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 | | Canadians Protest At The Montebello Summit 04:24Canadians Protest At The Montebello Summit Outside the Chateau Montebello grounds, police in riot gear jostled with about 50 hardcore protesters, using pepper spray and at least one canister of tear gas more...to push them back. Some protesters responded by tossing objects at police. Four arrests were made, and several police officers suffered minor injuries. Protesters from the Canadian Labour Congress who wanted a "family friendly" demonstration stayed back from the police. Asked by reporters about the protest, Harper said: "I've heard it's nothing. A couple hundred? It's sad." The demonstration petered out by late afternoon. Ten busloads of protesters from Ottawa arrived just after noon and spilled on to the highway running through the hamlet of Montebello. More than 500 people marched along the main road toward the gate of the summit compound, chanting slogans and carrying banners, including one reading: "Say No To Americanada." Meanwhile, more protesters, some carrying anarchist flags, came from Montreal's Concordia University aboard a convoy of yellow school buses. Some held signs describing Bush as a war criminal and urging an end to environmental destruction. Protesters are prohibited from entering the compound but their demonstrations are being broadcast in the hotel lobby via two video monitors.
Secrecy complaint:
Many activists are upset with what they see as a lack of transparency surrounding the SPP process. While a group of top business executives will get a chance to make a presentation to the three leaders on Tuesday, no such invitation was extended to environmental or social activists. Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians attacked the SPP process as being "profoundly undemocratic." She said the North American Competitiveness Council, the group that will meet with the leaders, is made up of 10 corporate bosses from each country and includes giant corporations like Wal-Mart, General Electric and Lockheed Martin. Barlow told a Monday news conference that big business would like to see a competitive North American trade bloc. "And for this they need regulatory, resource, labour and environmental convergence to the lowest common standards," she said. "This is not about security for people, social security, security for the poor, environmental security or job security. This is about security for the big corporations for North America." less Tags: truepatriotaction tpa canadians protest montebello quebec summit nwo nafta spp north american union Category: News Views: 84 Comments: 1 Added: Aug 21, 07 By: TruePatriotAction  | |  |  | | My Immigration Solution 07:25My idea to settle the immigration debate Tags: news poltics america mexico canada mike nobody nafta wto business money Category: Video Comments Views: 43 Comments: 4 Added: Jul 30, 07 By: MikeNobody  | |  |  | | Lion and Lamb What are the Ramifications of the advancement of the North American Union? 09:28It’s a PREMEDITATED merger. North American Union plan headed to Congress in the fall. A powerful think tank prepares the report on benefits of integration between U.S., Mexico, and Canada. This is scary more...stuff folks!! less Tags: union nafta mexico canada lion lamb Category: News Views: 36 Comments: 0 Added: May 27, 07 By: LionandLambMinistry  | |  |  | | Why We need Buy American 03:27http://bafa.squarespace.com/why-we-need-buy-american/ Instead of simply putting "buy American" on any steel procurements, we should put it on everything. Let private business do what it wants, more...but... less Tags: buy american us economy economy in crisis wto nafta free trade fair trade Category: News Views: 2 Comments: 0 Added: Sep 11, 09 By: pemtroe1 | |  |  | | MUST SEE The Obama Deception and you thought BUSH was Bad. 10:55I don't see what's so hard to understand about this: Obama is just a front-man for the New World Order, the "brand name" of tyranny for the next 4 to 8 years. He's not the Christ OR the Anti-Christ: more...He's just an empty suit full of EMPTY Promises. I think what he means is they are going to use OBAMA TO PUSH THE NWO AGENDA MUCH FURTHER THAN BUSH DID. Hence the reason for the video title. For more information, go to: http://www.infowars.com http://www.jonesreport.com http://www.prisonplanet.com http://www.prisonplanet.tv less Tags: the obama deception alex jones brzezinski afghanistan pakistan iraq troops war peace president bilderberg nafta spp north american union wall street banker bailout federal reserve deception rclark23 infowars krs one Category: People Views: 2,566 Comments: 3 Added: Feb 10, 09 By: rclark23  | |  |  | | Montel Williams Looses Job after Defending American Troops on Fox News amp The CFR Connection 07:38FOX News: "Fair and balanced" because they say so! A brief but shocking compilation from the documentary: "OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" http://www.outfoxed.org/ As Rupert more...Murdoch's 'war on journalism' hits new lows, droves of disgruntled employees are confessing their many misdeeds, brought upon by the Soviet-Union-esque environment they faced at FOX News. Watch how FOX executives dictate their bias by forcing reporters to follow memos that predetermine what they can say and how they should say it.
Variety reported http://tinyurl.com/yppssw that The Montel Williams Show has been cancelled just 3 days after appearing on Fox and Friends. I hope it is not because he supported the troops. In any case please join this campaign to get him back on the air. Please sign the petition at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Keep-Montel-on-the-air/signatures-1.html Jan/26/08 08:41 ET Montel Williams turned the question on live television when he chooses to focus on the solders dying in Iraq rather than the passing of Heath Ledger. Montel did not return for a further segment. Mar/14/08 For details and updates visit http://www.montelw1.blogspot.com/. Search: Montel Williams Loses Job after Defending Troops on Fox News
FOX News: "Fair and balanced" because they say so!
A brief but shocking compilation from the documentary: "OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" http://www.outfoxed.org/
As Rupert Murdoch's 'war on journalism' hits new lows, droves of disgruntled employees are confessing their many misdeeds, brought upon by the Soviet-Union-esque environment they faced at FOX News. Watch how FOX executives dictate their bias by forcing reporters to follow memos, that predetermine what they can say and how they should say it.
This Video also Exposes the (North American Union and the Council on Foreign Relations) involvement.
Variety reported http://tinyurl.com/yppssw that The Montel Williams Show has been cancelled just 3 days after appearing on Fox and Friends. I hope it is not because he supported the troops. In any case please join this campaign to get him back on the air. Please sign the petition at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Keep-Montel-on-the-air/signatures-1.html Jan/26/08 08:41 ET Montel Williams turned the question on live television when he chooses to focus on the solders dying in Iraq rather than the passing of Heath Ledger. Montel did not return for a further segment. Mar/14/08 For details and updates visit http://www.montelw1.blogspot.com/. Search: Montel Williams Loses Job after Defending Troops on Fox News. SPREAD THE WORD FAR AND WIDE. WRITE AND CALL ALL OF YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND TELL THEM TO STOP THIS MADNESS
THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT INTERVIEW WITH investigator and author, Daniel Estulin, on his book, "The True Story of the Bilderberg Group", PLEASE LISTEN AND PASS IT ON, WE ARE DEFINITELY ON OUR OWN http://www.informationclearinghouse.i...
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I hope everyone who sees it will re-post it on their MySpaces, etc and spread the word to as many people as possible and we can start by convincing people to vote for Dennis Kucinich Ron Paul mike gravel Cynthia McKinney Ralph Nader (IM NOT SURE ABOUT NADER, IM STARTING TO HAVE MY DOUBTS ABOUT HIM, I THINK THAT HE MAY BE PART OF IT, ESP SINCE HE SUPPORTED EDWARDS WHICH IS A HUGE RED FLAG) as for the others though i think they are the only people who have are best interests at heart and who sincerely want to stop this.
This video exposes the North American Union and the Council on Foreign Relations involvement. {Our world is about to change}... This past August, the presidents of Mexico, Canada and the U.S., met to discuss The Security and Prosperity Partnership / SPP, of North America / Union. You may ask yourself why you've never heard of it... less Tags: montel williams heath ledger outfoxed fox cancelled bohemian grove skull bones bilderberg group cfr trilateral commission wto nafta ttc nau spp patriot act nwo aipac facebook exposed Category: News Views: 1,395 Comments: 5 Added: Jul 21, 08 By: rclark23  | |  |  | | 911 Killed Free Speach quotMust Seequot; 10:58Time to Wake Up People Security? Prosperity? Security from indictment for Bush. Prosperity for GHWB and the folks he fronts for. Starting with Carlyle Group The Carlyle Group is a global private equity investment more...firm, based in Washington, D.C., with more than $81.1 billion of equity capital under management.[1] The firm operates four fund families, focusing on leveraged buyouts, venture & growth capital, real estate and leveraged finance investments. The firm employs more than 575 investment professionals in 21 countries with several offices in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia; its portfolio companies employ more than 286,000 people worldwide. Carlyle has over 1200 investors in 68 countries.
The firm has employed political figures and notable investors. Some of these figures, such as former US President George H. W. Bush and former US Secretary of State James A. Baker III, have generated controversy stemming from allegations of conflicts of interest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_Group less Tags: 911 wtc tvf federal government non profit public service announcements local grassroots rclark23 outreach state mike gravel cnn time warner alex jones jordan maxwell bush spp nau nafta blackwater carlyle group Category: News Views: 198 Comments: 4 Added: Jul 10, 08 By: rclark23  | |  |  | | Come Home 04:55Did you realize we're still in war? Tags: yeahitsme 911 big corporations government cover ups risky times bush chaney wtc wtc 7 pentagon nwo north american union texas trans corridor nafta mccain clinton big spending Category: News Views: 62 Comments: 4 Added: May 14, 08 By: yeahitsme  | |  |  | | Banned In The US The New World Order Wants You To Stay Asleep 20 2 of 2 05:26This video was banned in the U.S. on YouTube by NBC Universal brought here for your viewing pleasure. This is the updated and remastered version. We need to wake as many people up as we can. Use this more... more...as a tool. You may have to go to full screen to read the Hitler quotes.
Here are the links to the Hitler quotes. The first one has been removed but if you want a pic of it send me your email. Second link is halfway down the page under Influence of Amenien Genocide on Hitler.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_(conspiracy)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
less Tags: ron paul hillary clinton 911 new world order 2012 nostradamus 911 wtc truth alex jones bush hitler nwo nau nafta banned us in the censored Category: News Views: 401 Comments: 1 Added: May 4, 08 By: wh3r3ami | |  |  | | Banned In The US The New World Order Wants You To Stay Asleep 20 1 of 2 05:22part 2 http://www.livevideo.com/video/090DC4001AEE41FB94EC48F62FF9D108/banned-in-the-u-s-the-new-wor.aspx This video was banned in the U.S. on YouTube by NBC Universal brought here for your viewing pleasure. more...This is the updated and remastered version. We need to wake as many people up as we can. Use this as a tool. You may have to go to full screen to read the Hitler quotes.
Here are the links to the Hitler quotes. The first one has been removed but if you want a pic of it send me your email. Second link is halfway down the page under Influence of Amenien Genocide on Hitler.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_(conspiracy)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide less Tags: ron paul hillary clinton 911 new world order 2012 nostradamus 911 wtc truth alex jones bush hitler nwo nau nafta banned us in the censored Category: News Views: 641 Comments: 1 Added: May 4, 08 By: wh3r3ami | |  |  | | NAU NAFTA SuperHighway 05:07China and other countries owning America? Google NAU and NAFTA Super-Highway and find out http://www.eagleforum.org/topics/NAU http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=14965 Tags: iran iraq democrat republican war hate crimes murder torture usa israel saudi arabia neocons 911 twin towers new york bush cheney clinton obama shiite sunni israelis pakistan afghanistan lebanon draft endless wars constitution habeas corpus Category: News Views: 82 Comments: 0 Added: Apr 8, 08 By: Givemeliberty1776 | |  |  | | NAFTA ROUTE 666 12:29SATIRE AND HUMOR ALL 1 MANS OPINION ,SHARE BROTHER http://www.kxl.com/feedback.aspx WWW.LIVEVIDEO.COM/PAINSCOURT www.wwe.com 1 800 990 0750 or savage 1 800 490 8255 FREE SPEACH FUND Daniel Horowitz more...Attorney, PO Box 1547, Lafayette, California less Tags: nafat route66 bilderberg i 35 teamsters hoffa gamers coast to coast am radio nwo mexico illegal fair trade painscourt youtube painscourt dancing with the stars Category: News Views: 121 Comments: 1 Added: Mar 17, 08 By: PAINSCOURT | |  |  | | NAU North American Union is it real? 09:59This video