- Maybe this will rustle some of the Christians
and Dominionist** out of their bubble:
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- NEWS TO USE
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- The US has issued a travel advisory warning
citizens traveling to Israel that it is a dangerous criminal state and
you should avoid visiting there. Read the full warning
here
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_922.html
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- I can just see the paint peeling in Tel
Aviv to have anything so truthful printed or posted. How "hate
crime" of the US State Department. On the other hand, maybe
they do not want Christian Americans going over there and finding out how
much they have been lied to. That is another possibility.
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- Are you one of those Americans that think
George W. Bush is defending America? I know that is a rhetorical
question to members of this email list, but what about those that receive
these emails by forwarding?
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- If you think that, you need to wake up.
If others around you think that, you need to wake them up the damned
building is on fire!
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- Are you one of those Americans that think
the Department of Homeland Security is protecting you from those dastardly
Al Qaeda folks?
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- If you think that, you need to wake up
and understand that the Department of Homeland Security exists to protect
the Wealthy Elite thugs and this Federal government from an American uprising
to cast them from power. Everyone you know needs to get that message
and grasp it and start to grasp why.
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- It seems everyone in D.C. thinks this
deal to hand over operations of US ports to the UAE state owned company
is just loverly and not a risk at all. Funny how being paid lots
of money makes everything loverly on these types of deals that put all
of us at risk. Even the CIA notes that the Poor Man's Nuke would
most likely be delivered in a shipping container, not by missile. Why
spend all of those millions or billions in a rocket program when you can
just ship it to the U.S.?
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- Thanks to the arrogance, belligerence
and genocide perpetrated by George W. Bush and his bunch of thugs, the
likelihood of us getting a special package at one or more ports is too
high a price to pay for the negligence and greed of those in Washington,
DC.
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- If the port deal and operations of our
ports in the hands of an UAE Arab owned firm has you concerned, note that
Bush Co is holding a fire sale and there are other deals being reviewed
at this very time. They also have implications for national security
and such adverse parties (on the surface) as Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Sandy
Berger, Madeline [Not at] Albright and Howard Dean are apparently pushing
for the Dubai port deal on the Democratic side. On the Republican
side we have such stalwarts as Bob Dole, George Bush, Cheney, Rice, most
of the Republican controlled Congress and more lobbyists and influence
peddlers than one can count in an hour.
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- In this way, Bush is just like Clinton
in that they always try to push two or three at the same time thinking
maybe only one or none of them gets exposed or questioned. There
is not one deal, there are three. Two involving the UAE and acquisition
of key assets in the US and another an Israeli firm that was involved in
what appears to be election fraud in the 2000 elections that got Bush into
the White House.
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- Dominionist** (A fringe contemporary
Christian movement which marries politics and religion under the notion
that Christ intended Christians to conquer the world for the cross, to
receive the lost "Dominion" given Adam. It is, essentially, the
rebirth of Constaninianism which led to church-state marriage, the crusades
and the mass murder of countless millions in the name of Roman Catholic
Christianity, including all those Christians which did not obey the church
and its editcs, dogmas, etc.) -ed
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- U.S. Reviewing 2nd Dubai Firm
- Israeli Deal Also Faces Security
Check
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- By Jonathan Weisman and Susan
Schmidt
- Washington Post Staff Writers
- March 2, 2006 A01
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- The Bush administration, stung by the
public outcry over the Dubai port deal, has launched a national security
investigation of another Dubai-owned company set to take over plants in
Georgia and Connecticut that make precision components used in engines
for military aircraft and tanks.
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- The administration notified congressional
committees this week that its secretive Committee on Foreign Investment
in the United States (CFIUS) is investigating the security implications
of Dubai International Capital's $1.2 billion acquisition of London-based
Doncasters Group Ltd., which has subsidiaries in the United States. It
is also investigating an Israeli company's plans to buy the Maryland software
security firm Sourcefire, which does business with Defense Department agencies.
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- Administration officials are privately
briefing leaders of half a dozen House and Senate committees this week
about the two planned transactions, concerned that both deals could stir
controversy in a political climate that remains supercharged over the Dubai
port deal.
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- Republican and Democratic lawmakers angrily
protested after learning late last month that the administration had approved
a $6.8 billion deal to allow a maritime company based in the United Arab
Emirates to take over significant operations at six U.S. ports without
a thorough investigation and without consulting members of Congress. Last
weekend, the Dubai maritime company agreed to a 45-day investigation to
stem the protest and allay concerns of a possible breach of U.S. port security.
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- In the past, the foreign investment committee
rarely told Congress of such inquiries. Wary of another misstep, administration
officials decided to inform lawmakers of the two other pending transactions
with national security implications for the United States.
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- There have been suggestions in the trade
press that the publicly traded Israeli firm, Check Point Software Technologies,
has been subjected to more scrutiny than Dubai Ports World, the state-owned
Arab company that was initially cleared to take over operations at the
six major U.S. ports with no security investigation. That inquiry was initiated
only after an outcry about turning over port security to a country that
has been cited for ties to terrorism. Sources familiar with the Israeli
investigation said cybersecurity officials at the departments of Defense,
Justice and Homeland Security all raised serious concerns about the purchase
before the port controversy erupted.
