resides in one and the First Lady in the other. (Obiang has two
wives; the second, who hails from S�o Tom� and has lesser status,
lives in a large if less ostentatious home a short distance away.)
---
Gabriel Obiang lives in a new mansion that sits across from Paraiso, a
gaudy new restaurant and club for the elite that also boasts a
swimming pool, weight room and disco.
----
It is owned by one of the president's brothers, as is the Hotel Bahia,
which offers Malabo's finest if decidedly humble lodging.
---
(It's also where Frederick Forsyth wrote The Dogs of War, his 1974
book about a small band of mercenaries who overthrow a corrupt African
regime.)
---
Rich Guineans live in a few exclusive communities, like Pequenha
Espanha--Little Spain--which has a hilltop view of the ocean. SUVs are
parked in front of the neighborhood's homes, and satellite dishes
shine from the roofs. Cleaning, gardening and guard duty are handled
by slum dwellers.
---
Yolanda Asumu, a South Carolina native who moved here eleven years ago
with husband Severo--he handles government relations for Triton and is
a close friend and tennis partner of Obiang's--says that oil has
brought many benefits.
---
When she arrived there were just a few dozen cars on the whole island;
now the roads teem with vehicles.
---
Communications a decade ago were so backward that making a long-
distance call required ringing the operator in Bata, the biggest city
on the mainland, who called back when a line was free. Today cell
phones are considered de rigueur by the rich.
---
"There are a lot more flights in and out of the country, so it's much
easier to get to Europe or the United States," she says. "Life here is
better."
----
Few of the poor, who make up 90 percent of the population, would
agree. I traveled through a good chunk of the poorer neighborhoods in
Malabo and didn't see any sign of government investment.
---
The oil companies pay extremely well by local standards--between $500
and $1,000 a month--but they have created relatively few jobs, as only
a handful of Guineans have the training for the highly technical
offshore work.
---
Much of Malabo's population is unemployed, or they work as street
vendors.
---
In the Los Angeles neighborhood there's a huge open market where
hundreds of sellers sit under stalls topped with corrugated metal and
sell shriveled tomatoes, pineapples, bananas, papaya and okra, as well
as dried fish, and chicken feet and necks.
---
Homes here--tiny wooden shacks or stucco structures that run back-to-
back along the dirt roads--don't have running water, so residents rise
at 5 am to trudge to a well about a kilometer away.
---
Most people who live in Los Angeles can't afford electricity, so when
the sun goes down, the shantytown is pitch dark apart from the candles
and lanterns glowing behind windows. With the heat in the 80s even at
night, just about everyone seeks relief outdoors.
---
"Why look for work when there isn't any?" replied one 25-year-old
woman sitting on a stool outside her home when I asked if she had a
job.
---
Her family--two kids and her husband, who drives a cab--eats a full
meal once a day, typically a stew of yucca, plantains and malanga (a
type of potato), with a sardine sauce.
---
"There's only one way to find a better life, and that's to get out,"
says the woman, who hopes to join relatives who have left for
neighboring African states or, better yet, a sister who married a
German and moved to Frankfurt.
---
There's one paved road leading out of Malabo, and within twenty
minutes you're traveling through lush forest. ---
Conditions here and in other rural areas, where 70 percent of the
population lives, are infinitely worse than in the city.
---
Many villages don't have a school, and production of coffee, cocoa and
other agricultural commodities has collapsed.
---
People survive by hunting and gathering fruit in the woods, a state of
affairs that has prompted a flood of migrants to move to the slums of
Malabo in the remote but alluring hope of finding work with an oil
company.
---
In one roadside village of half a dozen houses, a few residents sell
bunches of crabs hanging from wood posts, plantains and papayas.
---
An old man returns from the forest carrying a basket full of snails
over one shoulder and a bag filled with wild rats--killed by one well-
placed whack to the ear with a machete--over the other.
---
When I ask him how oil has changed life here, I get a blank face for
an answer.
---
Democracy, Obiang Style
*****************************
Soldiers are a common if not pervasive sight on the streets of Malabo,
and security is tight, particularly as several coup plots, organized
abroad by exile groups, have been busted up the past few years by
authorities in Angola and Nigeria.
---
The biggest threat to Obiang, though, comes from within his own clan,
as infighting has erupted over who is to get the biggest share of the
petroleum spoils.
---
Lacking confidence in the loyalty of his own troops,
---
Obiang depends for his primary protection on roughly 100 Moroccans,
provided by the former king, Hassan, who serve as the regime's
praetorian guard.
---
When Obiang is at his office or the nearby presidential palace, the
surrounding area is sealed off.
---
One day, unaware that Musselman and John Hess were meeting with
Obiang, I asked a cabdriver to take me to the church off the main
square.
---
When we got close, the driver spotted a group of armed men standing by
a squadron of five SUVs, and he quickly turned tail.
---
Democracy appears to be spreading about as slowly as the oil wealth.
---
Guineans can choose among two TV and two radio stations--in both cases
the government operates one and Teodoro Obiang the other.
---
There are no daily newspapers, and the few publications that do
circulate offer fawning praise of the regime. La Gaceta de Guinea
Ecuatorial, a glossy monthly, is filled with interviews with
government officials and local businessmen.
----
The ministry of information sells Ebano, a thin newsletter; the issue
I bought, for about $1, hailed Teodoro as "the minister most loved by
the people for his pragmatic, humanitarian and very dynamic
character."
---
Criticism of the government is rare but tolerated--one article in
Ebano denounced official corruption and said some officials "consider
themselves to have won the lottery"--but direct criticism of Obiang is
forbidden.
---
Obiang did legalize political parties in the early 1990s, though by
then many prominent opposition figures had fled abroad and remained
fearful of returning.
---
The government has also banned a number of parties, and others have
waited years to be recognized.
---
Of twelve authorized opposition parties that do function, eleven have
aligned themselves with the Obiang regime, after receiving cash
payoffs and other blandishments.
---
Rafael, a tall man with flecks of white in his beard, belongs to the
Convergence for Social Democracy (CPDS), the one opposition group that
has refused to work with the government.
---
Until a few years ago, he said, it was a crime to greet a member of
the opposition.
---
Obiang has lifted that law, as well as one that banned opposition
members from owning a business or working (public-sector jobs and some
private-sector positions still require ruling-party membership).
---
"The government has taken some important steps," he says. "At least
they are willing to talk to the opposition."
---
Rafael escorted me to an interview with the CPDS's leader, Placido
Mico, who was jailed and tortured in 1993 and has been detained
periodically since then. We met at party headquarters, a few rooms on
the second floor of a run-down residential building.
---
There's a desk at the front of the main room, upon which sits an old
manual typewriter, and about fifteen school chairs. This, pretty much,
constitutes the party's assets.
