I am tired. Ok they win. They throw fuel on the fire systematically.

[Ninga]

Because they know I am out here with a political party who does not have my back.

I am like a whirling dervish. I cut and paste and email until the next "smoking gun" rears its ugly head and then I start all over again. I belong, I support, I donate, I write, I email and I march. And what the hell does it get me???

I am tired of this crap. Them who has all the toys (money) wins.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031406A.shtml


Private equity firm The Carlyle Group established a team to acquire public-purpose facilities such as ports a day after a United Arab Emirates company said it would transfer newly acquired operations at American ports to a U.S. organization.

D.C.-based Carlyle Group announced an eight-person team would invest in public-purpose infrastructure projects such as ports, transportation and water facilities, airports, bridges and stadiums. The team will begin work March 13.

The new infrastructure team had been planned for six months, but the Carlyle Group decided Thursday to launch it.

DP World, a company owned by the United Arab Emirates, acquired a British company that manages operations at six U.S. ports, but the House Appropriations Committee voted 62-2 on March 8 to prevent it from taking control of the ports.

DP World will transfer the operations to a "U.S. entity," Sen. John Warner, R-Va., said Thursday.

The Carlyle Group, however, doesn't want to be that entity, says spokesman Chris Ullman. "We have zero interest in that deal, and we will continue to have no interest."

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and others in Congress are considering legislation that would block any foreign company from operating ports and other key U.S. infrastructure. If that legislation is approved, it could give The Carlyle Group and other private equity firms opportunities to buy foreign-owned operations at a discount.

The new public infrastructure investment group is co-headed by Robert Dove, former executive vice president at Bechtel Enterprises, and Barry Gold, former managing director and co-head of the structured finance group at Citigroup/Salomon Smith Barney.

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[global1]

1. Can You Say Halliburton and New World Order......n/t

[Ninga]

3. Halliburton and New World Order.....I said it.

[Dunvegan]

2. Take heart...we have ONE trump the elite ruling class doesn't have & fear:

...NUMBERS.

It's been said by several ruling class members waxing philosophical on the only balance against money and power. It's sheer numbers.

That's what scares them.

It always scares an occupying force, plantation owner, or minority-dominant country.

Keep it up...toss fuel back at their gasoline.

We need numbers...a million encamped at the White House about now would do a world of good for change.

[ellie]

4. I agree.

We have the truth on our side and the numbers. I feel like we are at the tipping point where outrage meets the road. Will the citizens stand for it when even their basic necessities aren't met? I believe that the powers-that-be are scared of such an uprising. That is why we keep hearing about these so-called morality issues that don't have a lot of relevance in people's day-to-day lives. If the economy goes belly up, I believe the pitchforks will come out and people will be jarred out of their overfed, over-extended credit-wise lives.

[Dunvegan]

5. It's also why we hear mummerings and tenative steps around martial law.

They know how far they are willing to go.

They know most Americans don't know yet.

They're hoping to bring us to our knees and then control us with a relatively small investment in intimidation.

I never would have thought it could have happened like this. I believe all first-world countries can (like Germany, Italy, and Japan in WWII) could be lured into fascism.

But I didn't see it coming like this or this quickly.

We're not there yet. But if you look at the current road and then the roadmap, that's the direction we're going in.

[Ninga]

6. I would love to believe you dearheart......but if you take a look at the

quality of life of the majority of the red states....the thing they have in common is that they occupy the bottom in every catagory...from jobs, to economy, to education.


Can you picture the people of Mississippi rising up???? Isn't their Governor the biggest political hack of all times...Haley Barbour????

We will not see any uprising in our lifetime.

My eye and energy and focus is on the elections this fall. I will be the first to eat humble pie if the Democratic Party has sweeping success.

One would think the time has come.....but right now our party seems to be in disarray and not even close to singing the same song.....not a good sign.

[Doctor_J]

11. Sadly, Ninga, you are spot-on

Numbers mean nothing when we have no represntation in DC or in the media. Which of are cowardly senators is likely to lose his/her seat because (s)he refuses to take on Smirk? None, that's who. As you mention, the red states masses live in poverty and oppression, and every two years vote for more of the same.

We have no chance of evengaining seats this fall, much less claiming majorities. There is no message, no focus, no leadership. Some of the more vulnerable repugs will pretend to disagree with Smirk on a few issues between now and November, but as soon as the elections are over it will be back to ultra-RW policies.

2 out of three americans now view * as a failure at this job, and the "opposition" refuses to take him on on any issue. They have no chance whatsoever of winning this fall.

[Greyhound]

9. They are concerned about an uprising, and that's why they have carried,

out their nefarious scheme as carefully and slowly as they have. Let's look at what is and has happened.

"Will the citizens stand for it when even their basic necessities aren't met?", apparently the answer to that is no. They have, in fact, systematically denied basic necessities to millions of our citizens over the last 20+ years, and I've not heard any great outrage, nor seen any significant effort to alleviate the suffering. You see, and probably step over, them every day, in every city across the country. The numbing process was initiated in the 60's and continued through the 70's until we were sufficiently de-humanized for the overt actions to begin.

Isolation and consolidation; they consolidated us by killing the proprietary agricultural industry, the family farm, and replacing it with the agri-corp, forcing the workers into the cities to look for work. The next problem was to isolate us from one another, this was most easily accomplished through fear, and boy, have they done a great job of that. Thanks to our willingness to waste a significant portion of our lives sitting in front of the soma-box, it is simplicity itself to install whatever programming is desired at any time. The programming is self-evident, citizens have been morphed into consumers, and are afraid, terrified really, of all kind of things, but primarily we have been taught to fear each other.

Speaking of teaching, we have seen our education system collapse from the gold standard to which other systems aspired, to a global laughing stock (BTW that gold standard education still exists here, it is just reserved for the ruling class and denied to the sheeple). You can't have an educated population with a sense of history and real knowledge of how things work. You can't have a population that reads and comprehends what the author is saying.

In 1981 the groundwork had been laid and it was time to begin the operation. The system is comprehensively explained by Noam Chomsky, among others.
1. Induce a financial crisis by creating huge debt. This is the justification for the next step.
2. Eliminate any and all social programs or, if they cannot be eliminated due to political concerns, impose regulations designed to ensure it cannot accomplish its mission.
3. Keep beating the fear drum. Keep them afraid of each other and all those scary foreigners. War, in a never-ending cycle of small wars, or better still, an unending, un-winnable war against an invisible, omnipotent foe.
4. Replace social responsibility with false patriotism/nationalism, which is used to excuse the inexcusable and to blame the blameless.
5. Fear, did I mention fear?
6. Distraction, the old sleight-of-hand, keep us distracted with the inconsequential, so we won't notice what is really happening.

OK, this is incomplete, even for a synopsis, but I have to leave now. Maybe this will resonate with a few, maybe it won't. All I can do is hope you all are preparing for what is coming. :grouphug:

Edit to add: Though the plan is primarily a re:puke: product this is a non-partisan post, both parties have played their role to bring us to this sorry state. It really is about class not about parties, there is a class war being waged and only one side is committed, can you guess which one?

[Ninga]

12. I have a favor to ask greyhound1966, may I use your analysis?

[Greyhound]

14. Of course! I am honored.

thank you.

[Minnesota Libra]

13. May I and others PLEASE borrow this and pass it on with......

.....proper credit of course.:loveya:

[Greyhound]

15. Of course! I am honored.

Thank you too. :blush:

[dusty64]

8. Thats true and they

are preparing to deal w/ that thus the patriot act, private military contracters, detention camps, illegal spying, etc., etc. They really DO perceive US as the enemy and are preparing to deal with it.

[enough already]

7. I can't help but think this was part of Rove's master plan

It's just too much of a coincidence that Carlyle is going to ride to the rescue. I hate this country.

[Greyhound]

10. K&R

:kick: