MICHIGAN MISCONDUCT.........
A blog about misconduct and corruption in Michigan impacting Michigan's legal, judicial systems and the American political system
Update: It is doubtful Murdock would go for Mitt, if he knew of the Romney link to AUM, since AUM also operated in Australia and reeked a bit of havoc also there.
Is this Déjà Vu , or what?
Jeff Bercovici, wrote an intriguing article today on Murdoch backing presidential candidates. The byline of Bercovici article is the headline to today’s blog piece. To quote Bercovici, who feels Mitt Romney would fall in line Romney being a favorite choice for Murdoch.
“Everything we know about his (Murdoch) personal politics suggests he'd prefer someone like Mitt Romney, who's pro-business and relatively moderate on social issues.”
Murdoch, of course, is a media mogul, with influence which extends far beyond his native Australia. Bercovici article linking a powerful media legend, to a overly ambitious, flip flopping political contender, brought back memories of a movie which played on CBC during our last American presidential race.
The main character, Tom McLaughlin in CBC production, “Trojan Horse” is uncanny resemblance to presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. Like Romney the character Tom McLaughlin, basis his political views according to the prevailing winds of what will win an election. Tom McLaughlin, in the flick, is also backed by a media mogul, who groomed the political hopeful for years.
“Trojan Horse” is packed with double crossing, CIA, murder, election fraud – Diebold anyone? And a power hungry candidate willing to use and discard anyone along the way to seize the top position of President. God also plays into McLaughlin bag of tricks, as a useful tool, to appeal to the masses of religious voters.
Grab a cold ice tea, sit back and enjoy an entertaining and thought provoking flick.
See full article from DailyFinance: http://srph.it/cWohVk http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/media/will-the-next-president-be-brought-to-you-by-rupert-murdoch/19543423/
This smells like the five Chinese national terrorist heading to Boston a few years back, during a time of child sexual cover-up in the Mormon Church in Boston, while Romney was governor of Mass., Reports from ‘out’ west came in of five Chinese nationals were on their way to Boston to terrorize the good people of Mass. Not shocking, the report was a false flag and nice timing for Romney for the cover up of children assaulted in the Methuen Ward, located in the stake area, Mitt Romney was once the Mormon Stake President.
It might be different if Halliburton did not have involvement in the BP oil blow out in the Gulf of Mexico, but they did. This press release stinks to high heaven.
PRLog (Press Release) – Jun 28, 2010 – [Washington, DC] – In a letter sent today to the five Governors of the Gulf Coasts states, Daniel Weber, President of the Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC) advocated that Mitt Romney be appointed as a special Disaster Control Manager to lead the oil spill clean up effort and compensation program that have thus far been “terribly mishandled”.
AMAC, a nonpartisan organization of over 100,000 Americans 50 years of age and older say the efforts of British Petroleum and the Obama Administration have been “faltering, confused and uncoordinated” and that “a manager with proven ability is needed to take charge”.
“While the effects of this disaster are well known and touch all Americans, it represents a special hardship for citizens over 50, stated Daniel Weber, AMAC’s President. “For seniors the negative social and economic effects are particularly telling and worrisome”.
In the letter sent to Governors Charlie Crist, Bob Riley, Haley Barbour, Bobby Jindal and Rick Perry, Weber wrote, “Since the unusual nature of this crisis calls for imaginative and innovative measures we strongly urge you to act in concert to appoint a special Disaster Control Manager to take control and coordinate the recovery work”. The letter continues, “A manager with proven ability is needed to take charge and we strongly recommend that you ask Mitt Romney to fill this position”.
The Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC) is a nonpartisan organization looking out for the interests of Americans 50 years of age and older. Considered the conservative alternative to the AARP the organization has grown to over 100,000 members since its founding in 2007. AMAC endeavors to be advocates for seniors by promoting commonsense government and offering discounts on insurance hotels, car rentals and other products and services.
There is another reason this smells, Romney' investments in Gazprom. BP is losing BILLIONS with in an agreement with Gazprom which went side ways. Here in the states the BP/ Gazprom debacle has not been reported in the press; however, it has been headlines in England.
BP to Lose $18 Billion Field Amid Russian Crackdown
and in 2007
“Analysts, however, said BP lost a major asset, though the company had ... partners sold to Gazprom a controlling share in the $20 billion ...
MOSCOW — Under pressure from the Russian government, BP agreed on Friday to sell one of the world's largest natural gas fields to Gazprom, the state natural gas monopoly, for what analysts said was a price so low it bordered on nationalization.”
It shouldn’t be a surprise Glenn Beck would put in a plug or two for Mitt Romney. Both are fellow Mormon Church members and both have been schooled by W. Cleon Skousen. Cleon Skousen is featured in Alexander Zaitchik newly released book. The Washington Post, made famous by Woodward and Bernstein, ran an interview by David Weigel on June 2, 2010 with Zaitchik, regarding his newly released book.
Here is a portion of the interview in the Washington Post:
David Weigel: What would the tea party movement be like without Beck? Would it exist? Would it be better or worse informed?
Alexander Zaitchik: “It would definitely exist. In fact, Beck reconceived his 9.12 Project on the fly to capitalize on the movement as it came into being in March and April of 2009.”
“I don’t think it’s possible the Tea Partyers could be any less informed with another leader. Beck tells people that the most important book they can read is "The 5,000 Year Leap," by Cleon Skousen. This man was a raving lunatic who thought God’s hand directed the writing of the U.S. Constitution, which He modeled largely on the governing system of the ancient tribes of Israel. Beck’s required reading list in Common Sense only has ten titles, four of which are by Skousen, who was so far out he was monitored closely by Hoover’s FBI and almost excommunicated by the Mormon Church. I have a chapter in the book devoted to Skousen’s story, which is crucial to understanding how fringe Beck’s foundational influences really are. Skousen’s prominence tells us an awful lot about the intellectual seriousness of this movement.”
David Weigel: How important is understanding Mormonism in understanding Beck? I expect your chapter on Beck's religion to be the most controversial.
Alexander Zaitchik: “I thought that chapter might be controversial as well. But the response I’ve gotten from Mormons has been overwhelmingly positive. I’ve done a lot of media in Utah, and the most common response is that I nailed the influence of Mormonism on Beck’s act. Aside from providing an introduction to Skousen, Mormonism is a perfect religious fit for Beck in a lot of ways, from the wealth-worshiping corporatism of the LDS Church, to the teary social ritual known as “bearing testimony,” to the schmaltzy sentimentalism found in so much Mormon film and literature. But those are each long stories in themselves. If anyone is interested in hearing them, they should buy the book.”
Now, it is important to mention Glenn Beck did not start the ‘Tea Party” movement. The original Tea Party movement was started by a professor in California. One of the original members of the Tea Party stole the original “Tea Party’s” data base and took it to a GOP political consulting group, which began the “Tea Party Express”. Glenn Beck merely capitalized on the movement to begin his 9.12 group. Guess, Beck was steering away from 9.11, not bringing up the Mountain Meadows Massacre committed by Mormons who murdered all the members of a southern wagon train at Mountain Meadows located near Cedar City, Utah.
Alexander Zaitchik new book contains information on W. Cleon Skousen which Zaitchik premiered in his article in Salon.com several months ago titled “Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life”. He wrote the following regarding Skousen:
“As the scenarios became more and more outlandish, the feds grew concerned. In an internal memo, the FBI described Skousen's friend and employer Fred Schwarz as "an opportunist," the likes of which "are largely responsible for misinforming people and stirring them up emotionally” ... can only do the country and the anticommunist work of the Bureau harm." Interesting. W. Cleon Skousen stirring up emotions and misleading – normal
Skousen bragged during his lifetime, he was a top aid to J. Edgar Hoover and was an experience in communist subversion during his FBI years. Both claims are questionable. Skousen's FBI work according to Ernie Lazar, a researcher, wrote on his web site titled: “Cleon W. Skousen The Mythology Surrounding His FBI Career” that contains Skousen's nearly 2,000-page FBI file:
“As details below will demonstrate, during his FBI career Skousen had very modest investigative experience. His FBI assignments were primarily administrative in nature. I will be quoting extensively below from a 14-page summary of his performance evaluations which cover his assignments from 1940 thru retirement.”
“Even more significantly, he had no special exposure to investigations concerning communism in the United States.”
In Ernie’s blog pages on Skousen he recounts:
“Utah Republican Congressman Henry A. Nixon contacted the Bureau about Skousen’s description of himself and Nixon’s administrative assistant (Mark Cannon) received a telephone call from a senior Bureau official (Robert E. Wick) who pointed out that:
“Wick impressed upon Cannon the fact that the FBI has no control over former Agents; they are not connected with the FBI; and it would appear here that frankly Mr. Skousen is attempting to trade on his former Bureau connection. Wick told him that again very frankly Mr. Hoover and the entire FBI does not appreciate this sort of thing and it is simply unfair to inject the FBI into a political matter of this nature.”… [HQ 94-47468, serial number illegible; 7/28/60 memo from C.D. DeLoach to Mr. Mohr re “Administrative Assistant”]
Also:
“And, as the summary prepared for Associate Director Tolson (quoted above) points out, the Bureau’s records do not reveal that Skousen performed any research on communism and “from 1947 until he resigned there were no abstracts under his name for either the internal security or espionage classifications.”
“A July 1961 memo from the FBI’s Chief Inspector, W.C. Sullivan, to A.H. Belmont discusses a report in a San Antonio TX newspaper which mentioned that Skousen was planning to write a textbook on communism. Sullivan confirms yet again that Skousen developed no particular expertise regarding communist matters while in the Bureau”:
“As we know, Skousen, when he was in the FBI, did not concentrate in the field of communism. However, he has been giving lectures on the subject around the country, and during the past year has affiliated himself with the extreme right-wing groups under the leadership of Frederick Schwartz [sic] of Texas. The above, to me, is another example of why a sound, scholarly textbook on communism by the Director is urgently and badly needed.” [HQ 67-69602, #311; 7/29/61 memo from Sullivan to Belmont.]
Romney mentions W. Cleon Skousen and mentions Skousen’s books.
Romney shares other commonalities with Cleon other than, Mitt being a student of Skousen.
Romney took religious classes from Skousen at Brigham Young University. Also, Cleon and Mitt both share the first name of “Willard” – W. Cleon Skousen and W. Mitt Romney. Both the Skousen and Romney family fled the United States to Mexico under the orders of the Mormon prophet to continue to practice polygamy. Both families still have kinsmen in the Mormon Mexican colonies. And both have a history of stretching the truth. Dad always said, never trust a man once they have been caught in a fib.
The dust from Romney’s book tour has settled and outside of Romney’s non-stop tapping of the royal Romney endorsement wand there has been little interesting going on with Mitt in the press. Of course, Nikki Haley’s alleged affair and some blurbs the past week or so about the old Detroit Romney home being slated for tear down and removal. Mitt has been remarkably uninteresting.
It must have been something for the Romney’s to own a 5,500 sq. foot home in the posh Detroit neighborhood during the forties and early fifties. George Romney had been in Washington D.C. working as a lobbyist prior to coming to Detroit. And we all know how well thought of lobbyist are. While our fathers and grandfathers were fighting a war overseas, the Romney’s were living a life of luxury in America. Returning American soldiers, many struggling to purchase one of the many bungalows which were springing up in across America, many under 1,000 sq. feet, with the princess’ of homes being around 1,500 sq. feet or so. What a great life it must have been for the Romney family during WWII.
Romney of course, blamed the down fall of Detroit on anyone but his own family, the Romney’s were among the first to flee Detroit for the then rural, but growing, elite Bloomfield Hills.
A comment in today’s Cape Cod Online caught my attention which brought up Romney’s Detroit home.
A President Romney will give us a nation of Detroit’s
May 26, 2010 2:00 AM
The 2012 presidential campaign got under way the day Obama was inaugurated. Tea partier Sarah Palin, the failed and humiliated 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, is the odds-on favorite to clinch the nomination, though not if former presidential candidate Mitt Romney has his way.
Campaigning in his home state of Michigan, Romney commented on the estimated 90,000 foreclosed and abandoned properties in Detroit that are slated for demolition, his own 5,000-square-foot childhood home among them: "Detroit ... has been left hollow by fleeing jobs and liberal social policies."
Voters will hopefully hold Romney and all other candidates accountable to the truth. It has been anything but liberal social policies responsible for the foreclosure fiasco. First and foremost in Michigan has been abysmal management of the U.S. auto industry by feckless white-collar management, unrealistic compensation schedules awarded blue-collar unions and a steady erosion of market share by savvy foreign competition.
If the likes of Romney get elected in the coming voting cycles, the same erosion of American competitiveness will be guaranteed and the 90,000 foreclosed properties in Detroit will seem a paltry number compared with the millions that will follow.