--
Mico, 38, a short man neatly dressed in slacks and a short-sleeved
dress shirt, and wearing glasses with one lens cracked, looks like a
high school teacher, which is what he was before he ran afoul of the
authorities.
---
He is dubious of the government's political "opening," particularly as
the oil bonanza has left Obiang less dependent on the kindness of
foreign donors.
---
"When you need aid you are more sensitive to international criticism,"
he says. ---
"The government now has its own money and doesn't have to listen to
anyone."
---
Mico's party has virtually no access to the media.
---
It does put out its own publication, La Verdad (The Truth), a few
times a year.
---
The latest issue has been set to go to press for a week, but the party
hasn't been able to print it because the city has been virtually
without electricity. ---
CPDS members can generally circulate freely in Malabo and Bata, but
not in the rest of the country. ----
And even in Bata, two party members have been in jail for the past
four months, charged with "defaming the head of state."
---
"If we send people to villages, the authorities will ask them for
authorization papers," Mico says. "There's a climate here of
intimidation and fear."
---
In many ways, that intimidation is directed more at the general
population than at the political opposition.
---
I heard an eyewitness account of a recent incident that took place in
the small town of Luba.
---
There a soldier shot a man drinking in a bar after he complained about
the city's shortage of electricity.
---
The man lay bleeding in the street for an hour before security forces
allowed him to be moved to a hospital, where he died a short time
later.
---
'The Land of the Future'
-------------------------------
To travel to Bata, I boarded an old Soviet Antonov plane whose pilots,
a pair of Russians, took tickets on the tarmac and helped to seat
passengers as well.
---
Forty-five minutes after takeoff we landed in the city, which turns
out to be similar to Malabo, only larger, poorer and hotter.
---
The oceanfront Pan Africa Hotel, unofficial headquarters of the expat
community, sits near the National Stadium, where on Christmas of 1975
Macias executed 150 political prisoners as a military band played
"Those Were the Days."
---
Now the stadium is used for soccer matches; in a few days a local team
will play host to a club from Libya.
---
Though not as numerous as in Malabo, there are plenty of foreign
businessmen in Bata chasing after the government's oil dollars.
---
At the Pan Africa's bar, which plays bland tunes by bands like Maele
and La Orquestra Machosky International--who like most Guinean
musicians sing the praises of Obiang and the ruling party--I met a
Portuguese contractor who has been picked to construct several new
government buildings.
---
The contractor, who had spent the previous nine years in Gabon ("a
paradise next to here"), has met Obiang five times and calls him
"fabulous, like a daddy."
---
The problem, though, is that he still needs signatures and approvals
at the ministerial level, which he's been expecting for almost a year.
---
"The country is very rich suddenly, but the mentality remains the
same," he says with a shake of his head. "But it is the land of the
future, and I will stay and wait."
---
Across from the Pan Africa is a neatly painted health clinic operated
by Spanish nuns.
---
I know even before asking, because they provide most social services
in the country, and the building is too well maintained to be run by
the government.
---
Dozens of people are standing outside, while in the waiting room
mothers are changing their babies on long brown benches.
---
A worker at the clinic, which is subsidized by Triton, says the nuns
feed about forty malnourished children and see up to seventy patients
daily.
--
After hailing a cab, I drive through the center of town.
---
A pair of young barefoot boys are selling pica pica--skewers of meat--
by a square with a monument of a soldier atop a pedestal that carries
the words:
---
"To Those Who Died for a Better Guinea, August 3, 1979"-
--
-the date of Obiang's coup against Macias.
---
Not far away, there's a crowd milling around a small auditorium.
---
Inside, hundreds of people are sitting on folding chairs, all eyes
focused on a small TV. Obiang, in a speech before government officials
taped weeks earlier, is explaining why he found it necessary to
rescind a 200 percent pay increase that had been announced for federal
workers.
---
There is silence in the audience of public employees but thunderous
applause from the TV.
---
Heading away from the central part of the city, we enter an area of
large mansions, including one that Teodoro is building atop a hill
that offers a view of the area.
---
His new estate--which will replace his current beachfront mansion--is
so vast that the construction crew has brought a crane to the site to
build it.
---
I've been told that Teodoro has a following among the poor, whom he
champions during his constant appearances on government news
broadcasts, but it still comes as a shock when the driver says that
the president's son "has a lot of love for the people."
---
Descending the hilltop, we stop by the driver's home, which is in a
slum far worse than any I saw in Malabo.
---
Most people live in mud-and-wattle huts, and when we entered his
shack--bare apart from a few old pieces of furniture and sacks of
cement piled in a corner--his wife was sprawled on a shaggy couch
while their three naked children, all with distended bellies, sat on
the floor.
---
Later that day I told a longtime foreign resident of Equatorial Guinea
about my day.
---
"The worst part about this," he replied, "is that with the riches this
country has, Guineans could live better than people in Monaco.
---
Instead they live worse than people in refugee camps."
---
In mid-March, about ten days after I returned to the United States
from Equatorial Guinea, security forces there seized dozens of people
who were accused of plotting against the government.
---
The Obiang regime refused to provide information on the whereabouts of
the detainees--including a pregnant woman--though some were reportedly
being held in the presidential palace in Bata.
---
"The fact that the families [of the detainees] are being denied access
to their relatives and that nobody knows where they are currently held
has led to fears that some of them may already have died under
torture," Amnesty International said in a press release.
---
Placido Mico was not arrested, but the government accused him and
other party leaders of having ties to the detainees and warned that
the CPDS could be outlawed.
---
Faced with these domestic responsibilities, Obiang had to cancel a
scheduled trip to attend the United Nations Development Conference in
Monterrey, Mexico.
----
There he was to have met with US Secretary of State Colin Powell at a
Corporate Council on Africa fete.
---
It was a definite setback for improved Washington-Malabo ties, but
with the oil companies regularly announcing new finds and the US
Embassy expected to reopen later this year, it's likely to be a
temporary one.
LEG
FRAUDULENT PROPAGANDA PROGRAM TO CONVINCE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE
VERY LAZY & STUPID CONGRESS TO ATTACK, MURDER AND OCCUPY IRAQ.
--
CONGRESS IS FILLED WITH ATTORNEYS, LIKE HILLARY CLINTON, WHO "KNEW
WHAT EVIDENCE IS AND ISN'T" AND THEY WOULD HAVE HAD TO TOTALLY IGNORE
THIS MOST BASIC UNDERSTANDING TO ALLOW THE BUSH REGIME TO DESTROY
IRAQ, BECAUSE "THERE WAS "NO EVIDENCE" TO SUPPORT THE LIES THAT WERE
BEING SPEWED RE WMD.
