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Update: The Criminal Corruption and Animal Cruelty of Gov. Sarah Palin
by ARC Thursday, Sep. 04, 2008 at 10:44 PM

Perhaps after you read this file, you will feel as my friends and I feel, that Sarah Palin was fasttracked from a mayor's job in a 4600 resident town to the governor's chair, coached in everything she said or did, and prepared to be a neocon candidate on the national stage...all in 2 years time. Vote fraud could have defeated her Democratic opponent. All of this occurred as the neocon dominated FBI was investigating Senator Stevens. Certainly Murkowski defeated governor and Stevens had corrupt offices, but the orchestration of the chorus for Palin by oil prostitutes Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and others was it seems planned. "That most dangerous of all classes: the wealthy criminal class" wrote President Theodore Roosevelt of plutocrats and their pawns.

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McCain picks prowar prodrilling BP connected moose slaying huntress as running mate

please multipost whatever you like from this


How was Palin from
a 4600 person town mayor
lifted aloft to the governor's chair?
Warmongers, rich trophy hunters,
petroplutocrats and vote fraud
escalated her up the stairs


PEACE

Sarah Palin is a supporter of the violent illegal wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan.

Sarah Palin was 3 years old when John McCain, engaged in bombing
women in a Hanoi light bulb factory, was shot down.
No woman who advocates the bombing of women, children, elders,
soldiers, pets, animals of all kinds, birds, plants..
is a supporter of the rights of the world's women.

When he was shot down, McCain was engaged in breaking
the promise of Franklin Roosevelt to Ho Chi Minh that in return
for fighting the Japanese, the Vietnamese right of independence
would be honored.


McCain's father was the navy admiral in charge of the
war crimes.. the genocidal bombing of Vietnam.

He also participated in the mass lie to the American people..
the Tonkin Gulf Resolution.. ...a black op done by American
military and blamed on the Vietnamese

In this he joined FDR in the treachery of not preventing
the bombing of Pearl Harbor after breaking several Japanese
codes... the Bush Cheney Bush lie of yellow cake in Iraq
etc etc.

Palin's husband is an employee of British Petroleum. Alaska and
the US government have allowed a foreign company to control
some of the oil in Alaska. BP as Anglo Iranian Oil with Churchill
bombed 9000 Iraqis to death in 1920 and BP is still involved in
theft of Iraqi oil in
Mosul and Basra. It was a BP oil engineer (then known as AIO)
who drew the boundaries of Kuwait to take the richest oil
territories from Iraq.
http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=6965360


QUESTIONABLE ETHICS

Tony Knowles was twice the popular Democratic governor of Alaska,
but was barred from a 3rd consecutive term. He was defeated
in his 2006 race
not by Sarah Palin but by vote fraud.

As aforementioned, Palin's husband is an employee of BP, a conflict
of interest.

Ms Palin was first suggested by Newt Gingrich, indicted for
corruption by the US Congress, a neocon warmonger who
while his wife was resting in the hospital after a cancer operation
told her he wanted a divorce.

The Alaska State Legislature has voted to investigate
Palin for abuse of power in the 2 following incidents:

A Palin staffer pressured a boss to fire state trooper Mike Wooten, who was locked in a child-custody battle with Palin's sister.

On July 11, 2008, Palin dismissed Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan ostensibly over state trooper vacancies, but
in actuality because he would not fire her ex brother in law.

The governor was flown to Dayton in the corporate jet of one of
the neocon backers of John McCain (such as jets of Rupert
Murdoch, Paxson, and Michael Bloomberg).

Was her 2nd son named Paxson (middle name) for the neocon
warmonger nominal Christian owner of Pax TV?

Gov Palin says she is for reduced govt. spending as she is on
a ticket which has illegally spent trillions in Iraq and
Afghanistan

Her tasteless Vogue cover picture in 2007 was not appropriate
for a governor.

Palin was endorsed by the indicted Senator Stevens, also
a friend to trophy hunters, the oil industry and war profiteers

From the Drudge column
Quote:
As mayor of Wasilla, Palin oversaw the hiring of Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh, an Anchorage-based law firm with close ties to Alaska's most senior Republicans: Rep. Don Young and Sen. Ted Stevens, who was indicted in July on charges of accepting illegal gifts. The Wasilla account was handled by the former chief of staff to Stevens, Steven W. Silver, who is a partner in the firm.

-In fiscal year 2002, Wasilla took in $6.1 million in earmarks -- about $1,000 in federal money for every resident. By contrast, Boise, Idaho -- which has more than 190,000 residents -- received $6.9 million in earmarks in fiscal 2008.
-But her (Palin's) administration remains eager for many other earmarks.

In February, Palin's office sent Sen. Stevens a 70-page memo outlining almost $200 million worth of new funding requests for Alaska.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Ms Palin is a 'prolife' supporter of governmental murder, which
is called capital punishment. Over 2/3 of the world have
outlawed that ancient barbarism. http://www.amnesty.org

MILKING THE RESIDENTS: POOR LEADERSHIP?

When Sarah Palin became mayor of Wasilla, the town had a 3 million dollar surplus.
By the time she left, Wasilla had 20 million dollars in long term debt.
(Wasilla: population 6 or 9000)


PALIN THE BOOK BANNING CENSOR
Quote:
“Palin asked the library how she could go about banning books,” because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. “The librarian was aghast.” Palin threatened to fire the
librarian Mary Ellen Baker
PALIN HAS TRIED TO FIRE MANY WHO DISAGREED WITH HER

Palin has tried to fire er ex brother in law, his boss,
her small town's librarian, Irv Shambaugh, the Wasilla police
chief, the city administrator and others.
Quote:
Palin ended up dismissing almost all the city department heads who had been loyal to Stein, including a few who had been instrumental in getting her into politics to begin with. Some saw it as a betrayal. Stambaugh, the police chief and a member of Palin's step-aerobics class, filed a lawsuit for wrongful termination, alleging that Palin terminated him in part at the behest of the National Rifle Association, because he had opposed a concealed-gun law that the NRA supported
more on the book banning by Palin
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837918,00.html]http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837918,00.html[/url]


ANIMAL RIGHTS.. THE ANTILIFE POSITIONS OF
THE 'PRO LIFE' CANDIDATE

Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska
lifetime member of the NRA
and supporter of the brutal Iditarod
is the choice of John McCain. She
says she loves hunting and fishing, while adult males
between 18 and 34 have had a 33% decline in numbers of
hunters.

Polar Bears
She calls environmentalists 'extreme environmentalists' and sued
to try to have the polar bear removed from the endangered
species list (both for BP and other Alaska polluters as well as for trophy seeking hunters).
http://newsminer.com/news/2008/aug/0...-bear-listing/

Wolves
Worldwide, the animal rights community has not received
a response from her in 2 years to the international wish
for an end to the helicopter aerial hunting of wolves by
trophy seeking serial killers of mammals . She set a $150 bounty
on wolves and she supports the continued slaughter of the
mammals from the skies. Wolves travel in extended family packs.
When one or several is shot, all are terrorized.
http://animalrights.about.com/b/2008...to-animals.htm

Moose
She has hunted for moose with bow and arrow and guts them herself.
(gut: when a verb means to knife into an animal's body to eviscerate her). She eats mooseburgers (sandwiches
made of the drawn and quartered pieces of slain mammals),
but according to NPR on Sept 4, 08 her favorite dish is moose
stew.

Bowhunting banned many places

It appears from the picture above that Palin is a bowhunter..
Worldwide there are legislative movements to ban this
brutality. Cleveland Amory: Animals have been found
to have survived several months with 12 arrows in them.

The Suffering of Fish Suffocation Multiplied

Before she took office, she was owner of a commercial fishing
company. Her husband Todd continued to work as a commercial fisherman before taking a job with BP. Commercial fisheries are the chief drive behind
the clubbing of seals in Canada, Norway, and S Africa.
The killing of Pribilof Island seals was cancelled.

Ban Fur
Is Gov Palin is wearing the stolen skins of
1 or 2 murdered mammals in the 1st picture?

