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CORRUPTION UPDATES 36

February 28th to March 6th, 2007

The CORRUPTION UPDATES reviews corruption in the news. News Stories from California, the Nation and the World are abstracted below, and followed by commentary and references.

 

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1) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE PRAVDA, 3-5-07:

Russia prepares to revise military doctrine in response to USA's missile defense plans

http://english.pravda.ru/news/russia/05-03-2007/88005-military_doctrine-0

Pravda, 03/05/2007 17:45

Russia's presidential Security Council said Monday it was developing a new national military doctrine that will take into account the growing role of military force in global politics.”

The statement appeared to reflect increasing tensions in Russia's relations with the United States, strained over Moscow's harsh criticism of U.S. missile defense plans, disagreements over global crises and U.S. concerns about the Kremlin's democracy record.”

President Vladimir Putin last month accused Washington of the unrestrained use of force worldwide.”

"An analysis of the international situation shows that military force has become an increasingly important factor in the policy of leading nations," it said. "Leading powers are paying increasing attention to the modernization of their military forces and the improvement of their armaments. Means of modern warfare are being actively implemented, modes of using force are being reviewed, the configuration of the military presence is being changed and military alliances, particularly NATO, are being strengthened." ”

In angry comments at a conference in Munich last month, Putin said the United States "has overstepped its national borders in every way" and that "the almost uncontained ... use of force in international relations" was prompting countries opposed to Washington to seek to build up nuclear arsenals.”

"Armed forces are still being used as the most important instrument for achieving political and economic goals," the presidential Security Council said Monday.”

In comments released last month, Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, chief of the Russian military's General Staff, said the expansion of U.S. economic, political and military presence in Russia's traditional zones of influence has evolved into the top national security threat. Baluyevsky said Russia now faces even greater military threats than during the Cold War and that the nation needs a new military doctrine.”

THE COMMITTEE SAYS:

RUSSIA RESPONDS STRONGLY TO AMERICAN AGGRESSION

With our victory in the Cold War came an arrogance that has undermined our “victory.” Rather than be cool, we have moved political, military and economic assets right up to Russia's borders. Remember our response when Russia moved missiles to Cuba?

These unwise moves were practical if Russia was to remain in a permanent weakened state. This was a stupid assumption. The rebuilding of Russia has taken on a character of hostility in response to our aggressions.

Russia has been moving to counter, if not eliminate, our intrusions into the Ukraine, Georgia, the “stans,” and Belarus. Russia has determined our militarism requires they rebuild their military forces, and counter our aggressive actions. Russia has interpreted our actions as an invitation to join an arms race. A race for global political influence is sure to follow.

Rebuilding their military forces, and developing a new strategic plan, signals that Russia has sufficiently consolidated its internal affairs to respond vigorously to our aggressions. Russia has consolidated sufficient internal stability to take advantage of the chaos we have plunged the world, and especially Arabic Islam, into.

This is our fault. Our middle eastern foreign policy is based on supporting Arabic dictators hated by their own people. Rather than seeing the writing on the wall, and moving to encourage these regimes to reflect the will of their people, we went in the opposite direction.

Hosni of Egypt is an excellent example. Egypt is where Bush should have started his “spread of democracy across the middle east.” Instead, we are encouraging Hosni to move from an unofficial to a formal police state.

When the Egyptian people overthrow their western supported dictator, Hosni, they will be labeled enemies of “freedom,” and we do our best to kidnap, torture, imprison and kill them. If they live quietly under our dictators, they are friends of “freedom,”

These hypocritical contradictions have created a huge maneuvering area for Russian and Chinese foreign policy, as well as offering a big, fat, juicy American enemy to draw the various Arabic independence groups together.

Putting our military in the middle east has been poison to our dictators. Bush's invasion has reduced the weight of our influence to the size of our guns and wallets. We better not run out of bucks and bullets, or we are in real trouble. We have nothing else to rely on.

All Russia needs to do is offer honest support to the Arabs and Persians who seek freedom from our dictators. If Russia befriends those countries who want to control their own affairs, we are in big trouble.

Arabic lands under Arab control is unacceptable to us. This will create increasing political and military chaos until the Arabs actually seize control of their governments, and force their colonial ruling elites to flee back to their source of power, the United States. Once here, they can join the refugees from the toppled dictatorships of Somoza, Batista, the Shah, Chiang Kai Schreck, to name just a few.

Soon, American Globalism will fall before a new, multi-lateral, shared balance of world power. Democracy will be victorious, not America. The right of locals to select their own governments will be established, and it will mark the end of American Globalism.

This will signal the end of our control of the world's oil markets, and those that gain control will hate us. Soon, we will live in a world where Russia, China, and India find it advantageous to block our military, political and economic adventures. Soon, the world will stop funding our gluttony, and demand we pay them back.

Soon.

Also See:

Corruption Updates 14, 1st article on page, “Political Culture of Lies and War” (Russian View of US)

Corruption Updates 28, 2nd article on page,”BRIBERY RISES WITH CORPORATE TRANSITION IN RUSSIA”

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2) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN CHINA DAILY, 3-6-07:

Russia capable of hitting US missile shield - general

(AFP) CHINA DAILY
Updated: 2007-03-06 08:43

Russia's bomber force would have no trouble destroying planned US missile defense sites in Europe, its head said Monday as the country's security council warned of new policies to counter NATO.”

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2007-03/06/content_820342.htm

"Since the components of the anti-missile defence system are weakly protected, all types of our aircraft are capable of using electronic countermeasures against them and physically destroying them," Interfax news agency quoted Lieutenant General Igor Khvorov as saying.”

Meanwhile the national security council said Russia is to adopt a new military doctrine in response to the "strengthening" of NATO forces, in the latest sign of worsening relations between the two sides.'

