As a New Mexican, I really offended by Palast's question elsewhere: "how can a Mexican have a name like Bill Richardson?" This is trashy 'guilt by association' on his part to impugn that Richardson's hand was in the cookie jar. To think that is to deny or ignore the fact that Richardson is too smart and too ambitious to do anything so stupid.

This is the nation's loss, truly it is. Maybe he is keeping his 'powder dry,' so to speak, in case Hillary botches the SoS job.

He will be cleared in this grand jury investigation, make no mistake....remember the missing discs from LOS ALAMOS that cost him the VP slot about 5 years ago, and how they turned up mysteriously behind the Xerox machine a few days after the gravitas passed? I think this is the same kind of deal, a raw deal, for a good Governor who will be great in some position down the line.

As to Palast's 'investgation'; his sources are juvenile and misinformed.

by Stephen Fox (96 articles, 3 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 802 comments [33 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Monday, Jan 5, 2009 at 3:58:31 PM

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You call the OP "mean-spirited and specious."

Later, you say "Maybe he is keeping his 'powder dry,' so to speak, in case Hillary botches the SoS job"--a statement which is mean-spirited and specious.  Have a care.

by Perry Logan (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 558 comments [74 recommended, 3 rejected]) on Wednesday, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:48:44 PM

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I was an Official Green Party Observer in the Ohio Recount 2004, in Erie and Seneca counties.

The points that you make on election fraud and voter disenfranchisement is what I have been screaming about ever since.

 Interesting point you make about Richardson. Those are fascinating facts you bring up about him. Facts that will naturally be ignored by some of the Democratic Party apologists around here.

Oh and from Minnesota, speaking on election fraud, voter disenfranchisement and such.

Screw Al Franken. 

by Michael Cavlan (15 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 538 comments [131 recommended, 2 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:02:38 AM

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Richardson will be vindicated. Such besmirching journalistic efforts really remind me of Hearst's mendacious yellow journalism of 100 years ago. They have little place at an open forum like OEN. Richardson has been absolutely scrupulous all along in his career, and to dissemble quasi-facts into a distilled morass like Palast's article, so shallow and so loaded with innuendo, is quite a descent.

Today's NY Times' article clairfies much of this, as well as Richardson's posted 5 minute comment from yesterday's press conference, as MSNBC, as well as at Huffington Post, whose article was almost as negligent as this one of Palast's.

by Stephen Fox (96 articles, 3 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 802 comments [33 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:31:13 AM

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is an excellent investigative journalist.  One of so very few left that we can count on to uncover corruption.   I trust his sources and his information implicitly. 

The fact that Richardson was a protege of Kissinger always bothered me.  It seems he's learned his lessons, from the grand master of deceit, very well.

by jersey girl (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1201 comments [734 recommended, 12 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:20:20 AM

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A simple fact that some Democratic Party apologists will ignore, as I stated earlier.

Reminds me of a time when Cindy Sheehan was speaking here in Minnesota. It was at St Joan of Arc's Catholic Church. A Church renowned in the Peace and Justice community here.

Cindy was giving a great speech on the evil's of George Bush. The whole hall was cheering and clapping in response.

Then she talked about Hillary Clinton and her own complicity. A section of us clapped and cheered in response. Another section sat in stunned silence. 

You could almost palpate the felling of "Wait Cindy, you missed the script, bad Bush, bad Republicans but not OUR Democrats, Not Hillary."

It was hilarious. You see some of us are DISSIDENTS of this country and it's racist, warmongering, anti-Human Rights  Foreign Policy.

Which means that we are NOT Democratic Party apologists. 

We refuse to be good Germans. 

by Michael Cavlan (15 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 538 comments [131 recommended, 2 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:42:56 AM

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Richardson and Corruption. From a Trade Union activist friend of mine in Minnesota. Surprise, surprise... Bill Richardson has withdrawn his name for consideration as Obama's Commerce Secretary. I am kind of proud I was the first one to break the news weeks ago that Bill Richardson was one corrupt S.O.B. tied in with the mobsters in the Indian Gaming Industry... actually, before that... check out my blog postings about that great "Prez on the Rez" debate that only Bill Richardson and Dennis Kucinich turned out for after I sent John Sweeney one of my lovely little letters... ya, that "Prez on the Rez" debate out in California which took place at a casino that Tom Hayden of "Progressives for Obama" fame took campaign contributions from... ya, that same casino whose management sent out a bunch of thugs armed with hickory baseball bats to teach a lesson to workers trying to organize a union. The corruption charges swirling around Richardson are in large part related to an investment group with major holdings in the Indian Gaming Industry. John Edwards sat on the board of another "investment group" primarily built around the teacher union pension funds whose main investments are in building casinos in the Indian Gaming Industry. One of the reasons this "investment group" Richardson is associated with is being so closely scrutinized in the first place is because of its association over the years with a man who is little known but very powerful in this country. His name is Alvin Ira Malnik. Alvin Ira Malnik is a very interesting fellow who I assume is responsible for Obama dumping Richardson; Obama didn't want the appearance of being connected too closely with Alvin Ira Malnik even though Mr. Malnik has been one of the big major donors to the Democratic Party for many years. Alvin Ira Malnik "inherited" a very interesting "business." He is the heir to the Meyer Lansky "syndicate." Alvin Ira Malnik was the guy chosen by Meyer Lansky to make his business "legitimate" and guide the "business" through the losses suffered as a result of the Cuban revolution. It is quite interesting how all of these fellows are "connected." One has to kind of wonder if Obama and his handlers haven't perhaps intentionally created a link to leftists and communists (Frank Marshall Davis) as a means to kind of lead people away from what might really be the case that Obama is well connected to organized crime... as are some thought to be progressives and leftists. Add in one of Alvin Ira Malnik's closest of personal friends, Bernie Madoff--- another major donor to the Democratic Party (both big supporters of AIPAC), and one begins to wonder if Bernie Madoff wasn't actually "laundering" the Lansky "family" money. Mr. Malnik provided the "consultancy" to get two huge casino empires off the ground in Minnesota... Mystic Lake and the Grand Casinos as well as the huge casino operation in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan... but his pet project was working the deal that saw the Seminoles in Florida taking over the huge Hard Rock casino/resort empire. Mr. Malnik is associated in one way or another with over 300 of the 450 or so casinos in the Indian Gaming Industry. Two other people well connected to Alvin Ira Malnik are Chuck Schumer and Obama's Chief of Staff... of course, the only thing Chuck Schumer and Rahm Emanuel have in common with Alvin Ira Malnik is their love for Israel... I am sure they know nothing about Alvin Ira Malnik's "business" interests... ya, sure; you betcha. It certainly would be interesting to be able to read the entire Grand Jury proceedings concerning Bill Richardson's "friends." I guess Barack Obama thought the reading might be a little too interesting also. You know, I have been wondering for quite some time why the People's Weekly World (Sue Webb was the writer) gave such glowing coverage to Irene Folstrom, the Native American woman put forward by the Leech Lake Band to run for the Minnesota State Senate. Folstrom is closely associated with the Indian Gaming Commission; and Mr. Malnik, according to registration records maintained by the Minnesota Commissioner of Public Safety, just happens to "own" about four hundred slot machines in the three Leech Lake Casinos from which he gets about 60% of everything put into the machines. Again, I find it very interesting that the PWW would select Irene Folstrom to highlight on the pages of the PWW when there are dozens of Native Americans running for state and federal office in this country. Put this together with the fact that the PWW has been unwilling, and outright refuses, to publish any story about the "Compacts" creating the Indian Gaming Industry leaving over two-million workers to be employed in smoke-filled casinos managed by the likes of Alvin Ira Malnik and Frank Fertitta, Jr. and never once has the PWW mentioned the thoroughly reactionary role of Brownstein/Hyatt/Farber/Schreck in the Democratic Party... if not to mention Brownstein/Hyatt/Farber/Schreck in relation to Indian Gaming and their link to organized crime... one would think that Norman Brownstein's leading role in AIPAC would have been noted on the pages of the PWW... but this has never been mentioned... nor has Frank Schreck's role as the official "deal maker" at the National Democratic Party Convention ever been mentioned even though Frank Schreck held over three-hundred and fifty meeting with various groups and businesses--- including the leaders of Progressive Democrats of America. Tom Hayden was present during discussion with Frank Schreck... yet now he denies ever hearing of Brownstein/Hyatt/Farber/Schreck even though AIPAC paid his way into the California State Legislature by his own admission! Now, consider this... Meyer Lansky once boasted that he worked with a "group of Communists" in New York City to break up a fascist pro-Hitler rally during World War II. I am wondering if Mr. Malnik doesn't hold some interest in those new glass offices, too. After all, Sam Webb acts more like a mobster than a Communist as he tries to stifle any dialogue, discussion and debate as he sits up in his glass office afraid to meet with working people in the midst of this economic crisis. I would not be surprised if we find that Mr. Malnik is in some way related to the corruption swirling around the Illinois Governor, too... after all, it was Meyer Lansky who helped the feds put Al Capone behind bars so he could weasel in on his lucrative prostitution and gambling businesses. More interesting might be the connection with the Balanoff's to all of this. One day old man Balanoff was a most despised Communist who nobody would talk to... the next day he becomes the director of the USW and the entire family is getting jobs in unions left and right with the present Balanoff representing workers in the hospitality industry through SEIU linked to governor "B"... Balanoff never worked at any job represented by SEIU--- yet he is a big-shot in the union trying to broker deals with a corrupt governor. And then I start to think... how did Obama ever get to be considered as a "progressive" even though he himself acknowledges that he has never been one... someone had to start this rumor... after all, it is kind of hard to run for president boasting about ties to Bernie Madoff, Alvin Ira Malnik and Brownstein/Hyatt/Farber/Schreck... all of whom one would think would be grist for the mill in a Communist Party newspaper. Then I turn to this fellow claiming to be Frank Marshall Davis' son out to "defend the family honor" by trying to claim that Frank Marshall Davis was not a member of the CPUSA... a retired military intelligence officer to boot--- who just happens to be living in Las Vegas. Even more interesting is the fact that the Chief Financial Officer for Red Lake Gaming Enterprises worked for Price Waterhouse... his specialty was "building good strong businesses down" to make them suitable for a cheap takeover. Even of greater interest is the fact that one such company that he worked this "economic miracle" on was a trucking company that one of Mr. Malnik's businesses ended up buying for peanuts. That trucking company now serves the casino industry... Indian and non-Indian. And now here we have Red Lake Nation Chairman Floyd "Buck" Jourdain being linked to one of Mr. Malnik's favorite entrepreneurial endeavors... the drug trade. And then I wonder how it is that while all of this drug dealing is going on right from the Red Lake Nation Tribal offices ALL the MN DFL candidates for United States Senate end up making the trek to seek the endorsement--- and of course financial contributions from--- Chairman Jourdain. Oh, and I forgot something... throw in those "union" workers building these casinos in the Indian Gaming Industry for which the Building and Construction Trades can't produce any signed, written contracts yet they collect dues from those working and a United States Department of Justice that all of a sudden seems to have forgotten about RICO statutes which they used to take Ron Carey out of the Teamster's Union to be replaced with Jimmy Hoffa, Jr., who, like Balanoff, never worked at a job in the industry a day in his life... oh, ya... the Teamsters, like the Building Trades unions, don't have any signed contracts with the casino managements either for the workers they send out on the casino construction sites. It is easy to prove me liar... all these unions have to do is pull out a signed contract with these tribal gaming establishments... Perhaps Minnesota State Representative Tom Anzelc would have access to such a signed contract? Got one signed by Ms. Melanie Benjamin or Mr. Stanley Crooks? Maybe Mr. Rudden and United States Senator Carl Levin's staff over there in Escanaba, Michigan can ask the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council to produce a signed contract with the management of the Island Casino or would Mr. Rudden have to give up all that lucrative advertising the casino does with his newspaper? If there isn't a scenario here worthy of further study, someone should at least consider putting it all together for a novel made for a television mini-series. Where is there another Howard Fast when we need him? A rotten, corrupt capitalist system sure does make for an interesting small little big, not-so-under, world. Let's just pretend that none of this sleaze and corruption exists in the great United States of America as we keep boasting to the rest of the planet that this is the world's greatest bastion of democracy. Alan

