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01/04/05

Saddam disputes US version of his capture

"I found the Americans around me and I did not have a back-up force. My weapon was far from me. I was arrested and terribly tortured in the first two days. If I knew they were near I would have fought them to death," al-Duleimi quoted Saddam as saying.

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Top Sunni Party Quits Election

The move by the Iraqi Islamic Party threatens to deepen the political alienation of the nation's Sunni Arabs, who make up about 20% of the population but were long favored under Saddam Hussein's government. Many Sunnis have supported the insurgency and fear that the upcoming ballot will only cement their loss of influence as majority Shiite Muslims vote for members of their own sect. Yet Sunni support for and participation in a new government are considered crucial to stabilizing Iraq.

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At the Epicenter, Tales of Death and of Stubborn Fights for Life

HOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia - Mulyana, a 24-year-old housewife, had just sat down to a wedding party on Sunday morning when the tsunami struck. She ran and held on to a coconut tree. But the water pulled her away anyway, far out to sea.

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01/03/05

Ohio GOP election officials ducking subpoenas as Kerry enters stolen vote fray

Richard Conglianese, Ohio Assistant Attorney General, is seeking a court order to protect Blackwell from testifying under oath about how the election was run. Blackwell, who administered Ohio's November 2 balloting, served as co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign.

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NASA web page supports theory that small asteroid helped cause the earthquake that created the tsunami

Could a asteroid passing so close + a full moon have added enough gravimetric influence to trigger the monster quake? Pull up this site.

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db?name=2004+VW14

Under the graphic of the orbits of Earth, Mars, Venus, Mercury and the asteroid (in blue) you will see something that looks like this:

<< < || > >> The double arrows << or >> will allow the graphic to start moving... it moves quite fast... you can either watch it fast, or click the single arrow and see it progress gradually or enter the date 12-24-04.

When you get to December 24th and 25th 2004... Christmas!! The asteroid really looks like it has crashed into the earth. It was well within .01 of a AU.

What do you make of the fact that this asteroid is passing this close to earth on Christmas Day?

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Explosive BBC Doc Exposes Decades-Old Neocon Deceits

"INTERVIEWER: Nothing true?

"CAHN: I don't believe anything in [Wolfowitz's 1977] Team B was really true."

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Briton Surfs Tsunami, Survives

HIKKADUWA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - British surfer Martin Markwell had always dreamed of catching that perfect wave -- but when it finally came along, it was a nightmare.

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01/01/05

Indonesia Needs Help, Death Toll Expected To Exceed 400,000

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 30 (Bernama) -- The death toll in Acheh, the region worst hit by last Sunday's tsunami, may exceed 400,000 as many affected areas could still not be reached for search and rescue operations, Indonesia's Ambassador to Malaysia Drs H. Rusdihardjo said Thursday.

He said the estimate was based on air surveillance by Indonesian authorities who found no signs of life in places like Meulaboh, Pulau Simeulue and Tapak Tuan while several islands off the west coast of Sumatera had "disappeared".

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12/31/04

Jesse Jackson on why he thinks John Kerry really won the election.

Thursday is when Congress is scheduled to certify the vote. Kerry should take the floor and ask for a debate on the subject. Kerry pulled out too early. The scrutiny pulled out with him.

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12/31/04

Tsunami Death Toll Jumps Over 120,000

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - The death toll in the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster soared above 120,000 on Thursday as millions scrambled for food and fresh water and thousands more fled in panic to high ground on rumors of new waves.

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Tsunami Death Toll Rockets to 114,000

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - The death toll from last weekend's earthquake-tsunami catastrophe rose to more than 114,000 on Thursday as Indonesia uncovered more and more dead from ravaged Sumatra island, where pilots dropped food to remote villages still unreachable by rescue workers. A false alarm that new killer waves were about to hit sparked panic in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

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Russia and China to Hold Joint Maneuvers

Moscow - Once-bitter rivals Russia and China will hold a massive joint military exercise on Chinese territory next year involving submarines and possibly strategic bombers, Russia's defense minister said Monday as the two nations move to bolster already burgeoning military ties.

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India Issues Evacuation for Coastal Areas

NAGAPPATTINAM, India - Residents fled their homes after authorities in southern India advised coastal areas to evacuate Thursday, warning there could be fresh tsunamis.

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12/29/04

Asia Earthquake, Tsunami Death Toll 36,946 to almost 57,000.

Officials fear the figure could rise to almost 57,000. Indonesia said its toll could hit 25,000, while Sri Lankan officials warned up to 25,000 people may have died there. Thailand said its toll may exceed 2,000.

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Insurgency in Iraq 'will not end': Powell

WASHINGTON, Dec 28 (AFP) - US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday that the insurgency in Iraq "will not end," as insurgents are determined to derail the country's democratic transition.

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precursor to a Kerry "un-concession"),

In announcing that the Kerry-Edwards group would join the bid in Federal District Court in Ohio to preserve all "evidence" from the election and recount there, Mr. Hoffheimer said, on behalf of the senators, that such preservation was necessary because, "Only then can the integrity of the entire electoral process and the election of Bush-Cheney warrant the public trust."

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12/28/04

Tsunami Kills 21,000 in Nine Countries

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Rescuers piled up bodies along coastlines devastated by a tsunami that obliterated seaside towns in Asia and Africa, killing 21,000 people in nine countries. Hundreds of children were buried in mass graves in India, and morgues and hospitals struggled Monday to cope with the catastrophe.

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Earthquake moves island of Sumatra

Los Angeles, CA, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The magnitude 9.0 earthquake off Indonesia moved the island of Sumatra about 100 feet to the southwest, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.

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12/25/04

Rumsfeld and Myers are lying about the attack in Mosul Iraq- It was not a suicide bomber

Insurgents have fired mortars at the chow hall more than 30 times this year. One round killed a female soldier with the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division in the summer as she scrambled for cover in one of the concrete bomb shelters. Workers are building a new steel and concrete chow hall for the soldiers just down the dusty dirt road.

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12/22/04

Report concludes "the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have created a shared anti-American cause among otherwise-divided Muslim extremists . . ."

Familiarizing oneself with PNAC and its agenda of maintaining "American [global] preeminence through the coming transformation of war made possible by new technologies" ("Rebuilding . . . ," pages 2-3) is all one really needs to know about the outright insanity that poses as American foreign "policy" today. I've cribbed the following few nougats from "Rebuilding . . ." to provide a brief taste of PNAC nuttiness:

One of PNAC's "four core missions for U.S. military forces" is to "perform the [global] 'constabulary' duties associated with shaping the security environment in critical regions" (page iv).

Nothing like being the world's top cop (or bully) to help "protect American interests and principles" (page 3). PNAC talks a lot about American interests and principles. I suspect these "interests" might quite closely mirror those of American corporations. I'm not so sure about the principles, though.

Torture, anyone?

Another "Rebuilding . . ." goodie: "Control the new 'international commons' of space and 'cyberspace,' and pave the way for the creation of a new military service—U.S. Space Forces—with the mission of space control" (page v).

The USSF will surely have spiffy-lookin' uniforms, perhaps modeled upon Dubya's "Dictator Special" jacket (complete with Marine Corps patch, "Commander-in-Chief" stitching, and, of course, epaulets,) he wore while speaking at Camp Pendleton recently.

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Industry Gears Up for Two-Headed Chips

Instead of building processors with a single core to handle calculations, designers will place two or more computing engines on a single chip. They won't run as fast as single-engine models, but they won't require as much power, either, and will be able to handle more work at once.

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Pentagon Seeks to Expand Role in Intelligence Collecting

Washington - The Pentagon is drawing up a plan that would give the military a more prominent role in intelligence-collection operations that have traditionally been the province of the Central Intelligence Agency, including missions aimed at terrorist groups and those involved in weapons proliferation, Defense Department officials say.

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'U.S. Soldier Killed Iraqi Teenager after Sex'

A US national guardsman who pleaded guilty to killing a 17-year-old Iraqi soldier said he shot the young man after they had consensual sex in a guard tower, a newspaper reported today, citing court-martial records.

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12/20/04

Text of Democratic response by Sen. Durbin

The Pentagon says the lack of protective equipment is a matter of logistics.

No, it's not. It's a matter of leadership. We've seen a litany of serious miscalculations from Pentagon leaders, stretching back to the earliest stages of this war when Secretary Rumsfeld ignored warnings from top military experts that success in Iraq would require far more troops and that our troops were likely to be met with strong resistance, not parades and flowers.

Those responsible for planning this war weren't prepared for the reality on the ground, and many of our soldiers have paid the price.

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U.S. isn't winning against Iraqi insurgents

WASHINGTON - The CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the State Department have warned President Bush that the United States and its Iraqi allies aren't winning the battle against Iraqi insurgents who are trying to derail the country's Jan. 30 elections, according to administration officials.

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“Neocons” in the Defense Department long ago urged an invasion of Iraq as a step toward U.S. control of the Middle East

By Paul Findley (who wrote the excellent 'They Dare to Speak Out' book about the power of the pro-Israel -AIPAC and similar- lobby in the USA) 12-14-04

Our most urgent challenge in Iraq is convincing the insurgents that we will pack and leave once a directly-elected government is installed. Distrust of U.S. intentions is the root cause of the bloody rebellion that seems to gain strength each month. Is the Bush Administration honest in stating that its objective is a stable, democratic Iraq? Or is that just a cover for permanent military bases that will enable the U.S. government to dominate Iraq far into the future.

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12/17/04

Jailed For Questioning Ohio Secretary Of State

I was surprisesd that very few Ohioans I spoke with over my week in the Buckeye state knew that the Secretary of State - in addition to being the constitutional officer in charge of the election - also served as co-chair of the Ohio campaign to elect Bush/Cheney, and as the spokesman for the state ballot initiative to ban gay marriage.

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Major US Defeat In Fallujah Claimed

A massive US ground offensive on Fallujah yesterday has ended in humiliating defeat for the Americans. While dust storms disabled US airpower, matters were further complicated when Allawi troops fled the battleground after 15 minutes of fighting and Mujahideen launched devastating attacks under the cover of poor visibility.

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"America Is So Much Better than This" By Senator Russ Feingold

The administration's record of the past four years suggests a foreign policy careening out of control, driven by ideologues who want to test their theories in the laboratory of the Middle East one minute, by domestic political considerations the next, and by spiteful attempts to punish those who disagree with their methods the next.

Where is this going? Who is in charge? Who knows? No one ever seems to be held accountable for the blunders, the failures, the wildly inaccurate presentations and projections or the painfully ineffective initiatives. Congress cannot simply accept more of the same, keep our heads down and hope that somehow we will muddle through. The stakes are far too high. Our national security, the stability of the world that our children will inherit, our troops - even our country's honor - are on the line. Congress has an obligation, not to oppose every administration effort, but to reassert our role in helping to steer the ship of state wisely rather than recklessly. I look at our foreign policy over the past four years, and I know that America is so much better than this

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9/11 Intel Bill expands powers of PATRIOT Act, "politicizes intelligence," loosens standards for FBI surveillance warrants, allows Justice Department to more easily detain people without bail, allow secret surveillance and search warrants, and establishes de facto national ID card

“Your papers, please”

U.S. adopts National ID:

Homeland Security takes charge of regulations for all US States drivers licenses and birth certificates

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12/15/04

US Generals tell Senators we are losing in Iraq

Senators Joseph Biden Jr. and Chuck Hagel just returned from Iraq, saying that not one American general said we were winning. REALLY....

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Startling new revelations highlight rare Congressional hearings on Ohio vote

On Sunday, John Kerry spoke with Rev. Jesse Jackson and urged him to take an more active role in investigating the irregularities and ensuring a fair and impartial recount. Kerry said there were three areas of inquiry that should be addressed: 92,000 ballots that recorded no vote for president; qualifying and counting provisional ballots; and supported an independent analysis of the software and set-up of the optical scan voting machines.

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Vote for Edwards instead of Kerry shocks Minnesota electors

There was stunned silence after the announcement that Edwards had gotten a vote for president, but none of the 10 electors volunteered that they voted for Edwards as a protest, nor did anyone step forward to admit an error.

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Over 100 Gather at Tennessee State Capital to Save Democracy

Nashville, TN: More than 100 people gathered Sunday at the State Capital in Nashville, Tennessee to take part in the national, "Gathering to Save Our Democracy" organized locally by activist Bernie Ellis. Tennesseans concerned about this issue gathered beginning at noon and soon there were over 100 people demanding clear and accountable elections. Yea Nashville

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New Wonderbras recalled after bursting open

The Wonderbra Clearly Daring range is designed to boost cleavage for women wearing plunging gowns — without any revealing straps. But the clear tie that holds the cups together keeps SNAPPING, leaving the wearer displaying more than they intended. I can't wait to buy one for my female friends

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12/14/04

Letter from an American soldier in Iraq

After the search was over and we discovered there were no weapons of mass destruction (the reason for which we to sent to fight and die), then President Bush announced that we are here not for WMD but for freedom of the Iraqis. That’s the biggest crock we have ever heard over here. Every soldier and marine here knows that the people don’t want us here. The see us as exactly what we are, foreign occupiers of their country who have killed tens of thousands of civilians including thousands of women and children in so-called collateral damage.

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Don't Let Iraq Vets Become Homeless

If the United States learned no other lesson from the Vietnam War, it should be that the nation must take steps to ensure veterans with mental health problems or addictions aren't allowed to become homeless.

A United Press International story reports that veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are starting to turn up in homeless shelters around the nation.

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U.S. caught in Kabul

Afghanistan's new "democratic" president is the world's most expensive mayor. Karzai rules only downtown Kabul, protected by 200 U.S. bodyguards, 17,000 U.S. troops and a token NATO force that includes Canadians. It costs Washington $1.6 billion US monthly to keep Karzai in power. Without the foreign troops' bayonets, Karzai's little puppet regime would quickly be swept away.

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12/13/04

Blackwell Locks Out Recount Volunteers

On Friday December 10 two certified volunteers for the Ohio Recount team assigned to Greene County were in process recording voting information from minority precincts in Greene County, and were stopped mid-count by a surprise order from Secretary of State Blackwell’s office. The Director Board of Elections stated that “all voter records for the state of Ohio were “locked-down,” and now they are not considered public records.” Ohio Revised Code Title XXXV Elections, Sec. 3503.26 that requires all election records to be made available for public inspection and copying. ORC Sec. 3599.161 makes it a crime for any employee of the Board of Elections to knowingly prevent or prohibit any person from inspecting the public records filed in the office of the Board of Elections. Finally, ORC Sec. 3599.42 clearly states: “A violation of any provision of Title XXXV (35) of the Revised Code constitutes a prima facie case of election fraud within the purview of such Title.”

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12/12/04

'Warehouse of bodies'

Another priority for the agency, Mr Rawi said, is the identification of "hundreds of bodies" collected and stored by US-led forces in a former potato warehouse.

Photographs of the corpses have to be taken and circulated among refugees from the city so that they could be identified and buried as soon as possible.

The Red Cross could not confirm whether the warehouse had refrigeration facilities to prevent the bodies from decaying

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The Fallujah Concentration Camp

Retina scans to get into your own home. Work details under armed guard. No cars. Military armor on every corner. All men to be shot on sight after curfew. No freedom of movement. These are just some of the details of the new order in Fallujah (and one assumes any other Iraqi city that the US destroys in the future). Somewhere between a concentration camp and what US troops called a strategic hamlet in Vietnam, this is the latest version of Washington's freedom and democracy installation in Iraq. How much clearer does it have to become before the US media and its brainwashed audience admit to themselves that this whole adventure is about domination and control? If there are any arms caches left in Fallujah after the US military finishes its so-called security searches, one can guarantee that these draconian measures being put into place will insure that those weapons will be used against US forces.

Who the hell do the US forces think they are? No matter how many ID badges they make people wear and guns they point in their face, they will not gain the trust of these people. That moment passed months ago. The oil that Washington wants to control will never be under their control and neither will the people of Iraq. This latest plan - a plan that essentially turns the Iraqi cities into prison camps - acknowledges that the US has lost the battle for many Iraqis hearts and minds and that it can only hope to get its way via coercion and murder. One only has to look at France's Algeria, Israel's Palestine, or Washington's Vietnam to realize the historical possibilities.

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What's behind the body armor story?

Yesterday, a National Guardsmen asked Donald Rumsfeld why soldiers were forced "to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic [i.e., bulletproof] glass to uparmor our vehicles". Rumsfeld's reply had two parts. First, he condescended: "[I]f you think about it," he said, "you can have all the armor in the world on a tank and a tank can [still] be blown up." Then, he explained: "You go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time."

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12/10/04

Why America MUST take the Middle East

December 10, 2004—Okay, now that Michael Ruppert and others tell us that in just 100 years the human race, mostly the West, mostly America, has used up half the world's oil, which took nature millions of years to produce, we have reached the state of Peak Oil. That is, America's peak supply output came somewhere back in the mid 1970s, and since, like most of the world's supply, has been bell-curving down, while demand has been bell-curving up. And so alarm bells are ringing everywhere. The frantic chase is on to monopolize oil and natural gas supply, from here to the Middle East, from Russia to the Caspian Basin, the Ukraine to Uzbekistan, the Caucasus to Canada, Africa, South America and all stops north, south, east and west.

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Congress Funds Mandatory Psychological Tests for Kids

One of the nation's leading medical groups, the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS), decried a move by the U.S. Senate to join with the House in funding a federal program AAPS says will lead to mandatory psychological testing of every child in America – without the consent of parents.

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US Army plagued by desertion and plunging morale

WHILE insurgents draw on deep wells of fury to expand their ranks in Iraq, the US military is fighting desertion, recruitment shortfalls and legal challenges from its own troops.

The irritation among the rank and file became all too clear this week when a soldier stood up in a televised session with Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, to ask why the world’s richest army was having to hunt for scrap metal to protect its vehicles.

The same night, interviews with three soldiers who are seeking refugee status in Canada, where they have become minor celebrities, dominated prime time television. They are among more the than 5,000 troops that CBS’s 60 Minutes reported on Wednesday had deserted since the war began.

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A former US congressmen has been jailed in Columbus, OH while attempting to deliver a letter about voting irregularities to Ken Blackwell.

Columbus police arrested Hamburg and his wife, Carrie, Wednesday for trespassing after refusing to leave a private downtown building that houses the secretary's office. Hamburg was an elected democrat, then a green and then a libertarian candidate in California.

The political activist and a small group with him said they wanted Blackwell to answer questions about voting problems from the November election.

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12/08/04

Conyers Hearings on Ohio Vote Fraud Coverage

WP: What did you think about Rep. Conyers saying he might object to the seating of the Ohio Electors?

JB: I think if the recount is proceeding beyond January 6th, that it is the duty of any member of Congress, any member of the U.S. Senate, under their sword duty to the constitution, to prevent a President from being sworn in until it has been determined who won the Presidency. You cannot have an election that is called free and fair, and have people sworn into office, while the votes are still being counted.

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University researchers challenge Bush win in Florida 'Something went awry with electronic voting in Florida,' says the lead researcher

NOVEMBER 18, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, said today that they have uncovered statistical irregularities associated with electronic voting machines in three Florida counties that may have given President George W. Bush 130,000 or more excess votes. The researchers are now calling on state and federal authorities to look into the problems.

The study, "The Effect of Electronic Voting Machines on Change in Support for Bush in the 2004 Florida Elections," was conducted by doctoral students and faculty from the university's sociology department and led by sociology professor Michael Hout.

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Cap Harnesses Human Thought to Move PC Cursor

Scientists have developed a non-invasive brain-computer interface that enables a person to move a cursor across a computer screen just by thinking about it. The device resembles a swimming cap riddled with electrodes, which users wear against their scalp. A computer program translates electrical signals in the brain to physical outputs, which govern the movement of a computer cursor.

The technology could enable people paralyzed by spinal cord injuries and strokes, for example, to control their brain activity in order to communicate via computer or to move mechanical devices.

