Antiwar America Unite!

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Antiwar America Unite!

impeach_pollIf 80% of America wants to End the War & Impeach Bush, why can't we accomplish our goals?

We have been unsuccessful thus far because we are not united. And why is that? Because many of the anti-war 'leaders' are actually government plants operating in the cointelpro tradition of infiltrate, disrupt and discredit.


Does that sound outlandish to you? Do you still think we're a free country and our government would never use fascist tactics like that? Well it's true.

* Police spies chosen to lead war protest
* Police Infiltrate Protest Groups, Incite Violence
* Pentagon spying on Peace Groups & Quakers

These are not isolated incidents, but a nationwide pattern.

In my little hometown, the anti-war leaders love to march on the beach, or stand in silence with their little signs, but if one suggests we take the truth to the local public radio station, ask for a community dialogue about the war and reasons for impeachment- they are 100% opposed to the idea. Not only were they against it, they did everything in their power to prevent a community discussion- just sign these petitions and go home.

It turns out many antiwar websites are also run by the same type of cointelpro goons. Their goal is not to end the war, but to distract and stall the antiwar movement. These 'fake antiwar' websites refuse to post articles with concrete actions citizens can take to reclaim the country, but they will post just about anything and everything else to keep you busy reading, because that's harmless.

This is why the war continues, because we are divided by cointelpro agents locally and cointelpro websites nationally.

To end the war, antiwar Americans need to wake up to these cointelpro tactics and UNITE. It's not about democrat vs republican- that is just more of the same divide and conquer strategy. Most of America wants the war to end, but do they realize that voting 20 more democrats into Congress this fall will accomplish nothing. Look at Pelosi and Reid- they are not alone as Bush enablers, they were voted to 'lead' by the majority of Dems, ie if we had real Dems in DC, they would have booted Pelosi and Reid a long time ago.

To get real change we need to flush the House, we need to get rid of all the career politicians and put fresh faces in DC. We need to organize true Peace Candidates in every state.

This is a real plan, something actionable that every American can participate in- the goal being to recruit and organize regular Americans to run for Congress.

Sure we can't beat the big money candidates one on one, but if we all unite under a common platform of End the War and Restore the Constitution- then yes we could win.

The goal is to End the War and Take Back America from the corporations- who is truly on our side?

ps- for all you Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich backers- consider this plan B. Recall 2004, the antiwar movement was behind Howard Dean, when he collapsed so did the movement. We need a people's movement that cannot be crushed by the failure of our candidate(s).

I found this at http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_peacecan_071231_antiwar_america_unit.htm

Rudy Giuliani ran out of town by Ron Paul supporters

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State Fair stands by premise ID policy, NAIS

LAKEWOOD - The Colorado State Fair Board of Commissioners has voted to keep a policy requiring exhibitors to register locations where their animals were raised.

Commissioners voted 8-1 Friday at its monthly meeting to stand by the policy set last year. The policy mirrors part of the controversial National Animal Identification System, a voluntary federal program.

Supporters say the "premise ID" portion of the NAIS allows animals to be tracked relatively quickly in case of an animal disease outbreak.

Opponents say registration is an invasion of privacy. They have objected to requiring participation in the voluntary federal premise ID program.

Two exhibitors were disqualified from the state fair this year because their premises weren't properly registered.

Fair commissioners plan to look at expanding premise ID requirements to all large animals that will be on the fairgrounds during the 11-day state fair.

"Any type of leadership comes with criticism," said John Stulp, state commissioner of agriculture. "I think we did right by the state and the Colorado State Fair in a step to ensure the safety of our livestock industry."

Jeanne Robinson, livestock coordinator for the fair, said packing plants in the state are looking at making premise ID required before slaughter.

Osama call will not affect war on terror’

Here is another story people need to hear.


