Monthly Archives: June 2007

Our Position on 9-11 Truth

This was a hot topic (see previous blog entry for details). ::::::An mp3 recording of the show is “attached” to this blog post.

My one hour radio show, the Downsize DC Conference Call, is on this afternoon (Sunday) at 4 PM Eastern (3 PM Central, 2 PM Mountain, and 1 PM Pacific). I think this may be one of the most memorable and important shows I’ll ever do.
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:::For about three years now, with each passing month, the call for DownsizeDC.org to do something on the topic of 9-11 has intensified. People have sent me videos, books, articles, and tons of emails, insisting that there was more there than met the eye.
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:::I have found some of this stuff to be interesting. However, the claims made in these various presentations almost always exceeded the evidence (when it should be the other way around). Some of them were sheer lunacy.
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:::In February a friend of mine lent me a DVD

Good news plus radio show

Please share with concerned friends . . .::::::Subject: Urgent action needed right now to support amendments stripping REAL ID provisions from the immigration bill.::::::The pressure is working. There are now two amendments to the immigration bill that would strip out the REAL ID, electronic background check provisions. We are told these amendments will come to the floor for a vote TODAY!

Today’s Downsizer Dispatch . . .::::::Please share with concerned friends . . .::::::Subject: Mind-boggling Congressional stupidity::::::Picture this: A Mexican migrant worker sits down to read the new 700+ page Senate immigration bill.::::::He doesn’t know a lick of English, but he’s giving it a go anyway. He wants to obey the law, so he has to know the difference between a Z-visa and an a, b, c, d or whatever visa.::::::Can’t imagine it happening? Well how about this . . .

Downsize DC Conference Call – June 3, 2007

On the base of the Statue of Liberty, are inscribed the immortal words of Emma Lazarus . . .

What did Congress do on May 14th to the 26th?

Today’s Downsizer-Dispatch…::::::Below my signature are three media announcements — two for TODAY (Friday) and one for Sunday. But today’s message is about demands: Your demands.
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:::Over the next couple of months, we at DownsizeDC.org plan to implement some important new things. These things all have one thing in common. YOU ASKED FOR THEM.
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:::The Downsize DC approach is unique. We seek to be transpartisan and populist to reach the broadest numbers of people possible. We seek campaigns and approaches that work because they reach people emotionally first. We seek to be realistically ambitious and relentlessly incremental.
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:::We seek to be non-partisan and balanced, committed to principles, not personalities and parties. And strategically, we prefer a friend or a bill already in Congress that is doing or would do the right thing.
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:::We also strongly prefer to find an “Archimedes Lever” that, with a simple push, could move the world. The Read the Bills Act combined with the One Subject at a Time Act, for example, would dramatically reform how Congress does business. And those simple, transpartisan, and populist procedural reforms would change the number and size of bills coming out of Congress — even the ultimate size of the federal government. They are, levers. 
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:::Some issues really interest us and, if we could push a button to make those certain things happen, we would. But we’re not going to be Don Quixote about it. We’re ambitious enough to stand on a principle and suggest bold action yet realistic enough to frame it in a way that gets attention and has a long-term possibility of success.
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:::Since before we launched DownsizeDC.org, we’ve been hearing from folks concerned about two pressing issues: