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The word corrupt (Middle English, from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpere, to destroy : com-, intensive pref. and rumpere, to break) when used as an adverb literally means "utterly broken".[1] In modern English usage the words corruption and corrupt have many meanings:
Political corruption: the abuse of public power, office, or resources by government officials or employees for personal gain, e.g. by extortion, soliciting or offering bribes.[2]
Police corruption
Corporate corruption: corporate criminality and the abuse of power by corporation officials, either internally or externally.
Putrefaction: the natural process of decomposition in the human and animal body following death.
Data corruption: an unintended change to data in storage or in transit. Linguistic corruption: the change in meaning to a language or a text introduced by cumulative errors in transcription as changes in the language speakers' comprehension.
Bribery in politics, business, or sport (including match fixing). Institutions dealing with political corruption
Transparency International
Group of States Against Corruption (French: Groupe d'Etats contre la Corruption), a body established under the Council of Europe to monitor the implementation of instruments adopted by member states to combat political corruption. Independent Commission Against Corruption
Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-Southern Africa) Entertainment with corruption themes
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, a Wii game.
Corrupt (film), a 1981 film starring Harvey Keitel and John Lydon.
Corrupt (1999 film), a 1999 film starring Ice-T and Silkk The Shocker.
Corrupt (Angel), an unproduced teleplay written for the television program Angel.
Kurupt, a rapper
Corruption (video game), a 1988 computer game by Magnetic Scrolls.
Corrupted, a Japanese doom-metal band.
Fable Series, for the Xbox 360
Chaorruption, a form of corruption caused by Drakath and his 13 Lords of Chaos in Artix Entertainment's MMORPG, AdventureQuest Worlds.
2.^ Chinhamo, Obert; Shumba, Gabriel (2007), Institutional working definition of corruption, Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa, http://www.actsouthernafrica.org/Working%20Paper%201-%20Draft%20Institutional%20Working%20definition%20of%20Corruption.pdf
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Contact THEM!!!
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MSNBC REPORTS:
JULY BECOMES DEADLIEST MONTH FOR U.S. FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN
Six more troops die, taking total dead in month to 66.
July deadliest month in Afghanistan war
KABUL, Afghanistan — Six U.S. service members have been killed in Afghanistan, bringing the toll for July to at least 66 and making it the deadliest month for American forces in the near-nine-year war.
A NATO statement Friday said three troops died in two separate blasts in southern Afghanistan Thursday. The statement gave no nationalities, but U.S. officials said all three were Americans. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity pending notification of kin.
Another statement issued later Friday said three more had died, one following an insurgent attack and twin a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan.
U.S. and NATO commanders had warned that casualties would rise as the international military force ramps up the war against the Taliban, especially in their southern strongholds in Helmand and Kandahar provinces. President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 reinforcements to Afghanistan last December in a bid to turn back a resurgent Taliban.
British and Afghan troops launched a new offensive Friday in the Sayedebad area of Helmand to try to deny insurgents a base from which to launch attacks in Nad Ali and Marjah, the British military announced. Coalition and Afghan troops have sought to solidify control of Marjah after overrunning the poppy-farming community five months ago.
The six deaths raised the U.S. death toll for the month to at least 66, according to an Associated Press count. June had been the deadliest month for the U.S. with 60 deaths. There have been 264 U.S. service members killed in combat and noncombat situations so far this year in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan, according to the AP.
Mystery over sailors' disappearance
The American deaths this month include Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin McNeley from Kingman, Arizona, and Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, 25, from the Seattle area. They went missing last Friday in Logar province south of Kabul, and the Taliban announced they were holding one of the sailors.
A major U.S. city long known as a hotbed of pay-to-play politics infested with clout and patronage has seen nearly 150 employees, politicians and contractors get convicted of corruption in the last five decades.
Chicago has long been distinguished for its pandemic of public corruption, but actual cumulative figures have never been offered like this. The astounding information is featured in a lengthy report published by one of Illinois’s biggest public universities.
Cook County, the nation’s second largest, has been a “dark pool of political corruption” for more than a century, according to the informative study conducted by the University of Illinois at Chicago, the city’s largest public college. The report offers a detailed history of corruption in the Windy City beginning in 1869 when county commissioners were imprisoned for rigging a contract to paint City Hall.
It’s downhill from there, with a plethora of political scandals that include 31 Chicago alderman convicted of crimes in the last 36 years and more than 140 convicted since 1970. The scams involve bribes, payoffs, padded contracts, ghost employees and whole sale subversion of the judicial system, according to the report.
Elected officials at the highest levels of city, county and state government—including prominent judges—were the perpetrators and they worked in various government locales, including the assessor’s office, the county sheriff, treasurer and the President’s Office of Employment and Training. The last to fall was renowned political bully Isaac Carothers, who just a few weeks ago pleaded guilty to federal bribery and tax charges.
In the last few years alone several dozen officials have been convicted and more than 30 indicted for taking bribes, shaking down companies for political contributions and rigging hiring. Among the convictions were fraud, violating court orders against using politics as a basis for hiring city workers and the disappearance of 840 truckloads of asphalt earmarked for city jobs.
A few months ago the city’s largest newspaper revealed that Chicago aldermen keep a secret, taxpayer-funded pot of cash (about $1.3 million) to pay family members, campaign workers and political allies for a variety of questionable jobs. The covert account has been utilized for decades by Chicago lawmakers but has escaped public scrutiny because it’s kept under wraps.
Judicial Watch has extensively investigated Chicago corruption, most recently the conflicted ties of top White House officials to the city, including Barack and Michelle Obama as well as top administration officials like Chief of Staff Rahm Emanual and Senior Advisor David Axelrod. In November Judicial Watch sued Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's office to obtain records related to the president’s failed bid to bring the Olympics to the city.
