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Expiration of Patriot
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Quantum Liberty, Let your elected representative know you want the Patriot Act to Expire, for you Canucks...well, Think Good Thoughts! hah!
A Threat to Constitutional Rights
The USA Patriot Act, major parts of which will expire at the end of the year unless reauthorized by Congress, has run into unexpected trouble, with both Democrats and some Republicans balking on conceding more police powers desired by the Bush White House. The Act was originally passed by a large majority of the House, and only one ”no” vote in the Senate (Feingold, D-Wis.), on Oct. 26, 2001, with no public input and very little congressional debate, in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. We agree with civil libertarians who oppose this law as a thr ... read more Corporate Crime 19 y
In a nutshell, how is it discovered-mostly by accident
Who commits it- 79% male 47% management between the ages of 31-40- now you don't have to read any further!
Corporate Crime Increases
A new survey also finds that the most common way company officials detect fraud is ”by accident.”
Stephen Taub, CFO.com
December 01, 2005
So much for Sarbanes-Oxley and all of the other corporate-governance changes instituted by regulators and the stock exchanges. Nearly half of all organizations worldwide, including U.S. companies, admit they have been the victim of corporate crime in the past two years, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’s Global Economic Crime Survey 2005.
The number of companies reporting fraud increased from 37 percent to 45 per ... read more Sen Boxer on Bush 19 y
Here's her site and news-zine. It is fine to wail about what is- we all know the score-the details, to me are irrevelant, the truth is larger...If you want change you must join together to make change- It is in your power- in fact it is your God given right- Not because you are an American but because you are God...Period-There is no higher authority
Today, President Bush delivered what was billed as a major address on Iraq. Instead, unfortunately, it was just more of the same ”stay the course” rhetoric, moving us no closer to a resolution of the conflict.
We’ve all been waiting for many months for President Bush to come clean with the American people about the war in Iraq. But clearly, the President still fails to see and confront the truth:
President Bush refuses to acknowledge that the Iraq war has nothing to do with the 9/11 attack on our country by al Qaeda, and it has diverted us from our appropriate response to that atta ... read more Patriot Act/A-Letter 19 y
USA Patriot Act, civil rights, Bill of Rights, personal freedoms- remember 9 guys with box cutters-! It expires- it was filibustered and the extension will be addressed after Thanksgiving Vacation
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
BOB BAUMAN
The Sovereign Society Offshore A-Letter
Dear A-Letter Reader:
Several times each week, you generously allow me to present my thoughts for your consideration in The A-Letter. I write about important topics, but none of them potentially is more important -- to you -- than what I am about to share with you now.
It concerns the USA PATRIOT Act, a U.S. law about which I often comment in The A-Letter, but one that is not widely understood. You need to understand it because this Act could have a major impact on you -- and on your wealth.
THR ... read more Bush Visit to China 19 y
Doesn't that just capture Bush- and the Chinese with 6000 years of political intrigue and double speak- Oh dear a psychic war of the unarmed.
I especially like the touch, that Bush "would want every American treated fairly in China" hahahha-yes, our version of fair and theirs are 2 different stories...Or perhaps they may be closer upon further examination! Also, Taiwan is all but gone- we will use them as our final bargaining chip- and we will give them to the Chinese-for a price...
After meeting with reporters in Beijing, Mr. Bush tried to exit through a locked door. Realizing the mistake, he made a mock grimace, and an aide pointed the way. He joked: ”I was trying to escape. It didn’t work.”
Chinese Leader Gives Bush a Mixed Message
By DAVID E. SANGER and JOSEPH KAHN
Published: November 21, 2005
BEIJING, Nov. 20 - In a day of polite but tense encounters, President Hu Jintao of China told President Bush on Sunday that he was willing to move more quickly to ease economic differences with the United States, but he gave no ground on increasing political free ... read more Sue Sempra 19 y
Our bills were so outrageously high that I am very surprised FERC didn't step in with Duke's energy's plant in San Diego- we were paying up to 1000 dollars per hr kilowatt...and nothing was done- not because what's his name didn't try, but because Bush wasn't elected in CA and he preferred Swartznaegger to old what's his name- see I'm guilty of it tooo! So we're gonna sue the buggers! Great- I hope they have to rebate our bills for 2 years!
California Sues Sempra Energy
State’s A.G. cites ”Enron-like” games as basis for complaint.
Stephen Taub, CFO.com
November 18, 2005
California Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed a lawsuit against Sempra Energy Trading alleging that the company committed a large-scale fraud during the so-called energy crisis of 2000 and 2001 by manipulating wholesale electricity prices ”through widespread playing of Enron games.”
”Sempra ranks as one of the worst of the bad actors who ripped off businesses and consumers during the Energy Crisis,” said Lockyer, in a vitriolic press release anno ... read more Patriot Act Expires 19 y
Let them expire- read the Bill of Rights, we are our own enemy- Dey is Us!
Extension of Patriot Act Faces Threat of Filibuster
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: November 18, 2005
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 - A tentative deal to extend the government’s antiterrorism powers under the law known as the USA Patriot Act appeared in some jeopardy Thursday, as Senate Democrats threatened to mount a filibuster in an effort to block the legislation.
”This is worth the fight,” Senator Russell D. Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat who serves on the Judiciary Committee, said in an interview.
”I’ve cleared my schedule right up to Thanksgiving,” Mr. Feingold said, adding that he was ... read more Heart, Heart 19 y
Heart
We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.I don’t think there’s a punch-line scheduled, is there?