* Afghan official says ‘security in the country international responsibility’

KABUL: Afghanistan Friday dismissed a call attributed to Osama bin Laden for Europe to break ranks with the United States and leave this nation, saying it would not harm international unity in the “war on terror.”

The call was made in an audiotape attributed to the world’s most wanted man and aired on Al-Jazeera television on Thursday. “Security in Afghanistan means security in Europe and is an international responsibility,” Afghan foreign ministry spokesman Sultan Ahmad Baheen told AFP.

International responsibility: “We think this is an international responsibility for Afghanistan and their own countries.

Nothing will deter the international unity on the war on terror,” he said. A voice purported to be that of the Al Qaeda chief said in a “message to the European peoples” that the United States “insisted on invading” Afghanistan even though it knew that Afghans were not behind the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. “I affirm that the Afghans - government and people - had no knowledge whatsoever of these events and America knows that,” he said.

A US-led coalition invaded Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks because the then Taliban government did not hand over Al Qaeda leaders for the atrocities purportedly committed by them. It has been joined by a NATO-led force that now numbers about 41,000 soldiers from 38 nations.

Despite a massive manhunt and a 25-million-dollar bounty on his head, bin Laden has evaded capture and has regularly taunted the United States and its allies through warnings issued on video and audio cassettes. afp

A Plan to Cut Antiterror Spending Is Criticized by State’s Leaders

A White House plan to slash antiterror grant programs by more than half would threaten the safety of American cities, New York politicians charged yesterday.
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Senator Charles E. Schumer blasted the Bush administration’s plan to eliminate some port and rail security programs and cut security grants for states and cities to $1.4 billion in 2009 from $3.4 billion in the 2007 fiscal year.

“To say, no port security, no transit security, when we know that our ports and transit lines are targets for terrorists makes no sense if you want to protect America,” Mr. Schumer said.

Other officials said the cuts would penalize a city attacked by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001, and in 1993.

“It’s stunning that the federal government would consider cutting New York City’s homeland security funds from the already inadequate level that currently exists,” said John Gallagher, a spokesman for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.

The federal government has given $23 billion in antiterror grants to states and municipalities since the Sept. 11 attacks, but some have criticized the programs as pork-barrel spending.

According to budget documents obtained by The Associated Press, the Bush administration is not convinced that the money has been well spent and thinks the nation’s highest-risk cities have largely satisfied their emergency need to improve security.

Officials with the White House Office of Management and Budget said the president’s budget proposals had yet to be completed. Russ Knocke, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, said Friday that the White House would strongly support any needed antiterror programs.

Still, Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s spokeswoman, Christine Anderson, likened the White House proposal to a “‘bean counter’ approach to protecting our homeland when sound policy is what’s required.”

Mr. Schumer estimated that if the cuts were accepted by Congress, New York City’s share of the aid might drop to $70 million or $80 million from $134 million.

Kucinich's acknowledgment of seeing a UFO

Although it's unlikely that voters will ever have anything resembling a close encounter with Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio), the two-time presidential hopeless has helped revive an issue that means more to many Americans than any election: suppression of UFO evidence by the men in black.

You may recall that during a recent MSNBC Democratic presidential candidates' debate, moderator Tim Russert drew out Kucinich on the revelation (by Oscar-winning paranormal investigator Shirley MacLaine) that he had once spotted a "triangular craft, silent and hovering." Kucinich's reply, which was intriguing in its own right, came at a conjunction of -- well, maybe not of UFO activity, but certainly of UFO aficionado activity.

This fall saw the first anniversary of the multiple-witness saucer incident over the United Airlines terminal at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, which is already shaping up as this decade's great sighting. In late October, a federal judge ordered NASA to search its records for information on one of two fabled UFO sightings from 1965.

And last month, the New York-based Coalition for Freedom of Information held a conference at which more than a score of pilots from around the world gathered to share their experiences with unidentified flying objects. Moderator Fife Symington (the controversial former governor of Arizona) summed up the conference by calling for the government to stop perpetuating "the myth that ALL UFOs can be explained away in down-to-earth, conventional terms" and reopen its official Blue Book investigation, which has been closed since 1969.