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Prof. says vote numbers don't add up

As various media - including this paper - reported last month, Freeman's findings have helped fuel speculation that the election wasn't exactly, shall we say, on the up and up. More specifically, Freeman concluded in a paper on Nov. 10 - a paper, by the way, he has revised twice since - that the odds of exit polls in the critical states of Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania all being so far off were roughly 662,000 to 1.

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Russia Reveals Long-Range Cruise Missiles

Russia has broken the U.S. monopoly on the use of long-range conventional cruise missiles, Itar-Tass news agency quoted an unnamed senior air force commander as saying. These cruise missiles have a range of more than 3,000 kilometers and can hit a target to within a few meters while carrying a warhead of hundreds of kilotons.

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12/06/04

The Second Coming.... of Bush

There will be more security in and around DC than Hitler ever had at one of his rallies. Everything but the Nazi flags and goose-stepping SS men. There will be Coast Guard watches over all waterways around Washington, Air Force units on instant readiness (unlike the very odd and highly suspicious total lack of concern on September 11…in spite of many important warnings of an attack) with antiaircraft missile units in place all around the Beltway, on the ground and especially on the roofs of buildings around the Capitol and the White House. On the ground, heavily armed Special Forces units everywhere, waiting inside Federal buildings to emerge and “deal severely” with any organized crowd activity directed against the Head Chimpanzee. And I mean the orders are, and I have seen them, to drag protesters outside the view of the public and especially the cameras and beat the shit out of them

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IRAN LAUNCHES BIGGEST GROUND EXERCISE EVER

Officials said the Iran Army began the exercise on Dec. 3 in western Iran near the border with Iraq. They said the aim of the exercise was to demonstrate ground force capabilities and weaponry in an effort to deter any attack from the United States.

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Why the Feeney vote-rigging story sounds like disinformation

Why the Feeney vote-rigging story sounds like disinformation ABOUT DISINFORMATION: Like a good lie, it has elements of truth. Trouble is, the truth doesn't relate to the nuts and bolts of the story. For example in the Tom Feeney vote-manipulation story, people are documenting relationships between Tom Feeney and Yang, and between the writer of the story and other scandals, but so far the evidence presented does not back up the vote manipulation story itself.

DISINFORMATION IS DANGEROUS TO THE CLEAN VOTING MOVEMENT: Black Box Voting is finding real evidence consistent with fraud. We are even finding, in one of our investigations, evidence consistent with a systemic, or widespread breakdown in security, possibly exploited. Getting the facts is tedious, unexciting work, consisting of auditing and personal interviews, and it takes time. Many Americans want a magic bullet, a single shot that will blow the lid off everything at once.

That's risky. If the mainstream media continues to be bombarded with stories that sound credible, but aren't, when the real thing comes down the pike it will be ignored.

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12/06/04

Breaking News! Texas to Florida: White House-linked clandestine operation paid for "vote switching" software

. According to a notarized affidavit signed by Clint Curtis, while he was employed by the NASA Kennedy Space Center contractor, Yang Enterprises, Inc., during 2000, Feeney solicited him to write a program to "control the vote." At the time, Curtis was of the opinion that the program was to be used for preventing fraud in the in the 2002 election in Palm Beach County, Florida. His mind was changed, however, when the true intentions of Feeney became clear: the computer program was going to be used to suppress the Democratic vote in counties with large Democratic registrations.

According to Curtis, Feeney and other top brass at Yang Enterprises, a company located in a three-story building in Oviedo, Florida, wanted the prototype written in Visual Basic 5 (VB.5) in Microsoft Windows and the end-product designed to be portable across different Unix-based vote tabulation systems and to be "undetectable" to voters and election supervisors.

In the autumn of 1999, Curtis, who served as a sort of technology adviser for Yang, first became aware of Feeney's interest in election rigging. Curtis said at one meeting, Feeney "bragged that he could reduce the minority vote and deliver the election to 'George.'" At the same meeting, according to Curtis, Feeney said he had "implemented a list that would eliminate thousands of voters that would vote for Democratic candidates" and that "a proper placement of police patrols could further reduce the black vote by as much as 25 percent."

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7 Retired Mililtary Leaders Tell What Has Gone Wrong in Iraq

The nineteen months since the war in Iraq began, some of the most outspoken critics of President Bush's plan of attack have come from a group that should have been the most supportive: retired senior military leaders. We spoke with a group of generals and admirals that included a former supreme Allied commander and a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and they all agreed on one thing: Bush screwed up.

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181,000 voters in U.S. elections were dead

In addition to the registered deceased, thousands of voters were registered to vote in two locations, which could have allowed them to cast more than one ballot. More than 90,000 other voters in Ohio cast ballots without a valid presidential choice. Either they decided not to choose a candidate, the machine failed to register their choice, or they mistakenly voted for more than one candidate.

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Way to Go, Ohio

In Franklin County, the head of the board of elections, who happens to be the former head of the Franklin County Republican Party, failed to provide the necessary number of voting machines at the polls, even though he was made aware of the great increase in voter registrations and even though he had 68 extra voting machines available, according to Bob Fitrakis of the Columbus Free Press. In that city, "voters waited in the heavily Democratic wards between two and seven hours," he writes.

According to the Columbus Dispatch, voting machines were actually added in Republican precincts and taken away in Democratic ones.

Ohio voters have also given sworn testimony at public hearings of machines switching their Kerry votes over to Bush.

And in some heavily black precincts of Cleveland, obscure third party candidates were getting half to two-thirds as many votes as John Kerry, Fitrakis discovered, as did Juan Gonzales at The New York Daily News.

"In precinct 4F, located at Benedictine High School on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive," wrote Gonzales, "Kerry received 290 votes, Bush 21, and Michael Peroutka, candidate of the ultra-conservative anti-immigrant constitutional Party, an amazing 215 votes! . . . In precinct 4N, also at Benedictine High School, the tally was Kerry 318, Bush 21, and Libertarian party candidate Michael Badnarik 163."

Jackson's right. Something fishy did happen in Ohio.

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New round of challenges in Ohio vote

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two major challenges are expected to unfold Monday when Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell certifies the state's final presidential election results, declaring President Bush the winner by about 119,000 votes.

Lawyers representing voters upset about problems at the polls plan to contest the results with the Ohio Supreme Court, citing documented cases of long lines, a shortage of machines and a pattern of problems in predominantly black neighborhoods.

In addition, third party candidates, bolstered by a favorable federal court ruling, plan to file requests for a recount in each of Ohio's 88 counties. About 400 people rallied at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus on Saturday to demand a recount begin immediately.

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12/04/04

Daily News investigates vote totals in Ohio to reveal how possibly thousands of votes meant for John Kerry somehow ended up in the tallies of the two independent candidates.

In virtually all those precincts, Kerry's vote was lower than Al Gore's in 2000, even though there was a record turnout in the black community this time, and even though blacks voted overwhelmingly for Kerry.

If this same pattern held true in other cities around Ohio, then quite possibly thousands of votes meant for Kerry somehow ended up in the tallies of the two independent candidates. So far, however, precinct-by-precinct results have not been posted by boards of elections in other counties, but by Thursday all official results are due.

On Monday, Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell will certify Ohio's results and then a manual recount will be requested by the Green and Libertarian parties.

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Voter Fraud in Florida and Ohio: Kerry Won the Election by at least 1,7 Million Votes

The truth about this election is this: Florida and Ohio had to go for Bush in order for him to "win" the election. In reality he lost both states. In fact, he did not even win the popular vote. He lost the national popular vote by at least 1,750,000. This shows you the scale of the fraud.

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Baghdad Cut Off On All Sides: Deadly airport road now only way out

The situation on the airport road has become a metaphor for the entire Iraq mission. More than 18 months after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the world's most powerful military cannot guarantee the safety of Iraqis, foreigners and its own troops who use one of the country's most important routes

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Conyers to Hold Hearings on Ohio Vote Fraud

Democratic Representative John Conyers, Jr. of Michigan, ranking Minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, will hold a hearing on Wednesday 08 December 2004 to investigate allegations of vote fraud and irregularities in Ohio during the 2004 Presidential election. The hearing is slated to begin at 10:00 a.m. EST in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington DC.

Democratic Representatives Melvin Watt and Robert Scott will also be centrally involved with the hearing. Rev. Jesse Jackson will be in attendance, along with Ralph Neas (President, People for the American Way), Jon Greenbaum (Director, Voting Rights Project, Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights Under Law), Ellie Smeal (Executive Director, The Feminist Majority), Bob Fitrakis ( The Free Press), Cliff Arnebeck (Arnebeck Associates), John Bonifaz (General Counsel, National Voting Institute), Steve Rosenfeld (Producer, Air America Radio), and Shawnta Walcott (Communications Director, Zogby International). Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell has been invited to attend.

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Zapped human eggs divide without sperm

A trick that persuades human eggs to divide as if they have been fertilised could provide a source of embryonic stem cells that sidesteps ethical objections to existing techniques. It could also be deployed to improve the success rate of IVF.

“Embryos” created by the procedure do not contain any paternal chromosomes – just two sets of chromosomes from the mother – and so cannot develop into babies. This should remove the ethical objections that some people have to harvesting from donated human embryos. There are high hopes that stem cells, which can develop into many different cell types, could be used to treat a range of diseases.

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12/03/04

FALLUJAH

Why?

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12/02/04

Raytheon 'Heat Beam' Weapon Ready For Iraq

Government defense giant Raytheon Co. has developed the first nonlethal weapon that fires a heat beam to repel enemies and reduces the chance of innocent civilians being shot

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Tenet calls for Internet security

"I know that these actions will be controversial in this age when we still think the Internet is a free and open society with no control or accountability," he told an information-technology security conference in Washington, "but ultimately the Wild West must give way to governance and control." Translation: "Free speech? WHAT Free Speech?!?"

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12/01/04

Kerry-Edwards campaign files papers in Ohio to intervene in legal proceedings in defense of Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb, Libertarian Michael Badnarik

Ohio — Today, attorneys representing the Kerry-Edwards campaign filed papers in Delaware County, Ohio to intervene in legal proceedings in defense of Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb, Libertarian Michael Badnarik and their legal counsel, the National Voting Rights Institute, who are seeking a recount of all votes cast for president in the Ohio 2004 general election.

On November 23, at the request of the Delaware County Board of Elections, a Delaware County judge issued a temporary restraining order against Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb, Libertarian Michael Badnarik and the National Voting Rights Institute, seeking to prevent them from initiating a recount of the presidential vote in that county.

The judge issued the order without first consulting the candidates or their attorneys.

Editors Note: Jesse Jackson, John Kerry, Ralph Nader, Julian Bond, John Edwards, Green Party Canidate David Cobb and Libertarian Candidate Micheal Badnarik all involved in the Ohio recount effort and the national media is still in black out mode!!! Simply Amazing

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Something's fishy in Ohio BY JESSE JACKSON

In Ohio, a court just ruled there can't be a recount yet, because the vote is not yet counted. It's three weeks after the election, and Ohio still hasn't counted the votes and certified the election. Some 93,000 overvotes and undervotes are not counted; 155,000 provisional ballots are only now being counted. Absentee ballots cast in the two days prior to the election haven't been counted.

Ohio determines the election, but the state has not yet counted the vote. That outrage is made intolerable by the fact that the secretary of state in charge of this operation, Ken Blackwell, holds -- like Katherine Harris of Florida's fiasco in 2000 -- a dual role: secretary of state with control over voting procedures and co-chair of George Bush's Ohio campaign. Blackwell should recuse himself so that a thorough investigation, count and recount of Ohio's vote can be made.

Blackwell reversed rules on provisional ballots in place in the spring primaries. These allowed voters to cast provisional ballots anywhere in their county, even if they were in the wrong precinct, reflecting the chief rationale for provisional ballots: to ensure that those who went to the wrong place by mistake could have their votes counted. The result of this decision -- why does this not surprise? -- was to disqualify disproportionately ballots cast in heavily Democratic Cuyahoga County.

Blackwell also permitted the use of electronic machines that provided no paper record. The maker of many of these machines, the head of Diebold Co., promised to deliver Ohio for Bush. In one precinct in Franklin County, an electric voting system gave Bush 3,893 extra votes out of a total of 638 votes cast.

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US sends Killer Robots to Iraq

ORLANDO, Florida -- Hunting for guerillas, handling roadside bombs, crawling across the caves and crumbling towns of Afghanistan and Iraq -- all of that was just a start. Now, the Army is prepping its squad of robotic vehicles for a new set of assignments. And this time, they'll be carrying guns

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The president's real goal in Iraq

In recent days, those missing pieces have finally begun to fall into place. As it turns out, this is not really about Iraq. It is not about weapons of mass destruction, or terrorism, or Saddam, or U.N. resolutions.This war, should it come, is intended to mark the official emergence of the United States as a full-fledged global empire, seizing sole responsibility and authority as planetary policeman. It would be the culmination of a plan 10 years or more in the making, carried out by those who believe the United States must seize the opportunity for global domination, even if it means becoming the "American imperialists" that our enemies always claimed we were.

Once that is understood, other mysteries solve themselves. For example, why does the administration seem unconcerned about an exit strategy from Iraq once Saddam is toppled?

Because we won't be leaving. Having conquered Iraq, the United States will create permanent military bases in that country from which to dominate the Middle East, including neighboring Iran.

In an interview Friday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld brushed aside that suggestion, noting that the United States does not covet other nations' territory. That may be true, but 57 years after World War II ended, we still have major bases in Germany and Japan. We will do the same in Iraq.

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George W. Bush has further fuelled a Canadian controversy with an aggressive pitch for Ottawa's participation in a continental ballistic missile defence program

The president talked about the future of NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defence Command) and the continental defence plan in a private meeting with Martin, then talked about it publicly as the two men met reporters following a working lunch at the Lester B. Pearson building here yesterday. Martin, according to his advisers, told Bush there was a debate on the missile shield program in this country and the Prime Minister had made a commitment to consult Parliament before making a decision on Canadian participation.

"We talked about the future of NORAD and how that organization can best meet emerging threats and safeguard our continent against attack from ballistic missiles," Bush said, as Martin stood silently beside him and thousands protested Bush's visit outside the building.

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11/30/04

Jesse Jackson seeks voting probe

"We are pulling people together from around the state," Jackson, president of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition said in a telephone interview Sunday. "The Ohio race has not yet been (decided) because of so many irregularities 26 days after the election."

Jackson on Sunday called for a recount of votes and said the Ohio Supreme Court should consider setting aside President Bush's victory Nov. 2. Jackson and others are complaining about uncounted punch-card votes, disqualified provisional ballots, discrepancies between exit polling and results, and too many votes counted for President Bush in Ohio. Bush defeated Democrat John Kerry in Ohio by 136,000 votes, according to unofficial results.

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We can live with winning and losing. We cannot live with fraud and stealing,'' Jackson said Sunday at Mount Hermon Baptist Church.

