Archive for July 2006

News Advisory:

WakeUpWalMart.com, America’s campaign to change Wal-Mart, is taking its national movement, and headquarters, on the road in a non-stop cross-country tour hitting 19 states and 35 cities in 35 days. The nationwide bus tour, titled the “2006 Change Wal-Mart, Change America Tour,” is an unprecedented and exciting new move in the group’s campaign to change Wal-Mart into a responsible and moral employer.

The tour launches on August 1st in New York City and ends in Seattle on September 4th, Labor Day. During the tour, the WakeUpWalMart.com campaign will hold a series of events each day with supporters and political leaders to build public awareness about the need for Wal-Mart to change into a better corporate citizen. Some of the nation’s most prominent civic and political leaders will take part in the tour, including former Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate and former U.S. Senator John Edwards, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, Ohio U.S. Senate candidate Congressman Sherrod Brown, Maryland U.S. Senate candidates Congressman Ben Cardin and former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume, Connecticut U.S. Senate candidate Ned Lamont, Connecticut Governor candidate, John DeStefano, Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, President of the Change-to-Win labor federation Anna Burger, and many others. Additional announcements concerning speakers and event details will be made ahead of each of the tour stops.

“Whether it is at community meetings of 20 people, town halls, busy public squares, metro stops or state fairs with thousands of people, we are taking our campaign to change Wal-Mart directly to the American people because we know by joining together we can change Wal-Mart and change America for the better,” said Paul Blank, campaign director for WakeUpWalMart.com.

On the “2006 Change Wal-Mart, Change America” bus tour WakeUpWalMart.com will be holding a series of events and actions all across America, including townhalls, community meetings, canvasses, as well as a summer membership drive at sporting events, state fairs, public squares, and at various Wal-Mart stores. In addition, as part of the 5-week tour, WakeUpWalMart.com will also release a new 30-second ad, titled “One Mission” that will air in cities across the country in coordination with the tour stops.

“From the East Coast, to America’s heartland, to the West Coast, we are asking Americans to join the fight for a better America where workers have good paying jobs and affordable health benefits. Our goal is to unleash an exciting new grassroots movement to hold corporations accountable, empower the American people, and make Wal-Mart a responsible corporate citizen that provides affordable health care, pays a living wage, protects American jobs and reflects the best of our values,” added Blank.

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Think of this as part two of Recherche du trillions perdu, my Online Journal article on Dov Zakheim, former Bush appointee as Pentagon Comptroller from May 4, 2001 to March 10, 2004. At that time he was unable to explain the disappearance of $1 trillion dollars. Actually, nearly three years earlier, Donald Rumsfeld announced on September 10, 2001 that an audit discovered $2.3 trillion was also missing from the Pentagon books. That story, as I mentioned, was buried under 9-11’s rubble. The two sums disappeared on Zakheim’s watch.

Yet on May 6, 2004, Zakheim took a lucrative position at Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the most prestigious strategy consulting firms in the world. One of its clients then was Blessed Relief, a charity said to be a front for Osama bin Laden. Booz, Allen & Hamilton then also worked closely with DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is the research arm of the Department of Defense. So the dark card was shifted to another part of the deck.

Judicial Inc’s bio of Dov (linked below) tells us Zakheim was/is a dual Israeli/American citizen and an ordained rabbi and had been tracking the halls of US government for 25 years, casting defense policy and influence on Presidents Reagan, Clinton, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. He is, as I described him earlier, the bionic Zionist. In fact, Judicial Inc points out that most of Israel’s armaments were gotten thanks to him. Squads of US F-16 and F-15 were classified military surplus and sold to Israel at a fraction of their value.

Judicial Inc also points out that Israel, a country of 4.8 million Russian and Polish Jewish émigrés, flies on one of the biggest Air Forces in the world, thanks to Dov. Conflict of interest here? Depends on what you’re interested in. That is, in 2001 Dov was CEO of SPS International, part of System Planning Corporation, a defense contractor majoring in electronic warfare technologies, including remote-controlled aircraft systems, and the notorious Flight Termination System (FTS) technology that could hijack even a hijacked plane and land or crash it wherever.

More from the resume: Wikipedia points out that Zakheim is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and in 2000 a co-author of the Project for the New American Century’s position paper, Rebuilding America’s Defenses, advocating the necessity for a Pearl-Harbor-like incident to mobilize the country into war with its enemies, mostly Middle Eastern Muslim nations

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BULLHEAD CITY - They met in Las Vegas at a “Wake Up America Foundation” meeting over Memorial Day weekend and decided to form the Mohave County Minutemen.

Virginia Hilton is a retired grandmother from Bullhead City. Gianluca Zanna was an Italian immigrant who became a U.S. citizen “April 29, 2005,” a date he proudly recites.

Zanna recently relocated from Apple Valley, Calif., to Golden Valley, where he operates a music mixing business.

Hilton and Zanna said the group has 30 members spread out between Kingman and Bullhead City and has no real structure - no president or treasurer - with everyone on an equal footing.

Although they were “officially inspired” by the national Minutemen group and both are members, Hilton and Zanna decided to form their own group, which is not affiliated with the national organization.

“We’re a local group that likes to work with our local problems and take care of our local problems in our own way,” Zanna said.

Asked what the “local problems” are, Zanna and Hilton voiced their suspicion that developers are trucking in illegal immigrants to build houses.

Zanna and Hilton plan to document their hunches by taking pictures and contacting local and federal authorities.

Zanna said he’s also concerned California’s gang problems will surface in Mohave County. “We don’t have a big problem here,” Hilton said. “I’m sure it’s happening, but we don’t want it to become a big problem.”

Luis Lopez, president of the Lake Havasu City chapter of LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens) doesn’t have a high opinion of minutemen-type organizations.

“I think they’re more racist than anything else,” he said. “They’re just using (illegal immigration) as a pretense.”

Zanna replied to the racist charge this way: “I laugh … they try to play the last card they have.” He said his grandmother was Jewish and placed in a concentration camp during World War II.

Saying racism works both ways, Zanna pointed to a Latino organization, The National Council of La Raza (The Race) and quoted their creed:

“For the Race, everything, outside the Race, nothing.”

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ALLENTOWN — More than a half-dozen communities in eastern Pennsylvania have either passed or are considering crackdowns on illegal immigrants similar to the one approved by the city of Hazleton earlier this month.

Although the Hazleton measure will almost certainly face a legal challenge, officials in nearby municipalities said they want to discourage illegal immigrants who leave Hazleton from settling in their towns.

“If you don’t go along with what’s happening, you’re putting the bulls-eye right on your borough,” said Jerry Teter, manager of Mahanoy City, a former coal town about 15 miles from Hazleton that is about to approve its own illegal immigrant law.

Hazleton, a northeastern Pennsylvania city of about 31,000, approved one of the toughest measures of its kind in the United States earlier this month, imposing $1,000 fines on landlords who rent to undocumented immigrants, denying business permits to companies that give them jobs and making English the city’s official language.

Its mayor, Lou Barletta, has said that he proposed the law because illegal immigrants are committing crimes and draining city resources. It’s not clear how many illegal immigrants live in Hazleton, but the city’s Hispanic population has skyrocketed in recent years.

The Hazleton measure prompted officials in West Mahanoy Township, Shenandoah, Ashland, Frackville, Mount Pocono and Hazle Township to draft similar laws. Hazle Township, which borders Hazleton, has already approved its ordinance; votes in the other communities are expected soon.

“It’s about taking somebody’s good idea and acting on it,” said Dan McDavitt, a councilman in Mount Pocono. “It’s been a long-standing problem that the federal and state governments across the country have been failing to deal with.”

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