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Karl Rove -- Carl Roever

It does appear that some apologies may be in order ... my transmitting to several lists the Al Martin "Raw" allegation that Karl Rove is the grandson of the Nazi-era Gauleiter of Oldenburg was certainly premature, and I do very sincerely apologize for it.

Historian and scholar Michael Rademacher of Germany is the author of a book about Roever. His statement here makes it very unlikely that Roever's recognized or traceable descendants include a grandson.

What we have here is apparently a similarity in name only. My own research also uncovered the fact that Rove is a name known in Scandinavia.

Seige Heil: The Bush-Rove-Schwarzenegger Nazi Nexus

Just read your article on commondreams.org and am already trembling in my boots thinking of the bad times descending upon California.

By the way, a bunch of 'progressive intellectuals' doing such an exhaustive research should have figured out how to spell 'Sieg Heil'.

Keep on dreaming....

Frank Hummel
Toronto, Canada

[Ed Note: Fitrakis and Wasserman are playing with words.]

Thank YOU Harvey

The Recent Counterpunch story is fantastic! Listening to Working Assets this morning, only reinforces that. Am sending the link to ask many people as I can.

Best, Michelle Sura
Columnist, Bolinas Hearsay News

Siege Heil: the Nazi Nexus*

George W. Bush’s grandfather helped finance the Nazi Party. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Austrian father volunteered for the infamous Nazi SA and became a ranking officer. And Karl Rove can’t hide his joy at witnessing “a Nazi rally” in support of Bush.

Together, they have destabilized California and are on the brink of bringing it a new Reich. With the Schwarzenegger candidacy they have laid siege to America’s largest state, lining it up for the 2004 presidential election.

The Bush family’s ties to the Nazi party are well known. In their 1994 book Secret War Against the Jews, Mark Aarons and John Loftus use official U.S. documents to establish that George Herbert Walker, George W. Bush’s great-grandfather, was one of Hitler’s most important early backers. He funneled money to the rising young fascist through the Union Banking Corporation.

The Gropenator knows government like Rush knows football

Arnold Schwarzenegger is an authoritarian serial sex fiend and Rush Limbaugh is a drug-addicted racist, and neither one of them is fit to govern.

And for these two role models of the American right, what goes around, comes around.  

For California voters, there should be only one overriding question about someone's candidacy for governor:  how would she or he handle the job?

But with Arnold, it's not so simple.

For starters, there's no indication he knows anything about running a government.  His one memorable advocacy position has been for the termination of the state's Environmental Protection Agency.  He originally said it duplicated the fine job being done by George W. Bush's national EPA.  But he's since backed off.

Otherwise, Arnold's sworn his love for de-regulating the industries that fund the Republican party. That brave stance is underscored by his Chief Advisor, Pete Wilson.  As governor in 1996, Wilson signed the infamous AB1890 utility deregulation bill that destabilized the state to the tune of $100 billion.  

Vandenberg Protest to Focus on Alternative Energy

Coalition Insists that  Windmills Outrank Missiles

   The Vandenberg Action Coalition in cooperation with the Global Network Against Weapons in Space is preparing to demonstrate at the Vandenberg Gate on Saturday, October 11th, at 2:00 pm. This is the first demonstration to demand the conversion of Vandenberg to a center for the improvement and use of sustainable energy technologies.

       October 4-11 is Keep Space for Peace Week: International Days of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space.  Vandenberg is not only the main test site for the  Missile Defense System, it is a major center for directing weapons to their targets around the world  and has the announced goal of the complete domination of space.

   Many billions of taxpayer dollars have not produced a workable system. In fact,  all of the proposed systems are behind schedule and and in trouble. Yet the Bush administration has requested over $9 billion for FY'04 to start building this unproved system.

   China, Russia and other nations feel threatened by the Missile Defense System, which could start a new

Are you confused yet?

NEW YORK CITY -- Are you confused yet? Two weeks ago, President Bush said, "There's no question that Saddam Hussein had Al Qaeda ties." In September 2002, he said, "You can't distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam." But Bush also said two weeks ago, "We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the Sept. 11."

            That helpful clarification came after Vice President Dick Cheney was asked on "Meet the Press" why he thought 70 percent of Americans believe Saddam was behind Sept. 11. "It's not surprising that people make that connection," said the veep. Back in 2001, Cheney had said it was "pretty well confirmed" that Iraq and the Sept. 11 hijackers had coordinated. But most recently he said, "I don't know" if Saddam was connected to Sept. 11.

            On the thoroughly discredited report that the lead hijacker Mohammad Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague in 2001, Cheney said, "We've never been able to develop any more of that yet either in terms of confirming it or denying it." In fact, the report has been disavowed by Czech intelligence, and American intelligence found that Atta

Heart Versus Head; Finding Hope and Fighting Your Inner Wimp

I haven't spoken to a progressive, a liberal,  yet who has not told me that he or she loves Kucinich, that Dennis is hands down the first democratic candidate choice. But then I hear the story-- "he doesn't have a chance.." "there's no hope..."

My reply is: "That's what they all said about Dean six months ago."

I can live with Dean. He's a good guy. But I am not ready to give up on Dennis Kucinich. On issue after issue, Kucinich has the right policies, the right answers and perhaps most important, the right history.

He'll take the US out of the World Trade Organization as soon as he's elected. He'll cancel the tax breaks Bush handed over to the wealthy. He'll cancel NAFTA. He'll start a department of peace.

Now the right wingers laugh at the idea of a department of peace. But then there's Maslow's widely cited saying,

"If you all you have is a hammer, then everything is a nail."

36 Reasons To Vote For Bush and Republicans In 2004

Vote for President Bush and Republican Senators and Congressmen if:  

You think $900/month ($10,800/year) is a fair price for a health insurance policy.

*  You believe drug companies should prevent you from buying Canadian drugs at half price.

*   You are a senior citizen and you think you are about to receive all your medication for free because President Bush has passed the “prescription drugs for seniors under Medicare” legislation.

*   You think large tax breaks for CEO’s making over $50 million are good, but your own CEO may have to cut the company budget and eliminate your position.

*   You never work or get paid for overtime so you don’t care about the recent Bush bill that will eliminate overtime pay for 8 million workers. You don’t know any of the 9 million unemployed U.S. and don’t know anyone in Iraq.

*   Your state has a budget deficit of $2 billion but we should spend $600 billion in Iraq.

*   You know Iraq has more oil than any other country in the world, but no one knows where it ends up after it comes out of the ground or who got the money for it.

Loyal Opposition, Disloyal Regent

Remember the hullabaloo about The End of History? There were many of us who scoffed then at its hubris, the sheer arrogance of thinking we were “it.” Now, of course, even the adherents of such triumphalism are back in the trenches, forecasting their own gloom-and-obscene-profit version of Permanent War. It’s as if the Cold War never ended—and just in the nick of time for them, too. This gives the right the opportunity to revive that most heinous of Cold War anachronisms, the Loyal Opposition. Now the LO can be permanently kept toothless by the ever-present threat of the New Cold War (remember: they have actually used these words). Some have even promised World War IV.

This bogey man is considered by the right to be sufficient to cover any manner of High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Even the egregiously traitorous act of deliberately revealing the secret identity of an intelligence agent must be beyond scrutiny. But who’s kidding whom? The whole concept of loyalty is perverted, of course, when the war itself is fraudulent, and when those demanding such loyalty are treasonous themselves.

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