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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Daniel Quinn: Eugenicist or Environmentalist?

My Ishmael
by Mark Daniels

Does Daniel Quinn promote an ideology of eugenics?  According to a Washington Post reporter today, Quinn denied any association with James J. Lee, who took hostages today at the Discovery Channel in Maryland which ended in Lee's death from a gunshot wound.  Quinn reportedly said that Lee's claims espoused in Lee's Environmental Manifesto."are egregious".

Quinn's website posted the following statement:

What's going on at the Discovery Channel headquarters?
Daniel is on the phone with various news representatives because James Lee, the person dominating the news by at the Discovery Channel building, seems to feel he's justified in doing so by something he read in MY ISHMAEL. As those of you who have read and understood Daniel's work know, this kind of activity is neither advocated nor condoned by him. He is appalled and saddened to find that anyone could so misunderstand the message of his books that they feel justified in putting people at risk in this violent manner.
In fact, Daniel says: "He is giving a bad name to the very ideas he's trying to put forward. So instead of putting them forward he's putting them back--making them unacceptable."
More to come...
Rennie Quinn
In an effort to determine if Quinn's ideology promotes eugenics, I plan to read Quinn's book, My Ishmael,  referenced in Lee's Manifesto (pp 207-212}.  Once I have completed my research, I will tell you what I think.

As Reenie Quinn says "More to come....".


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Eugenicist Takes Hostage at Discovery Channel, Issues Anti-human Manifesto

