Chevron Toxico video
BP buys Google and Yahoo search engine words to keep people away from real news on Gulf oil spill disaster
EXCERPT:
In their most tenacious effort to control the ‘spin’ on the worst oil spill disaster in US history, BP has purchased sponsored links at the top of internet search engines, Google and Yahoo. The top listed links direct people to BP's official company website for news and information on the catastrophe.
BP spokesman Toby Odone confirmed to ABC News that the oil giant had in fact bought internet search terms.
The words ‘oil spill’, 'BP oil spill', 'Deepwater Horizon' and 'oil spill response' are among several other related search terms that all lead to the top listed sponsored links purchased by BP.
BP has not been completely forthcomming with information on the oil spill, which has damaged the companies public image.
Ecuadorians sue Chevron video
Lago Agrio
EXCERPT:
The Lago Agrio oil field is an oil-rich area in the Ecuadorian province of Sucumbíos, discovered in the 1960s. The Lago Agrio field is known internationally for the serious ecological problems that oil development has created there, including water pollution, soil contamination, deforestation and cultural upheaval. Since 1993, lawyers representing local residents have sought to force former well operator Texaco and its now parent company Chevron Corporation to clean the area and to provide for the care of those allegedly affected.
Injustice in Ecuador
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Injustice in Ecuador
This is a guest post from Daniel Denvir on Gristmill: the environmental news blog, a journalist who recently moved from Quito, Ecuador, to Philadelphia, Pa. He is writing a book on poor people's environmentalism in Ecuador.
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Ecudaorian President Rafael Correa.
Ecuadorian government shuts down leading environmental group
Last Monday, environmentalists were shocked to learn that the Ecuadorian government had shut down Acción Ecológica (Environmental Action), withdrawing the legal status of one of South America's best-known environmental groups. Acción Ecológica has in recent months supported indigenous-led, mass protests and highway blockades against President Rafael Correa's support for large-scale mining.
Equador and Chevron
EXCERPT:
The lawsuit pits Ecuadorean peasants against Chevron over oil pollution in the Amazon and has been a major headache for the company for nearly a decade, producing a saga that underscores many of the hazards and ethical challenges of oil companies working in the developing world.
The company appeared to gain the upper hand in August when it revealed video recordings — captured on watches and pens implanted with bugging devices — that suggested a bribery scheme involving Ecuadorean officials, and possibly even the judge hearing the case.
But the company was put on the defensive again on Thursday, after lawyers for the peasants revealed that one of two men who made the tapes was a convicted felon. Court and other records provided by the plaintiffs show that Wayne Hansen, the American who helped make the recordings, was convicted of conspiring to traffic 275,000 pounds of marijuana from Colombia to the United States in 1986. He also was sued successfully in 2005 by a woman who accused him of unleashing his two pit bulls to attack her and her dog.
American Businessman Wayne Hansen
EXCERPT:
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
American Businessman Wayne Hansen Has Ties to Chevron in Bribery Scheme, Investigation Finds
New Information Contradicts Earlier Claim by Oil Giant As Questions Grow About Chevron’s Own Role
Chevron Refuses to Make Key Witnesses Available; Refuses to Release Second Video to Public; Refuses to Disclose Details of Payments to Contractor
Belon
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Massive media blackout in gulf oil spill
Chevron spill was deliberate opposed to BPs... hmmmm
EXCERPT:
•Instead of re-injecting toxic “produced water” (which contains high levels of salt, pure crude, and the carcinogen benzene) deep into the ground – the industry practice then recommended by the American Petroleum Institute – Chevron dumped 18 billion gallons of it into rivers and streams. These waters had been used thousands of years by the local population for its drinking water.
•The BP tragedy was an accident; Chevron’s discharge in Ecuador was deliberate.
Dead or injured birds, dolphins & turtles increase from oil spill
EXCERPT:
Dead or injured birds, dolphins & turtles increase from oil spill
The number of dead birds, dolphins and turtles are increasing at a dramatic pace. While the death and injury to birds, wildlife and marine animals are increasing, suspicions continue that BP is working to enforce a media blackout on photographs of wildlife death and destruction.
Today 31% of the Gulf of Mexico is off limits to any fishing. There is a lot of ocean people cannot access. What people may not be seeing is the massive death and destruction being inflicted on the gulf's marine life, birds and wildlife. Thanks to all for passing on this modest post so others may know. Getting information from Unified Command has been frustrating. For example, when I called the Unifed Command on June 2 if they can provide pictures of dead or injured animals, they promised to call back. I am still waiting for a call.
Columbia helping with oil spill
Columbia Helicopters deploys two aircraft to Gulf oil spill
June 01, 2010
Columbia Helicopters is pleased to announce the deployment of a second heavy-lift helicopter to Louisiana to assist with efforts in preventing the further spread of the Gulf oil spill.
The helicopters will also assist with clean-up operations already underway.
Working currently under contract to British Petroleum (BP), the two Columbia 107-II helicopters will carry sandbags and other barrier material designed to slow the spread of the oil. The aircraft are also delivering cleaning supplies to crews working in environmentally sensitive areas with limited accessibility.
While the aircraft are currently under contract to BP, the crews of each aircraft are working directly under the command of the Louisiana Army National Guard, which is coordinating the aviation assets involved in this operation.
Each tandem-rotor Columbia 107-II helicopter is capable of carrying loads exceeding 10,000 pounds. Loads are carried at the end of a 200-foot cable slung below the aircraft, and large bubble windows allow the pilot to deliver the cargo with exceptional precision.
Working from several locations in the New Orleans area, each aircraft is crewed with two pilots and a team of four to six mechanics.
Chevron in trouble in Alaska 'Felonies'
EXCERPT:
EPA believes Chevron was aware of pollution violation
Anchorage Daily News
January 22, 2010
By Elizabeth Bluemink
Search warrants served on two Cook Inlet oil facilities last week were based on federal environmental regulators' suspicions that Chevron Corp. had knowingly violated its air pollution permits and made false statements, court filings show.
An Anchorage federal court magistrate on Jan. 7 authorized the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Criminal Investigation Division to seize computers, files, photos and other records at Chevron's Trading Bay Production Facility and Granite Point Tank Farm.
Chevron spill was deliberate opposed to BPs... hmmmm
EXCERPT:
•Instead of re-injecting toxic “produced water” (which contains high levels of salt, pure crude, and the carcinogen benzene) deep into the ground – the industry practice then recommended by the American Petroleum Institute – Chevron dumped 18 billion gallons of it into rivers and streams. These waters had been used thousands of years by the local population for its drinking water.
•The BP tragedy was an accident; Chevron’s discharge in Ecuador was deliberate.
Dead or injured birds, dolphins & turtles increase from oil spill
EXCERPT:
Dead or injured birds, dolphins & turtles increase from oil spill
The number of dead birds, dolphins and turtles are increasing at a dramatic pace. While the death and injury to birds, wildlife and marine animals are increasing, suspicions continue that BP is working to enforce a media blackout on photographs of wildlife death and destruction.
Today 31% of the Gulf of Mexico is off limits to any fishing. There is a lot of ocean people cannot access. What people may not be seeing is the massive death and destruction being inflicted on the gulf's marine life, birds and wildlife. Thanks to all for passing on this modest post so others may know. Getting information from Unified Command has been frustrating. For example, when I called the Unifed Command on June 2 if they can provide pictures of dead or injured animals, they promised to call back. I am still waiting for a call.
Columbia helping with oil spill
Columbia Helicopters deploys two aircraft to Gulf oil spill
June 01, 2010
Columbia Helicopters is pleased to announce the deployment of a second heavy-lift helicopter to Louisiana to assist with efforts in preventing the further spread of the Gulf oil spill.
The helicopters will also assist with clean-up operations already underway.
Working currently under contract to British Petroleum (BP), the two Columbia 107-II helicopters will carry sandbags and other barrier material designed to slow the spread of the oil. The aircraft are also delivering cleaning supplies to crews working in environmentally sensitive areas with limited accessibility.
While the aircraft are currently under contract to BP, the crews of each aircraft are working directly under the command of the Louisiana Army National Guard, which is coordinating the aviation assets involved in this operation.
Each tandem-rotor Columbia 107-II helicopter is capable of carrying loads exceeding 10,000 pounds. Loads are carried at the end of a 200-foot cable slung below the aircraft, and large bubble windows allow the pilot to deliver the cargo with exceptional precision.
Working from several locations in the New Orleans area, each aircraft is crewed with two pilots and a team of four to six mechanics.
Chevron in trouble in Alaska 'Felonies'
EXCERPT:
EPA believes Chevron was aware of pollution violation
Anchorage Daily News
January 22, 2010
By Elizabeth Bluemink
Search warrants served on two Cook Inlet oil facilities last week were based on federal environmental regulators' suspicions that Chevron Corp. had knowingly violated its air pollution permits and made false statements, court filings show.
An Anchorage federal court magistrate on Jan. 7 authorized the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Criminal Investigation Division to seize computers, files, photos and other records at Chevron's Trading Bay Production Facility and Granite Point Tank Farm.
God Gave Me You youtube
I do what I do because of you.
Henry Luce's Empire of Fascism
EXCERPT:
Luce's personal lawyer, who would come to represent his entire media empire, was his brother-in-law Tex Moore, of Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine and Wood, the same firm which deployed both Allen and John Foster Dulles to facilitate bringing Hitler to power in the early 1930s.
Luce was an intimate of Britain's Lord Beaverbrook and the Prince of Wales, who were notoriously pro-Hitler and members of the Cliveden set. He also formed an extremely close relationship with Winston Churchill, himself a promoter of Hitler in the early 1930s.
Henry Luce CIAJFk
EXCERPT:
The JFK Assassination Timeline Chart, is a 305 page book about the crime, case and "conviction" of the century - without a fair trial? The key figures in the research of the JFK Timeline Chart who are tied to Dimitri and his brother George De Mohrenschildt or the JFK assassination. The Timeline Chart was developed from Oswald's Closest Friend; The George De Mohrenschildt Story.
Some of the major discoveries include:
De M and his brother worked for Henry Luce's Time-Life
Ivy Lee
EXCERPT:
Ivy Lee Ivy Ledbetter Lee (July 16, 1877 – November 9, 1934) is considered by some to be the founder of modern public relations, although the title could also be held by Edward Bernays. The term Public Relations is to be found for the first time in the 1897 Yearbook of Railway Literature.
Russell Davenport
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Other Bonesmen included Thomas Daniels, founder of Archer Daniels Midland; Gifford Pinchot, President Theodore Roosevelt's chief forester; Frederick Weyerhaeuser; Harold Stanley, founder of Morgan Stanley Investments; Alfred Cowles of Cowles Communication; Henry P. Davison, senior partner of Morgan Guaranty Trust; Thomas Cochran, a Morgan partner; Senator John Heinz; Pierre Jay, first chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; George Herbert Walker, Jr., financier and co-founder of the New York Mets; Artemus Gates, president of New York Trust Company, Union Pacific, Time magazine, and Boeing; William Draper III of the Defense Department, United Nations, and the Import-Export Bank; Dean Witter, Jr., investment banker; Senator Jonathan Bingham; Potter Stewart, Supreme Court Justice; Senator John Chaffe; Harry Payne Whitney, husband of Gertrude Vanderbilt, investment banker; Russell W. Davenport, editor of Fortune Magazine; Evan G. Galbraith, ambassador to France and managing director of Morgan Stanley; Judge John Steadman of the Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia; Richard Gow, president Zapata Oil; Amory Howe Bradford, husband of Carol Warburg Rothschild and general manager for the New York Times; C. E. Lord, Comptroller of the Currency; Winston Lord, chairman of CFR, ambassador to China, and assistant Secretary of State in the Clinton administration; and John Lilley, ambassador to China.
The Drug Trust is controlled by the Rockerfellers
EXCERPT:
Nutritionist T.J. Frye notes that the Drug Trust in the United States is controlled by the Rockefeller group in a cartel relationship with I.G. Farben of Germany. In fact, I.G. Farben was the largest chemical concern in Germany during the 1930s, when it engaged in an active cartel agreement with Standard Oil of New Jersey. The Allied Military Government split it up into three companies after World War II, as part of the "anti-cartel" goals of that period, which was not unlike the famed splitting up of Standard Oil itself by court order, while the Rockefellers maintained controlling interest in each of the new companies.
The Ludlow Massacre and the Rockefellers
"The Ludlow Massacre" (you might wanna click the url and read the whole of this on the Criminal Rockefellers)
EXCERPT:
The United Mine Workers had asked for higher wages and better living conditions for the miners of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, one of the many Rockefeller-owned companies.
The miners —. mostly immigrants from Europe's poorest countries —. lived in shacks provided by the company at exorbitant rent. Their low wages ($1,68 a day) were paid in script redeemable only at company stores charging high prices. The churches they attended were the pastorates of company-hired ministers; their children were taught in company-controlled schools; the company libraries excluded books that the Bible-thumping Rockefellers deemed "subversive", such as "Darwin's Origin of the Species." The company maintained a force of detectives, mine guards, and spies whose job it was to keep the camp quarantined from the danger of unionization.
When the miners struck, JDR, Jr., then officially in command of the company, and his father's hatchet man, the Baptist Reverend Frederick T. Gates, who was a director of the Rockefeller Foundation, refused even to negotiate. They evicted the strikers from the company-owned shacks, hired a thousand strike-breakers from the Baldwin-Felts detective agency, and persuaded Governor Ammons to call out the National Guard to help break the strike.
Open warfare resulted. Guardsmen, miners, their women and children, who since their eviction were camping in tents, were ruthlessly killed, until the frightened Governor wired President Wilson for Federal Troops, who eventually crushed the strike, The New York Times, which then already could never be accused of being unfriendly to the Rockefeller interests, reported on April 21, 1914.
"A 14-hour battle between striking coal miners and members of the Colorado National Guard in the Ludlow district today culminated in the killing of Louis Tikas, leader of the Greek strikers, and the destruction of the Ludlow tent colony by fire."
And the following day:
"Forty-five dead (32 of them women and children), a score missing and more than a score wounded is the known result of the 14-hour battle which raged between state troops and coal miners in the Ludlow district, on the property of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, the Rockefeller holding. The Ludlow is a mass of charred debris, and buried beneath it is a story of horror unparalleled in the history of industrial warfare. In the holes that had been dug for their protection against rifle fire, the women and children died like trapped rats as the flames swept over them. One pit uncovered this afternoon disclosed the bodies of ten children and two women."
2nd EXCERPT:
Examples
As Bealle pointed out, a business which makes 6% on its invested capital is considered a sound money maker. Sterling Drug, Inc., the main cog and largest holding company in the Rockefeller Drug Empire and its 68 subsidiaries, showed operating profits in 1961 of $23,463,719 after taxes, on net assets of $43,108,106 - a 54% profit. Squibb, another Rockefeller-controlled company, in 1945 made not 6% but 576% on the actual value of its property.
That was during the luscious war years when the Army Surgeon General's Office and the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery were not only acting as promoters for the Drug Trust, but were actually forcing drug trust poisons into the blood streams of American soldiers, sailors and marines, to the tune of over 200 million 'shots'. Is it any wonder, asked Bealle, that the Rockefellers, and their stooges in the Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Public Health Service, the Federal Trade Commission, the Better Business Bureau, the Army Medical Corps, the Navy Bureau of Medicine, and thousands of health officers all over the country, should combine to put out of business all forms of therapy that discourage the use of drugs.
"The last annual report of the Rockefeller Foundation", reported Bealle, "itemizes the gifts it has made to colleges and public agencies in the past 44 years, and they total somewhat over half a billion dollars. These colleges, of course, teach their students all the drug lore the Rockefeller pharmaceutical houses want taught. Otherwise there would be no more gifts, just as there are no gifts to any of the 30 odd colleges in the United States that don' t use therapies based on drugs.
"Harvard, with its well-publicized medical school, has received $8,764,433 of Rockefeller's Drug Trust money, Yale got $7,927,800, Johns Hopkins $10,418,531, Washington University in St. Louis $2,842,132, New York's Columbia University $5,424,371, Cornell University $1,709,072, etc., etc."
