Why we will be paying $5 dollars a gallon for gas and how we can get back control.

Why we will be paying $5 dollars a gallon for gas and how we can get back control.

Most Americans I know are resigned to the fact that the price of gas is going to hit 5 dollars sooner than later. How did we get to this and what can we do about it?

Pitiful attempts to get your votes by suspending the federal gas tax was the McCain answer. While our Nation is at war and running the largest deficit in history they wanted to take the only thing in the price of gas that actually benefits the American public. The gas tax is to be used in building infrastructure, which is sorely needed.

I am not some communist who wants to nationalize the oil companies or refineries or even unfairly tax their profits. I am however absolutely opposed to giving big business huge tax breaks so that they can price gouge us into the poor house.

When W took office remember his MANTRA, privatize, deregulation, trickle down economics. Well that has served us well, or maybe I should say served them well. The number one purpose of the CORPORATION is to make as much money as legally possible and many times as illegally as possible. Most CORPORATIONS couldn’t care less their impact on you and me. I am not an expert in commodities trading so I am not going to try to get into the intricate details just the generalities.

Here goes, there is a regulatory loophole allows hedge funds along with institutional investors to control unlimited quantities of oil contracts. Some say these speculators control as much as 60% of the oil contracts.

With the deregulation the CFTC has exempted investment banks upon the limit speculative buying and overseas markets. Also the CFTC staff has been cut to its lowest levels since its creation, so there is little oversight. If you control the volume of oil available you can manipulate the price. This is what is going on right now.

The first thing that needs to be done is to not elect John McCain because he is married to the beast and I don’t mean Cindy. Then we need to close the loopholes created by W’s gang of thieves and staff the CFTC so that they can enforce the laws against price manipulation and maybe even as we see in the news today put a few of these SOB’s in jail.

Peace and Liberty through intelligence, strength, and integrity

FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act)

These guys never give up trying to get their pals out of hot water.

FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) has been in place for 30 years and has dictated the necessary and appropriate ways for U. S. Law enforcement to collect intelligence on its own citizens for the sake of national security.

The Phone companies broke the law when they handed over information on US citizens to this whacked out administration without search warrants, violating the Second Amendment of our constitution protecting us from unreasonable search and seizure.

In February 2008 the House of Representatives did its job and rejected the Bush / Cheney FISA “reform” proposals there by protecting our Constitution but now the Senate is getting ready to give W’s pals in the Telecom immunity for breaking the law.

Senator Kit Bond. R(MO), is now proposing a complete revamping of FISA. He wants to strip us of our rights by including unlimited warrantless wiretapping for the executive branch for the next six years, without any meaningful judicial oversight. It also grants retroactive immunity to the telecom companies that broke the law and handed over our records to King George and is lackeys.

We have to speak out LOUD & CLEAR and reject this shameful legislation. If the House will keep their backbone and stay with their current version of FISA, in order for the government to spy on you they will have to get a warrant and have just cause to gather information from your phone conversations and emails. That is what our founders knew to be the right way to keep us safe from oppressive tyrants who would use this to quell dissent.

Write, call, fax, or visit your congressman and tell him if they vote for Senator Bond’s catastrophic FISA compromise when it come to the house that they will not have your support or vote this November.

Tell your friends and family or anybody that will listen to reject this compromise of our freedom and keep the Telecom industry and your government officials liable for their actions and do not grant immunity to lawbreakers. Congress stand strong on your February vote and stick with the current version of FISA

Feel free to use or alter my letter to send to your representative.

Find your congressman here

http://www.house.gov/

Congressman

I strongly urge you to stand strong on the House’s February vote on FISA. Stick with the current version of FISA and vote for the Constitution by voting against Senator Bond's catastrophic FISA "compromise" when it comes to the House.

Sincerely,

Peace and Liberty through intelligence, strength, and integrity.

Stop Big Media from dismantling media ownership limits.

Just imagine if Dick Cheney owned several major newspapers, TV and Radio Networks!!!

Still thinking? You know what you would get non-stop neo-convict propaganda the likes of Faux News a la Rupert Murdoch. The old media ownership rules prevented this from happening.

The Senate who once in a while gets some thing right, has passed a bipartisan resolution of disapproval that would nullify the Bush appointed FCC’s attempt to stop diversity in media ownership by dismantling longstanding media ownership limits.

Last December, the FCC voted to remove the “newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership” ban that prohibits one company from owning a broadcast station and the major daily newspaper in the same market. The resolution of disapproval (Senate Joint Resolution 28), introduced by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), would nullify the FCC’s new rules if passed by Congress and signed by the president. The House version of the resolution was introduced by Reps. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) in March.

Already King George has decided to show how out of touch he is with the will of the American people and opposes the resolution and says he will veto it. George seems to like media outlets that will parrot his delusional agenda polluting our airwaves with the likes Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coultergeist, etc, etc.

Don’t stand idly by and let Bush / Cheney undercut this bipartisan effort in congress and green light big media’s expansion.

Send a letter to your Congressman to stand with the Senate and overturn the FCC decision to allow more media consolidation.

Peace and Liberty through intelligence, strength, and integrity.

Feel free to use or alter my letter to send to your representative.
Find your congressman here
http://www.house.gov/

Congressman

I urge you to stand with the Senate’s bipartisan resolution of disapproval (Senate Joint Resolution 28), which would nullify the FCC’s new rules to allow greater media consolidation. The House version of the resolution was introduced by Reps. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) in March.

Consolidation has brought us to the point where two corporations control 70 percent of market revenue in an average radio market. While I respect the free market, it should be the role of government to stand between corporations and consumers when the public interest is at stake.

Relaxing restrictions does not serve the people just the big corporations. Local media must remain local, diverse and free.

McCain Too Old????

"Did you hear about this?


Two State Department employees were fired -- this is a bit of a scandal -- because they were looking at Barack Obama's passport file.


Not only that, but the same person was also looking at John McCain's Civil War records."


Who knows when the Clintons will throw in the towel but I am going to stick with some humor for now because the nastiness is about to start.


Just watch fox in the AM. I did today and they were slamming NBC for having Keith Olbermann covering the election returns. They said he was bias and called NBC the New Barack Channel.


I think everyone has it right when they call the Fox News “FAUX NEWS”. They are the last ones on the entire world of media who should complain about bias.


That being said I think they are right. Keith Olbermann should be left as a progressive commentator not a news person like Tom Brokaw, or Dan Rather. The reason Keith Olbermann was on though is because he will raise ratings and NBC is under the GE banner and we all know what GE is about and that is profit and profit only.


One of the most important issues of the coming years will be media control and access. We must limit the control of large media conglomerates on the information we get if we are to remain a free people.


If you are concerned with these issues there are some progressive sites that will give you current information on issues regarding truth in media and legislation that is going before congress.


www.freepress.net


www.mediamatters.org


Stay alert, search for the truth, and take back America.


Peace and Liberty through intelligence, strength, and integrity.


P.S. thanks for the pict BEE