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A WARNING TO THE PEACE LOVING PEOPLE OF AMERICA.

 

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FOR MANY IN HIGH POSTS

IN WASHINGTON  - WAR  HAS BEEN WONDERFUL FOR THEIR BUSINESSES

 

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Revolving door keeps the WAR CASH rolling in

 

Andrew Alexander

COLUMN

 

[Daily Mail -Friday,March2, 2007]

 

THEY call it 'the revolving door' in Washington. The rest of us might prefer the term corruption - deep and dangerous well beyond the USA

The process involves politicians moving seamlessly from business posts. particularly in the DEFENCE industries, into GOVERNMENT, where they influence POLICY and CONTRACTS; and when there is a change of administration, sliding back again.

AND THAT FORM OF JOBBERY PERFECTLY LEGAL

The Bush administration has raised this form of legalised corruption to new heights.

LET US START WITH THE CHENEY FAMILY

Vice President Cheney was formerly Chief Executive of Halliburton which became the principle general contractor in the rebuilding of Iraq. It received some $10 billion in orders - later castigated by a government auditor as either

EXCESSIVE or LACKING DETAIL.

CHENEY HAD SEEN THE VALUE OF HIS SHAREHOLDING RISE TO

$8 million

 

His wife Lynne, until her husband's appointment, was on the Board of Lockheed, the USA's leading military supplier. Her daughter Elizabeth was married to Philip Perry, a lobbyist for Lockheed, who resigned that job only when appointed by Bush to the Important role of

GENERAL COUNSEL for HOMELAND SECURITY

Elizabeth herself was NOT forgotten. She was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs in the State Department.

Donald Rumsfeld has certainly seen the best of both worlds. As Defence Secretary until recently sacked, he has been involved in the denunciation of North Korea's nuclear weapons programme. But until his government appointment he was a director of engineering group ABB, while it sold two light-water reactors to North . ABB is thought to have paid him nearly

$200,000 a year.

He [Rumsfeld] had another non-defence business post helped by a government contracts. He chaired Gilead, a biotech company which developed Tamiflu, the bird flu drug now widely used and ordered in large quantities by Washington

HE MADE $5 on the sale of some of his stock but was said in 2004 to still have stock WORTH $25MILLION

Condoleezz Rice became Bush's National Security Adviser and then his Secretary of State. Once a director of Chevron, the oil company, she also had a spell on the Board of Hewlett Packard, a substantial contractor for the MILITARY -for COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT

WE ARE NOT FINISHED YET.

Secretary of the Air Force under Bush, James Roche, was a former Vice President at Northrop Grumman -a

MAJOR DEFENCE CONTRACTOR

It was seem of course, as 'useful' experience. Boeing was not forgotten. The Government proposed a plan to lease Boeing aircraft as in-flight refuellers for the Air Force, but it was so generous to the company that Senator John McCain, the Vietnam war hero, denounced is as

'WAR PROFITEERING'

Perhaps the plan was helped along by Boeing having been the principle contributor to the campaign fund of Senator Ted Stevens Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

BUT WHO KNOWS?

The door also revolved for Gordon England, nominated by Bush as Deputy Secretary for Defence.  Before that he held a very senior post at General Dynamics which built warships, after which he moved on to be

PRESIDENT of LOCKHEED.

All the services were to have their quota of ex-defence industries bosses. The post of Secretary of the Navy was handed  out to Donald Winter, a former top executive at North Grumman.

ONLY

SECRETARY of STATE

COLIN POWELL

-seems to have been squeaky clean.

It is no coincidence that he constantly counselled

CAUTION

HIS REQUIRED RESIGNATION WAS THE RESULT.

Those still puzzled by the Bush administration's taste for solving problems by

MILITARY MEANS

- should simply read the above list. And don't shed any tears for those people when the wheel turns and they find themselves shorn of their grand positions. I have a feel that well-paid jobs will be waiting for them.

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THE CLOSE relationship between arms manufacturers and politicians in the US., IN and OUT of OFFICE, round and round through the revolving door, is far from new.

 

The SCALE and the SHAMELESSNESS of IT under BUSH is

WHAT TAKES ONE'S BREATH AWAY

President Eisenhower, the epitome of the military man turned politician

HIGHLIGHTED this DANGER

-in his memorable final address to CONGRESS in 1961. He ruely WARNED the NATION about the growth of the'

'MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL' COMPLEX:

 

'The conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms establishment and a large arms industry id new in America experience. The total influence - economic, political, even spiritual - is felt in every city, every state-house, every office of the federal government... the potential for the rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.'

The distinguished historian Correlli Barnett warned recently in this paper [Daily Mail] that if Bush insisted on military confrontation with IRAN , it could lead to

WORLD WAR III

The Whitehouse has since been cajoled into a more diplomatic phase.

 

YET ONLY THE INNOCENT COULD IGNORE THE THOUGHT THAT FOR MANY IN HIGH POSTS IN WASHINGTON

WAR

HAS BEEN WONDERFUL FOR

THEIR BUSINESSES.

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MARCH/07

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THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN-IS THE EU COMMISSION LISTENING?

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Ditch the EU TREATY after IRISH REJECTION

SAY VOTERS

by

Daniel Martin

Political Reporter

[Daily Mail-Wednesday, June 18,2008]

MORE THAN HALF of voters believe Britain should drop the controversial European Treaty in the wake of its rejection in last week's

IRISH REFERENDUM'

The poll comes as the Tories launch a last-ditch bid in the

HOUSE of LORDS

today to delay the

RATIFICATION OF THE TREATY.

And

10,000 people

have signed a

PETITION

on the

DOWNING STREET- WEBSITE

within the past few days

JUNE16-2008

, calling on the

GOVERNMENT

NOT TO RATIFY THE BILL

[WHY DON'T YOU?]

 

Downing Street website is

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Abandon-Lisbon/

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JUNE 18-2008

 

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Let the people speak!

www.makeitanissue.org.uk

 

 

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www.noliberties.com

[Latest Addition - June07]

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www.eutruth.org.uk

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www.thewestminsternews.co.uk

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www.speakout.co.uk

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Daniel Hannan - Forming an OPPOSITION to the EU

www.telegraph.co.uk.blogs

 

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GORDON BROWN WANTS TRUST-BUT WHY WON'T HE TRUST YOU?

HELL ON EARTH IN IRAQ

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67% want powers back from EU-ICM poll-June 21-2007-95% of British people want a REFERENDUM

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PETITION

FOR A

REFERENDUM

SIGN TODAY ON LINE

telegraph.co.uk/eureferendum

July 18-2007

ALSO

JOIN THE 10 DOWNING STREET PROTEST

Readers can add their support to the growing clamour for a REFERENDUM on the '"REFORM TREATY" by signing up to a 10 Downing Street 0n-line petition

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/EU-treaty-NON/

 

The  Petition reads as follows:

"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to guarantee that the British people will be permitted a binding REFERENDUM on any and all attempts to resurrect the EU " CONSTITUTION" (and any or all of its content) regardless of nomenclature."

Deadline for the PETITION is 31st January,2008

Eurofacts 27th July 2007.

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'The Spirit of England'

by

Winston Churchill

In London on St.George's Day -1953

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VOTE

 -2007

 

TO LEAVE THE EUROPEAN UNION

WITH THE ONLY PARTY WITH A MANDATE

TO SET YOU

 FREE

 

THE

UK INDEPENDENCE PARTY

www.ukip.org

THE QUESTION THAT THE VOTER MUST ANSWER

 

DO YOU WISH TO BE GOVERNED BY YOUR OWN PEOPLE, LAW AND CUSTOM OR BY THE CORRUPT ,EXPENSIVE UNACCOUNTABLE AND CORRUPT ALIEN BUSYBODY BRUSSELS’

 

-SIMPLE IS IT NOT?

 

TO RECLAIM YOUR DEMOCRACY DON'T VOTE FOR THE TRIPARTITE PARTIES IN WESTMINSTER

BUT

SMALL PARTIES THAT SPEAK THEIR MINDS WITHOUT SPIN AND LIES.

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ONLY

PRO-PORTIONAL REPRESENTATION

WILL BRING DEMOCRACY BACK TO THE ENGLISH PEOPLE

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SCOTLAND -ITS PARLIAMENT -WALES-ITS ASSEMBLY-ENGLAND-STILL AWAITS ITS PARLIAMENT-WHY?

 

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Home Rule for Scotland

WHY NOT

HOME RULE for ENGLAND

 

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