"The analysis of the international situation shows that recourse to military force is increasingly the policy of leading world states," the council said in an announcement that the new doctrine was in preparation.'

"Armed forces are being used above all as a principal instrument for pursuing the economic and political interests of countries" in the West, it said.”

The council statement echoed hard-hitting speeches by Russian President Vladimir Putin last month.”

In Moscow on February 22 Putin warned, "We are encountering a dangerous disdain for international law, ambitions to use military force to achieve personal interests," in what appeared to be a veiled reference to the United States.”

His comments came less than two weeks after he made a full-frontal assault on US foreign policy in a speech in Munich, saying the United States had "overstepped its borders in all spheres.” ”

THE COMMITTEE SAYS:

CHINESE ENJOY AMERICAN PROVACATION OF RUSSIA

China really enjoys seeing Russia talk shit about American Fascism. The article above has a subdued tone of glee, glee at the increasing complication and confusion our military and political evils have created. But we don't need to worry too much about China. China, unlike Russia, has not consolidated sufficient internal stability to act overtly against our empire.

China will be “good,” that is, they will not work to interfere with our Asian Corporate States until they finish consolidating their internal economic transformation. Then, my friends, the game will be truly on, yet again.

Once China is sure that their 700 million peasants are not going to reject the industrial transformation, and reject their new yuppie leaders, China will move to curb us economically, militarily, and politically around the world.

China has already begun to offer non-intrusive alliances with South America, Africa, and the middle east. This is completely different than American foreign policy, which strives to impose a westernized colonial elite on local peoples.

Our ignorance, greed and violence has opened great opportunities for Russia and China to increase their spheres of influence into our “global” empire.

Also See:

Corruption Updates 7, 5th article on page, “Struggle for the Corrupt Fruit of Political Victory in China

Corruption Updates 12, 8th Article on page, “China Elite Holding "Elections" of Leaders with Disguised "Corruption" Purge

Corruption Updates 14, 1st article on page, “Political Culture of Lies and War” (Russian View of US)

Corruption Updates 28, 2nd article on page,”BRIBERY RISES WITH CORPORATE TRANSITION IN RUSSIA

Corruption Updates 36, 2nd article on page,"China Enjoys seeing US-Russia Hostility"

Corruption Updates 36, 6th article on page,"China to Surpass US Pollution"

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3) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE NY TIMES, 3-5-07:

In Guatemala, Officers’ Killings Echo Dirty War

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/05/world/americas/05guatemala.html

?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=all

By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.

Published: March 5, 2007

GUATEMALA CITY, March 3 — After three Salvadoran congressmen were waylaid and killed on a road in Guatemala last month, it did not take the authorities long to find the culprits: they were Guatemalan police officers, and their unmarked police car had a tracking device that proved they were at the scene.”

They quickly confessed, saying they thought their victims were drug dealers, and were sent to a maximum-security prison.”

four who confessed ended up dead.

The police and the interior minister say that rioting gang members inside the prison shot and stabbed them. But other inmates and their visitors that day say a group of heavily armed men in military garb and ski masks made their way through seven locked doors and executed them, with no interference from guards, removing any possibility that they could identify co-conspirators.”

The two sets of brazen killings set off a vicious diplomatic conflict between Guatemala and El Salvador.”

Since 1993, the United States has twice helped set up special antinarcotics forces here, only to watch their commanders become embroiled in the drug trade themselves. President Bush is scheduled to visit next week, and American diplomats say the lack of public security here is near the top of his agenda.”

The squads of rogue officers, human rights experts and others say, are in a sense an outgrowth of Guatemala’s long internal conflict. Some former military officers who came of age during the bloody counterinsurgency operations of the 1980’s are members of the new rogue squads, according to human rights experts and opposition politicians. They say other members are younger, but have adopted the old practices of assassination and terrorism to combat crime and, sometimes, to line their own pockets.”

“ “The truth, I think, is the problem comes from the end of the armed conflict, when the state tried to protect itself against rebels,” said the editor of La Hora newspaper, Óscar Clemente Marroquín. “When the war stopped, the apparatus kept operating the same way but now it doesn’t protect the military. Now it protects organized crime.” ”

Erwin Sperisen, the national police chief, denies that the force harbors death squads, though he acknowledges that his department is riddled with corrupt officers who sometimes commit crimes. Because of strong labor laws and poor vetting procedures, he said, he has not been able to purge the 19,000-member force of officers who came from the two main police forces that controlled the country during the civil war and were schooled in torture and assassination.”

“ “One has to break with this kind of schooling,” he said.”

The Salvadoran president, Elías Antonio Saca, and top security officials have accused Guatemalan authorities of allowing the four officers who confessed to be killed as part of a cover-up. The Salvadorans have also bristled at theories put forward by Guatemalan investigators that the congressmen might have been carrying drugs or illicit cash.”

THE COMMITTEE SAYS:

AMERICAN DEATH SQUADS STILL HAUNT GUATEMALA

AMERICA CAN'T CLOSE PANDORA'S BOX IN GUATEMALA, WHILE OPENING It in IRAQ

Central America has been ruled with an iron fist by Spanish Colonial Elites since the conquest.

These elites kept power by trading their country's resources, both human and natural, for American military, political, and economic support for their regimes.

American program began failing in the '70s, and by the early

'80s Regan pushed drugs into the United States, and death squads across Central and South America to prop up our tottering dictatorships with funds and guns. Our actions then still are driving events in Central and South America today.

A handy rule: We can take political power with force, but we cannot maintain political power with force. Unless we match our military force with an equally powerful political philosophy, (Such as freedom, justice, and democracy) we are doomed to walk down a long, bloody trail to failure.

We are at the end of our long, bloody trail in South America. South America is taking control of their political and economic affairs out of our hands, and are, for the first time in 500 years, almost in complete charge of their own affairs. Central America is not far behind South America.