The economy slowed down in the second quarter of this year, growing at a 2.4 percent annual rate, according to the Commerce Department. That is slightly worse than economists expected.
The economy's decline highlights why the unemployment rate increased to 10.1 percent in October, a 26-year high.
The revisions in gross domestic product, or GDP, now show zero growth in 2008.
The GDP is the broadest gauge of the economy's health. It measures the value of all goods and services - from machinery to manicures - produced in the United States.
A decrease in consumer spending and home building contributed to the downward revisions on the economy.
The government also reported Friday that the economy shrank 2.6 percent in 2009. That was the steepest drop since 1946.
Analysts expect economic growth to stay slow for at least a year, which means unemployment is not expected to fall very much below it's current level of 9.5 percent.
While Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is worried about over 6,600 misplaced U.S. Military Soldiers' remains at Arlington National Cemetery, Rep. Weiner (D-NY) has failed to receive the Oscar Nomination for securing a 911 rescuers' medical fund.
It is deeply disturbing that Rep. Weiner (D-NY) might have the audacity to "Disclose" his desire in sitting down 911 family members while pointing out the availability of graves #9 or graves #11 next to their beloved departed.
Not so disturbing is the fact that his theatrics were not all that convincing while Illinois and Cook County Health Care employees sold and distributed "pirated" movies through their workplaces.
John McCain clearly pointed out in his 2008 Presidential Campaign that Barak Hussein Osama Binh Laden Obama's $3 Million Overhead Projector would never financially benefit a single soul, let alone his two-year fiscal policy for every taxpayer in the United States of America.
Nor was it any surprise that any of Barak Hussein Osama Binh Laden Obama's Chicago Federal Convicts, like Stuart Levine, and soon to be Rahm Emanuel, would ever fail to see their "ambulance chaser" medical tax increases.
Take for example:
Icahn loses latest round in feud with Lions Gate
July 28, 2010 | 5:14 pm
Score one for Lions Gate.
In a hearing Wednesday, a panel of the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) denied investor Carl Icahn's request for an order prohibiting Lions Gate Entertainment shareholder and board member Mark Rachesky from selling any of the stock he acquired in a recent debt-for-equity deal or buying more shares. Under Icahn's requested 15-day cease trading order, Lions Gate would have also been prevented from issuing any new shares.
Last week, Icahn sued Lions Gate in the Supreme Courts of New York and British Columbia in an effort to unwind the Santa Monica studio's recent issuance of stock to Rachesky. Lions Gate issued the shares as a defensive measure to hinder activist investor Icahn's efforts to take over the film and television studio.
A ruling by the BCSC in Icahn's favor would have aided his legal efforts by putting a freeze on any further transactions by Rachesky and Lions Gate before the courts could rule on his cases. It may now be difficult for Icahn to prevail in his effort to get the courts to rescind Rachesky's stock as he will be free to sell it to others or even purchase more. Lions Gate could also issue more stock and further dilute Icahn's holdings, which currently stand at 33.5%.
"In denying the application, the panel noted that the Court is the most efficient forum to resolve the issues," a press release issued by the BCSC said.
Last week, Lions Gate issued 16.2 million new shares to a fund controlled by Rachesky after Icahn launched a new $6.50 per share tender offer for all of Lions Gate's outstanding stock. Rachesky is Lions Gate's second largest shareholder after Icahn and has been aligned with Lions Gate management in its protracted battle with Icahn for control of the studio.
The transaction increased Rachesky's holdings to just under 29% from 20% and diluted Icahn's stake from 38% to 33.5%, making it more difficult for him to take control of the company.
The New York lawsuit was filed against Lions Gate, its board, Rachesky and investor John Kornitzer, who sold $100 million in debt to Rachesky that was converted to stock. In it, Icahn sought an injunction rescinding the transaction and stock issuance and prohibiting the defendants from voting their shares in the upcoming election of Lions Gate's directors. Icahn plans to put up his own slate of directors to be voted on at Lions Gate's yet-to-be-scheduled annual shareholders meeting.
Icahn, who could not be reached for immediate comment, had also filed a petition in the Supreme Court of British Columbia -- where Lions Gate is legally domiciled, though it operates out of Santa Monica -- requesting that the debt-for-equity exchange and stock issuance be rescinded.
--Claudia Eller and Ben Fritz
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Obama Wants Unemployment Benefits for Woman Convicted of Drug Fraud!
By John Lillpop Thursday, July 29, 2010
Has there ever been a more incompetent, clueless loser in the Oval Office than #44, the one and, hopefully, only Barack Obama?
BHO is much like King Midas, except that everything Obama touches turns to baby dodo.
For, example, on July 19, Obama brought three Americans who had suffered long-term unemployment into the Rose Garden where he delivered an urgent plea for Congress to extend unemployment benefits.
One of the three out-of-work victims was one Leslie Macko, about who Obama said the following:
“We need to extend unemployment compensation benefits for women like Leslie Macko, who lost her job at a fitness center last year, and has been looking for work ever since. Because she’s eligible for only a few more weeks of unemployment, she’s doing what she never thought she’d have to do. Not at this point, anyway. She’s turning to her father for financial support,” Obama said in his speech.
Vetting and checking the facts have never been a strong suit for Team Obama.
No exception this time, because, as it turns out, Ms. Macko’s difficulty in finding work might have had more to do with her rap sheet than with Obama’s jobless economy.
As reported at Newsplex.com, in part:
“Charlottesville resident Leslie Macko was once employed at ACAC in the Albemarle Square Shopping Center. In April 2009, she lost her job as an aesthetician in the spa at ACAC. “
“President Barack Obama called on Congress last week to extend unemployment insurance. Macko stood next to the President of the United States as his example of the need to extend jobless benefits.
“CBS19’s Jessica Jaglois has learned that Macko was found guilty of prescription drug fraud in March 2009, one month before Macko lost her job at ACAC. She served a one year probationary sentence.
“Macko joined two other unemployed people and President Obama at the podium for a speech designed to encourage lawmakers to extend jobless benefits. “
Another terrific example of why big government Marxism ALWAYS fails!
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Yes...they rant and rave while suing that we do not as legal American citizens have a Second Amendment Right under the Constitution of the United States of America, and yes they rant and rave that we do not have the right under State Constitutions to Protect and Defend our Country...and at the end of the day...
DID JUDGE ZAGEL REALLY RECEIVE A THREAT FROM THE JAPANESE, OR IS HILLARY "THE PIG" UP TO HER OLD INTERNATIONAL HUMAN & CHILD TRAFFICKING GAMES AGAIN???
WHOSE MISSING TRAFFICKED CHILD MIGHT THIS BE???
OF COURSE HILLARY "THE PIG", ELENA KAGAN, AND JUDGE ZAGAL SAW AND PARTICIPATED IN THE KARZI-KAROLYI OLYMPIC GENOCIDE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN & CHILD TRAFFICKING CAMPAIGN AGAIN --- THERE ARE MISSING WITNESSES & CHILDREN???
Eberle says Karolyi beat her; Pozar confirms
By Blythe
Emilia Eberle as a young competitor. Eberle's given name is Gertrud, which reflects her Hungarian roots. The Romanian Federation decided she would compete under her middle name, Emilia.
Oh, dear.
In an interview with a local news affiliate, 1970s Romanian national team member Emilia Eberle says that Bela and Martha Karolyi physically abused their gymnasts, describing hitting, cutting, scratching and an overall feeling of terror that permeated the Deva gym.
“In one word, I can say it was brutal,” she said.
Kollar said mistakes in training or competition brought physical pain — frequent beatings from Bela Karolyi.
“Nobody’s perfect, so obviously we did mistakes. And we, you know, just got smacked everywhere from Bela — on all our body parts. You know, he has huge hands and it hurts,” Kollar said. “I had blood coming out of my body. I had my ears — my skin ripped behind my ears. I had pus behind my ears, but, you know, nobody seemed to care.”
While awful, this is not exactly new information. Over the years, several Karolyi gymnasts have periodically accused the exuberant Romanian of abuse. What is new, however, is the source who confirms it: Geza Pozar, the choreographer who defected with the Karolyis in 1981 and continued to work with them. Eberle, who changed her name to Trudi Kollar, has worked in Pozar’s gym in Sacramento for the past 15 years, according to the article.
Pozar said Kollar’s story is absolutely true.
“I saw all the activities that went on. Of course I saw the beating and the abuse, you know, as Trudi told you,” Pozar said.
Pozar said Bela Karolyi was large and powerful, and that Kollar was a frequent target.
“Trudi was the most abused, I mean physically. And when he hit her on the back, you can see that big hand, you know, landing on her back. That is something you would never forget,” Pozar said.
Kollar, who is known primarily for having one of the ugliest floor routines ever choreographed (likely by Pozar, who was team choreographer; horrendous as it was, it tied for third with American Kathy Johnson’s stunning classical routine at the 1978 World Championships in Strasbourg, France) refused to discuss her training days in an earlier interview this summer.
Emilia Eberle, 1977 U.S. vs. Romania, Floor Exercise:
What bothers me about this story is that abuse like Eberle describes was probably not limited to Romanian gymnastics. Look at the ever-successful Soviets of the 80s, or the Chinese of today. How many of them are or were subjected to the same treatment?
Speaking of messed up, stuff is happening in Brazil that’s getting much-needed attention on Triple Full and at Gymnastics Coaching. Banned drugs, no less. Maybe that explains why Jade Barbosa looked so out of it in Beijing.
WERE LETTERS TO JUDGE ZAGEL REALLY FALSIFIED FROM THE JAPANESE, OR IS HILLARY "THE PIG" CLINTON AND THE KARZI-KAROLYI'S UP TO THEIR OLD GENOCIDAL GAMES AGAIN???
LIFE WAS LIKE A BOX OF FANNIE MAE CHOCOLATES FOR THEM, AND THEY WANTED TO EAT IT, TOO!!!
ANONYMOUS BLOGGER WRITES:
28 July 2010 Last updated at 14:05
Senior staff quit Cadbury after Kraft takeoverMore than 100 senior staff from Cadbury have left since the firm was taken over by Kraft in February, it has emerged.
The US firm said 120 out of 165 senior staff from Cadbury, whose jobs were under consultation at Bournville and Uxbridge, have now left.
However, a spokesman said that amount of movement was not unusual and was commonly part of the integration process when two companies merged.
Kraft was criticised by MPs in April for the way it handled the takeover.
'History and tradition'
John Bradley, who used to run the Cadbury World tourist attraction, said managers were leaving in large numbers because Kraft do not value the brand's heritage.
Mr Bradley, who worked for Cadbury for 24 years before leaving the company in 2004, said: "Kraft seem not to care one iota about the history and tradition of Cadbury.
"They think they have just bought a series of brand names that they are going to integrate in their business just like they did Ritz Crackers and Toblerones and the other things that they bought.
"So, to my mind, they seem to not understand what they have bought."
Kraft said that its UK offices would be consolidated into existing offices at Bournville and Uxbridge.
It also said that former executives at Cadbury had taken one third of Kraft's top 50 positions across the company.
The remaining 45 employees, out of the 165 under consultation, had been given permanent roles in the organisation, the firm added.
"While this is a period of uncertainty for both Cadbury and Kraft Foods colleagues, we pride ourselves on being as sensitive and respectful as possible," a spokesman said.