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- Dubai International Capital's acquisition
of Doncasters could present some of the same political problems created
by Dubai Ports World's purchase of London-based Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Co. Once again, a state-controlled Dubai company with
deep pockets is purchasing a British firm with U.S. holdings. Doncasters
has operations in nine U.S. locations and manufactures precision parts
for defense contractors such as Boeing, Honeywell, Pratt & Whitney
and General Electric.
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- A spokesman for Doncasters' corporate
office in Connecticut said the company had no comment on the security investigation.
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- Although many foreign companies manufacture
parts used in U.S. military equipment, in this instance CFIUS members decided
to look more carefully at the Doncasters transaction. The CFIUS met last
week and tentatively decided to subject that proposal to a 45-day investigation,
and it finalized that decision in a conference call late Monday. The decision
came on the final day of the regular 30-day review period. Aides on the
Senate banking committee said the panel was notified late Monday that the
CFIUS had initiated both national security inquiries.
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- "The CFIUS process is charged with
determining if there are national security concerns in any transaction,
and it takes that role very seriously," said Tony Fratto, spokesman
for the Treasury Department, which leads the interagency committee. "It
looks at each transaction on a case-by-case basis, and if security concerns
are raised by any member of the committee at the end of an initial 30-day
review, the case goes into investigation."
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- The 45-day investigation of the Israeli
deal began in early February, several weeks before the controversy erupted
over the Dubai port deal, administration officials said. The investigation
of the Dubai-Doncasters deal began this week, at the height of the political
turmoil over the port issue.
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- Yet Fratto said that neither of the new
investigations were started "because of public reaction to some other
transaction."
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- Of the 1,500 acquisitions that have been
referred to the CFIUS, one has been rejected. But deals with security implications
tend to fall through before the 45-day investigation. In 1989, 204 deals
involving the purchase of a company with significant U.S. operations triggered
a security investigation. Last year, only 65 went that far.
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- In the case of Check Point, the security
questions were apparently raised early on, according to people familiar
with the review. Check Point's proposed $225 million purchase of Laurel-based
Sourcefire raised red flags with government cybersecurity officials.
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- Check Point was built by Gil Shwed, whom
Forbes magazine has described as an Israeli billionaire who served in the
electronic intelligence arm of the Israeli Defense Forces.
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- Sourcefire makes network defense and
intrusion detection software for an array of customers, including the Defense
Department. The company has deep roots in the National Security Agency.
Its founder and chief technology officer, Martin Roesch, has served as
an NSA contractor. Its vice president of engineering, Tom Ashoff, developed
software for the secretive spy agency.
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- Last August, the Israeli government signed
an agreement with the Pentagon to alert the United States before selling
other countries technology related to national security. The United States
asked for the agreement after learning that Israel had sold unmanned aerial
vehicles to China in late 2004.
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- The CFIUS investigation is to be completed
in mid-March.
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- Check Point officials declined to comment
yesterday on the security investigation. In announcing that its deal would
be investigated, the company released a statement pledging that "Check
Point and Sourcefire are both committed to working cooperatively with the
committee during the investigative period."
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- In the case of Dubai International Capital
and Doncasters, an acquisition that ordinarily may have been whisked through
the process without objection is now under security investigation, administration
sources said. Dubai International Capital is the financial arm of Dubai
Holding, an investment conglomerate that is the third-largest shareholder
of DaimlerChrysler Corp. and is a major investor in Holiday Inn Express
in the Middle East.
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- Doncasters' expertise is in forging,
fabrication, machining and alloy production. The company owns a plant that
makes aerospace turbine blades and components in Farmington, Conn.; a turbine
and generator plant in Rincon, Ga.; a steel foundry in Springfield, Mass.;
and a metal-rolling plant in Groton, Conn. The company's Web site says
the Georgia and Connecticut plants manufacture "engine ready airfoils,"
for aircraft, helicopter and tank engines.
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- © 2006 The Washington
Post Company
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- It may not seem connected to you, but
the DU issue is also right in the middle of this type of secrecy and misconduct
on the part of our government and their doing deals that are exposing this
nation to considerable risks.
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- The Choice Point software company mentioned
above is the same one that collaborated with the State of Florida to have
about 40,000 removed from the voting rolls in 2000 because they had minor
traffic violations. After the elections the State of Florida sent
out apology letters but only after they had been denied the right to vote.
Last time I checked, I do not think Bush won Florida by 40,000 votes.
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- The DU weapons are a terror weapon in
that we use them to deter [with fear, just like a terrorist] anyone from
daring to stand up to US military power. That 20 Year War Plan commissioned
under Clinton Gore included Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Venezuela,
Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, and many others.
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- If the government and their wealthy masters
want to make money and at the same time undermine national security that
is OK with them. They can always get on the TV and in the press and
on radio and sell you a line of crap and way too many Americans accept
it as fact and go back to sleep or back to their mundane lives.
