This just in from the Green Party:
Greens urge Obama to appoint Cabinet members dedicated to real change, not more corporate operatives and warhawks like Rahm Emanuel

A Cabinet full of corporate honchos, lawyers, and shills will not "look like America," say Greens

WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders called on President-elect Barack Obama to appoint a Cabinet that will pursue real reform, in accord with Mr. Obama's promise of change in the new administration.

"Democratic and Republican presidents alike have a record of naming industry chiefs, corporate board members and lawyers, and others loyal to wealthy, elite interests," said Holly Hart, secretary of the Green Party of the United States. "If President Obama truly believes in 'change we can believe in,' he'll appoint a Cabinet that looks like America -- not just in ethnic and gender diversity, but in its dedication to the needs of working Americans and the goal of international peace and justice."

Greens called Mr. Obama's choice of Rahm Emanuel for White House Chief of Staff especially unfortunate, citing Mr. Emanuel's position as managing director of investment banks Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, earning him $18 million between 1999 and 2002 and his track record in Congress since 2003.

The appointment of Mr. Emanuel confirms Mr. Obama's pledge to AIPAC that he will maintain the same uncritical support for Israel as the Clinton and Bush administrations, whose policies resulted in increasing human rights violations against Palestinians and greater instability in the region. Mr. Emanuel was also one of the original drafters of NAFTA and now favors similar antidemocratic 'free trade' pacts with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea, which would cost more US jobs and suppress environmental and labor protections.

Green Party leaders said that Rahm Emanuel's appointment was consistent with Mr. Obama's choice of Sen. Joe Biden as his Vice President. Despite his reputation in the media as a defender of working people, Mr. Biden helped draft a law signed by President Bush that relaxed regulations on financial institutions, giving them more power over Americans facing financial problems and transferring risk from predatory lenders to borrowers. As an architect of mandatory minimum drug laws (including the RAVE Act), Sen. Biden helped put the children of working families behind bars.

Among the corporate-connected names on the list for the Obama Cabinet are Eric Holder, Jr. for Attorney General and former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack for Secretary of Agriculture. Mr. Holder is a partner at Covington & Burling, which represents the National Football League, Chiquita, and Merck, and Gov. Vilsack is an enthusiastic advocate of genetically engineered crops and corn- and soy-based biofuels, with ties to Monsanto, whose products and policies have destroyed independent and family farms around the world.

"Barack Obama's mantra of 'change' is already a lie. With Rahm Emanuel as his Chief of Staff, and with Hillary Clinton rumored to be Secretary of State, the Obama White House is ready to pursue much of the same agenda as previous administrations," said Cliff Thornton, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. "It's a twisted irony that some tried to tag Obama as a socialist, a perception that will make it that much easier for his administration to continue the practice of redistributing wealth from middle- and low-income Americans to America's wealthiest. Bill Clinton was denounced as a liberal by the same right-wing pundits whose corporate buddies he was handing America over to. The same sell-out is going to happen all over again."

"Voters who elected Barack Obama because of his promise of change and the hope of a progressive administration need to wake up and realize they're in for yet another fight. Only if the voters hold Obama to his promises can we avoid the same pro-corporate and warhawk policies that came out of the disastrous Clinton and Bush White Houses," added Mr. Thornton.

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Do they want him to appoint a Turk?

I wonder what the Communist Party thinks of Obama. Their opinion is just as relevant.

Do they want him to appoint a Turk?
you think Cenk will do it?

"Democratic and Republican presidents alike have a record of naming industry chiefs, corporate board members and lawyers, and others loyal to wealthy, elite interests," said Holly Hart, secretary of the Green Party of the United States. "If President Obama truly believes in 'change we can believe in,' he'll appoint a Cabinet that looks like America -- not just in ethnic and gender diversity, but in its dedication to the needs of working Americans and the goal of international peace and justice."


Maybe Obama didn't mean he was going to change this part? Maybe he was just pulling their leg to use them to get into power? Maybe he doesn't need them anymore?

This just in from the Green Party:

:killingme

Is that another branch of the Marxist / Communist Party ?

A Cabinet full of corporate honchos, lawyers, and shills will not "look like America," say Greens

Yeah I bet he will not be appointing any Christians either.... :whistle:

The appointment of Mr. Emanuel confirms Mr. Obama's pledge to AIPAC that he will maintain the same uncritical support for Israel as the Clinton and Bush administrations, whose policies resulted in increasing human rights violations against Palestinians and greater instability in the region. Mr. Emanuel was also one of the original drafters of NAFTA and now favors similar antidemocratic 'free trade' pacts with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea, which would cost more US jobs and suppress environmental and labor protections.

:confused:

I thought the Greens were about environmental issues ?


Discover the Networks (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7443)

* The largest independent or third party in the United States
* Views socialism as the economic model of choice
* Wants to shut down America's oil drilling, coal mining and nuclear energy initiatives
* Views the U.S. as a racist nation
* Claims that the American criminal-justice system is rife with discrimination
* Promotes affirmative action, the welfare state, redistribution of wealth, universal health care, and open borders
* Opposes Israel as a sovereign Jewish state


The Green Party views America as a nation where “racism and class oppression, sexism and homophobia … act to deny fair treatment and equal justice [for nonwhite minorities] under the law”; where “a social system based on male domination of politics and economics” fosters “discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, or race” -- as well as “oppression, inequality,… discrimination,… domestic violence, [and] rape”; where “feelings of isolation and helplessness are common”; where sexual harassment runs rampant; where “women still earn only 70 percent of men's wages for equal jobs”; and where “low-income citizens and minorities suffer disproportionately from environmental hazards in the workplace, at home, and in their communities.”

In addition, the Party supports “affirmative action to remedy discrimination, to protect constitutional rights and to provide equal opportunity under the law.”


“Employers should be encouraged to continue paying … employees’ wages while they serve prison time.”

Vis a vis immigration, GP favors an easing of all restrictions against illegal entry into the United States. “While it would be ideal to erase borders between countries,” says GP, “that would be impractical without reciprocity between nations.” The Party favors the issuance of easily obtainable “permanent border passes to all citizens of Mexico and Canada whose identity can be traced and verified”; an end to sanctions against business owners who employ “undocumented workers”; and “a fair and equitable legalization program” that “will provide equal access to working people of all nationalities.”

In GP’s calculus, opponents of illegal immigration can accurately be characterized as people “who seek to divide us for political gain by raising ethnic and racial hatreds, and by blaming immigrants for social and economic problems.”

In July 2003, GP called on Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush for “high crimes and misdemeanors” that included:
“commission of various war crimes including the use of depleted uranium, cluster bombs and the assassination of journalists.” :killingme

yeah I though so .... a favorite of leftist groups everywhere .... Israel Bashing

Turning its attention to the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East, GP supports the Palestinian refugees’ so-called "right of return." The refugees on whose behalf GP advocates were never expelled from their homeland; they voluntarily (for the most part) left their homes during the period just before and shortly after the commencement of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war -- seeking safe haven during what they anticipated would be a brief war that the Arab allies would undoubtedly win, fully expecting to return to their homes once the fighting had stopped and the Jews had been exterminated. Instead, the Arab armies were defeated.

GP rejects America’s “unbalanced financial and military support of Israel while Israel occupies Palestinian lands,” and calls on the U.S. “to end all military aid to Israel, shifting much of that aid to ecologically appropriate local projects for economic and social development for Palestinians as well as Israelis.” “Until Israel withdraws from the Occupied Territories and dismantles the separation wall,” says GP, “we call on our government to suspend all other foreign aid to Israel as well.”

Specifically, GP proposes that Israel retract its borders back to “the 1967 boundaries” that had been in place before three Arab armies (Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) attacked the Jewish state in an attempted, but unsuccessful, war of annihilation that year.

In GP’s estimation, “a Green policy toward Israel and Palestine would offer such incentives for peace and mutual security that the wall would be unnecessary, and seen for what it is ... an obstacle to peace and a unilateral escalation of conflict.”

On November 21, 2005, GP issued Resolution 190, which urged all governments, Green Parties around the world, and campus Greens to help implement an international “boycott of Israel.” While the Resolution described Israel as “comparable” to the former South African apartheid state, it made no mention of the longstanding, relentless barrage of Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israeli and other civilians.

In February 2006, Mohammed Abed, the Wisconsin Green Party member who sponsored Resolution 190, spoke at a Palestine Solidarity Movement conference at Georgetown University.

GP is affiliated with International ANSWER, a front group for the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party. Moreover, GP signed and distributed the “Statement of Conscience” crafted by Not In Our Name, a project of C. Clark Kissinger's Revolutionary Communist Party. (This document condemned not only the Bush administration’s “stark new measures of repression,” but also its “unjust, immoral, illegitimate, [and] openly imperial policy towards the world.”)

GP is an affiliate of the United for Peace and Justice anti-war coalition led by Leslie Cagan, a longtime committed socialist who aligns her politics with those of Fidel Castro's Communist Cuba.

:popcorn:


The Islamization of The Green Party (http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={2C823817-E678-4814-8929-03A76279DCB1})
By Phyllis Chesler
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, February 03, 2006

The Palestinianization of reality has become overwhelming. The recent World Economic Forum at Davos was engulfed by it. Human rights and academic organizations, campus life, websites, conferences, media coverage, and daily life at the United Nations all focus obsessively on a country--Palestine--that does not even exist and on only one group of refugees in the world--the Palestinians. The rest be damned.

Both illiterate and educated civilians remain transfixed by Arafat's Gangsta Soap Opera.
Israel is the Nazi, apartheid, "settler" state and America is the world's most dangerous terrorist regime. And Muslims are peaceful and not the world's largest practioners of gender and religious apartheid and jihad.

Increasing numbers of people are addicted to the reduction of complex matters into something simplistic, ugly, repetitive--and yet strangely arousing. Such purposeful non-thinking has infected tens of millions of people in the Islamic world and in the West who, in a protest against reason, continue to call for a boycott against Israel.

Arafat's virus has now infected the Tree People. :killingme

On November 21, 2005, The Green Party of the United States resolved to "divest from Israel." Resolution 190 calls for a "boycott of Israel" and urges all governments, Green Parties around the world, and campus Greens to help implement an international boycott. The resolution describes Israel as "comparable" to the South African apartheid state and calls for the "serious consideration of a single, secular, democratic state as the national home of both Israelis and Palestinians."

The Green Party is thus on record as calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.

How this particular demand helps endangered species or addresses global warming remains to be seen. :jerry:

Resolution 190 does not condemn the Palestinian serial suicide murders of Israeli and other civilians. It also calls for East Jerusalem to become an open city for all faiths. Apparently its signatories are unaware that Muslim terrorists groups, like Hamas and Hezbollah, and Muslim governments in general have an abominable record towards the practitioners of non-Muslim religions. They tax, confiscate their property, jail, torture, murder or exile them; in our time, Muslims burn churches, murder Christians, and be-head Christian teenage girls.

yeah ah huh ......... so Hope And Change :lmao: was all a pretty Campaign Slogan .... erstwhile Left Support Groups Upset :bawl:

sounds like Klinton III :evil:

This just in from the Green Party:

Thread Hijack ..... :jet:

New York State Green Party member, environmentalist and pianist Lorna Salzman was once a potential Green Party candidate for the U.S. Presidency. She has recently been "purged" by the Women's Caucus of the New York state Green Party for having committed various Thought Crimes, e.g. she opposed Green Party support for Georgian Cynthia McKinney, who believed that the American government was behind 9/11. According to Salzman, McKinney also refused to distance herself from anti-Jewish statements made by McKinney's father. Although Salzman is no Zionist, she is alarmed by the rising tide of Jew-hatred in the world and fears the imposition of Islamic religious law and its "inevitable subversion of secularism, secular democracy, basic civil liberties, and open discourse."

According to Salzman, "the US Green Party has given aid and comfort to both anti-Semites and terrorist organizations" and has now "been taken over by leftists and radical Islamists whom they have allowed to dictate the party's national policies." Salzman also notes that Resolution 190 violates one of the USGP's ten Key Values, namely that of "Grassroots Democracy".

The vote, which took place in Wisconsin, was almost a secret vote. No discussion or debate took place among party members or within state parties. According to Salzman, 72 delegates actually voted. Fifty-five were in favor, 7 were opposed, 10 abstained. Mohammed K. Abed, of the Wisconsin Green Party, who is also a member of al-Awda (The Palestinian Right of Return), initiated the Resolution but he was joined by non-Muslim and non-Palestinian international and national GP members such as Justine McCabe, Scott McLarty, Ben Manski, and Ruth Weill. The Green Party has also reached a mysterious "Memo of Understanding" with the American Muslim Association.

In fact, it was just announced February 2nd that Mohammed Abed, the Wisconsin Green Party member who sponsored Resolution 190 to boycott Israel, will be speaking at the Palestinian Solidarity Movement conference which will take place at Georgetown University from February 17-19 2006. Other speakers include Sue Blackwell, the British academic who led the Association of Teachers (AUT) boycott of Israeli academic institutions in 2005. In the past, the PSM conference has promoted divestment and a one-state solution, and has refused to renounce terrorism.

I visited the al-Awda website (Mazin Qumsiyeh, who penned the Davos Divest-in-Israel piece, was formerly a propagandist for and member of al-Awda), which describes Israel as a "colonial settler" and "terrorist state" and refers to its government as the "U.S. backed Zionist junta." It demands that charges against Professor Sami al-Arian be dropped, and appeals for funding for Palestinian causes. Al-Awda condemns Israeli "assassinations," but not Palestinian and Islamist serial suicide-murders. It also focuses on Palestinian suffering as a function of Zionist Occupation, but fails to mention the corruption and murderousness of the Palestinian Authority as a contributing cause to Palestinian misery. Al-Awda's website does not mention any ecological concerns nor does it discuss the Palestinian trashing of the Gazan greenhouses -- which American Jewish philanthropists specifically funded so that Palestinians might take them over. Al-Awda has just opened a national office in Washington DC and is planning state branches throughout the United States.

Indeed, Resolution 190 is a serious distraction from pressing green issues, including health care, ocean fisheries, endangered rainforests, tax cuts for the rich, etc. Thus, the presumably non-violent and democratic Greens have forged an alliance with "outside special interest groups" which seriously and routinely violate human rights, and which use violence to terrorize and subjugate people. Ironically, the Green Left is courting Islamist terrorists who are notoriously anti-Left and anti-secular.

The Greens are notoriously "anti-war." This really means that they are anti-President Bush's Iraq war but do not necessarily oppose the war against the Jews or the war against black African Christians and animists who are being genocidally slaughtered in Sudan by ethnic Arab Muslims. :whistle:

Some Green Party members and sympathizers are worried about this latest turn of events. They fear that GP candidates will lose in the coming elections because of this misguided stand. They may or may not be right. Oregonian businessman, Gary Acheatel, voted Green in the elections of 2000. He has always "admired the Green agenda." He now says that "it is time for people to stop complaining about Israel's poor image and start making the case for Israel. He has founded the new Advocates for Israel, which will offer speakers and which will post all educational material and resources at its website: Home (http://www.advocatesforisrael.org). He is also circulating a petition to the Green Party leadership and membership to rescind Resolution 190. Acheatel has joined the Green Party for one reason: "To create a groundswell of member activism to reverse the party's anti-Israel resolution."

In late January of 05, Professor Stanley Aronowitz of the CUNY Graduate Center, who ran for the New York State governship as a Green Party candidate, and Marakay Rogers who is the Green Party gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania, sent a letter to the National Green Party leadership. They wrote that, "the credibility of the US Green Party has been badly damaged; resignations from the party are occurring....one of our main concerns is the fact that Green Party candidates will be running for public office next fall and will be put in a difficult position because of Resolution 190."

Aronowitz and Rogers believe that the National Committee must "revisit and review this resolution," and at least consult with Israel's Green Party. In their view, the resolution violates the Ten Key Values of the Green Party, "by failing to condemn violence on both sides and by failing to observe the principles of Grassroots Democracy when it approved the resolution without a broad discussion within the state parties and without soliciting dissenting views."

They stop short of condemning the concept of divestment in Israel.

Lorna Salzman and Gary Acheatel do not stop short. Salzman came to see me and described how the Green Party had always been ripe for a takeover and that one had happened before. "Today it's Islamists and Marxists. Yesterday, it was the Democratic Party who viewed Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader as a spoiler and a threat who needed to be punished. Nader siphoned votes away from Al Gore." According to Salzman, the Green Party "kicked Nader in the teeth." Secret meetings were held about how to best squash Nader. The behind-scenes GP nastiness, which included the hands-on activism of Soros-funded Medea Benjamin of Code Pink, became so bad that Nader ultimately chose to run as an independent in the 2004 Presidential election. Salzman also refers to various funding "payoffs" that Green Party members received for their anti-Nader activism and for their decision not to "make trouble for John Kerry in 2004."



When Salzman told people that she had been secretly expelled from the Green Party's Women's Caucus and removed from their listserv group, no one responded. Both she and Acheatel have found a level of complacency and fear among progressives that is deeply disturbing. Salzman describes herself as a "super rationalist and a devout atheist." She strongly believes that "all the anti-Israel stuff is a deflection away from the way Muslims treat women," and that "there is a much bigger story here that has to do with the radical left embracing traditional enemies: radical Islamists who hate the Left."



I wish her and fellow activist Gary Acheatel, and Aronowitz and Rogers too, Godspeed in their campaign to take back the Green Party from the Marxists and Islamists who have hijacked it.

The Greens ran Cynthia McKinney for President. Need I say more?