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Ha! Mark I thought the image smacked of footie holigans too! Ray's got a point, the news business is a bit different over there.jorvik wrote:They are nothing Mark, like the British National Party. They get nowhere in elections and their demonstrations fizzle out, it's just the newspapers ( and not the major ones) trying to sell papers
jorvik wrote: and some folks just won't ask questions ever . look at the Boston bombings...the Chenchens were supported by the US, why on earth would they wish to bomb them???..and more importantly why hasn't anyone had the sense to ask this?.and of course the suspects are dead
Van I thing the British learned lots from their own going exposure to terrorists. We must remember that Britain has had problems with uprisings in many of it's colonies over the centuries around this world. They have had much experience in dealing with rebellion, terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare. They have had a great deal of exposure to it.Van Canna wrote:Nice list, Laird...what's to learn from it...and what do you think the Brits learned from it?
Feur wrote:Van I thing the British learned lots from their own going exposure to terrorists. We must remember that Britain has had problems with uprisings in many of it's colonies over the centuries around this world. They have had much experience in dealing with rebellion, terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare. They have had a great deal of exposure to it.
Soft Targets Advertise
A soft target is a tactical term referring to an unarmed or undefended position or target. A soft target can be a structure, automobile, school, mall, or an assembly of people.
The spectators at the Boston Marathon were soft targets. The moviegoers at the Aurora movie theatre were soft targets. Police officers sitting in police cars with "low situational awareness" have been soft targets. Off-duty officers wearing swag that displays the last police training school they attended or displaying a popular brand of police equipment they favor can be a soft target.
The off-duty British military soldier was wearing a T-shirt displaying a "Help for Heroes" logo and carrying a military rucksack. He was a soft target.
Avoid making yourself a soft target — that's the first step.
Traditionally a terrorist would survey a soft target's residence, route to work, favorite pubs, and any other predictable habits.
He will target the attack at the softest target in your routine. This may be a choke point that allows them for a quick escape. Undercover Narcs have known this forever and go through a great deal of effort to avoid detection.
The London attack, however, just revealed a serious problem. The terrorist may have picked a location that was soft but instead of a quick escape — they waited around the scene for a half hour, talking with witnesses — because they wanted maximum exposure from a media source. That means they were willing to battle anywhere regardless of the outcome.
Similarities in terrorist planning have become obvious from the perspective of the lone-wolf Jihadist or the small-cell extremist attacks. Consider these six points as you develop your defense.
1.) The terrorist will first select or identify a vulnerable soft target.
2.) The terrorist will determine the method of attack.
3.) They will conduct detailed surveillance of the target to measure security forces.
4.) They will assess target vulnerability and select the site or move on to another.
5.) After site selection, a second round of surveillance will be conducted.
6.) Finally, the operation will be scheduled and the attack conducted.
Do not encourage a terrorist attack by becoming a soft target. The most effective way to avoid indicating as a soft target is to remain in a high level of situational awareness. The sad truth today is that walking down a street on the way to a ballgame in a downtown setting may place you in the middle of a battle space in a split second.
Your ability to recognize and perceive potential threats while going about routine activities while on or off duty will make the difference.
Don't deny your gut feelings. As we all know, most good arrests on the streets come from a gut feeling or intuition and then most importantly, acting upon that feeling or suspicion. Situational awareness and the apparent readiness of that person indicate whether or not they are a hard target or soft target.
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Endogeneity in Empirical Corporate Finance
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This chapter discusses how applied researchers in corporate finance can address endogeneity concerns. We begin by reviewing the sources of endogeneity - omitted variables, simultaneity, and measurement error - and their implications for inference. We then discuss in detail a number of econometric techniques aimed at addressing endogeneity problems including: instrumental variables, difference-in-differences estimators, regression discontinuity design, matching methods, panel data methods, and higher order moments estimators. The unifying themes of our discussion are the emphasis on intuition and the applications to corporate finance.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Bill Clinton's sex scandal "embarrassed the nation," but Republicans shouldn't use it against Hillary Clinton if she runs for U.S. president, Mitt Romney said.
"I don't think Bill Clinton is as relevant as Hillary Clinton, if Hillary Clinton decides to run for president," the Republican Party's 2012 presidential nominee told NBC's "Meet the Press."
"And in her case, I think people will look at her record as the secretary of state and say, during that period of time did our relations with nations around the world elevate America and elevate our interests or were they receding? And I think her record is what will be judged upon, not the record of her husband," Romney said.
The GOP has begun hitting Hillary Clinton on her ties to her former president husband, painting the two as a pair who want to retake control of the White House.
In addition, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who has expressed interest in being the Republican candidate in 2016, has recently called Bill Clinton a "sexual predator" for his sexual relationship that emerged in 1998 with Monica Lewinsky, who was a 22-year-old White House intern at the time.
The news of the extramarital affair that year and a resulting investigation led to Clinton's impeachment by the House and his subsequent acquittal on all impeachment charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in a 21-day Senate trial.
"I think Hillary Clinton, if she becomes the nominee, will have plenty to discuss about her own record," Romney said. "I don't imagine that Bill Clinton is going to be a big part of it.
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"But I don't think that's Hillary Clinton's to explain," Romney said. "She has her own record, her own vision for where she would take the country. And I think that's something which [should be] debated extensively during the 2016 campaign."
Romney said he was not interested in running in 2016 himself.
"I'm not running for president," he said. "I think, by and large, people who lose a presidential race, well, they step aside."