Irene Rosenfeld, chief executive of Kraft, is planning her first visit to the Bournville plant, in Birmingham, later this year.
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Warren Buffett blasts Kraft's takeover of CadburyThe veteran investor, whose Berkshire Hathaway group owns 9.4% of Kraft, says he would block the deal if he could
Warren Buffett will not get a vote on the deal between Kraft and Cadbury - but said he would vote against it if he did. Photograph: Andrea Comas /Reuters
Warren Buffett has blasted the controversial takeover of Cadbury by Kraft, and revealed that he would block the deal if he could.
The veteran investor, whose Berkshire Hathaway group owns 9.4% of Kraft, claimed the US food group has blundered in its pursuit of the British chocolate producer.
Appearing on CNBC, Buffett said he "felt poor" following Cadbury's decision to accept Kraft's £11.9bn cash-and-share deal.
"If I had a chance to vote on it, I'd vote no, but I don't get a vote," said Buffett, who added that he "has a lot of doubts" about the takeover.
Kraft has agreed to pay 500p in cash plus 0.1874 of new Kraft shares for each Cadbury share. Because the share component is less than 20% of Kraft's existing share capital, a shareholder vote is not required.
Buffett is particularly displeased that Kraft is paying partly in new shares because he feels they are undervalued – a point he first made publicly to Kraft chief executive Irene Rosenfeld earlier this month.
"I like Irene. She's done a good job in operations … she could be a trustee in my will. I just don't want her to do this deal," said the 79-year-old.
Buffett is also unimpressed that Kraft sold its pizza business to Nestlé to raise cash for the Cadbury bid. He said this was done in an "enormously tax-inefficient way" that cut the underlying value of the deal from $3.7bn (£2.3bn) to $2.5bn.
Shares in Kraft fell 2.2% in pre-market trading on Wall Street after Buffett made his remarks, eroding both the value of Kraft's bid for Cadbury and his own stake in the company.
Secret Service Denies Access to Joe Biden's Visitor Logs
Last Updated: Thu, 07/22/2010 - 4:08pm
The U.S. Secret Service recently denied Judicial Watch’s request under federal law for visitor logs for the Office of Vice President Joe Biden. In April, Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records of visits made to the Vice President’s Washington D.C. Office/Residence and of visits to his residence in Wilmington, Delaware. The Secret Service responded that the requested records are not accessible under FOIA. Earlier this year, Judicial Watch filed a FOIA lawsuit against the Secret Service, after it denied access to the White House visitor logs
Judicial Watch specifically asked the Secret Service for access to:
1.) All official visitor logs and/or other records concerning visits made to the Vice President’s Residence and Office located on the grounds of the United States Naval Observatory from January 20, 2009 to the present.
2.) All official visitor logs and/or other records concerning visits made to Vice President Joe Biden’s residence in Wilmington, Delaware from January 20, 2009 to the present.
The Secret Service responded to Judicial Watch’s FOIA request with the statement that, “It is the government’s position that the categories of records that you requested are not agency records subject to the FOIA.” The response went on to claim that certain portions of the records also would be exempt from disclosure as personnel or medical files, the disclosure of which would be an “unwarranted invasion of privacy.”
The Secret Service’s assertion that visitor logs of the Vice President’s Residence/Office are not agency records subject to FOIA has been rejected in federal court. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia explicitly held that such logs are records in 2007’s Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. U.S. Dep’t of Homeland Security, finding:
[T]he Court concludes that these visitor records at the White House Complex and Vice-President’s Residence are created (or obtained) and controlled by the Secret Service and are therefore ‘agency records’ under our circuit’s case law. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. U.S. Dep’t of Homeland Security, 527 F. Supp.2d 76, 89 (D.D.C. 2007) (emphasis added)
The Obama Administration refuses to accept the federal court ruling and instead asserts that these prior court rulings were “incorrectly decided.”
The White House may tout its discretionary release of the Vice President’s visitor logs online (only logs after September 15, 2009), but this release does not supersede the legal obligation of the Secret Service to comply with the requirements of FOIA. By ordering a discretionary release, the administration asserts an ultimate authority when it comes to the public’s right to know who is visiting the White House and the Office of the Vice President – and thereby tries to evade the requirements of FOIA. The Obama Administration’s vigorous and ongoing defense of the Secret Service stonewalling reinforces the conclusion that President Obama’s promised “new era of transparency” remains hollow rhetoric.
Documents:
Secret Service response to Judicial Watch FOIA request
WHERE'S THE LOCKERBIE LETTER OSAMA BINH HUSSEIN OBAMA???
WAIT, WAS THAT FIRED ADVOCATE CHRIST HOSPITAL NURSE JILL OR THE USA WOMEN'S FIFA SOCCER COACH CALLING FOR OLYMPIAN ELENA'S PERJURY TRIAL....
IT APPEARS THAT THE DEMON-RATS AND HILLARY "THE PIG" CLINTON'S OLYMPIC GENOCIDAL HOPEFUL SUPREME COURT NOMINEE ACTUALLY PERJURED HERSELF IN FRONT OF THE UNITED STATES' JUDICIARY COMMITTEE...
OH MY GOD...WHAT A SURPRISE...NOT ONLY DO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ACTUALLY HAVE THE WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF OUR NATION WITH A FIRST LOSS OF HIS STATE WHILE IN OFFICE TO THE AMERICANS, BUT WE HAVE A FIRST IN THE UPCOMING PERJURY TRIAL OF OLYMPIC GENOCIDAL HOPEFUL ELENA KAGAN...
READ THE REPORTS:
Busted! Kagan caught fudging her testimony
Nominee dupes U.S. Supreme Court on partial-birth abortion, denies role
(WorldNetDaily) - Dozens of pro-life organizations are asking Congress for a probe into testimony made by Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, suggesting that she may have lied to senators during her confirmation hearings.