---
BUSH MADE A RECENT SPEECH IN WHICH HE CONTINUES THESE WAR MONGERING
ACCUSATIONS AND LIES, JUST AS HE DID WHEN HE TOOK OFFICE AND PROVOKED
3 NATIONS BY CALLING THEM "THE AXIS OF EVIL" WHICH ALERTED THE LEADERS
OF NATIONS AROUND THE WORLD.
--
WITH THE TOTAL SUPPORT OF THE REPUBLICANS, WHO DEFENDED BUSH'S LIES,
RIGHT UP TO THIS DATE, THE U.S.A. IS CONSIDERED "THE MOST DANGEROUS
NATION IN THE WORLD AND IT IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED".
---
NATIONS HAVE UNIFIED AROUND THE GLOBE, INTO REGIONS IN WHICH THEY ARE
MEETING TO PLAN A "REGIONAL DEFENSE UNIT" IN CASE BUSH OR HIS
SUCCESSORS CONTINUE ON THIS DEADLY PATH OF WAR.
---
BUSH'S LAST SPEECH WAS FILLED WITH LIES. IS BUSH TOTALLY DELUSIONAL; A
TOTAL MORON WHO DOESN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT HIS "MOUTH PIECE MANUFACTURES"
FOR HIM TO READ;OR BOTH? I.E. WITH TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY, WE CAN CAPTURE
AND RECORD EVERY WORD THAT COMES OUT OF HIS MOUTH AND HIS MOUTH HAS
BEEN VERY BUSY FOR THE PAST 7 YEARS.
---
THEN, WHAT ARE WE TO THINK ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND VOTERS? WHY
ARE THEY IN SUCH LOCK-STEP TO SUPPORT AND DEFEND THIS TOTAL LIAR AND
DELUSIONAL MORON, WHO HAS BEEN PROVED TO BE A "WAR MONGER" WHICH HAS
MADE THE U.S.A. THE TARGET FOR DESTRUCTION, AS WELL AS THE U.S.A.'S
ALLIES, ALL OF WHICH ARE MOSTLY GONE NOW?
---
IF THE REPUBLICANS HAD "ANY CONCERN FOR THIS NATION AND IT'S PEOPLE,
CLEARLY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WOULD HAVE IMPEACHED BUSH DURING HIS
"FIRST TERM" AND CERTAINLY WOULD NOT HAVE SUPPORTED HIM FOR THE SECOND
TERM.
--
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S LEGACY AND FUTURE IS PRETTY CLEAR NOW. THEY
HAVE SHOWN HOW "THE FIRST AMERICAN FASCIST PARTY WAS ORGANIZED".
---
AND NOW, THE REPUBLICANS ARE PUTTING OUT IT'S "SECOND WAR MONGER",
JOHN MCCAIN.
---
BASED ON HIS LIES, OR OLD AGE, HE IS SHOWING TO THE WORLD "AGAIN", HOW
THE AMERICAN REPUBLICAN PARTY IS OBVIOUSLY STILL HELL-BENT ON STARTING
WWIII, BUT THIS TIME THE OTHER NATIONS WILL BE READY TO DEAL WITH THE
U.S.A., MUCH AS IT DID WITH HITLER AND GERMANY WHEN THE GERMAN PEOPLE
REFUSED TO GET RID OF THEIR FASCISTS.
---
Subject:3-21-08-
--
Bush Makes False Claims on Iran
---
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032108K.shtml
>
---
Rico
DOLLARS AND "YOUR CONGRESS" IS SUPPYING IT AND PER USUAL THEY REFUSE
TO TELL YOU ABOUT IT.
---
HERE ARE SOME LINKS TO MY RESEARCH. THERE IS A VIDEO OF THE HEARING
HELD ON C-SPAN YESTERDAY WHERE THIS WAS DISCUSSED, AND PERUSUAL, THE
FED. EMPLOYEES DON'T EVEN MENTION THE WORD "OIL", INSTEAD THEY USE
THEIR USUAL COVER-UP WORDS OF "NATIONAL SECURITY".
---
ARE YOU READY FOR MORE KILLING AMERICANS?
---
IT IS CLEAR THAT YOUR CONGRESS PLANS ON CONTINUING THE ILLEGAL ACTS
AND FRAUD OF THE BUSH REGIME, BECAUSE THEY "REFUSED TO IMPEACH THESE
FASCISTS BECAUSE..."THEY WANT TO DO THIS AND DID, THUS THEY (CONGRESS)
COULD BE IMPEACHED, AS WELL.
---
Subject: 3-24-08-AFRICOM-
U.S. SETTING UP MILITARY BASES IN AFRICA-FOR OIL
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Subject:U.S.AFRICOM- Home
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http://www.africom.mil/
---
3-24-08-C-SPAN HEARING "WITH VIDEO":
---
AFRICOM-U.S. SETTING UP AN AFRICA COMMAND CENTER-C-SPAN HRG.
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http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=562583115
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Subject: 11-07-07-AFRICA OIL-
New US MILITARY- Africa Command
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110707P.shtml
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Subject: HOW U.S. SCAMS OIL NATIONS-
**********************************************
IF COUNTRY WON'T LET U.S. OIL CORPS IN THEIR COUNTRY TO ROB THEM OF
THEIR OIL...THEY WILL MANUFACTURE SOME KIND OF "FALSE JUSTIFICATION"
TO ATTACK AND INVADE THAT COUNTRY; LIKE THEY DID IN IRAQ AND NOW
SETTING UP AFRICA TO DO THE SAME.
---
AMERICANS ARE SO EASILY DUPED BY THESE AMERICAN FASCISTS, ESPECIALLY
THOSE THAT LOVE TO CALL THEMSELVES "PATRIOTS" WHO ARE JUST PLAIN
"STUPID" AND WON'T TAKE THE TIME TO FIND OUT WHAT THEIR GOVT. "IS
DOING TO THEM". INSTEAD, THESE BRAIN-DEAD ROBOTS, BELIEVE THE
FANATICAL CON-ARTISTS LIKE RUSH LIMBAUGH, WHO TARGETS THESE MORONS.
