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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- The Bush Cabal Gives the World the FingerBy Al Martin 2-19-3 Deputy Reichsfuehrer Ashcroft has dictated that everybody must go out and buy three days' worth of food and water to have on hand in the event the "terrorists" attack. You would think that World War III was around the corner and the sky was ready to fall the way this Ashcroft talks. Now under "Orange Alert" status, doctors are allowed to give emergency prescriptions so you can double up on your medication in the event there is a disruption in the supply. Then you have to make sure you have plenty of petrol and plenty of batteries and a radio in your home with short wave capabilities. They even announced the new emergency short wave frequencies for the Office of State Security (this is what we will be calling the Office of Homeland Security from now on) in the event "terrorists" knocked out US communications. The threat level is such that you would think that these "terrorists" are actually organized into vast armies with tanks, warplanes and missiles. They don't say they're just a bunch of rag-tag towel heads. After hearing this statement, you would think that these "terrorists" have the same capability as the Soviet Army of old. Deputy Reichsfuehrer Ashcroft is definitely cranking up the fear factor. Now he's claiming that the "terrorists" have the capability to completely disrupt the US economy, to cause the banking system to fail, to disrupt the distribution of food and water, and to destroy power plants. Meanwhile Iraq has knuckled under to the United Nations. One of the key sticking points that UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix had pointed out was their refusal to allow U2 spy planes to fly over Iraq and now they are allowing that to happen. Furthermore Iraq has agreed to immediately sign on to the international treaty ban on weapons of mass destruction which would force them to be obligated to everything that goes along with it, like inspections from the International Atomic Energy Commission and so on. And all this has stolen Bush's thunder, stung the Bush Administration and caught them off guard. About an hour later, Bush was addressing the Praise the Lord and Send Me a Check Crowd in Nashville. You could tell that the entire tenor of his reasoning for the war has changed. They have essentially resorted to an entirely different political game plan. They are no longer harping about the threat that Iraq represents with its weapons of mass destruction. Now they/re saying that it's "America's moral duty" to invade Iraq, kill Saddam Hussein and "liberate" the Iraqi people from oppression. Bush is now taking the infamous American "moral high ground" that we are the torchbearers of freedom across the world. It was so syrupy it nearly made me gag. Bush said he's already embracing the widows and orphans of American servicemen who have died in the fight to free other people from tyranny. Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell were there, and that's the new tone since Iraq has knuckled under and stolen Bush's thunder about the Iraqi regime refusing to meet the mandates under UN Resolution 1441. Putin and Chirac made a joint press release in Paris stating that they have backed away from their previous approval of the War on Iraq. Then Germany, France and Belgium blocked the NATO emergency meeting to send a military shield to Turkey, which further stung the Bush Administration. The markets then immediately turned higher. The Bushonian effort to topple the Saddam Regime (and to isolate that regime as a precursor) has completely backfired. Now it is the United States that is being isolated. Saddam Hussein has played Bush like a fiddle. He allowed Bush to stick out his political neck with all this war mongering and he forced Bush to call in a lot of favors to get the Europeans on board - knowing that the deepest wedge he could drive was to suddenly knuckle under (not to all, but to some of the most important) UN demands and to continue to stretch the process out. Bush likes to say that he's the master strategist and that we're controlling the agenda, but it's not true. Saddam Hussein is controlling the agenda. He suckered Bush into painting America into a corner. And this new "moral" stance plays well to right-wingers here in the United States, but it does not play well in Europe or Asia. In other words, you can read into this that the US is going to go into Iraq militarily and we have abandoned any efforts (and any pretense) in bringing our allies into the situation and we will take unilateral action. That's what they are signaling by playing the "moral" card and playing directly into the narrow minded right within the United States. This obviously puts Tony Blair into a box because he had stuck out his neck much more than Bush had. Blair was committing Britain to the war when more than two-thirds of his own Labor Party voted against it and two-thirds of the British people were against it. It puts Blair in