Cows
The 'free market capitalist' turns out to want government
support of animal agony.
Matanuska Maid Dairy Closure and abuse of cows
When on June 6, 2007, the Alaska Creamery Board recommended closing Matanuska Maid Dairy, an unprofitable state-owned business, Palin objected. The dairy received at least $600,000 of
stolen tax money that year. http://www.notmilk.com

Dogs
Palin supports the brutal Iditarod dogsled race which
causes deaths by drowning, freezing, smashing, and many
other injuries to dogs. http://www.helpsleddogs.org

Bears
While many states have banned the hunting of bears (most
recent victories have been in NJ and MD, the illegitimately
elected governor of Alaska is a supporter of bear murder.
Cleveland Amory: some speak of the right to bear
arms. We speak of the right to arm bears.

ENVIRONMENT
Governor Palin advocates the rape of Alaska wilderness in ANWR for oil as well as offshore drilling, cut a wind farm from the state
budget while putting in a half billion for an oil company,
pushes the controversial pipeline, defeated a clean water measure
etc.http://environment.about.com/b/2008/...ice-for-vp.htm

ENERGY

It seems clear that the 'anticorruption' candidate is actually
the tool of big oil, one who defeated a bill which would
have taxed the windfall (pricegouging megathievery) profits
of BP and other oil companies operating in Alaska.

Alaskans pay more than $4 a gallon for gas while the
government of Alaska sells Alaskan oil to Japan and elsewhere.

Palin vetoed money for the 50 megawatt Fire Island wind project(as one would expect of someone whose husband
is employed by wind competitor BP.

She pushed a plan for the petroplutocrat company which
gets the pipeline license to receive half a billion dollars
for 'development'efforts. Much worse than any Teapot Dome
Scandal. This is the 'free market' capitalism she supports...
stealing taxes from the people to give to mega polluters.

LACK OF
EXPERIENCE

Palin has only 2 years as a carefully coached and installed governor and a stint as a small town
mayor, a town with when she was mayor 7000 residents.

ECONOMICS

Palin defines herself as a 'free market' capitalist. Ms Palin,
there are no free markets anywhere as the US Commerce Dept,
FBI, and many other agencies promote the Fortune 500
around the world.


CIVIL RIGHTS

Civil rights has not been as much an
issue in Alaska as other states. Alaska's black population
is 3% (18,436) while that of the US is (36,000,000) 12% or higher, as of 2006. Yet, the smaller the percent, the harder the minority
has it.


GAY RIGHTS

Palin was forced by the Alaskan State Supreme Court order to
implement same-sex benefits into law under protest,

FAMILY

Her husband works in the oil business on the North
Slope. She is a supporter of the war in Iraq, has encouraged
her son to enlist for the war in Iraq. There is question
as to whether or not her 5th child is rather her grandson.

from http://www.time.com
Faye Palin told the New York Daily News that she liked listening to Barack Obama speak and that she wasn't sure who she would vote for in November.

It was Todd Palin and not his wife who was a member of
the separatist AIP: The Alaska Independence Party.

HEALTH
Palin's diet causes cancer, heart disease, food poisoning,
rheumatodi arthritis, kidney dysfunction.
http://www.pcrm.org/

PRO CHOICE PROLIFE

Palin is opposed to abortion even in cases of rape and incest.

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-69834
Alaska governor's reputed 2nd son may be her grandchild.

WOMEN'S RIGHTS


Palin calls herself 'prolife' though she supports illegal wars
and their slaughter, governmental execution murder,
and the serial killing of animals.

She opposes abortion even in the case of incest or rape.

In the past she participated in the meat markets
known as state beauty contests.

NATIVE AMERICANS

Palin is the first governor since 1976 not to appoint a Native
American to the Alaska Board of Game.



Is Gov Palin sitting on a bear skin rug in her home?

HYPOCRISY RE FREE MARKET

In June 2007, Palin signed into law a $6.6 billion operating budget—the largest in Alaska's history.

She kept a state dairy at a cost of millions.