----
Subject: 3-19-08-Oil groups circle the prize of Iraq's vast reserves
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14983&printsafe=1
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3-15-07-Whose Oil Is It, Anyway?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031507P.shtml
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Subject: 8-19-07-NIGERIA-A Free-for-All Over Oil Money in Nigeria
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/082007EC.shtml
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Subject:4-22-02-AFRICA-U.S. Oil Politics in the 'Kuwait of Africa'
http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20020422&s=silverstein
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Subject:10-09-02- US eyes African oil
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2312975.stm
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Subject:african oil politics
http://africanoilpolitics.blogspot.com/
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Subject: Oil in Africa -
A special report by The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/specials/oil_in_africa/
---
Subject:China, Africa, and Oil Council on Foreign Relations
http://www.cfr.org/publication/9557/
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Subject:12-29-07-"Africa" Says No
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122807G.shtml
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JACKEL
+++++
Subject:3-29-08-
--
BUSH CALLS THE STARVING PEOPLE, TERRORISTS-
---
BUT THE LEADERS OF THESE THIRD-WORLD COUNTRIES ARE IN OFFICE VIA CIA
FUNDING-WHO ARE THE ACTUAL TERRORISTS.
---
THE SAME WAS TRUE WITH MOST OF THE DICTATORS WHO ARE/WERE RULING OTHER
NATIONS, LIKE SADDAM HUSSEIN.
---
THIS TIME THE U.S.A. HAS THE WORST TERRORIST IN THE WORLD AND THE
SURVEY TAKEN OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES SAY BUSH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS TO
THE WORLD.
---
NOTE: THE CONGRESS IS NOW QUESTIONING THE BUSH REGIME RE THEIR CALLING
THE SOMALIA PEOPLE "TERRORISTS"...BUT IT'S TOO LITTLE AND TOO LATE;
THE VOTERS MUST UNSEAT ALL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS THIS YEAR BECAUSE "THEY
REFUSED TO IMPEACH BUSH & CHENEY". WE "MUST" SEND THE CLEAR MESSAGE
THAT WE WILL "NOT TOLERATE" ANOTHER FASCIST GOVT. & WE HOLD CONGRESS
ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE ONE WE HAVE NOW.
---
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032908E.shtml
>
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n5...@comcast.net
"JACKEL" <jack...@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:02164ace-c286-47d4...@c26g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
Dear Leftard,
1. Posting in all caps is the usenet equivalent of SHOUTING, unless you're
using a VT102 or something that primitive. Who do you think you are? Adolph
Hitler?
2. Regurgitating MoveOn.org doesn't cut it over here.
Charles the Curmudgeon.
Example
Subject: THE LEGACY OF:
BUSH REGIME; CONGRESS; AND
U.S. CITIZENS
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BUSH REGIME'S LEGACY-
GREED & POWER-100%-
---
CONGRESS (REPUB & DEM):
INCOMPETENT OR PART OF BUSH REGIME 100%
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CITIZENS-CONCERN & EFFORT-75%
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DESTRUCTION OF U.S.- POVERTY DUE TO:
**********************************************
(1) CONGRESS'S (BOTH REPUB & DEM) INTENTIONAL REFUSAL TO IMPEACH THE
FASCIST BUSH REGIME'S CON-ARTISTS WHO BROUGHT THIS NATION TO IT'S
KNEES;
--
Subject:Fascism Anyone?
The 14 characteristics of Fascism
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/14_Characteristics_Fascism.html
---
Subject:2-17-08-AM. FASCISM-
BY Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021708D.shtml
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(2) NO JOBS;
---
(3) ALLOWING U.S. CORPS TO MOVE OUT OF COUNTRY & STILL GET TAX CUTS;
---
(4) NO REGULATIONS; OVERSITE; OR ACCOUNTABILITY--MASSIVE FRAUD-
CAUSING LOSS OF HOMES & JOBS;
---
(5) ILLEGAL IRAQ WAR-"FOR OIL"-
---
(6) ROBBING OF U.S. TREASURY---
$3 TRILLION MUCH OF WHICH WAS BLATANTLY STOLEN DUE TO "NO
ACCOUNTABILITY";
--
(7) LOANS FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES-
CAUSED DEVALUED DOLLAR;
---
(8) ILLEGAL OCCUPATION OF MIDDLE EAST CAUSED "INCREASE IN OIL PRICES"
& TOTAL DISTRUST OF U.S.A.;
---
(9) TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH- NOTHING USED TO FINANCE WAR OR THIS NATION;
---
(10) DEVALUED U.S. DOLLAR-CAUSED COST OF EVERYTHING TO RISE;
--
Subject: 3-31-08-MASSIVE POVERTY-As Jobs Vanish, Food Stamp Use Is at
Record Pace
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/033108L.shtml
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Subject: 3-13-08-MY POST RE OPEC RAISED PRICE TO $110 A BBL-
DUE TO GLOBAL UNREST
*******************************
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.impeach.bush/msg/c8aa5f966ec9f805?dmode=print
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Subject:3-31-08-REPUB'S DEMAND FOR NO REGULATIONS-CAUSED RECESSION-
DEVALUED DOLLAR
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/033108N.shtml
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Subject: 3-30-08--Paulson's Regulation Plan Won't Fix Current Economic
Crisis
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/033108K.shtml
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Subject:3-26-08-In Basra, Elections, Oil Drive Conflict
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032608R.shtml
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Subject: 3-19-08-IRAQ-Oil groups circle the prize of Iraq's vast
reserves
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14983
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WHAT "REAL AMERICANS" CAN DO TO
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STOP THESE FASCISTS!
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http://groups.google.com/group/alt.impeach.bush/msg/33fc6515e1d73407?dmode=print
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THE ENEMY LIES WITHIN!
SARA
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3-19-08-BUSH-The Idiot's Grin
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http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20080331&s=scheer
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SARA
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HERE IS WHY AMERICANS SHOULD DEMAND THAT ALL OUR OIL & GAS BE
NATIONALIZED AND CONTROLLED BY "US", INSTEAD OF ALLOWING THE HUGE OIL
CORPS TO BRIBE OUR CORRUPT POLITICIANS.. YES, WE WILL NEED "A GREAT
OVERSITE PANEL WE CAN TRUST" AND WHO "WE VOTE ON" AND HOLD ACCOUNTABLE.
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Subject:2-12-08-
Alaska Suffers From Institutionalized Corruption
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http://www.alaskareport.com/metcalfe/m91112_alaska_corruption.php
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Subject: 2-17-08-PT 1 OF 2-Oil Company Bribery of Alaska's Public
Officials
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http://alaskareport.com/metcalfe/m91113_tony_knowles.php
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Subject: 2-17-08-Part Two - Oil Company Bribery of Alaska's Public
Officials
http://alaskareport.com/metcalfe/m91114_bribery.php
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Subject:Corrupt Bastards Club of Alaska Politicians--HOME PAGE
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http://alaskareport.com/news/z49999_corrupt_bastards.htm
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Subject: 4-01-08-METCALFE RUNNING AGAINST TED STEVENS
http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/pages/print.php?id=6026
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Subject: 3-06-08-John McCain Promises Alaska Families a Third Bush
Term
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http://alaskareport.com/news31/z49175_third_term.htm
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JACKEL
IT WASN'T UNTIL THE BUSH REGIME'S HOUSING SECRETARY "ALLOWED" THE
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS HOUSING SCHEME TAKE PLACE, I.E. NO REGULATION OR
ENFORCEMENT, WHICH HOUSING CONTRACTS THAT MADE MORTGAGE RATES
SKYROCKET ON PEOPLE WHO WERE UNABLE TO PAY THEM AND...
THE SELLING OF THESE CONTRACTS TO BANKS ALL OVER THE WORLD, DID THE
ENTIRE "GLOBAL BANKING SYSTEM START TO FAIL" WORLDWIDE.
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THEN THE HUGE OIL PRICES WERE INCREASED, WHICH OIL PRICES USED THE
AMERICAN DOLLAR TO SET THESE PRICES, AND THE AMERICAN DOLLAR SUDDENLY
STARTED DECREASING IN VALUE;
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AND TO ENSURE A FURTHER GLOBAL CRISIS, THE UNITED STATES FARMERS
RIPPED UP THEIR LAND TO PLANT ONLY CORN, BECAUSE IT WAS "NOW" GOING TO
BE USED FOR BIOFUEL, AND NOT FOOD FOR PEOPLE OR ANIMALS, THAT HAS NOW
CAUSED 4 ENTIRE NATIONS TO ERUPT IN RIOTS, DUE TO LACK OF FOOD.
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Subject: 4-15-08-RIOTING IN 4 COUNTRIES OVER
Food Crisis CAUSES U.N. ALERTS
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041508C.shtml
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bluecollarworker
200,000 each day. Overpopulation is the problem.
bluecollarworker
"JACKEL" <jack...@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:04717111-2039-4e82...@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
Tell the poor bastards to stop having babies. The poor countries want to
populate like rabbits and then make us feel like we are responsible for them
not having enough food to eat. Have they ever heard of condoms?
Lamont Cranston
It's unfortunate that you father hadn't.
Rico
ACTION, UNTIL THERE IS A CRISIS.
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Subject: 4-15-08-
The End of the World as You Know It
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041508D.shtml
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Rico
Rico
PLAN" HAS FAILED AND IS REDUCED (ON ALL LEVELS) AS A TERRORIST NATION.
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OF COURSE, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WAS SO STUPID TO BE IN LOCK-STEP WITH
THE MANY BLATANTLY ILLEGAL ACTS, RATHER THAN USE THEIR OFFICE TO
"REPRESENT AND PROTECT THE PEOPLE" FROM THESE FASCISTS.
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BECAUSE OF THIS, ALL OF THE SEATED INCUMBENTS SHOULD BE VOTED OUT OF
OFFICE IN NOVEMBER. (ALL OF CONGRESS IS UP FOR RE-ELECTION THIS
NOVEMBER AND 30% OF THE SENATE).
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Subject:05-08-08-
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U.S.-Portrait of an Oil-Addicted Former Superpower
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050808F.shtml
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JACKEL
"ACCOUNTABLE" (VIA IMPEACHMENT) FOR NOT STOPPING BUSH YEARS AGO WHEN
IT WAS CLEAR TO ALL, THAT WHEN BUSH STARTED OUT CALLING 3 MIDDLE EAST
NATIONS "THE AXIS OF EVIL", THAT HE WAS DECLARING WAR ON THEM.
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AND OF COURSE, BUSH HAS CONTINUED TO THIS DAY..
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VOTE OUT ALL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS IN NOVEMBER, EXCEPT DENNIS KUCINICH
WHO STATED THEN ACTED, BY FILING AN IMPEACHMENT BILL THAT SPEAKER OF
THE HOUSE, PELOSI, REFUSED TO BRING TO THE FLOOR FOR A VOTE.
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Subject:5-13-08-
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BUSH GOES ON ARAB TV TO FURTHER ENFLAME MIDDLE EAST NATIONS TO WAR.
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051408P.shtml
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JACKEL
DICTATORS "IS TYPICAL OF BUSH'S FOREIGN POLICY", I.E. HE WILL "GET HIS
MEN IN (CIA) UNDER EMERGENCY HELP, AS IS THE CASE NOW, OR...UNDER THE
GUISE OF OIL/GAS CORPS, HIS SO-CALLED "FREE TRADE MARKET" THEN TAKE
OVER THAT NATION UNDER THE GUISE OF SOME VIOLATIONS, AS HE DID IN IRAQ
AND AFGHANISTAN.
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AND "THAT IS WHY" BURMA LEADER DIDN'T WANT ANY FOREIGN NATIONS IN HIS
COUNTRY EVEN THOUGH TENS OF THOUSANDS OF BURMESE PEOPLE WERE DEAD OR
DYING DUE TO THE MASSIVE CYCLONE.
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HERE ARE SOME LINKS TO SHOW THIS. ALSO READ THE "HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
REPORT" WHICH NAMES THE U.S.A., UNDER BUSH AS BEING IN VIOLATION OF
THESE HUMAN RIGHTS.
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Subject: 5-15-08-
WHY BURMA DOESN'T WANT "FOREIGNERS" ON THEIR LAND-U.S. & OIL
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CIA FACTS ON BURMA:
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Subject:CIA - The World Factbook -- Burma
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https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bm.html
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4-30-08-U.S. OIL CORPS (CHEVRON & UNOCAL) CASES OF HUMAN RIGHTS
VIOLATIONS.
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http://ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=42179
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Subject:5-13-08-Human Rights Watch:
United States:
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http://www.hrw.org/doc/?t=usa
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2006-FOREIGN COUNTRIES OIL CORPS IN BURMA
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Subject:2006-Burma: Foreign Oil and Gas Investors Shore Up Junta
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http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/burma/drilling/
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Subject:MARCH-2000-
Blood and Oil in Burma---UNOCAL
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http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/burma/
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GOOGLE SEARCH FOR BURMA & OIL SHOWS HISTORY OF COUNTRIES WHO RAPED
BURMA'S RESOURCES AND LEFT THE PEOPLE IN GROSS POVERTY.
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Subject:BURMA + OIL - Google Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=BURMA+%2B+OIL
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Sara
THE GUISE OF "HELPING THE POOR PEOPLE".
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WE SHOULD HAVE HAD OUR STUPID GOVT. NATIONALIZE ALL OF THE OIL & GAS
IN OUR NATION, INSTEAD OF HANDING OUT CHEAP LEASES TO THE GREEDY AND
MANIPULATING HUGE OIL CORPS, WHO'S ONLY PRIORITY IS TO MAKE HUGE
FORTUNES.