The Agent of our Empire in Guatemala and Hondorus during the formation of the death squads was John Negroponte. Today's death squads are the children of American foreign policy, the children of Negroponte, Poindexter, North, and the crew of criminals that was the Regan administration.

The death squads and military governments they supported have continued to use extra-judicial violence to maintain political and economic control over their people in Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia,

Until we stop the corporate criminals in the United States from suppressing the constitution, perverting our democracy, and stealing our government, people around the world will continue to have their political and economic rights violently stolen from them.

Before we can bring the benefits of democracy and freedom to the world, we must establish them here.

Also See:

Corruption Updates 27, 5th article on page,”EGYPTIAN DICTATOR CHANGES CONSTITUTION FARCE OF AMERICAN “DEMOCRACY” EXPOSED BY...

Corruption Updates 40, 9th article on page, “UNITED FRUIT NEVER STOPPED SUPPORTING DICTATORS WHO KEEP PEASANTS WORKING”

Negraponte the criminal: Answers.com

Poindexter the criminal: Hereinreality.com

Past criminals in present administration: Fair.org

 

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4) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE NY TIMES, 3-5-07:

Basra Raid Finds Dozens Detained by Iraq Spy Unit

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/05/world/middleeast/05iraq.html?

_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin

Published: March 5, 2007

BAGHDAD, Monday, March 5 — Iraqi special forces and British troops stormed the offices of an Iraqi government intelligence agency in the southern city of Basra on Sunday, and British officials said they discovered about 30 prisoners, some showing signs of torture.”

The raid appeared to catch Iraqs central government by surprise and raised new questions about the rule of law in the Shiite-dominated south, where less than two weeks ago Britain announced plans for a significant reduction in its forces because of improved stability.”

Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, a conservative Shiite, condemned the raid in Basra. He publicly said nothing about the evidence of torture.

The prime minister has ordered an immediate investigation into the incident of breaking into the security compound in Basra and stressed the need to punish those who have carried out this illegal and irresponsible act,...” ”

The discovery of prisoners in the Basra offices, which the British described as the headquarters of Iraq’s government intelligence agency, echoed other recent cases in which American or British forces stumbled onto a government-run detention center that held people showing signs of torture.”

As recently as December, a combined force of British and Iraqi troops assaulted a police station in Basra and rescued 127 prisoners from fetid conditions. Some of the prisoners had been tortured.”

The most significant recent case involved a secret Baghdad prison run by the Shiite-controlled Interior Ministry, known as Site 4 and discovered by American and Iraqi troops last year, where more than 1,400 prisoners were discovered and where some had been subjected to systematic abuse.”


THE COMMITTEE SAYS:

IRAQI GOV FOLLOWS AMERICAN EXAMPLE: KIDNAPPING-TORTURE

LIKE BUSH, MALIKI CONDEMNS THOSE WHO EXPOSE TORTURE, NOT THOSE WHO TORTURE

Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfield “took the gloves off.” They meant that the Constitution would not deter them from their goals. It meant that we would do our own dirty work, kidnapping and torturing people ourselves, rather than using our proxies.

Is anyone, after decades of American Sponsored death squads and torture, surprised by death squads and torture by the clients of American Power?

The surprise is that it took us so long to work death and torture into our repitour of repressions. Bush openly claims the right to do anything he wants to people, including kidnapping and torture. Alberto and John Hsu, among others, wrote the legal opinions justifying these actions. These decisions finally claimed public ownership of decades of death squads and torture that we had subcontracted out.

The former is now the Attorney General, and the latter is teaching our children the law at Berkeley. Both should be in jail.

We have been sponsoring these activities for so long, it is hard to be sure that these Iraqi Interior Ministry folks are not our own people, or are allies in the “Terror” war. It makes Busheian sense.

Just think of the benefits, instead of “rendering” kidnap victims to “rogue” states like Syria, who tortures for us, we can do it ourselves in Iraq. Or Eastern Europe. Or Bagram air base. Or Gitmo. Or Al-Garib. Or San Quentin.

Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if Cheney had a little pain operation going on in the White House Basement.

 

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5) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE AP, 3-5-07:

Privacy Board OKs Eavesdropping Programs

By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer
2:24 PM PST, March 5, 2007

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top13mar05,0,6019293.story?coll=la-ap-topnews-headlines

WASHINGTON -- A White House privacy board has determined that two of the Bush administration's controversial surveillance programs -- electronic eavesdropping and financial tracking -- do not violate citizens' civil liberties.”

“The report finds that both the National Security Agency's warrantless eavesdropping program and the Treasury Department's monitoring of international banking transactions have sufficient privacy protections, three board members told The Associated Press in telephone interviews.”

In recent weeks, the administration has agreed to let a secret but independent panel of judges oversee the program. But many lawmakers and civil libertarians have remained skeptical about its legality, and the Justice Department's inspector general is investigating whether the agency used any of the information improperly.”

THE COMMITTEE SAYS:

White House Confirms Americans Have No Constitutional Protections:

Approving general Searches, Secret Courts, Secret Government Spying Confirm White House Ignoring Constitution

Just what standard for “civil liberties” is The White House using? The Constitution is quite clear about our rights. Again, let's look at the Constitution:

The specific words of the Fourth Amendment of The Constitution are:

...and No warrant shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized

The president has no authority to interfere with this Constitutionally mandated standard. Nor does Congress, nor the Courts. It is time for officeholders to protect and enforce the Constitution.

Those “representatives” that do not have rendered themselves Constitutionally illegitimate, dishonorable, and must be removed from office and prosecuted for betraying our Constitution and the laws established to protect our rights.

The Crimes of a Corrupted Government:

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Corruption Updates 16, 1st article on page, “BUSH TRAINING CONGRESS TO OBEDIENCE: PROBLEM TEACHING THEM TO ROLL OVER WHEN THEY ARE ASLEEP”

Corruption Updates 21, 7th article on page, Ex-judges: Detainee law unconstitutional”

Corruption Updates 22, 7th article on page, “Reid Threatens Bush with Oversight

Corruption Updates 23, 4th article on page, “Bush Claims to Unlimited Power Contested

Corruption Updates 23, 8th article on page, “Harmon Calls Wiretapping Illegal

Corruption Updates 23, 9th article on page, “Times Soft pedals Presidential War Crimes and Domestic Crimes

Corruption Updates 25, 2nd article on page, “US REPUB SENATOR FEARS WAR ILLEGAL: WHY DID IT TAKE THREE YEARS TO CONFRONT THE LIES?

Corruption Updates 25, 7th article on page, “Italy Indites 25 CIA Operatives

Corruption Updates 25, 8th article on page, “FBI Chief Defies Oversight

Corruption Updates 29, 2nd article on page, “White House Claims Secret Policy Power

Corruption Updates 30, 4th article on page, “White House Vows Cooperation in Probes”

Corruption Updates 31, 1st article on page, 1-17-07, “AG criticizes judges for terror rulings

Corruption Updates 31, 2nd and 3rd articles on page, “Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Indefensible,” and “A Bush appointee's crude gambit on detainees' legal rights”

Corruption Updates 31, 6th article on page, 1-17-07,Secret Court to Govern Warrantless Taps”

Corruption Updates 31, 7th article on page, 1-19-07, “Pentagon Revises Its Rules on Prosecution of Terrorists”

Corruption Updates 31, 8th article on page, 1-19-07, “Pentagon sets rules for detainee trials”

Corruption Updates 32, 3rd article on page, “Wiretap review plan is still unclear”

Corruption Updates 34, 4th article on page, “BUSH KIDNAPPING ON TRIAL IN GERMANY: WHY IS GERMANY HOLDING US TO THE RULE OF LAW?”

Corruption Updates 36, 5th article on page, “Privacy Board OKs Eavesdropping Programs"

 

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6) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE SF CHRON, 3-5-07:

China about to pass U.S. as world's top generator of greenhouse gases

Robert Collier, Chronicle Staff Writer

Monday, March 5, 2007

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/05/MNG18OFHF21.DTL&type=science

Far more than previously acknowledged, the battle against global warming will be won or lost in China, even more so than in the West, new data show.”

A report released last week by Beijing authorities indicated that as its economy continues to expand at a red-hot pace, China is highly likely to overtake the United States this year or in 2008 as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

This information, along with data from the International Energy Agency, the Paris-based alliance of oil importing nations, also revealed that China's greenhouse gas emissions have recently been growing by a total amount much greater than that of all industrialized nations put together.

While China's total greenhouse gas emissions were only 42 percent of the U.S. level in 2001, they had soared to an estimated 97 percent of the American level by 2006.

 

THE COMMITTEE SAYS:

AMERICA REFUSES TO STOP EXPANDING POPULATION AND CONSUMPTION

AMERICAN GREED-CONSUMPTION FUELS MANUFACTURING (POLLUTION) IN CHINA

Our “policy” of “opening,” and integrating China into modernity, has been based on the unlimited transfer of industry (our jobs) to a country where the people have no rights, no environmental laws, and a closed economic and political system. It's a corporate dream, a corporate Disneyland, that the Democrats and Republicans are trying to replicate here.

The consequences of allowing our greedy corporations to move to China are profound. Our corporations have avoided the added expenses of American pollution control, labor regulations, and paying the taxes necessary to educate, medicate, and retire our workforce.

Not that our corporations have had to act responsibly here. They have cheated the American people every chance they get. But by using China they have been able to radically increase profits by abandoning all social, political, economic, and environmental responsibilities.

Today, the industrial pollution that China is producing would have been eliminated by manufacturing our products here, under our weak environmental regulations. The Chinese pollution is the cost of American greed and irresponsibility, and it is our filth that pouring into the atmosphere from Chinese smokestacks.

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7)THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY Mcclatchy, 3-1-07:

More in U.S. plunge deeper into poverty

The ranks of the severely poor are soaring, study finds.

By Tony Pugh - Mcclatchy Washington Bureau

Published 12:00 am PST Thursday, March 1, 2007
Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A16

http://www.sacbee.com/341/story/130710.html

The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty has reached a 32-year high, millions of working Americans are falling closer to the poverty line and the gulf between the nation's "haves" and "have-nots" continues to widen.”

The McClatchy analysis found that the number of severely poor Americans grew by 26 percent from 2000 to 2005. That's 56 percent faster than the overall poverty population grew in the same period.”

The plight of the severely poor is a distressing sidebar to an unusual economic expansion. Worker productivity has increased dramatically since the brief recession of 2001, but wages and job growth have lagged behind, and the share of national income going to corporate profits has dwarfed the amount going to wages and salaries. That helps explain why the median household income of working-age families, adjusted for inflation, has fallen for five straight years.”

These and other factors have helped push 43 percent of the nation's 37 million poor people into deep poverty -- the highest rate since at least 1975.”

"What appears to be taking place is that, over the long term, you have a significant permanent underclass that is not being impacted by anti-poverty policies," said Michael Tanner, the director of Health and Welfare Studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.”

Over the past two decades, America has had the highest or near-highest poverty rates for children, individual adults and families among 31 developed countries, according to the Luxembourg Income Study, a 23-year project that compares poverty and income data from 31 industrial nations.”

