Sunday, December 19, 2004

Ownership Society

Ownership Society" by Dave Somers
The Rights new drum beat - they are promoting an "Ownership Society".
Great words. Who could be against that?
What it really means is privatizing social security, making every one buy their own health care, buy their way out of their poverty, buy their education. Forget public help for those that are disadvantaged.
Them that owns will get. Them that don't own are just failures and we needn't worry about them anyway, they "own" their own problems.
Got to hand it to the Cato Institute, they know how to create these neat concepts. http://www.cato.org/special/ownership_society/

Analysis Reveals Evidence of Election Fraud
“Red Shift” is a term used to describe the amount the 2004 tabulated presidential election results vary towards Bush from the last “un-corrected” exit poll published on the internet on election night, Nov. 2, 2004. Finding/ hypothesis: electoral fraud explains why the Red Shift phenomenon should be significantly greater in contested states, and, above all, why it should be dramatically greater, the more electoral college votes a contested state commands. Out of the 11 contested states, 10 had Red Shifts towards Bush. The electoral college votes represented by the five contested states with the greatest Red Shift was 82, whereas the electoral college votes represented by the five contested states with the least Red Shift was 43.
http://www.selftest.net/redshift.htm


US debt, the dollar, and Bush's plan for Social Security
The official philosophy of the government presided over by George W.Bush views the United States as standing outside of history --unfettered by traditional forces that dictate the rise and fall ofcivilizations and immune to the limits imposed on great powers by the broad sweep of historical trends.
According to this view, the United States is unique, and uniquely good, and constitutes a singular exception in the history of mankind.It can thus exercise its superior power unilaterally without worrying overly much about long-range consequences or the views of other nations. Never mind that "exceptionalism" requires a breath taking ethnocentrism; it is, quite simply, unsustainable in the context of aglobal market economy....
....Curently, the U.S. fiscal and trade deficit is about $600 billion, or 6 percent of gross domestic product. Virtually the entire deficit is structural, not related to cyclical economic ups and downs. Debt heldby foreigners totals $2.6 trillion, or 23 percent of GDP. Economistsat Goldman Sachs calculate that this figure will exceed 60 percent by 2020. Most of this debt is now held by foreign central banks in the form of Treasury bonds, as opposed to stocks held by privateinvestors.
The United States now is consuming three-quarters of the world's entire surplus savings. If the Bush plan for privatizing SocialSecurity becomes a reality, the transition cost will require either spending cuts (highly unlikely) or additional borrowing (more likely) of between $2 trillion and $3.6 trillion over the next 10 years. One immediate result of all this red ink is that the dollar has lost half its value relative to the euro since 2000 and some economists expect it to decline another 20 percent to 40 percent. Former Fed ChairmanPaul Volker recently stated there was a 75 percent chance of a currency crisis in the United States in the next five years....
Kenneth H. Torp of Seattle is a consultant in international publicfinance. He is also a retired U.S. foreign service officer.

Pentagon's Office of Strategic Influence (OSI)
A 1996 unofficial strategy paper written by an Army officer and published by the U.S. Naval War College ("Military Operations in the CNNWorld: Using the Media as a Force Multiplier") urged military commandersto find ways to "leverage the vast resources of the fourth estate" for the purposes of "communicating the [mission's] objective and endstate, boosting friendly morale, executing more effective psychologicaloperations, playing a major role in deception of the enemy, and enhancingintelligence collection." In February 2002, the New York Times reported that the Pentagon's Officeof Strategic Influence (OSI) was "developing plans to provide news items,possibly even false ones, to foreign media organizations" in an effort "to influence public sentiment and policy makers in both friendly and unfriendly countries."
In March 2000, FAIR and international news organizations revealed that CNN had allowed military propaganda specialists from an Army PSYOPS unit to work as interns in the news division of its Atlanta headquarters. CNN's Aaron Brown said, "There is an important and explicit bargain between the press and thePentagon in a time of war. We don't do anything to endanger the troops oroperations. They don't lie to us. Each is essential in a free society and each is made more complicated by the information age..."
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/cnn-psyops-fallujah.html

Bush's Rangers and Pioneers from Washington State

Name State Occupation Employer Industry Sector


John Connors WA Chief Financial Officer Microsoft Communications & Electronics Computers
Frank Dulcich WA President & CEO Pacific Seafood
Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage


Jennifer Dunn WA Representative U.S. Congress
Other Civil Servants/Public Officials


John Kelly WA Attorney Microsoft Communications & Electronics
Computers


Susan McCaw WA President COM Investment Communications & Electronics
Telecommunications


Wayne M. Perry WA CEO Edge Wireless Communications & Technologies Telecommunications


http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/ContributorsAndPaybacks/pioneer_search.cfm

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