U.S. Chamber of Commerce

   Today we will be looking at the Chamber of Commerce, boys and girls, because you need to know what makes this agency tick!

   I will tell you right off the bat that this is another place that is run by a Bushco Crime Family member!

    That would be our esteemed Tom Donahue who just happens to be a corrupt lobbyist. He has taken the chamber and turned it into a tool for right-wing causes and the corporate crooks.

    As of late, he has push to weaken the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which was passed after the Enron scandal to ensure corporate accountability and to protect investors.

    Mr. Donahue has a little stock scandal of his own to contend with at the present time and it is not the first time he has had dealings with questionable companies.

   The current deal is that  Donahue is on the board of directors of Sunrise Senior Living which runs assisted living facilities for senior citizens.  you can read all of the gory details here from AlterNet

Naval Buildup in the Gulf for Iran?

      A senior Defense Department official said on Tuesday that the D.D. is thinking of a buildup of U.S. Navy forces in the Gulf as a show of force against Iran.

   The idea is to send a second aircraft carrier to the area in the midst of rising tensions with Iran, blamed for encouraging sectarian violence in neighboring Iraq as well as for allegedly pursuing a nuclear weapons program.

    The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower is already in the area. It left the U.S. for the area back in September escorted by 4 other ships and submarines with a total of 6,500 sailors.

    I did a post on this very same issue back in October dealing with our buildup that has in fact been going on much longer than announced on Tuesday.

    Although I have lost the original story, I do have the link to my information source at Global Research. Check it out!