 

THE COMMITTEE SAYS:

CORPORATE-DEMOCRAT IMMIGRATION POLICY SUCCESSFUL:

PERMANENT LOW COST LABORING UNDERCLASS CREATED IN US

Gee, that was a real surprise. The politicians and Corporations have been telling us for quite a while that we are now “global,” and our pay scale is going to be limited by what they can get away paying a Chinese or Mexican peasant, either here in the US, or there, in Mexico and China.

These interlocked engines of poverty, immigration and globalism, justify corporations moving American jobs to cheap labor, or moving cheap labor to American jobs. This foolish policy has created permanent poverty for our country, and maintains poverty around the world.

The press, the corporations, and both parties have been telling us they were creating wealth with globalization and immigration, when the wealth they create is extracted from the wages of workers. Our corporations are enriching themselves by manufacturing poverty for everyone else.

More precisely, they are using foreign poverty and the brutal exploitation of foreign labor as a tool to transfer the wealth of labor to themselves, by extracting the quality of life from The American working people.

The creation of a permanent poverty-stricken working class in America has made them rich. And we all know politics are decided by money.

This is immigration's dirty little secret. It is based on screwing domestic labor, by screwing foreign labor. “Doing work White people won't do” means that foreigners will accept wages that would cast an American into third world poverty in their own country. Pay that is just above slavery to an American worker is is apparently tolerable to a foreigner in America.

American labor policy, and a large part of our economic policy, our “profit,” is “earned” by using racism to lower wages. It is racism when our corporate government lowers the pay for labor here, by bringing the poverty of Mexico and China to the United States.

The Corporate-political method is to screw the American Middle Class out of decent working conditions, wages, benefits, political influence and our social infrastructure, by using the desperation of poor foreigners. The justification for screwing foreigners is the color of their skin, and the depth of their desperation. That is not the America I was born in.

The American Middle Class is being pitted against the poverty stricken workers of the rising Industrial Third World. But we are not alone.

The middle classes in nations around the world are being used against each other, using the pretext of “globalism” to suppress the decent wages, conditions, and benefits each middle class would claim as part of the cost of doing business from their political and economic elites.

This is the price of responsibility, if not stability. Even if our elite was smarter than they are greedy, they are ignorant of the relationship between social responsibility and political stability.

Having an American government based on democracy and freedom is the only way we can change the road the world is going down. A little less greed and violence from America, and a little more democracy and freedom, will slow, if not stop, the corporate raping of the world.

Globalism” stops people around the world from claiming their dignity, the value of their work, and their political authority over their own affairs.

If we had a Democracy, we would require these issues be decided by the locals, among themselves. Our foreign policy would demand local control of local affairs, if we were a democracy. We are not.

The line of bull we have been getting from the political parties, the “free press,” and the corporations, is that our political and economic policy is based on profit, and profit is based on growth. Our leaders know what's good for us, and don't need us interfering with their wisdom.

Our massive growth has brought massive corporate profits. It has also brought an unprecedented separation of the middle class from their share of the wealth of our nation. Not just wealth as money and property, but wealth as an expression of political authority.

The American Middle Class has lost its ability to shape, restrain, and stamp its character on our nation's political, military, and economic policy. This has fallen into the hands of a very few people.

We now have tiny corporate and political elites who wield unprecedented political and economic power, who rule over a massive quasi-foreign population with impunity.

Our elites make the power and wealth of the Robber Barons, who destroyed our Farmer Democracy, look like RUBES. They make the Senators of Rome look like country bumpkins.

Only our politicians, corporations, and the dullest of fools, our “free press,” and their grasping servants, have been blind to the role modern immigration has had in killing our democracy and impoverishing our people, just like the last time the corporations flooded our country with cheap labor.

It is the fuel our Corporate Aristocracy needed to transform itself into Corporate Fascism.

This bizarre formula could only be considered beneficial by foreigners, the Corporations, and the politicians that have locked themselves into a mutually profitable triad of degraded labor, irresponsible greed, and unchecked political power. Don't expect any of them to respect anything but profit and power.

Strange bedfellows. But such is the architecture of the greatest structure of military and economic power the world has yet seen. Enjoy it while it lasts.

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8) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE BEE, 2-28-07:

Study: Immigrants boost native-born pay

Direct link to Peri "research"

By Susan Ferriss - Bee Staff Writer

Published 12:00 am PST Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A4

http://www.sacbee.com/341/story/130111.html

In a surprising new study with national implications, a University of California economist found that immigration boosted the average wages of the native-born worker in California by at least 4 percent between 1990 and 2004.

Previous academic research has found that African Americans nationwide, especially high school dropouts, have seen their wages depressed by immigration.

"You need to follow where (native-born) workers went," he said, to figure out if they were displaced or moved into higher-paying jobs as immigrants began to fill lower-skilled manual labor.

...was produced by UC Davis associate professor Giovanni Peri for the Public Policy Institute of California in San Francisco.

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STATISTICAL LIAR PRESENTS LOSS OF WORKER DIGNITY- PAY AS “PROMOTION”

SKEWED STATISTICS USED TO JUSTIFY CORPORATE RACISM: AMERICANS TOLD THEY ARE SUPERVISORS, OR PEASANT LABOR

This “study” is not an objective economic analysis. It is a partisan response to economic, political, and social resistance to immigration.

To find economic benefits for native workers, this study uses a fatally flawed model of analysis that was specifically designed, and limited, to achieve the desired political conclusion: Immigration makes white people money.

Peri's economic conclusions are flawed. But this is not a big problem, as his study is not based on economics, but upon appealing to the psychology of greed and white supremacy to offer economic justifications for an unlimited immigration policy.

Peri's paper is a canard as an economic work, but a fine weapon in the battle to justify the creation of our permanently impoverished working class, as described in the preceding article.

The racism and greed that Peri bases his argument on are clearly revealed by the study's failure to address, or calculate, the massive loss of the share of the nation's wealth American Workers experienced when the Corporations completely replaced native labor with illegal foreign labor, at a fraction of the labor costs, in a 30 year span.