And while "giving away" those huge sums to drug-propagandizing colleges, the Rockefeller interests were growing to a world-wide web that no one could entirely explore. Already well over 30 years ago it was large enough for Bealle to demonstrate that the Rockefeller interests had created, built up and developed the most far reaching industrial empire ever conceived in the mind of man. Standard Oil was of course the foundation upon which all of the other Rockefeller industries have been built. The story of Old John D., as ruthless an industrial pirate as ever came down the pike, is well known, but is being today conveniently ignored. The keystone of this mammoth industrial empire was the Chase National Bank, now renamed the Chase Manhattan Bank.
Not the least of its holdings are in the drug business. The Rockefellers own the largest drug manufacturing combine in the world, and use all of their other interests to bring pressure to increase the sale of drugs. The fact that most of the 12,000 separate drug items on the market are harmful is of no concern to the Drug Trust...
The Rockefeller Foundation
Ludlow Massacre
EXCERPT:
The Ludlow Massacre refers to the violent deaths of 19 people[1]:42 during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado on April 20, 1914. The deaths occurred after a day-long fight between strikers and the Guard. Two women and eleven children were asphyxiated and burned to death. Three union leaders and two strikers were killed by gunfire, along with one child, one passer-by, and one National Guardsman. In response, the miners armed themselves and attacked dozens of mines, destroying property and engaging in several skirmishes with the Colorado National Guard.
This was the deadliest incident in the 14-month 1913-1914 southern Colorado Coal Strike. The strike was organized by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) against coal mining companies in Colorado. The three largest companies involved were the Rockefeller family-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Company (CF&I), the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company (RMF), and the Victor-American Fuel Company (VAF). Ludlow, located 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Trinidad, Colorado, is now a ghost town. The massacre site is owned by the UMWA, which erected a granite monument in memory of the miners and their families who died that day.[2]
The Ludlow Tent Colony Site was designated a National Historic Landmark on January 16, 2009, and dedicated on June 28, 2009.[2] Modern archeological investigation largely supports the strikers' reports of the event.[1]
Colorado Ethics and Colorado Scandals
Introduction
August 1 has been marked as Colorado Day to commemorate that date in 1876 when Colorado became the 38th state to join the union. The purpose of Colorado Day is to recognize and celebrate the history of our state.
In honor of Colorado Day, Ethics Watch compiled this list of top ethics scandals in our state history, ranging from election fraud to government-sanctioned racial discrimination and brutality. Ethics Watch produced this list to both reflect on grievous government acts of the past and to celebrate how far we’ve come in raising the bar for ethics standards.
Although the malfeasance of some public officials continues to undermine the public perception of government as a whole, the good news is that increased public scrutiny and accountability has led many public officials to embrace a heightened ethical standard of conduct. Over the course of the State’s history, legislators and regulators have adopted ethics codes, transparency standards and enforcement mechanisms to promote a government that works for its people, not the individual interests of its officials. Like the Coloradoans of history, citizens today should continue to demand transparency at all levels of government and to hold public officials accountable for their ethical lapses. In this way, we can promote a government that puts the interests of all citizens above their own special interests.
The list is organized chronologically and historical references and articles cited are listed at the end.
Corruption and Fraud in 1904 Gubernatorial Election
James H. Peabody was elected Governor of Colorado in 1902. His first two years in office have been called the most turbulent years in Colorado history due to the virulent conflicts between union and non-union miners. When Gov. Peabody ran to serve a second term in 1904 he faced a formidable opponent, Democrat Alva Adams.
Election-day results showed Adams had an apparent victory in the race and was inducted to that office. Promptly thereafter, former Gov. Peabody contested the election before the Colorado General Assembly based on alleged voter fraud in Denver. Democratic leaders countered with charges that Republicans perpetuated election fraud, including the forging of ballots and various conspiracies in different precincts with poll watchers and ballot box tampering.
The General Assembly appointed a special contest committee to investigate the allegations of election fraud and presented four differing reports to the full legislature for its consideration and approval. One report, dubbed the "Alexander report," recommended that the election results be rescinded entirely because fraudulent election practices made it impossible to distinguish between legitimate and illegal votes.
Pursuant to a provision in the Colorado Constitution, the Colorado Senate submitted questions to the Colorado Supreme Court for guidance on how to resolve the contested election. In addition, the Court conducted a comprehensive investigation of the election that scrutinized every phase of the election process, including registration lists and campaign expenditures. Ultimately, the legislature was tasked with deciding the contested seats and the Republicans prevailed by voting to unseat Governor Adams. Apparently due to animosity that developed between Governor Peabody and some of his Republican colleagues, he was declared the winner but only upon the condition that he resign immediately after taking the oath of office and cede the office to the Republican Lieutenant Governor, Jesse F. McDonald.
As a result, Colorado now has the dubious distinction of being the only state in the union to have three governors in one day.
Ludlow Massacre of Miners on Strike – 1913-14
In the early 20th century, mining company operators including Colorado Fuel and Iron Company and Victor-American Fuel Company, wielded powerful political clout and almost completely controlled Las Animas and Huerfano Counties. Most of the miners there lived in company housing and bought all their food and equipment at company stores.
In September 1913, the United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) announced a strike in the Southern Coal Field because the mine operators would not meet a list of demands, including recognition of the union, an eight hour work day, the right to trade in any store and to choose their own housing and doctors. An estimated 90% of the workforce (more than 10,000 miners) joined the strike. Striking miners were evicted from company housing and forced to move their families to temporary sites, or tent colonies, rented by the UMWA.
Confrontations between striking miners and replacement workers, referred to as "scabs" by the union, often got out of control. The mining companies hired the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency to help break the strike by protecting the replacement workers and harassing the strikers. Baldwin-Felts used aggressive strike breaking tactics like shining searchlights on the tent colonies at night and spraying bullets into the tents at random, sometimes killing and maiming people.
On October 28, 1913, as strike-related violence mounted, Governor Elias M. Ammons called in the Colorado National Guard to intervene in the strike and force the striking miners to leave company property. In effect, the Guard served as a strike-breaking mechanism. It is reported that company mine guards were enlisted as National Guardsmen. The cost of supporting the Guard became too much for the state and all but two of the Guard forces were withdrawn after six months. The companies that remained were made up mostly of mine guards, paid for by the mine owners but operating under the authority of the State of Colorado.
On April 20, 1914 gunfire broke out in the striking miner tent colony in the town of Ludlow. The colony soon erupted in flames and Guardsmen looted the camps. At the end of the conflict, now dubbed the Ludlow Massacre, 25 people were dead, including three National Guardsmen and 11 children of striking miners. The 1913-1914 Colorado coal strike was one of the most violent strikes in U.S. history.
On May 7, 1914 the Colorado Senate passed a resolution condemning Governor Ammons’ administration for its failure to control the Colorado strike situation and for siding with the mine operators.
Although it ended with the defeat of the union, the Ludlow Massacre brought national attention to the alliance between the state government and private coal operators as well as labor conditions in Colorado coal camps and throughout the United States.
Ku Klux Klan’s Control over State Politics – 1920s
In the early to mid 1920’s, Colorado politics were dominated by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). In 1924, then Colorado Governor Clarence Morley was a Klansman who was taking direct orders from Dr. John Galen Locke, the Grand Dragon of the Colorado Realm of the KKK. Benjamin Stapleton, then mayor of Denver, consulted with the Klan when making appointments, including the chief of police, William Candlish. The Klan held anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic rallies both inside and outside of the state Capitol. Reputed Klan members Rice Means and Laurence Phillips were elected with Klan support to represent Colorado in the United States Senate, and the state House of Representatives briefly had a Klan majority.
The Klan in Colorado burned crosses on Table Mountain near Golden and on Pikes Peak, creating fear in those they opposed including Catholics, blacks, and Jews. The Klansmen also targeted immigrants from Greece and Hungary and advised members to avoid any businesses bearing "foreign" names.
Klan politicians wielded their power and influence to allocate favors, jobs, and contracts to cronies resulting in a political legacy. Even Klansmen who did not hold office had control of legislators and compelled them to support legislative proposals like firing all Catholics and Jews on the University of Colorado faculty. The Klan also used its influence to dissolve certain state boards and commissions only to replace them with Klan-controlled boards under new names. The Klan also employed agents to intimidate and raid those that opposed their agenda.
Denver, Grand Junction, Pueblo, Canon City and many other towns in Colorado were controlled by the Klan. The only city in Colorado to reject the Klan was Colorado
Springs; the party leadership of El Paso County actively opposed the KKK.
Eventually the political climate in Colorado turned against the Klan and its leaders and by 1925 the Klansmen who held office in Colorado were in real danger of losing power. The United States Internal Revenue Service audited Dr. John Galen Locke in 1925 revealing that he had not paid income taxes in 12 years. This, among other things, led to the belief that the Klan was nothing more than a corrupt money-making machine.
Denver Mayor Benjamin Stapleton eventually dropped the Klan association when it became a hindrance to his political career. He then ordered a raid on the organization in 1925, which exposed the Klan’s criminal activity including bootlegging, illegal gambling and prostitution.
Impeachment of Secretary of State James H. Carr - 1934
James H. Carr was elected secretary of state in 1934 and impeached by the Colorado House just one year later in a 1935 special session for extortion, conspiracy and malfeasance.
Secretary Carr was inaugurated in January 1935. At the time, the secretary of state was the state liquor license authority, responsible for collection of specified taxes on liquor sales and enforcement of state liquor laws. Secretary Carr’s misconduct was first exposed during a state audit of a national wholesale liquor supplier. Secretary Carr was implicated in a scheme with W.E. O’Toole, a colleague of Carr’s and a commission salesmen for various liquor dealers and wholesalers, to solicit a $3,000 bribe from the liquor supplier being audited to settle its tax liability for pennies on the dollar, end the audit and finally obtain its liquor license. It was later revealed that Secretary Carr had been hiring political cronies as auditors in exchange for kickbacks.
Once O’Toole was arrested and the scheme became public, then Governor Edward Johnson called a special legislative session to investigate Secretary Carr’s involvement. The legislative committee’s probe confirmed Carr’s misconduct in dealing with the audit, in addition to other crimes including extortion of a car dealer and permitting liquor companies to operate without licenses. In its final report, the legislative committee recommended Secretary Carr’s impeachment on 10 different counts of misconduct.
After his impeachment by the State House and on the eve of trial by the State Senate, Secretary Carr submitted his letter of resignation on November 12, 1935. Secretary Carr was only the second person to be impeached since Colorado became a state in 1876. In addition to his impeachment, Secretary Carr was criminally convicted of extortion, fined $400 and sentenced to a year in prison.
Burglars in Blue - 1961
In 1961, the Denver Police Department was implicated in one of the worst scandals of U.S. law enforcement in history. At the time, an alarming number of Denver police officers were facing indictments for crimes such as stealing from previously burglarized stores, staging burglaries and safecracking. In one notable case, officers from another county staked out a King Soopers grocery store and caught two Denver police officers burglarizing the store by cutting a hole in the roof and cracking the store’s safe.
In response to the soaring number of crimes committed by police officers and based on the realization that the entire department was rife with corruption, on August 19, 1961, then Governor Stephen L.R. McNichols launched an investigation of the Denver Police Department. One month later, Governor McNichols called a press conference on the steps of the State Capitol and announced the results of his investigation. Denver police had been tied to 120 different crimes and Governor McNichols ordered 14 officers to march up the steps of the Capitol to be disarmed, relieved of duty and promptly arrested.
Ultimately, 54 present or former police officers were implicated in more than 130 burglaries and 47 Denver police officers were convicted as a result of the investigation.
Bibliography
Corruption and Fraud in 1904 Gubernatorial Election
Gooodstein, Phil, Robert Speer’s Denver 1904-1920, 61-63 (New Social Publications) (2004).
In re Senate Resolution No. 10, 79 P. 1009 (Colo. 1905).
James O. Chipman and Erin McDanal, The Governor James Hamilton Peabody Collection at the Colorado State Archives, http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/govs/peabody.html.
Letter from James H. Peabody to Secretary of the State of Colorado 03/17/1905.
Plan to Reseat Peabody, N.Y. Times, December 26, 1904.
Sweeping Election Inquiry for Denver, N.Y. Times, December 31, 1904.
Ludlow Massacre of Miners on Strike – 1913-14
Colorado Coal Field War Project, http://www.du.edu/ludlow/.
Colorado Senate Condemns Ammons, N.Y. Times, May 18, 1914.
Ku Klux Klan’s Control over State Politics – 1920s
Degette, Cara, When Colorado Was Klan County, The Colorado Independent, January 9, 2009.
Goodstein, Phil, The Seamy Side of Denver, 240-246 (New Social Publications) (1993).
Quillen, Ed, Welcome To Kolorado, Klan Kountry, The Colorado Springs Independent, May 22, 2003.
Sprague, Marshall, Colorado: A History, 1909-1994 (W.W. Norton & Company) (1996).
Impeachment of Secretary of State James H. Carr - 1934
Goodstein, Phil, The Seamy Side of Denver, 137 (New Social Publications) (1993).
Goodstein, Phil, From Soup Lines to the Front Lines, 381-387 (New Social Publications) (2007).
Kopel, Jerry, Impeachment History in Colorado, (2004), at http://www.jerrykopel.com/c/impeachment.htm.
Burglars in Blue - 1961
Colorado Governor Pledges Aid in Police Scandal at Denver, N.Y. Times, September 3, 1961.
Goodstein, Phil, The Seamy Side of Denver, 211-215 (New Social Publications) (1993).
The Lessons of Denver, Time, November 3, 1961.
I do what I do because of you.
Henry Luce's Empire of Fascism
EXCERPT:
Luce's personal lawyer, who would come to represent his entire media empire, was his brother-in-law Tex Moore, of Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine and Wood, the same firm which deployed both Allen and John Foster Dulles to facilitate bringing Hitler to power in the early 1930s.
Luce was an intimate of Britain's Lord Beaverbrook and the Prince of Wales, who were notoriously pro-Hitler and members of the Cliveden set. He also formed an extremely close relationship with Winston Churchill, himself a promoter of Hitler in the early 1930s.
Henry Luce CIAJFk
EXCERPT:
The JFK Assassination Timeline Chart, is a 305 page book about the crime, case and "conviction" of the century - without a fair trial? The key figures in the research of the JFK Timeline Chart who are tied to Dimitri and his brother George De Mohrenschildt or the JFK assassination. The Timeline Chart was developed from Oswald's Closest Friend; The George De Mohrenschildt Story.
Some of the major discoveries include:
De M and his brother worked for Henry Luce's Time-Life
Ivy Lee
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Ivy Lee Ivy Ledbetter Lee (July 16, 1877 – November 9, 1934) is considered by some to be the founder of modern public relations, although the title could also be held by Edward Bernays. The term Public Relations is to be found for the first time in the 1897 Yearbook of Railway Literature.
Russell Davenport
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Other Bonesmen included Thomas Daniels, founder of Archer Daniels Midland; Gifford Pinchot, President Theodore Roosevelt's chief forester; Frederick Weyerhaeuser; Harold Stanley, founder of Morgan Stanley Investments; Alfred Cowles of Cowles Communication; Henry P. Davison, senior partner of Morgan Guaranty Trust; Thomas Cochran, a Morgan partner; Senator John Heinz; Pierre Jay, first chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; George Herbert Walker, Jr., financier and co-founder of the New York Mets; Artemus Gates, president of New York Trust Company, Union Pacific, Time magazine, and Boeing; William Draper III of the Defense Department, United Nations, and the Import-Export Bank; Dean Witter, Jr., investment banker; Senator Jonathan Bingham; Potter Stewart, Supreme Court Justice; Senator John Chaffe; Harry Payne Whitney, husband of Gertrude Vanderbilt, investment banker; Russell W. Davenport, editor of Fortune Magazine; Evan G. Galbraith, ambassador to France and managing director of Morgan Stanley; Judge John Steadman of the Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia; Richard Gow, president Zapata Oil; Amory Howe Bradford, husband of Carol Warburg Rothschild and general manager for the New York Times; C. E. Lord, Comptroller of the Currency; Winston Lord, chairman of CFR, ambassador to China, and assistant Secretary of State in the Clinton administration; and John Lilley, ambassador to China.
