- Cheney's first act as Vice-President back in 2001 changed
all our lives. The only question that remains is whether or not those changes
that Cheney made to US Energy policies will destroy the world that most
people have a right to expect; in order to permanently expand the profits
of the energy behemoths while simultaneously crushing all opposition to
them-forever.
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- Speaking and ruling from his platform of international
criminality, but as the vice-president of the United States: Cheney colluded
with the energy giants against the public and the world-by elevating the
'needs' of the Energy Corporatocracy over every other need, in all fields
of endeavor, when he placed their profits beyond all the laws that were
enacted to prevent this continuing series of crimes from ever taking place.
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- Cheney got away with this by classifying everything he
did in a series of White House meetings with energy insiders-even going
so far as to seize the White House visitors logs, from the US Secret Service-to
protect the identities of those with whom he met, in those very early days
of the Cheney-Bush Cabal. What Cheney was able to put in place has led
to everything from the wars over the price of gasoline and fuels, to the
lies surrounding "clean coal," and covers virtually all "our
wars" over resources from the pipeline war in Afghanistan (planned
for well over a year before 911), all the way to allowing every Iraqi institution
in Baghdad to be obliterated during the invasion, except for the ministry
of oil.
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- To 'protect' his treason and to cover-up his lies Dick
Cheney created his own shadow government that included his own version
of military-intelligence that was used to block the real intelligence that
should have been listened to: prior to Bush's unilateral and illegal invasion
of Iraq.
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- Throughout his two terms as vice-president Cheney repeatedly
flaunted his position in the government by refusing all demands for his
testimony before congress and by finally claiming that he was not part
of the US government, despite the fact that he received paychecks from
the US Treasury for his services as Vice-president. Dick Cheney successfully
stonewalled the congress; throughout the eight years of his tenure-despite
the fact that the office of Vice-president has only two constitutional
'duties.' The vice-president is the president of the Senate; and he is
the appointed replacement for the president, if and when the serving president
should become incapacitated. (1)
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- Everything else that Dick Cheney did to this country,
above and beyond his constitutional role, was done illegally and with arrogance
to destroy the fabric of this society while building the power and permanence
of the energy industry against any that might seek to limit or contain
the private-corporate influence of those who had paid for Cheney's treasonous
interference in the governmental process.
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- The above concerns matters of historical record; a record
that was never challenged by the Congress or the people while it was being
very publicly created from Washington D.C. well before this nation was
dragged into Cheney's Wars for energy dominance-throughout the Middle-East.
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- But Cheney's crimes also highlight something far more
important to the future of this country and the world; in the realm of
which group shall hold sway over the bottom-line needs for life and existence-in
the on-going battle between the international Corporatocracy and the world
of everyday people that must live in the aftermath of the wars that we
so casually start: Just to improve the never-ending bottom lines of so
many thoroughly corrupt corporations throughout the world today.
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- From Alaska to Burma, from Ecuador to Niger and from
the Philippines to shale-sand-pits of North America-the battle for control
over the needs of people and the natural environment versus the true costs
of production that are not-being-paid, by the multinationals that have
been slaughtering the locals for decades-is now finally coming to the forefront!
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- In the fifties corporations like GM and GE, US Steel,
Texaco and Standard Oil, along with 'the phone company' were thought of
by the public as very friendly giants that were necessary to the health
and welfare of America and to the business-world, worldwide. The banks
and Insurance companies were also 'institutions that could and would 'naturally'
survive any challenge; because they were not thought of as enemies of the
people, but instead were bastions of tradition and as much a part of freedom
and democracy as was the flag of the USA.
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- Today the entire panoply of what were once household
names; in business, banking, insurance and industry have either been destroyed
completely or are immersed in the process of being melted down into the
nothing of the Fourth-world nation that we are racing to become. The tipping
point for all this treason against ordinary people and the world came to
us directly, via Cheney's US Energy Policies that he established in total
secrecy from the White House in 2001.
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- To understand how this could possibly have happened,
one must look at what controls societies; at who controls the Bully-pulpits;
and at which priorities govern our actions in the everyday course of trying
to live our lives. Societies create governments to supposedly serve their
basic needs and common interests: This usually fails because too many ignore
what their governments' do, in favor of things much closer to their many
private interests, along with the enrichment of their own lives.
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- To keep the public involved, societies take it upon themselves
to establish laws to insure that the wider society is protected from thieves
and traitors so that the majority of working people can get on with their
lives and possibly even profit from their labors. This can only work if
the laws are observed by everyone in the society-including those at the
top. These are the basics from which most countries try to begin their
national lives.
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- However by the time the world reached the 21st Century
several new wrinkles had been added that destroyed the above basics and
created instead a Lord-of-the-Flies mentality where only the physically
strong (and mentally challenged) could survive, by theft and brute-force
usually. The problem then, for most of the ordinary people, is that all
that is being stolen or killed for is what was in their-very-specific interest
to maintain (their resources, their lives, their health and their environments).
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- What this all comes down to is about trust and loyalty
to others as well as to the particulars of the self. Societies were created
to support the individual and their families that rely upon their societies
not to stab them in the back; but to help them to improve their lives.
This is the first elemental view.
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- The second and contradictory elemental view of society
is the corporate ideal of what is owed to the corporation's shareholders,
by law and by private corporate policies. The only loyalty to which corporations
answer to is the naked bottom-line: Corporations owe absolutely nothing
to the laws, to any other society, or to any government beyond their own
Corporate Board of Governors. In brief the Corporatocracy owes nothing
to anyone outside their companies' interests. Beyond this contrivance the
Corporations tend to see things like the laws of any land, the ethics of
the whole human race, and the survival of humanity as things that are as
elastic as their own arrogance and greed are-in their never-ending search
for ever-greater profits in the global war for ultimate power over all
that live upon this earth.
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- What actually connects these two totally opposed viewpoints
are the true costs of what's actually involved in declaring corporate profits,
as distinct from paying for the environment and the societies they destroy
in the process of creating that naked bottom line that is totally misleading-especially
for their precious shareholder's. It should be noted that while shareholders
are not legally responsible (currently) for what these corporations do:
they are ultimately the reason behind the greed involved that drives everything
that is being done in their names to the people and the environments of
the earth worldwide. (2)
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- Millions of ordinary Americans also own stocks, usually
through their 401k's, but they too are partly responsible for what is being
done, by their ownership. If flesh & blood continues to lose out to
greed & power there will soon be a new naked bottom line that will
be invisible because it will be submerged in the blood of millions of victims,
from both sides of this quagmire. . .we could begin by arresting Dick Cheney
and charging him with the very public crimes he has so arrogantly committed
against this nation and the world. Ah but do we have guts to see this through;
maybe that's the real question!
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- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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- 1) Vice-President of the United States
- http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Vice_President.htm
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- 2) Shell on Trial:
- http://www.democracynow.org/2009/5/26/shell_on_trial_landmark_trial_set
- The True Cost of Chevron
- http://www.democracynow.org/2009/5/26/antonia_juhasz_on_the_true_cost
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- More Background
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- Indefinite Detention video
- http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/630.html
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