Transcript of Representative Cynthia McKinney's Exchange with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers, and Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) Tina Jonas, March 11th, 2005
Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld in House Hearing on FY06 Dept. of Defense Budget Chairman Representative Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and witnesses Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and JCS Chairman General Richard Myers hold a House Hearing on the FY 2006 Budget for the Department of Defense and Military Services. 3/11/2005: WASHINGTON, DC: 2 hr. 5 min.
CMK: Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) DR: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld RM: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers TJ: Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) Tina Jonas DH: Chairman Representative Duncan Hunter (R-CA)
25:20 CMK: Thank you Mr. Chairman. Mr. Secretary, I watched President Bush deliver a moving speech at the United Nations in September 2003, in which he mentioned the crisis of the sex trade. The President called for the punishment of those involved in this horrible business. But at the very moment of that speech, DynCorp was exposed for having been involved in the buying and selling of young women and children. While all of this was going on, DynCorp kept the Pentagon contract to administer the smallpox and anthrax vaccines, and is now working on a plague vaccine through the Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program. Mr. Secretary, is it [the] policy of the U.S. Government to reward companies that traffic in women and little girls?
That's my first question. My second question, Mr. Secretary: according to the Comptroller General of the United States, there are serious financial management problems at the Pentagon, to which Mr. Cooper alluded.
Fiscal Year 1999: $2.3 trillion missing.
Fiscal Year 2000, $1.1 trillion missing.
And DoD is the number one reason why the government can't balance its checkbook. The Pentagon has claimed year after year that the reason it can't account for the money is because its computers don't communicate with each other.
My second question, Mr. Secretary, is who has the contracts today, to make those systems communicate with each other? How long have they had those contracts, and how much have the taxpayers paid for them?
Finally Mr. Secretary, after the last Hearing, I thought that my office was promised a written response to my question regarding the four wargames on September 11th. I have not yet received that response, but would like for you to respond to the questions that I've put to you today. And then I do expect the written response to my previous question - hopefully by the end of the week.
27:26 DR: Thank you, Representative. First, the answer to your first question is, is, no, absolutely not, the policy of the United States Government is clear, unambiguous, and opposed to the activities that you described. The second question -
CMK: Well how do you explain the fact that DynCorp and its successor companies have received and continue to receive government contracts?
DR: I would have to go and find the facts, but there are laws and rules and regulations with respect to government contracts, and there are times that corporations do things they should not do, in which case they tend to be suspended for some period; there are times then that the - under the laws and the rules and regulations for the - passed by the Congress and implemented by the Executive branch - that corporations can get off of - out of the penalty box if you will, and be permitted to engage in contracts with the government. They're generally not barred in perpetuity -
CMK: This contract - this company - was never in the penalty box. If you could proceed to my second question, please.
I agree. But I also think anyone with A "D" or "R" next to their names (except "R" Ron Paul and "D" Cynthia McKinney) are basically in the same evil party. We are being played.
http://drudgereport.com/flash4.htm
FLASHBACK: HILLARY CLINTON SAYS INTERNET NEWS NEEDS 'RETHINK'
Sun Sep 25 2005 16:52:50 ET
China on Sunday imposed new media restrictions designed to limit the news and other information available to Internet users, sharply restricting the scope of content that can be posted on Web sites.
In 1998 during a meeting with reporters, Hillary Rodham Clinton said that "we are all going to have to rethink how we deal with" the Internet because of the handling of White House sex scandal stories on Web sites.
Clinton was asked whether she favored curbs on the Internet, after the DRUDGE REPORT made headlines with coverage of her husband's affair with a White House intern.
"We are all going to have to rethink how we deal with this, because there are all these competing values... Without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping function, what does it mean to have the right to defend your reputation?" she said.
Hillary Clinton Continued:
"I don't have any clue about what we're going to do legally, regulatorily, technologically -- I don't have a clue. But I do think we always have to keep competing interests in balance. I'm a big pro-balance person. That's why I love the founders -- checks and balances; accountable power. Anytime an individual or an institution or an invention leaps so far out ahead of that balance and throws a system, whatever it might be -- political, economic, technological --out of balance, you've got a problem, because then it can lead to the oppression people's rights, it can lead to the manipulation of information, it can lead to all kinds of bad outcomes which we have seen historically. So we're going to have to deal with that. And I hope a lot of smart people are going to --"
REPORTER: Sounds like you favor regulation.