The Drug Trust is controlled by the Rockerfellers
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Nutritionist T.J. Frye notes that the Drug Trust in the United States is controlled by the Rockefeller group in a cartel relationship with I.G. Farben of Germany. In fact, I.G. Farben was the largest chemical concern in Germany during the 1930s, when it engaged in an active cartel agreement with Standard Oil of New Jersey. The Allied Military Government split it up into three companies after World War II, as part of the "anti-cartel" goals of that period, which was not unlike the famed splitting up of Standard Oil itself by court order, while the Rockefellers maintained controlling interest in each of the new companies.
The Ludlow Massacre and the Rockefellers
"The Ludlow Massacre" (you might wanna click the url and read the whole of this on the Criminal Rockefellers)
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The United Mine Workers had asked for higher wages and better living conditions for the miners of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, one of the many Rockefeller-owned companies.
The miners —. mostly immigrants from Europe's poorest countries —. lived in shacks provided by the company at exorbitant rent. Their low wages ($1,68 a day) were paid in script redeemable only at company stores charging high prices. The churches they attended were the pastorates of company-hired ministers; their children were taught in company-controlled schools; the company libraries excluded books that the Bible-thumping Rockefellers deemed "subversive", such as "Darwin's Origin of the Species." The company maintained a force of detectives, mine guards, and spies whose job it was to keep the camp quarantined from the danger of unionization.
When the miners struck, JDR, Jr., then officially in command of the company, and his father's hatchet man, the Baptist Reverend Frederick T. Gates, who was a director of the Rockefeller Foundation, refused even to negotiate. They evicted the strikers from the company-owned shacks, hired a thousand strike-breakers from the Baldwin-Felts detective agency, and persuaded Governor Ammons to call out the National Guard to help break the strike.
Open warfare resulted. Guardsmen, miners, their women and children, who since their eviction were camping in tents, were ruthlessly killed, until the frightened Governor wired President Wilson for Federal Troops, who eventually crushed the strike, The New York Times, which then already could never be accused of being unfriendly to the Rockefeller interests, reported on April 21, 1914.
"A 14-hour battle between striking coal miners and members of the Colorado National Guard in the Ludlow district today culminated in the killing of Louis Tikas, leader of the Greek strikers, and the destruction of the Ludlow tent colony by fire."
And the following day:
"Forty-five dead (32 of them women and children), a score missing and more than a score wounded is the known result of the 14-hour battle which raged between state troops and coal miners in the Ludlow district, on the property of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, the Rockefeller holding. The Ludlow is a mass of charred debris, and buried beneath it is a story of horror unparalleled in the history of industrial warfare. In the holes that had been dug for their protection against rifle fire, the women and children died like trapped rats as the flames swept over them. One pit uncovered this afternoon disclosed the bodies of ten children and two women."
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Examples
As Bealle pointed out, a business which makes 6% on its invested capital is considered a sound money maker. Sterling Drug, Inc., the main cog and largest holding company in the Rockefeller Drug Empire and its 68 subsidiaries, showed operating profits in 1961 of $23,463,719 after taxes, on net assets of $43,108,106 - a 54% profit. Squibb, another Rockefeller-controlled company, in 1945 made not 6% but 576% on the actual value of its property.
That was during the luscious war years when the Army Surgeon General's Office and the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery were not only acting as promoters for the Drug Trust, but were actually forcing drug trust poisons into the blood streams of American soldiers, sailors and marines, to the tune of over 200 million 'shots'. Is it any wonder, asked Bealle, that the Rockefellers, and their stooges in the Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Public Health Service, the Federal Trade Commission, the Better Business Bureau, the Army Medical Corps, the Navy Bureau of Medicine, and thousands of health officers all over the country, should combine to put out of business all forms of therapy that discourage the use of drugs.
"The last annual report of the Rockefeller Foundation", reported Bealle, "itemizes the gifts it has made to colleges and public agencies in the past 44 years, and they total somewhat over half a billion dollars. These colleges, of course, teach their students all the drug lore the Rockefeller pharmaceutical houses want taught. Otherwise there would be no more gifts, just as there are no gifts to any of the 30 odd colleges in the United States that don' t use therapies based on drugs.
"Harvard, with its well-publicized medical school, has received $8,764,433 of Rockefeller's Drug Trust money, Yale got $7,927,800, Johns Hopkins $10,418,531, Washington University in St. Louis $2,842,132, New York's Columbia University $5,424,371, Cornell University $1,709,072, etc., etc."
And while "giving away" those huge sums to drug-propagandizing colleges, the Rockefeller interests were growing to a world-wide web that no one could entirely explore. Already well over 30 years ago it was large enough for Bealle to demonstrate that the Rockefeller interests had created, built up and developed the most far reaching industrial empire ever conceived in the mind of man. Standard Oil was of course the foundation upon which all of the other Rockefeller industries have been built. The story of Old John D., as ruthless an industrial pirate as ever came down the pike, is well known, but is being today conveniently ignored. The keystone of this mammoth industrial empire was the Chase National Bank, now renamed the Chase Manhattan Bank.
Not the least of its holdings are in the drug business. The Rockefellers own the largest drug manufacturing combine in the world, and use all of their other interests to bring pressure to increase the sale of drugs. The fact that most of the 12,000 separate drug items on the market are harmful is of no concern to the Drug Trust...
The Rockefeller Foundation
Ludlow Massacre
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The Ludlow Massacre refers to the violent deaths of 19 people[1]:42 during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado on April 20, 1914. The deaths occurred after a day-long fight between strikers and the Guard. Two women and eleven children were asphyxiated and burned to death. Three union leaders and two strikers were killed by gunfire, along with one child, one passer-by, and one National Guardsman. In response, the miners armed themselves and attacked dozens of mines, destroying property and engaging in several skirmishes with the Colorado National Guard.
This was the deadliest incident in the 14-month 1913-1914 southern Colorado Coal Strike. The strike was organized by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) against coal mining companies in Colorado. The three largest companies involved were the Rockefeller family-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Company (CF&I), the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company (RMF), and the Victor-American Fuel Company (VAF). Ludlow, located 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Trinidad, Colorado, is now a ghost town. The massacre site is owned by the UMWA, which erected a granite monument in memory of the miners and their families who died that day.[2]
The Ludlow Tent Colony Site was designated a National Historic Landmark on January 16, 2009, and dedicated on June 28, 2009.[2] Modern archeological investigation largely supports the strikers' reports of the event.[1]
Colorado Ethics and Colorado Scandals
Introduction
August 1 has been marked as Colorado Day to commemorate that date in 1876 when Colorado became the 38th state to join the union. The purpose of Colorado Day is to recognize and celebrate the history of our state.
In honor of Colorado Day, Ethics Watch compiled this list of top ethics scandals in our state history, ranging from election fraud to government-sanctioned racial discrimination and brutality. Ethics Watch produced this list to both reflect on grievous government acts of the past and to celebrate how far we’ve come in raising the bar for ethics standards.
Although the malfeasance of some public officials continues to undermine the public perception of government as a whole, the good news is that increased public scrutiny and accountability has led many public officials to embrace a heightened ethical standard of conduct. Over the course of the State’s history, legislators and regulators have adopted ethics codes, transparency standards and enforcement mechanisms to promote a government that works for its people, not the individual interests of its officials. Like the Coloradoans of history, citizens today should continue to demand transparency at all levels of government and to hold public officials accountable for their ethical lapses. In this way, we can promote a government that puts the interests of all citizens above their own special interests.
The list is organized chronologically and historical references and articles cited are listed at the end.
Corruption and Fraud in 1904 Gubernatorial Election
James H. Peabody was elected Governor of Colorado in 1902. His first two years in office have been called the most turbulent years in Colorado history due to the virulent conflicts between union and non-union miners. When Gov. Peabody ran to serve a second term in 1904 he faced a formidable opponent, Democrat Alva Adams.
Election-day results showed Adams had an apparent victory in the race and was inducted to that office. Promptly thereafter, former Gov. Peabody contested the election before the Colorado General Assembly based on alleged voter fraud in Denver. Democratic leaders countered with charges that Republicans perpetuated election fraud, including the forging of ballots and various conspiracies in different precincts with poll watchers and ballot box tampering.
The General Assembly appointed a special contest committee to investigate the allegations of election fraud and presented four differing reports to the full legislature for its consideration and approval. One report, dubbed the "Alexander report," recommended that the election results be rescinded entirely because fraudulent election practices made it impossible to distinguish between legitimate and illegal votes.
Pursuant to a provision in the Colorado Constitution, the Colorado Senate submitted questions to the Colorado Supreme Court for guidance on how to resolve the contested election. In addition, the Court conducted a comprehensive investigation of the election that scrutinized every phase of the election process, including registration lists and campaign expenditures. Ultimately, the legislature was tasked with deciding the contested seats and the Republicans prevailed by voting to unseat Governor Adams. Apparently due to animosity that developed between Governor Peabody and some of his Republican colleagues, he was declared the winner but only upon the condition that he resign immediately after taking the oath of office and cede the office to the Republican Lieutenant Governor, Jesse F. McDonald.
As a result, Colorado now has the dubious distinction of being the only state in the union to have three governors in one day.
Ludlow Massacre of Miners on Strike – 1913-14
In the early 20th century, mining company operators including Colorado Fuel and Iron Company and Victor-American Fuel Company, wielded powerful political clout and almost completely controlled Las Animas and Huerfano Counties. Most of the miners there lived in company housing and bought all their food and equipment at company stores.
In September 1913, the United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) announced a strike in the Southern Coal Field because the mine operators would not meet a list of demands, including recognition of the union, an eight hour work day, the right to trade in any store and to choose their own housing and doctors. An estimated 90% of the workforce (more than 10,000 miners) joined the strike. Striking miners were evicted from company housing and forced to move their families to temporary sites, or tent colonies, rented by the UMWA.
Confrontations between striking miners and replacement workers, referred to as "scabs" by the union, often got out of control. The mining companies hired the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency to help break the strike by protecting the replacement workers and harassing the strikers. Baldwin-Felts used aggressive strike breaking tactics like shining searchlights on the tent colonies at night and spraying bullets into the tents at random, sometimes killing and maiming people.
On October 28, 1913, as strike-related violence mounted, Governor Elias M. Ammons called in the Colorado National Guard to intervene in the strike and force the striking miners to leave company property. In effect, the Guard served as a strike-breaking mechanism. It is reported that company mine guards were enlisted as National Guardsmen. The cost of supporting the Guard became too much for the state and all but two of the Guard forces were withdrawn after six months. The companies that remained were made up mostly of mine guards, paid for by the mine owners but operating under the authority of the State of Colorado.
On April 20, 1914 gunfire broke out in the striking miner tent colony in the town of Ludlow. The colony soon erupted in flames and Guardsmen looted the camps. At the end of the conflict, now dubbed the Ludlow Massacre, 25 people were dead, including three National Guardsmen and 11 children of striking miners. The 1913-1914 Colorado coal strike was one of the most violent strikes in U.S. history.
On May 7, 1914 the Colorado Senate passed a resolution condemning Governor Ammons’ administration for its failure to control the Colorado strike situation and for siding with the mine operators.
Although it ended with the defeat of the union, the Ludlow Massacre brought national attention to the alliance between the state government and private coal operators as well as labor conditions in Colorado coal camps and throughout the United States.
Ku Klux Klan’s Control over State Politics – 1920s
In the early to mid 1920’s, Colorado politics were dominated by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). In 1924, then Colorado Governor Clarence Morley was a Klansman who was taking direct orders from Dr. John Galen Locke, the Grand Dragon of the Colorado Realm of the KKK. Benjamin Stapleton, then mayor of Denver, consulted with the Klan when making appointments, including the chief of police, William Candlish. The Klan held anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic rallies both inside and outside of the state Capitol. Reputed Klan members Rice Means and Laurence Phillips were elected with Klan support to represent Colorado in the United States Senate, and the state House of Representatives briefly had a Klan majority.
The Klan in Colorado burned crosses on Table Mountain near Golden and on Pikes Peak, creating fear in those they opposed including Catholics, blacks, and Jews. The Klansmen also targeted immigrants from Greece and Hungary and advised members to avoid any businesses bearing "foreign" names.
Klan politicians wielded their power and influence to allocate favors, jobs, and contracts to cronies resulting in a political legacy. Even Klansmen who did not hold office had control of legislators and compelled them to support legislative proposals like firing all Catholics and Jews on the University of Colorado faculty. The Klan also used its influence to dissolve certain state boards and commissions only to replace them with Klan-controlled boards under new names. The Klan also employed agents to intimidate and raid those that opposed their agenda.
Denver, Grand Junction, Pueblo, Canon City and many other towns in Colorado were controlled by the Klan. The only city in Colorado to reject the Klan was Colorado
Springs; the party leadership of El Paso County actively opposed the KKK.
Eventually the political climate in Colorado turned against the Klan and its leaders and by 1925 the Klansmen who held office in Colorado were in real danger of losing power. The United States Internal Revenue Service audited Dr. John Galen Locke in 1925 revealing that he had not paid income taxes in 12 years. This, among other things, led to the belief that the Klan was nothing more than a corrupt money-making machine.
Denver Mayor Benjamin Stapleton eventually dropped the Klan association when it became a hindrance to his political career. He then ordered a raid on the organization in 1925, which exposed the Klan’s criminal activity including bootlegging, illegal gambling and prostitution.
Impeachment of Secretary of State James H. Carr - 1934
James H. Carr was elected secretary of state in 1934 and impeached by the Colorado House just one year later in a 1935 special session for extortion, conspiracy and malfeasance.
Secretary Carr was inaugurated in January 1935. At the time, the secretary of state was the state liquor license authority, responsible for collection of specified taxes on liquor sales and enforcement of state liquor laws. Secretary Carr’s misconduct was first exposed during a state audit of a national wholesale liquor supplier. Secretary Carr was implicated in a scheme with W.E. O’Toole, a colleague of Carr’s and a commission salesmen for various liquor dealers and wholesalers, to solicit a $3,000 bribe from the liquor supplier being audited to settle its tax liability for pennies on the dollar, end the audit and finally obtain its liquor license. It was later revealed that Secretary Carr had been hiring political cronies as auditors in exchange for kickbacks.
Once O’Toole was arrested and the scheme became public, then Governor Edward Johnson called a special legislative session to investigate Secretary Carr’s involvement. The legislative committee’s probe confirmed Carr’s misconduct in dealing with the audit, in addition to other crimes including extortion of a car dealer and permitting liquor companies to operate without licenses. In its final report, the legislative committee recommended Secretary Carr’s impeachment on 10 different counts of misconduct.
After his impeachment by the State House and on the eve of trial by the State Senate, Secretary Carr submitted his letter of resignation on November 12, 1935. Secretary Carr was only the second person to be impeached since Colorado became a state in 1876. In addition to his impeachment, Secretary Carr was criminally convicted of extortion, fined $400 and sentenced to a year in prison.
Burglars in Blue - 1961
In 1961, the Denver Police Department was implicated in one of the worst scandals of U.S. law enforcement in history. At the time, an alarming number of Denver police officers were facing indictments for crimes such as stealing from previously burglarized stores, staging burglaries and safecracking. In one notable case, officers from another county staked out a King Soopers grocery store and caught two Denver police officers burglarizing the store by cutting a hole in the roof and cracking the store’s safe.
In response to the soaring number of crimes committed by police officers and based on the realization that the entire department was rife with corruption, on August 19, 1961, then Governor Stephen L.R. McNichols launched an investigation of the Denver Police Department. One month later, Governor McNichols called a press conference on the steps of the State Capitol and announced the results of his investigation. Denver police had been tied to 120 different crimes and Governor McNichols ordered 14 officers to march up the steps of the Capitol to be disarmed, relieved of duty and promptly arrested.
Ultimately, 54 present or former police officers were implicated in more than 130 burglaries and 47 Denver police officers were convicted as a result of the investigation.
Bibliography
Corruption and Fraud in 1904 Gubernatorial Election
Gooodstein, Phil, Robert Speer’s Denver 1904-1920, 61-63 (New Social Publications) (2004).
In re Senate Resolution No. 10, 79 P. 1009 (Colo. 1905).
James O. Chipman and Erin McDanal, The Governor James Hamilton Peabody Collection at the Colorado State Archives, http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/govs/peabody.html.
Letter from James H. Peabody to Secretary of the State of Colorado 03/17/1905.