Are we on the verge of an alien breakthrough? Is this new critical mass of respectable UFO hawks about to rout the army of dissembling federal agents, driving around in their 1964 Chevy Malibu with their shades and fixed smiles?

Probably not. There have been high-profile flying saucer enthusiasts in the past, including astronauts Buzz Aldrin, who spotted a mysterious something during Apollo 11's return trip, and the late Gordon Cooper, who once informed the United Nations, "I believe that . . . extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which are a little more technically advanced than we are on Earth."

Kucinich mentioned in his own defense that President Carter was a UFO witness, and he might have mentioned that Ronald Reagan was as well. Then again, if you think presidents really run the country, well, that's what "they" want you to think.

If anything keeps the cult of the UFO alive, it's not the respectability of the witnesses but the clumsy, protesting-too-much denials of government agencies. The Federal Aviation Administration got caught in a fib about last year's O'Hare incident after the Chicago Tribune filed a Freedom of Information Act request. And it's somewhat perverse to call for reopening a federal UFO investigation given how universally hated the knee-jerk-skeptical Project Blue Book turned out to be.

John Podesta, the Clinton White House chief of staff who has never disguised his interest in flying saucers, makes the case that the government should declassify its UFO-related materials "and let people have at it," a demand that is as reasonable as it is unlikely to happen, given how easily this topic can be rerouted into japery.

In his debate reply, Kucinich made a point dear to respectable UFO investigators: "It was an unidentified flying object, OK?" he said. "It's like ... it was unidentified. I saw something." There's a difference between saying objects in the sky are sometimes not familiar and claiming to have been probed by taciturn "grays," and people such as Coalition for Freedom of Information co-founder Leslie Kean express understandable frustration that UFO ridicule purposely blurs that distinction.

But with Kucinich as a central advocate, ridicule may be unavoidable. In the debate, Kucinich made a self-deprecating joke about moving his campaign headquarters to "Roswell, New Mexico, and another one in Exeter, New Hampshire." Roswell everybody knows about, but with the easy reference to the 1965 Exeter incident, Kucinich leaves the impression that he's not just a UFO witness, he's a buff.

Let him go on, and we suspect Kucinich will soon be expanding on the Kecksburg sightings, the Val Johnson incident, Lonnie Zamora, the "Kaikoura lights" and countless other visitations from the sky that continue to sustain our nation's sense of mystery.

Hillary presses for more fund for AIDS

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 29 - Democratic presidential front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton on Thursday pressed for 50 billion U.S. dollars for treatment, prevention and care of AIDS by 2013.

Calling AIDS a "plague of biblical proportions," Hillary said if elected, she will double the HIV/AIDS research budget within the National Institutes of Health to 5.2 billion dollars annually, increase funding for the global HIV/AIDS fight to at least 50 billion dollars by 2013, raise funding for the Minority AIDS Initiative, and develop and implement a comprehensive national AIDS strategy.

She spoke at the third annual Global Summit on AIDS and the Church in Orange County near Los Angeles.

Hosted by pastor Rick Warren, author of the best-selling devotional book, "The Purpose Driven Life," and his wife, the summit was established to mobilize church resources to fight the disease.

"Around the world, AIDS remains a plague of biblical proportions," she said, "In too many places, ignorance about AIDS prevails and the stigma remains strong."

However, "we have come a long way," she added.

"Not only can we talk about AIDS in church, but churches are leading the way," she said.

Hillary's leading rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, have made similar proposals.

In a video appearance, Obama said, "This is no occasion to rest. Now's the time to step up our efforts so we can stay on the offense to eliminate this disease."

Also appearing via satellite video were three Republican candidates -- former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Arizona Sen. John McCain.

Polls in Iowa

By Thomas Beaumont and Jonathan Roos, The Des Moines Register
Republican Mike Huckabee and Democratic Sen. Barack Obama have taken the lead among Iowans likely to take part in their respective party caucuses, according to The Des Moines Register's latest poll.

Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, wins the support of 29% of Iowans who say they definitely or probably will attend the Republican Party's caucuses on Jan. 3. That's a gain of 17 percentage points since the last Iowa Poll was taken in early October, when Huckabee trailed Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson.

Obama, an Illinois senator, leads for the first time in the Register's poll as the choice of 28% of likely Democratic Party caucus goers, up from 22% in October. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., was the preferred candidate of 25%, down from 29% in the previous poll.

Romney, who has invested more time and money campaigning in the state than any other GOP candidate, remains in the thick of the Iowa race with the backing of 24% of likely caucusgoers. But that's a drop of 5 percentage points since October for the former Massachusetts governor.

Despite the movement, the race for 2008's opening nominating contest remains very competitive about a month before the Jan. 3 caucuses. Roughly six in 10 likely Republican caucus participants and slightly more than half of Democrats say they could still be persuaded to support another candidate.


John Edwards, the former senator from North Carolina who led in the Register's May poll, held steady with 23%, in third place among Democrats. Rudy Giuliani, ex-mayor of New York and the front-runner in GOP national polls, was third among Iowa Republicans with 13%, despite waging a limited campaign in the state.

The new Iowa Poll, conducted over four days last week, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.

Republicans

Poll findings indicate Huckabee is making the most of a low-budget campaign by tapping into the support of Iowa's social conservatives.

The Register's new scientific poll shows Huckabee, a former Baptist minister, leading Romney 38% to 22% among those who consider themselves born-again Christians. In October, Romney edged Huckabee 23% to 18% among people in that group, which accounts for one-half of all likely caucus participants.

Similarly, Huckabee holds a 2-to-1 lead over Romney among those who say it is more important for a presidential candidate to be socially conservative than fiscally conservative.

Poll participant Thelma Whittaker, a retired teacher from Columbus Junction, is leaning toward supporting Huckabee in the caucuses but also could back Romney.

"I'm a very conservative Republican and I feel that (Huckabee) follows through with those ideas," said Whittaker, who said she is troubled by the country's moral decline. On the other hand, she wonders if Huckabee is a strong enough candidate to win the White House for the GOP.

When it comes to Romney, "I go along with a lot of his ideas," Whittaker said, "but he's also done some flip-flopping that scares me on issues like abortion and taxes."

Huckabee has come a long way since last May, when he languished in a tie for sixth place in the Register's poll, garnering the support of just 4% of likely caucus participants then. His campaign picked up steam after he notched a surprising second-place finish in the Iowa Republican Party's straw poll in August.

Huckabee leads Romney among men, 28% to 20%. They run neck-and-neck among women. The ex-governor of Arkansas draws more support among caucusgoers between the ages of 35 and 54, while Romney does better among younger adults. They compete almost evenly among those 55 or older.

Older Iowans generally turn out in larger numbers for the caucuses than do younger adults.

Giuliani is seen as the most electable of the candidates and also has a slight edge as the most effective negotiator and the best able to bring Republicans and Democrats together.

On the other hand, the New Yorker is seen by more likely caucus participants as the most ego-driven of the candidates and more of a polarizing figure than the other top-tier candidates in Iowa.

"He's too New York," Whittaker, the retired teacher, said of Giuliani. "He doesn't understand us. He doesn't care to understand us."

But poll participant Mark Pottorff, an agronomist from Sergeant Bluff, sides with those who have a high regard for Giuliani, citing his experience as a federal prosecutor and big-city mayor.

"He is tough on crime, and during September 2001 he led New York City through some very tough and dark days," said Pottorff, 51. "I think he has the ability and the fortitude to stand up to dictators and terrorists."