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
September 1, 2010
Update: The gunman is identified as James Jay Lee, described as a longtime protester of Discovery. Scroll down the page for additional information.
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Police block the street in front of the headquarters of Discovery Channel networks building. Photo: Jose Luis Magana.
A eugenicist demanding the Discovery Channel must “broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet” and “stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants” has taken a hostage at the television network’s headquarters in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland.
The media reports the man entered the building with explosives and has taken a security guard hostage. Montgomery County Police spokesman Cpl. Dan Fritz told the Washington Postthat tactical and bomb squad officers are on the scene and are developing a plan to deal with the situation.
According to the Post, a note was posted on the internet on July 18 demanding the implementation of a global eugenics program. “All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions,” the post reads. “In those programs’ places, programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro-birth programs must now push in the direction of stopping human birth, not encouraging it.”
The post was posted on the savetheplanetprotest.com website. The entire “manifesto” follows with a screen-shot before the document was removed:
The Discovery Channel MUST broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet and to do the following IMMEDIATELY:
1. The Discovery Channel and it’s affiliate channels MUST have daily television programs at prime time slots based on Daniel Quinn’s “My Ishmael” pages 207-212 where solutions to save the planet would be done in the same way as the Industrial Revolution was done, by people building on each other’s inventive ideas. Focus must be given on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution. A game show format contest would be in order. Perhaps also forums of leading scientists who understand and agree with the Malthus-Darwin science and the problem of human overpopulation. Do both. Do all until something WORKS and the natural world starts improving and human civilization building STOPS and is reversed! MAKE IT INTERESTING SO PEOPLE WATCH AND APPLY SOLUTIONS!!!!
2. All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions. In those programs’ places, programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro-birth programs must now push in the direction of stopping human birth, not encouraging it.
3. All programs promoting War and the technology behind those must cease. There is no sense in advertising weapons of mass-destruction anymore. Instead, talk about ways to disassemble civilization and concentrate the message in finding SOLUTIONS to solving global military mechanized conflict. Again, solutions solutions instead of just repeating the same old wars with newer weapons. Also, keep out the fraudulent peace movements. They are liars and fakes and had no real intention of ending the wars. ALL OF THEM ARE FAKE! On one hand, they claim they want the wars to end, on the other, they are demanding the human population increase. World War II had 2 Billion humans and after that war, the people decided that tripling the population would assure peace. WTF??? STUPIDITY! MORE HUMANS EQUALS MORE WAR!
4. Civilization must be exposed for the filth it is. That, and all its disgusting religious-cultural roots and greed. Broadcast this message until the pollution in the planet is reversed and the human population goes down! This is your obligation. If you think it isn’t, then get hell off the planet! Breathe Oil! It is the moral obligation of everyone living otherwise what good are they??
5. Immigration: Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that. Find solutions to stopping it. Call for people in the world to develop solutions to stop it completely and permanently. Find solutions FOR these countries so they stop sending their breeding populations to the US and the world to seek jobs and therefore breed more unwanted pollution babies. FIND SOLUTIONS FOR THEM TO STOP THEIR HUMAN GROWTH AND THE EXPORTATION OF THAT DISGUSTING FILTH! (The first world is feeding the population growth of the Third World and those human families are going to where the food is! They must stop procreating new humans looking for nonexistant jobs!)
6. Find solutions for Global Warming, Automotive pollution, International Trade, factory pollution, and the whole blasted human economy. Find ways so that people don’t build more housing pollution which destroys the environment to make way for more human filth! Find solutions so that people stop breeding as well as stopping using Oil in order to REVERSE Global warming and the destruction of the planet!
7. Develop shows that mention the Malthusian sciences about how food production leads to the overpopulation of the Human race. Talk about Evolution. Talk about Malthus and Darwin until it sinks into the stupid people’s brains until they get it!!
8. Saving the Planet means saving what’s left of the non-human Wildlife by decreasing the Human population. That means stopping the human race from breeding any more disgusting human babies! You’re the media, you can reach enough people. It’s your resposibility because you reach so many minds!!!
9. Develop shows that will correct and dismantle the dangerous US world economy. Find solutions for their disasterous Ponzi-Casino economy before they take the world to another nuclear war.
10. Stop all shows glorifying human birthing on all your channels and on TLC. Stop Future Weapons shows or replace the dialogue condemning the people behind these developments so that the shows become exposes rather than advertisements of Arms sales and development!
11. You’re also going to find solutions for unemployment and housing. All these unemployed people makes me think the US is headed toward more war.
Humans are the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around and are wrecking what’s left of the planet with their false morals and breeding culture.
For every human born, ACRES of wildlife forests must be turned into farmland in order to feed that new addition over the course of 60 to 100 YEARS of that new human’s lifespan! THIS IS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE FOREST CREATURES!!!! All human procreation and farming must cease!
It is the responsiblity of everyone to preserve the planet they live on by not breeding any more children who will continue their filthy practices. Children represent FUTURE catastrophic pollution whereas their parents are current pollution. NO MORE BABIES! Population growth is a real crisis. Even one child born in the US will use 30 to a thousand times more resources than a Third World child. It’s like a couple are having 30 babies even though it’s just one! If the US goes in this direction maybe other countries will too!
Also, war must be halted. Not because it’s morally wrong, but because of the catastrophic environmental damage modern weapons cause to other creatures. FIND SOLUTIONS JUST LIKE THE BOOK SAYS! Humans are supposed to be inventive. INVENT, DAMN YOU!!
The world needs TV shows that DEVELOP solutions to the problems that humans are causing, not stupify the people into destroying the world. Not encouraging them to breed more environmentally harmful humans.
Saving the environment and the remaning species diversity of the planet is now your mindset. Nothing is more important than saving them. The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels.
The humans? The planet does not need humans.
You MUST KNOW the human population is behind all the pollution and problems in the world, and YET you encourage the exact opposite instead of discouraging human growth and procreation. Surely you MUST ALREADY KNOW this!
I want Discovery Communications to broadcast on their channels to the world their new program lineup and I want proof they are doing so. I want the new shows started by asking the public for inventive solution ideas to save the planet and the remaining wildlife on it.
These are the demands and sayings of Lee.
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Update: The gunman was identified by the Justice Department as James Jay Lee, described as a homeless man and a longtime protester of Discovery.
A WHOIS search of the website where Lee’s manifesto appeared, savetheplanetprotest.com, reveals Lee is the administrative contact of the website.
“Lee says: It’s time for REVOLUTION!!!” Lee’s MySpace accountdeclares. “The Idea to Save the Planet is HERE!” The MySpace page says Lee would like to meet people who read Daniel Quinn, described as an environmental author. Quinn is the author ofBeyond Civilization and received Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991. Ted Turner is a notorious eugenicist.
A photo gallery on the MySpace account contains a photo of Lee with the following caption: “I am ready to do something.”
In February of 2008, Lee issued the following handout during a protest at the Discovery Channel:
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UPDATE: Lee Shot; Bomb Detonated; No Report On His Condition









James Lee is seen in this 2008 photo believed to be from a Save the Planet protest outside Discovery's headquarters.
Authorities have identified the man holding hostages in the Discovery Channel headquarters as James Lee.
Discovery Channel Building
Silver Springs, MD

SILVER SPRINGS, MARYLAND
SUSPECT IDENTIFIED AS JAMES LEE, ENVIRONMENTALIST
[Updated at 4:44 p.m.] James J. Lee shot; in custody; device detonated; no report on his conditionFollow CNN's continuing coverage of the hostage situation at the Discovery Channel headquarters here.


Update, 4.13 p.m



James Lee, the man suspected of taking a hostage at the Discovery Channel headquarters, is an environmental protester who has been publishing criticisms of the network, according to a senior law enforcement official close to the investigation.
An angry manifesto posted on a website called SaveThePlanetProtest.com repeatedly refers to humans as "filth" and demands that the Discovery Channel
"stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants."
"Civilization must be exposed for the filth it is," the 1,149-word statement says.
"Humans are the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around and are wrecking what's left of the planet with their false morals and breeding culture," it continues.
Lee also blasts immigration, farming, weapons of mass destruction, automotive pollution, "and the whole blasted human economy."
He demands that the Discovery Channel broadcast daily prime-time shows devoted to "solutions to save the planet," perhaps in a game-show format, insisting "Make it interesting so people watch and apply solutions!!!!"
Many of Lee's comments are directed at "the media," saying "You can reach enough people. It's your responsibility because you reach so many minds!!!"
"The world needs TV shows that DEVELOP solutions to the problems that humans are causing, not stupify the people into destroying the world. Not
encouraging them to breed more environmentally harmful humans," the manifesto says.
"These are the demands and sayings of Lee," the manifesto concludes.

Update, 3:40 p.m.
Montgomer County Police Chief Thomas Manger said with the suspected gunman who was identified by federal law enforcement officials as James Jay Lee, have been going on for an hour.
Manger described the suspected gunman as an Asian male wearing vest with what appeared to be two pipebombs and two canisters strapped to it. He was also waving a gun. About 1900 employees work at the Discovery Building. Manger said a small number of hostages was being held, but could offer no information about their identities. Witnesses said they saw four people on the ground. Police say not aware of any injuries.
Manger said they would give another update in 30 minutes.
Update, 3:30 p.m.
At a briefing for reporters, Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger said that a ". . .small group number of hostages," is being held by the suspected gunman who federal officials have identified as James Jay Lee.
Update, 3:20 p.m.
Federal law enforcement sources have confirmed the suspect is James Jay Lee.
Update 3:10 p.m.
Several stores in downtown Silver Spring, including Toys R Us Express, Pier 1 and Borders, have closed their doors.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington also notified parents of children at St. Michael the Archangel School -- which is less than two blocks from the Discovery building -- that the building is on "lockdown status," according to an email sent to parents. All students were accounted for but all doors were shut and all shades were drawn, archdiocese officials said.
Update, 3:05 p.m.
Brian Slone, 28, was at his desk when a coworker called from outside the building telling him of the situation. A short time later an alert came over the intercom.