by Michael Cavlan (15 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 538 comments [131 recommended, 2 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:56:21 AM

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You are throwing out names and connections that I have never heard before, and I try to keep up.  But you know, as Lily says, "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up".

I have read in "The Octopus" about the ties in the 80s between California Indian tribes and the right wing contra gun and drug running scam.

Hey, does anyone remember the report that Oliver North took Afghans to Columbia to teach Columbians how to grow opium poppies?  I distinctly remember that somewhere in the 80s, but am unable to find it on the internet.  And yet, I see the US "fighting drugs" in Columbia, and it is mentioned that they are growing coca and POPPIES.  Poppies are not native to Columbia, so they got there somehow, and I know I read that Oliver North was involved.  Any info?

Thanks for the info.  

by wagelaborer (6 articles, 1 quicklinks, 9 diaries, 307 comments [34 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:50:33 PM

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It's a form of arrogance to think that your party can do no wrong.  An arrogance that isn't just demonstrated by the republicans.  It's leading otherwise very liberal dems to accept choices by Obama that go against their very principles. 

 That's very dangerous when we're talking about restoring our bill of rights and turning this country around.  If anything, we need to raise our voices and demand more rather than less.

"Dissent is the Highest Form of Patriotism."
-Thomas Jefferson

Well said TJ, well said.

by jersey girl (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1201 comments [734 recommended, 12 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:02:10 PM

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Well you are just one of those whiney Peace types. Only seeking attention and such.

Which is what GW Bush said about Cindy Sheehan.

Then what so many "liberal" "progressive" groups said about Cindy Sheehan, the nano-second she started pointing out the Democratic Party and their own complicity in the illegal, immoral and racist wars and Foreign Policies.

Power is like that, when one starts speaking truth to it. 

Especially liberals in power and their legions of apologists.

by Michael Cavlan (15 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 538 comments [131 recommended, 2 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:55:43 PM

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and to call him a "corrupt SOB" impugns your own stature of credibility. Just wait and see: he won't be at all implicated by the Grand Jury.

This is America's loss far more than it is Bill Richardson's temporary setback. You just don't realize his level of intelligence. Watch the Video on his stepping away from Commerce, on Huffington Post, to gain a clue as to what the heck you are talking about, because critics like Palast really don't have a clue.

I am through with this conversation.

Stephen Fox, Political Editor, New Mexico Sun News

by Stephen Fox (96 articles, 3 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 802 comments [33 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:17:19 PM

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Henry Kissinger was never indicted, in fact neither has Bush now that i think of it. So that takes your arguement of proof of Richardson's integrity in the toilet.

But of course, unrepentant Democratic Party apologists are rapidly loosing their credibility with progressives anyway, so please do carry on.

by Michael Cavlan (15 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 538 comments [131 recommended, 2 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:49:22 PM

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IT IS TOO DERANGED TO FOLLOW LET ALONE RESPOND TO COHERENTLY

by Stephen Fox (96 articles, 3 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 802 comments [33 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:03:56 PM

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  For me, It is doubtful that Governor Richardson had any intent to overstep the lines--though he occasionally drifted into some no man's land, which at law is the"appearance of conflict of interest'. That seems to be more negligence and stubborness, along with some reality traits of oppression on the budget of New Mexico. 

  More, he has drifted from the obligation which is his first duty.The office of the Governor was turned into a steeping stone in which the public would take great satisfaction that the Governor was stepping out while the state was in autodrive. ( The Lt. Governor in New Mexico has no seal) but merely may act in the abscence of the Governor. Promises of a new beginning, and civil service reform, which were the foundation of bringing back the national character to New Mexico never took hold.What changed was the appointive and appropriation of who did what, and for the most part withhin his inner circle. The State government was still filled through patronage and  invidious discrimination, along with a general tolerance of corruption and back room agreements.

  Perhaps now Governor Bill Richardson can make amends--not for what was criminal, but for the negligences. He fond of quoting President Teddy Roosevelt-- "No man is above the law. No man is below it" Yet in New Mexico many are thrown beneath  it.  It education system is stands at the worst of the nation, and has spiral downward in the last six years. The elections are rigged with "jim Crow" laws, that apparently the Guv , who repeatedly has stated that he would excatly follow the Constitution, seems to prefer....because the political party is under his control..and money allocated too.

  All in all, he has to be more selfless...and present that a public official is a public servant and not a platform of personal glory.  

by Eliot Gould (16 articles, 0 quicklinks, 28 diaries, 200 comments [3 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:13:15 PM

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by Patrick Lafferty (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 557 comments [316 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:34:12 PM

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IMPRESSIVE. LOGICAL.

by Stephen Fox (96 articles, 3 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 802 comments [33 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:41:03 PM

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...it is obvious why the attempt was made to put Richardson on the new "go go team".