A letter created by Americans United for Life Action and signed by at least 30 state, national and legal organizations asks for "an investigation into discrepancies between Kagan's testimony before Congress and written documentation of her undue influence on medical organizations while advising President William J. Clinton on partial-birth abortion legislation."
The letter cites memos authored by Kagan and released by the Clinton presidential library prior to the confirmation hearings.
In advising President Clinton on his veto of a partial-birth abortion ban in 1997, Kagan issued a memo to Clinton citing a key American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists statement as "the most reliable opinion" on themedical necessity of partial-birth abortion. That same statement was relied upon by both the president and the Supreme Court in justifying opposition to the partial-birth abortion ban.
When asked during her confirmation hearings about any possible, undue influence over the content of the ACOG statement, Kagan testified that "there was no way in which I would have or could have intervened with ACOG … to get it to change itsmedical views on the question."
Far from not "intervening," however, the released memos and other evidence show Kagan directly rewrote a critical portion of the ACOG statement to contradict the organization's expert panel and shape the ACOG findings – and ultimately, the U.S. SupremeCourt's rulings – to match the president's pro-abortion politics.
In a June 22, 1996, memo, Kagan admitted that her meeting with the ACOG was "something of a revelation," for she learned that "in the vast majority of cases, selection of the partial-birth procedure is not necessary to avert serious adverse consequences to a woman's health."
In a Dec. 14 memo of that year, Kagan summarized the official ACOG report released in October as a "disaster," for it stated that "a select panel convened by ACOG could identify no circumstances under which this procedure would be the only option to save the life or preserve the health of the woman," a resounding blow to thepresident's position.
But a handwritten note by Kagan, published by the AULA in a 54-page ethics report on the controversy, drafts a proposed amendment to the ACOG statement that would be more palatable to the president, adding the sentence: "A [partial-birth abortion], however, may be the best or most appropriate procedure in a particular circumstance to save the life or preserve the health of a woman, and a doctor should be allowed to make this determination."
Court testimony later revealed that the ACOG executive board, without consulting the experts who crafted the original statement, inserted the amendment into the final statement almost word for word.
Indeed, in her Senate testimony on June 30, 2010, Kagan admitted writing the amendment in an exchange with Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.
But when Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., asked her if the amendment influenced or changed the ACOG's position, she responded, "My only dealings with ACOG were about talking with them about how to ensure that their statement expressed their views."
To the 30 or so pro-life groups seeking an investigation, however, Kagan's defense doesn't fit the facts.
"We are deeply concerned about Elena Kagan's conflicting testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee," AULA President Charmaine Yoest told LifeNews.com. "There are serious discrepancies between her statements to Senator Hatch and the documented evidence of her actions in December 1996."
Kagan's defense also elicited the criticism of several news sites and commentators.
"By reframing ACOG's judgments, she altered their political effect as surely as if she had changed them," writes William Saletan in Slate, who also summarized Kagan's defense as "bogus."
"Kagan didn't just 'clarify' ACOG's position," he writes. "She changed its emphasis. If a Bush aide had done something like this during the stem-cell debate, progressive blogs would have screamed bloody murder."
The AULA ethics report also cites a June 1, 1997, White House email in which Kagan wrestles with a similar finding by the AmericanMedical Association, which issued a policy stating no situations had been found where a partial-birth abortion would be medically necessary.
Kagan's email states that she had come from a meeting that focused on "whether the AMA policy can be reversed" and concluded, "We agreed to do a bit of thinking about whether we … could contribute to that effort."
According to the AULA, the AMA and ACOG incidents reflect "a pattern of behavior" from Kagan that has had far-reaching effects.
In fact, in 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Nebaska's ban on partial-birth abortion, citing as part of its argument a report from "a select panel" of the ACOG declaring the procedure "may be the best or most appropriate procedure … to save the life or preserve the health of a woman."
But that phrase, the AULA and other commentators point out, wasn't written by a "select panel" of physicians and researchers, but rather by Kagan.
Working to stop Kagan's nomination
While the pro-life groups are petitioning U.S. senators to investigate Kagan's testimony, other organizations are drafting efforts to pressure the Senate into rejecting Kagan's nomination.
Randy Thomasson, president of SaveCalifornia.com, is offering constituents a "take action" option on his website, while a "Stop Kagan Campaign" also is under way.
"We will continue to put every member on notice – Republicans and Democrats – that a vote for Kagan is a vote against the U.S. military, a vote against the Constitution, a vote against free speech and a vote for ultra-partisan extremism and activism on the bench," said Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WND who is orchestrating the "Stop Kagan" effort that has generated tens of thousands of individual letters to senators.
The "Stop Kagan Campaign" allows any American citizen to generate 100 individually addressed letters to every U.S. senator, each including the name of the sender and all delivered by FedEx for the low price of just $24.95.
According to Farah, Kagan disqualified herself from serving on the Supreme Court with her statement under oath that she has no view of "natural rights."
"In all my years of observing Washington, I don't think I've ever been more stunned and disappointed by the testimony of a SupremeCourt nominee than I was with Elena Kagan," said Farah. "This is someone, who, from her own testimony, doesn't believe in the Declaration of Independence, which we just celebrated and commemorated for the 234th time in our nation's history. This is someone who claims she doesn't have a view about 'natural rights' – those that real Americans believe are unalienable and God-given."
Farah is asking all of his constituents to join his "Stop Kagan Campaign", which delivers personalized, individually addressed, anti-Kagan letters to all 100 U.S. senators by FedEx for only $24.95.