She cancelled a wind farm project but pushed .5 billion to
a huge oil company.

The 'free market conservative' proposed providing grants to electrical utilities.

GAG ORDERS

At some point in those fractious first days, Palin told the department heads they needed her permission to talk to reporters. "She put a gag order on those people, something that you'd expect to find in the big city, not here," says Naegele. "She flew in there like a big-city gal, which she's not. It was a strange time, and [the Frontiersman] came out very harshly against her."

FAMILY CONFLICT

When Palin was forced out of the Mayor's office by term limits in 2002, her husband Todd's stepmother Faye Palin ran for mayor. She did not, however, get Sarah Palin's endorsement.



IMPALIN

Please tell us Sarah Palin
as the full moon was palin
How many women animals
have you been impalin?

How many
pregnant deer wombs
did you turn
into tombs?

With your prolife badge and
smoking rifle did you appear
terrorizing the gentle ones
as they ate gold pears.

How many bullets
'prolife' Sarah Palin
have you sent
through
innocent bears' cerebellums?

How many bones have you
left behind
for future palintologists?



As part of the Cheney Bush hunter lobby in neocon media,
Ted Nugent who calls himself that oxymoron a Christian bowhunter,
whose work is published by Lucianne Goldberg, coconspirator
with Linda Tripp, was scheduled on neocon tv.Aug 29 08



Neocon Wikipedia
of Jimmy Wales, partner of neocon Sergei Brin of Google.
Wikipedia did not allow animal rights additions to their
'democratically edited' page. Instead Wikipedia's Palin page
is full of warmongers' articles.

There is a divine core to all beings, including Sarah Palin and the animals she has
killed. If she were not fasttracked into a VP nomination, if she were not as
governor in a powerful position to harm, this poster would not be focusing on
her record.

www.rense.com

"Polar Bears"
by indigenous wisdom Friday, Sep. 05, 2008 at 5:29 PM

http://www.cs.org/publications/csq/csq-article.cfm?id=1999

Of Ice and Men

By Cameron M. Smith

August 1, 2008 | Cultural Survival Quarterly | Issue 32.2

In most quarters, the US government decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species was heralded as a milestone in awareness of global warming, but the people you might expect to most rejoice in the decision—the Arctic indigenous peoples who suffer the greatest effects of global warming—are strongly opposed to it.

As the thin end of the global warming wedge begins prying apart the foundations of traditional life in the Alaskan Arctic, you might think that the native people there would welcome the federal listing of the polar bear as a threatened species. After all, everyone loves polar bears (Knud, the Berlin Zoo’s über-cute furball, appeared on the cover of the May 2007 Vanity Fair, photographed by none other than Annie Leibovitz), and they bring tourism dollars to the Arctic, raising awareness of global warming at the same time. But the Iñupiat—the indigenous people around Barrow, for whom the bears are a cornerstone of their traditional hunting culture, along with whales, seals and caribou—argue that listing the polar bear as threatened won’t save it. And as I explored the polar bear’s frozen-sea habitat on the north coast of Alaska in the winter of 2007, I came to understand their point of view.

Dragging my supply sled toward my base in Barrow one frigid morning—it had been 30 below the night before, and I didn’t dare to check the temperature before I crawled out of my sleeping bag—I recalled the simple wonders of the past week. I’d heard the Arctic described as a wasteland, but nobody who’d taken the time to walk here could call it anything less than a thriving ecosystem. Cold, yes, but without question thriving, electric with life. I wanted to learn what native people thought about what was being done to protect this priceless wilderness in the face of increasing oil and gas exploration, and I thought the proposed listing of the polar bear as a threatened species might help smooth the way.

But Billy Leavitt, an Iñupiat hunter who picked me up on the outskirts of Barrow, blew that idea to pieces with a few words. As we tore down an ice road in his battered pickup truck, and a 60-below windchill blew through an open window—just about killing me but cooling him nicely—Billy gestured at the landscape, speaking in long, flat vowels and drawn-out consonants.

“It’s too warm for this time of year,” he said, “That global warming is really happening.”