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THE U.S. HAS PLENTY OF QUALIFIED OIL AND GAS PROFESSIONALS WHO COULD
FIND AND DRILL THESE WELLS AND WE COULD HAVE HAD MANY MORE REFINERIES,
INSTEAD OF BEGGING THE OIL CORPS TO BUILD THEM.
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BUT THEN, OF COURSE, OUR CORRUPT POLITICIANS WOULDN'T GET THEIR KICK-
BACKS.
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STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES AND WE NEVER SEEM TO LEARN "THAT WE, THE
PEOPLE, NEED TO TAKE OWNERSHIP OF OUR LAND AND GOVT.
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Subject:5-11-08-
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RUSSIA: As Gazprom Goes, So Goes Russia
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http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15031&printsafe=1
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JACKEL
AT HALLIBURTON AND CLEARLY IT IS CONTINUING. THIS IS "WHY THE WORLD
HATES AND DISTRUSTS THE U.S.A. THE WORLD KNOWS, BUT "NOT AMERICANS",
AND WHY DO YOU THINK THAT IS? WHERE DO "YOU" GET "THE NEWS"?
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Subject:5-09-08-
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NIGERIA: Ex-Halliburton unit in bribery probe
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15034&printsafe=1
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Rico
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Subject:5-21-08-
CONG. HRG.-OIL CORPS TESTIFY ON WHY OIL PRICES INCREASED--B.S.
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http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=202104166
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Rico
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THIS IS HAPPENING MORE AND MORE, I.E. THE "ACTUAL C-SPAN SCHEDULE FOR
THESE RE-PLAYS ARE EITHER NOT BEING SHOWED OR THEY ARE BEING CUT OFF.
THIS HEARING IS SUPPOSED TO BE FOR 2:28 HOURS AS SEEN IN THE ABOVE
LINK ON THIS PROGRAM, AND ONLY ABOUT AN HOUR WAS SHOWN TODAY.
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THIS IS OBVIOUSLY INTENTIONAL BECAUSE AS YOU CAN SEE, THE C-SPAN
PROGRAMMER IS SHOWING "ANOTHER REPLAYED TAPE", I.E. THERE IS "NO"
REASON FOR THIS CUT-OFF OF THE OIL CORPS TESTIMONY, I.E. DURING THE
WEEK, THEY WILL CUT OFF A REPLAYED TAPE WHEN THE HOUSE OR SENATE COMES
IN FOR WORK.
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TO PROTEST, WRITE AN E-MAIL TO:
journal(at)c-span.org
ATTN. BRIAN LAMB (THE HEAD HUNCHO OF C-SPAN)
legal
Subject:6-02-08-
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Long-Term Contracts Show Plans for Continued Iraq Occupation
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http://www.truthout.org/article/long-term-contracts-show-plans-continued-iraq-occupation
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Billzz
news:ed391b65-7750-4dca...@y22g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
Pincus knows better. I know better. And now you will know better. The
contracting agency would like to tie up the vender for a long time, but
there is always an escape clause for the government. If anyone remembers
the long-term contracts for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) which was
going to take many years to complete, and then remembers when the USSR quit,
and then remembers the press conference at which President Reagan cancelled
all the SDI research, overnight, (and truth-in-lending, I was working on the
Mobile MX, and saw 600 people get laid off overnight) knows full well that
there is no such thing as a long-term contract, if the government decides to
opt out.
Now you know. And Pincus should know, so there is an ulterior motive here.
Maybe this should not be in alt.military retired, where some of us actually
know something about government contracting.
Jim E
"legal" <legal...@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:ed391b65-7750-4dca...@y22g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
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You dupe- suppose you believe every link some loon sends you.
Jim.E
>
Sara
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Subject: 6-19-08-ARE YOU GOING TO DEMAND IMPEACHMENT OR DO YOU WANT
FASCISTS?
AMERICANS "MUST" ACT NOW IF YOU WANT TO HOLD BUSH ACCOUNTABLE-
re IMPEACHMENT!
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DO YOU CARE ABOUT THE IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION THAT HAS BEEN FILED
AGAINST BUSH? IF YOU HAVEN'T HEARD ABOUT IT. HERE YOU GO.
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Subject:6-10-08-Kucinich Introduces Impeachment Articles Against Bush
http://www.truthout.org/article/kucinich-introduces-impeachment-articles-against-bush
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UPDATE:
Subject:6-19-08-Kucinich: Impeachment "Not" Off the Table!
http://www.truthout.org/article/kucinich-impeachment-not-off-table
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IN 1944, A REPORTER WARNED US ABOUT "FASCISM IN AMERICA" AND HOW WE
COULD LOSE OUR GOVERNMENT AND NATION TO IT. READ THIS AND COMPARE IT
TO THE LAST 7 YEARS OF THE BUSH REGIME.
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Subject:4-09-1944-The Danger of American Fascism
http://www.truthout.org/article/henry-a-wallace-the-danger-american-fascism
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DO YOU REMEMBER BUSH PLEADING WITH CONGRESS TO APPROVE HIS SO-CALLED
"FAIR TRADE" BILL FOR COLUMBIA?
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HERE IS WHAT NEITHER HE NOR OUR CONGRESS TOLD US, I.E. THEY HAVE BEEN
SPENDING BILLIONS OF OUR TAX DOLLARS TO PAY FOR "OUR MILITARY;
MERCENARIES; AND WEAPONS SO THEY COULD GET KICKBACKS, FROM THE OIL
CORPS WHO COULD THEN TAKE THAT NATION'S OIL.
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THIS IS AND WAS ILLEGAL, I.E. "CRIMINAL FRAUD" WHICH THE BUSH REGIME
HAS BEEN DOING IN MANY NATIONS, EVER SINCE HE TOOK OFFICE. IT HAS
ALWAYS BEEN ALL ABOUT OIL, POWER AND GREED, NOT THEIR LIES ABOUT
"HELPING OTHER NATIONS POOR GET DEMOCRACY". ---
CLICK ON THE LINKS TO THE LEFT IN THIS ARTICLE TO GET IMPORTANT
DETAILED INFO.
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Subject:Colombia - The Pipeline War . Global Reach: U.S. Corporate
Interests in Columbia | PBS
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http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/colombia/corporate.html
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HERE IS THE FULL ARCHIVE OF "BUSH'S WARS" ON FRONTLINE.
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http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/search_results.html?q=BUSH'S+WAR&filter=0
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REP. DENNIS KUCINICH INTRODUCED A RESOLUTION TO IMPEACH BUSH LAST
WEEK. IT WAS SENT TO THE "HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE" WHERE BUSH AND
CONGRESS WILL KILL IT BY "NOT" ALLOWING THIS RESOLUTION TO BE PUT OUT
FOR A VOTE. BOTH THE DEMS AND REPUBLICANS HAVE REFUSED TO IMPEACH BUSH
"KNOWING" THAT HE HAS VIOLATED THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, FEDERAL LAWS,
INTERNATIONAL LAWS, AND "YOU", THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
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WHY ARE BOTH PARTIES REFUSING TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST THIS PRESIDENT'S
CLEAR FASCIST ACTIONS & WAR CRIMES?