Plan to Reseat Peabody, N.Y. Times, December 26, 1904.
Sweeping Election Inquiry for Denver, N.Y. Times, December 31, 1904.
Ludlow Massacre of Miners on Strike – 1913-14
Colorado Coal Field War Project, http://www.du.edu/ludlow/.
Colorado Senate Condemns Ammons, N.Y. Times, May 18, 1914.
Ku Klux Klan’s Control over State Politics – 1920s
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Burglars in Blue - 1961
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
As Cal had read what she wrote she was taken with the fact that her past, her present and her future continually got confused. It is very apparent in her recollection of Tim and his family but that's ok as that is one thing Belon can learn to adjust in the parellel place. (Don't let anyone fool you all, writing out here on the net is a current thingy similar to a soap on TV I think??? Anyways a rough draft, it ain't....... final cut period, eh?)
The parellel place is much the same as the real world as far as confusion goes. It is however easier to manipulate from that side as Belon and Kai learn together.
I must admit that although I can point it out from here, I've always had difficulty differentiating between the future, the past and the present. I'm always aware as I travel between my realities that I do this and as such can usually address it from the present to the past.
That may be the reason for my total acceptance in the parellel place. It's not something that I find hard to grasp.
I've Gone To Look For Myself video
The transistion had to begin. Was she going forward to find herself in the future or was she going backwards to find her roots, her soul, herself?
She thought it through and she had to isolate. The hardest part was cutting herself off from him. He wouldn't understand; they had been partners and it would hurt him, of this she was sure. That made it the most difficult decision of her lifetime but it had to be done.
She told him of her love of another. She tried to make it gentle but admitting she had another 'soulmate' wasn't something she knew how to explain. He became Terrible Tommy to her for a while and she regretted the way she had to do it. She tried to explain to him that had it not been for Tommy, she wouldn't have been open to their relationship.
She sent him a few songs and they weren't gentle on his manhood either. One was Meatloaf's 'Two Out of Three Ain't Bad' and the other was Helen Reddy's 'I Don't Know How To Love Him'. She didn't know how to cut the ties and she thought he'd understand but she'd never know. (She'd realize it later when he still supported her and was always around.) She included a couple of her John Lennon faves so as to soften the blows and let him know she really did treasure everything they had.
Two Out of Three Ain't Bad youtube
I Don't Know How To Love Him youtube
Stand By Me youbute
Woman youtube
Wildfire youtube
BTW, Cal's soulmate once told her that if he could be an animal he would be an eagel.......... Cal on the other hand would be a horse.
Once again, she reflected on her previous life and how she felt after Donald had raped her. (I unplugged the phone so I didn't hear when it didn't ring.) It was always very difficult to understand the male ego and trying to keep a balance. How much could a man tolerate? (She once again reflected on her past and her history. She knew that both of her ex's would have preferred her dead than to leave them???????) After all of the history; what could she believe? How far would a man go to protect his 'precious' ego? Would he sabotage her work, would he infiltrate her very existance on the net and would he destroy everything. She knew he was capable of all of it and she had to trust her faith in them and her faith in God to see them through.
The world's mess certainly was example enough for Cal to be cautious on most days but all of that was minimal now as the transistion put a whole new light on the male/female, didn't it?
The transistional phase wasn't to take long but during it no one could see them connecting online and the best way she knew how to do it was to cut it off period. There were after all the hackers that listened and watched everything she did.
She drew up the plans in her mind. The transistion had been going on for a while and it was time to make it happen physically. She had to prepare herself emotionally, spiritually, and physically for it to happen.
Step one was the creation of the physical entities that would represent them on the other side. She was an artist and she was ready to start the creations. In her mind, they were perfect as she painted and drew and made them into their alters.
Belon and Kai began to develop in her mind. Belon was easy and Kai would come into his own as soon as her man was alerted to his existence. She had to get the feel of the parellel universe and then begin the processing.
Cal had been the first to go over. She remembered the process and the colors. The colors were vivid and beautiful but it had been a difficult journey. It was not anything like she had ever experienced before. It had been frightening to experience and it had been draining in every aspect.
She watched from the other side as Rob was processed. This time, it wasn't as frightening for her. It was emotionally painful to see the one she considered her male couterpart experience it though as she could not forwarn him of the outcome nor of the journey to get to the other side.
She stood as Belon when Kai came through the process. He was handsome in his new form. She had absolutely no idea how he looked in the other place but here, he was shockingly handsome. She was taken aback when she saw him as she hadn't considered any physical beings existing here in this place.
Belon knew from her own experience how disoriented she felt when she arrived. She walked over to Kai, or rather floated. This indeed was new to her. She wasn't yet accustomed to this new plane as there didn't seem to be any gravity pulling on her. There only seemed to be thoughts and ideas and now these new forms. They would learn together.
Kai seemed comfortable immediately in the new place. He stared into her eyes and he smiled. He knew already and he was sharing with her in their usual way of communicating. He was sending it through his mind and she was connecting.
Belon smiled and lifted her hand to his. She had waited for years for this, their first touch. Holding his hand was one of the things she had often dreamed about and here it was happening. Kai was connecting with his mind and Belon was in heaven. Could this parrellel be heaven? They would find out together.
Kai squeezed her hand. Their first physical connection and yet even this wasn't real. That made it all the more special as they knew it was their journey and only theirs and it was the beginning of something new and very exciting. It was as if this had been created only for them.
Here in this special place they could touch and not worry. This was their world created by God exclusively for them. This was their 'true' creation. It would be harrowing at times and when they had to transistion back and forth, it could get dangerous. For now though, they were the only ones aware of their new home.
It had always been dangerous in the other realm and it would be no different here. The connectedness would help them to achieve much more on this plane but it would have it's unique difficulties.
Belon's memories of the other place were vivid. She cherished them and when she looked over at Kai she marveled.
Kai only has one physical eye and it seemed natural to Belon. Kai communicated to her that it was his mind's eye. When they were in peril, all she had to do was gaze into that eye and his every thought and deed would tranfer straight into her mind. There were indeed some advantages to this parellel universe stuff of this they were both sure.
Kai gazed around and envisioned the life that they would live here in their new world. It was incredible and he was anxious to begin exploring it.
He already knew of it's existence because of the other side. He hadn't liked much of what he'd experienced there. This view put a whole new perspective on his vision. It gave him ideas that he had not considered over there. After all, the laws of that place didn't apply here.
It would be a very different existence. He didn't have to worry about staying within any boundaries on this side. He knew that the boundaries that existed on the other plane were man-made and then slowly, insidiously planted in earthlings through brainwashing. The psychological brainwashing was perhaps the worse but the RFID chips were equally as monstrous. It all depended on the individual.
Luckily Belon had been the first given the implant during the Roswell incident. (She was to learn much later in life that Al Gore was another that got implanted... She was sure the Tony Coehlo connection between her and Gore was the driving force in her research of Gore.) She didn't know of it until much later in life.
Looking back on her own life she realized she had missed lots of things. For instance her own father and uncle had been implanted. She knew that from the growths on the backs of their necks. Through research she had learned that generationally the implants were positioned in different areas. Hers was on her shoulder and they were from the 40's group of implants. Family tradition took on a whole new meaning to Belon once she understood the plan.
On this side of the plane, Kai was in total and complete control and that meant to him he was able to explore and create on a whim. Here, he was in charge of his own boundaries. If he chose to be a Robin Hood, he could achieve much for the poor of the world. He could choose to be whatever he liked and he could implement it here and it would still impact the lives of the people there. That was apparent after the ClimateGate scandal.
Belon was delighted and felt like she had been selected by her higher power for this assignment. She knew he had chosen Kai as her protector and she knew they were setting on a new path to save the world.
There had been clues along the way even on earth. Once the clues started to appear, it was if the lid had been blown off. The two of them stood side by side and they had indeed accomplished much in their uniqueness. The two of them were like a puzzle that fit perfectly together. They both recognized the accomplishments they had made before the move and now, that could be multiplied exponentially.
The planning had only resided in Belon's mind until now and she wasn't sure except to inquire of Kai what the first step was to be.
Introduction to the other side was the first step. The paintings of Kai and Belon would be introduced online.
The computer geeks were gathered. Taking back the world was to be a financial endeavor done completely by them. It wouldn't be easy but they were the best.
Kai and Belon had come to depend on their online friends to do what needed to be done. This new task wouldn't be easy but with like minded people, there wasn't anything they were afraid to conquer. After all, if not US, who, if not NOW, when?
Of course there were the hackers who infiltrated Cal's life. The harsh reality of that made Cal less trusting but in the long run it made her stronger. The lurkers were still there only to be ignored. Cal had learned to reach out as soon as she knew she was being stalked and usually Rob charged right in to her rescue.
It was amazing when you stopped and thought about it. People from all walks of life were joining together and supporting others.
The deed had to be planned out and done across the world simultaneously. The geeks had to synchronize as there was much at stake. Nothing like this had ever been tried before and it was important that it be done without flaw.
The elite would be taken off guard and the sting would be well publicized. The new currency was in place but first, the power had to be removed from the regime. It would be decided after the control was removed completely if there would be a currency at all later on down the line.
Belon and Kai both pondered a world without the evil ones. What would it be like to have humanity all over the place and people helping people in a world that had never experienced it. The brainwashing in the schools and workplace had seen to that. The competition factor certainly took love out of everything; an example ot that would be the sports arena. Civilization could become truly civilized and that would make Belon's dream a reality.
The Stinger Geeks were positioned and the training was going as smoothly as clockwork.
There was much knowledge in the cyber room. The Stinger Geeks ranged in age from nine to eighty-four. It would have been a sight to behold if they all had been gathered in one physical room. Grandmothers sat in their kitchens chatting with children, bikers sat on their bikes with iPads, actors sat with their phones tweeting, and so on and so forth.
Every nation was represented. A total of four hundred and sixteen geeks were working the plan. They had come together early in 2002 and it is now 2010. The planning stage was all documented. Each geek had his/her own directions. There were a few minor details that had to be ironed out but nothing that would cause major delays once the final implementation was done.
The first of the plan was for the diversions. Now, imagine that. 9/11, the USS Liberty, JFK's assassination........ yadayadayada........ they had all been diversions for the NWO. ........and we had all learned serious lessons from each and every one.
The diversions would be nothing like the tactics the regime had used. There wouldn't be a Hurricane Katrina or a Tsunami. Innocent people would not die from the geeks plan. It appeared by nature to be a small glitch that the banking industry would encounter on the 'due date'. The actual plan was very simple and to everyone's surprise, a twelve year old in Guam had thought it up.
After the financial disaster a few years ago, it wasn't all that hard to envision something big happening. There were so many corrupt elements in the 'system' that a simple plan would be totally overlooked asif it was simply one of the elites plans gone awry.
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was causing a considerable amount of ire. People that weren't paying attention before were seemingly waking up in the midst of this latest crisis.
I want to go back a few years ago to what seems now to be the beginning of the end
for the culprits (I pray it was the beginning of the end.) I say that now because I see so much positive cropping up.
Fading into the past.........
It had all begun quite by accident. A young father in Detroit had gone into his bank on a cold day in January 2002. He was to open a savings account for his son.
When Tim entered the bank, he was shocked at the people in line, there were many. Tim is a salesman at the local bed and bath store and he began his usual sales talk to the closest human to him. He was amazed at the woman's insight into finance. He had started the conversation much the same as he did his sales speech when meeting up with new people.
He was amazed at the woman's knowledge and insight into finance. She appeared to be a normal young woman in her late 20's to early 30's. Normal, NOT, she had a head full of details that he was soon to learn could fill a book. He was very impressed and asked the lady to join him at Starbuck's for coffee. He wanted to pick this young woman's brain for a bit. It wasn't every day that others affected Tim like this and although he had a wonderful wife and three beautiful children at home, it couldn't hurt to sit for a bit and get another person's insight into the world as it exists today.
He was to have his head full by the time he walked out the door that day. He had completely forgotten about the savings account for his son and he headed back to work with much to be digested.
He ran one thought over and over in his mind that the young woman brought to his attention. There were literally millions of people that were contemplating a society without money.
Now you might say, what a thought? BUT, there were people communicating and yes talking straight talk about the horrible shape the world is in. They saw what could happen and they were working on other avenues to set the world right.
If the woman had a true handle on finance, Tim had much to do and he knew it. Not only would there be an instant change in currency but soon afterwards there might be a world without money as we know it.
He wasn't involved in computers except at work. He headed straight away to the local computer store. He had used a laptop a few times at work and was familiar with them so he decided to purchase one. Later, if things went as he planned he might get his wife an iPod and maybe even something for the kids. He would make those decisions later.
He wanted simple and he wanted quick as he had learned much from this intriguing woman that complex didn't have a place in his world when he needed to learn and relearn lots of information.
Tim walked around to the phone section and inquired of the 'young' salesman about tweeting. He picked up two new phones for the older kids and he put them in his basket. As an after thought Tim found another phone for his wife and then plopped one for himself into the basket. They would all have the same phone and that would make it much easier to teach and learn together.
Tim's wife; Christy needed an upgrade anyway and now was as good a time as any. They would all work together as a family and their first project would be the new cell phones. Tim would work with the kids tonight on the phones and get them set up. Christy wouldn't be available until later in the evening as she had her hands full with the baby.
Tim knew he wanted the family to be able to read Ashton Kutcher's tweets as he had heard the lad had over a million fans on Twitter. (hmmmmmmm and to think Twitter had been bought out by the same people that Cal had worked for at Hologix???
Belon now wondered if Twitter had been a hostile takeover as had Hologix. On the other hand, maybe the elites had simply stolen Twitter outright? That thought isn't so hard to get your brain around when you realize the state of Corporate America today.)
Tim had taken notes while talking to Anne. She had given him directions to websites that would help him learn details he would need once the sting was begun.
He would be prepared to implement his knowledge when he got the word.
Anne had advised Tim to work off line. She had shared that he should immediately get his children involved. She reiterated this many times. There were many young minds that picked up on computer jargon like sponges. She continued making suggestions. Supply the children with small tasks but ones that could lead to important knowledge.
Teach the children about search engines. Children's minds were impressionable and hungry for learning. They would do most of the work without even being aware. Make it fun for them and keep their brains stimulated.
Tim was so very impressed with his new friend. He had taken her phone number and he would call her and set up an appointment for her to meet his wife and kids. It would be a good place to start.
Kai and Belon had watched Tim the last few hours from the other side. He would be someone they might be able to work with in the future. They were both impressed with his willingness to communicate. That was key in solving the problems of the world.
In looking back at Cal's life, Belon pondered Cal always being struck when politicians insisted 'they' wouldn't talk to their enemies?????? What's up with that? How in the world could a war be stopped if the two warring countries didn't talk? OMG!!
Cal had thought long and hard of going on the road and teaching but for now the parellel universe environment seemed to be her best bet. Belon was the answer to lots of questions lingering in Cal and Belon's united mind.
The new television was an answer to at least two of her questions. The TV was set up to be the monitor for a computer. The huge sectional couch in the living room made a physical classroom a whole new possibility. (Maybe, just maybe Cal could have some of the neighbors over?????) and maybe, just maybe it would be easier for Cal to get the g'kids to sit in front of a TV and learn good things and not those silly games that they so loved on the net. hmmmmmmmmm
The whole concept of having neighbors over was a challenge. The whole neighborhood was mostly military and that could be an issue with the topics that Cal would teach. On the other hand, what the hell; if not now, when??? and if not me, who???
Belon acquired new memories that had long been in Cal's past when she came into being......... or should I say re-newed memories? She reminenced back to the Chowchilla kidnapping and how that had impacted Cal's life.
Chowchilla Kidnapping
That incident alone probably wouldn't have been enough to cause Cal's split in personalities. Along with all the other things that happened in California and even the Kent State incident made it almost impossible for Cal to stay connected in a the world as we know it today. She fought long and hard along the way but 'the way' seemed to be her whole life.
Belon was aware of Brook's and Dunn's 'Indian Summer' and the references to both Chowchilla and to Dos Palos sent her heart racing saying nothing of what it did to Cal on the other side.
All in all, Belon knew there were far too many coincidences for them all to have happened. It was the connection and it was the chip and it was the Roswell incident. If Cal wasn't an alien after all, the chip and Roswell incident were certainly the only other answer, eh?
