Former RI Sen. Lincoln Chafee Leaves GOP

Sunday, September 16, 2007 11:41 PM

Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee said he has left the Republican Party because the national GOP has drifted too far from him on critical issues, including the war in Iraq, the economy and the environment.

"It's not my party anymore," Chafee, who represented Rhode Island from 1999 until 2007, told The Providence Journal in an article published Saturday.

Chafee said he is now an unaffiliated voter after leaving the GOP "in June or July."

He said he made the move because "I want my affiliation to accurately reflect my status."

Chafee was appointed in 1999 after his father, Sen. John Chafee, R-R.I., died suddenly, but lost last November's election to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse.

During that campaign, Chafee made an issue of his differences with the national party. He was the only Republican senator to oppose the resolution supporting the invasion of Iraq and was also critical of the "permanent deficits" caused by Republican tax cuts.

He also noted that he opposed other Republican stances, including drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

He told the newspaper that although the bipartisan Iraq Study Group recommended in December a gradual pullback of American forces, the advice has been largely ignored.

He also criticized Republican leaders for abandoning fiscal conservatism, once a mainstay of the GOP's platform, by passing tax cuts without spending cuts to balance the resulting loss of revenue.

The strategy, he said, has undermined social programs that bolster the American middle class. He specifically mentioned Pell grants, which help students attend college, and Head Start programs, which support the education of low-income children.

© 2007 Associated Press. (AMAZING THAT THIS STORY SURVIVED THE GOVERNMENT'S LIST OF PERMITTED ARTICLES!)

Former Governor of Louisiana, Huey Long once opined, “When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag.” Indeed, he could have added that the corporate media will gladly provide the flag and the public relations campaign as they have with Falcon.

Falcon; new drills for a new world order:

The Falcon operations can only be understood in the broader context of the ongoing assault on the constitutional system of checks and balances; including the repeal of habeas corpus, warrantless wiretaps and searches, and the use of torture.

For the last 6 years, the Bush administration has been busy dismantling the legal safeguards which protect the citizen from the arbitrary and, oftentimes, ruthless actions of the state. To that end, detention camps are being prepared by Halliburton within the U.S., secret courts have been established which deny due process of law, American citizens are arrested without charge, law enforcement is increasingly militarized, and the media has strengthened its alliance with the central government.

Additionally, in October 2006, George Bush quietly changed the Insurrection Act, which prevented the President from deploying troops inside the United States. Bush’s revision effectively overturns the Posse Comitatus Act which put strict limits on the executive’s power to use US troops in domestic situations. Just days earlier Bush signed a similar bill, "The John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" which gives Bush the power to take command of National Guard units across the country which are traditionally under the control of the state governors.

Concurrently in the US, a new provision in the extended Patriot Act bill would allow Secret Service agents to arrest and jail protesters accused of breaching any security perimeter, even if the President or any other protected official isn't present. The definition of 'free speech zones' can be shifted around loosely and this would open the floodgates for protesters to be grabbed and hauled away in any circumstance at the whim of the Secret Service.

During the 2004 RNC protests, thousands of New Yorkers were arrested en masse in indiscriminate round-ups and taken to Pier 57 (pictured), a condemned, asbestos poisoned old bus depot, where they were imprisoned without charge for up to 24 hours or more.

The existence and development of internment camps are solely intended to be used to round up en masse and imprison 'political dissidents' (anyone who has been critical of the neocons, the New World Order, and/or President Bush) after a simulated tactical nuke or biological attack on a major US or European city.

(TOME'S NOTE: TOO MANY OF US ARE IN SERIOUS DENIAL, JUST LIKE THE JEWS RIGHT BEFORE HITLER ISSUED THE ORDER DENYING THEM THE RIGHT TO LEAVE GERMANY. WHO WANTS TO BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING, IN OUR COUNTRY? IT SOUNDS FAR FETCHED, CRAZY, ABSOLUTELY ABSURD. YES, IT DOES. BUT IT IS THE TRUTH. AT LEAST BE PREPARED FOR THIS ROUNDUP AND KNOW HOW YOU WILL RESPOND. BECAUSE, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, LIKE IT OR NOT, IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN - unless we do something drastic!

KENNEDY'S SPEECH AND WHY HE WAS KILLED. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBF5DbPbg_A

AND A VIDEO OF A MAN WHO WAS A PART OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oohv17NTLi8&mode=related&search=

 

Jackie's Monthly Column - September 2007

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What Kind of Impact Do You Have?

Did you ever wonder why you bond with some people
better than others? There are several ways people
bond: through shared memories, through common
interests—like the same occupations or hobbies—and
even through the same troubles or the same joys.
Probably the quickest and deepest bonding happens when
two people share similar character qualities. Each
person has their own prescribed way of bonding that
works for them. However, if you are interested in
trying out a new venue there is one powerful bonding
that often gets overlooked—it is what I call elemental
impact.

Looking at the impact we have on each other through
the symbols of the four elements (fire, earth, air and
water) may seem like a far-out approach to bonding.
However, when you consider that everything in the
universe was created from the same basic elements, it
makes sense to consider how those four elements play
into your life. Just as each separate part of nature
interacts with other parts of nature in its own unique
way, so do people.

You don’t have to be an astrologer to watch what
happens when the different elements of nature
interact. For example, when water and earth interact,
they make mud. Air can stimulate fire if done in
reasonable measure, but you wouldn’t want to put water
or earth on fire. Air, water, and earth all bring
their gifts in different ways. Fire is a purifier and
brings warmth, water cleanses and refreshes, air is a
carrier and a connector, earth supports birth and
death. All four elements serve us in their own special
ways. Yet we must be careful when they get out of
control and get mixed in bad ways.

As people, we energetically impact the elements in
each other just as do those of nature. The impact may
look different in people but none the less it is
present. Just consider for a minute the type of
response you generally get from people. Take away the
subject of words, or even the intent of your Heart and
you will be able to determine your elemental impact.
To understand the correlation between the elements in
nature and those in people, look at physical action as
the earth element, emotions as the water element,
mental activity as the air element, and inspiration as
the fire element.

If people seldom get upset around you, you can safely
discount your impacting element as being water.
However, if people seem to come to new truths just by
being in your presence (not from what you tell them),
then more than likely your impacting element is fire.
If people ask you a lot of questions, your ego may
reach for the credit, but really it is your impacting
element of air stimulating their thinking. If people
around you are motivated to action, it may just be
that you are impacting them through your earth
element.

Here is a personal example of family impact. My
youngest son never felt he fit in our home. His older
brother and I very much loved and supported him, so I
was baffled by why he felt left out. But when I looked
at how he was impacted by me and his brother, I had a
clearer understanding.

His older brother brought the
character qualities of care and support in big
measure, but the impact energy of his being was the
physical earth. However, the youngest liked to be
impacted with the spiritual fire element. He received
best when someone theorized and philosophized with
him. While I liked to mentally theorize as much as my
youngest son, my energy impact on him was that of
emotion, or the water element. Needless to say, the
impact of the water element from me and the earth
element from his brother was not the kind of bonding
energy he was wanting. Therefore, his sense of not
belonging.

Let me encourage you to continue bonding in whatever
ways you have found workable for you, but add to that
resume an awareness of the bonding potential that you
energetically emit to create an elemental impact. This
new awareness tool will naturally come in handy in
your personal interactions, but it is also a useful
tool to use in the work place.

"Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for." Lawrence Block

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny …'" (i.e. serendipity) Isaac Asimov