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2000 Election Rigged
This page exposes what the news media and the powers that be has been hiding from the American people for years.
The 2000 election was rigged before the first vote was cast.
Jeb Bush was the Republican Governor of the State of Florida and brother of the Republican Presidential candidate George W. Bush.
Republican Secretary of State, Katherine Harris was also co-chair of Bush's Florida campaign, clearly a conflict of interest in conducting a fair and impartial election.
Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris promised to "Deliver Florida" to George W. Bush as reported in numerous newspaper articles.
Secretary of State, Katherine Harris and Governor Jeb Bush had the motive and the means to make sure Florida's decisive electoral votes were "delivered" to George W. Bush.
They accomplished this by illegally purging thousands of black voters off of the Florida voter rolls, ensuring an unfair advantage to George W. Bush, as shown in the above video.
As shown in the "2000 Election Rigged for Bush" video, ChoicePoint / DBT was given a $4 million no-bid contract under the Jeb Bush administration which wrongly and illegally purged thousands of African Americans from the Florida voter rolls.
Jame Lee, Vice President of Choicepoint / DBT testified to a panel called by US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney that the State of Florida Division of Elections stated it only wanted 80% accuracy on the list. In other words, to be identified as a convicted felon, one only need to have a similar name to that as someone listed on a Texas convicted felon's list. You can view Mr. Lee's testimony in the above video.
According to the Brennan Center for Justice "Florida registrants were purged from the rolls if 80 percent of the letters of their last names were the same as those of persons with criminal convictions. Those wrongly purged included Reverend Willie D. Whiting Jr., who, under the matching criteria, was considered the same person as Willie J. Whiting. Without specific guidelines for or limitations on the authority of election officials conducting purges, eligible voters are regularly made unnecessarily vulnerable".
As it turned out, almost everyone on the Florida purged voters list had the right to vote.
Antonin Scalia and his conservative majority of 5 "justices" subverted democracy & engaged in partisan politics by stopping the 2000 election vote count. The above video explains the shocking details.
This caused George W. Bush to be installed as President. At the time the votes were stopped by the Supreme Court, there were only 154 votes separating Al Gore from George W. Bush.
With only 154 votes separating Al Gore from George W. Bush, it's easy to see how purging thousands of black voters being off of the Florida voter rolls rigged the 2000 election and handed it to George W. Bush on a Silver Platter.
If all of the illegally disqualified voters had been allowed to vote and all votes counted, the total votes would have decisively shown Al Gore to be the winner of the State of Florida and therefore the Presidency.
If Gore had been president, we would have had a Liberal Supreme Court because Bush appointed 2 justices.
It was Jeb Bush's illegal voter purge and Republicans who subverted Democracy by not allowing the votes to be counted that caused the installation of George W. Bush and the US to have a conservative majority in the Supreme Court.
Let's not forget that Al Gore received 600,000 more votes than George W. Bush. Al Gore was the majority of American's choice for president so Democracy was violated.
John Bolton vs. Democracy
"I'm with the Bush-Cheney team, and I'm here to stop the count." Those were the words John Bolton yelled as he burst into a Tallahassee library on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2000, where local election workers were recounting ballots cast in Florida's disputed presidential race between George W. Bush and Al Gore.
As stated in the above article, John Bolton was one of the pack of lawyers for the Republican presidential ticket who repeatedly sought to shut down recounts of the ballots from Florida counties before those counts revealed that Gore had actually won the state's electoral votes and the presidency.
In this clip from the 2015 CNN documentary Bush v Gore, John "Mac" Stipanovich admits Republicans were determined to stop any vote re-count to make sure George W. Bush was installed as President. This proves Republicans only cared about winning and to HELL with Democracy and the will of the American people.
The Theft of an election and installation of an illegitimate president is the one of worst possible crimes which a government could commit against it's citizens… yet that is what our government perpetrated against the citizens of the United States, and NOTHING has been done about it.
The rigged election of George W. Bush caused the following events;
- Installation of George W. Bush, a illegitimate president who was not elected to office by the American people
- False claims about Weapons of Mass Destruction to justify the War against Iraq
- Unprovoked, Unjustified War and Invasion of Iraq
- Deaths of 4,475 US Troops
- 32,331 US Troops wounded
- Deaths of over 112,000 Iraqi Civilians
- Debt of 10 Trillion dollars due to tax cuts and unpaid for wars
- Firing of US Attorneys for political reasons
- Appointment of Conservative Supreme Court Judges who destroyed the voting rights act of 1965
- The creation of ISIS due to the invasion of Iraq, be-headings and people being burned alive
- And much more…
None of these things would have happened were it not for the Jeb Bush Administration actions which helped brother George W. Bush to be installed as president.
According to Lance deHaven-Smith, in his book entitled The Battle for Florida…
"Top Republicans used the powers of their offices to inject partisanship and instill fear down through the ranks of the state bureaucracy. In 1998 political operatives working for the Speaker of the house secretly examined voter registration records to learn the party affiliations of specific state employees and to identify agencies with high concentrations of Democrats.
After it was determined that the most Democratic agency in the state government was the Florida Department of education, the department was restructured and the positions of many of its employees were eliminated. Florida law forbids any consideration of partisan orientations in state hiring, firing, and contracting, but it fails to contemplate the more sinister possibility that highly partisan elected officials might purge the state bureaucracy indirectly by reorganization and privatization."
