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As promised…

The Family That BUSHwhacked America

Neil

Jeb

George Snr

Marvin

George Jnr.

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you have to focus on” – GW Bush

“You have to look at the entire Bush Family in this context — as if the family ran a corporation called ‘Frauds-R-Us,’

George Jr.’s specialty was insurance and security fraud.

Jeb’s specialty was oil and gas fraud.

Neil’s specialty was real estate fraud.

Prescott’s specialty was banking fraud.

And George Sr.’s specialty? All of the above.” – Lt. Cmdr. Al Martin, US Navy,(Ret)

“While opportunism isn’t new in U.S. politics, never did so many in one family extract so many dollars from taxpayers as when George Bush senior was president a decade ago” – David E. Scheim, author of Contract on America.

“What you’ve got with Bush [George senior] is absolutely the largest number of siblings and children involved in what looks like a never-ending hustle.” – Republican pundit Kevin Philips

“Texas businessmen [are] not crooks, “they just have an over-developed sense of the extenuating circumstance.”" – Molly Ivins

Just too many jinks, links

Updated – 05/12/03: I started this second part with the objective of extending the dossier on the Bush Gang, but I quickly realised that short of writing a (very long) book, I’d never be able to encapsulate all of it in the easy-to-digest form of an essay, hence the external pages, so that if you want to pursue a particular character or company, all you need do is click on a particular link. You’ll find that many of the names and companies are cross-linked, pointing to the intricate network of associates that the Bush clan have built up over the years. No doubt if one were to do the same thing with Rockefeller, you’d end up with the same rats nest of associations (pun intended).

Gangster Capitalism
And in any case, the critical issue is not so much the individual goings-on of these ne’er do wells, but that they are typical of a system, which since its foundation (one built on slavery, genocide, continental land theft and gangster capitalism) has utterly corrupt institutions which it nevertheless claims make it the bastion of the ‘free world’! As the saying goes, they have ‘no shame’.

Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil
The other really important question to ask is how can one family which has so many skeletons in the family closet, get away with such dirty dealings and over such a long period of time without being called to task? It’s as if the mass media goes deaf, dumb and blind when the name Bush comes up. For no matter what your politics are, left, right or indifferent, a family which has its fingers in so many dirty dealings has surely got to get you thinking about exactly what kind of country it is you live in (if you’re an American) and what kind of world is it that’s dominated by a country with a media (not to mention a legal system) that’s quite content not to challenge its president or his lying, thiefing family and their tenticular network of associations which includes: the Mafia, the Chinese Communist Party, Japanese Triads, the Vatican, Central American drug smugglers and gun runners, international arms dealers, the Ayotollah Khomeini (RIP), Cuban-American terrorists, money laundering, illegal arms sales, countless conflicts of interests, nepotism, coverups, tax avoidance, SEC fiddles and banking scams? A veritable ‘school for scoundrels’.

The fact that this litany of evil is effectively left unscrutinised and unquestioned by the dominant media, or, on the few occasions when it is mentioned, it’s only ‘in passing’, reveals the cynical, opportunistic attitude toward not only the concept of access to information, but acting on it. The system also makes a complete mockery of the so-called moral approach used by the leaders of the ‘free world’ when they accuse others of the same behaviour. Is it any wonder that we have populations who have ‘dropped out’ of the political process. Where is the accountability? Where indeed?

It’s a shell game
In recent years the problem has been excerbated by the ‘gutting’ of the government through wholesale deregulation and privatisation, which has enabled those with the ‘right’ connections to gain access to vast gobs of money in the form of subsidies and lucrative contracts (eg Marvin Bush’s Ignite corporation, or the Kuwaiti Harken Oil deals, Choicepoint’s Homeland Security contracts and the software company it uses, Sybase Inc which has Bush family connections). The effect has been to turn various and sundry government agencies into hollow shells. Companies can then effectively write themselves blank cheques or simply ignore the toothless edicts issued by the regulators (eg the SEC over the Silverado S&L scandal).

