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April 20, 2008 News URL: #April-20-2008-News
20080420 Sunday
- Don Young - Abramoff - Bob Schaffer - Money - Politics - Mariana Islands - Chinese - Garment - Factory - Industry - Labor - Women - Abortion - Human Rights - Investigations - Government - Immigration - Law- History - US - Colorado - Alaska
"Records expose Young-Abramoff ties: MARIANA ISLANDS." ... " Rep. Don Young has said he never allowed convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff to be an influential force over him in Congress." ... "But now a trove of old billing records from two of Abramoff's firms show that his team of lobbyists had more than 120 contacts with Young's personal and committee staffs over 25 months, including at least 10 with Young himself." ... "The available records cover a single Abramoff client, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory in the Pacific that Young oversaw when he chaired the House Resources Committee from 1995 to 2001." ... "The records show that one of the looming concerns of Abramoff and his fellow lobbyists at the time was a bill introduced by Young's fellow Alaskan, Sen. Frank Murkowski, to reform labor and immigration practices feeding the island's notorious Chinese-owned sweatshops. In 2000, Murkowski's bill passed the Senate unanimously, but Young stopped it cold in his committee, refusing to hold even a hearing." ... "Investigations by the government, media and human rights groups uncovered widespread abuses in the garment industry and among sex workers there starting in the mid-1990s, but Young asserted those investigations were bogus." ... "As a member of Young's Resources Committee, Schaffer took a free trip to the Mariana Islands arranged by Abramoff's law firm, then played a central role in a 1989 committee hearing investigating Interior department officials in the Clinton administration who were trying to rein in the Saipan government ." ... "A growing number of reports spoke of near slave-labor conditions, with workers kept in sealed compounds, required to work seven days a week without overtime, and sometimes getting no paycheck at all. There were widespread reports of women coerced into getting abortions to keep their jobs. Some women hired abroad found themselves working not in garment factories at all, but sex clubs." -By Richard Mauer -ADN.com
Here's something else that would make the fundigelicals' heads explode. It's more of a history, but their dear "guuuuuuuuuud kreeeeschyin" heroes are arse deep in contraception -- for brown people, that is. You'll also recognize the same Bilderberger names that headed us into this financial mess, too.
Funny idnit. Pillagement and war, evil personified, waving a Bible.
Another long read just on Frist, but it's an insight (with linkies) into how repukes with their twisted sense of entitlement, bizarre idea of (white) racial noblesse and absolute vicious, bitter hatred of all that is non-rich and non-white, to the point of casual, not-so-much-as-a-second-thought extermination.
They aren't just batshit crazy. They're dangerous, vicious, and absolutely devoid of anything close to humanity.
And they're deep, deep into our government.