with the Reno pics!!
LOL ! Well, let's fix it up a little bit then!.......
President Bush at the wheel:
Driving to GOP victory on November 5, 2002
Posted on 07/30/2002 11:03:03 PM PDT by Mudboy Slim
LOL ! Well, let's fix it up a little bit then!.......
Oops! Sorry 'bout that. I meant to make those last few to "All" so as not to clog
your "My Comments" page up.
Can't decide between Saddam Hussein or the Ba$+ard RATS...how 'bout we do 'em both in late October-early November!?!
Thanks fer the graphics, my FRiend...MUD
Naww, you ain't goin' daft, you've linked me to those on previous editions of the Black threads...thanks fer adding it to Black IX!!
"Go here: Ignorance Making You Ill? Cure It! for links, tools, & instructions about how to contact a pile of different people, and how to send a link to this story right here ( or anywhere else ) to a "mass email" using Outlook Express."
It's getting close to the point where we need to post another Activist thread so as to demonstrate the Power of Free Republic in getting the word out. I realize most of the Sheeple don't start paying attention to the November races until after Labor Day, but we've got to make Terry McAuliffe and Robert Rubin the Face of the DemonRAT Party for the upcoming elections!!
The RATS are trying to make the case that the GOP is the Party of Big Bid'ness, but it just ain't so!! We need to compile a thorough--yet brief and understandable--listing of the RAT Elites' corruption and MassFReepMail everyone to links to the Truth!! And when I say everyone, I don't just mean the Effete Elite, but also the Sheeple who vote...our friends, our family, our co-workers, even mild acquaintances!! The Fascist RAT/RINO scumbags may undercut our ability to get the word out via mass advertising with unconstitutional legislation such as CFR, but they can't silence those of us who ain't gettin' paid diddly fer our patriotism!!
FReegards...MUD
What?!?
This is criminal!!
Yes! This is exactly what we gotta do. This is how to win elections. Find five or six races where the Conservative has a chance (i.e. "Picks to Click") to upset the RAT and we can turn everything on its head. We can also use this technique to raise funds for our "Picks to Click".
You have that right- and dittos to getting the word out to friends & neighbors & relatives... grass-roots activism is so important. The most powerful persueder (?-- dog's rushing me! ) is one to one. Gotta run!
Awesome post, Brian!! I've been telling family, friends and co-workers how Osama bil Clinton is directly responsible for the almost 3,000 lives lost on 9/11/01 and it's been a tough sell. However, the more the Truth leaks out, the more they recognize how true it is...William Jefferson Blythe Clinton's hands were already bloody due to Waco, Kosovo, and other less-publicized murders, but convincing the Sheeple of Der SchleekMeister's direct responsibility for the World Trade Center/Pentagon massacres is extremely important for the future of this Country!! Never again can America afford to elect a POTUS of Clinton's non-existent character, and demonstrating the consequences of Clinton's VILE Reign will go a long way in insuring we don't make that mistake again!!
RE-IMPEACH. CONVICT. DETHRONE.
DISBAR. DE-PENSION. DE-LEGITIMIZE.
INDICT. CONVICT. IMPRISON. DISCARD KEY.
Quite Sincerely...MUD
"...the complaint alleges that, during the Class Period, the Defendants failed to disclose material facts concerning Citigroup's relationship with Enron Corp. ("Enron"). The complaint charges, for example, that Citigroup never disclosed it was structuring financial deals for Enron so that Enron could falsify its financial statements and defraud its investors. After Enron's collapse, Citigroup continued to misrepresent its potential Enron-related exposure by failing to disclose the true extent of its potential legal liability arising out of its transactions with Enron. As a result of the Defendants' failure to disclose the true nature of Citigroup's relationship with Enron, Citigroup's stock price was artificially inflated during the Class Period, trading as high as $57. Upon news that the Senate Committee found evidence that Citigroup was involved in Enron's collapse, the stock fell to $27 on trading of 121 million shares."
Slowly but surely, the Truth about Rubin's Corruption will bubble to the fore...MUD
"It may turn out that there is damning evidence that we have not yet seen. But until someone produces it -- say, that Halliburton's cost overrun revenues were knowingly and crookedly inflated -- we are left with the following syllogism: It is open season on CEOs; Cheney was once a CEO; therefore, it is open season on Cheney."
FReegards...MUD
"Global Crossing Buyout by Li Ka-Shing Under Fire"
Charles R. Smith
Thursday, March 7, 2002
Chinese Billionaire Tied to the Chinese Army
Li Ka-Shing's ties to the Chinese army has Global Crossing shareholders and Congress crying foul.
In February Li, a Chinese billionaire, put together a $750 million offer to buy out the bankrupt telecom giant Global Crossing. However, the plan by the close associate of Chinese President Jiang Zemin has come under fire from inside Congress and from Global Crossing's creditors.
Li faces competitive bids for Global Crossing made by AT&T and New York-based KAB Group LLC, which has filed an alternative plan on behalf of the shareholders that proposes to raise $5.5 billion over the next three years.
However, the financial competition over Global Crossing is now being overshadowed by the U.S. national security concerns posed by the sale to the Chinese billionaire.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., sent an urgent letter Monday to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, expressing his opposition to the proposed sale of the telecom giant to Li and seeking a "full investigation" by the Defense Department into the sale.
'National Security Nightmare'
The concern is that Global Crossing holds contracts over secure Defense Department communications and that the sale to the Chinese billionaire may compromise the U.S. military. Rep. Rohrabacher expressed his concern directly to Rumsfeld, noting that a U.S. military contract "under a company owned by Li Ka-Shing would be a national security nightmare."
NewsMax.com has uncovered the documented close ties between Li and the Chinese military. One source on Capitol Hill compared Li's relationship to the Chinese army as similar to that of billionaire Howard Hughes and the CIA. The fact is that Li is directly in business with the Chinese military.
He is a founder and board member of China International Trust and Investment Corp., or CITIC. A 1997 Rand Corp. report noted that CITIC acts as a front for the People's Liberation Army.
"CITIC does enter into business partnerships with and provide logistical assistance to PLA and defense-industrial companies," noted the 1997 Rand report.
"Poly Technologies, Ltd., was founded in 1984, ostensibly as a subsidiary of CITIC, although it was later exposed to be the primary commercial arm of the PLA General Staff Department's Equipment Sub-Department. Throughout the 1980s, Poly sold hundreds of millions of dollars of largely surplus arms around the world, exporting to customers in Thailand, Burma, Iran, Pakistan, and the United States," states the Rand report.
Editor's note: Here is the text of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
"March 4, 2002
The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld
Secretary of Defense
1000 Defense Pentagon
Washington, D.C. 20301
Dear Mr. Secretary:
I am writing to call your attention and express my opposition to the potential sale of the U.S. telecommunication company Global Crossing Ltd. to a consortium headed by the Hong Kong Chinese Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. American intelligence agencies have found that Hutchison Whampoa's chairman Li Ka-shing has extensive ties to the Chinese Communist leadership and is a founder and Board member of China International Trust and Investment Corporation, which serves as a funding umbrella for the Chinese military. In addition, Li is reported to have been a close friend of General Ji Shengde, the former director of the PLA's military intelligence bureau [See attached official and press documents].
Li, who is one of Beijing's chief conduits in Hong Kong, has been involved in an anti-trust controversy in Hong Kong and widely-documented corruption in obtaining the lease of the strategic ports on the Panama Canal. Worldwide, Li and Hutchison have been involved in business practices that challenge American economic interests. Chinese military doctrine stresses information warfare and sabotage of communications systems as a key to successful assymetrical warfare against the United States. I request that the Department of Defense do a stringent review of this sale based on Li Ka-shing and Hutchison Whampoa's relationship to the People's Republic of China and on the national security ramifications for the United States.
According to the Global Crossing's literature, the company provides integrated telecommunications services over the world's most extensive global IP-based fiber-optic network. By mid-2001, the Global Crossing fiber-optic network covered 10,000 miles, reaching 27 countries throughout the Americas, Europe and the Asia-Pacific regions. Its Asian services are provided through its subsidiary, Asia Global Crossing. These networks are estimated to control over 15 percent of the fiber-optic network connecting the U.S. with Europe; 23 percent of the network with Asia, and 25 percent with South America.
Most significantly, the Global Crossing companies' clients include the U.S. military, the Department of State and other U.S. government agencies. In addition, the U.S. military and other U.S. agencies, as well as NATO use the companies' fiber-optic cables to conduct communications. In July, 2001, Global Crossing won a services contract from the Department of Defense to provide an advanced wide area network Internet service to the Defense Research and Engineering Network [DREN], which links more than 6,000 scientists and engineers at defense laboratories, test centers, universities and industry sites. DREN has also been reported to potentially link every major U.S. military command, and would potentially risk the security of all "gatekeepers" of major U.S. national security communications networks. The DREN contract was recently reopened for bidding because of Global Crossing's shortcomings. However, in the February 14, 2002, New York Times, Ms. Mary Moore, the spokeswoman for Global Crossing, said, "We think we are still in the running for this award." Needless to say, that contract under a company owned by Li Ka-shing would be a national security nightmare.