Assault on Liberty
The assault on the rights of citizens, won at great cost and over generations of struggle, has since the 1970s, been steadily eroded to the point that we are now left with a façade of the original, a cardboard mockup that has all the appearances democracy, civil rights and so forth but virtually no substance. Our cynical leaders would have us believe that,

“Failure to vote, as Britain’s Chancellor remarked after the last UK election,
is the mark of the satisfied citizen.”
Perry Anderson

Satisfied or cynical? Or perhaps fatalistic about a system which has systematically encouraged its citizens to disenfranchise themselves?

Ultimately of course, it exposes the real nature of the political class and who it really serves – the rich and powerful and their utter disdain for those without any real power. With ‘elections’ being reduced to no more than tokenised democracy (only about a quarter of the electorate actually bother to vote in US national elections and a fraction more in the UK), it’s no surprise that firstly, there is no genuine representation ‘of the people, for the people, by the people’, but just as importantly, the total lack of representation or accountability encourages an arrogance and bravado on the part of the power elite that they can get away with anything, because they we let them (and they do)!

The 4^th Estate – Absentee Landlords
A comparable process is at work in the ‘4^th Estate’ who have reduced journalism (when they bother to actually cover the real stories) to another hollow shell, where the act of merely reporting is now considered sufficient to fulfill their obligations as ‘watchdogs’ of the nation’s affairs. The thought of actually leading with a story, and pursuing it, day after day, until someone actually takes notice and says, ‘enough is enough’ is simply not permitted because the same corporations that own the media are also part and parcel of the same power elite that’s busy ripping off the nation and holding the world to ransom.

Par for the Course
Forget ‘Dynasty’, although maybe they got the idea for the programme from the Bush posse. Staggering, is all I can say about the Bush family saga. Yet actually it’s par for the course as they say and not at all exceptional in the annals of the US power elite. The history of US capitalism is made up of family dynasties of one kind or another, from the robber barons of the Du Ponts, Mellons, Morgans, Rockefellers, Carnegies and Kennedys, through to the newcomers like Enron, Worldcom, Halliburton, Bechtel, Harken, Carlyle and so forth. And, like the landed aristocracies of England, they marry into each other’s families, go to the same schools and universities, sit on each other’s corporate boards and invest in each other’s business dealings. Importantly, they watch each other’s backs and for obvious reasons.

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Readers: Can you believe that first quote from GW Bush? Kind of says it all doesn’t it? That’s just a little tidbit of the big picture. Intrigued? Interested to learn more? Tomorrow, you can look forward to reading more of the article about the Bush family and their playmates…aptly called “The Actors”.  And yes, mentioned above, and as Anonz  stated, the Vatican is one of them.

Peace out. 

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Good morning!

I want to first say that I am so appreciative of the information that gets posted on my blog. I learn so much. And as painful, scary, disappointing etc., as it is sometimes (many times) , I am grateful for the knowledge.

Harold, and The Desk Of Anonz brought up the Bush Family.  Here is my contribution.

Note: This article was written some time ago so some of the links no longer work.

The Family That BUSHwhacked America

Prescott Bush, granpa of Dubya

The Nazi’s American Banker

What is interesting about the history of the Bush family are the connections; Avril Harriman, Allen Dulles, the Rockefellers (the start of the oil connection), James Baker III, Gulf Oil, Pennzoil, Osama bin Laden…on and on it goes. 

A lapse of memory?

05/07/03: It’s as well to remember that the Web never forgets, at least the US pres should take note of this fact and be careful of his utterances and how they can come back to haunt him. In fact four generations of Bush family history and too many skeletons in too many closets to count are to be found on the Web.

And given all the ‘pullpit pounding’ (more of which below) by ol’ Duyba and his minions, over the dubious moral character of Saddam and his cronies, much of which has underpinned the justification for the invasion and occupation of Iraq, it’s as well to compare the two sets of rogues. Not surprisingly, there’s little to choose between the two except that, in the case of the Bush gang, they have a ‘pedigree’ in perfidy which extends back almost a century and four generations that makes Saddam look positively angelic by comparison.

Prescott Bush – setting a family example

In a previous piece a quote I used mentioned Prescott Bush the present pres’s granpa (http://www.americanpolitics.com/20030210Koop.html) so I decided to do a little researching to see what other dirty little secrets the Bush family have hidden in the dark recesses of the WWW and lo and behold, there’s a load of stuff out there (7,630 links to be precise, according to good ol’ google just on granpa Prescott Bush).

Geronimo!

It’s 1918 and, well you know students, they’re always up to innocent pranks. It seems Grandpa Bush set his grandson some fine family precedents starting with digging up Geronimo’s skull,

“In 1918, Prescott Bush and two companions crept into the cemetery near Fort Sill and pried open the grave of Geronimo.

The head was taken out, spiffed up and forwarded to New Haven, where it was given pride of place for goofy rituals that have been attended by generations of Bushes and a veritable army of powerful types.”

http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/20000923roddy.asp

The Apache nation (what was left of it anyway) was not amused. Okay, we’ll forgive granpa Bush his ‘juvenile pranks’ but it seems that this set the scene for the rest of his miserable life until his death in 1972 from carcinoma of the lung.

From skulls to Zyklon B (and back again)

But it seems that great-granpa George Walker was also in on the business of making money out of death (like great-granpa like great grand-son),

“George Walker, GW’s great-grandfather, also set up the takeover of the Hamburg-America Line, a cover for I.G. Farben’s Nazi espionage unit in the United States. In Germany, I.G. Farben was most famous for putting the gas in gas chambers; it was the producer of Zyklon B and other gasses used on victims of the Holocaust. The Bush family was not unaware of the nature of their investment partners. They hired Allen Dulles, the future head of the CIA, to hide the funds they were making from Nazi investments and the funds they were sending to Nazi Germany, rather than divest.”

Source: http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id195/pg1/

Banking on Fascism

It just doesn’t stop does it, as Prescott Bush, son of George continued in the ‘grand tradition’ of skullduggery by also doing deals with the Nazis,

“On October 20, 1942, the US Alien Property Custodian, under the “Trading With the Enemy Act,” seized the shares of the Union Banking Corporation (UBC), of which Prescott Bush was a director and shareholder. The largest shareholder was E. Roland Harriman. (Bush was also the managing partner of Brown Brothers Harriman, a leading Wall Street investment firm.)

“The UBC was established to send American capital to Germany to finance the reorganization of its industry under the Nazis. Their leading German partner was the notorious Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, who wrote a book admitting much of this called “I Paid Hitler.”

“Among the companies financed was the Silesian-American Corporation, which was also managed by Prescott Bush, and by his father-in-law George Herbert Walker, who supplied Dub-a-Ya with his name. The company was vital in supplying coal to the Nazi war industry. It too was seized as a Nazi-front on November 17, 1942. The largest company Bush’s UBC helped finance was the German Steel Trust, responsible for between one-third and one-half of Nazi iron and explosives.

“Prescott Bush was also a director of the Harriman Fifteen Corporation, (this one owned largely by Roland’s brother, Averell Harriman), which owned about a third of the Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation, the rest owned by Friedrich Flick, (a member of Himmler’s “Circle of Friends” who donated to the S.S.).”

Source: http://www.lpdallas.org/features/draheim/dr991216.htm

What is interesting about the history of the Bush family are the connections; Avril Harriman, Allen Dulles, the Rockefellers (the start of the oil connection), James Baker III, Gulf Oil, Pennzoil, Osama bin Laden…on and on it goes. It looks like this’ll have to be part one of an on-going series on the Bush dynasty and their dirty dealings.

Double Dutch?

The story of steel magnate and billionaire bankroller of the Nazis, Fritz Thyssen and his Bush family connection is so incredible, that it deserves to be turned into a movie (obviously not by Hollywood). It all starts with John Loftus, a former U.S.Department of Justice Nazi War Crimes prosecutor who is the source of the following,

“From 1945 until 1949, one of the lengthiest and, it now appears, most futile interrogations of a Nazi war crimes suspect began in the American Zone of Occupied Germany…. [The interrogation of] [m]ultibillionaire steel magnate Fritz Thyssen-the man whose steel combine was the cold heart of the Nazi war machine.”

They were trying to find out what had happened to Thyssen’s billions but without success. Why?

“What the Allied investigators never understood was that they were not asking Thyssen the right question. Thyssen did not need any foreign bank accounts because his family secretly owned an entire chain of banks. He did not have to transfer his Nazi assets at the end of World War II, all he had to do was transfer the ownership documents – stocks, bonds, deeds and trusts–from his bank in Berlin through his bank in Holland to his American friends in New York City, Prescott Bush and Herbert Walker. Thyssen’s partners in crime were the father and father-in-law of a future President of the United States [my emph. WB].

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“The British and American interrogators may have gravely underestimated Thyssen but they nonetheless knew they were being lied to. Their suspicions focused on one Dutch Bank in particular, the Bank voor Handel enScheepvaart, in Rotterdam. This bank did a lot of business with the Thyssens over the years. In 1923, as a favor to him, the Rotterdam bank loaned the money to build the very first Nazi party headquarters in Munich.

“If the investigators realized that the US intelligence chief in postwar Germany, Allen Dulles, was also the Rotterdam bank’s lawyer, they might have asked some very interesting questions. They did not know that Thyssen was Dulles’ client [my emph. WB] as well. Nor did they ever realize that it was Allen Dulles’s other client, Baron Kurt Von Schroeder who was the Nazi trustee for the Thyssen companies which now claimed to be owned by the Dutch [my emph. WB]. The Rotterdam Bank was at the heart of Dulles’ cloaking scheme, and he guarded its secrets jealously.

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“[T]he Dutch connection remained unexplored until 1994 when I published the book “The Secret War Against the Jews.” As a matter of historical curiosity, I mentioned that Fritz Thyssen (and indirectly, the Nazi Party) had obtained their early financing from Brown Brothers Harriman [my emph. WB], and its affiliate, the Union Banking Corporation. Union Bank, in turn, was the Bush family’s holding company for a number of other entities, including the “Holland American Trading Company.”

Source: http://www.baltech.org/lederman/bush-nazi-fortune-2-09-02.html

There are so many twists and turns to this story, that this is not the place to to go into all the labyrinthine links between the Nazis, the Bush Family and the CIA (via Allen Dulles) or indeed, a host of other corporate connections. But this final quote from the same source, gives you an idea of just how much money is involved,

“The enormous sums of money deposited into the Union Bank prior to 1942 is the best evidence that Prescott Bush knowingly served as a money launderer for the Nazis. Remember that Union Banks’ books and accounts were frozen by the U.S. Alien Property Custodian in 1942 and not released back to the Bush family until 1951. At that time, Union Bank shares representing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of industrial stocks and bonds were unblocked for distribution. Did the Bush family really believe that such enormous sums came from Dutch enterprises? One could sell tulip bulbs and wooden shoes for centuries and not achieve those sums. A fortune this size could only have come from the Thyssen profits made from rearming the Third Reich, and then hidden, first from the Nazi tax auditors, and then from the Allies.”

For the full story please go to the link above.

Crocodile tears

All of which makes the following quote from Dubya all the more sickening,

“In April 1999, [then] Texas Governor George W. Bush proclaimed a week of remembrance for the Holocaust. He said, “I urge Texans to never forget the inhumanity of those who perpetrated the Holocaust, and reflect upon our own humanity and our responsibility to respect all peoples.”

Source: http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id195/pg1/

Like granpa like grand-son? Well given where Dubya got his money from, and his continuing in the ‘grand tradition of the Bush gang, I’m feeling quite biblical about things, so I thought following,

Short diversion

Would be useful. I know there will be some among you who think I’ve just got it in for the Bushes, so in my wanderings over the Web, I came across this little gem fromhttp://www.townhall.com/bookclub/herskowitz.html

“Duty, Honor, Country

The Life and Legacy of Prescott Bush

By Mickey Herskowitz

This paean to the life of Prescott Bush, by a conservative writer is a salutory warning to us all. I quote,

“He [Prescott Bush] was a unifier, not a divider. And he was of such high integrity [sic] that behind the scenes was where he was at his best. He was a man of great faith. His grandfather was a minister whose faith and integrity were fully ingrained in the Bush family. Prescott always emphasized honesty, charity, fairness and proactive dedication to God, family and country.”