According to hermes-press.com, "No sooner had he taken the oath of office than Jeb Bush began ferreting out and replacing Democrats throughout Florida state government, his first purge of Democratic voters.
Jeb and his cohorts let special interests know that they expected political donations of $2 for every $1 donated to Democrats or defaulters would lose access to the governor and the legislative leadership.
On Election Day 2000, rich white Republican voters stood in short lines and used up-to-date equipment, including electronic machines that let them correct their ballots.
African-American Voters Blocked from Reaching Polling Places by Police Roadblocks
Things were different in black districts. Some voters were flagged down at roadblocks, where highway patrol officers checked their drivers' licenses. (Click here for more details)
Others waited in long lines for an inadequate number of booths and ancient recording equipment. All too often, innocent citizens whose names appeared on the ex-felons list were informed for the first time that they could not vote when they showed up at the polling place.
Some votes were simply trashed by ballot handlers. In Duval County, 27,000 ballots were discarded, over half of them from black precincts in Jacksonville. No official challenges were filed within the 72-hour time limit, so thousands of mostly Democratic votes were lost. Sixteen-thousand votes for Gore disappeared overnight from the ongoing Volusia County tally and were reinstated only when an election supervisor questioned the subtraction of already registered votes. No voting machine company representative or election official was able to explain what happened.
Greg Palast, an award-winning American reporter based in England, broke the story of the scrub list and documented its sleazy origins in The Observer, London, November 26, 2000. Updates, as well as each edition of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy have added irrefutable, hard evidence of fraud. (Palast's most recent estimate of all qualified Florida voters barred from casting a ballot in Election 2000 stands at 90,000.)
The story was huge in Europe, but the American press ignored it completely. Massive civil rights violations that subverted an election just didn't resonate with the mainstream press. On January 10, 2001, lawyers acting for the NAACP sued and won their case against ChoicePoint's DBT, Secretary of State Katherine Harris (who coincidentally was enthusiastically co-chairing the Bush campaign), and Bush loyalist Clay Roberts, Director of the Division of Elections. In July 2002, to atone for its staggering error rate of 95%, DBT agreed to remove innocent voters from the now infamous list of purported ex-felons. (In 2002, the purge list hadn't been corrected. In 2004, another suspicious list appeared. (end quote from hermes-press.com)
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 2000 Election Investigation Recommended that the U.S. Department of Justice should "immediately initiate the litigation process against the governor" (Jeb Bush)
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights conducted an extensive public investigation of allegations of voting irregularities during the 2000 presidential election in Florida.
"There emerges a confluence of circumstances that indicates intimidation and harassment of the Florida voters, and that was set in motion long before the November election," said Commissioner Victoria Wilson of the US Commission on Civil Rights in their report, "Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election." Issued June 8, 2001, the report accuses Florida election officials of "gross dereliction" and "injustice."
To follow is some of the text from the report at http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/ch9.htm
"Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election"
"The investigation, utilizing the Commission's subpoena power, included three days of hearings, more than 30 hours of testimony, 100 witnesses, and a systematic review of more than 118,000 pages of pertinent documents.
Responsibility Without Accountability
Florida's governor is the state's chief executive officer who "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Florida's secretary of state is the chief election officer and oversees the Division of Elections. Each county has an elected supervisor of elections, except one. Together, the secretary of state and the county supervisors of elections preside over Florida's elections.
Governor John Ellis Bush
When asked about his responsibilities to ensure the election laws of Florida were faithfully executed during the November 2000 election, Governor Bush testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that he had no real legal authority over election matters except for certifying the election and serving as a member of the state canvassing board. He indicated that he recused himself from participating on the state canvassing board because his brother was one of the presidential candidates. Governor Bush testified that "governors have the moral authority . . . to make sure that the laws, not only the state laws, but . . . also federal laws are upheld. . . ." When asked what authority and responsibility he had regarding preparation for the 2000 presidential election, Governor Bush testified that he had none and that "the secretary of state and the 67 supervisors of elections were responsible for that, and they carried out their duties."
Under the Florida Constitution, the governor is charged with ensuring that "the laws be faithfully executed," a responsibility Governor Bush apparently delegated to others with respect to elections. Under Florida election law, the governor is also specifically empowered to "appoint special officers to investigate alleged violations of the election laws . . ." Governor Bush testified that he had not appointed any officers to do any investigation of alleged irregularities surrounding the November 2000 election but would "if there was a reason to do so." As of the date of this report there is no indication that the governor has exercised this authority by appointing special officers to investigate the widespread allegations of violations of the Florida election law".
Despite the closeness of the election, it was widespread voter disenfranchisement, not the dead-heat contest, that was the extraordinary feature in the Florida election.
Disenfranchisement of Florida voters fell most harshly on the shoulders of African Americans. Statewide, based on county-level statistical estimates, African American voters were nearly 10 times more likely than white voters to have their ballots rejected in the November 2000 election.
- The U.S. Department of Justice should immediately initiate the litigation process against the governor, secretary of state, director of the Division of Elections, specific supervisors of elections, and other state and local officials responsible for the execution of election laws, practices, and procedures, regarding their contributions, if any, to the extraordinary racial disparity in the rate that votes were rejected, through their actions or failure to act before and during the 2000 presidential election, in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended. Appropriate enforcement action should be initiated to ensure full compliance with the election laws.