"I'm thinking Columbine all of the sudden and guys walking around with guns," Slone said.
People immediately worried about kids at the daycare on the same floor as the gunman, though they were on an opposite side of the building. Slone said the updates on what to do came swiftly and people stayed calm.

"You don't expect something like this to happen in a creative company, in a family culture like we have here," he said. "but I guess it can."
Update, 2:46 p.m.: "Law enforcement official confirms the name of suspect James Jay Lee," according to NBC Washington.
In March 2008, the Gazette reported that:
The California man who was arrested after throwing thousands of dollars into the air at a rally outside of Discovery Communications last month was told by a judge on Friday that he would be thrown in jail for up to 60 days if he came within 500 feet of the building.
James Jay Lee, 40, of San Diego was also given six months of supervised probation and fined $500 by Associate Judge Stephen P. Johnson, who quipped that if Lee was so keen on throwing money away, ‘‘you can give some to the state.”
Update, 2:36 p.m.: The hostage is a security guard at the building, according to WTTG Fox 5.
Update, 2:19 p.m.: Police inside the building are speaking with the suspect, according to WUSA 9 TV.
Police have come out from behind their barricades, according to TBD-TV.
The suspect appears to be an Asian male, police told the station.
Update, 2:10 p.m.: Children at a day care center in the Discovery Building has been safely evacuated to a nearby McDonalds. Fox 5 reports that traffic is beginning to back up on the Beltway.
Earlier post: A man with what appears to be an explosive device on him has taken at least one hostage at the Discovery Building in downtown Silver Spring, Montgomery County Police said.
Cpl. Dan Friz

Tactical officers are on the scene and developing a plan to deal with the situation.
Police initially said the building was being evacuated, but employees said they were told via email to stay at their desks.
Officers have not fired their weapons, Friz said,
The building, as well as areas near it, are being evacuated, she said.
Discovery employees said they were told via email to stay at their desks. Some have said on their Twitter accounts that shots have been fired, but police have not confirmed that.


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Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" Rally - Interviews With Participants



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Don't Get Fooled by Bernanke

by Brett Arends
Yahoo! Finance

Commentary: Reassurances from Fed chief sound hollow
When are investors going to stop getting suckered by Ben Bernanke?
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI - News) jumped nearly 200 points Friday after the Federal Reserve chairman's pep talk on the economy. Worldwide markets followed suit. And long-term interest rates rose on his sunnier outlook.
Yes, the Fed chairman seemed to rule out a double dip. And yes, he said he stands ready to pump more money into the system if it should falter.
But so what?
On forecasts, the Fed chairman is about as useful as a New England weatherman.
As for the talk of more quantitative easing: A close reading of Bernanke's word's make you wonder if he even understands the crisis at all.
Let's look at the forecasts first. "I expect the economy to continue to expand in the second half of this year, albeit at a relatively modest pace," Bernanke said at Jackson Hole.
Good news? Some people clearly thought so.
But this is the man who four years ago predicted a "a leveling out or a modest softening" in home prices. (He also said households were in "reasonably good" financial shape, because their booming house prices were offsetting their rising debts).
Just over three years ago he said the subprime crisis "seems likely to be contained", adding that he saw "some tentative signs of stabilization" in house prices.
As late as April, 2008, with the great implosion just months away, he forecast "a return to growth in the second half of this year and next year." You remember that return to growth we had in the fall of 2008, don't you?
Last Friday he admitted the Fed had been as surprised as everyone else by the sharp downturn in the U.S. trade balance in the second quarter. So what's new?
When the time comes to write Ben Bernanke's biography, I already have a great title. How about "Behind The Curve"?

