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Pelosi and the Democrats Sell Out the American Worker (Again)

2007-11-09

Prison Planet | November 9, 2007 Pelosi
Kurt Nimmo

On October 31, Jim Hoffa, president of the Teamsters, offered his incredulity over the so-called Peru Free Trade Agreement, passed the House a few days later: I'm astounded that members of Congress would even consider passing more of these free trade agreements that workers hate.

Mr. Hoffa should understand by now that Congress is no friend of workers. Congress is a whorehouse long ago sold out to corporate interests. It acts as a rubber stamp factory for the globalist agenda. Even so, a sizeable number of Democrats voted against the free trade as in unhindered looting and pillaging bill, understanding well enough the possible wrath of voters, or at least the minority paying attention.

While the deal was easily approved in a 285-132 vote, more Democrats voted against the deal than supported it. Despite backing from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and other Democratic leaders, 116 Democrats voted against the deal while 109 Democrats supported it. Eight Democrats did not cast votes, reports Ian Swanson, writing for the Hill.

Most of the freshman class that provided the Democrats with their majority also voted against the deal. Thirty freshman Democrats, including Reps. Niki Tsongas (D-Mass.) and Laura Richardson (D-Calif.), who joined the House after this Congress began, voted against the Peru deal. Eleven freshman Democrats supported it, while two freshman Democrats did not vote.

Republicans were much more unified in supporting the Peru agreement. Only 16 Republicans voted against it, while 176 voted to approve it. The deal now goes to the Senate, which is expected to approve it.

Some business sources said they were encouraged that more than 100 House Democrats did support the Peru deal.

Obviously, the so-called freshman class want to be around after the next election cycle, less than a year away, and that's why they voted against the bill, for all the good it did. Some of them, as well, may actually care about the fate of workers, now sealed.

Has the Democratic Party gone soft on trade? Or has it opened a bitter internal split that could come back to haunt the party in the coming elections asked the New York Times. The Peru deal was approved by an overwhelming vote of 285 in favor to 132 against. But its most striking aspect was that 109 Democrats voted yes and 116 voted no, reopening the fissure that developed during the Clinton administration, when much of the party bucked President Bill Clinton as he pressed for the North American Free Trade Agreement and liberalizing trade with China.

In other words, at least some Democrats understood the obvious: NAFTA and liberalized (as in neoliberalism) trade with the massive slave plantation China would result in an egregious loss of American jobs. But then the neoliberal agenda is all about leveling the playing field, that is to say impoverishing the average American who has, according to our globalist rulers, had it too good for too long.

As noted by the Teamsters, the Peru Free Trade Agreement, based on �the job-killing NAFTA model, will accomplish the following:

Foreign investors based in Peru will have the right to question our domestic laws and receive compensation if such laws if they undermine corporate profits. Incentives are provided for U.S. companies to leave the U.S. under the investment chapter of the agreement.

The sovereignty of local, state and federal U.S. government bodies will be undermined. Foreign companies will be able to bypass Buy America laws. For workers in Peru, the prospect is even more dismal:

Nothing will change for the 33,000 slave-laborers cutting down the Amazonian rainforest.

Subsistence farmers will be forced off their land because cheap U.S. food produced by agribusiness will undercut their prices. The same thing happened with NAFTA, which resulted in millions of poor Mexicans leaving their farms. According to some interpretations, Citibank will have the right to sue the Peruvian government if the country tries to reverse its disastrous system of privatized Social Security thus allowing a powerful multinational to profit at the expense of the elderly, the sick and the poor.

Of course, it is not a coincidence many of those poor Mexicans leaving their farms are trekking northward to displace American workers.

It's all part of the globalist plan to turn the planet into a fascist corporate slave plantation.

You'd think Democrats would be calling for Pelosi's head. But they are not. In fact, come November, many of them will be voting for the Bilderberg Queen Hillary in the Great Horse Race known as the American election cycle.

Reuters is reporting that Clinton says she will vote for the Peru Free Trade Agreement the first agreement in a package of corporate-crafted agreements to vastly expand the NAFTA trade model, David Sirota wrote for the Huffington Post yesterday. The announcement, which flies in the face of polls showing the public strongly opposed to NAFTA-style trade policies, comes on the same day the New York Times reports that Clinton is being endorsed by NAFTA architect Robert Rubin, the CEO of Citigroup - a company that stands to reap financial rewards from the NAFTA model. Rubin's announcement came with a promise to raise Clinton more money from Wall Street.