MRS. CLINTON: Bill, I don't know what -- that's why I said I don't know what I'm in favor of. And I don't know enough to know what to be in favor of, because I think it's one of those new issues we've got to address. We've got to see whether our existing laws protect people's right of privacy, protect them against defamation. And if they can, how do you do that when you can press a button and you can't take it back. So I think we have to tread carefully.
END
Why is everyone joyous about this "democracy" thing? We are supposed to have a republic here in the united states of America.
Democracy is mob rule.
Die thx la~
I don't know if I am supposed to do this but I am sure I will find out soon enough...;)
Text:
Bigger Than Watergate!
How To Rig An Election In The United States
Column: C.D. Sludge
07/08/03: (Scoop) The story you are about to read is in this writer's view the biggest political scandal in American history, if not global history. And it is being broken today here in New Zealand.
This story cuts to the bone the machinery of democracy in America today. Democracy is the only protection we have against despotic and arbitrary government, and this story is deeply disturbing.
Imagine if you will that you are a political interest group that wishes to control forevermore the levers of power. Imagine further that you know you are likely to implement a highly unpopular political agenda, and you do not wish to be removed by a ballot driven backlash.
One way to accomplish this outcome would be to adopt the Mugabe (Zimbabwe) or Hun Sen (Cambodia) approach. You agree to hold elections, but simultaneously arrest, imprison and beat your opponents and their supporters. You stuff ballot boxes, disenfranchise voters who are unlikely to vote for you, distort electoral boundaries and provide insufficient polling stations in areas full of opposition supporters.
However as so many despots have discovered, eventually such techniques always fail - often violently. Hence, if you are a truly ambitious political dynasty you have to be a bit more subtle about your methods.
Imagine then if it were possible to somehow subvert the voting process itself in such a way that you could steal elections without anybody knowing.
Imagine for example if you could:
- secure control of the companies that make the voting machines and vote counting software; - centralise vote counting systems, and politicise their supervision; - legislate for the adoption of such systems throughout your domain, and provide large amounts of money for the purchase of these systems; - establish systems of vote counting that effectively prevent anybody on the ground in the election - at a booth or precinct level - from seeing what is happening at a micro-level; - get all the major media to sign up to a single exit-polling system that you also control - removing the risk of exit-polling showing up your shenanigans.
And imagine further that you;
- install a backdoor, or numerous backdoors, in the vote counting systems you have built that enable you to manipulate the tabulation of results in real time as they are coming in.
Such a system would enable you to intervene in precisely the minimum number of races necessary to ensure that you won a majority on election night. On the basis of polling you could pick your marginal seats and thus keep your tweaking to a bare minimum.
Such a system would enable you to minimise the risks of discovery of your activities.
Such a system would enable you to target and remove individual political opponents who were too successful, too popular or too inquisitive.
And most importantly of all, such a system would enable you to accomplish all the above without the public being in the least aware of what you were doing. When confronted with the awfulness of your programme they would be forced to concede that at least it is the result of a democratic process.
How To Rig An Election In The United States
So how would such a system actually work?
Well one way to run such a corrupt electoral system might look like this.
- Each voting precinct (or booth) could be fitted with electronic voting systems, optical scanning systems, punch card voting systems or the more modern touchscreen electronic voting machines;
- At the close of play each day the booth/precinct supervisor could be under instructions to compile an electronic record of the votes cast in their booth;
- They might print out a report that contains only the details of the total votes count fo
Found this on some random site that looks to hit pretty close to the truth...
The 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purpose. Americans refer to it as: Property Taxes The United Nations refer to it as: "Bio Spheres" - At present the U.N. owns over half a billion acres of U.S. land which is completely UNCONSTITUTIONAL. ASK YOURSELF THIS Can your government take your land if you don't pay your "rent"? The answer is "YES" So do you really own property or do you lease it from the government?
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. Americans also refer to this tax as: Income Tax
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance. Americans refer to it as: Estate, Income and Inheritance Taxes
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. Americans refer to it as: Government Seizures & Tax Liens
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly. Americans refer to it as: The Federal Reserve
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State. Americans refer to it as: The FCC and D.O.T.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. Americans refer to it as: The Department of Agriculture, The Desert Entry Act and Corporate Capacity
8. Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of Industrial armies, especially for agriculture. Americans refer to it as: The Social Security Administration and The Department of Labor.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country. Americans refer to it as: Planning and Zoning and Super Corporate Farms (Executive orders 11647 & 11731) "...URBANIZATION..."
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production. Americans refer to it as: Public School, The Department of Education, the NEA and Outcome Based Education.
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Rev 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
So yeah... it's gonna be used against some...
Well, it is playable on my iBook 700 and I only have 16meg vram. I am not sure how good it would be in a large battle... yet.
Intitial impression: It looks/sounds good. Decent performance.
Electronic voting will rig every election. I have read these things don't even have a paper trail where one would be able to verify the tainted results. Trust the election officials... mmkay...
Dunno if this is news to ya or not but I found this at NeverwinterVault:
Windows Install For Linux:
Quote: As a last request, I would ask that a method be made available for a pure Linux user to be able to actually use this client you spent 8 months porting.
As we have said, several times, that the requirement for a Windows 1.29 install of NWN is only for the Linux Client Beta and not for the final version. While we don't have the method locked down 100% right now, it will not require any dealings with Windows whatsoever. You will still need to purchase a Windows copy of the game, but that is ONLY so you can get the CD Key from inside the manual. I would also like to point out that the info above was presented back at the Jan 17th 2003 update for the Linux Client, so this is not new news at all.
Slashdot Mirror
This is why I like McKinney:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/031505_m ckinney_transcript.shtml
Transcript of Representative Cynthia McKinney's Exchange with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers, and Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) Tina Jonas, March 11th, 2005
Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld in House Hearing on FY06 Dept. of Defense Budget
Chairman Representative Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and witnesses Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and JCS Chairman General Richard Myers hold a House Hearing on the FY 2006 Budget for the Department of Defense and Military Services.
3/11/2005: WASHINGTON, DC: 2 hr. 5 min.
CMK: Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA)
DR: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
RM: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers
TJ: Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) Tina Jonas
DH: Chairman Representative Duncan Hunter (R-CA)
25:20
CMK: Thank you Mr. Chairman. Mr. Secretary, I watched President Bush deliver a moving speech at the United Nations in September 2003, in which he mentioned the crisis of the sex trade. The President called for the punishment of those involved in this horrible business. But at the very moment of that speech, DynCorp was exposed for having been involved in the buying and selling of young women and children. While all of this was going on, DynCorp kept the Pentagon contract to administer the smallpox and anthrax vaccines, and is now working on a plague vaccine through the Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program. Mr. Secretary, is it [the] policy of the U.S. Government to reward companies that traffic in women and little girls?
That's my first question. My second question, Mr. Secretary: according to the Comptroller General of the United States, there are serious financial management problems at the Pentagon, to which Mr. Cooper alluded.
Fiscal Year 1999: $2.3 trillion missing.
Fiscal Year 2000, $1.1 trillion missing.
And DoD is the number one reason why the government can't balance its checkbook. The Pentagon has claimed year after year that the reason it can't account for the money is because its computers don't communicate with each other.
My second question, Mr. Secretary, is who has the contracts today, to make those systems communicate with each other? How long have they had those contracts, and how much have the taxpayers paid for them?
Finally Mr. Secretary, after the last Hearing, I thought that my office was promised a written response to my question regarding the four wargames on September 11th. I have not yet received that response, but would like for you to respond to the questions that I've put to you today. And then I do expect the written response to my previous question - hopefully by the end of the week.
27:26
DR: Thank you, Representative. First, the answer to your first question is, is, no, absolutely not, the policy of the United States Government is clear, unambiguous, and opposed to the activities that you described. The second question -
CMK: Well how do you explain the fact that DynCorp and its successor companies have received and continue to receive government contracts?
DR: I would have to go and find the facts, but there are laws and rules and regulations with respect to government contracts, and there are times that corporations do things they should not do, in which case they tend to be suspended for some period; there are times then that the - under the laws and the rules and regulations for the - passed by the Congress and implemented by the Executive branch - that corporations can get off of - out of the penalty box if you will, and be permitted to engage in contracts with the government. They're generally not barred in perpetuity -
CMK: This contract - this company - was never in the penalty box. If you could proceed to my second question, please.
DR: The se
I agree. But I also think anyone with A "D" or "R" next to their names (except "R" Ron Paul and "D" Cynthia McKinney) are basically in the same evil party. We are being played.
http://drudgereport.com/flash4.htm FLASHBACK: HILLARY CLINTON SAYS INTERNET NEWS NEEDS 'RETHINK' Sun Sep 25 2005 16:52:50 ET China on Sunday imposed new media restrictions designed to limit the news and other information available to Internet users, sharply restricting the scope of content that can be posted on Web sites. In 1998 during a meeting with reporters, Hillary Rodham Clinton said that "we are all going to have to rethink how we deal with" the Internet because of the handling of White House sex scandal stories on Web sites. Clinton was asked whether she favored curbs on the Internet, after the DRUDGE REPORT made headlines with coverage of her husband's affair with a White House intern. "We are all going to have to rethink how we deal with this, because there are all these competing values ... Without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping function, what does it mean to have the right to defend your reputation?" she said.
Hillary Clinton Continued:
"I don't have any clue about what we're going to do legally, regulatorily, technologically -- I don't have a clue. But I do think we always have to keep competing interests in balance. I'm a big pro-balance person. That's why I love the founders -- checks and balances; accountable power. Anytime an individual or an institution or an invention leaps so far out ahead of that balance and throws a system, whatever it might be -- political, economic, technological --out of balance, you've got a problem, because then it can lead to the oppression people's rights, it can lead to the manipulation of information, it can lead to all kinds of bad outcomes which we have seen historically. So we're going to have to deal with that. And I hope a lot of smart people are going to --"
REPORTER: Sounds like you favor regulation.
MRS. CLINTON: Bill, I don't know what -- that's why I said I don't know what I'm in favor of. And I don't know enough to know what to be in favor of, because I think it's one of those new issues we've got to address. We've got to see whether our existing laws protect people's right of privacy, protect them against defamation. And if they can, how do you do that when you can press a button and you can't take it back. So I think we have to tread carefully.
END
"It's a trap!"
There is plenty of oil. There are just sitting on it like DeBeers is sitting on the diamonds.
Scotts Grass is people! It's people!
http://infowars.com/ http://prisonplanet.com/ nuff said...
Why is Microsoft playa hatin'? Don't hate the playa hate the game.
Why is everyone joyous about this "democracy" thing? We are supposed to have a republic here in the united states of America. Democracy is mob rule. Die thx la~
He played Selena's dad in the movie SELENA, iirc. cheers
I don't know if I am supposed to do this but I am sure I will find out soon enough... ;)
Text:
Bigger Than Watergate!
How To Rig An Election In The United States
Column: C.D. Sludge
07/08/03: (Scoop) The story you are about to read is in this writer's view the biggest political scandal in American history, if not global history. And it is being broken today here in New Zealand.
This story cuts to the bone the machinery of democracy in America today. Democracy is the only protection we have against despotic and arbitrary government, and this story is deeply disturbing.
Imagine if you will that you are a political interest group that wishes to control forevermore the levers of power. Imagine further that you know you are likely to implement a highly unpopular political agenda, and you do not wish to be removed by a ballot driven backlash.
One way to accomplish this outcome would be to adopt the Mugabe (Zimbabwe) or Hun Sen (Cambodia) approach. You agree to hold elections, but simultaneously arrest, imprison and beat your opponents and their supporters. You stuff ballot boxes, disenfranchise voters who are unlikely to vote for you, distort electoral boundaries and provide insufficient polling stations in areas full of opposition supporters.
However as so many despots have discovered, eventually such techniques always fail - often violently. Hence, if you are a truly ambitious political dynasty you have to be a bit more subtle about your methods.
Imagine then if it were possible to somehow subvert the voting process itself in such a way that you could steal elections without anybody knowing.
