Notice anything strange here? Besides the creepy blue ring he usually wears.

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And that he's not wearing the creepy blue ring but what appears to be a ring with a skull on it (what!?!); what's with the Totenkopfverbände belt buckle?

A few things about Totenkopfverbände (Deaths Head Division)

... the Skull or "Death's Head" Formations — were made up of Nazi Germany's camp guards. During World War II the SS-TV also provided troops for one of the first combat units of the Waffen-SS, the Totenkopfdivision, which eventually evolved into one of Nazi Germany's most formidable combat formations.

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Yet another reason we need Clean Money campaigns in CA.
--Bill

Big Oil buys Sacramento
Why You’re Not Hearing A Peep From California Politicians on Record-High Gas Prices.
by Jamie Court and Judy Dugan : Published on Monday, May 14, 2007 by The Los Angeles Times

Who’s afraid of Big Oil? Apparently, California’s elected officials. Gasoline prices are stuck well above last year’s record highs and about 50 cents above the national average. Yet state politicians are not saying or doing a thing, except for raking in political cash from the oil companies and flying around the world on their dime.

Take Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who once claimed that he was so rich he did not need anyone else’s money - and who isn’t running for another office. Yet as gasoline prices were breaking last year’s record of $3.38 a gallon, Schwarzenegger collected a $100,000 check May 1 from Chevron, the West’s largest refiner. The company certainly had the cash on hand. Just three days earlier, it reported a $4.7-billion first-quarter profit, up 18% over the same period last year.

What's next, privatizing our National Guard? Oh yeah, that's why Blackwater is coming to CA...

Report: Schwarzenegger to propose privatizing Calif. lottery
- The Associated Press: Published 11:31 pm PDT Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to call for privatizing California's lottery in a revised budget proposal next week, according to a published report.

Under the proposal, the lottery would be leased to a private company for up to 40 years in exchange for a lump-sum payment or series of payments, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site late Wednesday.

The governor's communication's director, Adam Mendelsohn, confirmed Schwarzenegger's staff has been working with investment banks on the proposal. The governor is expected to include the plan in his revised budget Monday, the newspaper said.

In the Black(water)

JEREMY SCAHILL
June 5, 2006

Tens of thousands of Hurricane Katrina victims remain without homes. The environment is devastated. People are disenfranchised. Financial resources, desperate residents are told, are scarce. But at least New Orleans has a Wal-Mart parking lot serving as a FEMA Disaster Recovery Center with perhaps the tightest security of any parking lot in the world. That's thanks to the more than $30 million Washington has shelled out to the Blackwater USA security firm since its men deployed after Katrina hit.

Stop the Blackwater Mercenaries from coming to California!!

Hopefully you've already heard Christine Craft talk about this on her show. If not, then let me tell you that Blackwater (Bush's private mercenary army - Fallujah, Iraq / New Orleans) is trying to open a private military training facility here in California (near San Diego). Apparently Gov. Arnold is fully supportive of this.

We must stop this NOW before it's too late!

Please read the emails below from a San Diego activist and the Sierra Club and send your calls / faxes / emails before this Friday @ 4pm.
Please tell this to everyone you know!!

Thanks for your help with this important issue,
Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: Patricia Gracian

Your FAXes, calls, and emails needed before Friday 4PM:

Blackwater USA, the private military contractor that trains mercenaries and is under investigation by Representative Henry Waxman's Committee on Oversight and Government Reform plans to build an 824-acre training facility in Potrero, a small town in southeast San Diego County.

The Blackwater plan to set up base next to San Diego, in Potrero in Dianne Jacob's district is not just an environmental disaster. It is a threat to our constitutional liberties and to our freedom from a developing police state.

This is NOT paranoia.

This group has already been involved in the criminal treatment of Iraqi civilians and of our own fellow citizens in New Orleans.

We need your help to stop this project!
Some resources about Blackwater USA:

View short video at
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070402/scahill

San Diego Reader article, Feb. 22, 2007, on
"Blackwater West"
http://www.sdreader.com/php/cityshow.php?id=1566

The public comment period regarding environmental impacts ends on Friday 4/27, 4PM. PLEASE plan your message from the Sierra Club information below. It need not be long or complicated. It just needs to be forceful and to the point.
Please FAX your letter to the County Department of Planning and Land Use,

Attn: Mr. Jarrett Ramaiya, Project Manager,
at 858-694-3373.

First what it does. And then how it ties in with the previous posts

The new Terror Czar legislation

Negotiations by Gov. Schwarzenegger and lawmakers to create a new California "security czar" drew fire from an unexpected quarter - the American Civil Liberties Union. ...

At issue is a provision in draft legislation that civil libertarians say offers a broad definition of terrorist activity which could lead to sweeping powers for state officials. As written, the bill defines terrorist activity as any activity that "involves an act that is dangerous to human life or potentially destructive of critical infrastructure," violates any criminal law and "appears intended to intimidate or coerce the civilian population."

"As written, the bill defines terrorist activity as any activity that ... is ... potentially destructive

This just gets deeper and deeper. Now it comes out that they're forcing this through the local planning process.

About a third of the way down ...

The facility would house as many as 360 instructors and students at any given time, in a town of only 840. Remarkably, the project has already been approved by the Potrero planning group (an advisory body) in a 7-0 vote last December. Not that all members of the planning group support Blackwater mind you.

Jan Hedlun is the lone Potrero planner opposing the project. Elected in November, Hedlun didn't vote at the December meeting because she says she wasn't told she was eligible. "I'm in the middle of a battle," Hedlun said. "I am a lamb in a lion's den. They're pushing this through quicker than anything I've ever heard in my entire life."