- The Civil Rights Division in the Office of the Florida Attorney General should initiate the litigation process against state election officials who violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, and/or Title IX of the Florida statutes through their actions or failure to act before, during, and after the November 2000 election. Based on the results of the investigation, appropriate enforcement action should be initiated to ensure full compliance with the election laws.
- The U.S. Department of Justice and the Civil Rights Division in the Office of the Florida Attorney General should initiate the litigation process against all state election officials who through their actions or failure to act violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, by not obtaining preclearance either from the federal district court of Washington, D.C., or the U.S. attorney general. Based on the results of the investigation, appropriate enforcement action should be initiated to ensure full compliance with the election laws".
Note that the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights recommended that the "U.S. Department of Justice should immediately initiate litigation process against the governor, secretary of state, director of the Division of Elections, specific supervisors of elections, and other state and local officials responsible for the execution of election laws".
I do not recall this significant fact ever being reported by the news media or anyone on the national level and it's certainly not being reported or discussed now at a time when Jeb Bush is running for President.
The American people has a right to know about this.
The news media also has a duty to report why Governor Jeb Bush, the Florida Secretary of State Kathleen Harris and director of the Division of Elections were not prosecuted as recommended by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
The Complete U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 2000 Election Investigation Report report can be found at the links below;
According to an article posted at American Bridge
"Bush used a personal email address as governor, and there are messages missing. As the Washington Post reporters, "Bush used his personal email address, firstname.lastname@example.com, to conduct official, political, and personal business…" but Bush's email disclosure website (which was already public and available at the Florida state archives) lacks many key messages, including any messages between Jeb Bush and his brother, then-President George W. Bush.
Media accounts establish that Bush, not the State of Florida, decided which private emails to disclose – apparently nothing would have stopped the Bush team from selectively leaving out politically problematic emails. As the Tampa Bay Times reported, "The Bush files, though enormous, are not complete" because they lacked "emails the governor deemed not relevant to the public record." In other words, Bush selected what was "relevant" or not for the public record, not civil servants.
The numbers do not add up. In 2007 Bush claimed he received 2.5 million emails on his public accounts, and 550,000 emails on his private accounts (Source, Naples Daily News, 7/12/07). Bush's "disclosure" only contains a total of 250,000 emails. (Source, New York Times, 2/9/15)
There are media reports that Bush only recently "completed" handing over emails, despite leaving office eight years ago, potentially violating the law. A Bloomberg politics reporter Michael Bender tweeted today that "FL law requires govs to turn over emails after leaving office. Jeb didn't finish turning over emails until last year." He further tweeted that "Bush may not have complied with FL law until considering a presidential campaign. 119.021(4)(a)." That statute requires that "Whoever has custody of any public records shall deliver [them], at the expiration of his or her term of office…".
News reports such as the one posted at MSNBC indicate that Jeb Bush used a private, personally owned email server. Full article at https://americanbridgepac.org/jeb-bush-hypocrisy-on-email-disclosure/
According to an article posted at MotherJones.com
Bush's email archive, which includes more than 250,000 messages, has produced no piercing insights or major news stories about his gubernatorial stint. There are an immense number of emails from constituents weighing in on the issues of the day. But when it comes to the major issues of his governorship, there are—curiously—very few, if any, emails between Bush and his aides.
This email archive is not easy to search. It is comprised of 248 separate files and is hardly user-friendly. This search yielded little correspondence revealing Bush's actions and decisions regarding pivotal events. It turns out that what's most notable about Bush's email trove is what's not in it". END QUOTE from Mother Jones. Click here to view the full article.
It is rather amazing how the News Media and Republicans are hounding Hillary Clinton about housing her emails on a personally owned email server, but you never hear Democrats or the News Media say anything about Jeb Bush doing the same thing. And the mainstream News Media hasn't said anything about Jeb Bush's missing emails.
One can't help but wonder if incriminating evidence may have been destroyed in the thousands of Jeb Bush's emails which are missing and unaccounted for.
The News Media should be asking questions about this.
Florida Governor's Office in Tallahassee Made 95 Telephone calls to the George W. Bush Presidential Campaign
When it became clear that the disputed Florida election could deliver the White House to his brother, Gov. Jeb Bush publicly stated that he recused himself from any official role in the recount, to avoid the "slightest appearance of a conflict of interest."
Despite his stated hands-off policy, six of his staffers took unpaid leaves to volunteer on the recount.
Bush's communications director in July 2001, Katie Baur, said, "While he recused himself from any involvement in what happened after Nov. 7, he did not recuse himself from his role as a brother." What's not known is that the level of direct involvement was, frankly, enormous.
The Los Angeles Times reported on July 14, 2001, "The Florida governor's office in Tallahassee made 95 telephone calls to the George W. Bush presidential campaign, its advisers, lawyers and staffers during the 36-day recount period, records show. At least 10 calls came from an office number used primarily by Jeb Bush, including one call to a private line in George W. Bush's gubernatorial office in Austin.
Another call from Jeb Bush's number went to Karl Rove, his brother's campaign strategist. One went to the Texas governor's chief of staff, Clay Johnson. Another went to Michigan Gov. John Engler, who soon flew to Florida to monitor the ballot recount in Broward County. Additional calls were logged to cell phones assigned to Bush campaign staffers.
In an e-mail to The Times, Jeb Bush said he could not recall the purpose of the calls. "I have no clue what these calls were about," he wrote.
Supporters of former Democratic nominee Al Gore have questioned whether Jeb Bush used his position to influence events behind the scenes after the election. It now appears he was more involved than he has publicly acknowledged.