Imagine for example if you could:
- secure control of the companies that make the voting machines and vote counting software;
- centralise vote counting systems, and politicise their supervision;
- legislate for the adoption of such systems throughout your domain, and provide large amounts of money for the purchase of these systems;
- establish systems of vote counting that effectively prevent anybody on the ground in the election - at a booth or precinct level - from seeing what is happening at a micro-level;
- get all the major media to sign up to a single exit-polling system that you also control - removing the risk of exit-polling showing up your shenanigans.
And imagine further that you;
- install a backdoor, or numerous backdoors, in the vote counting systems you have built that enable you to manipulate the tabulation of results in real time as they are coming in.
Such a system would enable you to intervene in precisely the minimum number of races necessary to ensure that you won a majority on election night. On the basis of polling you could pick your marginal seats and thus keep your tweaking to a bare minimum.
Such a system would enable you to minimise the risks of discovery of your activities.
Such a system would enable you to target and remove individual political opponents who were too successful, too popular or too inquisitive.
And most importantly of all, such a system would enable you to accomplish all the above without the public being in the least aware of what you were doing. When confronted with the awfulness of your programme they would be forced to concede that at least it is the result of a democratic process.
How To Rig An Election In The United States
So how would such a system actually work?
Well one way to run such a corrupt electoral system might look like this.
- Each voting precinct (or booth) could be fitted with electronic voting systems, optical scanning systems, punch card voting systems or the more modern touchscreen electronic voting machines;
- At the close of play each day the booth/precinct supervisor could be under instructions to compile an electronic record of the votes cast in their booth;
- They might print out a report that contains only the details of the total votes count fo
Found this on some random site that looks to hit pretty close to the truth...
The 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purpose.
Americans refer to it as: Property Taxes The United Nations refer to it as: "Bio Spheres" - At present the U.N. owns over half a billion acres of U.S. land which is completely UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
ASK YOURSELF THIS
Can your government take your land if you don't pay your "rent"?
The answer is "YES"
So do you really own property or do you
lease it from the government?
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
Americans also refer to this tax as: Income Tax
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
Americans refer to it as: Estate, Income and Inheritance Taxes
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
Americans refer to it as: Government Seizures & Tax Liens
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
Americans refer to it as: The Federal Reserve
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
Americans refer to it as: The FCC and D.O.T.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
Americans refer to it as: The Department of Agriculture, The Desert Entry Act and Corporate Capacity
8. Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of Industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
Americans refer to it as: The Social Security Administration and The Department of Labor.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
Americans refer to it as: Planning and Zoning and Super Corporate Farms (Executive orders 11647 & 11731) "...URBANIZATION..."
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.
Americans refer to it as: Public School, The Department of Education, the NEA and Outcome Based Education.
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: Rev 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. So yeah... it's gonna be used against some...
That video was funny, when I watched it last year.
Well, it is playable on my iBook 700 and I only have 16meg vram. I am not sure how good it would be in a large battle... yet. Intitial impression: It looks/sounds good. Decent performance.
Buddy you can still get star control 2 free.
m ac osx.dmg?download
It's called Ur Quan Masters.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sc2/uqm-0.2-
Don't forget BSD is dying, in Soviet Russia.
Electronic voting will rig every election. I have read these things don't even have a paper trail where one would be able to verify the tainted results. Trust the election officials... mmkay...
DUNE the David Lynch movie qualifies IMHO.
Cool sountrack by Toto, very quotable.
Whatcha think?
Dunno if this is news to ya or not but I found this at NeverwinterVault:
Windows Install For Linux:
Quote: As a last request, I would ask that a method be made available for a pure Linux user to be able to actually use this client you spent 8 months porting.
As we have said, several times, that the requirement for a Windows 1.29 install of NWN is only for the Linux Client Beta and not for the final version. While we don't have the method locked down 100% right now, it will not require any dealings with Windows whatsoever. You will still need to purchase a Windows copy of the game, but that is ONLY so you can get the CD Key from inside the manual. I would also like to point out that the info above was presented back at the Jan 17th 2003 update for the Linux Client, so this is not new news at all.
Update was smooth on my iBook 700. No errors, no beachball...
No one will ever need more than 32000 songs.