The purchase of Global Crossing would enable Mr. Li, who has previously faced monopoly-related charges in Hong Kong, of manipulating the international market. And the ownership of Global Crossing would enable Hutchison and the Chinese to gain valuable insight and access to developments in the industry that could hinder competitiveness and cutting-edge leadership of U.S. companies in the international market. Above all other issues, I must underscore that a thorough investigation of this proposed sale is of utmost importance for U.S. national security.
I look forward to hearing from you to discuss a full investigation by the Department of Defense as soon as possible. In addition, I would like a copy, in classified and unclassified form, of a study written by SOUTHCOM during the period when Gen. Wesley Clark was the CINC, related to strategic threats to the United States in Latin America, including Hutchison control of the Panama Canal. The contact person in my Washington office, who is conducting a preliminary Congressional investigation on this matter, is Mr. Al Santoli. Please contact me through Mr. Santoli at 202-225-2415. Thank you for your consideration of this vital matter.
Sincerely,
Dana Rohrabacher
Member of Congress
cc: Hon. Condoleezza Rice, National Security Council
Some Federal Agency needs to put the kibosh on this deal, and soon!!
FReegards...MUD
The American public's many times dumber than even a jaded, cynical ol' SOB like me ever thought & this developement proves it without a doubt in my military mind.
...the McAuliff punk's gonna skate, kid; just watch & see.
"They could funnel large amounts of money to people who were nothing less than quislings - Russians who were willing to sell out for money. What we did beyond the economic abuse was we built up a very small group of people and labeled them as reformers and great democrats. The perverse result of this was that every other Russian reformer was pushed aside. It was the opposite of open debate and democracy. Our money - taxpayer money - actually smothered other actors who weren't all communists, but rather were decent people who were trying to have input into the process in the creation of a new country, a new government and a new way of life."
The RATS HATE American Capitalism and are poisoning the Hearts and Minds of the Russian Sheeple by pretending that this is the way America became the Economic SuperPower we have become!! Truth is, this is a microcosm of the Corruption that the ClintonRAT Party committed with the Department of Commerce, allowing a few hand-picked Effete Elitists monopolistic access to up-and-coming, heretofore closed markets in exchange for substantial campaign donations and, no doubt, cleverly-disguised cash--and exclusive opportunity--kickbacks to folks like Der SchleekMeister, Terry McAuliffe and Robert Rubin!!
This turns my stomach!!
Grrrrrr...MUD
"Only a man of Mr. Clinton's, er, self-confidence, could believe that he could get away with what Mr. McAuliffe is trying, to lead his party's charge against President Bush on the issue of business ethics. In the sermon he delivered to the Democratic National Committee summer meeting in Las Vegas Saturday, Mr. McAuliffe was so busy attacking the President for manipulating markets and exploiting September 11 that somehow he never mentioned the words Global Crossing.
"It's not that he doesn't know the name. In 1997, at the invitation of CEO Gary Winnick, Mr. McAuliffe made an investment of $100,000 in Global Crossing shortly before it went public. Two years later he sold it for $18 million. Shortly thereafter, Global Crossing made a public announcement of decline in profits and the share price plummeted. It declared bankruptcy last January; in other words, Mr. McAuliffe pocketed $18 million for worthless shares.
"Nor did the Democrats' chairman bring up his Florida land deal, in which he turned an investment of $100 into $2.45 million. Byron York laid out the details of this sweetheart deal last month in National Review Online. These include a Labor Department investigation that ended last October with two of Mr. McAuliffe's partners paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties.
"Mr. McAuliffe's rhetoric stirred the party loyalists in Las Vegas; we read that he hopes his candidates pick it up in actually running for office. If they do, we'd hope voters would remember the origin of the rhetoric, and that Republicans would remind them. For the [DemonRAT] party to allow Mr. McAuliffe to be its spokesman on business ethics is an insult to voters, suggesting they're too dumb to recognize utter hypocrisy."
Amen to that, Wall Street Journal...AMEN TO THAT!!
Due to circumstances beyond my control, I was unable to listen to the last 90 minutes of Rush's show today, so I'm not sure if he mentioned this WSJ article or not, but I sent him a private 24/7 e-mail with a link just in case. I'm listening to the last two hours now and the Lovable Fuzzball is certainly laying into McAuliffe today, but these four paragraphs say a boatload and need to make it to the ears of Limbaugh's 20 Million listeners!!
FReepers must--and shall--lead the onslaught of the Clinton/McAuliffe DemonRATS this Fall!!
Sharpen yer pitchforks, folks, we're gonna have us some good, clean fun 'tween now and November...MUD
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