an untenable position within the left wing of his own party because the Labor Party is already nervous about its drop in public support because of Blair's actions. This series of moves that the Iraqi government made, bending to UN demands, has changed the international dynamics. The price of gold immediately dropped $8 an ounce. The price of oil immediately dropped $1 a barrel. The Bush Cabal is still committed to war on Iraq. The 101st Airborne Division, which includes 23,000 men including support staff plus 268 helicopter gun ships, has been sent and when that is completed in two weeks, there will be 150,000 troops in the immediate area. This is another move that is designed to isolate the United States. This is not a pro-active move by the Iraqis. The Iraqis are allowing the Bush administration to be proactive, to let Bush stick his neck out and then chop it off. The Bush Administration has completely underestimated the savviness of Saddam Hussein. George Bush seems to think that he's just some stupid tinhorn dictator. But in fact who is stupid? Who's the one who's being isolated? Hussein has very craftily made it appear that he's knuckled under to the two key points the UN had - which Bush kept pushing. Now it's Bush's move and he's signaled that move by saying that the United States is going to change its political focus. We are now essentially resorting to Plan B - no further concessions and no further efforts to get the allies on board. We will simply pander to the right within the United States and we will go it alone. Now the big advantage to our allies is that if the United States acts unilaterally, then it will be the American taxpayers who will have to pay the entire 20-year, $1 trillion rebuilding Iraq package. The so-called allies won't have to share any of the expenses, but they'll still get all the gravy of all the contracts. The Bush administration has already pre-agreed to guarantee continuity of contracts. Now if Saddam is smart (and he is), he will go to the Russians, the Germans, the British and the French, and offer them very lucrative new oil contracts, weapons contracts, and natural resources contracts in Iraq. This is the logical thing for him to do because he knows that the politics of France and Russia in particular are propelled by commercial interests. Now our would-be allies are becoming, not the Axis of Evil, but the Axis of Profits, while the US taxpayers are becoming the Axis of Losses. If the US acts unilaterally, it all comes down to a balance sheet. It means that the "allies" will all profit and the cost to the US taxpayers will simply increase. Bush even said that the American taxpayers "have never been concerned about how much money they have to pay to liberate foreign peoples from oppression." During the Second World War, he might have been right. But to say that now, when the American people have lost half of their money in the stock market, to say that they're not concerned, is just not true. And that's how it stands. Saddam Hussein Chops George Bush's Political Neck Off, Thanks to America, Home of the Naive and Land of the Brain Dead. In other news, there was a letter that was delivered to the Bush White House by the world's ten leading economists, all of whom are Nobel Prize winners. It's the first time such a consensus, spanning left to right, of Nobel laureates have agreed to deliver such a joint statement. This has been getting a lot of news play because these economists span the political spectrum from arch-capitalists to arch-Keynesians to agree to anything. The gist of it is that the Bush "economic stimulus plan" is just a thinly veiled guise for a political agenda, to wit, the continuous transfer of tax burdens to the middle class. Even Professor Milton Friedman signed it and, as you may remember, he was the chief economist during the Bush I Regime. Friedman is and always has been quoted by the Bushonian Faction to augment the credibility of their economic agenda. Friedman was never an advocate of deficit spending, but the Bush I Regime was very cozy with him, appointing him to numerous economic commissions simply to trade off of his credibility as an anti-deficit fighter. Meanwhile the Bushonian Regime kept accumulating larger and larger deficits. This is a trick that the Bushonian Cabal consistently uses - both in the late 1980s, the early 1990s, and now once again - and that is to have in its cabinet people who are anti-deficit hawks in order to have some of their credibility rub off on Bushonomics, which can not be defended by any other means. Now the nation's Republican Wealthy pay 23% of the federal taxes. If the Bush "economic stimulus plan" were to pass intact, the nation's wealthy would then pay 11% of the nation's income tax burden. The other 12% would simply be shifted to middle and lower middle classes. In other news, which signifies that the Bush Administration has thrown in the towel on the economy, Bush said in his speech to the Praise the Lord and Send Me a Check Crowd that he now intends to push, not just tacitly support, a Federal Consumption Tax to replace the federal income tax. This would be in other words a National VAT Tax ("Value Added Tax"). Of course, this is nothing new since the Bush I Regime talked about it as well. The problem is that none of the Democrats will support it and even none of the liberal or moderate Republicans will support it either. Wealthy Republicans do support it because a consumption tax would dynamically shift the tax burden from the wealthy to the middle class and particularly to the working poor, who spend much more of their income on what would now be taxable goods, as a percentage of their net income. In fact the working poor now only pay 6% of the total federal income taxes in the nation. With a consumption tax, they would pay 13% and that additional 7% reduction would be taken directly from the wealthy. This idea has universal support within the Bushonian Faction. It is also heavily supported by the Republican Right and all wealthy people in the country. Steve Forbes has been pushing this for a long time. They can couch it in such a way that they can spin it to the middle class telling them that "you don't have to pay any more income tax." They won't say that even the middle class would be paying more with a consumption tax in total federal tax burden than they would, based on the current income tax code. This is the final recognition that the only way a multi-trillion dollar tax cut for the Republican Rich can be supported is through a consumption tax. The numbers simply don't work any other way. Someone must begin to pick up the burden of taxation that the wealthy will no longer be paying. In order to generate the same amount of income for the federal treasury that the income tax generates, you would have to have a flat 13% consumption tax. Then they would accomplish the third great agenda of the Bushonian Cabal, namely to turn the United States into a defacto tax-free nation for the Republican Rich. That's when the offshore slush funds could be repatriated back into the United States. Even the new Treasury Secretary Snow Job has used this as an argument - that it would repatriate the trillions in offshore accounts and that would provide economic stimulus by bringing Republican Scamscateer money back into the nation, from which it was originally first purloined. With the latest SEC changes, Republicans who scammed money out of the system through stock, insurance and banking frauds and have hidden the money offshore could repatriate their money and it would be held sovereign and immune from all challenge. This came with the collapse of Enron and WorldCom when the Bush Regime came up with the 60 day no prosecution and no civil attachment orders to allow wealthy Republican Scamscateers enough time to file under the statute for expatriation from the United States. They then would have time to liquidate all their remaining assets in the United States and move those monies to untouchable offshore accounts. Now the Bush Regime is telling Republican Scamscateers that their offshore money, if repatriated, will be sacrosanct and immune from any private or governmental action, even shareholder lawsuits. In terms of packaging this consumption tax, it's very appealing to the working poor and lower middle class, who are certainly no rocket scientists, when they're told there's no more income tax to pay, and instead there's a consumption tax. Three quarters of them would not understand what a consumption tax and the concept that it'll cost them more. The only part they'd hear is that there is no more income tax. It wouldn't occur to them to ask, "Well, where is the revenue going to come from?" Bushonian policies always discourage anyone from asking questions. You can see how the Bush Regime treats people. Anyone who questions these policies or asks questions is called "disloyal" or "unpatriotic." On the other hand, when you're a bridge person (homeless and living under a bridge), you're the ultimate realist. One of the unfortunate side effects for the Bushonian Cabal is that they spread realism by creating more economic distress, which in turn creates a new class of bridge people. When you're cold and wet and sitting in a dirty overcoat under a bridge and you've lost your home and pension because of Bushonomics, then suddenly reality sets in. And when there's too much "reality," the State Security will come around and spray people with the high potency Valium gas to relieve them of the misery caused by Bushonomics. But this has been a turning point for the Bush Cabal. The way the Bush Cabal will package this consumption tax plan is to make the IRS look like the boogeyman and they'll claim that the IRS will go out of business. This is very appealing to a lot of people, those on the lower end of the economic spectrum, to the patriots and the conspiracy people. People will jump on it without thinking of the consequences. And that's what the Bush Cabal is counting on. http://www.almartinraw.com peace, Tom __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! 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