The San Diego Reader concurs, calling it an "ambush." While Blackwater was busy laying the groundwork gaining the support they'd need to get the OK from the planning group during much of last year, the public wasn't informed of the plan until October.

The planning for this assault was well down the road before Potrero citizens even knew about it. "They have been trying to build support without notifying anybody here," says resident Carl Meyer. "I have proof that since May they [Blackwater] have been meeting privately with Department of Planning and Land Use personnel. They have been trying to get standards lowered" in noise, roads, and other parts of the plan.

Not even Representative Bob Filner, in whose district the training camp would reside, was immune from the ambush. According to The San Diego Union Tribune:

(Condottieri)

A private army for California?

Blackwater USA, a private army that promises "the most comprehensive professional security, peacekeeping and stability operations" in the world, is planning to build a major training center in San Diego County and, according to one company executive, has met with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger providing its services following a major California disaster.

Even though he's being propagandized as green ... uh, not so much

Schwarzenegger's 'green' credentials questioned

SACRAMENTO — He is gaining a reputation as the green governor who is marshaling California in the fight against global warming. But Arnold Schwarzenegger was one of the last people in the Capitol to join the battle, and has earned so-so grades from environmental activists.

Schwarzenegger seems to be everywhere as the crowd-friendly face of environmental activism. Catch him on the cover of Newsweek, balancing a fragile globe on the tip of a finger, or giving a big environmental speech in Washington.

On Thursday he addressed the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Diane Sawyer interviewed him about the environment for ABC, Charlie Rose did so for PBS, Hannity & Colmes for Fox. And Britain's Conservative Party has booked him for a fall trip to spread the message abroad.

California Republicans visit their home (Folsom Prison) away from home.


Just kidding.

But they are in town

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Let's compare and contrast

This is where Arnold lives

This is where some of the constituents he's speaking of, live

Arnold Schwarzenegger to TERMINATE aid to Poor Kids

From the Mercury News

A beaming Arnold Schwarzenegger began his final four years as governor Friday with a grand inauguration befitting what he promises will be an ambitious second-term agenda. But ambitious means expensive, and this week the governor will begin to reveal how he plans to pay for a massive expansion of health care for millions of Californians, as well as billions of dollars for new prisons and other infrastructure.

Sunday, the governor offered a glimpse of how he plans to pay for some of it: proposing an end to state welfare payments to poor families with children after five years. Aides said the plan would promote personal responsibility and save nearly $500 million.

New Year, Same Old Crap

Only an act of God will change moneygrubbing political parties

By MARC COOPER
Wednesday, January 3, 2007 - 6:00 pm

And so it is time for one of those very conventional New Year’s Resolution columns. But first, this:

When Gov. Schwarzenegger hobbles out of bed at the end of the week to attend his own posh inaugural bash, he’s going to be packing more than just the crutches he needed after his recent skiing mishap. Arnold will be toting along a couple of deep, very deep black bags to haul away the $1.5 million in loot being offered up as tribute.

With absolutely no legal limits on how much can be socked into his inaugural committee, a motley collection of Class A special interests have chipped in as much as $50,000 each to pander to the Governator.

The Termlimitnator

Arnold renders the Republicans obsolete
By MARC COOPER
Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 11:00 am

You think the factional fighting between Iraqi Shiites and Sunnis has gotten ugly? Just wait until January, when Sacramento opens up for business again and the bloodletting commences between Governor Schwarzenegger and his own California Republican Party.

Are you a Republican?

by Larry C Johnson

I once considered myself a Republican. In light of the record of the Bush Administration and the Republican controlled congress, I can no longer claim to be a Republican. Now we have George “AWOL” Bush and his sidekick, Dick “Five-Deferment” Cheney calling Democrats who question their failed Iraq strategy, “cut and runners”.

Meet Tammy Duckworth, Democratic candidate for Congress from Illinois and combat veteran. Tammy lost both legs in a helicopter crash. Hearing the charge that she wanted to cut and run, Tammy said:

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Humm baby, Schwarzenegger keeping his Hummers

So what's with that Drudge Report item that says Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ditching his beloved fleet of Hummers?

Democrats: Don’t be fooled! Join Us on Wednesday!

Say NO to Arnie’s Broken Promise Photo-Ops

Wednesday, September 20, 2006
9:00 AM
East steps outside the State Capitol
Sacramento

During the past three years, Governor Schwarzenegger has shown himself to be no friend of parents, teachers, law enforcement and California’s working families. He has weakened public safety and consistently broken his promises on education, special interest fundraising and healthcare and attacked working families.
Time: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 9:59am PST

"Maria will never suspect a t'ing."

Schwarzenegger targets the 'ElimiDate Voter'

By Shane Goldmacher

E-mail article
(published September 14th, 2006)

Not So 'Hot,' Arnold

Why are so many politicians of color casually
dismissing the governor's racist comments?

Erin Aubry Kaplan
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-kaplan13sep13,0,5445287.column
September 13, 2006

WARNING: THE column you are about to read is hot. Real
hot. McDonald's-drive-through-scalding-coffee-see-you-
in-court hot. Given the state of the world, which erodes
almost daily because of the seemingly unlimited
ineptitude of certain politicians, steamy has been my
default state of mind for many years now. The latest
fuel on my fire is Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's tape-
recorded assertion last week that Latina women with
black blood are "very hot."

He has no idea.