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The headline from CQ Politics: "Lobbyists Stew After Being Bounced from Boards"
"A tide of anger and dismay is rippling down K Street as the Obama administration implements a new policy limiting the roles of lobbyists on federal advisory committees. The policy change, described by the White House as the next step in President Barack Obama’s drive to limit influence-peddling in Washington, could affect hundreds of lobbyists who serve on the panels, which were created by Congress in the 1970s to provide private-sector advice to the government."
Thoughts? Significance? Effectiveness? Hope? Change? Really? Today?
PS Sorry, I would include the link, but my new, recycled laptop doesn’t want me to.
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I am shocked! Lobbyists treated as if they were common criminals! We need to act immediately to fight for the right to lobby and freely bribe our elected officials. There is a DeeCee based organization that does just that.
Melanie Sloan and her organization CREW have been fighting the good fight ever since the Obama Adminstration began its campaign to terrorize lobbyists.
CREW, the Committee for Repressive and Evil Warmongers has been one of the most effective groups that fight for Pharmaceuticals, Health Insurance companies, the Nuclear Power Industry and of course Oil Companies.
Their outstanding and brilliant team of lawyers has fought hard to stop uncontrolled anti-lobbying elected officials. The worst of these are the “8 Most Corrupt Democrats”, five of them African American Representatives.
CREW has also fearlessly attacked the Anti-Corporate group ACORN. ACORN’s activites have been “indefensible”. And the Dee Cee Village Opinion Makers are lucky to have CREW protect them from the Dirty Freaky Hippies and other threats to multi-national corporations. Please thank CREW for all they have done for us.
The world is supposed to end in 2012, so it’s alittle late like everything they do. Even if it doesn’t by then the Republicans will be back in power, because the Democrats messed up so. They will just repeal it so no change will ever come.
Not according to the Mayans.
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“Grand Maya Itza Council Speaks About 2012
November, 2008
To the caring Women and Men of the World:
Below you will find a greeting and explanation from the Grand Maya Itza Council regarding 2012. I agreed with Council members to do everything I can to get this word out to the World.
It is simply this:
1) Their calendars do not END in 2012 – soon after 2012 we, on planet earth, will experience the return to the astronomical configurations present when one of the calendars was begun 26,000 years ago ……and we simply experience that day and move on into a new cycle…..of another 26,000 years……
2) Others have mis-calculated dates, but the Grand Maya Itza Council does not want to point fingers. There is no healing in that.
3) The only way for Human Consciousness that has been pushed SO LOW is for those of a higher mind to do as they suggest, below – Concentrate with high intent on each of 52 sacred sites – designated below – and ask the caretakers of those sites to activate the positive energies available from each site……and by the end of 52 months – December 28, 2012, the entire planet will have the sacred-site grid re-activated and ‘alight’.
Someone said to me, “Gee, I wish ‘them’ luck!”
‘THEM’? ‘THEM’ is US! There is no difference between the souls of human beings except for the energies collected up through negative or positive thinking…….
We MUST counter-act the negativity surrounding December 21, 2012 – and UNDO what has been cast upon humanity as a ‘truth’ when, indeed it is not!
In lak’ech,
Shoshanna “
http://www.unobserver.com/inde…..oment.html