The governor visited the state GOP headquarters in Tallahassee that functioned as the Bush campaign command center for the recount at least once, for example. He also dialed into at least one conference call with campaign operatives, aides said.
Full article at http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jul/14/news/mn-22362
Additional articles to support that the 2000 Presidential Election was rigged
How American Elections Became a Criminal Enterprise
The Rigged Election of George W. Bush caused the following events…
Crimes, Misdeeds and Deaths
Per article at (http://dyn.politico.com/members/forums/thread.cfm?catid=1&subcatid=4&threadid=2895278&start=271&CurrentPage=10) and copies found elsewhere on the internet, here's just a few of the crimes and misdeeds of George W. Bush
- Installation of George W. Bush, a illegitimate president who was not elected by the American people
- Lying to the American People about Weapons of Mass Destruction to justify War Against Iraq
- Engaging in a Illegal and unprovoked War against Iraq
- War Crimes: In the case of Hamdan vs Rumsfeld, it was proven that numerous war crimes have been committed by the Bush Administration in the war against Iraq, including the preemptive invasion itself.
- Deaths and Injuries: Causing the deaths of 4,475 Americans, 32,331 wounded Americans and the deaths of over 112,000 Iraqi Civilians
- Outing of a CIA Agent: The outing of Valerie Plame-Wilson by the Bush Administration, admitted by the CIA as being a covert agent, has led directly to Dick Cheney and possibly directly to the President.
- Spying on Americans: President Bush has admitted to his program of warrentless spying against millions of Americans in violation of the Forth Amendment and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
- Missing e-mails: Two federal statutes require presidential communications, including White House e-mails, to be preserved for the nation's historical records. From 2001 to October 2003, the White House records system over-wrote all their e-mail files, and up to 2005, some e-mails still were not fully preserved.
- Unlawful FBI Activities: The ACLU has released documents showing that the Bush Administration directed the FBI to expand the definition of "domestic terrorism" to include citizens engaged in nonviolent protest and civil disobedience. This is totally unconstitutional.
- Firing of US Attorneys: This was a successful attempt by the President to use his US Attorney General and the US Justice Department for partisan political gains. VIDEO
- Response to Hurricane Katrina: This was a demonstration of gross negligence by the Bush Administration.
- Scooter Libby: The President betrayed the public trust when he commuted the prison sentence of "Scooter" Libby.
- Koch Industries was indicted by the DoJ in 2000 for knowingly dumping "at least 91 metric tons of uncontrolled benzene in its liquid waste streams" at its Corpus Christi refinery, and for conspiring to cover it up in an attempt to deceive regulators.After George W. Bush took office in 2001, however, "his Attorney General John Ashcroft dropped 88 counts against Koch for the benzene spill and cover-up" in exchange for a guilty plea to falsifying documents and a $20 million fine (a settlement from $350 million in potential fines.) The Kochs made out pretty well in exchange for their $32,200 contribution to the 2000 Bush campaign. [Source: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8778]
The George W. Bush administration ran up a debt of almost 10 trillion dollars.
George W. Bush is also responsible for the predominantly conservative Supreme Court by appointing conservative Justices Samuel Alito & John Roberts.
The predominantly conservative Supreme Court has been making partisan decisions including;
- Destroying the Voting Rights Act – After the Supreme Court ruling, 22 states have passed Voter ID laws that make it more difficult to vote. Texas also rammed through their new gerrymandered districts that, prior to this decision, would have required a pre-clearance from the Department of Justice.
- Citizens United allowing billionaires to buy elections
- Hobby Lobby Decision which allows non coverage of birth control pills for companies owned by religious objectors.
If George W. Bush had not been president, these rulings would never happened.
These conservative justices do not reflect the will of the people and violate democracy because the majority of Americans voted for a Democrat President, Al Gore. Al Gore had more popular votes than George W. Bush. If all illegally purged voters & votes were counted, Al Gore would have clearly won Florida & the election.
It was the unnecessary Bush/Cheney Iraq War that created the conditions that led directly to the rise of ISIS the "Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL).
The barbaric be-headings and people being burned alive by ISIS would not have happened were it not for the 2000 election being rigged.
The damage caused by George W. Bush will likely be felt for generations. This is why the 2000 election is so important.
George W. Bush has been convicted of War Crimes by a tribunal in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. You can read the details here
The mainstream news media has refused to investigate and expose any of the issues raised here and in other reports found on the internet. They are not even discussing the matter. This information can be found on the Internet with just a few searches.
You never hear a news reporter ask Jeb Bush about the 2000 election and you never hear news organizations discuss the issues and irregularities. It's as though a news blackout exists in the United States regarding the 2000 election.
Jeb Bush Was Running for President in 2016
Jeb Bush campaigned for President and was treated like a respectable person with not so much as a whisper by anyone in the news media, DNC or NAACP about the 2000 election.
None of the candidates running for president or moderators at the Presidential debates has mentioned any of the important issues raise on this page.
Jeb Bush keeps making the claim that he has a great track record as Governor of Florida as his qualification to be President.
The fact is, the worst election debacle in US history happen on Jeb's watch and no one is calling him out on it.
Jeb Bush has been a long supporter of his Brother's disastrous Invasion and War against Iraq
Jeb Bush has made statements which are anti African-American and taken action which negatively affected African-Americans
In 1994 during JEB's first run for Florida Governor, when asked what he would do for African-Americans, he replied "probably nothing"
2000 Election Voter Purge
Jeb Bush's administration violated thousands of African-American's civil rights by wrongfully purging them from the voter rolls in 2000.