Mike Garvan Brewster
Wonkette gave a humorous slant on Romney’s babyhood home destruction-a picture is worth a thousand words.
Of course, Romney was not mentioning, as the announcement of his babyhood home’s destruction sent Romney babbling in the press, another piece of Romney’s history is up for sale in upscale Bloomfield Hills. Price: $1,289,000 Lot Size: IRREG Area: Bloomfield Hills, MI County: Oakland MLS/Web ID: 28108645 Calculate Monthly Payment Virtual Tour Description
ONE OF THE MOST DESIRABLE LOTS IN THE CITY OF BLOOMFIELD HILLS. NEAR BLOOMFIELD HILLS COUNTRY CLUB, THIS IS 2+ ACRE LOT IS VERY PRIVATE, TREED AND OVERLOOKS ITS OWN POND. THIS PROMINENT PROPERTY, ONCE PART OF THE ROMNEY ESTATE, IS READY FOR YOUR DREAM HOME. FABULOUS PLANS BY DOMINIC TRIAGALI AVAILABLE. MOTIVATED SELLER, MAKE AN OFFER. LAND CONTRACT TERMS AVAILABLE http://www.weichert.com/20643600/. Since Romney appears to be interested in public funded memorials (Mitt must be thinking the home will be of historical value, once he buys the presidency). Mitt who spent millions and millions on his last presidential bid, the mere million dollars to restore the Detroit Romney shrine is too much for him, better the public to fork over the money – at least that is what appears to be the view.
What about Romney dropping a million or so for the two acres+ from another slice of Romney history in Bloomfield Hills? He can save it for a memorial park, or maybe build a pyramid?
Last March 16th, Gov. Romney endorsed Representative Nikki Haley for Governor of South Carolina. In today’s news, GOP blogger Will Folks has gone public with a statement he had an inappropriate relationship with the female GOP for Governor of South Carolina hopeful.
Folk’s is a well-known GOP blogger and founding editor of “Fitsnews”. Folk’s has been described as “that disarmingly attractive and diabolically brilliant man”. Folks worked for U. S. Congressman Mark Sanford in media relations for Sanford, later working as Gov. Sanford’s spokesperson from 2001-2005. In addition to political wheeling-and-dealing Will Folks has a musical side, playing bass guitar in an alternative rock band.
Folks reason for coming forward now?
“...within the last forty-eight hours several pieces of information which purportedly document a prior physical relationship between myself and Rep. Haley have begun to be leaked slowly, piece by piece, to members of the mainstream media. I am told that at least one story based upon this information will be published this week. Watching all of this unfold, I have become convinced that the gradual release of this information is deliberately designed to advance this story in the press while simultaneously forcing either evasive answers or denials on my part or on Nikki’s part.“
Who was asking questions?
Will Folks had been contacted on May 14 in regards to the affair by Free Times. Free Times has been investigating the allegations of the Haley/Folk affair. From reports the affair was common knowledge among political insiders in S.C. State House. Folks is said to have admitted to the affair a year ago, with reports the affair between Haley and Folk were admitted as early as 2008.
Has Romney hit sour note with his Nikki Haley fascination?
UPDATE:
A second man has step forward and claimed a one night stand with Haley --
“Lobbyist Larry Marchant Jr. alleged that he had sex with Haley in June 2008 and spent a night with her during a school choice conference in Salt Lake City.”
BREAKING NEWS: Mitt Romney failed to bolster Senator Robert Bennett. Romney felted he was widely popular in Utah and his support would drive home a win at the Utah State GOP Convention. Early reports today stated Romney was not well liked by many of the Utah delegates and there was a strong possibility of Bennett’s defeat.
Romney’s lack of influence at Utah’s GOP may foretell future decline of political influence for Mitt Romney. After all if Mitt lacks influence in Utah of all places, it was felt a loss in Utah for Mitt, may signal a decline in Mitt’s national influence. “SALT LAKE CITY – Republican Sen. Bob Bennett was thrown out of office Saturday by delegates at the Utah GOP convention in what represents a stunning defeat for a once-popular three-term incumbent who fell victim to a growing conservative movement nationwide.
Bennett's failure to make it into Utah's GOP primary — let alone win his party's nomination — makes him the first congressional incumbent to be ousted this year and demonstrates the difficult challenges candidates are facing from the right in 2010.”
