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POPS"Thugs" and "Goons?" Really? Man, what just happened? It’s almost impossible to comprehend. The most liberal state in the union just elected a Republican to Ted Kennedy’s seat? It’s like Massachusetts just abandoned Ted Kennedy in a car at the bottom of a river. This is the most devastating blow to a political party in my lifetime. So the clear message from America to Obama is, “You suck at everything you do. Please stop doing things. We’re sorry we ever met you." After this, it’s safe to predict that liberals will never, ever, win an election again, ever.
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POPSRead My Lips We can not believe any word this man says He thinks the American people can be manipulated by smooth words and an elegant delivery Real Americans will see through this fake savior
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POPSTaliban Major Attack in Kabul
With all the warmongering and neo-con efforts to make these conflicts into a religious war the fact is -- like most wars -- is that these are specific battles in specific locations about land and/or stealing natural resources. No matter what fiction some of us might have believed in the past, we should give a little consideration to the plot of the sci-fi movie Avatar (on it's way to becoming the most money making movie in world history). it IS that simple. Iraq got oil. We want it. We go blagh, blagh, blagh and now we have an army there, and USA companies and private individuals from the Bush Administration, even (Pearle), got the oil contracts and companies like Dick Cheney's Halliburton make all the war profiteer cash and private mercenary armies (a real threat to any democracy) grow rich and strong. Invasion of Arab land, btw, was one of the reasons given by Al-Qaeda for 9/11 -- if that news was denied you. it was their RE-action. After we kill 'em, we should discuss t
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POPSFor All You Wingnuts Take a look at corporate welfare and the business of war profiteering for a change instead of trying to turn greedy I don't wanna pay my fair share of taxes bitching and moaning loud-mouthed asses into some kind of a hero for your own get rich aspirations.
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POPSCut Military Spending in Half By Benjamin H. Friedman, a research fellow in defense and homeland security studies at the Cato Institute and a PhD candidate in political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From comment at the site: ... From 2000 to 2008, Texas defense contactors raked in $255 billion, according to federal data compiled by governmentcontractswon.com ... but 2008 yielded the highest profits of the decade. Halliburton, the Houston-based oil-field services company once headed by Dick Cheney, has been the state’s most notorious war profiteer. KBR, formerly a subsidiary of Halliburton and also headquartered in Houston, is the U.S. Army’s largest construction and contracting group in Iraq and Afghanistan. Aerospace giants clustered in the Dallas-Fort Worth area—Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, CSC Technologies and DynCorp, to name a few—have also swept in huge defense contracts to produce military aircraft, conventional missiles and military satellites.
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POPScompany profile KBR/Halliburton this is an interesting link- with links to even more about- other companies in the umbrella- - suffice it to say- this is something else again......
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POPSMark Morford: The gang rape and 30 Republican senators who don't give a damn about battered women
More: Turns out, when faced with such vileness, all filters fail. All balance is thrown off. You thought you had some sort of way to process and attain perspective? You are proven wrong. So perhaps all we can do is ponder how pathetic and sad these various senator's lives must be, how these bitter old men will now go home at night and announce around the dinner table that, yes, today they worked very hard to help improve the welfare of the nation by essentially enabling rape and sexual abuse, tried their darndest to prevent women who've been viciously attacked from having much legal recourse. And lo, Satan will chuckle happily. Then maybe these senators will try and hug their wives, or their daughters. And maybe, if there's any justice in the universe, their wives and daughters will slap them as hard as humanly possible, lock them in a shipping container, and never let them touch them again.
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POPSRape case to force US defence firms into the open Halliburton/KBR used a clause in her contract requiring disputes to be settled by arbitration to block legal action – a policy which, her lawyer says, has encouraged assaults by creating a climate of impunity. Franken described it as a denial of justice. "Contractors are using fine print to deny women like Jamie Leigh Jones their day in court," he said in a Senate debate. In legal papers Jones, who was 20 at the time, says she was fed a knockout drug while drinking with KBR firefighters. "When she awoke the next morning still affected by the drug, she found her body naked and severely bruised, with lacerations to her vagina and anus, blood running down her leg, her breast implants ruptured and her pectoral muscles torn‚ which would later require reconstructive surgery. Upon walking to the rest room, she passed out again," the papers say.