Bush's Administration Attempted A Second Voter Purge In Florida In 2004.
In July 2004, the Tampa Bay Times reported, "Nine days after making the names of more than 47,000 potential felon voters public, state officials have scrapped the entire list, saying it was too flawed to be trusted." [Tampa Bay Times, 7/11/04]
Bush Signed A Bill That Curtailed Early Voting In Florida.
In 2012, PolitiFact noted that Bush actually signed a law passed by Florida's Republican-led legislature that "capped" early voting hours and limited early voting locations.
During a town hall meeting on Aug. 17 2015, in Columbia, S.C. JEB accused African-American voters of only voting for candidates who will give them "free stuff."
As you can see in the video and articles posted on this page, there is evidence which supports the fact that the Jeb Bush administration was involved in helping his brother get elected illegally in 2000.
As stated by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 2000 Election Investigation, "Under the Florida Constitution, the governor is charged with ensuring that the laws be faithfully executed".
Jeb Bush and his administration had a duty to make sure every vote was counted and that NO ONE was wrongfully removed from the voter rolls. Evidence shows that the Jeb Bush administration failed miserably in protecting citizens right to vote.
Instructing Choicepoint / DBT to match voters as convicted felons using a criteria of 80% accuracy all but guaranteed that thousands of voters would be disenfranchised.
After disenfranchising thousands of voters, the Jeb Bush administration further victimized these voters by placing the burden on them to prove they weren't convicted felons.
Based on all of the evidence, it is reasonable to concluded that the Jed Bush administration took deliberate action to make sure as many voters as possible who might vote for Al Gore were removed from the voter rolls.
It is a documented FACT that the Jeb Bush administration illegally purged thousands of black voters from the voters rolls in 2000 and in doing so, the presidency was handed to George W. Bush on a silver platter.
Jeb Bush and his administration is therefore is responsible outcome of the 2000 election and all of the disasters Bush / Cheney caused including the Iraq War, thousands of deaths and ISIS.
Thousands of people has died as a result of Jed Bush administration's actions which helped George W. Bush to be installed as president yet no one has been held accountable and the matter is not being reported by the news media nor exposed on the national level.
Rigging an election is a treasonous offense. The rigged 2000 election may be one of the greatest crimes in American history, yet no one to date has been held accountable or prosecuted.
Jeb Bush and his administration should be prosecuted as recommended by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights – http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/ch9.htm
Jeb Bush has been quoted as saying;
"The truth is useless. You have to understand this right now. You can't deposit the truth in a bank. You can't buy groceries with the truth. You can't pay rent with the truth. The truth is a useless commodity that will hang around your neck like an albatross all the way to the homeless shelter. And if you think that the million or so people in this country that are really interested in the truth about their government can support people who would tell them the truth, you got another think coming. Because the million or so people in this country that are truly interested in the truth don't have any money." (cited by Uri Dowbenko in Bushwhacked, Sept. 2002, Jeb Bush, speaking to retired Naval Intelligence Officer Al Martin)
It's time every American learn the truth!
Here's how you can help get involved in this grassroots efforts to make sure every American is made aware of this betrayal of Democracy.
1. Please donate what ever you can so we can place ads all over the internet and on TV to raise public awareness about this important issue.
2. Sign these petitions demanding that the 2000 Election & Jeb Bush administration be the investigated by the United States Department of Justice:
Change.org: https://change.org/p/investigate-2000-election
Moveone.org: http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/investigate-the-jeb-bush
(If enough people signs, Change & Moveon will promote the petitions and that will help publicize the 2000 Election issue.
3. Post either of the above photos all over the internet on websites, social media sites like facebook & twitter. The link to this to this page is; https://uscitizensalert.com/2000-election-stolen
To copy either of the photos, drag your mouse across the photo then copy & paste it where you want. You can also save a copy of each photo to your computer by placing your mouse over the ad, then right click, then click, "save image as…" then save in a folder on your computer.
4. Write and call the news media (radio, TV, newspapers) and send them links to this page. Ask them why they aren't reporting Jeb Bush for his administration purging thousands of black voters from the voters rolls, thereby rigging the election for Jeb Bush's brother, George W. Bush.
Click here to view a letter you can send to TV Networks, Newspapers and where ever you want.
Anytime you see a news article about Jeb Bush on TV or in a print news article, send a tweet and email to the show or author about the article on this page.
5. Go to Jeb Bush rallies with signs calling attention to how his administration rigged the 2000 election to get his brother installed as president. How rigging the election caused the deaths of over 4,000 thousand Americans and over 100,000 Iraqi citizens.
6. Call out Jeb Bush for his thousands of missing emails.
7. Contact Democrat politicians, send them links to this page and ask them to speak out and expose Jeb Bush for his administration rigging the 2000 election by illegally purging thousands of black voters from the voters rolls, thereby violating citizens rights and democracy.
8. Follow us at Twitter: https://twitter.com/uscitizensalert @uscitizensalert
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"I always enjoy coming back. I don't get back that often so I really cherish my time at home," said Bursey.
The Sahalee Players Championship is a golf tournament that the features some of the best amateur golfers in North America. Participation is by invitation only and Bursey was thrilled to get the opportunity.
"I was definitely fortunate to be invited," said Bursey. "I've played with some players who are ranked top 50 in the world. It's good to be included with those types of guys, just to be around them and then to beat most of them."
Bursey, who is a student going into his final year at Utah Valley University in the United States, has had a busy summer.
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"I've had a pretty strong schedule this summer and haven't really lived up to my expectations. To finally have a week where I felt like I had some good golf shine through was definitely encouraging," said Bursey.
For now, Bursey is enjoying a well-deserved break in Gander before travelling to New York to compete in the Porter Cup.
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It's that time of the year again. No, it ain't Christmas, but the rewards for this seasonal occasion, in effect, can just be like Christmas. It's Midsummer Festival here in World of Warcraft and you'll notice almost everyone in Azeroth is celebrating it, save for the Lich King and his army of undead of course, haha! It's the time of the year where we get some goodies and achievements by farming quests and the new dungeon boss which gives away 2 more Emblems of Frost on your first queue of the day.
Like what I've mentioned, the MidsummeFestival will treat us to a new boss in an old dungeon, the Slave Pens, which we can queue up using the dungeon finder. But this boss ain't just any other boss. Nope, it's nothing less than an Elemental Lord, an entity created by the Old Gods to challenge the Titans when Azeroth was still a baby. And with this mini-guide, we'll be giving tankers a short glimpse and walkthrough on how to tank the new threat: the Frost Lord Ahune.
Frost Lord Ahune can be summoned by activating the huge icicle that is being guarded by a lone Naga warrior. Easy to get to but that isn't the real test. Once you summon the Frost Lord, that's when the party will kick in.
Ahune has 539k health, which seems to be a piece of cake for a group of level 80 toons. But the fight is a little more complicated than what it seems and requires the group to do a little more than tank and spank. If everyone is aware on how the fight goes, that'll be the time when the encounter becomes easy. But if handled improperly, it might go ugly and lead to a wipe (ouch).
Ahune starts off his first phase by constantly casting Cold Slap, an ability that hits for 1500-4500 frost melee damage and knocks back the opponent in melee range. This will be your worst nightmare if you go straight to Ahune thinking that zerging him will get the fight done faster. He also has 'Ahune's Shield,' which decreases all damage by 75%, and several adds, Ahunite Hailstone, Ahunite Frostwind, and Ahunite Coldwave.
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The chase for Oregon coach Chip Kelly looked like a two-team derby between the Philadelphia Eagles and Cleveland Browns, but a third party has re-entered the picture.
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NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported Sunday that Oregon booster and Nike co-founder Phil Knight is making a strong push to keep Kelly with the Ducks, according to a source with knowledge of the process.
Kelly is expected to make his decision soon, but staying at Oregon remains a possibility, according to the source.
For now, the Browns are proceeding to interview other candidates, hours after losing out on Syracuse coach Doug Marrone, whom the Buffalo Bills snatched up early Sunday. The Eagles, meanwhile, met with Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy in Denver, Rapoport reported.
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Petrol stations across France are running out of fuel as refinery and
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Around 1,500 petrol stations attached to French shopping centres had dried up by Monday morning, the AFP news agency reported.
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A consummate film artist, Warren Beatty has left his distinctive mark on American film during nearly a half-century of acting, producing, directing and writing. In an era that saw the redefinition of the studio system, the rise of independents and the dawning of the digital age, Warren Beatty has created a body of work that transcends trends and remains timeless.
His screen acting career began with a love story. The movie was SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS and Beatty, as tortured high school jock Bud Stamper, made an indelible impression in his film acting debut. "He produced a heat haze atmosphere of erotic frustration," remembers journalist David Thomson. "No film had been so infused with the adolescent's urgency about sex. You came out of it in a stupor of rapture and guilt. With one film, Beatty was established as a male sex symbol." Co-star Natalie Wood may have walked away with an Academy Award nomination for her role as Deanie, but Beatty won the role of movie star at the tender age of 24 — a role he has worn with panache ever since.
"He was awkward in a way that was attractive," said director Elia Kazan who took a chance on the actor on the recommendation of writer William Inge. "He was very, very ambitious. He had a lot of hunger, as all the stars do when they are young."
From the beginning, the handsome Virginia-born son of educators had an appetite to master the complexities of making movies. He learned by studying directors like Kazan, Arthur Penn, Alan J. Pakula and Hal Ashby, collaborators on his early films and by absorbing lessons from legendary producers like Sam Goldwyn, Sam Spiegel and mentor Charles K. Feldman. "Once I had acted in my first movie and it was successful," explained Beatty on receiving the Producers Guild of America's Career Milestone Award in 2004, "it seemed apparent to me that the enjoyment would be in putting a movie together."
He brought enormous drive and intelligence to the task of putting together that first movie. The result, BONNIE AND CLYDE, is a landmark, marking the advent of an iconoclastic, independent American cinema. Here was a gangster picture that mixed romance, adventure, glamour, comedy and violence in a way never before seen. The critics may not have known what to do with it, but the audiences knew. They went wild.
The stories about the making of BONNIE AND CLYDE are Hollywood lore and the Beatty producing style is legendary. Known for his painstaking attention to detail and tireless work ethic, Beatty bought the rights to the story after Francois Truffaut passed. Beatty directed rewrites, negotiated with Jack Warner, raised the financing, collaborated with director Arthur Penn to select a cast and crew remarkable for its energy and excellence, starred in it and then fought to have the movie re-released.
