Cheney , fired US Attorney Thomas DiBiagio , who charged he was fired because of pressure from DOJ and Maryland GOP Governor, and Maryland Governor Bob Ehrlich , whose staff was linked to a prostitution ring.
DiBiagio a close friend of the former Republican governor of Maryland—who was forced out in 2005 for what the DOJ later called "judgment and candor" issues.
NOTE: "Candor".... translated: failure to cover up something the AWOL Bush administration didn't want to get into the press.
On December 10, 2003, the Maryland State Police Superintendent Ed Norris for using his Executive Protective Unit (EPU) was indicted for transporting prostitutes to various locations, including posh Baltimore and New York City hotels, including the Baltimore Hyatt. The EPU protects the Republican Governor of Maryland, Bob Ehrlich,and other state VIPs. Like Palfrey, Norris also came under investigation for tax evasion by the Baltimore IRS office.
NOTE: Madsen three well-placed sources are so scared that they met with him in secret as did Deep Throat, don't use the phone, and etc.
http://www.waynemad
Assistant US Attorney Jonathan Luna who worked at US Attorney's Office in Baltimore Maryland, was murdered on December 2003.
Interesting fact is that someone tired to leak to the press that federal or local investigators had evidence about his murder, was being investigated as a suicide. However, the corner and a forensic pathologist said Luna drowned and his body showed signs of tortured and trauma to his head.
The leaks to the press also alleged there was evidence of an extra martial affair with a Baltimore FBI Agent, that Luna had personal financial problems, and may have stolen $10,000 cash (evidence in a case). Leaks als alleged he was avoiding taking a polygraph in the investitation about the missing cash.
NOTE: It is funny that so many leaks occurred in this murder case and the murder occurred around the same time as the Ed Norris transporting prostitutes case.
(Source google: "Jonathan Luna" ........and spend a couple hours reading all the lies/BS and news like I did)
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UN says Biofuels may not be a panacea - rather potenial hazards to the environment
The benefits may be offset by serious environmental problems and increase food prices for the hungry.
Rapid growth in biofuel production will make substantial demands on the world's land and water resources at a time when demand for both food and forest products in also rising rapidly. Use of large scale monocropping could lead to significant biodiversity loss, soil erosion, and nutrient leaching.
Soaring palm oil demand already has led to the clearing of tropical forests in southeast Asia.
Source: AP via Seattle PI, May 9th 207, page A5.
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Bill Allen, founder and CEO of Anchorage based VECO Corp.and company VP, Rick Smith, pleaded quilty on May 9, 2007 in federal court to spending more than $400,000 to bribe Alaska state lawmakers. Since 1990, VECO employees and their family members gave the state and national Republican parties, GOP congressional candidates, and (AWOL) Bush slightly more than $1 million. Allen has sent thousands to Republican candidates in other states, including Washington.
(Source: Seattle PI, May 10, 2007, page A3)
AWOL Bush's attack on the rule of law/ the Constitution
Commentary by Larry Shafer
In the past 25 years, before the decision by AWOL Bush to dismiss nine U.S. attorneys, only two U.S. attorneys had been dismissed by any president before those attorneys completed that four-year terms. Those two were justified and well documented.
For more than six years, AWOL Bush administration, in response to criticism about how it abused its power, has attempted to confuse the public by claiming that other presidents have done the same things when they had not.
They frequently claim that "there is no evidence whatever that we have done anything wrong" or "that we dismissed the attorneys for political reasons." To the contrary, nearly all the evidence points in the opposite direction. It was evidence when several of the fired prosecutors testified that they had been the subject of strong political pressure to act contrary to conscience.
The question is not whether or not Gonzales lied, but what he lied about. But not for the endire AWOL Bush administration being in the act of eroding the rule of law.
Any effort by the political arm of the federal government to coerce U.S. attorneys to attack U.S. citizens it considered political enemies, or to refrain from prosecuting its political friends who should be prosecuted, is the beginning of tyranny.