Thompson, a former senator from Tennessee who waited until September to formally enter the race for the Republican nomination, has slipped to fourth place in the Iowa Poll, at 9%.

Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas are tied for fifth place at 7% each. Four candidates trail them.

Paul, an opponent of the war in Iraq, has the dubious distinction of being the GOP candidate who outpolls his rivals as the most negative contender. But Paul, who has a loyal following and a well-funded campaign, has been creeping up in the Register's polls this year of likely caucus participants.

Democrats

The lead change among Democratic caucus participants comes after weeks of Obama and Edwards criticizing Clinton's position on U.S. policy toward Iran. Meanwhile, Clinton has accused Obama of being inexperienced, and recently criticized his proposal to expand health insurance coverage.

The poll shows what has continued to be a wide gap between the top three candidates and the remainder of the field.

Iowa City Democrat Katharyn Browne said she abandoned her support for Clinton in the past month and now supports Obama in light of the Iran issue.

Obama spent weeks in October and November attacking Clinton's support for a measure that allowed President Bush to declare Iran's Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. Obama said the move was a step toward war. Clinton said the measure enhanced U.S. negotiating strength with Iran.

"An Iran war terrifies me," said Browne, a 30-year-old University of Iowa student.

In the new poll, Obama leads with support from 31% of women likely attend the caucuses, compared with 26% for Clinton. In October, Clinton was the preferred candidate of 34% of women caucusgoers, compared with 21% for Obama.

Women represent roughly six in 10 Democratic caucusgoers, according to the new poll.

Obama also dominates among younger caucusgoers, with support from 48% of those younger than 35. Clinton was the choice of 19% in that group and Edwards of 17%.

Obama has an advantage among first-time caucusgoers. He also leads among people who say they definitely will attend the caucuses.

Clinton is the top choice among caucusgoers age 55 and older. The largest share of Democratic caucusgoers — exactly half — are in this age group.

The former first lady continues to face stubborn misgivings, despite her dozens of visits to the state this year and increasing campaign presence of her husband, the popular former president Bill Clinton.

Thirty percent of Democratic caucusgoers viewed Sen. Clinton as either mostly or very unfavorably, behind Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio and former Alaska senator Mike Gravel. She topped the list of candidates whose nomination would be one of the biggest disappointments at 27%.

Edwards, who finished second in the 2004 caucuses, led narrowly among men in the new poll and was tied with Clinton for the favorite in Iowa's rural areas.

Rural Centerville Democrat Candace Scritchfield supported Edwards in 2004 and plans to again.

"He's a very down-to-earth and trustworthy person," said Scritchfield, a 44-year-old homemaker. "He has a lot of loyalty, that I can tell."

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson remained in fourth place as the choice of 9%, and Delaware Sen. Joe Biden remained in fifth with 6%, both virtually unchanged from the October poll. All others had support from 1% or less.

Presidential preferences include people leaning toward supporting a candidate. Seven percent said they were uncommitted or unsure about whom to support.

Romney and abortion

Romney and abortion
Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 8:59 PM by Domenico Montanaro
From NBC/NJ's Erin McPike
Romney has said time and again that he changed his mind on abortion, but this was the most impassioned he's been.

But he started with his pointed, "I was wrong," before explaining what he did as governor, having "come down on the side of life" when a bill came across his desk. He made it less about the administrative aspect and more about his being wrong. Even though he said he doesn't know how many more times he can say it, that was one of the most forceful answers he's given on the issue recently.

Also of note, Romney was the only candidate who clapped during Tancredo's Hillary-bashing video.

Rudy Giuliani descusses Iran, and illegal immagration

In Boca Raton, Rudy Giuliani discusses Iran, illegal immigration

By Josh Hafenbrack | South Florida Sun-Sentinel
December 1, 2007

BOCA RATON - Stumping in South Florida, Rudy Giuliani took a tough stance on Iran and vowed that, if elected president, he'd beef up border security to halt illegal immigration but also allow more people to come here legally.

The former New York City mayor, now seeking the Republican nomination for president, took a break from increasingly heated rhetoric with campaign rival Mitt Romney. Feisty exchanges between the two have dominated the campaign in recent weeks, but Giuliani didn't mention any other candidates during nearly an hour on stage before a crowded ballroom at the Boca Raton Marriott.

Taking friendly questions from an enthusiastic audience, Giuliani talked up a global economy based on free-trade practices, promised to shrink the size of the federal government and reign in what he termed frivolous lawsuits.

He got some of his biggest applause with a hard stance on Iran and its volatile leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

"We should stand up to Ahmadinejad, stand up to Iran and deliver a very clear message to him and to the world," Giuliani said. "If you're going to threaten us … if you're going to threaten the destruction of Israel, we're just not going to let you become a nuclear power.

"We will take whatever action is necessary to stop you."

Giuliani trails in early caucus and primary states Iowa and New Hampshire, where the voting is little more than a month away. But he's banking on a big win in Florida, a state with an early Jan. 29 primary date and where Giuliani has a consistent, wide advantage in the polls.

Earlier Friday, Romney's Florida campaign chairman, former state party chief Al Cardenas, told reporters during a conference call that Giuliani's strategy was to go on the offensive in Florida, citing heated exchanges between the two during campaign events and at a debate this week in St. Petersburg.

Giuliani and Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, have sparred over immigration, health care and who was more effective in driving down crime and taxes in their home states.

In Boca Raton, Giuliani never mentioned Romney. Giuliani also never touched on social issues such as abortion and gay rights, where his moderate positions have him at odds with many in the party's conservative base.

Giuliani's top theme on the campaign trail is terrorism, and he staked out support for the Patriot Act and controversial electronic surveillance efforts. He also blamed Democrats for pursuing a withdrawal strategy in Iraq that would've "pulled the rug out from under our military." America shouldn't leave Iraq until the country is "stable and will act as an ally for us in the Islamic terrorists' war against us," he added.

On immigration, Giuliani's moderate stance again is unpopular with some conservatives. Romney has been hammering him on the campaign trail for running a "sanctuary city" in New York, referring to Giuliani's statements that he'd protect people who worked in the city but had an "undocumented status."

Giuliani drew raucous applause Friday when he said the United States should deploy agents and technology to close up the borders, as well as make sure anyone who wants to live here can speak English. But the response was muted when Giuliani said it's not realistic to "throw out" the millions of illegal immigrants already living here and that he wants to expand avenues for legal immigration.

"We're a country that's always open to new people," he said.

Addressing economic issues, Giuliani said he'd cut federal government jobs through attrition and order 5 to 10 percent budget cuts at all nonmilitary departments.

He took a question on China taking jobs from American workers as an opportunity to promote the idea of global trade. "On the economics of it, what we should be thinking about mostly is, how can we sell them more stuff?" he said.

After the Boca Raton appearance, his 22nd in Florida since becoming a candidate, Giuliani attended a private fundraiser at the St. Regis Resort in Fort Lauderdale.

Staff Writer Josh Hafenbrack can be reached at jhafenbrack@sun-sentinel.com or 561-228-5508.

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As one begins to look into this matter, it quickly becomes obvious that the good of the American people cannot possibly be served by swallowing up the nation the way they plan to with this highway. And this is only one of many devastating aspects of the overall objective. The economic plans that are in the works will swallow the American economy the way the SuperCorridor will swallow up the turf. In fact, although many Americans aren't seeing what is going down for what it really is just yet, our economy is already half chewed and digested by men of global power and prestige — both within and outside of national governments — as a result of their insatiable appetite for even more money and power than they already have.
So, do you believe this to be a conspiracy or not? It's real, and people need to wake up and start thinking of how we can stop this kind of take over by our own government.