The statements by Kagan came in an exchange with Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. Farah said most of the press failed to cover her responses, which he deemed as newsworthy as any she made during the hearings:
Coburn: Do you believe it is a fundamental, pre-existing right to have an arm to defend yourself?
Kagan: Senator Coburn, I very much appreciate how deeply important the right to bear arms is to millions and millions of Americans. And I accept Heller, which made clear that the Second Amendment conferred that right upon individuals, and not simply collectively.
Coburn: I'm asking you, Elena Kagan, do you personally believe there is a fundamental right in this area? Do you agree with Blackstone [in] the natural right of resistance and self-preservation, the right of having and using arms for self-preservation and defense? He didn't say that was a constitutional right. He said that's anatural right. And what I'm asking you is, do you agree with that?
Kagan: Senator Coburn, to be honest with you, I don't have a view of what are natural rights, independent of the Constitution. And my job as a justice will be to enforce and defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States.
Coburn: So you wouldn't embrace what the Declaration of Independence says, that we have certain God-given, inalienable rights that aren't given in the Constitution that are ours, ours alone, and that a government doesn't give those to us?
Kagan: Senator Coburn, I believe that the Constitution is an extraordinary document, and I'm not saying I do not believe that there are rights pre-existing the Constitution and the laws. But my job as a justice is to enforce the Constitution and the laws.
Coburn: Well, I understand that. I'm not talking about as a justice. I'm talking about Elena Kagan. What do you believe? Are there inalienable rights for us? Do you believe that?
Kagan: Senator Coburn, I think that the question of what I believe as to what people's rights are outside the Constitution and the laws, that you should not want me to act in any way on the basis of such a belief.
Coburn: I would want you to always act on the basis of the belief of what our Declaration of Independence says.
Kagan: I think you should want me to act on the basis of law. And that is what I have upheld to do, if I'm fortunate enough to be confirmed, is to act on the basis of law, which is the Constitution and the statutes of the United States.
"This woman apparently thinks our rights descend from our Constitution, which is crazy," said Farah. "The Constitution is there to protect our unalienable, God-given human rights – not to define our rights or to invent them."
The campaign to deny Kagan confirmation in the Senate, however, began long before the hearings.
"This woman, as president of her university, banned the U.S. military from recruiting on campus," Farah reminds. "Just contemplate rewarding that kind of vehemently anti-American action with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. Elena Kagan must be stopped."
He devised the "Stop Kagan Campaign" based on previous successes in generating heavy volumes of mail to members of Congress.
"It's a phenomenal bargain," says Farah. "It makes it easy for you to sound off on this historically bad nomination. It's a small investment. And I am convinced that if enough Americans take advantage of it, Kagan will be stopped – even by this Senate."
But time is short, Farah says. America is distracted by a floundering economy, a disastrous oil spill and a government that creates new crises on a daily basis, he explains.
Calling Kagan "an activist who wants to govern from the bench," Farah says there's a way to give senators a "spine transplant" and prepare them for the most contentious confirmation fight since Clarence Thomas.
"Kagan is a radical antimilitary and proabortion zealot," said Farah. "This selection by Barack Obama reveals once again his extremist agenda of leaving America undefended, elevating alternative lifestyles to sainthood and exterminating the most innocent human life with reckless abandon and persecuting anyone who tried to stand in the way. In a nutshell, that's who Elena Kagan is."
Farah's goal is to inundate senators with 100,000 letters calling for her rejection for a lifelong appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The letter campaign is based on previously successful efforts in which nearly 10 million "pink slips" were delivered to members of Congress opposing nationalization of health care, cap-and-trade legislation, hate-crimes laws and other bills, as well as the current campaign to stop amnesty in the U.S. Senate.
The letter to the senators reads:
"In a few months, the American people will have a chance to speak at the polls again. Almost every analyst and every public-opinion survey suggests the electorate is angry about the direction of the country. I strongly urge you not to show contempt for the will of the people and the Constitution by confirming the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan.
"Kagan is not what Americans want and she is not what the country needs.
"At a time when federal central control is strangling the American economy, she calls for more regulatory authority not just in Washington, but for the president himself.
"At a time when American security is facing internal and external threats and our nation is still engaged in two foreign wars simultaneously, she advocates banning military recruitment on campuses because of her compulsion to see open homosexual behavior flaunted in the ranks.
"At a time when Americans have been stripped of their ability to write their own laws protecting the lives of the unborn, she advocates the creation of task forces to investigate and prosecute peaceful pro-life activities.
"At a time when Americans are recognizing the unique blessings of their Constitution, she advocates the consideration of foreign laws in shaping Supreme Court rulings.
"For all of these reasons and more we will surely learn about in the days ahead, please reject the nomination of Elena Kagan."
Obama won't release letter revealing administration backed freeing of Lockerbie bomber
(London Guardian) - Barack Obama is under growing pressure to release a letter that reveals the US grudgingly supported freeing the Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds.
The letter was sent to Scottish ministers by a senior diplomat at the US embassy in London last August, eight days before Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was released from prison because he was dying from inoperable prostate cancer.
Obama's administration has refused to allow publication of the letter, in which the US says allowing Megrahi to live at home in Scotland would be "far preferable" to sending him back to Libya under the prisoner transfer deal brokered by former prime minister Tony Blair in 2007.
Although Megrahi was allowed to go home to die in Tripoli, Scottish officials believe this undermines Obama's vigorous criticisms of the decision to free Megrahi earlier this month, when he said he was left "surprised, disappointed and angry" by the Libyan's release. David Cameron said he and Obama were in "violent agreement" that freeing Megrahi was a bad decision.
The American ambassador to the UK, Louis Susman, said the US was examining whether its correspondence on the issue could be released, but he refused to be drawn on the reported memo.
Senators in Washington are now pressing for the release of all correspondence between Obama's administration and the Scottish government in their investigation into allegations that BP directly influenced the decision to release Megrahi to help its $800m oil deal with Libya.