Source: Seattle PI, May 10, 2007, page B7)
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Injury, Death, the American Worker and AWOL Bush
"Despite the enormous loss of lives and millions of serious injuries
and illness caused by workplace hazards, the Bush administration
continues to blatantly disregard its legal obligation to curtail the needless
dying and suffering," says Dick Meister. "Past experience guarantees
that unless the administration acts swiftly and decisively, the number of
workers dying on the job this year will reach almost 6,000. More than
two million will be seriously injured. Another 50,000 or more will die
from cancer, lung and heart ailments, and other occupational diseases
caused by exposure to toxic substances."
http://www.truthout
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For God's Sake
by Paul Krugman
In 1981, Gary North, a leader of the Christian Reconstructionist movement, the openly theocratic wing of the Christian right. suggested that the movement could achieve power by stealth. Christians must begin to organize politically within the present party structure, he wrote, and they must begin to infiltrate the existing institutional order.
Today, Regent University, founded by the televangelist Pat Robertson to provide Christian leadership to change the world, boasts that it has 150 graduates working in the Bush administration.
Unfortunately for the image of the school, where Mr. Robertson is chancellor and president, the most famous of those graduates is Monica Goodling, a product of the university's law school. She's the former top aide to Alberto Gonzales who appears central to the scandal of the fired U.S. attorneys and has declared that she will take the Fifth rather than testify to Congress on the matter.
The infiltration of the federal government by large numbers of people seeking to impose a religious agenda, which is very different from simply being people of faith, is one of the most important stories of the last six years. It's also a story that tends to go underreported, perhaps because journalists are afraid of sounding like conspiracy theorists.
But this conspiracy is no theory. The official platform of the Texas Republican Party pledges to dispel the myth of the separation of church and state. And the Texas Republicans now running the country are doing their best to fulfill that pledge.
Kay Cole James, who had extensive connections to the religious right and was the dean of Regent's government school, was the federal government's chief personnel officer from 2001 to 2005. (Curious fact: she then took a job with Mitchell Wade, the businessman who bribed Representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham.) And it's clear that unqualified people were hired throughout the administration because of their religious connections.
For example, The Boston Globe reports on one Regent law school graduate who was interviewed by the Justice Department's civil rights division. Asked what Supreme Court decision of the past 20 years he most disagreed with, he named the decision to strike down a Texas anti-sodomy law. When he was hired, it was his only job offer.
Or consider George Deutsch, the presidential appointee at NASA who told a Web site designer to add the word "theory" after every mention of the Big Bang, to leave open the possibility of intelligent design by a creator. He turned out not to have, as he claimed, a degree from Texas A&M.
One measure of just how many Bushies were appointed to promote a religious agenda is how often a Christian right connection surfaces when we learn about a Bush administration scandal.
There's Ms. Goodling, of course. But did you know that Rachel Paulose, the U.S. attorney in Minnesota, three of whose deputies recently stepped down, reportedly in protest over her management style is, according to a local news report, in the habit of quoting Bible verses in the office?
Or there's the case of Claude Allen, the presidential aide and former deputy secretary of health and human services, who stepped down after being investigated for petty theft. Most press reports, though they mentioned Mr. Allen's faith, failed to convey the fact that he built his career as a man of the hard-line Christian right.
And there's another thing most reporting fails to convey: the sheer extremism of these people.
You see, Regent isn't a religious university the way Loyola or Yeshiva are religious universities. It's run by someone whose first reaction to 9/11 was to brand it God's punishment for America's sins.
Two days after the terrorist attacks, Mr. Robertson held a conversation with Jerry Falwell on Mr. Robertson's TV show, The 700 Club. Mr. Falwell laid blame for the attack at the feet of the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians, not to mention the A.C.L.U. and People for the American Way. Well, I totally concur, said Mr. Robertson.
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