"They went into the desert and created a masterpiece," summed up Roger Ebert in his 1967 review. Its influence was felt in fashion, music and pop culture around the world — and as a filmmaking phenomenon it is still being analyzed today. Twice it has been honored by AFI among the 100 greatest American films of all time.
With the power that accrued from that success, Beatty went on to choose his projects with care, enriching his skills as an actor and becoming a writer and director in the process. His memorable roles have ranged from the reluctant western hero in Robert Altman's
McCABE & MRS. MILLER to a US Senator who has a revelation and raps the truth in BULWORTH. In his screenplays he has shaped characters like hairdresser George Roundy in SHAMPOO and journalist John Reed in REDS, who charm the audience while illuminating deeper political currents in society — as well as lighter-than-air quarterback Joe Pendleton in HEAVEN CAN WAIT.
If his reputation as a director is that of a perfectionist, his collaborators have nothing but praise — for his taste, his devotion to craft and the energy that surrounds his productions. "He gets the best people and he lets them do what they do," explains longtime collaborator production designer Richard Sylbert.
Beatty has been nominated 15 times for an Academy Award, over four categories and six films. He won Best Director for REDS and has been recognized by the Academy with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for "a consistently high quality of motion picture production."
Alongside his motion picture career, Beatty has devoted prodigious energy to politics — a tradition in his Virginia family and a personal passion. Active in the Democratic Party since the late sixties when he campaigned for Robert Kennedy, Beatty spent a year working on George McGovern's presidential race, helping to transform the link between Hollywood and Washington. He has defied box office pressures and woven political themes into his work — with the epic story of the Russian Revolution in REDS and in the contemporary political satire BULWORTH.
Warren Beatty helped reshape Hollywood when it was time for a change. With his restless energy, he stretched the definition of actor to become one of the first multi-hyphenates: a magnetic movie star, a brilliant producer, a driven director and a writer who aspires to reflect the times in which we live.
And finally, after all that hard work, he found an even greater spotlight as husband to Annette Bening and a proud father of four.
AFI salutes Warren Beatty — visionary film artist and American original.
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A star since his first film, SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS, in 1961, Warren Beatty has been said to have demonstrated a greater longevity in movies than any actor of his generation.
Few people have taken so many responsibilities for all phases of the production of films as producer, director, writer and actor and few have evidenced so high a level of integrity in a body of work. At least fifteen of his films are often referred to as classics: BONNIE AND CLYDE, SHAMPOO, REDS, HEAVEN CAN WAIT, DICK TRACY, BUGSY, BULWORTH, SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS, ALL FALL DOWN, MCCABE AND MRS MILLER, THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS STONE, MICKEY ONE, THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN, LILITH and THE PARALLAX VIEW.
Only Beatty and Orson Welles have been nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as an actor, a director, a writer and a producer for the same film. Beatty did it twice, for HEAVEN CAN WAIT and again for REDS. Welles once for CITIZEN KANE.
Beatty has been nominated fifteen times in these categories and eight pictures he has produced have earned 53 nominations. In 1982 he won the Academy Award for Directing and in 2000 was given the Academy's highest honor, the Irving G. Thalberg Award.
He has won the Best Director Award from the Directors Guild of America and has been nominated twice.
He has won the Writers Guild of America Award three times for Best Screenplay and has been nominated four times.
He has won sixteen awards from the New York and Los Angeles Film Critics, the National Board of Review and the Golden Globes.
In France he was made a Commander of Arts and Letters in 1990.
In Great Britain he has received The British Academy's highest honor — a Fellowship in 2000.
In Italy he received the David di Donatello award in 1968 and again in 1981 and its Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998.
In Spain he was awarded the Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award.
The National Association of Theater Owners has honored him as Director of the Year, as Producer of the Year and as Actor of the Year.
He has received The Milestone Award from the Producers Guild.
He has received the Board of Governors Award from the American Society of
He was given the Directors Award from the Costume Designers Guild.
He was given the Life Achievement Award from the Publicists Guild.
He has received the Cecil B. DeMille Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
He has been honored at numerous film festivals throughout the world.
In December 2004, he received The Kennedy Center Honor in Washington, D.C.
In 2008, Beatty will receive the American Film Institute's highest honor, the AFI Life Achievement Award.
Politically active since the 1960's, he campaigned with Robert Kennedy in his 1968 presidential campaign. That same year he traveled throughout the United States speaking in favor of gun control and against the war in Vietnam. In 1972 he took a year off from motion pictures to campaign with George McGovern. He has campaigned for every Democratic presidential candidate since 1968.
In 1981 he was a founding board member of the Center for National Policy with Ted Van Dyk, Edmund Muskie, Cyrus Vance, Leon Panetta, Robert Rudin and Madeline Albright. He has participated in the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, is a founding member of The Progressive Majority and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
He is on the Board of Trustees of The Scripps Research Institute and on the Board of Directors of the Motion Picture and Television Fund Foundation.
He has received the Eleanor Roosevelt Award from the Americans for Democratic Action, the Brennan Legacy Award from the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law and the Philip Burton Public Service Award from The Foundation For Taxpayer and Consumer Rights.
With his wife, Annette Bening, he received the Caritas Award from the Saint John's Health Center and the Stem Cell Champions Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
In multiple forums he has addressed campaign finance reform, the increasing disparity of wealth, universal health care and the need for the Democratic Party to return to its roots.
He was born in Richmond, Virginia and he and Annette live in Los Angeles with their four children Kathlyn 16, Ben 13, Isabel 11 and Ella 7.
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