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THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE...BOTH THE DEMS AND REPUBS "ARE GUILTY OF VOTING
FOR BUSH TO INVADE AND MURDER HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE
IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ, AS WELL AS SUPPLYING BUSH'S WARS WITH
MULTIPLE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF "OUR TREASURY" TO PAY FOR OUR MILITARY
TO BOMB AND OCCUPY THESE NATIONS AND KILL THE CITIZENS WHO TRY TO
DEFEND THEIR NATION AGAINST OUR ILLEGAL INVASION.
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THEY HAVE CONSTANTLY CALLED THESE NATION'S CITIZENS "TERRORISTS",
EXTREME RADICALS AND INSURGENTS, SO YOU WOULD THINK OF "THEM AS OUR
ENEMY", WHILE THE WORLD KNOWS AND BELIEVES THAT IT IS AMERICANS WHO
ARE THE REAL TERRORISTS.
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IN FACT, WE WILL BE CELEBRATING "OUR OWN REVOLUTION FROM THIS SAME
KIND OF TYRANNY THIS JULY 4TH." IT HAS BEEN UNBELIEVABLY EASY TO MAKE
US INTO THE SHEEP THEY WANTED. BUT THAT TIME IS OVER NOW AND WE HAVE
OUR LAST OPPORTUNITY "NOW" TO KICK THESE FASCISTS OUT OF OUR
GOVERNMENT WITHOUT FIRING ONE SHOT.
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IT IS CLEAR THAT "IF YOU DON'T TAKE ACTION "NOW", BUSH AND HIS
CRIMINAL PSYCHOPATHS WILL LEAVE OFFICE UNTOUCHED AND IT WE WILL ENSURE
THAT THIS GOVERNMENT REMAINS A FASCIST NATION.
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WE CANNOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN... THE WORLD IS WATCHING TO SEE IF WE
WILL ALLOW THESE CRIMINALS GO UNCONFRONTED BY USING "THE VERY RULE OF
LAW" THAT THESE FASCISTS HAVE BEEN SAYING "IS WHAT THE U.S.'S
DEMOCRACY BELIEVES IN AND DEMANDS OF ALL OTHER NATIONS."
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CLEAR TESTIMONY AND DOCUMENTATION THAT THE BUSH REGIME COMMITTED WAR
CRIMES "IN OUR NAME". ONLY IMPEACHMENT AND CRIMINAL CHARGES CAN SEND
THE MESSAGE TO WORLD THAT WE, AMERICANS WILL NOT TOLERATE THESE
FASCISTS PSYCHOPATHS IN OUR GOVERNMENT.
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PROVEN WAR CRIMES BY BUSH, CHENEY, RUMSFELD, ETC.
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WATCH THIS C-SPAN VIDEO OF THE CONGRESSIONAL HEARING HELD YESTERDAY,
IN WHICH COL. WILKERSON TESTIFIES STATING THAT OF 108 DETAINEES
DEATHS, 25 ARE PROVEN AS MURDER VIA THE RESULT OF TORTURE BY THE U.S.
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http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=564800443
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Subject:6-18-08-WAR CRIMES-General Accuses WH of War Crimes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/06/18/BL2008061801546_pf.html
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Subject:5-01-07-INTERVIEW- Rendition: Lawrence Wilkerson-FRONTLINE
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/rendition701/interviews/wilkerson.html
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Subject:6-18-08-US General Taguba Accuses Bush Administration of War
Crimes
http://www.truthout.org/article/us-general-accuses-bush-administration-war-crimes
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THIS IS A C-SPAN VIDEO OF MANY PEOPLE WHO WORK DAILY TO "UPHOLD THE
U.S. CONSTITUTION". CHECK C-SPAN'S TV SCHEDULE TO SEE WHEN IT WILL AIR
TODAY. Subject:C-SPAN: Full Schedule
http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/schedule.csp
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Subject:9-18-06-C-SPAN VIDEO-THE READING OF THE US CONSTITUTION
http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=549139674
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AMERICANS THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE! EVERY SINGLE CONGRESS PERSON IS UP
FOR RE-ELECTION THIS YEAR AND THAT INCLUDES EVERY SINGLE MEMBER ON THE
"HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE" WHERE OUR "IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION" LIES,
WAITING FOR "YOU" TO DEMAND FROM THESE CONGRESSIONAL FASCISTS TO "PASS
THIS RESOLUTION OR YOU WILL KICK THEM OUT OF OFFICE THIS NOVEMBER."
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REMEMBER, ALL THEY WANT IS "TO HOLD THE POWER OVER YOU AND THIS
NATION" WHICH THEY CAN ONLY DO IF YOU ALLOW THEM TO STAY IN OFFICE.
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HERE IS THE H.JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MEMBERS-HOME PAGE. AS YOU CAN SEE,
THERE IS NOT ONE WORD ABOUT THE IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION ON IT.
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THAT TELLS YOU "THEY ARE NOT ONLY ARROGANT, IT SAYS THEY DON'T GIVE A
DAMN "WHAT YOU WANT THEM TO DO", EVEN THOUGH POLLS SHOW THAT 70% OF
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT BUSH IMPEACHED.
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Subject:MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
http://judiciary.house.gov/CommitteeMembership.aspx
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PLEASE E-MAIL "YOUR CONGRESS PERSON", WHO IS A MEMBER OF THIS
COMMITTEE, DEMANDING THAT THIS BILL BE PUT ON THE FLOOR FOR A VOTE SO
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CAN SEE "WHO IS VOTING AGAINST IT".
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ALSO E-MAIL YOUR OTHER CONGRESS PEOPLE THAT AREN'T ON THIS COMMITTEE;
SIGN YOUR "REAL NAME" SO THEY CAN KNOW, YOU ARE A VOTER IN THEIR
DISTRICT.. NOTE: DON'T FORGET TO E-MAIL THIS COMMITTEE ITSELF.
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HERE IS ANOTHER URL YOU CAN USE TO GET BOTH THE DEM & REPUBS E-MAIL
ADDRESSES VIA YOUR STATE, ETC.
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Subject:ALL U.S. REPS SITE-LINKS
http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/index.html
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HERE IS A C-SPAN VIDEO OF A PANEL OF ATTORNEYS WHO DISCUSS "THE RULE
OF LAW AND THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH" RE WHAT THE "NEW" PRESIDENT SHOULD
DO.
