Secret Alliance of Corporations and Conservative Legislators Have Been Predetermining Legislation for All 50 States – Behind the closed doors of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line. Along with legislators, corporations have membership in ALEC. Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve “model†bills for use at federal and state levels. They have their own corporate governing board which meets jointly with the legislative board. Corporations fund almost all of ALEC’s operations. Participating legislators, overwhelmingly conservative Republicans, then bring those proposals home and introduce them in statehouses across the land as their own brilliant ideas and important public policy innovations—without disclosing that corporations crafted and voted on the bills. ALEC boasts that it has over 1,000 of these bills introduced by legislative members every year.
Many of the model bills benefit the corporations whose agents write them and vote to approve them. These are just a few such measures:
Altria/Philip Morris USA benefits from ALEC’s newest tobacco legislation — an extremely narrow tax break for moist tobacco that would make fruit flavored tobacco products cheaper and more attractive to youngsters.
Health insurance companies such as Humana and Golden Rule Insurance (United Healthcare), benefit directly from ALEC model bills, such as the Health Savings Account bill that just passed in Wisconsin.
Tobacco firms such as Reynolds and pharmaceutical firms such as Bayer benefit directly from ALEC tort reform measures that make it harder for Americans to sue when injured by dangerous products.
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) benefits directly from the anti-immigrant legislation introduced in Arizona and other states that requires expanded incarceration and housing of immigrants, along with other bills from ALEC’s crime task force.
Connections Academy, a large online education corporation and co-chair of the Education Task Force, benefits from ALEC measures to privatize public education and promote private on-line schools.
In other words, ALEC is your government, your overlord, and your owner.
Click the link above fore more detail. Then take action here. Then make sure that everyone you know understands what ALEC is up to.
Parent of Fox News May Have Hacked Cell Phones of 9/11 Families and Bribed a Former NYPD Officer to Help – With the bombshell that News of the World reporters may have sought to hack into the cell phone records and voice mails of 9/11 families, and to bribe a former NYPD officer to help, the US government finally decide to investigate News Corp., the parent corporation of Fox News. News Corp. may have violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (which prohibits the payment of bribes abroad by any company with any American operations) and the accounting rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission (by paying bribes abroad and covering them up). Convictions among News Corp employees could potentially endanger the company’s broadcast licences in the US and endanger the company’s reputation among once-loyal conservatives.
A Little-Known Movement of Radical Christians and Self-Proclaimed Prophets Wants to Infiltrate Government, and Rick Perry Might Be Their Man – On September 28, 2009, at 1:40 p.m., God’s messengers arrived in the form of two Texas pastors, Tom Schlueter of Arlington and Bob Long of San Marcos, who called on Rick Perry in the governor’s office inside the state Capitol. Schlueter and Long consider themselves modern-day apostles and prophets, blessed with the same gifts as Old Testament prophets or New Testament apostles. The pastors told Perry of God’s grand plan for Texas. A chain of powerful prophecies had proclaimed that Texas was “The Prophet State,†anointed by God to lead the United States into revival and Godly government. And the governor would have a special role. The day before the meeting, Schlueter had received a prophetic message from Chuck Pierce, an influential prophet from Denton, Texas. God had apparently commanded Schlueter—through Pierce—to “pray by lifting the hand of the one I show you that is in the place of civil rule.†Gov. Perry, it seemed.
The movement’s top prophets and apostles believe they have a direct line to God. Through them, they say, He communicates specific instructions and warnings. When mankind fails to heed the prophecies, the results can be catastrophic: earthquakes in Japan, terrorist attacks in New York, and economic collapse. On the other hand, they believe their God-given decrees have produced rain in drought-stricken Texas and ended mad cow disease in Germany.
(If they can cure mad cows, just think what they could do for Rick Perry! – JLV)
Rick Perry Partners With ‘Apostle’ Who Thinks The Statue Of Liberty Is A ‘Demonic Idol’ – Texas Governor Rick Perry is working a number of radical preachers to plan his upcoming Christians-only prayer rally. Perry’s partners in the event include extremists who believe that tolerance for homosexuality caused the September 11th attacks, Oprah Winfrey is the harbinger of the Antichrist, the deadly Japanese earthquake was caused by the country’s Emperor having sex with a demon, the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell caused bird deaths in Arkansas and violence should be considered to overthrow President Obama, among many other extreme beliefs.
One self-described ‘Apostle’ who has signed on as an official endorser to Perry’s The Response prayer rally is John Benefiel of the Heartland Apostolic Prayer Network, a group affiliated with the New Apostolic Reformation with ties to other The Response endorsers including Cindy Jacobs, C. Peter Wagner and Jay Swallow. In a sermon last August, Benefiel argued that America is under a curse from God because the country possesses monuments to pagan idols and that Americans needs to renounce those idols if not destroy them. Benefiel claims that the Statue of Liberty is in fact a “demonic idol†because it represents a “false goddess.â€
Michele Bachmann’s Church Says the Pope Is the Antichrist – Former The conservative church that belonged to for many years believes that the Roman Catholic Pope is the Antichrist.
Regards,
Jim
Andy Hailey