I don't want to be unfair. He issued caveats along the way. But so he did again last week. Nothing's changed. And maybe Ben Bernanke's economic forecasts aren't any worse than anyone else's. But that's hardly the point, is it? And even if they're no worse, are they any better?
And this isn't even the biggest concern arising from Friday's speech.
Bernanke keeps talking about bank lending and consumer confidence.
But how can anyone look at the most indebted nation in the history of the world and say it is suffering from a lack of credit? And why on earth should consumer confidence miraculously pick up when those consumers are broke and out of work? Is he suggesting we start handing out Vicodin? Should we legalize pot?
Bernanke knows that the real problem with the economy is a lack of demand. "Fiscal impetus and the inventory cycle can drive recovery only temporarily," he says. For a sustained recovery, he says, "growth in private final demand — notably consumer spending and business fixed investment — must ultimately take the lead."
In the past, the bulk of this has come from the consumer. But look at the numbers. American families, according to the Federal Reserve itself, already owe $13.5 trillion. That is twice what they owed ten years ago, and four times what they owed twenty years ago. For all the talk of people repairing their balance sheets, that figure has fallen by a grand total of 2.7% from its all-time peak in 2008.
Meanwhile, the unemployment figures are far worse than the government admits. (Bernanke himself said as much. "The small decline in the unemployment rate is attributable more to reduced labor force participation than to job creation," he said. Think about that for a second if your definition of "unemployed" doesn't include those who have ceased to participate in the labor force, what use is it?).
We can find the real numbers for ourselves. The Labor Department's own data show that among adult men of prime working age, 25 to 54, just 81.2% have a job of any kind at the moment. (The figure until the crisis was nearly 90%, and back in the fifties it was around 95%).
The Labor Department further admits that a further 7% of those men are stuck working part time — a sharp increase from two years ago, due to the financial crisis.
Put the two together and you discover that 25% of men of prime working age in America, one in four, today lacks a full-time job. Nearly one in five lacks any job at all. This is unprecedented in American history.
Millions of families are broke, up to their eyeballs in debt and unemployed. And they can't get credit, because lenders are at last worrying about whether they can pay the money back. The problem in this situation is not with the lenders.
In the circumstances, I'd be more worried if someone told me consumer confidence was booming.
If the economy gets worse, will politicians be able to do anything about it? Don't bet on it. Even if our political system weren't broken, we're in an election season.
Maybe the only one left who can act is Ben Bernanke. He stands ready to help by purchasing long-term Treasurys. Will it work? We had better hope so.

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Vaccines pushed by medical-industrial complex

Andrew W. Griffin
Oklahoma Watchdog
September 1, 2010
OKLAHOMA CITY — As we noted here at Oklahoma Watchdog a week or so ago, the pharmacy chain Walgreens has been aggressively pushing this season’s combined seasonal/H1N1 flu vaccine. This, after 2009′s swine-flu scare that resulted in tons of vaccine that was left to rot in warehouses, resulting in lost revenue for vaccine manufacturers and others who profit off of health-related scaremongering.
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There are reports in countries like India where deaths have been reported following swine-flu vaccines. Photo: Andres Rueda
And while reading USA Today this morning I couldn’t help but notice the full-page Walgreens ad on 7A where a “mom” says she is arming herself for the ones she loves, saying, “I got a flu shot for my daughter.” That last part was underlined in the ad.
And now we see there is a strong effort afoot to make vaccinemandatory for health workers. As a Los Angeles Times story reported today that hospital chains are increasingly forcing employees to get vaccines or lose their job. The State of New York is working on a plan to make state health workers get the jab.
Notes the LAT: “Most studies suggest that healthcare workers should be vaccinated to help stop the spread of flu. But surveys show a sizable portion of people who work in hospitals, clinics and doctor’s offices don’t want to get an annual flu shot. According to a Rand Corp survey issued last year, 39% of healthcare professionals said they would not get a flu vaccine, even with the threat of pandemic flu.
What the story fails to explain is why these health workers are refusing to get the vaccines.

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Could it be that these health workers and increasing numbers of people are educating themselves about the ingredients of these vaccines and deciding they don’t want these “nasties” in their bodies, ranging from viruses to squalene to mercury?
Note this Prison Planet article released this week headlined “Vaccine deaths and injuries skyrocket as cover-up implodes.” The story, written by Paul Joseph Watson, references a new Rasmussen poll that says over half – 52 percent – of Americans are concerned about the safety of vaccines.
There are already reports in countries like India where deaths have been reported following swine-flu vaccines. Will that happen here in the U.S. once people begin getting their annual jab, which includes the seasonal and H1N1 (swine flu) vaccine?
We will be staying on this story throughout flu season and beyond.

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Vaccine Death Coverup Implodes Worldwide

Infowars.com
September 1, 2010

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Once again the government wants to push it’s mercury filled vaccines on everyone, especially children. Alex Jones breaks down swine-flu fraud hoax which was proven last year and the new developments that are happening this flu season. He also exposes the Rockfeller plan to lower the global population by sterilizing people with vaccines. Forward these articles and and this video to your friends and loved ones.


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The 10 Banks That Recieved The Biggest Bailouts…

By EILEEN AJ CONNELLY


(Huffington Post)

Disclosure reports show that the banks that got the most government help in late 2008 and early 2009 also invested the most to influence members of Congress, the White House, the Federal Reserve, Treasury Department and a long list of federal agencies as new rules were enacted governing Wall Street and the nation’s financial system.
“I’m not shocked that they spent that much money because I saw them every day,” said Ed Mierzwinski, consumer program director at U.S. Public Interest Research Group, who said more than 2,000 lobbyists worked on the financial reform bill.
The sweeping law signed by President Barack Obama in July topped 2,300 pages, and outlined broad rules for issues ranging from derivatives trading to the fees merchants are charged for processing credit and debit card transactions. It also covered the creation of a consumer financial protection bureau. Banks are continuing efforts to try to shape many of the new rules that are still being finalized.
The $16.32 million spent in the first half of 2010 was 26 percent higher than the combined $12.94 million they spent in the first half of 2009.
In prior years, the spending crept up at a much slower pace: 2009’s total was about 2 percent higher than the nearly $12.7 million spent in the first half of 2008. And that was only 3.7 percent above the $12.25 million spent in the first half of 2007.
Leading the pack this year was JPMorgan Chase & Co., which spent $1.52 million on lobbying in the second quarter, on top of $1.51 million in the first quarter of 2010, for a total of $3.03 million, according to disclosure reports filed with the House of Representatives clerk’s office.
Citigroup Inc., the largest bank recipient of government funds during the crisis in late 2008 and early 2009, was second. The New York-based bank spend $1.47 million on lobbyists in the second quarter, after spending $1.31 million in the first quarter for a total of $2.78 million.
And Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs Group Inc. was third, with $1.58 million spent in the second quarter, on top of $1.19 million in the first quarter of 2010.

All three banks declined to comment on their lobbying spending, which went toward hiring advocates to discuss the legislation with lawmakers and regulators. Lobbying figures do not include any campaign contributions that banks or their employees might also have made.
Mierzwinski said the big win for consumers was the financial protection bureau, which banks tried to remove from the law. The financial industry was in a weakened position during the debate, however, because of public anger over the economy’s collapse and publicity over issues like Wall Street bonuses. Nevertheless, banks were rewarded for their efforts, he said. “They did manage to make changes.”
Bank of America Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co. both also spent more than $2 million in the first half of the year. Spending far less were PNC Bank, US Bancorp, Capital One Financial Corp. and Regions Financial Corp. The American Bankers Association, the main trade group for the industry, also lobbied heavily, spending $4.2 million in the first half of 2010.
Consumer advocacy groups had their own lobbyists working the Capitol’s halls during the finance reform debate as well, but their spending was dwarfed by the banks – a total of $792,000 in the first half of the year for four of the top organizations. The Center for Responsible Lending topped the list, with $335,000 spent in the first six months of the year. U.S. PIRG tallied $227,000. The Consumers Union listed $150,000 and The Consumer Federation of America spent $80,000.
Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said the heavy spending in part reflects the number of people needed to discuss issues with 535 members of Congress. One sentence in a law regulating the financial markets can have a big impact on a company’s profit, she noted, and the industry made sure they had experts on hand to discuss every aspect with lawmakers.
“We’re talking billions,” Sloan said. “So the lobbying money is the most effective money you’ll spend.”
“It’s not that I don’t think that many would have preferred a different outcome,” she added. “But I doubt that any of those banks didn’t think it was worth it to have those lobbyists.”
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Senator Lincoln Selling Earmarks and Globalization for Re-Election Bid