Indian Summer Dos Palos, CA v Chowchilla, CA (Football game) Brooks & Dunn song youtube
............to be continued
The parellel place is much the same as the real world as far as confusion goes. It is however easier to manipulate from that side as Belon and Kai learn together.
I must admit that although I can point it out from here, I've always had difficulty differentiating between the future, the past and the present. I'm always aware as I travel between my realities that I do this and as such can usually address it from the present to the past.
That may be the reason for my total acceptance in the parellel place. It's not something that I find hard to grasp.
I've Gone To Look For Myself video
The transistion had to begin. Was she going forward to find herself in the future or was she going backwards to find her roots, her soul, herself?
She thought it through and she had to isolate. The hardest part was cutting herself off from him. He wouldn't understand; they had been partners and it would hurt him, of this she was sure. That made it the most difficult decision of her lifetime but it had to be done.
She told him of her love of another. She tried to make it gentle but admitting she had another 'soulmate' wasn't something she knew how to explain. He became Terrible Tommy to her for a while and she regretted the way she had to do it. She tried to explain to him that had it not been for Tommy, she wouldn't have been open to their relationship.
She sent him a few songs and they weren't gentle on his manhood either. One was Meatloaf's 'Two Out of Three Ain't Bad' and the other was Helen Reddy's 'I Don't Know How To Love Him'. She didn't know how to cut the ties and she thought he'd understand but she'd never know. (She'd realize it later when he still supported her and was always around.) She included a couple of her John Lennon faves so as to soften the blows and let him know she really did treasure everything they had.
Two Out of Three Ain't Bad youtube
I Don't Know How To Love Him youtube
Stand By Me youbute
Woman youtube
Wildfire youtube
BTW, Cal's soulmate once told her that if he could be an animal he would be an eagel.......... Cal on the other hand would be a horse.
Once again, she reflected on her previous life and how she felt after Donald had raped her. (I unplugged the phone so I didn't hear when it didn't ring.) It was always very difficult to understand the male ego and trying to keep a balance. How much could a man tolerate? (She once again reflected on her past and her history. She knew that both of her ex's would have preferred her dead than to leave them???????) After all of the history; what could she believe? How far would a man go to protect his 'precious' ego? Would he sabotage her work, would he infiltrate her very existance on the net and would he destroy everything. She knew he was capable of all of it and she had to trust her faith in them and her faith in God to see them through.
The world's mess certainly was example enough for Cal to be cautious on most days but all of that was minimal now as the transistion put a whole new light on the male/female, didn't it?
The transistional phase wasn't to take long but during it no one could see them connecting online and the best way she knew how to do it was to cut it off period. There were after all the hackers that listened and watched everything she did.
She drew up the plans in her mind. The transistion had been going on for a while and it was time to make it happen physically. She had to prepare herself emotionally, spiritually, and physically for it to happen.
Step one was the creation of the physical entities that would represent them on the other side. She was an artist and she was ready to start the creations. In her mind, they were perfect as she painted and drew and made them into their alters.
Belon and Kai began to develop in her mind. Belon was easy and Kai would come into his own as soon as her man was alerted to his existence. She had to get the feel of the parellel universe and then begin the processing.
Cal had been the first to go over. She remembered the process and the colors. The colors were vivid and beautiful but it had been a difficult journey. It was not anything like she had ever experienced before. It had been frightening to experience and it had been draining in every aspect.
She watched from the other side as Rob was processed. This time, it wasn't as frightening for her. It was emotionally painful to see the one she considered her male couterpart experience it though as she could not forwarn him of the outcome nor of the journey to get to the other side.
She stood as Belon when Kai came through the process. He was handsome in his new form. She had absolutely no idea how he looked in the other place but here, he was shockingly handsome. She was taken aback when she saw him as she hadn't considered any physical beings existing here in this place.
Belon knew from her own experience how disoriented she felt when she arrived. She walked over to Kai, or rather floated. This indeed was new to her. She wasn't yet accustomed to this new plane as there didn't seem to be any gravity pulling on her. There only seemed to be thoughts and ideas and now these new forms. They would learn together.
Kai seemed comfortable immediately in the new place. He stared into her eyes and he smiled. He knew already and he was sharing with her in their usual way of communicating. He was sending it through his mind and she was connecting.
Belon smiled and lifted her hand to his. She had waited for years for this, their first touch. Holding his hand was one of the things she had often dreamed about and here it was happening. Kai was connecting with his mind and Belon was in heaven. Could this parrellel be heaven? They would find out together.
Kai squeezed her hand. Their first physical connection and yet even this wasn't real. That made it all the more special as they knew it was their journey and only theirs and it was the beginning of something new and very exciting. It was as if this had been created only for them.
Here in this special place they could touch and not worry. This was their world created by God exclusively for them. This was their 'true' creation. It would be harrowing at times and when they had to transistion back and forth, it could get dangerous. For now though, they were the only ones aware of their new home.
It had always been dangerous in the other realm and it would be no different here. The connectedness would help them to achieve much more on this plane but it would have it's unique difficulties.
Belon's memories of the other place were vivid. She cherished them and when she looked over at Kai she marveled.
Kai only has one physical eye and it seemed natural to Belon. Kai communicated to her that it was his mind's eye. When they were in peril, all she had to do was gaze into that eye and his every thought and deed would tranfer straight into her mind. There were indeed some advantages to this parellel universe stuff of this they were both sure.
Kai gazed around and envisioned the life that they would live here in their new world. It was incredible and he was anxious to begin exploring it.
He already knew of it's existence because of the other side. He hadn't liked much of what he'd experienced there. This view put a whole new perspective on his vision. It gave him ideas that he had not considered over there. After all, the laws of that place didn't apply here.
It would be a very different existence. He didn't have to worry about staying within any boundaries on this side. He knew that the boundaries that existed on the other plane were man-made and then slowly, insidiously planted in earthlings through brainwashing. The psychological brainwashing was perhaps the worse but the RFID chips were equally as monstrous. It all depended on the individual.
Luckily Belon had been the first given the implant during the Roswell incident. (She was to learn much later in life that Al Gore was another that got implanted... She was sure the Tony Coehlo connection between her and Gore was the driving force in her research of Gore.) She didn't know of it until much later in life.
Looking back on her own life she realized she had missed lots of things. For instance her own father and uncle had been implanted. She knew that from the growths on the backs of their necks. Through research she had learned that generationally the implants were positioned in different areas. Hers was on her shoulder and they were from the 40's group of implants. Family tradition took on a whole new meaning to Belon once she understood the plan.
On this side of the plane, Kai was in total and complete control and that meant to him he was able to explore and create on a whim. Here, he was in charge of his own boundaries. If he chose to be a Robin Hood, he could achieve much for the poor of the world. He could choose to be whatever he liked and he could implement it here and it would still impact the lives of the people there. That was apparent after the ClimateGate scandal.
Belon was delighted and felt like she had been selected by her higher power for this assignment. She knew he had chosen Kai as her protector and she knew they were setting on a new path to save the world.
There had been clues along the way even on earth. Once the clues started to appear, it was if the lid had been blown off. The two of them stood side by side and they had indeed accomplished much in their uniqueness. The two of them were like a puzzle that fit perfectly together. They both recognized the accomplishments they had made before the move and now, that could be multiplied exponentially.
The planning had only resided in Belon's mind until now and she wasn't sure except to inquire of Kai what the first step was to be.
Introduction to the other side was the first step. The paintings of Kai and Belon would be introduced online.
The computer geeks were gathered. Taking back the world was to be a financial endeavor done completely by them. It wouldn't be easy but they were the best.
Kai and Belon had come to depend on their online friends to do what needed to be done. This new task wouldn't be easy but with like minded people, there wasn't anything they were afraid to conquer. After all, if not US, who, if not NOW, when?
Of course there were the hackers who infiltrated Cal's life. The harsh reality of that made Cal less trusting but in the long run it made her stronger. The lurkers were still there only to be ignored. Cal had learned to reach out as soon as she knew she was being stalked and usually Rob charged right in to her rescue.
It was amazing when you stopped and thought about it. People from all walks of life were joining together and supporting others.
The deed had to be planned out and done across the world simultaneously. The geeks had to synchronize as there was much at stake. Nothing like this had ever been tried before and it was important that it be done without flaw.
The elite would be taken off guard and the sting would be well publicized. The new currency was in place but first, the power had to be removed from the regime. It would be decided after the control was removed completely if there would be a currency at all later on down the line.
Belon and Kai both pondered a world without the evil ones. What would it be like to have humanity all over the place and people helping people in a world that had never experienced it. The brainwashing in the schools and workplace had seen to that. The competition factor certainly took love out of everything; an example ot that would be the sports arena. Civilization could become truly civilized and that would make Belon's dream a reality.
The Stinger Geeks were positioned and the training was going as smoothly as clockwork.
There was much knowledge in the cyber room. The Stinger Geeks ranged in age from nine to eighty-four. It would have been a sight to behold if they all had been gathered in one physical room. Grandmothers sat in their kitchens chatting with children, bikers sat on their bikes with iPads, actors sat with their phones tweeting, and so on and so forth.
Every nation was represented. A total of four hundred and sixteen geeks were working the plan. They had come together early in 2002 and it is now 2010. The planning stage was all documented. Each geek had his/her own directions. There were a few minor details that had to be ironed out but nothing that would cause major delays once the final implementation was done.
The first of the plan was for the diversions. Now, imagine that. 9/11, the USS Liberty, JFK's assassination........ yadayadayada........ they had all been diversions for the NWO. ........and we had all learned serious lessons from each and every one.
The diversions would be nothing like the tactics the regime had used. There wouldn't be a Hurricane Katrina or a Tsunami. Innocent people would not die from the geeks plan. It appeared by nature to be a small glitch that the banking industry would encounter on the 'due date'. The actual plan was very simple and to everyone's surprise, a twelve year old in Guam had thought it up.
After the financial disaster a few years ago, it wasn't all that hard to envision something big happening. There were so many corrupt elements in the 'system' that a simple plan would be totally overlooked asif it was simply one of the elites plans gone awry.
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was causing a considerable amount of ire. People that weren't paying attention before were seemingly waking up in the midst of this latest crisis.
I want to go back a few years ago to what seems now to be the beginning of the end
for the culprits (I pray it was the beginning of the end.) I say that now because I see so much positive cropping up.
Fading into the past.........
It had all begun quite by accident. A young father in Detroit had gone into his bank on a cold day in January 2002. He was to open a savings account for his son.
When Tim entered the bank, he was shocked at the people in line, there were many. Tim is a salesman at the local bed and bath store and he began his usual sales talk to the closest human to him. He was amazed at the woman's insight into finance. He had started the conversation much the same as he did his sales speech when meeting up with new people.
He was amazed at the woman's knowledge and insight into finance. She appeared to be a normal young woman in her late 20's to early 30's. Normal, NOT, she had a head full of details that he was soon to learn could fill a book. He was very impressed and asked the lady to join him at Starbuck's for coffee. He wanted to pick this young woman's brain for a bit. It wasn't every day that others affected Tim like this and although he had a wonderful wife and three beautiful children at home, it couldn't hurt to sit for a bit and get another person's insight into the world as it exists today.
He was to have his head full by the time he walked out the door that day. He had completely forgotten about the savings account for his son and he headed back to work with much to be digested.
He ran one thought over and over in his mind that the young woman brought to his attention. There were literally millions of people that were contemplating a society without money.
Now you might say, what a thought? BUT, there were people communicating and yes talking straight talk about the horrible shape the world is in. They saw what could happen and they were working on other avenues to set the world right.
If the woman had a true handle on finance, Tim had much to do and he knew it. Not only would there be an instant change in currency but soon afterwards there might be a world without money as we know it.
He wasn't involved in computers except at work. He headed straight away to the local computer store. He had used a laptop a few times at work and was familiar with them so he decided to purchase one. Later, if things went as he planned he might get his wife an iPod and maybe even something for the kids. He would make those decisions later.
He wanted simple and he wanted quick as he had learned much from this intriguing woman that complex didn't have a place in his world when he needed to learn and relearn lots of information.
Tim walked around to the phone section and inquired of the 'young' salesman about tweeting. He picked up two new phones for the older kids and he put them in his basket. As an after thought Tim found another phone for his wife and then plopped one for himself into the basket. They would all have the same phone and that would make it much easier to teach and learn together.
Tim's wife; Christy needed an upgrade anyway and now was as good a time as any. They would all work together as a family and their first project would be the new cell phones. Tim would work with the kids tonight on the phones and get them set up. Christy wouldn't be available until later in the evening as she had her hands full with the baby.
Tim knew he wanted the family to be able to read Ashton Kutcher's tweets as he had heard the lad had over a million fans on Twitter. (hmmmmmmm and to think Twitter had been bought out by the same people that Cal had worked for at Hologix???
Belon now wondered if Twitter had been a hostile takeover as had Hologix. On the other hand, maybe the elites had simply stolen Twitter outright? That thought isn't so hard to get your brain around when you realize the state of Corporate America today.)
Tim had taken notes while talking to Anne. She had given him directions to websites that would help him learn details he would need once the sting was begun.
He would be prepared to implement his knowledge when he got the word.
Anne had advised Tim to work off line. She had shared that he should immediately get his children involved. She reiterated this many times. There were many young minds that picked up on computer jargon like sponges. She continued making suggestions. Supply the children with small tasks but ones that could lead to important knowledge.
Teach the children about search engines. Children's minds were impressionable and hungry for learning. They would do most of the work without even being aware. Make it fun for them and keep their brains stimulated.
Tim was so very impressed with his new friend. He had taken her phone number and he would call her and set up an appointment for her to meet his wife and kids. It would be a good place to start.
Kai and Belon had watched Tim the last few hours from the other side. He would be someone they might be able to work with in the future. They were both impressed with his willingness to communicate. That was key in solving the problems of the world.
In looking back at Cal's life, Belon pondered Cal always being struck when politicians insisted 'they' wouldn't talk to their enemies?????? What's up with that? How in the world could a war be stopped if the two warring countries didn't talk? OMG!!
Cal had thought long and hard of going on the road and teaching but for now the parellel universe environment seemed to be her best bet. Belon was the answer to lots of questions lingering in Cal and Belon's united mind.
The new television was an answer to at least two of her questions. The TV was set up to be the monitor for a computer. The huge sectional couch in the living room made a physical classroom a whole new possibility. (Maybe, just maybe Cal could have some of the neighbors over?????) and maybe, just maybe it would be easier for Cal to get the g'kids to sit in front of a TV and learn good things and not those silly games that they so loved on the net. hmmmmmmmmm
The whole concept of having neighbors over was a challenge. The whole neighborhood was mostly military and that could be an issue with the topics that Cal would teach. On the other hand, what the hell; if not now, when??? and if not me, who???
Belon acquired new memories that had long been in Cal's past when she came into being......... or should I say re-newed memories? She reminenced back to the Chowchilla kidnapping and how that had impacted Cal's life.
Chowchilla Kidnapping
That incident alone probably wouldn't have been enough to cause Cal's split in personalities. Along with all the other things that happened in California and even the Kent State incident made it almost impossible for Cal to stay connected in a the world as we know it today. She fought long and hard along the way but 'the way' seemed to be her whole life.
Belon was aware of Brook's and Dunn's 'Indian Summer' and the references to both Chowchilla and to Dos Palos sent her heart racing saying nothing of what it did to Cal on the other side.
All in all, Belon knew there were far too many coincidences for them all to have happened. It was the connection and it was the chip and it was the Roswell incident. If Cal wasn't an alien after all, the chip and Roswell incident were certainly the only other answer, eh?
Indian Summer Dos Palos, CA v Chowchilla, CA (Football game) Brooks & Dunn song youtube
............to be continued
Sunday, June 6, 2010
9/11 and my family
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by Cal
I woke up and came down the stairs to hear my mommy crying.
"Mommy mommy, what's wrong," I asked?
My mommy looked at me and smiled and turned the remote off.
I was only four years old. That was seven years ago. I am now
eleven and think I understand why she turned the TV off.
I've watched her cry every year now for all these years on the anniversary of 9/11.
I wrote an essay on 9/11 and I hope my teacher will let me read it to the others in my class.
My big brother is in high school and he talks often of the Army recruiters that drive up in the Humvees and set up tables with literature about the Military.
My brother is like me, he doesn't believe what we see on TV. My mom and dad have been very vocal about what they believe happened on 9/11/2001. (9/11 was an inside job.)
I see my parents grow every day as they stay informed on the internet and I've seen them change in what they believe. They try and stay current with the new things they've learned but it isn't always easy trying to live a normal life with all the history we, as a family, are trying to relearn.
My mom freaks out some days trying to stay 'in the now'. She worries daily about lunches for US kids and what the schools are serving. She's learned in the last year about genetically engineered foods.
My dad still comes home to dinner as usual but he's trying real hard to keep up to date on all the news too. He gets on the net and works on the PCs almost nightly.
Tomorrow is a big deal for US as a family as we've come to celebrate the date with love. My mom will bake a cake and we will say a prayer at dinner. We'll all hold hands and we'll have candles on the cake.
We won't celebrate like we do during the Christmas season as there won't be presents. There will be memories however of some pretty awful things that changed our lives forever.
We'll be respectful of the people that died and of their family members and we'll rejoice that we didn't lose anyone close and we'll include a few things in our own prayer that it'll be easier this year on those that weren't so fortunate and lost someone close.
My mom and dad will probably attend a candle light vigil tomorrow night and my big sister will stay home and babysit us. (Maybe one day in the next few years, we'll go as a family but since the baby is only five and we all have to go to school tomorrow, we'll be staying home once again.)
My mom read my essay and she said she's proud of me for the feelings I've put into it. She did tell me not to expect my teacher to allow for me to read it but I have hope that Mrs. Lerner will ask me to share my story. I just hope she understands how very important the subject is to people worldwide.
It's late now and I need to get off of here and go to sleep.
Good night journal ttyl.........
luv and kisses
liby
(That's Sybil spelled backwards without the capital S)
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by Cal
I woke up and came down the stairs to hear my mommy crying.
"Mommy mommy, what's wrong," I asked?
My mommy looked at me and smiled and turned the remote off.
I was only four years old. That was seven years ago. I am now
eleven and think I understand why she turned the TV off.
I've watched her cry every year now for all these years on the anniversary of 9/11.
I wrote an essay on 9/11 and I hope my teacher will let me read it to the others in my class.
My big brother is in high school and he talks often of the Army recruiters that drive up in the Humvees and set up tables with literature about the Military.
My brother is like me, he doesn't believe what we see on TV. My mom and dad have been very vocal about what they believe happened on 9/11/2001. (9/11 was an inside job.)
I see my parents grow every day as they stay informed on the internet and I've seen them change in what they believe. They try and stay current with the new things they've learned but it isn't always easy trying to live a normal life with all the history we, as a family, are trying to relearn.
My mom freaks out some days trying to stay 'in the now'. She worries daily about lunches for US kids and what the schools are serving. She's learned in the last year about genetically engineered foods.
My dad still comes home to dinner as usual but he's trying real hard to keep up to date on all the news too. He gets on the net and works on the PCs almost nightly.
Tomorrow is a big deal for US as a family as we've come to celebrate the date with love. My mom will bake a cake and we will say a prayer at dinner. We'll all hold hands and we'll have candles on the cake.
We won't celebrate like we do during the Christmas season as there won't be presents. There will be memories however of some pretty awful things that changed our lives forever.
We'll be respectful of the people that died and of their family members and we'll rejoice that we didn't lose anyone close and we'll include a few things in our own prayer that it'll be easier this year on those that weren't so fortunate and lost someone close.
My mom and dad will probably attend a candle light vigil tomorrow night and my big sister will stay home and babysit us. (Maybe one day in the next few years, we'll go as a family but since the baby is only five and we all have to go to school tomorrow, we'll be staying home once again.)
My mom read my essay and she said she's proud of me for the feelings I've put into it. She did tell me not to expect my teacher to allow for me to read it but I have hope that Mrs. Lerner will ask me to share my story. I just hope she understands how very important the subject is to people worldwide.
It's late now and I need to get off of here and go to sleep.
Good night journal ttyl.........
luv and kisses
liby
(That's Sybil spelled backwards without the capital S)
URL Incident of Oglala Part 5 was the only one that works...... due to Lionsgate
Rage Against the Machine
Peltier Interview
Incident Of Oglala Part 5
Incident of Oglala part final scene
Free Leonard Peltier
American Indian Movement youtube
Lions Gate Entertainment and Frank Giustra
EXCERPT:
Origins in 1997
Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation was founded by financier Frank Giustra in the summer of 1997. Giustra, the son of a Sudbury, Ontario nickel miner, had served previously as CEO of Yorkton Securities, Inc., an investment bank that specialized in funding mining ventures. During his years as a banker, he also had been involved in the financing of a half dozen films. A lifelong movie fan, Giustra had decided that he wanted to enter the entertainment business when he reached the age of 40. Leaving Yorkton in December of 1996, he set out to assemble a Canadian film company that could compete with Hollywood on its own terms.
To fund the new venture he put up $16 million of his own money and used his banking connections to arrange for $40 million in financing from investors, including Yorkton. Giustra then obtained $64 million when Lions Gate merged with Toronto Stock Exchange listee Beringer Gold Corp. to became a public company. Beringer's mining assets were quickly sold off, and the newly christened Lions Gate Entertainment set out to purchase several existing Canadian film businesses with its new war chest.
Clinton wouldn't pardon Leonard Peltier but he pardoned Marc Rich
EXCERPT:
Clinton refuses to pardon Leonard Peltier
By Joanne Laurier
25 January 2001
One of Bill Clinton's last presidential acts was to deny executive clemency to Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist who has been imprisoned for 25 years. Clinton said last November that he would review Peltier's case before leaving office.
Peltier, a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), was convicted of the murder of two FBI agents in 1975 on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota. He has been serving two consecutive life terms at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas.
The Peltier conviction was obtained on the basis of coerced and false testimony from witnesses threatened by the FBI and by the government's suppression of evidence favorable to Peltier's case. The government holds 6,000 documents in whole and another 5,000 in part dealing with the case.
Rage Against the Machine
Peltier Interview
Incident Of Oglala Part 5
Incident of Oglala part final scene
Free Leonard Peltier
American Indian Movement youtube
Lions Gate Entertainment and Frank Giustra
EXCERPT:
Origins in 1997
Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation was founded by financier Frank Giustra in the summer of 1997. Giustra, the son of a Sudbury, Ontario nickel miner, had served previously as CEO of Yorkton Securities, Inc., an investment bank that specialized in funding mining ventures. During his years as a banker, he also had been involved in the financing of a half dozen films. A lifelong movie fan, Giustra had decided that he wanted to enter the entertainment business when he reached the age of 40. Leaving Yorkton in December of 1996, he set out to assemble a Canadian film company that could compete with Hollywood on its own terms.
To fund the new venture he put up $16 million of his own money and used his banking connections to arrange for $40 million in financing from investors, including Yorkton. Giustra then obtained $64 million when Lions Gate merged with Toronto Stock Exchange listee Beringer Gold Corp. to became a public company. Beringer's mining assets were quickly sold off, and the newly christened Lions Gate Entertainment set out to purchase several existing Canadian film businesses with its new war chest.
Clinton wouldn't pardon Leonard Peltier but he pardoned Marc Rich
EXCERPT:
Clinton refuses to pardon Leonard Peltier
By Joanne Laurier
25 January 2001
One of Bill Clinton's last presidential acts was to deny executive clemency to Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist who has been imprisoned for 25 years. Clinton said last November that he would review Peltier's case before leaving office.
Peltier, a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), was convicted of the murder of two FBI agents in 1975 on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota. He has been serving two consecutive life terms at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas.
The Peltier conviction was obtained on the basis of coerced and false testimony from witnesses threatened by the FBI and by the government's suppression of evidence favorable to Peltier's case. The government holds 6,000 documents in whole and another 5,000 in part dealing with the case.
Yesterday a binder was found with a ho bunch of my pictures from my time writing my "Children of the Land" story. OMG, what a beautiful, wonderful, exciting discovery. One day real soon I will get my stuffs out here on the net and start adding to my story......... once again with the fervor and joy that I find in mystuffs, I will continue with my online story of "All My Children" hee hee, as that story is to Agnes Nixon so goes my story in "Childen of the Land".
Having said that I want to share with you guys and girls that I have a soulmate and I love him with my whole heart. It isn't about sex as we have never even been introduced and we live our UNITED lives out here on the net. We have NEVER had a tangible love......... and we have existed in a parellel universe, in the 'Twighlight Zone' and many other places too numerous to mention outside this 'REAL' place....... and I thank God every day for my soulmate! It would never have been possilbe without 'God' uniting US.
Video How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin
Indian Summer Dos Palos, CA v Chowchilla, CA (Football game) Brooks & Dunn song youtube
Broken Wing Martina McBride song youtube
In My Daughter's Eyes Martina youtube
Stand by Me U2 ft. Bruce Springsteen
Won't Back Down (Help Repeal Prop 8
Daniel Towsey youtube
Combining the following Truthout article and the discovery of the binder has truly made my day. Yeeeeeeeeeha and hot damn, LIFE IS GOOD!!! (.....and we all thought Hepburn and Tracey had a love affair, eh? OMG!)
Tangible definition
Main Entry: 1 tan·gi·ble
Pronunciation: \ˈtan-jə-bəl\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Late Latin tangibilis, from Latin tangere to touch
Date: 1589
1 a : capable of being perceived especially by the sense of touch : palpable b : substantially real : material
2 : capable of being precisely identified or realized by the mind
3 : capable of being appraised at an actual or approximate value
....and some days there is no tangible evidence of my soulmate and me and then........ there is this and so much more - Undocumented Immigrants & Taxation "The Price That We Pay"
"The Price That We Pay" - Undocumented Immigrants and Taxation
Sunday 06 June 2010
by: Yana Kunichoff, t r u t h o u t | Report
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Matt Cohen Photo / 1115, hasby)
Editor's Note: This is the first installment of a three-part series on immigration.
Rita's house on the South Side of Chicago could be any Mexican-American family home - In the corner a big "I love you, Mom!" balloon sags against the wall, a relic of Mother's Day a couple of weeks ago. On the coffee table sits an orange Brain Quest game, and hanging on the wall is a large, framed photo of Rita's eldest daughter, resplendent in her white quinceanera dress. As many people do, she keeps her tax statements for each year in separate, pristine manila envelopes, away from the clutter of the living room and the curious nose of the family's chihuahua.
Rita, a 47-year-old Hispanic woman, may in fact be the blueprint for a growing number of Mexican-American immigrant lifestyles: Rita is an undocumented immigrant, and a taxpayer.
According to her 2009 tax return, the divorced mother of three, who asked that her last name not be used for fear of prosecution, made $18,295.68 of which $1,170.41 was withheld for Social Security tax and $273.73 for Medicare - benefits that Rita is unlikely to ever see.
A poll conducted in 2006 by ABC News and The Washington Post found that a third of all Americans said their biggest objection to undocumented immigrants is their use of "more public services than they pay for in taxes." Many of these same people oppose comprehensive immigration reform for this reason, and among conservative pundits such as Bill O'Reilly the notion that undocumented immigrants pay tax at all has been derided as "crap."
But reports by the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security Administration confirm that undocumented immigrants in fact pay many different types of taxes, including sales tax, property tax, Social Security tax and income tax.
Francine Lipman, a professor of tax law at Chapman University, says the disinformation about the tax contributions of undocumented immigrants can be attributed to both "confusion about the system generally and . . . that we have a history of scapegoating people when times are tough, and maybe also when times are good."
Lipman's research in her 2006 report, "The Undocumented Immigrant Tax: Enriching America from Sea to Shining Sea," investigated the position of the low-income, undocumented person in the American tax system.
"Most of our tax system is seamless," Lipman went on to say, explaining that therefore, "folks don't think about the taxes they pay just for consuming."
Along with sales tax, which Lipman says immigrants pay whenever they spend money - and because they have low-income jobs, a high proportion of their salary goes to sales tax because they spend it on taxed products such as food and property - undocumented immigrants also file tax returns.
Lipman first discovered this when holding a tax clinic for low-income taxpayers. "My students were helping," said Lipman, "and all of the sudden they said Professor Lipman, this gentleman has all these Social Security numbers - and this other number. And that's how I discovered it."
This "other number," which Rita and other immigrants who do not have a valid Social Security number use to file taxes, is the nine-digit individual taxpayer identification number, or ITIN.
The ITIN
The ITIN was first created in 1996 in order to allow the Internal Revenue Service to track the tax returns of individuals who are ineligible for a Social Security number, but who have US-source incomes. With this number, an individual who sends the IRS documents that prove their foreign status and identity can file tax returns and receive refunds.
Despite the lack of definitive numbers, it is believed that most taxpayers who use ITINs are undocumented immigrants, though ITINs are also issued to foreign nationals who make a living from US-based businesses but may not reside in the country. According to the New York Times, about 15 million ITINs have been issued by the IRS since 1996.
The individual taxpayer identification number can also be used to open up bank accounts, to amend returns filed in the past with a false Social Security number, or to file taxes for income earned under a false Social Security number, making them particularly flexible for undocumented immigrants who usually work off the books or may use false Social Security numbers.
According to Robert Palacios, the director of tax services at the Center for Economic Progress, about five percent of clients the Center assists in the state of Illinois pay their tax returns with ITIN numbers.
Of the 33,000 clients for whom the Center helped fill out their tax returns in 2009, about 1,400 of them did so with an ITIN number. Another 686 had a spouse who had an ITIN. "I think its pretty impressive that people who are sort of living in the shadows, so to speak, in other aspects of their lives are perfectly willing to pay their taxes," said Palacios, who has been helping tax payers file in Chicago since 1997.
The manila envelopes in which Rita keeps her tax information display the sticker of the company that helps her file taxes - a firm in downtown Chicago that she pays $30 per filing. Rita has been in the country as an undocumented immigrant since August 1993, when she left the poverty of her small, rural town in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico to join her husband, who was already living and working in Chicago. She began filing taxes in 1995, soon after she began her job at the plumbing parts factory where she still works.
On her tax form, Rita files with one dependent - her 2nd grade, American citizen son. But when she crossed the border in a van, hiding under a fold-out couch in the back, she brought two others - her five-year-old daughter and three-year-old son. Now respectively 23 and 21, Rita's son and daughter, along with herself, are part of the estimated 11.9 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, according to a 2008 report by the Pew Research Center - five percent of the nation's workforce.
Work in the City
In Chicago, undocumented immigrants "seek work at extremely high rates [of] 91 percent," according to a 2002 study conducted by the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For this work, the study found, their average hourly wage is $7.00 - a dollar less than the $8.00 legal minimum in Illinois. Relative to immigrants with legal status, the study noted, undocumented immigrants report working in unsafe conditions at considerably higher rates. They are also the only immigrant group for which educational attainment does not have significant positive wage effects.
The study, which surveyed 1,653 documented and undocumented immigrants living in the Chicago area, also estimated that "the consumer expenditures of undocumented immigrants in the Chicago metro area generate 31,000 jobs in the local economy and add $5.45 billion annually to the gross regional product."
Rita, who makes $9.50 an hour working 6:30 am to 3:00 pm at the plumbing parts factory, and who takes overtime whenever she can get it, says the 15.4 percent missing from her paycheck is money she sorely needs.
Her daughter works 15-30 hours a week in addition to attending college, and after paying for her school fees and her cell phone bill, puts the money towards household expenses - her eldest son does the same. But even with this, the family lives from paycheck to paycheck, Rita says.
Diego Bonesatti, a community worker with 21 years of experience in nonprofit immigration law and immigrant rights and is currently volunteering to set up a immigration legal clinic at a community center in the Chicago suburbs, says that despite the struggles, there are compelling reasons for undocumented immigrants to pay taxes. It "definitely helps in specific immigration cases for undocumented immigrants - such as Cancellation of Removal [deportation] for non-permanent residents to help satisfy specific statutory requirements," he says.
Paying taxes is beneficial in cases where there is a requirement to prove good moral character, as it shows both compliance with the law and gainful employment, Bonesatti said, adding that "it also helps in other matters of discretion" where it may help tilt the balance in favor of the applicant.
