Mike Connell was the IT chief for Bush\Cheney and Karl Rove during the 2000 and 2004 elections. Karl Rove has reportedly threatened Mike Connell and his family many times before his suspicious fatal plane crash on Friday night.

The reason for the threats appears to be that Mike Connell had enough information to put Rove, Bush JR, and Cheney in jail for a very long time and that he was going to be testifying as a witness in the 2004 federal election fraud conspiracy case.

The Evidence So Far

Alan Greenspan, in an interview on Democracy Now, discusses the current issues of the Iraq war, Social Security, tax cuts, and his work as economic adviser under the Clinton, Bush, and GW Bush administrations. To view the complete interview, go to democracynow.org

Somewhere towards the middle of the interview, Noami Klein brought up that Bush administration tax cuts coincided conveniently with Greenspan’s advocacy for privatization of Social Security, Klein suggested that these policies must conjunct into some sort of ideology. In response, Alan Greenspan said:

Well, first of all, ideology is not what I hold. I try to learn what …

Strange how the top articles on Nader post-election give him such a bad rep. The majority of people who care to vote (which is about 45% of the country) think so lowly of him, especially after his challenging commentary towards Obama… Will Obama be an “uncle tom” or “uncle sam”?

Nader has been blamed for allowing another Bush term, is regarded as a “loser” for running 3 times for presidency, and should “get out of the way” when Obama is trying to pave the way for change. I have found many comments in response to these articles, and the most …

Last night, Thursday Oct 2, 2008, Naomi Klein appeared on the Colbert Report to talk about how the Bush administration uses times of crisis to capitalize on specific agendas. One good example is during hurricane Katrina, republican law makers used the destruction of most of the city’s public housing to force poor and low income families into houses that they could not afford.

The Republicans’ friends’ speculative pricing was of course over-inflated and they knew that they would get their money, whether the families were forced to foreclose or not. One of the many preventable reasons was in this current …

The Wall Street and economic crisis that the US is facing right now was predicted and expected to happen. You might ask “well then why was it not stopped ahead of time?”. And the answer I have to say to that is, because they started it.

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

In 1999 the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act was brought to congress and was shoved through legislation by republicans and democrats alike. In fact it was signed by Bill Clinton himself. What this act basically did was set the stage for our …