POLITICAL CORRUPTION IS TOTALLY EPIDEMIC NOW

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Corruption is everywhere in our democratic system.  It is epidemic.  It is also part and parcel of how our system operates.  It is sort of the ‘shadow world’ of politics but this shadow world is allowed to flourish only because the nature of running for office and the temptations that lie there are so lucrative.  Only when people go totally nuts and squeeze too many people or are in office too long, get nailed.  But there are many ways of preventing this freebooter-style of corruption.

After a rash of scandals, the new party in power always forbids the old methods of corruption but the lobbyists and petitioners seeking favors find, with the very strong help of the politicians seeking to gain, a way of getting around anti-bribery laws.  When McCain was caught in the Keating Five scandal:

 

Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed in 1989, at a cost of over $3 billion to the federal government. Some 23,000 Lincoln bondholders were defrauded and many elderly investors lost their life savings. The substantial political contributions that Keating had made to each of the senators, totalling $1.3 million, attracted considerable public and media attention. After a lengthy investigation, the Senate Ethics Committee determined in 1991 that Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, and Donald Riegle had substantially and improperly interfered with the FHLBB in its investigation of Lincoln Savings, with Cranston receiving a formal reprimand. Senators John Glenn and John McCain were cleared of having acted improperly but were criticized for having exercised “poor judgment”.

All five of the senators involved served out their terms. Only Glenn and McCain ran for re-election, and they both succeeded. McCain would go on to run for president twice, including being the unsuccessful Republican Party nominee for president in 2008.

 

This brush with infamy was no barrier for running for office of President.  And the desire to punish fellow members for soliciting bribery money as ‘campaign contributions’ meant that this odious practice continues to this very day and is not being stopped.  It is getting much, much worse.

 

Proof is simple: all tax cuts, since the bribery business took off, are aimed mostly at helping the very rich.  The very rich are allowed, with utter impunity, to run pirate cove banking scams across the planet and thus, evade paying any taxes at all.  They have imposed ‘free trade’ on us even as the dire downside effects are painfully obvious.  When they are not donating to politicians to thus, control them, they run for office, themselves.  While running pirate cove schemes such as the governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney ran for President in the GOP primaries!

 

Hank Paulson gave very generously to the entire GOP as well as to Bush and was given total power over the Treasury.  He now is in the process of openly looting it on behalf of organizations that are destroying our economic base.  So corruption continues to eat away at the heart of our empire as corruption always eats the hearts of all empires.  The richer the empire, the worse the corruption.

 

In our case, it is so out of hand now, it is destroying public confidence in the entire system.  And it isn’t only the US.  Many other ‘democracies’ are discovering that they do not control their elected leaders.  These leaders all know that if they please the very rich and very powerful, they will be invited to give many speeches to fat cats and even fatter gnomes who won’t listen to a single word but happily use the occasion to hand over bribes.  

 

With this in mind, the US public is annoyed to see the naked greed of favor-granting politicians using this power to enrich themselves. Imagine that.

 

Transcript – Justice Department Briefing on Blagojevich Investigation – Text – NYTimes.com

 

Governor Blagojevich has been arrested in the middle of what we can only describe as a political corruption crime spree. We acted to stop that crime spree.

The most appalling conduct Governor Blagojevich engaged in, according to the complaint filed today or unsealed today, is that he attempted to sell a Senate seat, the Senate seat he had the sole right to under Illinois to appoint to replace President-elect Obama.

Let me take you back eight weeks ago to set the allegations in context.

Back eight weeks ago we the following environment. There was a known investigation of the Blagojevich administration that had been going on for years involving allegations of pay-to-play conduct and corruption. There had been a recent trial of an associate of Governor Blagojevich in which allegations were aired, where people testified that Governor Blagojevich was involved in corrupt conduct, and there was an Ethics in Government Act that was pending, that would go into effect January 1 of 2009, that would bar certain contributions from people doing business with the state of Illinois.

You might have thought in that environment that pay-to-play would slow down. The opposite happened. It sped up. Government (sic) Blagojevich and others were working feverishly to get as much money from contractors, shaking then down, pay-to-play, before the end of the year….I’ll give you two examples set forth in the 76-page complaint. One involves Children’s Memorial Hospital, a hospital that obviously takes care of children. At one point, the governor awarded funding, reimbursement funding to that hospital to the tune of $8 million. But he also indicated privately that what he wanted to get was a $50,000 personal contribution from the chief executive officer of that hospital.

In the ensuing weeks, that contribution never came. And Governor Blagojevich was intercepted on the telephone checking to see whether or not he could pull back the funding for Children’s Memorial Hospital.

 

Patrick Fitzgerald  was the prosecutor in the ‘Yellow Cake’ fraud.     Here is one of several stories I wrote in 2005, on that topic:  THE ASPEN GROVE IS BEING LOGGED BY PROSECUTOR

Here it is, what the prosecutor had been seeking: From Reuters:

Judith Miller discovered notes from an earlier conversation she had with Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff and turned them over the prosecutor investigating the leak of a covert CIA operative’s identity, legal sources said on Friday.

Miller’s notes about a June 2003 conversation with Cheney’s chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, could be important to prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s case by establishing exactly when Libby and other administration officials first started talking to reporters about CIA operative Valerie Plame and her diplomat husband, Joseph Wilson.

When this came over the wires, it took me rather a few minutes to make the appropriate cartoon.

She is connected by deep roots with the entire gang and if you uproot one, all get pulled up. They are dropping excuses and fabrications faster than autumn leaves. The green canopy is turning yellow fast and everyone connected is trying, like DeLay, to pretend it is OK to commit felonies. 

After all, breaking federal laws is not as bad as a private lawsuit, is it? I remember the Clinton impeachement over lying about a blow job connected with a private lawsuit which was totally inappropriate and inexpressively diminutive. 

So, when do we impeach Bush? His popularity ratings tonight are heading rapidly towards 30% or less, this is Nixon impeachment territory. The government lied about job figures this month just to keep the stock market alive, it was all lies, damn lies.

The interlacing roots that connect everyone in power protects everyone when they explore various obviously illegal or even totally treasonous avenues and adventures.  Periodically, for ideological reasons or just plain spite, various team members are punished but the general game goes on.

 

This gives the illusion of ‘cleaning the stables’ yet all systems that need true correction continue to get worse.  For example, we have people in power negotiating trade treaties.  Unlike the ‘evil Chinese commies’, our trade negotiators are all traitors and liars or worse!  Chinese commies come back with deals that all make China much stronger.

 

Our negotiators uniformly come back with deals that make us weaker!  This is NOT accidental.  It is deliberate.  Not one of them has been put in prison nor shot in a stadium.  The list of lies that led us into the Iraq war: no one is in prison for that!  Nor impeached, for that matter.  Bush and Cheney should have been arrested several times over but are still free to do their worst, thanks to the craven Democrats who refused to hold hearings or in any way, shape or form, try to curb the powers of the Executive Branch.

 

This was due to a desire to have the Ring of Power for themselves.  To rule us all, as the Tolkien ditty carved in fire on the Ring said.  Fitzgerald did manage to put Libby in prison.  But the powers in control of things freed him nearly immediately.  Just like the AIPAC guys who betrayed American military secrets have been protected by the media for the most part.  Remember them?  HAHAHA.  The media prays we forget them.   April, 2005:  Culture of Life Breaking News: NEST OF TRAITORS!

It is no surprize to see American owned media entities are steadfast in refusing to analyse or even cover very much, the stunning news that our highest analysis and operatives in the Pentagon really work for Israel, not America. Just like none of these media talk about certain so-called Americans who hold double citizenship with other nations while destroying America or enabling American deaths. To get even the barest facts, one has to use the internet to go to alien countries to get any useful information or analysis.

Our Supreme Court has now three seats which are occupied by men who have sworn personal fealty via the occult Opus Dei conspiracy, to a foreign power in Rome. Instead of protecting the Constitution, they work to limit our native freedoms so their real ruler can impose his will upon us non-catholics. This is exactly what our founding fathers feared. Much of the hostility to the immigration of Catholics was founded on the fear of Rome controlling America. Previous to Bush, no President went hat in hand to the Vatican but Bush did this several times! 

So here we are, we just had yet another election which featured an absolute flood of funny money funneled into political pockets!  And very little has changed.  AIPAC was not disbanded, it is stronger than ever and funnels more money than ever into the pockets of politicians and the news this week is, an advisor to Obama suggested that the US might cut funds to Israel.  The flood of AIPAC money is for diverting many billions of dollars to the Jews in Israel as well as keeping the entire US diplomatic corps attached to Tel Aviv.  

 

Note that they got their tool, Hillary, into the Secretary of State, a plum position for them.  In her case, it is all about her husband selling himself like a lady of the night, giving blow jobs to the rich and powerful in exchange for ‘speech fees’.  Here is another older story about the other way of paying off contributors to our corrupted elections:

 

It’s time to stop selling ambassadorships – Barbara Bodine – Politico.com

After World War I, the U.S. professionalized its diplomatic and consular corps. Yet, without parallel in the industrialized world, the United States continues to raffle off to well-heeled political donors ambassadorships to many of our most strategically important allies, as well as to some of the cushiest spots on earth. The U.S. ended the sale of military commissions over 100 years ago; it is inconceivable today that we would sell off military commands. We should not sell off diplomatic commands — the last vestige of the 19th-century spoils system.

The American Academy of Diplomacy, which counts among its members all living ex-secretaries of state, recently called upon Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain to pledge to end this practice and accord the nation’s diplomacy and diplomats the same recognition we accord our senior military officers, who dedicate their careers to national service. 

This continues and note that Congress has cold feet, unable to pass laws and the Presidents will veto such laws.  This is how they all fundraise, after all!  Way back when the stables were being mucked out in the past, the news media stirred up outrage.  Today, we get one corruption scandal after another and each party celebrates these as golden opportunities to gain power so they can do this, too.  There isn’t even a vague attempt at preventing this sort of goofy under-the-table messes.

 

Our diplomacy is in total shambles.  Because it is run as a means for gaining political power via donations, rank amateurs run important posts.  This means that people who are obviously not working on behalf of the US people get to run our affairs overseas.  This leads to the US ending up with no real foreign policy except one that enables rich people to suck our own nation dry, conspiring with foreigners.

 

Proof of this is simple: our government is going bankrupt while our trade is a total train wreck.  This isn’t accidental.  The other method for soliciting foreign and domestic bribes is via the fiction of establishing a Presidential Library.  Once, they were places where documents were preserved.  Now, they are corruption machines eating up our political power.  

 

Librarian » Blog Archive » Bush Library Lobbyist Who Suggested Bribes for Access Resigns from Homeland Security advisory committee. No. 7.16.2008.121.

Faced with a report that a rogue lobbyist urged an exiled Central Asian leader to support the Bush library to curry favor in Washington, library officials promised that no foreign money will be accepted until President Bush leaves office.
Stephen Payne, who claims to have raised more than $1m for the president’s Republican party in recent years, is a Houston-based lobbyist with ties to the Bush administration. He engaged in a hidden-camera conversation with two men posing as agents of Kyrgyzstan’s former president, who supposedly wanted meetings with top U.S. officials.

I didn’t bother, this time around, dredging up all the stories of our former Presidents going about the planet on private jets, soliciting bribes with fictional speeches.  Clinton, for example, has made over a hundred billion dollars this way.  Bush Sr. even gives speeches to the Moonies in order to get his bribes from Reverend Moon, a South Korean religious lunatic.  Then there is AIPAC…again: paying Presidents to bloviate should be strictly controlled.  There are ways to write laws to prevent this new form of obvious bribery!

 

Clinton Library Got Funds From Abroad

 

Bill Clinton’s presidential library raised more than 10 percent of the cost of its $165 million facility from foreign sources, with the most generous overseas donation coming from Saudi Arabia, according to interviews yesterday.

The royal family of Saudi Arabia gave the Clinton facility in Little Rock about $10 million, roughly the same amount it gave toward the presidential library of George H.W. Bush, according to people directly familiar with the contributions.

The presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has for months faced questions about the source of the money for her husband’s presidential library. During a September debate, moderator Tim Russert asked the senator whether her husband would release a donor list. Clinton said she was sure her husband would “be happy to consider that,” though the former president later declined to provide a list of donors.

 

Note that Clinton will not, even now, give us the damn list.  He dare not, for it shows who owns his wife.  She has promised to cough up this hairball during her hearings.  But will the Democrats force her and her corrupt husband to do this?

 

No more likely than the GOP forced the Bushes to detail all their foreign contacts like with the Bin Laden family, just for one giant, glaring example.  Indeed, no one in either party seems all that anxious to explore the extent to which our corrupt politicians have sold us to foreign powers!  That is one aspen grove we are to wander around in, lost in the woods, unable to trace all the roots that grow in the muck at our feet.

 

Arrest them all.

 

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