From a review by Susan Kurz.

I could go on quoting, but I’m afraid I’ll throw up. Check it out for yourself at http://www.townhall.com/bookclub/herskowitz.html. Townhall.com is, by the way, “the first truly interactive community on the Internet to bring Internet users, conservative public policy organizations, congressional staff, and political activists together under the broad umbrella of “conservative” thoughts, ideas and actions.”

There’s none so blind as those that refuse to see.

From Eugenicist to anti-abortionist

Not content with digging up the ancestors, supporting Fascism,laundering Nazi money through a Dutch-based bank, selling weapons to the mullahs of Iran, trading guns for drugs, doing business deals with Osama bin Laden, the Bush family in the form of ol’ granpa Prescott was an early supporter of the Eugenics movement (or racial purity, to give it its real name). And a rather embarassing connection it is too, as Bush Snr discovered,

“…And the Birth Control League was there, which had long trumpeted the need for eugenical births–fewer births for parents with “inferior” bloodlines. Prescott [Bush’s] partner Tighe was a Connecticut director of the league, and the Connecticut league’s medical advisor was eugenics advocate Dr. Winternitz of Yale Medical School.

Now in 1950, people who knew something about Prescott Bush knew that he had very unsavory roots in the eugenics movement. There were then, just after the anti-Hitler war, few open advocates of sterilization of “unfit” or “unnecessary” people. (That would be revived later, with the help of General Draper and his friend George Bush

Then, very late in the 1950 senatorial campaign, Prescott Bush was publicly exposed for being an activist in that section of the old fascist eugenics movement. Prescott Bush lost the election by about 1,000 out of 862,000 votes

In his foreword to a population control propaganda book, George Bush wrote about that 1950 election: “My own first awareness of birth control as a public policy issue came with a jolt in 1950 when my father was running for United States Senate in Connecticut. Drew Pearson, on the Sunday before Election day, ‘revealed’ that my father was involved with Planned Parenthood…. Many political observers felt a sufficient number of voters were swayed by his alleged contacts with the birth controllers to cost him the election….”

Source: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibit/2412/eugenics/Bush.html

The Bush story is such a fascinating history of capitalist corruption and power that it needs to be presented to a public that is consistently lied to, not only by the corporate media but by our so-called leaders. In Part Two, I’m going to give you the low-down on the Bush family’s involvement in the scams and dealings of the Reagan years, the Iran-Contra scandal and one of the biggest rip-offs in history, the savings and loan scandal, which cost the US taxpayer literally trillions of dollars. Yeah, you read right, trillions!

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Readers: Stay tuned for Part 2. Thoughts? Comments? Blog me.

Robert: It’s taken me a few days to catch up on the comments. The more I read, the more I find out just how corrupt our system is. Conspiracy theories are no longer just that. If one can think it or make it up, it’s probably real or someone is planning on making it real.

And we voted the criminals in. The same same thing is happening all over again and unless we all participate, and become political animals, it will continue to happen. Your commentary was enlightening – throw in Doug’s link to the video (Thanks!), and if it’s not clear now to people, they’re never gonna get it. Keep the info coming.

Readers: If you didn’t read Robert’s post and watch the video that Doug posted, don’t be lazy…I suggest that you do.

AH:  So glad to see your initials back in the comment section. I too have missed hearing from you. What has been going on in your world? How is Bita and Adam? My best to all of you.

Jerry:  You, ZL and everyone else is wondering the same thing. Gutless wonders I guess. Kudos to Harry Reid though. Belinda: Thanks for posting. Gumption seems to come in spurts – We need it to come more often.

By the way…Quo: Love the quote. So true…so true. How I wish more people in power…actually all people took that same thought and applied it to business and life.