One wage earner supported a family of four comfortably in 1967. Today, the whole family has to work to maintain “working poor” status.

According to Peri, this is not a problem, as the wages of supervisors (and the supervisors are white) rose, as the wages of labor (and labor is brown) fell. Ah, the smell of economic racism.

Apparently Peri finds race is a legitimate reason for lowering wages. Using poor foreigners to end fair wages for American workers is a positive event to Peri, as long as the native whites become “supervisors,” the Bosses, and make more money. And since white people are bosses, everything is fine. Ah, racism justified by profits.

Besides appealing to, and justifying, racism and greed, the economic basis of this study, its conclusions concerning immigration's effects on wages, are fatally flawed.

The reputable study abstracted below, by Borjas, honestly discusses methodology, unlike Peri, who disguises his flawed approach with a slick political presentation.

Mr. Borjas, below, points out that limiting the geographic scope of the study produces results that suppress the actual depression of wages that native workers experience. Unlike Peri, who reached his predetermined result, Mr. Borjas seeks honest knowledge. (See page 1354, in Borjas article below, and last paragraph of the conclusion)

Mr. Peri's study relies on the psychological narcotic of elevated status to neutralize his real message: Labor is racially divided by cost. Illegals and minorities do physical labor, cheaply, and obey, while white people either supervise, or live like refugees in their own country.

I, personally, have not been removed from the drudgery of having to do honest, hard work by illegal labor. I have been denied jobs because foreigners will work for slave wages, while I dare to demand the justice of receiving decent pay for my work.

Mr. Peri's study tells me that unless I participate in screwing foreign labor, and my fellow American laborers, by screwing foreign labor, I will not enjoy the higher pay and profits that employers, corporations, and politicians across the country are enjoying.

In fact, unless I participate in this exploitation, I will get screwed by this strange alignment of foreigners, bosses, and the political parties who are all making tons of money off these irresponsible policies.

Mr. Peri, besides misstating the economic effects of cheap labor on the American middle class, (who's wages and living standards have plunged while they work more and more) is assuming that the American Laborers will somehow transform themselves from honest workers into Bosses, and participate in using foreigners to cheat their fellow laborers out of their fair wages.

The problem with this is there are many Americans who are, and will always be, workers. Now, according to Mr. Peri, honest working Americans get to live like illegal Mexicans. In their own country.

What Mr. Peri is actually saying is that to labor is to be poor. And, if you are an American laborer, you will fall from an American to a Mexican standard of living. In America.

This means that we will treat the poorest among us like peasants, and will import, or export, the amount of peasant labor necessary to keep the bulk of the profits in the hands of the bosses. And if you join us, your wages will rise. Mr. Peri can keep his thirty pieces of silver.

Mr. Peri is not just supporting immigration, he is justifying the creation and massive expansion of working class poverty, of the slums and desperation that has accompanied this massive concentration of wealth based on massive immigration.

These are the hidden costs of immigration Peri is concealing. There are others.

Education is one of them. California had free education through College until we impoverished our middle class, and made them pay the cost of educating their foreign, low wage competition.

Today the majority of our schools are no more than daycare for illegal children. Our graduation rates and test scores reflect this fact.

The Bosses did not only pocket stolen wages, they have also kept, as the profits of immigration, the money needed to educate, medicate, and incarcerate their foreign labor force. Instead, they just trashed our schools, roads, prisons, and medical facilities. The bosses have stolen the money that should have been spent to maintain our middle class's quality of life. That's why they did it.

Peri, rather than saying immigration makes “white” people bosses, and bosses make more money, he could have interpreted his information as a massive transfer of wealth between classes, from the working class to the boss class: Immigration makes workers poor, and bosses rich.

Immigration has allowed our corporations and bosses to ignore the social, educational, and medical costs of their labor force. Keeping this money has added Trillions to the Corporate Bottom Line. And Trillions to our tax bill.

The consequences of unlimited and unfunded immigration will plague us far into the future. The next few generations of American kids will not enjoy a decent education, reasonable medical treatment, or fair paying jobs. Their living conditions and opportunities will decline significantly.

American Working class kids are now receiving 3rd world educations, are lucky to get any medical care, and can look forward to 3rd world career options: become a boss or be a slave.

Mr. Peri's “study” is intentionally designed to miss the loss of wages every working American has experienced, while failing to assess the social costs as the nation splits into the “haves” and the foreigners.

Replacing a fairly compensated, well educated, and socially balanced work force with illegal foreigners is certainly profitable. But it has come at a high cost. And we have not yet even begun to pay the bills.

Massive immigration has been used as a political and economic weapon by greed and wealth, by the rich, to bludgeon the rest of us into submission. And it has worked well.

Immigration has rewarded the corporations and politicians beyond their wildest dreams. The democratic and Constitutional restraints which checked wealth and power, that kept them from complete political control, have been cast aside. Immigrants obey, keep quiet, and consume.

The very elements that our free society depended on for survival, our independent people with democratic values, has been shattered.

We have drowned our democracy, our Constitutional rights, and our sense of fairness in greed, luxury and corruption based on screwing foreigners, and our own middle class.

I believe it is highly unlikely that we have the spirit or character needed to restore our independence and democratic values, until our mindless pursuit of greed and luxury backfires.

Link to Public Policy Institute: Full text of Peri Report

 

Interestingly, the Public Policy Institute also has published research that does not contain a pro-illegal immigrant bias. The article below offers a bit more balanced analysis than the Peri Report.

California's Rising Income Inequality: Causes and Concerns

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9) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY HARVARD JOURNAL OF ECON, 3-13-06:

Quarterly Journal of Economics

November 2003, Vol. 118, No. 4, Pages 1335-1374

Posted Online March 13, 2006.