The question arises: Who was the foil? How is it Richardson is allowed to be compromsed?

All who comprehend modern political power understand the many veils that hide persons of his status.

Please understand that in the present system, non of this has anything to do with law. It has to do with political power and how it manipulates "Law" as a tool.

Often these things are merely political theater. If CFR wanted Richardson, they would have gotten Richardson and NOTHING would have reached MSM.

by William Whitten (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4880 comments [1686 recommended, 28 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:13:01 PM

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The very same thought crossed my mind.  Why put him up and then so quickly take him down?  Was it all a show for his many dem supporters? After all the dems didn't get anyone on his cabinet that they really wanted.  Well, the Hillary supporters did.  Richardson had his many followers as well.  

Perhaps those that rule wanted to do a bait and switch type thing and replace him with a more hardcore soldier for the nwo. Seems he is already there but there is always someone worse waiting in the wings.   Or is it simply another distraction tactic? 

I don't know.  But I fear something even more wicked this way comes.....

by jersey girl (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1201 comments [734 recommended, 12 rejected]) on Wednesday, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:13:09 AM

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is at the base of a lot of problems, all of which fit under the idea of globalism, which see extending old-school banking and traditional colonialism.

I think it is safe to say that globalism is at the heart of our present economic problems, and only after a decade it has "shot its wad" and looks doomed in the eyes of American.  I think Ameria may soon want to return to its isolationist roots.

I see modern globalism starting in the 1990s, as the IP, or Internet Protocol, was needed for the corporate communication necessary to coordinate efforts, move service centers to different countries, and move money around.

I remember reading that during Vietnam Kissinger ordered the US Airforce away from the "surface to air" missile sites protecting Hanoi.  These missiles were what brought down the B-52s and put McCain in a Hanoi prision.

This seems absurd, why would Kissinger do this?  The answer seems that the missile sites had Chinese technicians, and he did not want to anger China by killing them; he was planning the China trade.  And it was under Nixon that the US opened trade relations with China.

Then the further question is why China trade was so important to Kissinger that he would sacrifice US airmen: a uniquely trecherous act.

For me this is where the "conspiracy" starts, in 1969. 

It comes to its zenith in 2000 when Greenspan raises interest rates successively to damage American technology during the tech boom, which quickly became a bust, and was then summarily shipped given to India, in the same way manufacturing was given to China.

The US moved towards a house building economy, which has put it, or us, in ruinious debt.

I know that Greenspan helped export US manufacturing, and I am aware that he had close connections to GoldmanSacs and gave them inside information just prior to the final rate increase that killed the tech market.  His connection there was partner named Cohen.

I make a couple of leaps here:

* I assume that Greenspan and Kissinger know each other, and have similar agendas. 

* And that they, along with GoldmaSacs, are inheritors of the global banking structure that backed, and possilby planned, the violent creation of Israel.

* And are uniqely responsible for the problems of the world

by John Bessa (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 16 diaries, 94 comments [1 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:26:12 AM

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 The grandaddy of skull and bones, illuminati, scroll & key etc.

Rockefeller - Rothschild - Rhodes - Warburg - Dupont

The world is split up by the Pilgrim Society members above. Kissinger is a pilgrim as are the Bush men, though they be lower members.

Dean Acheson, Lawrence Eagleburger, Henry Kissinger major warmongers for the group. Their connection is to Rockefellers. Greenspan became member after being knighted and cleared through British Society members.

Lehman Brothers; Goldman Sachs; Morgan Stanley; and Merrill Lynch all Pilgrim society controlled. The agenda is North American Union and then the covergence with the EU. Every society is secret but not like the Pilgrim Society.

They control every market: Gold, Silver, Diamonds, Copper, Uranium, Oil, Timber, Steel, Gen Mining markets, PHARMA, Media, Defense, the wealth in the 12 and their motto, "Here and Everywhere"

Our ability to ever control our destiny politically is over unless we expose the most secret of societies. THIS IS THE PILGRIM SOCIETY. The wolf in sheeps clothing.

“Hic Et Ubique”

by Patrick Lafferty (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 557 comments [316 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Wednesday, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:10:23 PM

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You all seem to have a puppeteering perspective on why people are appointed to Cabinet positions. He was picked because at the time he was considered the best man for the job, and don't forget that it was he who took himself out of the running, because of the delays in the grand jury proceedings.