is about the N.A.U. North American Union. It has a couple of different views and opinions about it being a reality and about it being a "conspiracy". Tags: nau north american union nwo new world order alex jones conspiracy nafta super highway canada mexico usa united states Category: News Views: 84 Comments: 0 Added: Feb 15, 08 By: Politicophobia1776  | |  |  | | ENDGAME North American Union Part 3 3 08:48ENDGAME: Blueprint For Global Enslavement For the New World Order, a world government is just the beginning. Once in place they can engage their plan to exterminate 80% of the world's population, while more...enabling the "elites" to live forever with the aid of advanced technology. For the first time, crusading filmmaker ALEX JONES reveals their secret plan for humanity's extermination: Operation ENDGAME. less Tags: alex jones america canada mexico nafta superhighway trans texas corridor united nations eu id toll road northcom Category: News Views: 92 Comments: 0 Added: Feb 11, 08 By: TravisTylerNewWorldOrder  | |  |  | | ENDGAME North American Union Part 2 3 07:36ENDGAME: Blueprint For Global Enslavement For the New World Order, a world government is just the beginning. Once in place they can engage their plan to exterminate 80% of the world's population, while more...enabling the "elites" to live forever with the aid of advanced technology. For the first time, crusading filmmaker ALEX JONES reveals their secret plan for humanity's extermination: Operation ENDGAME. less Tags: alex jones america canada mexico nafta superhighway trans texas corridor united nations eu id toll road northcom Category: News Views: 26 Comments: 0 Added: Feb 11, 08 By: TravisTylerNewWorldOrder  | |  |  | | ENDGAME North American Union Part 1 3 08:32ENDGAME: Blueprint For Global Enslavement For the New World Order, a world government is just the beginning. Once in place they can engage their plan to exterminate 80% of the world's population, while more...enabling the "elites" to live forever with the aid of advanced technology. For the first time, crusading filmmaker ALEX JONES reveals their secret plan for humanity's extermination: Operation ENDGAME. less Tags: alex jones america canada mexico nafta superhighway trans texas corridor united nations eu id toll road northcom Category: News Views: 44 Comments: 0 Added: Feb 11, 08 By: TravisTylerNewWorldOrder  | |  |  | | NAFTA and the North American Union 05:41Google 'NAFTA Superhighway' and 'Amero' Tags: secret societies royal bloodlines governments nephillim reptilian satanism nwo alien ufo god sumerian reptoid interdimensional reptilians globalization militarizacion watchers amero russo rockefeller rothschild 2012 bush nibiru anunnaki wto Category: News Views: 428 Comments: 0 Added: Nov 5, 07 By: Semidey  | |  |  | | Music Video A Psalm for Satanica 11:21Channel Z Musica excerpting shocking footage of WTO Protests , with narration by gifted poet, and Z music for a total multimedia anti-WTO Abrahamaic psalm against the world system Satanica. Audio is from more...Stephen (Vincent) Benét (1898-1943) A Litany for Dictatorships, music composed by Zeph Daniel.vovals Trish Daniel, support their spirit filled patriot ministry at : For more on the Mark of the Beast:
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile?ser=Ecothearcy">Ecothearcy </a> less Tags: channel z musica zeph daniel music video new world order satanica cfr 911 wto nafta alex jones prison planet china south korea sants toy shop a liany for dictatorships metaverse christianity judaism islam Category: Extreme Views: 401 Comments: 2 Added: Oct 26, 07 By: WelcomeToSatanica | |  |  | | Alex Jones Endgame Rips The Lid Off Elites Final Masterplan 04:31New documentary delves into the darkest recesses of the Global Elite! Alex Jones' brand new documentary Endgame charts the history of the elite blueprint for social domination and control, outlining the more...ultimate plans that those who consider themselves the anointed have for our planet.
The first section of the film documents the rise of the banking cartels, who since 1800 have funded both sides of almost every war. Endgame charts the usurpation of the British economy by the Rothchild family who went on to bankroll all factions during the first world war providing armaments companies through banks in France, Austria, Germany and England.
Endgame then documents the fallout of the great war and the attempts to form a controlling League of Nations, which was ultimately blocked by Congress. Such frustration on the part of the elite led to the rise of two factions, fascists and Fabian socialists. Endgame documents how bankers again funded both sides during WW2 which ultimately led to the creation of the UN and the beginning of the movement to implement three power blocs via incremental globalism.
The second section of the film covers the Bilderberg group and Alex's documentation of the elite group at the 2006 meeting in Ottawa. It covers Alex's detention on the Canadian border at the behest of Bilderberg insiders themselves. Alex and his crew describe how they were interrogated for nearly twelve hours before finally being allowed entry into the country.
Featuring extensive interviews with Jim Tucker and Daniel Estulin, veteran reporters who have been covering the meetings for 27 and 15 years respectively, Alex reveals how it is an offence for any member of the federal or state government to meet with foreign power brokers without the express authority of the president or Congress.
Endgame then shifts focus to the impending movement towards a North American Union, presenting reports and documentation relating to the efforts toward regional harmonization between the US Mexico and Canada at the secretive Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summits, which refer to an "evolution by stealth" agenda.
The later parts of the film deal firstly with the hijacking of the environmental movement. Experts and former insiders describe how there has been a long term goal spanning back decades to use an exaggerated threat from mother nature in order to control energy markets, regulate the progression of lesser economies and increase the rich poor divide by pricing out the middle classes.
This then dovetails with the ultimate endgame, the depopulation agenda. The film's gripping climax delves into the history of eugenics mindset. Endgame lays out the evidence that humans are being portrayed as a virus upon the earth, as we are increasingly being told to believe by cultural and academic kingpins.
From the teachings of "Dr Death" Eric Pianka, to German film fest cartoons, to New York Times best selling books, we are being saturated with the idea that humanity itself must be culled in order to save mother earth.
Endgame reveals how The eugenics movement never went away, it simply re-packaged itself to be more palatable to an increasingly skeptical public.
Looking more slick and professionally produced than ever with an intense soundtrack and filmed in super quality high definition, Endgame is a must watch for anyone seriously concerned with the world we live in today. less Tags: endgame alex jones new world order nwo 911 truth eugenics police corruption politics ron paul 2008 bush paris kissinger rockefeller texas highway united nations nafta aipac global elite Category: People Views: 945 Comments: 4 Added: Oct 24, 07 By: rclark23  | |  |  | | Alex Jones ENDGAME quotCOMING SOONquot; 14:17An introduction style trailer for Alex Jones' upcoming film ENDGAME. A Blueprint for Global Enslavement, To be released this October 2007 www.endgamethemovie.com/news.html Also see Alex Jones TerrorStorm- more...Stand Down Orders from Dick Cheney
Interesting Reading: @ amazon.com Also Book written with Plausible predictions about our near future, Nature's End: The Consequences of the Twentieth Century The authors do a wonderful job projecting current technology and ecological trends in a manner that projects a nightmarish future American and World Society. The Rich Enjoy Extended Life Spans, penthouse living, and the benefits of high technology including sentient laptop computers and refrigerators that talk. The rest of the world including most of America (which seems largely to be comprised of illegal aliens) lives in grinding poverty supported by a government dole. Freedom is largely a thing of the past; the Tax Police have the power to effect summary arrests, and society in general is teetering on collapse. less Tags: endgame alex jones new world order nwo 911 truth eugenics police corruption politics ron paul 2008 bush paris kissinger rockefeller texas highway united nations nafta aipac Category: People Views: 212 Comments: 5 Added: Oct 1, 07 By: rclark23  | |  |  | | EXCELLENT INTERVIEW Robert Gaylon Ross interviewed by Alex Jones MUST SEE! 42:43This Interview should be in the Front Page here on LiveVideo Robert Gaylon Ross, the world's Foremost Expert on the Elite Serial Killers of JKF,RFK,MLK etc etc. In this Extraordinary Interview he all names more...the names and exposes the New World Order's elite families. THIS IS A MUST SEE VIDEO Let's take back Our Country and the Rest of the World will Follow. Should also Watch: Iraq For Sale And see where the Trillions of OUR Tax Dollars are going. Halliburton charge us $65 for crate of Coca Cola, $100 to do a bag of washing .....The list of piss taking is endless. Libertydollar.org Ron Paul For President 2008 less Tags: robert gaylon ross jk rfk mlk new world order oswald nwo irs 911 libertydollar amero nau nafta aipac rclark23 Category: People Views: 262 Comments: 3 Added: Sep 30, 07 By: rclark23  | |  |  | | Do We still Have Free Speech Student Tasered Must See* 05:29John Kerry Q & A @ UF; Student Tasered for Asking Questions University of Florida student Andrew Meyer gets Tasered by University of Florida Police after disrupting Senator John Kerry's question and more...answer session in Gainesville.
