CNN's Lou Dobbs: U.S. is best democracy money can buy

Lou Dobbs: U.S. is best democracy money can buy

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While the name of the party in charge may change from Republican to Democrat, it's really only a branding issue. And just as my friend James Mtume says, it's still the same bird, just a different wing. And believe me, middle-class America will still be getting the bird.

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Corporate America long ago quit talking about corporate citizenship and corporate responsibility, and with both the Democratic and Republican Parties as its tools, corporate America wants you and me to forget that we are first citizens, and that America is first a nation.

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Most Americans understand that all the major decisions have already been made. It is now clear to all but those who will not see that both political parties and their corporate masters have placed our middle class in direct competition with the world's cheapest labor, leaving it only a tenuous and failing grip on the American Dream.

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Isn't it true? The middle class is being ripped off by both Democrats and Republicans.


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I am trying to e-mail Lou Dobbs. How can I find his address?
helenmal2@verizon.net

How do I mail something to Lou Dobbs? Am 79 yr.old Vermonter who has made very brief important CD for him. Thanks, D.Walvoord

I too am trying to email Lou Dobbs because he is the only news anchor addressing the people of this nation's concerns. Someone please send me his email address.

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Posted by: Robert
Posted on: January 13, 2007 08:47 AM

Hello
I am a 65 yr old white male living entirely from a $600. Social security income, I have no Medicare card and no doctor,I

have written and emailed many many about this,many places, and no one cares at all.. I have in the past ,recieved letters

stating that due to my low income,the state would pay the Medicare charge after I said (I can not live on my income now and

you are going to take $89. from my income??) so they said the state will pay it, but I STILL HAVE NO MEDICARE CARD ,no

medical care,no doctor and I must even steal food at the months end just to survive! I guess the government dont care about

us at the bottom do they?.
I need a Medicare card AND enough money to live on each month! Stop the fucking wars and take care of us US BORN CITIZENS!
Thanks for reading!
Robert (a very poor bastard)

PS: I was born in Rensselaer Indiana,and am white,so Is that the problem? Is it true the government hates US born citizens?

YES, it requires MONEY to obtain Democracy or Justice in this country and although I know it'll be another useless show about the War Within tonight, but if I had my way, they'd be doin a few shows from my point of view. Disabled, Brain Injured, and made into a criminal by the system. THEY taught me more than I wanna know! Over 7 years of incarceration because I don't give up my friends or even my enemies. I've tried to be 'neutral'. Did it work Lou? Do you read this Lou?
Visit my www.downtownpublishing.com site for more Bundefied News.

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Posted by: Allen
Posted on: May 5, 2007 02:29 PM

I would also like to send Mr. Dobbs some information for his comments. It deals with an issue that I am not allowed to discuss. It may have a great impact on one segment of the financial sector in short order. If anyone does have that address available, it would be much appreciated.

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Posted by:
Posted on: May 7, 2007 05:14 AM

How can I reach Lou Dobbs. Will someone please send me his e-mail address. thanks

Dear Lou Dobbs: Your performance in your news show tonight December 2, 2007 at 6:00-7:00 PM was deplorable. You invited the ACLU attorney but interrupted him so that the two of you were talking sumultaneously. These are public airways and your show is seen all over the world. Please do not interrupt guests and talk over their voices in the future. This makes the listeners flusstered and frustrated. Thank you for listening to me.

Can someone please give me Lou Dobbs e-mail address. Where do we write to him?????????????

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Posted by: janice Ma
Posted on: January 11, 2008 03:05 PM

Just another person wanting Lou Dobbs e-mail address. Why is it
so hard to find? Can't anyone do anything about the troubles in our country? Why can't our business & government leaders see & understand what they're doing, what's going to happen here if the various problems aren't fixed soon?

I want to contact Lou Dobbs - My Question to him is:
in regards to the "recession" - WHY give the money to only tax payers - is the government wanting to continue to hide the fact that we have a much greater unemployment than reported as around 5%. IF "our" government had not changed the unemployment to a 26 week automatic cut off - then we would show over twice the 5% or possibly three times that amount or around 15% actually unemployed and they are the ones hurt by our massive imports as well as massive illegal workers from Mexico

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Posted by: Pat
Posted on: January 29, 2008 04:15 PM

The news media disgusts me. The Clinton bashing, and praising Obama is over the top. Lou, there goes the amnesty for millions. Obama with Kennedy. Some change. The media doesn't even bash Bush the way it does Clinton. I'm an independent, but I'll be damned if I am going to let my vote end up with Obama or the republican.

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Posted by: Jack
Posted on: February 19, 2008 08:32 PM

Lou
We have open boarders, an illegal immigrant problem that Congress will not take action on two boarder patrol agents still in prison. We have China steeling our technological secrets, jobs outsourced to other countries and our Congress was investigating Baseball and steroid abuse. Talk about wasting time with a do nothing Congress. Nancy Paloci should be ashamed. Time for another change but who now Democrats have done nothing and the Republicans were another bunch of do nothings where do we go now?

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Posted on: February 24, 2008 05:23 PM

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Posted on: February 28, 2008 06:35 PM

CIA activities shock Europeans

By Tracy Wilkinson

BARCELONA (Spain): From Scandinavia to the tropical Canary Islands, the CIA’s clandestine use of European soil and airspace for counter-terrorism missions is triggering outrage, parliamentary inquiries and a handful of criminal prosecutions.

In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, Europe was either silent about or unaware of the ways in which American agents operated within its borders. But in recent weeks several European governments have become much more vocal about possible CIA activity in their jurisdictions.

Among the complaints: CIA operatives, without formal permission, have seized suspects in European cities and then transported them to third countries for interrogation; CIA flights that transported terror suspects around the world purportedly have used European airports for layovers; and the CIA may be operating clandestine prisons in Europe. Officially, Europe, with its long history of respect for civil rights, has been lukewarm to US counter-terrorism measures. To find itself the territory on which some of Washington’s most controversial tactics are being played out has become a matter of much debate and soul-searching.

But prospects for holding the CIA to account appear to be fading in some countries. Two countries where some of the strongest evidence has emerged are Italy, where prosecutors are attempting to arrest 22 CIA operatives, and Spain, where officials have confirmed a steady parade of purported CIA flights into Spanish airports. In Germany, prosecutors are investigating both the alleged kidnapping by the CIA of one of its citizens and a number of suspicious flights into German air bases. Sweden and Norway also launched investigations following similar incidents. The Dutch accused Washington of “hiding” its use of secret prisons in Europe, and the 46-member Council of Europe told Romania to investigate reports that it was the site of such illegal detentions.

Investigations into alleged CIA landings or flyovers are under way in Austria, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. And the European Union said any of its members housing secret prisons for suspected Muslim terrorists, as first reported in the Washington Post, would be in violation of the law and subject to fines.

Spain this week announced it would begin stricter monitoring of flights into its airports and closer screening of the occupants of those flights. This came after it was revealed that planes believed to be seconded to the CIA landed at least 10 times in Spanish airports in 2004 and 2005 on excursions that had all the earmarks of the so-called extraordinary rendition—the transport of terror suspects from one country to another for interrogation that in some cases has allegedly resulted in torture.

The first reports of this suspect air traffic came in a small local daily newspaper, the Diario de Majorca, in the Balearic Islands where several of the flights touched down. As an investigation by Spanish Guardia Civil widened, similar flights were discovered to have touched down in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands.

One flight that originated at Guantanamo, where the United States is holding hundreds of terror suspects, stopped over in Tenerife in April 2004 on its way to Bucharest, the Romanian capital. The revelations have proved problematic for the Leftist government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. It was this government that, days after taking office last spring, pulled its troops from Iraq because of disagreement over the US war there. Yet, Spanish officials are reluctant to take on another fight with Washington.

Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, called upon on Thursday to report to parliament on the case, found himself on the defensive. He told legislators that it appeared no laws were broken by the flights and that the government had received assurances from Washington that the flights were not being used to transport prisoners.

“The government is convinced that all of the stopovers took place within the framework of the law,” Moratinos said, reading from prepared remarks against repeated questioning.

Leftist congressmen were openly incredulous and even the right expressed perplexity over the foreign minister’s justification of the US action.

“You can say there is no evidence of a crime but you cannot say there is no crime,” Gaspar Llamazares of the United Left party told the foreign minister. The government’s stance has not satisfied public opinion, either. A group of citizens is suing in Majorca. In the Canary Islands, Gov. Adan Martin demanded a fuller accounting. “We need to be more vigilant,” he said.

In Italy, prosecutors, using a trove of phone records and other paper trails, painstakingly documented the capture by CIA operatives of a radical Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003. The cleric, known as Abu Omar, was bundled off to Egypt, via the Ramstein US air base in Germany, and has claimed he was tortured by Egyptian authorities with US officials present.

Over the summer, the prosecutors issued arrest warrants for the agents, and, earlier this month, following protocol, they asked the Italian Justice Ministry to demand the extradition from the US of the agents. But last week Justice Minister Roberto Castelli, who answers to the pro-US Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, undermined the entire case by calling the lead prosecutor, Armando Spataro, a Leftist militant.

Although the justice minister has not ruled definitively, it seems likely the case will advance.

In Germany, probes are proceeding on two fronts. Eberhard Bayer, the public prosecutor in the region that covers the Ramstein Air Base in southwest Germany, opened an investigation into the use of the base as a stopover in the 2003 abduction from Milan of Abu Omar.

Suggestions that US bases in Germany may have been used by the CIA to transport suspected terrorists have led to some politicians calling for a federal investigation.

“The German foreign minister should have a talk with the US ambassador,” Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, a top official with the Free Democrats, recently told the Berliner Zeitung newspaper. “If the so-far unproven accusations are correct, it would be outrageous.”

Berliner Zeitung reported on Nov. 22 that six CIA planes stopped over at Rhein-Main Airbase near Frankfurt between December 2001 and August 2003. One of those flights was a Hercules C-130 that left Germany and headed for Baku, Azerbaijan, on Jan 21, 2003.

In addition, Munich prosecutors earlier this year opened an investigation into the alleged CIA kidnapping of Khaled Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent, who was snatched in Macedonia on New Years Eve 2003. Masri claims he was then flown by the CIA to a prison in Afghanistan where he was held and interrogated for five months before he was released, with neither charges nor apologies.

His lawyer, Manfred Gnjidic, says he plans to sue the US government. But the political moment is delicate in Germany also. New Chancellor Angela Merkel is keen to improve ties with Washington that were strained under her predecessor. So although German politicians are demanding answers about CIA activities, Merkel may be reluctant to pursue them.

Romania denied reports by Human Rights Watch that it was the site of secret CIA-operated prisons for terror suspects, whose detention abroad relieves US officials of respecting the Geneva Conventions or other human rights concerns. Poland, also mentioned by the New York-based organization, issued a similar denial.

“We do not keep terrorists here, nor do we interrogate them,” said Jerzy Szmajdzinski, defence minister until a change of government a few days ago.

“I exclude that such a situation took place in Poland.” Romania and Poland, which are both emerging from communist pasts, are key allies in Washington’s war on terrorism.—Dawn/Los Angeles Times News Service


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Posted by: Jay
Posted on: March 13, 2008 04:06 PM

Dear Lou:

The elites of the U.S. have abandoned loyalty to this country and decided to try to rule the world and use U.S. citizens as cannon fodder under the Nationalist Socicialist doctrine of Globalism. The last time this was tried it ended up with World War II and we tried the Nazis at Nuremburg, at least a dozen or so of them. Now the American Democratic Nationalist Socialist Republican party (the American Nazi party ) wants to rule the world and will do it at any cost to our citizens and destroy any semblance of a rule of law. In fact the political laws that are passed by the thousands are all criminal enterprizes and do not imply any consent by the governed.

We now need a new Constitution with one term of six years for president and senators, one term for congressmen and recall any time there is a lack of confidence. One term and you're out. No professional politicians to front for the Corporate Nationalist Socialists. We can have a rule of law if enough people demand it and keep on demanding it.

No consent is implied by silence, but an affirmative denial of consent puts the criminals on notice that their days are numbered.

The only way for the American people to take back their government is to be totally independent from the duopoly corporate socialist party that has sold all U.S. citizens down the river. This type of treason has always happened in history whenever citizens have become complacent and trusted their so called leaders with unchecked power. As Acton said Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely rendering otherwise intelligent people idiots, so it must always be checked as originally planned under our system of laws ( the Constitution).

If every citizens sends all the leaders notice starting at the top that they do not consent to the rule without law then they will pay attention.

Now is truly the time for all good citizens to come to the aid of their country, before the next war with the Chineese does destroy us all.

Jay Crawford

Working in the corporate world will always be like running in a rat race. Why not do your own business and have all the freedom? See how I do it!

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Posted by: Bucharest Girl
Posted on: May 6, 2008 08:10 AM

Having lived in Europe all my life, I can say objectively that the two party system in USA is broken. And has been for decades. Like you said, same bird - different wing. Great post.

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Posted by: Eva Abbey
Posted on: May 18, 2008 02:22 PM

I believe it is imperitive that Hilary Clinton becomes the democratic nominee.

Obama will be a disaster,

Macain a bigger disaster.

The democratic party needs to make sure that Hilary makes it.
I never realized how ignorant people can be in this country.

Eva Abbey

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