The allegations have been rejected by Alex Salmond, the first minister. He has offered to send dozens of official documents on the Megrahi affair to the US Senate's foreign relations committee after refusing to allow his justice minister, Kenny MacAskill, to appear at the committee's hearing on Lockerbie this Thursday.
Salmond insists the documents, released last year, prove that MacAskill released Megrahi solely on compassionate grounds and had completely ruled out using the prisoner transfer agreement brokered by Blair. But his aides have told the committee that Obama's government refused to allow some material to be published – including the US embassy correspondence.
Meanwhile, William Hague, the foreign secretary, came to Salmond's aid. In a seven-page letter to the committee he confirmed that BP had heavily lobbied the UK government about the prisoner transfer agreement with Libya.
Hague said BP met the former Labour government five times in October and November 2007 over its concerns that disputes about the treaty might damage its oil exploration contracts with Libya. But Hague said: "This was a perfectly normal and legitimate practice for a British company … There is no evidence that corroborates in any way the allegation of BP's involvement in the Scottish executive's entirely separate decision to release him on compassionate grounds."
The existence and content of the US embassy note was first disclosed by the Guardian last August, at the height of the controversy over Megrahi's release, and its full text has now been leaked to the Sunday Times.
In it, the deputy head of the US embassy in London, Frank LeBaron, said the US believed Megrahi should remain in Greenock jail because of the seriousness of his conviction for killing 270 passengers and crew, and 11 Lockerbie townspeople, by bombing Pan Am flight 103 in 1988.
But he added: "Nevertheless, if Scottish authorities [conclude] that Megrahi must be released from Scottish custody, the US position is that conditional release on compassionate grounds would be a far preferable alternative to prisoner transfer, which we strongly oppose."
LeBaron said releasing Megrahi but making him live in Scotland "would mitigate a number of strong concerns we have expressed with regards to Megrahi's release."
Scottish officials took that to mean that the US had only "half-hearted" opposition to Megrahi's release: the embassy comes under the direct control of the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, who became the most vigorous critic of Megrahi's release
Allowing Megrahi to live outside prison in Scotland was one of the options considered by MacAskill. Megrahi's wife and sons had a family home paid for by the Libyan government in the prosperous Glasgow suburb of Newton Mearns. But that option was rejected after police advice that this would cause immense security and logistical problems, and cost £100,000 a week to protect him. The house would need a 24-hour armed guard, while Megrahi would need heavy security for his regular trips for medical treatment.
To Salmond and MacAskill's embarrassment, Megrahi is still alive after being allowed home to Tripoli. MacAskill had stated the Libyan had less than three months to live when he was released. They now concede that his life has probably been prolonged from being at home with his family and receiving better medical care.
IT DOESN'T TAKE THE LONE RANGEL OR THE THE YEMLIN AMBASSADOR'S PIPE-LINES & DREAMS!!!
Two days shy of my father's birthday, he died. Hillary Clinton's North Korean Agreement (my birthday) is apparently not working that well for the United States of America or our Veterans these days.
In fact, pretty soon ladies and gentlemen, Charlie Rangel won't be working for the United States of America, either. Apparently a lot of Demon-rats won't be working for the United States of America come November 2nd.
Illegal trips to the Carribean, illegal criminal use of the Bahama Police, diverted aircraft by the Chicago FAA and FDA, and illegal releases of Libyan Terrorists are all taking a toll on the Demon-rats --- and now we, the American People, have Nancy Pelosi's log books to prove it.
And, if the evidence of Nancy Pelosi's criminal use of United States' Military Aircraft and the log books are not enough --- there is now evidence emerging that not only did BP Oil (the Giannoulias-Obama Campaign Contributors) secure the release of the Pan Am Bomber, but Barak Hussein Osama Obama's White House Administration directly interceeded to secure the release of the Pan Am Bomber, as well. A bomber who killed hundreds of citizens on an airline that American passengers had perished in during the Lockerbie Attack.
That's right, Osama Bin Laden secured the release of the Lockerbie Bomber and utilized the The People's House of the United States' Citizens.
So, it should come as no surprise to the American People that Rod Blagojevich the former impeached Demon-rat governor of Illinois and his brother Robert Blagojevich, as well as Jesse Jackson Jr. and his new black panther party failed to secure the release of two United States Military Pilots and Prisoners of War during America's War against Slobovan Milosevic.
The Clintons and Illinois Demon-rats have been more than just a STAIN on the United States of America. One, I summize, that will be removed November 2nd and the remaining days, weeks, months, and year following Presidential Campaigns for 2012.
It is certainly not a time for our great nation to be celebrating and attending big fat greek weddings courtesty of the American taxpayer.
The damage that the Demon-rats have inflicted upon the People of the United States of America is more than just a disgrace, and we look forward to enlightening the American Voter in the weeks, months, and years ensuing.
You Are All Invited!!!
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In closing, the People of the United States of America send their deepest regrets to another Hillary "the Pig" Clinton fatality, Mr. Dick Morris' Father --- your contributions to our great nation and ridding it from this black plague and nightmare is greatly appreciated!!!