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- Far too many Americans do not make the
mental leap that our military policies, foreign policies, energy policies,
fiscal policies are all interconnected and they are not interconnected
for your benefit. They are interconnected to make lots of money,
undermine your life, our National Security because there are really big
fortunes to be made in such underhanded deceit. It is literally treason
against this nation and failing to uphold their oaths of office, but money
makes them do it every time.
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- No one in Washington, DC is going to
let National Security stand in the way of making really large amounts of
money. They do not have the conscience or moral courage to make that
call and stand on it.
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- We have thoroughly polluted three target
nations in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan, and at the same time have polluted
lands far away and exposed hundreds of millions of people to deadly toxic
materials that will kill or ruin the health of many. If they can
and will do that, who is to think they would not sell us all out for the
right amount of money? We are planning to attack other nations that
choose to not do business with the United States and pollute them and the
rest of the world even more.
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- If I were President we would have a moratorium
on such deals and National Security from top to bottom and from bottom
to top would undergo a full review and modification. There would
be many changes, many firings, many companies removed from the process
of National Security. National Security is a process and does not hinge
solely on how much money someone gets to pocket at the expense of all of
us.
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- The 20 Year War plan would be burned
and start over with a different approach.
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- Something would be done to stop the DU
pollution and address that which we have already done, without exception
and excluding all of the wealthy elite that participated in the DU pollution.
Instead of raking in more money at our expense, they would be facing
immense financial liabilities, both civil and criminal.
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- I would also see to it that Congress
is placed under full investigation, for that is long overdue and also the
lobbyists that they are so cozy with:
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- "War is a Racket."
General Smedley Butler, USMC Ret.
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- http://brickburner.blogs.com/my_weblog/2006/02/senator_feinste.html
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- Senator Feinstein's War-Profiteering
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- "The Democrats aren't just letting
the Republicans get away with murder, however, some of them are also reaping
the benefits of the Bush wars. We constantly hear about Dick Cheney's ties
to Halliburton and how his ex-company is making bundles off US contracts
in Iraq. But what we don't hear about is how Democratic Senator Dianne
Feinstein and her husband are also making tons of money off the "war
on terror".
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- The wishy-washy senator now claims Bush
misled her leading up to the invasion of Iraq. I don't think she's being
honest with us though, there may have been other reasons she helped sell
Bush's lies. According to The Center for Public Integrity, Senator Feinstein's
husband Richard Blum has racked in millions of dollars from Perini, a civil
infrastructure construction company, of which the billionaire investor
wheels 75 percent of the voting share.
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- In April 2003 the US Army Corps of Engineers
dived out $500 million to Perini to provide services for Iraq's central
command. A month earlier in March 2003, Perini was awarded $25 million
to design and construct a facility to support the Afghan National Army
near Kabul. And in March 2004, Perini was awarded a hefty contract worth
up to $500 million for "electrical power distribution and transmission"
in the southern Iraq.
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- Senator Feinstein, who sits on the Appropriations
Committee as well as the Select Committee on Intelligence, is reaping the
benefits of her husband's investments. The Democratic royal family recently
purchased a 16.5 million dollar mansion in the flush Pacific Heights neighborhood
of San Francisco. It's a disgusting display of war profiteering and the
leading Democrat, just like Cheney, should be called out for her offense.
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- And that's exactly why the Bush administration
is so darn bullet-proof. The Democratic leadership in Washington is just
as crooked and just as callous."
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- Next time you see Diane Feinstein whining
on TV and feigning her Liberal concerns, remember she is up to her ears
in this, raking in the big bucks through her husband, and it is all connected
the DU, the military and foreign policies, the lining of just the
right pockets to your detriment and mine. As for being a concerned
Progressive Environment loving, Anti-War Democrat, she is a complete fraud.
It is all about the money.
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- This DU story might be the biggest since
9-11, and unlike 9-11 they cannot hide this one or remove the evidence.
Yet most are not aware of it and have not read or heard about it.
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- We put the information in the hands of
over 600 newspapers, over 4,000 reporters all over the world, many TV stations,
many of the so called environmental groups, and nothing happened yet in
almost two weeks.
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- Where is the outrage of Conservative
America that believes in clean air, clean water, and good health?
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- Where is the outrage of Greenpeace regarding
DU pollution here and abroad?
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- Where is the outrage of the Natural Resources
Defense Council regarding DU pollution here and abroad or any other environmental
group for that matter?
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- Are any of them truly concerned about
clean air, clean water, healthy food supplies, quality of life, even health
other than for themselves? I think not, I think they are in it for
the photo op and the money. I am out here on the front lines and the patterns
are very clear to see. Money overrides even sanity in our national
capital.
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- Where is the across the board outrage
of the veterans that have been treated so shamelessly by this government?
I know many veterans are wide awake and active, but what about the rest
of them that so blindly support what undermined their lives and their health?
I have met many whose health has been upended and some that will not be
with us this time next year. They are not the old, they are the young
and were robbed for their future and enjoyment of life.
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- How about those Democrats that just rolled
over on the renewal of the Patriot Act? I wonder how many Progressives,
Liberals, Democrats whatever they prefer to call themselves - now
see that their chosen party just sold them out?
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- Wake up America. God help you if
you do not.
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- It is time for America to inform DC that
the party is over.
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- Karl
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