by Mark Daniels
Global Political Awakening

Blanche Lincoln
Danny Johnston / AP
In this photo taken Aug. 18, 2010, U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., is interviewed at her campaign headquarters in Little Rock, Ark. Ignoring Republican complaints about wasteful federal spending, Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln is reminding voters _ in dollars _ of what's she's done for Arkansas during nearly 12 years in Washington. Defending projects typically derided as pork is a tricky stance for a vulnerable incumbent, but Lincoln has turned her re-election fight into an argument for pet projects
Senator Lincoln held one of her now infamous "teletown hall" meetings last night, in which I participated (listened to her go on about how much money she has delivered to Arkansas special interest groups).. I've been trying to to gain a seat at the table with Senator Lincoln for some time now; therefore I wasn't surprised when she "didn't have time to get to me" during last nights' conference (She screens the questions before the voters are allowed speaking privileges).

I planned to ask her about why she has failed, along with 99% of Congress, to provide leadership in combating Washington corruption, especially the "Federal Reserve" system's criminal activities and the myriad of global threats, including the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change falsifying scientific data in order to sell the "global warming" hoax to the American people (Read Related Articles), Tax-Exempt Foundations, such as Rockefelller, Gates, Ford, Council on Foreign Relations, etc funding covert operations to destroy America's national sovereignty in favor of a global scientific dictatorship, and the Wall Street banksters getting away with the economic rape of the American people.

Of course, when I was asked by her "screener" what I wanted to ask the Senator, I simply told her that I wanted to ask about the effects of Globalization on our country.  Although time is limited, do not screen the questions if you truly want to hear from the voters.

Senator Lincoln seems to think Arkansas votes are easily "bought" with millions of dollars in earmarks during a time in history in which we are facing  tremendous economic uncertainty coupled with global threats from some very rich and powerful people.

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Concerning Earmarks

Associated Press writer, Andrew DeMillo reports:

Little Rock, AR-Ignoring Republican complaints about wasteful federal spending, Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln is reminding voters — in dollars — of what's she's done for Arkansas during nearly 16 years in Washington.

Nearly every day, her campaign and Senate offices trumpet money that she's helped secure for her home state — from $13,811 for the Hope Police Department to buy a new cruiser to a $102 million stimulus-funded grant for the state to pay for broadband Internet.

Defending projects typically derided as pork is a tricky stance for a vulnerable incumbent, but Lincoln has turned her re-election fight into an argument for pet projects — calling them the "great equalizer" for small, rural states like Arkansas.

"I'm going to fight hard for my state because, let me tell you, these dollars are going to go somewhere else if we don't get them," Lincoln told The Associated Press.

It's a return to the basics for Lincoln, who is trailing in most polls. She's faced anger from both the right and the left, with liberal activists trying unsuccessfully earlier this year to throw her out of office in the Democratic primary.

Her opponent, Republican Congressman John Boozman, also brought millions of dollars in projects to his Arkansas district before signing on to a House GOP moratorium on earmarks. Lincoln says he's sacrificing the state's interests for politics.

Lincoln co-sponsored 91 earmarks in the 2010 budget totaling nearly $115 million, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense. Boozman sponsored or co-sponsored 31 earmarks totaling more than $30 million the same year.

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