Sent to Rep. Don Manzullo of IL-16: If you choose to fight against the middle class by supporting the Bush tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, you are not representing your constituents - the voters of IL-16. If you choose to ignore good public policy to secure campaign loot for your own reelection, you are not representing your constituents.

Correct!

Various activist and labor groups have opposed the nomination of Stacia Hylton on the grounds that she received $112,000 from GEO Group since "retiring" nine months ago.

The groups included the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). They represent over a million and a half civil servants.

While Hylton served as Trustee, she awarded GEO $85 million in contracts.

For unknown reasons, Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee voted to confirm her nomination this week. There was no excuse for that. One presumes they didn't want to further embarrass the President in his hour of distress. It will be far more damaging if her appointment goes through and she faces criminal charges while heading the US Marshals Service.

The GEO contract conflict of interest issue that called this nomination into question pales in comparison to the CCA award for Pahrump. According to its own statistics, there was no government need for the beds, but the feds guaranteed daily payments for 750 detainees or prisoners for the next five years. The government will pay for that many beds whether they're empty or full. That's a $137 million contract for prisoners who didn't exist. The contract is renewable after that in five three year increments. The total cost, in today's dollars, could be over $700 million.

By getting naive local leaders to believe that this contract for operations would be permanent, they deluded them into thinking the guards and other staff would be paid federal prevailing wage. In fact, if the contract ends, they could pay guards minimum wage for say, holding California State Department of Corrections gang members who had been convicted of murder, kidnap or rape. Those officials concealed the true prison location and details from the public with the aid of the marginal local news media.

To give CCA this prize, Hylton's office had to chronically violate both the letter and the spirit of the National Environmental Policy Act. They gave the contract to a company that is regularly found to have overcharged for their contractual services by millions of dollars.

Under her leadership, the Office of the Federal Detention Trustee became little more than a sales office for CCA, and presumably, it may have been for GEO as well. If government agencies, such as the US Marshals Service, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and/or the Federal Bureau of Prisons had an actual need for beds, the OFDT could have simply arranged to lease the Southern Nevada Correctional Center at Jean, on Interstate 15, 30 miles south of the Las Vegas Federal Courthouse. Rather than a two-year delay in building, it would have been an economical turnkey operation, ready for immediate occupancy with a willing landlord, the Nevada Department of Corrections.

Instead, they promoted this fraudulent, wasteful and abusive contract. Not only will the taxpayers be footing the bill so that many CCA executives can get millions annually in salaries and stock awards, but CCA's subsidiary TransCor will be transporting the prisoners back and forth, 65 miles each way to Pahrump, for prices that would make a limo service blush.

In order to cover up this breach of the public trust, the OFDT under Hylton stonewalled legitimate Freedom of Information Act requests for over a year. The paper trail seems to have been fed to the Ollie North/Fawn Hall signature model shredder, if indeed FOIA'd materials no longer exist.

If Hylton was not personally guilty of criminal fraud and collusion, in the award of this contract, for it to have been done in her small office under her nose would demonstrate that she's impossibly stupid and not fit for another managerial position.

Economic Decline: Scenario 2020

After years of swelling deficits fed by incessant warfare in distant lands, in 2020, as long expected, the U.S. dollar finally loses its special status as the world’s reserve currency. Suddenly, the cost of imports soars. Unable to pay for swelling deficits by selling now-devalued Treasury notes abroad, Washington is finally forced to slash its bloated military budget. Under pressure at home and abroad, Washington slowly pulls U.S. forces back from hundreds of overseas bases to a continental perimeter. By now, however, it is far too late.

Faced with a fading superpower incapable of paying the bills, China, India, Iran, Russia, and other powers, great and regional, provocatively challenge U.S. dominion over the oceans, space, and cyberspace. Meanwhile, amid soaring prices, ever rising unemployment, and a continuing decline in real wages, domestic divisions widen into violent clashes and divisive debates, often over remarkably irrelevant issues. Riding a political tide of disillusionment and despair, a far-Right patriot captures the presidency with thundering rhetoric, demanding respect for American authority and threatening military retaliation or economic reprisal. The world pays next to no attention as the American Century ends in silence.

What values?

http://original.antiwar.com/roberts/2010/12/05/western-civilization-has-shed-its-values/

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TV Ontario

I had a chance to listen to TV Ontario. It is a Canadian television station. The station offers excellent information. Here are some examples that Americans will never see on American television stations.

Planet Inc.

Corporations and people make money during crises, such as war, corporate corruption, etc. Corporations are benefiting themselves against the common good. Privatization takes from the public trust and gives to corporations and influential people. Our lives will be at the mercy of these corporations and the powerful money people. The powerbrokers are interested in private ownership for everything on this planet, such as water, air, land, forests, etc. You will have to pay the corporation for everything.

Corporations want mindless consumers and advertising attempts to control the mindless consumer. Corporations are not good apostles. They are predators. Shareholders want money and not corporate apostles. Corporations advertise a way of life and not a product.

Corporations encourage tax cuts, tax havens, and avoidance of taxes. Every part of our planet will be parceled to corporations.

You cannot patent life and yet, the Supreme Court ruled that you can patent life. Life, today, is a utility to be patented by corporations and research companies, such as cloning and gene alterations. Moral issues are of no concern to corporations.

The Federal Drug Administration goes along with corporations regardless of the research findings. Corporate ownership will broadcast anything and everything they want whether or not the information or research is factual for people and their health. Corporations want profits and not health.