“Yeah, I hear the polar bear is in trouble,” I replied, trying to sympathize. Billy tensed up.

“No,” he said, “That’s your Greenpeace people sayin’ that. That’s your conservationists,”—he spat the last word—“people who watch that Discovery Channel and then come up here to tell us how to hunt.” I considered myself a conservationist, but I had no reply to that conversation-stopper. I sat there wondering what else I might be wrong about.

Still, Billy cordially shook my hand when he dropped me off in Barrow, inviting me to come to his cabin out on the land. “You’ll learn a lot,” he said. Although I didn’t have a chance to visit him, I did take another trek, and learned a little more about his point of view. On March 7th, the residents of Barrow (over 60 percent Iñupiat) met with representatives of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the federal agency then considering listing the polar bear as threatened.

The Iñupiat Heritage Center, where the meeting was held, is a modern, multi-million-dollar facility at once a museum displaying relics of pre-contact life, a meeting hall, and a work area where walrus-hide boats are sewn together in preparation for whale-hunts. Once everyone’s snowmobiles had been parked it was quiet in the meeting hall, but the atmosphere was tense. A handful of Fish and Wildlife presenters sat at a table in the front of the hall, looking out at a hundred mostly native Barrow residents, who awaited the government’s presentation with patience, but no smiles.

The meeting began with the government representatives presenting their case for listing the polar bear, supported by two main points. First, the polar bear’s sea ice habitat has been steadily reduced in the past 30 years, a finding of 5 independent studies that nobody can deny: today, satellite imagery shows us an Alaska-sized hole in the summer sea ice cover, where 30 years ago it was a solid sheet, and the prediction is that by 2050, most of the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free in the summer, driving polar bears either to adapt to land in that season, or go extinct. The Iñupiat agreed with this, saying in fact that they’d been trying to raise the alarm over global warming for years. Still, they let this point slide.

Second, Fish and Wildlife argued that polar bear populations are already in decline, as seen in a study of the western Hudson Bay polar bear population, which they claimed has decreased by over 20 percent in the last 20 years. The Iñupiat weren’t so sure of this; like their Canadian counterparts, the Inuit, they believed that polar bear numbers were actually up, but that the bears had migrated out of the scientists’ survey areas. Still, Fish and Wildlife concluded that while over-hunting, disease, and other factors do not threaten the polar bear throughout its natural range, it should be listed as threatened because of the well-documented decline of sea ice.

Then the Iñupiat took the podium. For two hours they presented their own testimony, questioning Fish and Wildlife’s assumptions and facts, and making a strong case for entrusting the survival of the polar bear not to regulations dictated from Washington, D.C., but to the Iñupiat and other native polar people.

It’s not surprising that the Iñupiat’s discussion of polar bear biology, behavior, ecology, habitat, and population was more sophisticated than that of the Fish and Wildlife representatives; after all, the federal representatives had flown in from Washington or Anchorage, and would fly out in a day or two, while the Iñupiat lived their entire lives in the polar bear’s habitat. They were not new to the polar bear, and they weren’t impressed by 30-year studies that Fish and Wildlife called “long-term.” The Iñupiat had cultural knowledge about polar bears—and the rest of their ecosystem—that went back far longer. “As the ice retreats,” one hunter said, “some bears will follow it, and others will get stranded on land, like some of them are now, when the ice retreats in the summer. Those that follow the ice will survive, and those that live on the land will have to adapt, just like their ancestors did.” Glenn Sheehan, executive director of the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium, pointed out that the polar bear had been living with climate changes for more than 200,000 years, and that it had survived at least one other warming episode, the Medieval Warm period. “Have you considered that at all?” he asked the Fish and Wildlife representatives. “Do you even have data going back more than 50 years?”

The Iñupiat speakers included common citizens, native hunters, several whaling captains, and North Slope Borough mayor Edward S. Itta, all of whom looked hard into the eyes of the Fish and Wildlife representatives. After all, in this modest meeting they were doing nothing less than fighting to prevent yet another important part of their traditional life from being wrested away from them by a distant federal agency.