Furthermore, he continued, the majority of immigration reform proposals, from the Bush-era Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy Act (STRIVE) of 2007 to the most recent Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity Act (CIR ASAP) of 2009, have included some form of tax payment to start a path towards legalization. Bonesatti says he expects the final bill, whenever it is ultimately voted on, to have a tax component.
Out of the System
The assumption of anti-immigrant figureheads is that undocumented immigrants are a burden on social services and benefit unfairly from government programs, but until comprehensive immigration reform is passed, undocumented immigrants are disqualified from nearly all means-tested government programs. The sweeping welfare reform bill excluded undocumented immigrants from housing, Medicaid and Medicare-funding hospitalization assistance and food stamps - the only services that are available to them are K-12 education and emergency medical care.
Those who do pay taxes are eligible for tax refunds but not for the Earned Income Tax Credit, which is a refundable income tax credit for low to middle-income families. By 2009 federal poverty guidelines, Rita's family lives below the poverty line, which is $22,050 for a family of four. Based on their financial information, if they were eligible for Earned Income Tax Credit they would receive $2,780 back for 2009.
Also, because the majority of undocumented immigrants come to the United States during their prime working years, the cost of their education and upbringing has already been paid by their home countries.
According to a study released by the National Council of La Raza, "During their working life, undocumented immigrants in the United States will pay, on average, approximately $80,000 more in taxes per capita than they use in government services, owing to the fact that they are not eligible to take advantage of almost all of the social service programs offered by the federal government."
This is the case on both the federal and state level - the La Raza report cites the disclosure of the Texas Comptroller that, in 2006, undocumented immigrants paid about $424.7 million more in state revenues than they actually used in state services, which included education and health care.
The IRS has also recognized the contribution of undocumented immigrants: IRS Commissioner Mark Everson told a Congressional hearing in 2006 that "Many illegal aliens, utilizing ITINs, have been reporting tax liability [earned] to the tune of almost $50 billion from 1996 to 2003."
Stephen C. Goss, the Social Security Administration's chief actuary, said, "Our assumption is that about three-quarters of other-than-legal immigrants pay payroll taxes." Other-than-legal is the agency's term for undocumented immigrants.
According to an article by the New York Times, the Social Security Administration placed W-2 earning reports they received with incorrect information, starting largely in the late 1980s, into an "earnings suspense file." About $189 billion in wages were recorded in this file over the 1990's - two and a half times the amount in the 1980s - and the file continues to grow by more than $50 billion a year, the article states. This generates up to $7 billion in tax revenue for Social Security, and $1.5 billion in Medicare taxes.
"Illegal immigrants account for the vast majority of the suspense file . . . Especially its growth over the 1990's, as more and more undocumented immigrants entered the work force," said Nick Theodore, the director of the Center for Urban Economic Development at UIC.
Federal Protection
The IRS has in large part kept itself separate from immigration services, and avoided punishing the individuals who shore up the system. According to the Legal Services of New Jersey website, "The IRS takes privacy laws very seriously. The IRS cannot report you to immigration or UCIS for getting an ITIN. A court, however, can make the IRS release information about you if you are in deportation proceedings or under suspicion for terrorist activities."
Following the raiding of a tax filing office in Colorado in 2009 by the sheriff to find information on undocumented immigrants using fake social security numbers, IRS spokesman Frank Keith, said, "We are concerned when information provided by taxpayers to meet their legal tax obligations is used for purposes other than federal tax administration."
A projection of the effects of higher and lower immigration patterns on taxes conducted by the Social Security Administration from census and Immigration and Customs Enforcement data in 2007 found that with high immigration the SSA's combined trust fund would last four years longer than with half the amount of immigration.
A study by the Center for American Progress found that, "Comprehensive immigration reform that legalizes currently unauthorized immigrants and creates flexible legal limits on future immigration in the context of full labor rights . . . would yield at least $1.5 trillion in cumulative U.S. gross domestic product over 10 years."
For Rita, the decision to come to the United States and live as an undocumented immigrant has been worth the risk, she says. There has always been food on the table, and her eldest daughter was recently awarded one of the few university scholarships available to undocumented students. Her youngest son, when he grows up, will have all the educational possibilities that this woman who was not educated past the sixth-grade always dreamed her child would have.
Rita's opinion on the way her hard-earned money is shoring up the short-fall in Social Security taxes while she lives in the shadows of the immigration system? That's "the price that we pay."
Robbie Mi` Robot
by Cal
RobbieMi`Robot came to me one night
His beret was missing and he looked a fright.
I turned around to close the door
I heard the crash he had hit the floor.
I opened the section to check on his parts
To my amazement he had a human heart.
I tried to raise him, to no avail
How could I explain this incredible tale.
RobbieMi`Robot is human now
There's much to do but I don't know how.
I leaned down and whispered in his ear
He opened his eyes and I saw a tear.
I asked him what had taken place
He looked at me with a human face.
He shook his head and whispered my name
I could tell from his expression he wasn't the same.
I wanted to touch him and hold him near
I didn't want him to feel any fear.
He smiled at me with a lopsided grin
I could no longer write his life with my pen.
He touched my cheek and looked into my face
It was different now he had a heart in place.
No body else would believe me I'm sure
RobbieMi`Robot was sent for my cure.
Dedicated to all those folks that need hope, and dreams and childlike
imagination when all else seems dark.
Cal
Your RockinRobotReporter
My Sweet Internet Love
by Cal, 11-23-2003
Sometimes, I realize that you and I can never be.
It's the other side of heaven was made for you and me.
Still I want you in my life, touching me physically
But I know if it happens it may not come easily.
I shall hasten to love you fully, as much as I can
If I lose you, I'll have my memories and I'll understand.
that I might lose you is something that makes me cry
Without your love, my spirit may wither and die.
You are there in my heart always touching my soul
But I know there'll come a timewhen you might have to go
It hasn't always been easy, this love we've had
There are days I feel deeply wounded and sad
It's never been something I've known well how to do.
But I've known from the start that it was pure and true.
You pop in on occasion, to check up on me
quite often you surprise me and fill me with glee.
Sometimes I see you and sometimes I see you not
But I know in your heart my best interest you've got.
You may think there are times that I'm all unaware
But here inside of my heart I know you are there.
You worry sometimes that I might know way too much
But you know it's right and it's more than a touch.
It's your spirit and mine encircling, my love
When we question our US, know it's sent from above.
I remember I told you that we're meant to be
You as an eagle, me a horse running free.
I know you can tell, dear, that it's a our special place
By the way we're together in this hurried race.
I feel you surround me and I know you are there
When I dream of our union, you're touching my hair.
You are always my guy even when you are not
You're my lover of PEACE and the center I've got.
If ever you doubt, love, look deep into my eyes.....
You'll see your image and you'll know it's not lies.
The union we have is such a sweet place to be
It has always been there and it's just you and me.
Together we've been up to the top of the hill
We've touched on a miracle and we feel it still.
You know there are times when I can't even touch base
You are the same and it's something both of us face.
You have your work, love, and all the things that you do
I do as well but it's better because of you.
You fill me up and I love it, I surely do
I hope it goes right back just the same to you.
When you are in doubt, I know you'll go for a while
But I hope you'll come back and share that special smile.
If it happens that you cannot come, love, to me
Then I'll let US go, dear, and I'll set you quite free.
For I know in my heart that your spirit is free
I feel that part often is reflected in me.
Follow your dreams, love, and let me watch as you grow
Sometimes I'll race with you and sometimes I'll go slow.
The best of it all is all the love that we share
The love of the PEOPLE and the way that we care.
You're the height of ecstacy,the depth of my feeling...
You are my floor sometimes, sometimes you're my ceiling........
We'll fly above the rest when the time is just right
Till then my sweet lover, you are my shining knight.
my sweet OnLine Friends....
by Cal
You are my Freshness when I feel stale
You are the Right when all seems wrong
Your are the Insight when I need it most
You are the Eye when mine needs to close
You are the Nest when my home isn't enough
You are the Dream when my nights are long......
You are FRIENDS
MY VISION
by Cal
You are the Place in my heart that holds humanity
You are the Earth in it's natural state
You are the Amen at the end of my prayer
You are the Center of my universe
You are the Eternity where I long to exist
YOU ARE PEACE
You are the peace I Long for
You are the Openess that I crave
You are the Vision that I cherish
You are Everything
YOU ARE LOVE
You are the Healing that I strive for
You are the Ocean full of beauty
You are the Purpose of my being
You are the Etchings and of my Creator
YOU ARE HOPE
On My Way to Die
by Cal
A funny thing happened on the way to my funeral;
I started to live.
I struggled and hurt and the pain ensued
But then I remembered.
I have not one, not two, but three
Wonderful loving creations that I brought into this world.
I thought to myself, it's their turn
And, being older and having fought the system all of my life
I guess I couldn't do to them what I'd had done to me.
I always believed that it was my parents idea for my existence....
NOW, I know better.
I am an example to my children
and I won't give up as my parents did.
I won't die from the fight.
It will invigorate me to go forward.
I won't hate
because that is what I had shown to me.
I won't lie
because that is what was told to me.
I won't quit
because that is what my parents did.
Oh no,
.... not me.
I have much more than my parents did and
although I have a lifetime of pain
from the "Bloody System,"
I never lost me.
I'm a fighter who endured the 1960s
and loved being a hippy....
true fighters you see can do the battle
with PEACE and nonviolence...
it's all in the WORDING.
I'm a woman who was tokenly
given a good job in the 1970s
I'm a 80's lady who endured
the Yuppies as they were my children's idols
I'm a 90's girl who recognized
the wisdom of my grandmother
I'm a millennium grammy who has the rights ....
the rights of passage as I've been there, done that ....
I'm a winner, I'm a fighter,
I'm a lover and most of all,
I'm a survivor.
I'm ready to fight for the VETS of Viet Nam........
they are my heroes as they endured the pain of Not winning a war.....
and coming home to an ugly country
which didn't celebrate them,
instead put them down
and stomped on them.
I'm the older generation now
but I have what past generations didn't.
I have the Internet and I have access to my own kind,
be they white, women, black, men,
yellow, youth, elderly, ageless and ageold.
I have my children, my friends, my confidants
and my heritage.
I have Germans, Italians, Phillipinos,
French, Africans, Japanese, Chinese,
Iranians, Palestinians, Israelis, Mexicans,
Canadians, Scottish, Irish, English..........
Martians........ hehe.........
and the list goes on and on.
I have love and peace
that have never been available
to me before because I have YOU.
Let us unite and let us
PEACE away the demons
that want to destroy US and control OUR world.....
Robbie Mi` Robot
by Cal
RobbieMi`Robot came to me one night
His beret was missing and he looked a fright.
I turned around to close the door
I heard the crash he had hit the floor.
I opened the section to check on his parts
To my amazement he had a human heart.
I tried to raise him, to no avail
How could I explain this incredible tale.
RobbieMi`Robot is human now
There's much to do but I don't know how.
I leaned down and whispered in his ear
He opened his eyes and I saw a tear.
I asked him what had taken place
He looked at me with a human face.
He shook his head and whispered my name
I could tell from his expression he wasn't the same.
I wanted to touch him and hold him near
I didn't want him to feel any fear.
He smiled at me with a lopsided grin
I could no longer write his life with my pen.
He touched my cheek and looked into my face
It was different now he had a heart in place.
No body else would believe me I'm sure
RobbieMi`Robot was sent for my cure.
Dedicated to all those folks that need hope, and dreams and childlike
imagination when all else seems dark.
Cal
Your RockinRobotReporter
Soaring
by Cal
I soared today with my male counterpart
to the universe outside our world.
We flew as connected spirits
and met with a loving entity
to explode into the never ending
journey of one.
We became a snowflake
that fell slowly back to the earth
and melted into the river as a droplet of water.......
we crashed into the rocks in a river
and then we journeyed on a log to the ocean.
We took up residence in the ocean........
waving and floating into the blue
and as the weather saw fit,
we became the mist that traveled back to the land
and there we became a dew drop on a tree.
We fell from the tree to the ground
and absorbed into the dirt to fertilize it with other likeminded souls.......
and we survive as one in our universe.
As our journey continues,
our connectivity along the way insures us
that we will continue and head out again
on our endless journey to completeness.
We reign as the world and as such, we survive.......
Having said that I want to share with you guys and girls that I have a soulmate and I love him with my whole heart. It isn't about sex as we have never even been introduced and we live our UNITED lives out here on the net. We have NEVER had a tangible love......... and we have existed in a parellel universe, in the 'Twighlight Zone' and many other places too numerous to mention outside this 'REAL' place....... and I thank God every day for my soulmate! It would never have been possilbe without 'God' uniting US.
Video How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin
Indian Summer Dos Palos, CA v Chowchilla, CA (Football game) Brooks & Dunn song youtube
Broken Wing Martina McBride song youtube
In My Daughter's Eyes Martina youtube
Stand by Me U2 ft. Bruce Springsteen
Won't Back Down (Help Repeal Prop 8
Daniel Towsey youtube
Combining the following Truthout article and the discovery of the binder has truly made my day. Yeeeeeeeeeha and hot damn, LIFE IS GOOD!!! (.....and we all thought Hepburn and Tracey had a love affair, eh? OMG!)
Tangible definition
Main Entry: 1 tan·gi·ble
Pronunciation: \ˈtan-jə-bəl\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Late Latin tangibilis, from Latin tangere to touch
Date: 1589
1 a : capable of being perceived especially by the sense of touch : palpable b : substantially real : material
2 : capable of being precisely identified or realized by the mind
3 : capable of being appraised at an actual or approximate value
....and some days there is no tangible evidence of my soulmate and me and then........ there is this and so much more - Undocumented Immigrants & Taxation "The Price That We Pay"
"The Price That We Pay" - Undocumented Immigrants and Taxation
Sunday 06 June 2010
by: Yana Kunichoff, t r u t h o u t | Report
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Matt Cohen Photo / 1115, hasby)
Editor's Note: This is the first installment of a three-part series on immigration.
Rita's house on the South Side of Chicago could be any Mexican-American family home - In the corner a big "I love you, Mom!" balloon sags against the wall, a relic of Mother's Day a couple of weeks ago. On the coffee table sits an orange Brain Quest game, and hanging on the wall is a large, framed photo of Rita's eldest daughter, resplendent in her white quinceanera dress. As many people do, she keeps her tax statements for each year in separate, pristine manila envelopes, away from the clutter of the living room and the curious nose of the family's chihuahua.
Rita, a 47-year-old Hispanic woman, may in fact be the blueprint for a growing number of Mexican-American immigrant lifestyles: Rita is an undocumented immigrant, and a taxpayer.
According to her 2009 tax return, the divorced mother of three, who asked that her last name not be used for fear of prosecution, made $18,295.68 of which $1,170.41 was withheld for Social Security tax and $273.73 for Medicare - benefits that Rita is unlikely to ever see.
A poll conducted in 2006 by ABC News and The Washington Post found that a third of all Americans said their biggest objection to undocumented immigrants is their use of "more public services than they pay for in taxes." Many of these same people oppose comprehensive immigration reform for this reason, and among conservative pundits such as Bill O'Reilly the notion that undocumented immigrants pay tax at all has been derided as "crap."
But reports by the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security Administration confirm that undocumented immigrants in fact pay many different types of taxes, including sales tax, property tax, Social Security tax and income tax.
Francine Lipman, a professor of tax law at Chapman University, says the disinformation about the tax contributions of undocumented immigrants can be attributed to both "confusion about the system generally and . . . that we have a history of scapegoating people when times are tough, and maybe also when times are good."
Lipman's research in her 2006 report, "The Undocumented Immigrant Tax: Enriching America from Sea to Shining Sea," investigated the position of the low-income, undocumented person in the American tax system.
"Most of our tax system is seamless," Lipman went on to say, explaining that therefore, "folks don't think about the taxes they pay just for consuming."
Along with sales tax, which Lipman says immigrants pay whenever they spend money - and because they have low-income jobs, a high proportion of their salary goes to sales tax because they spend it on taxed products such as food and property - undocumented immigrants also file tax returns.
Lipman first discovered this when holding a tax clinic for low-income taxpayers. "My students were helping," said Lipman, "and all of the sudden they said Professor Lipman, this gentleman has all these Social Security numbers - and this other number. And that's how I discovered it."