We the People have every right to Question the Government. We Give the Power to the Government they Do Not Inherently have Power. People seem to Forget that the Government Serves the Interests of the People Not the Other Way Around. Andrew Meyer Question was Exclusively in the Best Interest of The People!!!
"He says you won the 2004 Election, isn't that amazing?" proclaimed Meyer, referring to Palast's claims in the book. The 21-year-old student continued on to speak about "multiple reports of disenfranchisement of black voters in Florida and Ohio on the day of the election" and "electronic voting machines in Volusia County, Florida, that counted backwards."
"So amidst all of these reports of phony, bogus stuff going on, how could you concede the election on the day?" he asked as security guards surrounded him. "How could you concede the 2004 election on the day? In this book, it says there were five million votes that were suppressed. Didn't you want to be President?!"
Under First Amendment law, you can loudly question, disagree with, or heckle a speaker—unless you make it impossible for the speaker to continue. That’s called “the heckler’s veto,” and is not protected by the First Amendment.
The only person with any courage other than the poor kid being dragged away by the SS is that girl with the red hair who got in the cops face a little and screamed, "Why are you doing this!!!" Bless you, red-haired girl, you will not lose your reward!
Just another opportunity for "Police State" action. Regardless of whether or not the man at the mic was trying to draw attention or not, he had not harmed anybody, nor Violated any Law, so therefore the cops had NO Authority to touch him in any manner!
America is now officially a Fascist Police State. Andrew Meyer was Asking a Question, and for the "Crime" of taking up too much time or asking an "unpleasant" question, the Police Proceed to drag him away. Maybe you feel that the kid should have just Given Up His 1st Amendment Constitutional Rights without a Fight???? American people have been Sleep Walking too long!! Rise Up & Wake Up America!! Fight back like this kid did! Take back our country from these Fascist Puppets of the Globalist Elites i.e. CFR, U.N., G8 Summit, A.I.P.A.C., N.A.F.T.A., N.A.U., Trans Texas Corridor, Halliburton & the Imperialist Elites, K.B.R. ='s War Inc, Private Military Blackwater Mercenaries
This is just another reason to vote for Ron Paul 2008!