The Iñupiat based their opposition to polar bear listing on three main facts. First, in their experience polar bear numbers were not declining, an observation also noted by native Canadians on Hudson Bay, who say the decline there has been misunderstood by scientists who drop in from time to time, but fail to understand polar bear migration behavior. One resident pointed out that scientists were fond of saying they needed “holistic, long-term studies” of the polar bear, but were—insultingly and stupidly—ignoring exactly that kind of knowledge by relying on studies that “only went back a generation or two.” Mayor Itta sharply pointed out that the Fish and Wildlife study did not actually have empirical data for the population increase or decrease of polar bears in northern Alaska, only projections and estimates based on the Hudson Bay population, 4,000 miles away. If the tables were turned, Itta noted, Washington wouldn’t respond to hypotheses or hearsay; they’d want real, empirical data, and the Iñupiat deserved the same. In short, Fish and Wildlife’s data on the polar bear population was largely theoretical (they had admitted this in their own presentation), and based on no more empirical facts or observations than the Iñupiats’ own. The implication was clear to all: who would you rather trust about these numbers—the people who live in the area and observe the polar bear population day by day, or federal government monitors?

The Iñupiats’ second point was that they simply don’t take enough bears to threaten the species, only about 20 a year. Indeed, Fish and Wildlife’s own study concluded that over-hunting was not a threat in Canada (because of sound management policies there) or Alaska (because of the 30-year old Marine Mammal Protection Act). Barrow Arctic Science Consortium president and native hunter Richard Glenn told Fish and Wildlife, “If you want to address over-hunting, go to Russia, where they poach 200 polar bears a year!”

The third point, mentioned time and again, was summarized by Mayor Itta: “Listing the polar bear does not address the problem!” Whaling captain Charlie Brower said, “The problem—pointed out in your own study—is shrinking sea ice, which is caused by carbon dioxide emissions!” The Iñupiat said that listing the polar bear as threatened does nothing to address sea ice retreat; it’s just a measure meant to make people of the Lower 48 feel as though they’re “saving the polar bear” when in fact they’re doing nothing at all.

Listing a species as threatened or endangered is meant to force federally backed action to preserve that species’ critical habitat. If that habitat isn’t delineated, however, the listing has little value. In this case, the Fish and Wildlife Department found that the bears’ habitat needs were “undeterminable.” The proposed listing did not mention greenhouse gas or carbon emissions at all, an omission that was made overt when Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne announced the official threatened listing for polar bears on May 18, 2008. “The most significant part of today’s decision,” he said, “is what President Bush observed about climate change policy last month. President Bush noted that ‘The Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act were never meant to regulate global climate change.’”

If the polar bear’s critical sea ice habitat isn’t defined, the Iñupiat argued, and its reduction isn’t linked to human-induced warming brought about by greenhouse gas emissions, then listing the polar bear will not work as a lever to force action on climate change.

In short, the science brought by the Fish and Wildlife representatives to justify listing the polar bear as threatened looked great on paper, but was incomplete—even to other scientists—and ignored Iñupiat traditional knowledge. And putting the polar bear on the endangered list wouldn’t stop illegal poaching in Russia, or the sea ice from retreating, or anything else that was actually affecting polar bear populations. In fact it would mask the real issue of climate change.

The Iñupiat solution was for Washington to address climate change head-on by legislating global-warming preventatives, and leave the polar bears to the native peoples of the Arctic. After all, they are subsistence hunters who manage animal populations so that they will be there in the future. The word “sustainable” has been in the American consciousness for about a generation, while it has been the cornerstone of Iñupiat life for millennia. Not taking their lead in this issue would be a terrible loss of opportunity, especially considering that they are living on the front line of global warming, where change is felt first and foremost.

* * * * *

Dr. Cameron M. Smith, an archaeologist at Portland State University’s Department of Anthropology, has recently published The Top Ten Myths About Evolution (Prometheus, 2006) and has written articles for Scientific American MIND, Archaeology, Spaceflight, Playboy and other magazines. He returned to north Alaska in February 2008.