(doi:10.1162/003355303322552810)

The Labor Demand Curve is Downward Sloping: Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market

George J. Borjas

Harvard University and National Bureau of Economic Research

Abstract:

Immigration is not evenly balanced across groups of workers who have the same education but differ in their work experience, and the nature of the supply imbalance changes over time. This paper develops a new approach for estimating the labor market impact of immigration by exploiting this variation in supply shifts across education-experience groups. I assume that similarly educated workers with different levels of experience participate in a national labor market and are not perfect substitutes. The analysis indicates that immigration lowers the wage of competing workers: a 10 percent increase in supply reduces wages by 3 to 4 percent.”

Key Points from Article:

Page 1349:

By 2000, immigration had increased the number of men in the labor force by 16.8 percent. Put differently, a 10 percent supply shock (i.e., an immigrant flow that increases the number of workers in the skill group by 10 percent) reduces weekly earnings by about 4 percent.

 

Table III indicates that immigration has an even stronger

effect on annual earnings, suggesting that immigration reduces

the labor supply of native male workers. A 10 percent supply

shock reduces annual earnings by 6.4 percent and the fraction of time worked by 3.7 percentage points.

Page 1350:

The wage elasticity for log weekly earnings is 0.39 and significant. In short, the parameter  in equation (3) is indeed capturing the impact of an increase in the size of the immigrant population on native labor market outcomes.

Page 1351

In the case of log annual earnings, however, the wage elasticity is around 0.8, suggesting that immigration had an adverse impact on native workers even when the regression ignores the information provided by the workers who experienced the largest supply shock in the past few decades.

Page 1352

In contrast to the studies that calculate spatial correlations (see article above) between wages in local labor markets and measures of immigrant penetration, the evidence presented in the previous section indicates that immigrants have a sizable adverse effect on the wage of competing workers.

Page 1354

The key difference between the two sets of estimates is the assumption made about the geographic boundary of the labor market. The estimated wage elasticity for log weekly earnings is 0.13 when a state’s geographic boundary limits the size of the market, and 0.40 when the worker participates in a national market.

Put differently, even though immigration has a sizable adverse effect on the wage of competing workers at the national level, the analysis of wage differentials across regional labor markets conceals much of the impact.

Page 1359

VII.A. Theory and Evidence

Up to this point, I have not imposed any economic structure in the estimation of the wage effects of immigration. As in most of the studies in the spatial correlation literature, I have instead attempted to calculate the correlation that indicates whether an increase in the number of immigrants lowers the wage of competing native workers.

Page 1368

Table IX summarizes the results of the simulation. The large immigrant influx of the 1980s and 1990s adversely affected the wage of most native workers, particularly those workers at the bottom and top of the education distribution. The wage fell by 8.9 percent for high school dropouts and by 4.9 percent for college graduates. In contrast, the wage of high school graduates fell by only 2.6 percent, while the wage of workers with some college was barely affected. Overall, the immigrant influx reduced the wage of the average native worker by 3.2 percent.

Page 1369:

VIII. CONCLUSION

The concern over the adverse labor market impact of immigration has always played a central role in the immigration debate. The resurgence of large-scale immigration in recent decades stimulated a great deal of research that attempts to measure these labor market effects. This research effort, based mainly on comparing native employment opportunities across regions, has not been entirely successful. The weak spatial correlations typically estimated in these studies, although often construed as showing that immigrants do not lower native wages, are difficult to interpret. In fact, economic theory implies that the more that firms and workers adjust to the immigrant supply shock, the smaller these cross-region correlations will be—regardless of the true impact of immigration on the national economy.


Page 1370, Conclusion, continued

These estimates, combined with the very large immigrant influx in recent decades, imply that immigration has substantially worsened the labor market opportunities faced by many native workers. Between 1980 and 2000, immigration increased the labor supply of working men by 11.0 percent. Even after accounting for the beneficial cross effects of low-skill (highskill) immigration on the earnings of high-skill (low-skill) workers, my analysis implies that this immigrant influx reduced the wage of the average native worker by 3.2 percent. The wage impact differed dramatically across education groups, with the wage falling by 8.9 percent for high school dropouts, 4.9 percent for college graduates, 2.6 percent for high school graduates, and barely changing for workers with some college.


Although the comparison of workers across narrowly defined skill classifications reveals a sizable adverse effect of immigration on native employment opportunities, it is worth noting that we still do not fully understand why the spatial correlation approach fails to find these effects

THE COMMITTEE SAYS:

HONEST STATISTICAL ANALYSIS ONLY SHOWS MONETARY COST OF IMMIGRATION:

see a statistical liar's use of the spacial anomoly Borja's identified above.

Biased statistical liar uses racism used to back up statistical lies

EDUCATION, MEDICINE, DEMOCRACY, AND JUSTICE ARE HIDDEN “COSTS” OF CHEAP FOREIGN LABOR ON AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS

Borjas' study reveals the devastating economic effect of the massive immigration we are experiencing. Yet Borjas does not address many of the associated costs of immigration.

This is not Borjas' fault, it is outside of the scope of his study. And, these costs are intentionally hidden by the politicians and by the employers. These costs are not hidden to working Americans who cannot afford a private education, or private doctors.

The hidden costs are revealed by the expansion of poverty, ignorance, and crime that has flooded our cities. A large part of the profits of immigration are not gained through cheapening wages, but by not paying for the educational, medical, correctional, or retirement costs their “cheap” labor puts on our infrastructure. The employers throw these costs onto the public.

American labor has not just lost wage power, we have lost our access to the educational, medical and social services that generations of our tax dollars paid to build in California.