But of course

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Police retain DNA of 'petty crime suspects'

2007-11-05

Londdon Telegraph | November 4, 2007
Ben Leapman

Suspects accused of trivial "crimes" such as picking wild flowers or defacing coins can have their DNA stored for life on a national database, police guidelines reveal.

A report by police chiefs lists more than 5,000 offences that qualify for lifelong inclusion on the database. Anyone arrested for any of the crimes will have his or her DNA taken and stored, even if charges are later dropped or the suspect is acquitted in court.

The offences show up in employment-vetting checks for years after the event. Campaigners called the guidelines a step on the road to a "surveillance society" and said the inclusion of petty offences was accelerating the growth of the database, which already holds details on four million people.

The 210-page list of crimes, drawn up by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), includes such minor offences as "opening an incorrectly delivered packet", an offence under the 2000 Postal Services Act; "wantonly disturbing any inhabitant by any ringing doorbell", an offence under the 1847 Town Police Clauses Act, and picking wild flowers for sale, an offence under the 1968 Theft Act.

Police have categorised the crimes into three grades of severity. If an adult is convicted of a crime in the least-serious category, group C, it will show up in employment checks for the next 10 years. If the offender admits guilt and accepts a police caution, it will show up for five years. After that period, the only potential employers who will see it are those conducting "enhanced checks" on job-seekers applying to work with children.

It also remains visible to detectives during crime investigations until the individual's 100th birthday, when the record is finally deleted.

All the crimes on the list are classed as "recordable offences", in most cases because they can lead to prison.

A row broke out earlier this year after ministers proposed that the database � already the world's biggest � should be extended to include those accused of "non-recordable" offences, which include speeding and dropping litter.

Dr Helen Wallace, of the pressure group Genewatch, said the ACPO list illustrated the "unnecessary" expansion of the database which, she said, "allows the Government to restrict rights on the basis of arrest, rather than of being convicted".

The records are kept for life so that they can be matched to DNA samples. Even suspects who turn out to have been wrongfully arrested normally stay on the database.

Nationwide, one in 15 people are included on it. Police say that keeping the details of those who have never been convicted of an offence has helped to solve serious crimes including rapes and murders.

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Ron Paul On Course To Raise Millions In One Day

2007-11-05

November 5th "Money Bomb" explodes into action

Infowars.net | November 5 , 2007
Steve Watson

Ron Paul Presidential candidate Ron Paul is set to raise millions of dollars today via an unaffiliated online grassroots donation drive which has already seen 18,000 people commit to giving the Paul campaign at least $100.

At around 9.30 AM EST today donations to Ron Paul's campaign surpassed $1 million for the day and have continued to rocket toward the $2 million mark throughout the morning.

Click here to see a live donation graph.

Visit http://ronpaulgraphs.com/ for more detailed figures and regular updates throughout the day.

Visit https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/ to donate.

The cash infusion sends Dr. Paul's total to around 4.5 million for the quarter so far, with projected quarterly figures estimated at over 7.5 million with 56 days to go.

Paul's campaign raised over 5 million in the third quarter and had over 5 million cash on hand at the start of this quarter, figures that initially baffled those in the mainstream media who completely underestimated the reach and power Ron Paul's campaign of freedom and limited government.

The concept for the November 5th "money bomb" originates from the movie V For Vendetta , the 2005 cult dystopian hit which grasped the imaginations of many with its extreme relevance to modern day politics in America. It was organised in large part through a specially constructed website at http://www.thisnovember5th.com/

Another donation day is scheduled for Veterans Day, this Sunday, November 11.

Though the donation drive shows unprecedented grassroots organisation in action, the mainstream media, true to form, has so far opted not to report on its amazing success.

The meteoric success of Ron Paul's campaign thus far is also reflected in figures we highlighted this weekend, revealing the websites of all the other presidential candidates to be flat and floundering, attracting no new visitors whatsoever. In contrast www.ronpaul2008.com has seen an 80+% rise in viewings over the past three months.

Once again we urge our American readers to engage in this historic show of activism by visiting https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/ and donating whatever you can afford.

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