The Battle

Television Ontario (TVO) had a series on television entitled, “The battle for the world economy”. Globalization is tying the world together. Trade is an issue. Foreign governments want free trade because it means jobs for the foreign worker and fewer jobs for the America worker. Thirty percent of the information engineers are from India. There are two hundred thousand Indian engineers in Silicon Valley. Economic reforms lifted three hundred million Chinese out of poverty. America needs economic reforms to bring our citizens out of poverty. Why can’t we lift millions of Americans out of poverty? Why do Americans refuse to help other Americans? Why can’t America have economic reforms?

The second part of the battle for the world economy discusses the question, “Is terrorism the dark side of globalization?” The global economy has problems that ripple across all countries. Quick economic reforms are necessary to avoid a crisis. Cheap labor overseas causes problems in America. World trade has many problems. Trade markets need to be fair. It seems that poverty is worse today. Terrorism will be the new Nazism and the new Communism in the poor countries. People need to prosper in order to prevent terrorism from growing throughout the world. It is no accident that Nazism grew in Germany.

Peace is important in an interconnected world. Poverty opens the doors to terrorists. The gap must narrow between the rich and the poor nations in order to deter the spread of terrorism. Trade markets work best in times of peace. Terrorists create instability and they will continue to work for instability of trade markets. Terrorists promise dissenters a better life. Globalization has created less Nazism and less Communism but it has opened more doors for terrorism. Leaders in a global economy cannot have the diabolical characteristics of Bush and Cheney. World leaders do not trust Bush and Cheney. Both men are perceived as hateful and vengeful and we must remember that hatred begets hatred.

The Reckoning

The final program in a three part series on corporations discusses the question, “Should corporations be socially responsible?” The truth is that profits trump social responsibility. In 1989, corporations met to control the entire planet and its resources. Fifteen corporations want to control the entire planet. Corporations are privatizing the resources and selling it back to the people for whatever price it desires. For example one corporation privatized the water in an emerging country and the corporation demanded twenty-five percent of a person’s daily wages for each day he wanted water.

Sixty-seven percent of the planet will not have fresh drinking water by 2025. Governments are powerless against corporations. In fact, corporations can overthrow governments.

Governments work with corporations to suppress dissenters. Dissenters are idealistic and corporations are realistic and the corporations are winning. Governments and corporations want to take away the people’s freedoms and rights. Corporations with the help of governments are gaining more and more control over our lives. Three billion people are living in poverty. More children are being exploited as slave laborers by corporations in the emerging countries. Slavery continues in the world and in the United States of America.

Epilogue

In previous posts I have tried to share information on Shalom, corporations, and the world economy. I hear people asking, “What does God want from our world?” As the Creator of the Universe, He wants all of us to share in what He has given us on this planet. He wants for us to embrace Shalom in our practices and policies that includes everyone and excludes no one.

Corporations and governments must understand that we are all in it together. People are part of the equation to improve our world. Together we stand or together we will fall.

Fear keeps the masses under control. Corporations and governments keep the fear level high so that people will focus on each other and not the main problems that corporations and governments create to control the people. The people will be divided by the corporations and the governments and they will be too fearful to unite in order to have some influence over the decisions that are made by corporations and governments.

I cannot remember who said that when a person is down, you keep the person down and you can do whatever you want with the person who is down. People will be at the mercy of corporations and governments. When the Americans are DOWN, all the other citizens of the world WILL FALL INTO PLACE.

One Who Comes in Justice

How can we accomplish peace? Hard work, change, repentance, restoring order, and healing wounds!!! In this time of violence throughout the world, it is a great tragedy that Americans have strayed from God, justice, and peace. There is less violence when people are fed and feel safe. Preemptive wars will not make Americans feel safe.

Why is it that we have not built budgets around food instead of war? Why is it that we have one hundred times more money spent on weapons of mass destruction and so little spent on education, health care, medical research, and food subsidies? Does it not seem strange that we fail to follow the wisdom of God and study war no more? Why are our children so poorly educated?

We have to change our attitudes since conversion is the only way to welcome Christ. Our lives are judged by our actions. We need to look at why the children and people of the world are dying from starvation even though they work 12-hour days and 7 days a week. I WOULD NOT WANT TO MEET THE LORD AND TELL HIM THAT I DID NOT READ HIS WORDS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT OF THE HOLY BIBLE.

Love!

http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2010/12/03/pitbull-loves-kitten.aspx

Happiness!

http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/index.html?story=/tech/htww/2010/12/02/economic_bright_signs_continue&source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%2520Newsletter%2520%2528Not

Thank you Harold for your reasonable and passionate request for Thom to have the courage to face what Ed Shultz has admitted is "the death knoll of talk radio." He was referring to "conspiracy theories" and yet what percentage of all the talk on left and right wing media is not ultimately about whether two or more people somehow agree to commit an unlawful act? Acceptance of the "official" (Bush-Cheney) version of 9/11 is so much an assault on the consistency of talk radio's most intelligent personality (Thom), that for him to continue to "play the game" as if all the wiki-leaks, all the lies about why we invaded Iraq, all the censorship of climate change science, do not reveal what the 9/11 commision authors say about their own investigation- that the government lied. Now we have a brilliant move on the part of the right wing (Fox and Beck) who by "siding" with the 9/11 truth movement have played the "divide and conquer" card so that for reasonable people who can see the facts about free-falling buildings are forced to look to the propagandists for support! Thom, you endorsed one of my own books, Teaching Virtues: BUilding Character Across the Curriculum. Remember? So did Noam Chomsky and many others. Well, it is time to use your own brilliant mind and risk any loss of reputation you fear losing and study the facts as you know how to do and then report them!

Respectfully,

Four Arrows (aka Don Trent Jacobs, Ph.D., Ed.D.) www.teachingvirtues.net