As to being a Kissinger apparatchik, I know clearly that they are just friends, and that Richardson is very much his own man. We are glad to have him again as NM Governor. This is the nation's loss, and New Mexico's regain.

by Stephen Fox (96 articles, 3 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 802 comments [33 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Wednesday, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:00:49 AM

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This is no nation, this is Hierarchical anarchy.

If you are looking for "America" as a nation of laws and not men, you need a TIME MACHINE, because, that is all in the past.

by William Whitten (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4880 comments [1686 recommended, 28 rejected]) on Wednesday, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:20:14 PM

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Bill Richardson has exibited great talent. He is a stellar negotiator and a natural statement. He caught eyes of the people he should have feared and repelled, which is not easy when you are in an administration like Clinton's. But he got in the satanic hands of the "Kiss" as he is known to the dozen countries he can't visit for fear of arrest and assassination.

If he is in this North American Union effort to his neck, he takes the complicit role in the covert coups and assassinations orchestrated by Kissinger and several so called democratic butchers like Pinochet. A fifty year project to protect us from socialists? Not likely. More like a fifty year project to enslave two continents in a archetype of China. If I said Hugo Chavez's days were numbered and the CIA has the calendar, would anyone be surprised?

I think the cabinet selection wreak of corruption and I expect the same results here. Maybe the Governor should count his lucky stars.

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by Patrick Lafferty (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 557 comments [316 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Wednesday, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:49:22 PM

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As to being a Kissinger apparatchik, I know clearly that they are just friends, and that Richardson is very much his own man.

If Bill Richardson considers a war criminal his "friend" that tells me all I need to know about Bill Richardson.

by jersey girl (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1201 comments [734 recommended, 12 rejected]) on Wednesday, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:08:48 PM

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He worked for Kissinger. Etoobrewtydoodah...

by William Whitten (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4880 comments [1686 recommended, 28 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:27:55 AM

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http://newspeakmag.blogspot.com/

by William Whitten (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4880 comments [1686 recommended, 28 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:29:41 AM

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worked on congressional relations for the Henry Kissinger State Department during the Nixon Administration.

And, as mentioned in the article, between 2001 and 2002, Richardson worked for the Kissinger McLarty Associates consulting firm.

Oh but he fits right in. 

by Jade P. (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 36 comments [4 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:23:30 AM

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BLOVIATING ABOUT. RICHARDSON WORKED ALSO FOR MIKE MANSFIELD, HUBERT HUMPHREY, AND GEORGE MC GOVERNOR, ON THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE.

He was a White House intern during the late Nixon years. He talked with Saddam, Milosevic, and Castro in person. Does that make him their clone?

Come on people: try using some logic and reason in your analyses. That wouldn't be asking too much, would it? I am saying the Federal Grand Jury will turn up nothing bad about Bill.

Perhaps about Michael Stratton? That is a different story, that one....If you are going to get deranged and accusatory, at least focus on someone whowarrants it, like Stratton.

by Stephen Fox (96 articles, 3 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 802 comments [33 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Friday, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:55:47 AM

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He has talent, credential and feathers in his cap. But he has had associations and history in suspect, to say the least, special interests groups. Unless you think the Nixon, Ford, Clinton and Bush-league administrations were not counterproductive if not corrupt and his ties with Kissinger/McLarty whose client list is so secret, the FBI cant get it makes for uneasiness about his motive or agenda.

by Patrick Lafferty (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 557 comments [316 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Friday, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:14:04 AM

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guys.

by Stephen Fox (96 articles, 3 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 802 comments [33 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Friday, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:44:08 PM

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Top leaders. The minute you show talent, you are scooped up, groomed, broomed, corrupted, duped or set up. If you don't buy in, you live your time in office as folks like Kucinich, Paul, Wexler and others. Blackballed, somewhat irrelevent. Just like the science community, if you talk intelligent design you can't get an invite to the symposiums, let alone a dinner.

I'm not a B.R. basher. I'm cautiously unoptomistic about cabinet designees. From Erlichman to Vilsack, the process and progress of America politics has deteriorated. Special interests are just that "special" or pertaining to a select [rights peculiar to the rich]  This is somewhat contrary to the majority.

by Patrick Lafferty (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 557 comments [316 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 at 1:09:26 PM

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