This "other number," which Rita and other immigrants who do not have a valid Social Security number use to file taxes, is the nine-digit individual taxpayer identification number, or ITIN.
The ITIN
The ITIN was first created in 1996 in order to allow the Internal Revenue Service to track the tax returns of individuals who are ineligible for a Social Security number, but who have US-source incomes. With this number, an individual who sends the IRS documents that prove their foreign status and identity can file tax returns and receive refunds.
Despite the lack of definitive numbers, it is believed that most taxpayers who use ITINs are undocumented immigrants, though ITINs are also issued to foreign nationals who make a living from US-based businesses but may not reside in the country. According to the New York Times, about 15 million ITINs have been issued by the IRS since 1996.
The individual taxpayer identification number can also be used to open up bank accounts, to amend returns filed in the past with a false Social Security number, or to file taxes for income earned under a false Social Security number, making them particularly flexible for undocumented immigrants who usually work off the books or may use false Social Security numbers.
According to Robert Palacios, the director of tax services at the Center for Economic Progress, about five percent of clients the Center assists in the state of Illinois pay their tax returns with ITIN numbers.
Of the 33,000 clients for whom the Center helped fill out their tax returns in 2009, about 1,400 of them did so with an ITIN number. Another 686 had a spouse who had an ITIN. "I think its pretty impressive that people who are sort of living in the shadows, so to speak, in other aspects of their lives are perfectly willing to pay their taxes," said Palacios, who has been helping tax payers file in Chicago since 1997.
The manila envelopes in which Rita keeps her tax information display the sticker of the company that helps her file taxes - a firm in downtown Chicago that she pays $30 per filing. Rita has been in the country as an undocumented immigrant since August 1993, when she left the poverty of her small, rural town in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico to join her husband, who was already living and working in Chicago. She began filing taxes in 1995, soon after she began her job at the plumbing parts factory where she still works.
On her tax form, Rita files with one dependent - her 2nd grade, American citizen son. But when she crossed the border in a van, hiding under a fold-out couch in the back, she brought two others - her five-year-old daughter and three-year-old son. Now respectively 23 and 21, Rita's son and daughter, along with herself, are part of the estimated 11.9 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, according to a 2008 report by the Pew Research Center - five percent of the nation's workforce.
Work in the City
In Chicago, undocumented immigrants "seek work at extremely high rates [of] 91 percent," according to a 2002 study conducted by the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For this work, the study found, their average hourly wage is $7.00 - a dollar less than the $8.00 legal minimum in Illinois. Relative to immigrants with legal status, the study noted, undocumented immigrants report working in unsafe conditions at considerably higher rates. They are also the only immigrant group for which educational attainment does not have significant positive wage effects.
The study, which surveyed 1,653 documented and undocumented immigrants living in the Chicago area, also estimated that "the consumer expenditures of undocumented immigrants in the Chicago metro area generate 31,000 jobs in the local economy and add $5.45 billion annually to the gross regional product."
Rita, who makes $9.50 an hour working 6:30 am to 3:00 pm at the plumbing parts factory, and who takes overtime whenever she can get it, says the 15.4 percent missing from her paycheck is money she sorely needs.
Her daughter works 15-30 hours a week in addition to attending college, and after paying for her school fees and her cell phone bill, puts the money towards household expenses - her eldest son does the same. But even with this, the family lives from paycheck to paycheck, Rita says.
Diego Bonesatti, a community worker with 21 years of experience in nonprofit immigration law and immigrant rights and is currently volunteering to set up a immigration legal clinic at a community center in the Chicago suburbs, says that despite the struggles, there are compelling reasons for undocumented immigrants to pay taxes. It "definitely helps in specific immigration cases for undocumented immigrants - such as Cancellation of Removal [deportation] for non-permanent residents to help satisfy specific statutory requirements," he says.
Paying taxes is beneficial in cases where there is a requirement to prove good moral character, as it shows both compliance with the law and gainful employment, Bonesatti said, adding that "it also helps in other matters of discretion" where it may help tilt the balance in favor of the applicant.
Furthermore, he continued, the majority of immigration reform proposals, from the Bush-era Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy Act (STRIVE) of 2007 to the most recent Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity Act (CIR ASAP) of 2009, have included some form of tax payment to start a path towards legalization. Bonesatti says he expects the final bill, whenever it is ultimately voted on, to have a tax component.
Out of the System
The assumption of anti-immigrant figureheads is that undocumented immigrants are a burden on social services and benefit unfairly from government programs, but until comprehensive immigration reform is passed, undocumented immigrants are disqualified from nearly all means-tested government programs. The sweeping welfare reform bill excluded undocumented immigrants from housing, Medicaid and Medicare-funding hospitalization assistance and food stamps - the only services that are available to them are K-12 education and emergency medical care.
Those who do pay taxes are eligible for tax refunds but not for the Earned Income Tax Credit, which is a refundable income tax credit for low to middle-income families. By 2009 federal poverty guidelines, Rita's family lives below the poverty line, which is $22,050 for a family of four. Based on their financial information, if they were eligible for Earned Income Tax Credit they would receive $2,780 back for 2009.
Also, because the majority of undocumented immigrants come to the United States during their prime working years, the cost of their education and upbringing has already been paid by their home countries.
According to a study released by the National Council of La Raza, "During their working life, undocumented immigrants in the United States will pay, on average, approximately $80,000 more in taxes per capita than they use in government services, owing to the fact that they are not eligible to take advantage of almost all of the social service programs offered by the federal government."
This is the case on both the federal and state level - the La Raza report cites the disclosure of the Texas Comptroller that, in 2006, undocumented immigrants paid about $424.7 million more in state revenues than they actually used in state services, which included education and health care.
The IRS has also recognized the contribution of undocumented immigrants: IRS Commissioner Mark Everson told a Congressional hearing in 2006 that "Many illegal aliens, utilizing ITINs, have been reporting tax liability [earned] to the tune of almost $50 billion from 1996 to 2003."
Stephen C. Goss, the Social Security Administration's chief actuary, said, "Our assumption is that about three-quarters of other-than-legal immigrants pay payroll taxes." Other-than-legal is the agency's term for undocumented immigrants.
According to an article by the New York Times, the Social Security Administration placed W-2 earning reports they received with incorrect information, starting largely in the late 1980s, into an "earnings suspense file." About $189 billion in wages were recorded in this file over the 1990's - two and a half times the amount in the 1980s - and the file continues to grow by more than $50 billion a year, the article states. This generates up to $7 billion in tax revenue for Social Security, and $1.5 billion in Medicare taxes.
"Illegal immigrants account for the vast majority of the suspense file . . . Especially its growth over the 1990's, as more and more undocumented immigrants entered the work force," said Nick Theodore, the director of the Center for Urban Economic Development at UIC.
Federal Protection
The IRS has in large part kept itself separate from immigration services, and avoided punishing the individuals who shore up the system. According to the Legal Services of New Jersey website, "The IRS takes privacy laws very seriously. The IRS cannot report you to immigration or UCIS for getting an ITIN. A court, however, can make the IRS release information about you if you are in deportation proceedings or under suspicion for terrorist activities."
Following the raiding of a tax filing office in Colorado in 2009 by the sheriff to find information on undocumented immigrants using fake social security numbers, IRS spokesman Frank Keith, said, "We are concerned when information provided by taxpayers to meet their legal tax obligations is used for purposes other than federal tax administration."
A projection of the effects of higher and lower immigration patterns on taxes conducted by the Social Security Administration from census and Immigration and Customs Enforcement data in 2007 found that with high immigration the SSA's combined trust fund would last four years longer than with half the amount of immigration.
A study by the Center for American Progress found that, "Comprehensive immigration reform that legalizes currently unauthorized immigrants and creates flexible legal limits on future immigration in the context of full labor rights . . . would yield at least $1.5 trillion in cumulative U.S. gross domestic product over 10 years."
For Rita, the decision to come to the United States and live as an undocumented immigrant has been worth the risk, she says. There has always been food on the table, and her eldest daughter was recently awarded one of the few university scholarships available to undocumented students. Her youngest son, when he grows up, will have all the educational possibilities that this woman who was not educated past the sixth-grade always dreamed her child would have.
Rita's opinion on the way her hard-earned money is shoring up the short-fall in Social Security taxes while she lives in the shadows of the immigration system? That's "the price that we pay."
Robbie Mi` Robot
by Cal
RobbieMi`Robot came to me one night
His beret was missing and he looked a fright.
I turned around to close the door
I heard the crash he had hit the floor.
I opened the section to check on his parts
To my amazement he had a human heart.
I tried to raise him, to no avail
How could I explain this incredible tale.
RobbieMi`Robot is human now
There's much to do but I don't know how.
I leaned down and whispered in his ear
He opened his eyes and I saw a tear.
I asked him what had taken place
He looked at me with a human face.
He shook his head and whispered my name
I could tell from his expression he wasn't the same.
I wanted to touch him and hold him near
I didn't want him to feel any fear.
He smiled at me with a lopsided grin
I could no longer write his life with my pen.
He touched my cheek and looked into my face
It was different now he had a heart in place.
No body else would believe me I'm sure
RobbieMi`Robot was sent for my cure.
Dedicated to all those folks that need hope, and dreams and childlike
imagination when all else seems dark.
Cal
Your RockinRobotReporter
My Sweet Internet Love
by Cal, 11-23-2003
Sometimes, I realize that you and I can never be.
It's the other side of heaven was made for you and me.
Still I want you in my life, touching me physically
But I know if it happens it may not come easily.
I shall hasten to love you fully, as much as I can
If I lose you, I'll have my memories and I'll understand.
that I might lose you is something that makes me cry
Without your love, my spirit may wither and die.
You are there in my heart always touching my soul
But I know there'll come a timewhen you might have to go
It hasn't always been easy, this love we've had
There are days I feel deeply wounded and sad
It's never been something I've known well how to do.
But I've known from the start that it was pure and true.
You pop in on occasion, to check up on me
quite often you surprise me and fill me with glee.
Sometimes I see you and sometimes I see you not
But I know in your heart my best interest you've got.
You may think there are times that I'm all unaware
But here inside of my heart I know you are there.
You worry sometimes that I might know way too much
But you know it's right and it's more than a touch.
It's your spirit and mine encircling, my love
When we question our US, know it's sent from above.
I remember I told you that we're meant to be
You as an eagle, me a horse running free.
I know you can tell, dear, that it's a our special place
By the way we're together in this hurried race.
I feel you surround me and I know you are there
When I dream of our union, you're touching my hair.
You are always my guy even when you are not
You're my lover of PEACE and the center I've got.
If ever you doubt, love, look deep into my eyes.....
You'll see your image and you'll know it's not lies.
The union we have is such a sweet place to be
It has always been there and it's just you and me.
Together we've been up to the top of the hill
We've touched on a miracle and we feel it still.
You know there are times when I can't even touch base
You are the same and it's something both of us face.
You have your work, love, and all the things that you do
I do as well but it's better because of you.
You fill me up and I love it, I surely do
I hope it goes right back just the same to you.
When you are in doubt, I know you'll go for a while
But I hope you'll come back and share that special smile.
If it happens that you cannot come, love, to me
Then I'll let US go, dear, and I'll set you quite free.
For I know in my heart that your spirit is free
I feel that part often is reflected in me.
Follow your dreams, love, and let me watch as you grow
Sometimes I'll race with you and sometimes I'll go slow.
The best of it all is all the love that we share
The love of the PEOPLE and the way that we care.
You're the height of ecstacy,the depth of my feeling...
You are my floor sometimes, sometimes you're my ceiling........
We'll fly above the rest when the time is just right
Till then my sweet lover, you are my shining knight.
my sweet OnLine Friends....
by Cal
You are my Freshness when I feel stale
You are the Right when all seems wrong
Your are the Insight when I need it most
You are the Eye when mine needs to close
You are the Nest when my home isn't enough
You are the Dream when my nights are long......
You are FRIENDS
MY VISION
by Cal
You are the Place in my heart that holds humanity
You are the Earth in it's natural state
You are the Amen at the end of my prayer
You are the Center of my universe
You are the Eternity where I long to exist
YOU ARE PEACE
You are the peace I Long for
You are the Openess that I crave
You are the Vision that I cherish
You are Everything
YOU ARE LOVE
You are the Healing that I strive for
You are the Ocean full of beauty
You are the Purpose of my being
You are the Etchings and of my Creator
YOU ARE HOPE
On My Way to Die
by Cal
A funny thing happened on the way to my funeral;
I started to live.
I struggled and hurt and the pain ensued
But then I remembered.
I have not one, not two, but three
Wonderful loving creations that I brought into this world.
I thought to myself, it's their turn
And, being older and having fought the system all of my life
I guess I couldn't do to them what I'd had done to me.
I always believed that it was my parents idea for my existence....
NOW, I know better.
I am an example to my children
and I won't give up as my parents did.
I won't die from the fight.
It will invigorate me to go forward.
I won't hate
because that is what I had shown to me.
I won't lie
because that is what was told to me.
I won't quit
because that is what my parents did.
Oh no,
.... not me.
I have much more than my parents did and
although I have a lifetime of pain
from the "Bloody System,"
I never lost me.
I'm a fighter who endured the 1960s
and loved being a hippy....
true fighters you see can do the battle
with PEACE and nonviolence...
it's all in the WORDING.
I'm a woman who was tokenly
given a good job in the 1970s
I'm a 80's lady who endured
the Yuppies as they were my children's idols
I'm a 90's girl who recognized
the wisdom of my grandmother
I'm a millennium grammy who has the rights ....
the rights of passage as I've been there, done that ....
I'm a winner, I'm a fighter,
I'm a lover and most of all,
I'm a survivor.
I'm ready to fight for the VETS of Viet Nam........
they are my heroes as they endured the pain of Not winning a war.....
and coming home to an ugly country
which didn't celebrate them,
instead put them down
and stomped on them.
I'm the older generation now
but I have what past generations didn't.
I have the Internet and I have access to my own kind,
be they white, women, black, men,
yellow, youth, elderly, ageless and ageold.
I have my children, my friends, my confidants
and my heritage.
I have Germans, Italians, Phillipinos,
French, Africans, Japanese, Chinese,
Iranians, Palestinians, Israelis, Mexicans,
Canadians, Scottish, Irish, English..........
Martians........ hehe.........
and the list goes on and on.
I have love and peace
that have never been available
to me before because I have YOU.
Let us unite and let us
PEACE away the demons
that want to destroy US and control OUR world.....
Robbie Mi` Robot
by Cal
RobbieMi`Robot came to me one night
His beret was missing and he looked a fright.
I turned around to close the door
I heard the crash he had hit the floor.
I opened the section to check on his parts
To my amazement he had a human heart.
I tried to raise him, to no avail
How could I explain this incredible tale.
RobbieMi`Robot is human now
There's much to do but I don't know how.
I leaned down and whispered in his ear
He opened his eyes and I saw a tear.
I asked him what had taken place
He looked at me with a human face.
He shook his head and whispered my name
I could tell from his expression he wasn't the same.
I wanted to touch him and hold him near
I didn't want him to feel any fear.
He smiled at me with a lopsided grin
I could no longer write his life with my pen.
He touched my cheek and looked into my face
It was different now he had a heart in place.
No body else would believe me I'm sure
RobbieMi`Robot was sent for my cure.
Dedicated to all those folks that need hope, and dreams and childlike
imagination when all else seems dark.
Cal
Your RockinRobotReporter
Soaring
by Cal
I soared today with my male counterpart
to the universe outside our world.
We flew as connected spirits
and met with a loving entity
to explode into the never ending
journey of one.
We became a snowflake
that fell slowly back to the earth
and melted into the river as a droplet of water.......
we crashed into the rocks in a river
and then we journeyed on a log to the ocean.
We took up residence in the ocean........
waving and floating into the blue
and as the weather saw fit,
we became the mist that traveled back to the land
and there we became a dew drop on a tree.
We fell from the tree to the ground
and absorbed into the dirt to fertilize it with other likeminded souls.......
and we survive as one in our universe.
As our journey continues,
our connectivity along the way insures us
that we will continue and head out again
on our endless journey to completeness.
We reign as the world and as such, we survive.......
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