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POPSU.S. Mercenaries Exempt from all laws #1. These mercenaries employed by the U.S. are not subject to the laws of the host country; in this case, Iraq. #2. They are not subject to military laws #3. Now we also see, in this case, they put 'fine print,' in their contracts with employees that they falsely use to avoid accountability to U.S. laws. Over and over again the excuses and the manipulations, the seeking of exemptions and/or special privilages never ends. It's a full time job to keep up with such people and group and those that are suppose to do so often fail or are lax in their jobs (like we learned in the financial scams that keep happening). This clip talks about fixing this "loophole," next year. That's a joke. These people should be arrested and put on trail now. You can pretend to excuse murder, rape, stealing, etc. because you got the victim to sign a contract! Yet many people will do what they want and try to get away with anything. (Like also we see with USA health insurance companies getting esd
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POPSLaVena Johnson: Raped and Murdered on a Military Base in Iraq
If she had of being white this story would have got a lot more coverage Questions were raised when LaVena’s family viewed her body. There were suspicious bruises, and while the military claimed that this right-handed soldier had shot herself in the head with an M-16 rifle, the gunshot wound was on the left side of her head. But the truth began to make itself known when the family received the autopsy report and photos they requested under the Freedom of Information Act: The 5-foot-tall, 100-pound woman had been struck in the face with a blunt instrument, probably a weapon. Her nose had been broken, and her teeth knocked backwards. There were bruises, teeth marks and scratches on the upper part of her body. Her back and right hand had been doused with a flammable liquid and set on fire. Her genital area was bruised and lacerated, and lye had been poured into her vagina. The debris found on her person suggested her body had been dragged. And despite all this mutilation, she was
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POPS30 GOP Senators Vote to Defend Gang Rape
Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY) Graham (R-SC) Gregg (R-NH) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Johanns (R-NE) Kyl (R-AZ) McCain (R-AZ) McConnell (R-KY) Risch (R-ID) Roberts (R-KS) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Thune (R-SD) Vitter (R-LA) Wicker (R-MS) In the debate, Senator Sessions maintained that Franken's amendment overreached into the private sector and suggested that it violated the due process clause of the Constitution. To which, Senator Franken fired back quoting the Constitution. "Article 1 Section 8 of our Constitution gives Congress the right to spend money for the welfare of our citizens. Because of this, Chief Justice Rehnquist wrote, 'Congress may attach conditions on the receipt of federal funds and has repeatedly employed that power to further broad policy objectives,'" Franken said. "That is why Congress could pass laws cutting off highway funds to states that didn't raise their drinking age to 21. That's why this who
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POPSFood for Thought: Corruption Crusading Truth seeking: Yes the ACORN employees willing to cover child prostitution and income tax fraud is vile. But the Political Right loves to go after poor people and the organizations that help them. The Right is silent about the big $$$$$ corruption, scandals and warmongering within their ranks. That is the scandal: complicit silence about the corruption that truly affects the economic well being of the country.
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POPSTop 100 Thieves of our tax and private dollars
Good source to find out who really are the biggest thieves from us/US. No ACORNs here, just mighty Oaks: Selling nuclear technology to Libya a few years back - Halliburton pled guilty to additional criminal charges and accepted “a criminal penalty of $1,200,000 for three violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in connection with the export of the pulse neutron generators to Libya.” A Denver federal court ordered Boeing and Dow Chemical Company to pay 12,000 homeowners $926 million for contaminating their property with radioactive waste from the Department of Energy’s Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant. The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation ordered Humana Insurance Co. to pay a $500,000 fine to resolve complaints that Humana enrolled Illinois citizens into more expensive and/or duplicative health plans. GlaxoSmithKline agreed to pay approximately $3.4 billion to settle charges by the IRS that the company under-reporte
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POPSRight-Wing #1 Scapegoat - ACORN No hypocrites here - ha, ha. How many would support a bar on funding: 1. Pfizer Slapped With $2.3 Billion Fine For Illegally Promoting Drugs & Defrauding Gov't? 2. On July 23, 1992, GE pled guilty in federal court to civil and criminal charges of defrauding the Pentagon and agreed to pay $69 million to the U.S. government in fines " one of the largest defense contracting fines ever. 3. US: DynCorp Billed U.S. $50 Million Beyond Costs in Defense Contract by V. Dion Haynes, Washington Post August 12th, 2009 4. Halliburton didn't hesitate to pay $382 million in fines to the U.S. Department of Justice as part of the settlement of a controversial KBR gas project in Nigeria in which the company admitted to paying a $180 million bribe to government officials. 5. Wackenhut is currently involved with scandal over their guarding the US Embassy in Kabul, and in April of this year - the appellate court's ruling late last week, it upheld all but $5 million of the original $47.5 mi
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POPSHalliburton Rape Trial This company untouchable while Cheney was in Office, could it be that now the sheild of protection is not being granted?
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POPSIt’s-Okay-When-Democrats-Do-It Watch But I’m sure the massive corruption and abuse of power by officials throughout the Democrat Party pales in comparison to the horror that Mark Sanford had a girlfriend in Argentina. Local officials arrested in New Jersey corruption scandal According to a Wall Street Journal article, earlier this morning, the FBI raided through several New Jersey towns and arrested 30 people, including Hoboken and Secaucus mayors, rabbis, and other elected officials in a corruption case. This is said to be the biggest corruption sweep in the state's history. For years, New Jersey has experienced hundreds of related arrests involving political scandals and corruption. The people arrested were allegedly involved in the trafficking of body parts. A participating witness who knew of the illegal scheme stated that one of the people arrested was an organ dealer.
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POPSLaVena Johnson: Raped and Murdered on a Military Base in Iraq "Questions were raised when LaVena’s family viewed her body. There were suspicious bruises, and while the military claimed that this right-handed soldier had shot herself in the head with an M-16 rifle, the gunshot wound was on the left side of her head. But the truth began to make itself known when the family received the autopsy report and photos they requested under the Freedom of Information Act: The 5-foot-tall, 100-pound woman had been struck in the face with a blunt instrument, probably a weapon. Her nose had been broken, and her teeth knocked backwards. There were bruises, teeth marks and scratches on the upper part of her body. Her back and right hand had been doused with a flammable liquid and set on fire. Her genital area was bruised and lacerated, and lye had been poured into her vagina. The debris found on her person suggested her body had been dragged. And despite all this mutilation, she was fully clothed when her body was found in the tent, with a blood trail lead
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POPSUNESCO: US Seriously Damaged Historic Babylon Allen said the 2003 war bought the restoration project some time because it prevented premature, ill-supervised development of the site. But looters rampaged through Babylon after the U.S.-led invasion, and U.S. forces stuffed sandbags with dirt that contained ancient pottery and brick fragments, the UNESCO assessment said. It said U.S. forces and the contractors they employed, mainly KBR, then a Halliburton subsidiary, "caused major damage to the city by digging, cutting, scraping, and leveling." The U.S. military did not immediately respond to requests for comment, but in the past it has said looting would have been worse had its troops not been there. The report said steel stakes were driven into ancient walls, which included fragments with inscriptions from the time of King Nebuchadnezzar II, who ruled 2 1/2 millennia ago and is credited with building the Hanging Gardens of Babylon - one of the Seven Wonders of the World. A helicopter pad, roads and parking lots were bu
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POPSMust be a conspiracy against ACORN Among those testifying before Ricciardi was Denise Halliburton, a county Elections Division employee, who testified an ACORN canvasser approached her at a shopping mall. Halliburton said she filled out an application but deliberately didn't sign it. "I wanted to see if they would put a forgery," she said. Later, Halliburton said, she learned from a co-worker that someone submitted the application and forged her signature. She could not, however, identify the ACORN worker who approached her. Givner, who is charged with forging that signature and faces a trial on that charge, did not testify. According to court records, Givner told investigators ACORN fired her because she did not meet her assigned quota of 22 daily voter registrations.
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POPSObama’s hidden bailout of General Electric Obama administration will be a profitable “financier” and “key partner.” Bush/Cheney were blasted for Halliburton contracts. If their intent was pure, this Gov't non-competitive collusion should be just as disgusting.
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POPSDonated Millions I notice we never heard about this in the media. What a shocker. Maybe we should have arrested him when he committed this atrocity.
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POPSSources: Big Banks Petition to Repay TARP Funds That in no way mans that Congress and the Obama administration should defer from re-establishing a healthy regulatory scheme, but guess what, it makes that HUGE deficit not so big any more! Now if Halliburton/Blackwater would do the same.
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