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Subject:6-13-08-BUSH & RULE OF LAW- C-SPAN VIDEO
http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=564597475
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THE ACLU TELLS US ABOUT THE BLATANT ILLEGAL ACTS OF THE BUSH REGIME.
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Subject:6-09-08-ACLU-C-SPAN VIDEO
http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=564380014
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PLEASE DO IT NOW..THEY WILL ALL BE GOING ON ANOTHER SUMMER RECESS
SOON, I.E. JULY 4TH....WHAT HYPOCRACY. GO TO YOUR CONGRESS PERSON'S
WEBSITE AND SEE WHERE THEY WILL BE FOR THE 4TH OF JULY AND CONFRONT
THEM WITH THIS IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION AND LET THEM KNOW THAT YOU WILL
NOT GIVE THEM YOUR VOTE IN NOVEMBER IF THIS IMPEACHMENT BILL IS NOT
VOTED FOR AND YOU WILL START A "RECALL PETITION" IN YOUR STATE, IF
THEY REFUSE TO ACT ON THIS IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION.
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"YOU HAVE "THE POWER" OVER THE
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ENTIRE U.S. CONGRESS NOW...
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DON'T BLOW IT...BE AMONG THE PATRIOTIC AMERICANS WHO WE WILL BE
CELEBRATING THIS JULY 4TH; TAKE ACTION AND STOP THE B.S. SEND THIS
POST TO THE OTHER INTERNET GROUPS YOU POST TO...GET THE MESSAGE OUT.
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THANK YOU PATRIOTS, YOU WILL BE IN OUR HISTORY BOOKS BECAUSE THIS IS
TRULY A HISTORIC TIME.
LEG
LEG
US A TARGET FOR ATTACKS, UNLESS HE WAS IMPEACHED AND SENT TO PRISON".
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HERE IS THE LATEST MOST SERIOUS THREAT BY RUSSIA, WHICH EVEN BUSH DOES
"NOT" CONSIDER A ROQUE NATION. IN FACT, BUSH EVEN STATED PUBLICLY THAT
HE LOOKED INTO PUTIN'S HEART AND FOUND A GOOD PERSON. (PARAPHRASED).
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YET CLEARLY BUSH IS PROVOKING RUSSIA AND POLAND BY SETTING UP A MISSLE
BASE IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO RUSSIA.
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IF YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH, YOU WILL REMEMBER THAT THE U.S., UNDER
PRESIDENT JFK, NEARLY STARTED A NUKE WAR "BECAUSE RUSSIA SET UP A NUKE
BASE IN CUBA".
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AND LET ANYONE WHO THINKS "THEIR CONGRESS PERSON IS INNOCENT OF BUSH'S
ACTIONS:
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(1) MOST OF THEM REFUSED TO IMPEACH BUSH, EVEN AFTER THEY ALL KNOW
THAT HE HAS INTENTIONALLY VIOLATED OUR CONSTITUTION AND LAWS, AS WELL
AS INTERNATIONAL U.N. TREATIES AND IN DOING SO, COMMITTED MANY WAR
CRIMES;
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(2) THIS CHECH MISSLE BASE "HAD TO BE SUPPORTED AND FUNDED VIA "YOUR"
CONGRESS.
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AMERICANS YOU "MUST TAKE ACTION" AND VOTE OUT ALL OF THE
REPRESENTATIVES WHO ARE IN CONGRESS AND WHO "ALL ARE UP FOR RE-
ELECTION IN NOVEMBER", EXCEPT DENNIS KUCINCH (D-OHIO) WHO HAS
SUBMITTED "TWO BILLS FOR IMPEACHMENT AGAINST BUSH AND CHENEY" AND
"STILL SIT IN THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE BECAUSE PELOSI HAS GIVEN
THE ORDER "NOT TO ALLOW THESE IMPEACHMENT BILLS TO GO TO THE FLOOR FOR
A VOTE ON IMPEACHMENT.
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I.E. VOTE FOR "ANY" CANDIDATE OTHER THAN THE ONES WHO ARE "NOW"
SITTING IN CONGRESS, AND...THE ONE-THIRD OF SENATORS WHO ARE ALSO UP
FOR RE-ELECTION.
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THEY "THINK WE VOTERS ARE BRAINLESS LAZY SHEEP WHO WILL DO WHAT YOU
ARE TOLD AND SO FAR, THEY ARE RIGHT BECAUSE APPARENTLY YOU "HAVE NOT"
CONTACTED THEM DURING THE PAST 71/2 YEARS, NOR OVER THIS PAST NATIONAL
HOLIDAY TO "CELEBRATE THE WINNING OF OUR FREEDOM FROM THE TYRANNY OF
THE "FIRST GEORGE" WHO ACTED EVEN BETTER AGAINST OUR FOUNDERS
BECAUSE...IT DIDN'T CAUSE THE ENTIRE WORLD TO HATE AND FEAR US AND BE
ABLE TO NUKE US.
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WE HAVE A FULL-FLEDGED FASCIST GOVERNMENT NOW AND IT WILL CONTINUE
UNLESS YOU RID OUR NATION OF THESE GREEDY FASCISTS AND SEND THAT
MESSAGE AS FORCIBLY AS POSSIBLE.
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"THE ENEMY LIES WITHIN"!!
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7-09-08-RUSSIA- threatens US re Signing Missile Defense Deal
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http://www.truthout.org/article/us-draws-russian-fire-signing-missile-defence-deal
>
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LEG
ABOUT NEXT WEEK'S SCHEDULE THEN KUCINICH WILL COME ON RE THE STATUS OF
HIS IMPEACHMENT BILL.
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HE ISN'T A TALL AND HANDSOME GUY. HE IS A MAN WITH INTELLIGENCE;
PASSION AND STRONG ETHICS AND VOTED AGAINST ALLOWING BUSH TO INVADE
IRAQ AND AFTER WATCHING ALL OF THE CRIMNAL ACTS OF THE BUSH REGIME, HE
SUBMITTED TWO IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTIONS, NEITHER OF WHICH THE NANCY
PELOSI REGIME WILL ALLOW TO BE BROUGHT ON THE FLOOR FOR A VOTE.
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IF YOU MISSED THIS, GO TO C-SPAN.ORG AND CLICK ON THE "TV SCHEDULES"
AND SEE WHEN THEY WILL SHOW THIS AGAIN.
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WAKE UP AMERICANS, THIS LITTLE PINT-SIZE GUY IS A REAL AMERICAN WHO
DOESN'T JUST TALK THE TALK, HE HAS BEEN WALKING THE WALK ON OF HIS
LIFE.
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PLEASE PASS THIS ON.