Heart of a Leader- Women will change the Earth if you let us!Let us keep our hearts and elect us to office we’ll rock your world!
visit the page Do Unto Others? 19 y
Terrorists -9 men armed with box cutters-and it has turned our hearts into terrorists...I've noticed that ever since the USSR collapsed (?) and 9/11 took place the US has behaved much like the Soviet Union of old, yep! and since we probably already did- "under the covers" now we have kicked off the blankets and stand naked beside Bush, and Condie Rice...I want my clothes back! The emporer has fanny hanging out syndrome-
Doing Unto Others as They Did Unto Us
By M. GREGG BLOCHE and JONATHAN H. MARKS
Published: November 14, 2005
Washington — How did American interrogation tactics after 9/11 come to include abuse rising to the level of torture? Much has been said about the illegality of these tactics, but the strategic error that led to their adoption has been overlooked.
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Josh Cochran
The Pentagon effectively signed off on a strategy that mimics Red Army methods. But those tactics were not only inhumane, they were ineffective. For Communist interrogators, truth was beside the ... read more China- Our Hope! 19 y
It taken longer than planned- the guys in college that learned Chinese as their "language" requirement are 45 years old now- but if Bob Says So...I'd give it a go!
COMMENT: China - Wide Open for Business.
Dear A-Letter Reader:
President George Bush will be here in Beijing next week, staying
at the same hotel I’m at now, the St. Regis. Our Sovereign Society
group beat him by a week, but we’re both here for similar reasons;
this is where the world economic action is these days.
I’ve done some editorial grumbling in the past few days about the
lack of freedom in the ”Middle Kingdom,” as past ruling dynasties
chose to call the land that they saw as the center of the entire earth.
But the question for America, the only real world power, as ... read more Record Oil Profits 19 y
Congress was shocked to see record Oil Profits??? Really, do they buy gas?
The Windfall Profit Tax
Published: November 9, 2005
Some members of Congress appeared to be shocked to learn that oil companies would have record-setting profits this year, some $100 billion, collectively, for Exxon Mobil, BP Amoco, Royal Dutch Shell and ChevronTexaco. Soon they began thinking aloud about a windfall profit tax, with Senator Judd Gregg, Republican of New Hampshire, saying that the oil companies had ”taken advantage of the trust of the American people.”
A windfall tax is a good idea. But justifying it by demonizing the oil companies only perpetuates Americans’ false ... read more Oneness of Corruption 19 y
I think I have a strong urge to time travel tonight-maybe to a Thailand that came before- I will pick up pieces of myself and add them to my basket of eggs. Is this "corruption" such a forgetfullness of the nature of the human into the survival of the fittest. Yes, it looks like it works but not for long-in the scheme of things-When our fellow man starves and lacks- it is the shadow side of our abundance and Oneness...
COMMENT: Corruption Abounds.
BANGKOK, THAILAND:
Dear A-Letter Reader:
That astute British observer of 19th century America, Lord Acton,
gave us the pithy comment: ”Power corrupts and absolute power
corrupts absolutely.”
American history is replete with examples of corruption at all levels of
government, from the Credit Mobilere scandals of Grant and the Teapot
Dome of Harding to the Mayor Dailys of Chicago.
But as I travel in southeast Asia, I’ve found that corruption certainly is
alive and well here. China is on my schedule for next week, and from all
reports and readin ... read more Scientific Integrity 19 y
Advisory Committees, voting may disqualify an advisory candidate, Box and Feinstein unite so it must not be the right who are disqualified!
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In conjunction with the scientists’ statement on scientific integrity, the Union of Concerned Scientists released two reports detailing multiple examples of the Bush administration ... read more Boxer on Iraq War/Bush 19 y
Barbara Boxer has had some very insightful, moving electronic petitions, sign, Bush, taking on the right wing Bushites, 9thbody, Leadership, curezone
Day after day, brave American soldiers are dying in Iraq, where our policy of staying there without an exit strategy is in itself fueling an insurgency that grows more deadly by the day.
Day after day, the Bush Administration tries to erase the image of ”two Americas” that the whole world saw during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. But no amount of ”new Presidential focus” can erase the truth -- that poverty has grown during this Administration.
Day after day, we see this President backtrack on his pledge to fire anyone in his Administration that had anything to do with revealing ... read more Writers Wanted 19 y
Many aspriring writers are ready to blog on California Chronicle
Rosa Parks, 92, passes 19 y
Rosa Parks wouldn't move to the back of the bus, through class, and heart she started a movement that was destined to be born
Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks, 92, Dies
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By Bree Fowler
October 25, 2005
Nearly 50 years ago, Rosa Parks made a simple decision that sparked a revolution. When a white man demanded she give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus, the then 42-year-old seamstress said no.
At the time, she couldn’t have known it would secure her a revered place in American history. But her one small act of defiance galvanized a generation of activists, including a young Rev. Martin Luther King ... read more Greenspan/Bernanke? 19 y
New Greenspan? Maybe, probably- Wonder what the international community will think of him- Hopefully they give him a chance.
Bush Nominates Bernanke as Fed Chairman
During his three years as a Federal Reserve governor, market observers would often look at Bernanke’s speeches for insight into Greenspan’s thinking.
Stephen Taub and Dave Cook, CFO.com
October 25, 2005
President Bush has nominated Ben Bernanke, 51, chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers, to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
If confirmed by the Senate, Bernanke would succeed Alan Greenspan, 79, who has served as Fed chairman since August 1987 — through the longest economic expansion in history, as well ... read more |