Resist!!! Say No!!! No more Centralized Bank (Federal Reserve) or IRS No North American Union No NAFTA No NASCO Super Highway No FEMA No more NSA or CIA No RFID Chips in humans or on their Identification No National ID No National Police Force Stop using the military as police No more Chemtrails! No HAARP Restore the U.S. Constitution Especially Habeas Corpus less Tags: kerry speech student tasered university of florida uf central bank act 1913 money masters truth debt as money nafta nau fema nsa cia rfid national id chemtrails haarp rclark23 constitution andrew meyer Category: People Views: 128 Comments: 11 Added: Sep 18, 07 By: rclark23  | |  |  | | Why Social Securitys Fall is Near by Mumia AbuJamal 05:52Everybody wins -- except the workers. This war against workers, unless it is vigorously opposed by workers fighting in their own class interests, will result in nightmares where elderly must work until more...they drop dead. For, with no pensions, and no social security, how can it be otherwise? This business-friendly, labor-hating government is actually trying to set up a judicial, administrative, media regime that will undo the New Deal. After the Great Depression of 1929, mass movements, such as rent riots, sit-ins, marches, and great demonstrations, struck the country. One such movement was for pensions for those who spent their lives working in hard toil. Movements such as these in the 1930s changed things. Scholars Frances Fox Piven and (the late) Richard Cloward, noted, in *The New Class War: Reagan's Attack on the Welfare State and Its Consequences* (Pantheon Books: 1982/1985 [revised/expanded edition]), p. 118: "In other words, the movements changed reality; they Transformed the State."
The Enron scandal was a financial scandal that was revealed in late 2001. After a series of revelations involving irregular accounting procedures bordering on fraud, perpetrated throughout the 1990s, involving Enron and its accounting firm Arthur Andersen, it stood at the verge of undergoing the largest bankruptcy in history by mid-November 2001. A white knight rescue attempt by a similar, smaller energy company, Dynegy, was not viable. Enron filed for bankruptcy on December 2, 2001.
As the scandal was revealed, Enron shares dropped from over US$90.00 to just pennies. As Enron had been considered a blue chip stock, this was an unprecedented and disastrous event in the financial world. Enron's plunge occurred after it was revealed that much of its profits and revenue were the result of deals with special purpose entities (limited partnerships which it controlled). The result was that many of Enron's debts and the losses that it suffered were not reported in its financial statements.
In addition, the scandal caused the dissolution of Arthur Andersen, which at the time was one of the world's top five accounting firms. less Tags: war iraq vietnam 911 empire terrorism oppression freedom rclark23 abu jamal we are change cfr un g8 summit aipac nafta nau trans texas halliburton blackwater fascism imperialist social security oil enron Category: People Views: 66 Comments: 2 Added: Sep 16, 07 By: rclark23  | |  |  | | When Democracy Equals Empire by Mumia AbuJamal 05:04Every American president, whether Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal, speaks lovingly of 'democracy', whenever the nation engages in some escapade abroad. When the U.S. invaded Iraq, it did more...so, ostensibly, to 'bring democracy to the Middle East.' When it launches a raid in Grenada, or rains death on a poor neighborhood in Panama, when it invaded Haiti in the last century, ad infinitum, it always did so in the name of 'restoring democracy.'
What is this democracy of which they so blithely speak?
We all have heard the term since our infancy, but who really knows what it means? I wanted to learn more about it, so I began to read one of the finest historians I know of, the great C.L.R. James, author of the ground-breaking *The Black Jacobins*, an influential study of the Haitian Revolution. Some years ago, James published a pamphlet titled, *Every Cook Can Govern: A Study of Democracy in Ancient Greece* (Jackson, MS: New Mississippi, Inc., Mar. 1986). I found myself (as I often am when I read his stuff) blown away by what I learned. As his subtitle suggests, James looks at Greek history for the roots of the democratic idea, and finds it, in some stages, truly democratic, in ways we can hardly imagine. He writes:
Perhaps the most striking thing about Greek democracy was that the administration (and there were immense administrative problems) was organized upon the basis of what is known as sortition, or, more easily, selection by lot. The vast majority of Greek officials were chosen by a method which amounted to putting names into a hat and appointing the ones whose names came out. Now the average C10 bureaucrat or Labor Member of Parliament in Britain would fall in a fit if it was suggested to him that any worker selected at random could do the work he is doing. But that was precisely the guiding principle of Greek democracy. And this form of government is the government under which flourished the greatest civilization the world has ever known. less Tags: war iraq vietnam 911 empire terrorism oppression freedom rclark23 equals empire abu jamal we are change cfr un aipac nafta Category: People Views: 40 Comments: 2 Added: Sep 16, 07 By: rclark23  | |  |
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