MORRIS--Eugene J., died peacefully on July 24, 2010 at Mt. Sinai Hospital. Born in Manhattan on October 14, 1910, he was the beloved father of Dick Morris. Gene was married to the late Terry Morris for 59 years and to the late Blanche Morris for 14 years. He graduated from City College (1931) and St. John's University School of Law (1934). During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army. After the war, Gene was a founding partner of Demov and Morris, where he practiced real estate law for more than 54 years. He was a pioneer in urban renewal and instrumental in the development of many New York City projects, including Lincoln Center. He was a prolific writer of books and articles, including 26 volumes of Real Property practice books for Matthew Bender and a weekly real estate Column for the New York Law Journal for twenty-five years. He served as a Special Master for N.Y. State Supreme Court Justice Bea Shainswit. He was active in the New York City, New York State, and American Bar Associations. From 1990-2007, he taught real estate Law at N.Y.U. A native New Yorker, he lived in the city he loved and help build all of his life. Gene was an inspiration to everyone who knew him. He was much loved and is already sorely missed. In addition to his son, Dick, he is survived by his daughter-in-law, Eileen McGann, and one granddaughter. Friends and family may call at Frank Campbell Funeral Home, 1076 Madison Avenue in Manhattan on Thursday July 29, 2010 from 6-9 and for the funeral service at 11:30am on Friday, July 30, 2010. In lieu of flowers, contributions to City College will be welcomed.
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IT'S CHRISTMAS IN JULY & I'M COMPELLED TO DISCLOSE TO THE AMERICAN MORE INFORMATION ON MY CAMPAIGN!!!
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE STILL IN THE GAME...WHO DO YOU WANT ON YOUR TEAM...WHO DO YOU TRUST NOT TO DROP THE BALL, AGAIN???
DO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE REALLY WANT OSAMA BINH BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA ON THEIR TEAM???
Dr. Greece, Dr. Nigeria, and Dr. Ghana tortured my father under Obamacare with their Coach Kidney.
Giannoulias and Pappas believed they had acquired enough nuclear medicine for Hussein Obama to move every farmer and white home out of the South Suburban White Neighborhoods of Chicago.
After weeks of NAACP stalkings by Illinois PACE Bus Drivers and their African Passengers threatening whites through bus routes in our neighborhoods telling us to "move" and overcharging Cook County Property Taxes at JP Morgan Chase with their Giannoulias-Pappas Illinois Senate Campaign Machine, Obamacare murdered my father.
My father was admitted to Advocate Christ Hospital and Medical Center with a fall injury, but was never treated for a fall injury.
Fifteen Hours into my father's admission to Advocate Christ Hospital and Medical Center Dr. Fayzed informed the family that Khaled Mohammed made a typing error on his Phlebotomy Blood Work and failed to order a blood transplant that was required to keep my father alive for his reported "fall injury".
Special appearances were made by Nurse Sharon Brennan and Nurse Sal. There was even a Lipinski Polish Nurse.
The French Whores showed up as well with Dr. Razzaque and Nurse Beat Attah and Meghan.
Appearances were made by foreign Irish and British Police who utilized their Health Services Executives to gain access to my father's medical care in the State of Illinois and County of Cook --- the same involved in the Fort Hood Texas Shooting.
Illinois Lobbyist, Former Private Attorney for Carol Moseley Braun, and BP Oil Defense Attorney, David Burden made an appearance within the hallways of Advocate Christ Hospital and Medical Center.
And an Illinois DCFS worker who was involved in the International Human and Child Trafficking Network out of Cook County Juvenile Courthouse on the Corner of Ogden Avenues and Hamilton in Chicago, Illinois under Giannoulias mysterious sick children's clinic (which is non-existent) made an appearance after committing years of US Federal Mail and Wire Fraud Interceptions of Communications of my family and my trafficked children as a Dr. Payne, whose office is located at 100 West Randolph, while distributing DCFS College Scholarships to our internationally trafficked children while they tortured my father, their grandparents, in their third world U.N. Todd Stroger Obamacare facilities.
Blood needed for emergent transplants due to a fall injury did not come, and no one checked on its status for over 14 hours. When a check was made, it was only to discover that a Nigerian Nurse along with a nurse Attah and a Phlebotomist named Khaled Mohammed failed to properly request the blood needed for the transfusion due to a typo.
By the time the blood that was needed for the transplant arrived, my father was in a coma from which he never woke up.
Five minutes before my father passed away, a Greek ultrasound technician appeared to scan the fall injury site after more than 24 hours of medical malpractice and years of what he referred to in his own worder as "hell" at the Ghana-Nigerian-Greek Coach Kidney speciality medical group at Northwest Nephrology Clinic in Evergreen Park, Illinois, in the County of Cook.
Suffice to say, Blagojevich will now mysteriously shut up, as he apparently has no LEGAL defense, and he will now enjoy his 200 year federal prison sentence while the end of Dick Durbin's career starts TODAY.
There will be more upcoming federal indictments in the weeks and months ahead against congressional members of Chicago's NAACP, Cook County and Illinois Health Care Boards, as well as impeachable proceedings of Obama coming to US Congressional Hearings near you soon.
For now and this week, I will pay respects to my son, a great father, a great grandfather, a great man, and a great American Patriot and Veteran of the Korean War.
...the NAACP's ship is taking on water and is definitely sinking off the shores of Cook County, Chicaog, Illinois and will not be drudged up from below the dark, disgusting polluted and corrupted cess Clay pool of the Chicago sewers ever again!
and I know I speak for EVERY American when I say that "AMERICA WILL BE SAFER FOR IT"!!!
God Bless you Daddy - I Love You!!!
Please also keep in mind the other tragedy that is now taking place with a rupted aneurysm of another family member today whose connections of Patriotism to America run deep and run deep within Ireland's Ambassador Office, as well.
The U.N. African Missouri Fort Leonard Wood Medical Facility that trained Barry Sotoro aka Barak Hussein Osama Bin Obama and Claire McCaskill has been busy this week murdering American Citizens and American Military Personnel with Commander Wen Ho Lee --- So Let's Keep American in Our Prays this Week, as well!!!
LISTEN TO OSAMA BIN LADEN'S LATEST PIECE OF TRASH GIVING A SPEECH IN FRONT OF BP AMOCO RECIPIENTS:
