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orty-five dollar cases of soda; $85,000 trucks in need of minor repairs . . . tens of millions of dollars in gasoline surcharges; thousands of meals prepared but never served to the troops . . . [and] contaminated water served to the troops." And if one were to actually believe that America has any intention of pulling out of Iraq, consider this: experts predict that private, civilian contracts will grow into a $200 billion-a-year global business by 2010. Why do you think that our government is currently constructing the biggest U.S. embassy in the world in downtown Baghdad? In fact, when our embassy in Iraq is finished it will be larger than the Vatican! No, my friends, our government has no intentions of pulling out of Iraq. Not next year. Not ever! Why? It is the desire of Big Business that we be there. Consider, too, the way that the Chambers of Commerce around America attempt to facilitate the flow of illegal aliens into our country. In fact, the national Chamber of Commerce is one of the biggest proponents of amnesty for illegal aliens. Many within Corporate America also support "sanctuary cities" for illegal aliens. They lobby our congressmen in Washington, D.C., and in state capitols to NOT enforce our nation's laws against companies that hire illegals and against illegals themselves. Anyone with even a modicum of common sense understands that nothing compromises America's safety and security as does the current invasion of our country by illegal aliens. How anyone can believe that President Bush is serious about fighting a "war on terror" when he has done absolutely nothing for nearly six years to secure our borders and ports is the height of naïveté. As we can easily observe by reading the aforementioned U.S. Navy's own Playbook, this administration is basing its foreign and domestic policies more on the desires of Big Business than the interests of the American people. And lest Democrats think that, should they capture the White House in 2008, things will change, guess again. The same Big Business interests that control the Republican Party control the Democratic Party, which means there will be no significant change to our government's policy regarding Iraq if Democrats are in charge. Count on it! Look, too, at how Big Business tries to manipulate laws regarding the right to keep and bear arms. One of the chief proponents of denying people the right to transport firearms in their vehicles to and from work is Corporate America. All over the country, companies threaten their employees with dismissal should they have firearms in their cars. In fact, it is the diabolical duo of Big Business and Big Government that are the biggest proponents of denying the American people their right to personal self-defense. Speaking of personal self-defense, if you own a firearm and intend to have ammunition to put in that firearm, you might want to buy it while you can afford it. By the first of next year, the price of ammunition will be at least double what it is today, that is providing one can find it at all. The reason? Corporate America is selling the raw ingredients necessary for the construction of ammunition (at top dollar, I might add) to Red China. As with everything else, Corporate America would rather sell to Communist China than to the American people. Another sign of Corporate America's treachery: just last Tuesday (July 24, 2007), Westinghouse Electric Company signed a deal to build four nuclear power plants in China and to transfer technology for its newest reactor to a Chinese partner. According to Westinghouse president, Steve Tritch, the Chinese nuclear plant deal is worth "multibillion-dollar contracts." But the Chinese buyers asked the company not to disclose details. (Source: the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Just like we will never be told why China is buying up all the raw materials that go into making ammunition. Of course, the marriage of Corporate America with the communist elite in China is now well established. USA Today recently reported that "U.S. corporate profits in China passed $2 billion the first six months of 2006." Companies currently doing business in China include Caterpillar, Starbucks, Greif (a Delaware, Ohio-based maker of industrial packaging), General Motors, Google, UPS, Microsoft, Nike, AT&T, and of course, Wal-Mart. In addition, the Chrysler Corporation recently announced that it will begin importing cars made in China. In fact, the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai represents over 1,300 corporations, including 150 Fortune 500 companies, and the U.S.-China Business Council represents 250 companies doing business all across China. (Source: Multinational Monitor) Plus, we should realize that it is Corporate America that is behind the push to outsource America's jobs and industries. It is also Corporate America that is behind the push to create a NAFTA superhighway and North American Community. In short, it is Corporate America that is behind the push to sacrifice America's national sovereignty and independence. It is also Corporate America that opposes Country Of Origin Labeling (COOL) laws that would require companies to tell consumers where their food comes from. In fact, such a law was passed back in 2002 and signed by President Bush, but Corporate America's lobbyists successfully blocked the implementation of that law. Therefore, you and I still have no idea where the food we purchase comes from. The list just goes on and on. As one can easily see, Corporate America has morphed into an international juggernaut that threatens our safety and security, as well as our liberty and independence in a way that foreign terrorists could only dream about. The American people need to start seeing these giant corporations for what they really are: freedom's greatest threat. (c) Chuck Baldwin NOTE TO THE READER: This email editorial cannot be considered Spam as long as the sender includes contact information and a method of removal. To subscribe, click on this link and follow the instructions: 
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You remember Friday afternoons when you were a child, the elation of knowing that the next day was SATURDAY the absolute BEST day! 3 O’Clock came and you would literally leap home from school (in the days when you were allowed to leave school before midnight), run in to Mum, (in the days when you were allowed to have a Mum who could stay at home and look after you), get a snack and dump the schoolbags, then run straight out into the street to play, play, play (in the days when you were allowed to play out). Remember that fantastic feeling that you would not have to think about going to school untill at least Sunday night when last minute homework was completed and you finally gave up kidding yourself it was still the weekend.
How could you forget being a child, when these little pleasures of life were the stuff of great happiness. The smell of toast, Mummy, the thought of holidays, Daddy laughing, SATURDAY!
Well a stupid little body of faceless bores has just announced that they want to BAN poor kids from having Saturday altogether. CentreForum, which is described as being a “Liberal think tank” ( the jury is out on whether Liberals can actually think, or feel or do anything human) has come up with the idea that basically because some schools are so bloody awfull that none of the children who go there actually get an education the best thing to do would be to send the children into these schools more often!
The Daily Telegraph (17th July) reported that “poor kids” would be forced to go into school on a Saturday and even during the holidays (click here). Of course it will only be poor kids who are affected by this, poor kids who are already suffering due to inadequate schooling are to be singled out as idiots and deprived of what may be the only thing left in todays society for children to enjoy. Because the state fails to provide proper schooling for poor children, (this is the state which insists on sticking its nose into everything and believing it can do it best) the answer is to punish those children by making then go to school on a Saturday.
But here’s the bit that will really take you to the fair, the schools where the children are being failed will get paid more money for being useless! Under the “think tank” scheme the “educators” of the poor children will get monetory hand outs to keep the silly rascals who can’t read and write locked up for another day. But wait, it gets better, this money is to be enough to have schools literally fighting to get poor kids enrolled. This is supposed to solve the problem? A load of rubbish schools scrapping over a handout?
NO, NO, NO! Resist! Surely people cannot be so brain dead that they would let this happen? If the state fails the schools and the schools fail the child then it is the State and the School that should be punished, not the child. The whole thing is upside down. Consider, a child should have Saturdays free to roam and play, to be children, in order for Saturdays to be free the child should have a good education during the week so he truly enjoys his Saturday and is a well rounded person, because he should have a good education there should be good schools for him to attend, because there should be good schools for him to attend our society should ensure that good schools and teachers are in place for him. He is the centre, if the other things fail him then they should go.
Do not crush that little poor child, with his cheeky Saturday face and his bruised kneecaps. Do not crush his simple pleasures at beeing free on a Saturday to be a boy. No, the whole state should stop and reconsider, parliament should put all things on hold, the media should be in UPROAR untill that child is guaranteed the freedom to be a boy on a Saturday.
Crush the dammed “think tank”, crush CentreForum, crush the schools, crush the state but do not crush the child. Do not take his Saturday away, this child, who might not read and write because he has never been taught to. His life will surely be a hard one today. His adulthood marred by the disadvantage of his youth, but now he is oblivious to this hardness, do not force his head down yet and break him. Leave this child alone to his blyth indifference, as short a time as that may be.
There’s a beautifull poem by Whittier written in 1855 when boys were still allowed, it starts ” Blessings on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan! With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled tunes….” Its a far cry from todays beleaguered children but it still rings true, we still see them, now and then, in glimpses, those “barefoot boys”, resilient and bold, but still just children. Do not punish them because they are poor, rather love them more because of it.
(aknowladgements to Chesterton)
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