Borjas study reveals why extreme poverty is rising in the US: the group hardest hit by immigration is high school dropouts, who saw their wages drop by 8.9%. The Americans who were already struggling have been thrown over the side of the ship. (p.1369)

Our social institutions have been used by business to subsidize the profits their massive influx of cheap labor has brought them. Ironically, the same working Americans who are seeing immigrants kill their wages are also seeing all of their social institutions collapse under the weight of foreigners.

It would not be cheap labor if the bosses had to pay all the costs their foreign labor put on the country.

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10) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE BEE, 3-4-07:

Brown-on-black violence plagues south state

Slaying of girl, 14, put a face on city's growing problem.

By Aurelio Rojas - Bee Capitol Bureau

Published 12:00 am PST Sunday, March 4, 2007
Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A1

http://www.sacbee.com/391/story/132296.html

LOS ANGELES -- It took political officials nearly a month to respond to the slaying of Cheryl Green. Since then, the 14-year-old African American girl has become the face of brown-on-black violence in this city.

The racially motivated shooting of the eighth-grader, which occurred Dec. 15 in broad daylight as she chatted with friends, was one of 269 gang-related murders citywide in 2006.

Outside the African American community, widespread outrage that a schoolgirl could be killed because of her color was muffled by the cacophony of the holiday season.

Hate crimes rose 34 percent in 2005 in Los Angeles, the latest year for which statistics are available, and African Americans were the main target. Overall crime is down in the city for the fifth straight year, but gang crime rose 14 percent in 2006.

"We've got to put our heads together and work hard to eliminate what we're seeing in places like Oakland, San Diego, Fresno, Santa Ana and Los Angeles, where we see far too much brown-on-black crime," Núñez said. "We have to put an end to that."

Investigators classified the incident as a hate crime. They concluded that members of a predominantly Latino street gang killed her as part of their effort to intimidate black residents in the area.

Five days later, the body of a 21-year-old white man, who police said witnessed the slaying, was dumped on a street in nearby Carson. Investigators said he was stabbed 80 times and his throat cut to keep him from testifying.

"Los Angeles is experiencing an ethnic cleansing of African Americans who have no ties to gangs whatsoever," he said. "There have been several other murders in neighborhoods of Los Angeles where blacks are being pushed out by Latino gang members."

Last year, four members of a Latino gang were convicted in federal court of killing a black man in the northeast Los Angeles community of Highland Park as part of a plot to terrorize African Americans.

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MEXICANS KILLING BLACKS TO DO JOBS “EVEN BLACKS WILL NOT DO”

IMMIGRANTS KILLING FAIR WAGES, MIDDLE CLASS, AND BLACKS: DEMOCRATS COUNT VOTES, AND MEXICAN-EMPLOYER ALLIANCE WINS

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11) THE ABSTRACT PRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY AP, 3-5-07:

Detainees seek legal rights guarantee

By MARK SHERMAN -- Associated Press Writer

Last Updated 2:22 pm PST Monday, March 5, 2007

http://dwb.sacbee.com/24hour/politics/

story/3568454p-12810117c.html

WASHINGTON (AP) Lawyers for Guantanamo detainees held more than five years without charges asked the Supreme Court Monday to step in a third time to guarantee that they can challenge their confinement in U.S. courts.”

The detainees want the justices to hear their case and issue a decision before the court ends its term in early summer.”

"Not only are these questions of paramount legal importance, but the extreme and worsening plight of the Guantanamo detainees make them questions of great humanitarian urgency as well," lawyers for the detainees wrote in court papers urging the justices to decide the case.”

The court has twice ruled that foreigners imprisoned at the U.S. naval base in Cuba can pursue their cases in American courts, rejecting Bush administration arguments.”

The administration has argued that legal protections do not apply to foreigners outside American territory, and that the Guantanamo prison is beyond the reach of U.S. civilian courts.”

Democrats who took over the House and Senate in the midterm elections in November have vowed to rewrite the 2006 law that swept away the detainees' access to U.S. courts. It was enacted by the then-Republican-controlled Congress at the request of the White House.”

In 2004, the justices ruled that the courts can hear the detainees' cases, saying that prisoners under U.S. control have access to civilian courts, no matter where they are being held.”

In 2006, the justices ruled that President Bush's plan for military war crimes trials, planned for a small number of Guantanamo Bay detainees, is illegal under U.S. and international law. The justices also said a law that Congress passed in 2005 to limit federal court lawsuits by Guantanamo detainees did not apply to pending cases.”

After the Supreme Court ruling in 2004, the Pentagon set up panels that reviewed whether each of the detainees had been correctly categorized as an enemy combatant, and therefore not entitled to any legal rights.”

After the justices' ruling in 2006, Congress at the urging of the White House enacted the law which blocked detainees from coming into U.S. courts.”

THE COMMITTEE SAYS:

DETAINEES” ARE BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE:

AMERICA IS THE HOME OF RENDITIONS, NOT RIGHTS

Bush is confused. The American Constitution was not made to give rights to foreigners, The American Constitution was designed to limit and restrain the use of power by our own government.

Our Constitution sets standards of verification on political power. It requires the government show cause for using its power. Those restraints are inherent in the grant of power, and do not end at our borders.

Our government, and our President, are restrained by the Constitution anywhere they use the power of their office, be it inside or outside the country.

If Bush is not confused, he is purposely using the pretext of “foreigners,” and a foreign threat, to create Presidential Powers the Constitution specifically prohibits.

As far as our Constitutional limits assigns “rights” to foreigners, these “rights” are a reflection of our political values, not theirs. This is what made us different from the rest of the world.

Without Constitutional limits we would have a President capable of searching, arresting, detaining, torturing, and killing people, at will, anywhere in the world. A tyrant.

How about this: The Constitution is the Club, Bush, Congress, the “free” press, and the Corporations are the baby seals, and hunting season is opening soon.

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