Jenna: It is so hard to read your story. I know that it has not happened to just you, nor has this abuse of women come to a halt. Even if this atrocity only happened to you, it is one too many for any girl to have to endure. My heart goes out to you. No, women do not have to continue to be victims. “Revenge is a dish best served chilled.” Does that mean killing? When I think of revenge, No. But then I have always said I am an “eye for an eye” kind of girl. How would I feel if I were in your shoes? Do I blame you for wanting and doing so? How can I? I have never experienced what you and many other girls have gone through, so I can not say how I would feel or what my actions would be.

What I do HOPE though is that, you find that life begins to mean something…the fact that you are still alive is a gift. And perhaps while you are alive, I can empower you by encouraging your justified anger to be expressed in a positive way too. There are many girls who are going through what you went through – life does mean something to those that are trying to survive, and they need help. You have some fire in you…some powerful fire. If you can kill, imagine what you can do to save. Perhaps when you save a life, your life will begin to mean something. I HOPE this for you.

Fiona: You do have Jenna’s strength. I HOPE too that you will put your strength into saving.

Muraoka: No doubt they are HOPEing. But my readers are for Obama. I don’t see their sick comments converting anyone that is for Obama or anyone on the fence. This is choir talk and the choir isn’t ever going to vote for Obama.

Jerome: I am sick of it too but deleting it doesn’t take it away. If it did, believe me, I’d censor my blog in a minute.  I think it’s a good idea to for my readers to see the shit they are telling their flock.  It is one thing to say they lie, or that they are filled with desire to get Obama out at any cost, but anyone reading Human Events can see for themselves that this bunch is insane with hatred of Obama. It is sickening what is being said and what they will do to be done with him. If anything, let their words fuel your fire, because we’re going to need all of the fire that we can muster up to win the election in 2012.

Tsarme: Welcome to my blog. I look forward to hearing more about you and your world. If you can tell us, what are your duties with the TAO? What is your form like? Animal? Plant? Sea? I too wish you success.

Akema: Enough isn’t said about women in this world. So yes! Absolutely.

 Anna Of Guam: Great article, but it is nothing compared to your note in the church collection. Love it.

 Peace & Love…

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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Good morning!

I am digging that this country is getting riled up…inspired that we the people, the 99 percenters, are getting verbal, going viral, and taking it to the streets…and that the protesting is peaceful…unlike the police officers.

Occupy Wall Street: Video Allegedly Shows NYPD Officer Striking Protesters With Baton (Photos)

Just before 8 p.m. Wednesday, reportedly at the corner of Broadway and Wall Street, a New York Police Department officer appeared to turn on a throng of activists with the Occupy Wall Street movement, hitting them with a baton. A video posted hours later to YouTube shows the officer wielding the baton with two hands — like a baseball bat — as he swings at and strikes the demonstrators. At one point, a woman can be heard shrieking in the background.

The white-shirt cop, most likely a supervisor, had stood next to at least a half-dozen other officers, including other department brass. The video shows the officer appearing to nudge a spectator out of the way, back up and raise his baton. He then gets off three swings before the crowd appears to surge toward him — digital cameras and video recorders held high.

This may be the first of many videos documenting clashes between the police and Occupy Wall Street. At the end of the video a few in the crowd chant: “The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!” (UPDATE: New video emerges. May be the most complete document of last night’s incident. See second video below.)

It is unclear from the video what provoked the officer’s actions, but HuffPost’s Matt Sledge, who was at the scene, reports the baton swinging took place after a handful of people had been arrested for attempting to cross a police barricade.

When reached for comment, a New York Police Department spokesman who refused to be identified said he had heard about the video but had not seen it and therefore could not comment.

Throughout the night, activists had reported via Twitter that the police had resorted to using pepper spray and had made some arrests. A spokesperson for Occupy Wall Street later reported some 20 arrests in total.

Fox 5, the local affiliate in New York, reported that police officers had struck the station’s journalists with batons and doused them with pepper spray:

Officers swatted protesters with batons and sprayed them with mace, according to video from the scene. Fox 5 photographer Roy Isen was hit in the eyes by mace, and Fox 5 reporter Dick Brennan was hit by what he believes was an officer’s baton. Both were all right and continued to cover the protests and arrests.

In another video posted to YouTube, an officer says: “My little nightstick’s gonna get a workout tonight.”

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Readers: These are no fly-by-night protests – these are happening all over the country…it is main street going as main stream as one can get. Here’s Maddow with her report of “Occupy Wall Street”:

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

What are your thoughts…your experiences? I will extend the invitation that I gave to ZL: Send me your photos. I would be happy to post them.

It’s Friday….start flapping your lips. Blog me.

As always….Peace out. 

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Good morning!

I guess I’m into numbers lately.  Here’s a graph showing stats that I feel needs to be highlighted.

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Readers: Why the democrats don’t get out this information is so stupid. This is a powerful graph that is so illuminating. Robert once said that Reagan spent more money than all of the other presidents combined.

Helloo…the ones that claim they are “fiscally conservative”, are the ones who are getting us in debt. So…who’s the cap and spend party?

Before I sign off, I just want to give a nod to Steve Jobs. No doubt he was a genius. Jobs has made a profound difference in the lives of many.

On the one hand, he gave us incredible technology that allows us to communicate in so many ways…technology that allows us to play, makes our work easier, and gives us a platform to interact with the world around us. I love my Mac and with my recent upset of being Mac-less for a few weeks, I can honestly say that I am pretty lost without it. For all of those reasons and more,  I am grateful that Jobs continued to pursue and master his passion.

But on the other hand, in my opinion, greed got the best of him. He had so much influence…so much reach globally. I wish that he could’ve been more socially responsible early on in his game. He could’ve had a profound affect on the way women are treated in this world had he been more sensitive to the atrocities that women endure daily, especially with respect to Congo, where he and other tech companies sourced minerals for their machines.

It wasn’t until this past February…250 million iphones later, over 10 years of illicit trade of minerals, 5.4 million dead, and over 200,000 women and girls raped and sexually assaulted since 2006 in Congo, that Jobs began to even take a positive step and map conflict minerals in the massive production of his products. It was a first step, but one that I believe was inspired by public pressure and not necessarily from human care and kindness.

Unfortunately for most of Jobs career, Jobs cared more about creating the latest new tech machine…the latest iPhone and iPad etc. Instead of caring about those that were dying daily, in my opinion, Jobs funded the atrocities in support of these precious minerals, caring more about money than precious human life.

One can say Jobs was a great inventor. One can say that he was a great innovator. One can say he was many great things, but I would never call him a great man.

Thoughts? Blog me.

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Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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Good morning!

Fox News Producer, Occupy Wall Street Protester Have Testy Exchange In Unaired Interview (VIDEO)

A Fox News producer and a protester with theOccupy Wall Street Movement had a testy exchange in an interview that didn’t make it onto the air.

A member of the movement’s media team sent the New York Observer footage of Jesse LaGreca, the protester, politely but pointedly criticizing Fox News, as well as Griff Jenkins, the producer asking him questions. (Fox News has sent several producers and correspondents to the New York encampment; much of the coverage has leaned toward negativity or mockery.)

The video shows Jenkins asking LaGreca if the movement took any cues from the protests in Greece and Europe. “I’d say that we didn’t take our cue leading off of anybody really,” LaGreca says. “It became a more spontaneous movement.” He then turns his sights on Jenkins, and on Fox News itself.

“It’s fun to talk to the propaganda machine and the media, especially conservative media networks such as yourself, because we find that we can’t get conversations for the Department of Justice’s ongoing investigation of News Corporation, for which you are an employee,” he says.

“We’re here giving you an opportunity on the record … to put any message you want out there, to give you fair coverage,” Jenkins responds. “…You wouldn’t be able to get your message out there without us.”

“Take for instance when Glenn Beck was doing his protest and he called the President a person who hates white people and white culture,”LaGreca says. “That was a low moment in Americans’ history and you guys kinda had a big part in it. So, I’m glad to see you coming around and kind of paying attention to what the other 99 percent of Americans are paying attention to.”

WATCH:

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