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Showing posts with label lobbying. Show all posts
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Nov 1, 2011

Super Committee's Secret Farm Bill outed!

The alleged buck-accepting Super Committee--aka, the 'Gang of 12'--alleged to be addressing deficit over-spending (Jupiter-Neptune) has been royally lobbied and a Secret Farm Bill is floating about congressional halls of power though the recent outing of such a bill's existence and its surreptitious insertion into Super Committee recommendations that are due Nov 23rd may have made the agricultural industry's strategic retreat a prime option for now...

But there's hot'n'heavy wooing with campaign cash going on for the Favored Twelve to the benefit of their hangers-on, and kith'n'kin.

(Post links back to recent SO'W columns showing the Horoscopes of the November 25, 2011 Solar Eclipse @ 2Sag37, and the Lunar Eclipse of December 10, 2011 @ 18Gem11.)

The outing of a Secret Farm Bill along with other factors, doesn't give the Gang of 12's super-congressional deliberations favor, trust, or support within the general public if indeed the dark machination of creating a 'Super Congress' in the first place (and they did seem awfully ready for it, didn't they?) could ever be appreciated by We The People as being worthy of our famously and oft-touted "transparent" and "democratic" government which, we'vebeen told, was set up Of, By, and For The People.

Now whose bidding should we say the Super Committee is doing behind the closed doors of power? And will this political charade lead to total collapse?


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A hearty shout-out to the 99% for their efforts: Thank You!

Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Everywhere

Debit fees begone! And take banking's usury interest rates with you!


And a sincere Thank You for excellent, non-corporate-based reporting goes to:

Thom Hartmann
Democracy Now!
David Pakman


Let's roll back the Reagan tax cuts...restore the Tillman Act of 1907...sign the petition at Move To Amend Citizens United, and remember that in our rigged financial game, the 'Sage of Omaha'--Warren Buffett--owns Moody's credit rating agency.

Feb 24, 2007

scandal: the love nest of J. Steven Griles



This photo is from the WaPo article of Feb 14, 2007 linked above concerning the now-brewing scandal which may--should--impact the Bush administration all the way to Cheney and his nibs himself.

It concerns Sue Ellen Woodridge, former top "environmental prosecutor" in the US Justice Dept--who resigned in January, and J.Steven Griles, a man who has been mysteriously protected from harm even as the questions mounted about his conflict of interests in "regulating" the industry he had worked for.

As David Hirsch, director of Friends of the Earth, says of Griles, "he spent four years working for his former clients at the Dept. of Interior. It didn't seem to matter how many problems came out, he just kept going. He's the Energizer Bunny of conflict of interest."

So who knew of the purchase of this vacation home on Kiowah Island, SC? Who facilitated and protected Griles through the years?

And who thought he and his girlfriend Sue Ellen Wooldridge could purchase a $980,000 home in partnership with Donald Duncan, VP of Conoco-Phillips--America's 3rd largest oil company--and that no one would notice the champaign bottles in the morning trash?

Was it a love nest meant for three? Eeeu-u-uwwww.


You may remember that Griles resigned from the Bush administration in Jan 2005 and is supposedly still under investigation for his part in casino shenanigans in the Jack Abramoff affair.

Yes, he's being investigated by the same Justice Dept in which Sue Ellen, his lady love, worked as mentioned above...until Jan 2007. And she's the culprit who signed off on Conoco-Phillips' we'd-rather-not desires concerning the SUPERFUND fines levied against them for cleaning up 9 of their spewing oil refineries...she signed just before she resigned!

Conoco's reluctance is odd, and may I say, anti-social, given that oil companies have been enjoying such obscene profits of late, isn't it?


J. Steven Griles:

Two of the more interesting midpoints in Steven Griles' natal chart (Dec 13, 1947, Clover, VA) have to be these (birth time not needed to appreciate, nor the correct Clover, for there are two):

Jupiter/Pluto = Neptune (of oil and deception fame!): omitting key facts; tendency toward deception; adjusting the data; working a situation into one's own format; cheating.

Mercury/Pluto = Nep: cunning; falsehood; slander; defamation; libel; calumny; the pursuit of peculiar plans; overdoing issues drains energy and wears out one's welcome.

The italics are mine for Mr. Oil Lobbyist.

And anyone who knew anything knew from the time Griles was brought into this administration that it'd be naive to suggest that this man's sway over his Washington turf could have turned out otherwise than scandal and thievery a la Dick Cheney.

Plus, you'd think Sue Ellen could've done better in her search for romance and perhaps the soup she's now swimming in may lead her to the same conclusion.

We'll see if Bush and Cheney , the oil twins, can continue protecting these--pardon my French--criminals...just two more examples of the illusory Bush administration's "integrity."

For more info, check out Steve Curwood's interview with Prof Jonathan Turley...you'll find the transcript at:

Living On Earth and you may also listen to the interview if you missed it on NPR today. Got iPod? Then you're good to go.