Since then, there have been demands for a recount and complaints about uncounted punch-card votes, disqualified provisional ballots and a ballot-machine error that gave hundreds of extra votes to Bush.

Jackson said too many questions have been raised to let the vote stand without closer examination.

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Fallujah's 9/11: U.S. Used Weapons of Mass Destruction

The bomb blitz featured weapons of mass destruction: banned napalm-type munitions, chemical poison gas and super-bombs of up to 2,000-pounds. The ground assault was indiscriminate. The target was a city where at least 60,000 civilians outnumbered rebel fighters by over thirty to one.

The attack on Fallujah was the worst single terrorism atrocity since 2,752 people died in New York on Tuesday, 9/11/2001. Around two hundred were killed in the 3/11 Madrid train bombings and a similar number in the Bali blast. But, the Iraqi Red Crescent fear that up to 6,000 may have been killed so far, in the terror which is being visited on Fallujah.

If the emerging reports prove true, the US military commanders and their political superiors, who ordered the atrocities must be tried for war crimes. The evidence of those crimes is accumulating, as accounts by aid workers' from inside Fallujah manage to bypass reporting restrictions.

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Kerry Supports Ohio Vote Investigation, Jackson says

John Kerry supports a “full investigation” into voting irregularities in Ohio, Rev. Jesse Jackson said Saturday, during a teleconference with media regarding a recount and legal challenge of the Nov. 2 vote.

“John Kerry supports a full investigation,” Jackson said. He recently spoke with the Democratic presidential nominee and reported that Kerry said he conceded the race on the morning after Election Day because “originally, he was inclined to believe what he was told” about the results. On Wednesday, Nov. 3, Kerry said there was little chance he could close George W. Bush’s 130,000-vote lead with the uncounted provisional and absentee ballots.

Editors Note: John Kerry, Jesse Jackson,Julian Bond,Ralph Nader,AFLCIO and the NAACP all involved in the effort and yet the mainstream media maintains its blackout on the story.

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Aljazeera Reports: US army blocks aid convoy for Falluja

"There is a terrible crime going in Falluja and they do not want anybody to know. I transferred four injured people from the Jordanian field hospital to a hospital in Baghdad.

"They told me that there is a crime in there; chemical weapons are being used. The corpses don't have traces of gunshots but black patches

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FALLUJAH NAPALMED

US troops are secretly using outlawed napalm gas to wipe out remaining insurgents in and around Fallujah.

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10/29/04

NBC's "The Today Show" co-host Matt Lauer and "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert among outsiders considered as successors to Dan Rather

For now, according to senior officials of parent company Viacom, CBS execs have decided to move on to other potential candidates. Among them are two oft-mentioned internal prospects: CBS's chief White House correspondent John Roberts and "60 Minutes Wednesday" correspondent Scott Pelley. But the fact that CBS is even considering Lauer and Russert, two of broadcast journalism's biggest stars, is a sign of CBS chairman Leslie Moonves's determination to dramatically overhaul CBS News in the wake of Rather's departure, reports Senior Writer Johnnie L. Roberts in the December 6 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, November 29).

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10/27/04

India, China and other countries start dumping US dollar and buy Euro

India, China and other countries have started dumping US Dollar quietly and buying Euro. That put a very serious pressure on US Dollar. Chinese and Indian central bank officials denied such reports. But Foreign exchange traders say they are quite convinced of Indian and Chinese moves. According some traders, there are many other countries specially oil rich Middle Eastern countries running away from dollar.

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Killer Bullfrogs On The Loose In BC

They will eat just about anything," said Mr. Burton, who over the seasons has heard the deep, honking sound of bullfrogs displace the songs of water birds on the lake, about 120 kilometres north of Vancouver.

"A small duck doesn't stand a hope in hell. They are like alligators. I'll tell you, boy, don't put your fingers over the side of the boat."

Mr. Burton said he first realized bullfrogs were eating birds a few years ago. He was standing in a marshy area on Cranberry Lake when a flock of small sandpipers landed.

"There was a big splash, and the flock took off," Mr. Burton recalled. "By the time I got over there to have a look, here was this bullfrog with a sandpiper in its mouth, just the corner of the wings sticking out."

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Proof of Lies And Evidence Fabrication Against The Hijacker Suspects of 9-11

Imagine the FBI's dismay when it turned out that Adnan Bukhari was still alive, Ameer Bukhari had died a year before and Abdul Rahman Alomari and Amer Kamfar were both still alive and living in Saudi Arabia. It doesn't take a massive leap of imagination to work out that at least four of the five people on this manifest (Flight 11) were using the names and identities of the people listed above.

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10/26/04

Iraq ; 'Unusual Weapons' Used in Fallujah

Hammad is from the Julan district of Fallujah where some of the heaviest fighting occurred. Other residents of that area report the use of illegal weapons.

”They used these weird bombs that put up smoke like a mushroom cloud,” Abu Sabah, another Fallujah refugee from the Julan area told IPS. ”Then small pieces fall from the air with long tails of smoke behind them.”

He said pieces of these bombs exploded into large fires that burnt the skin even when water was thrown on the burns. Phosphorous weapons as well as napalm are known to cause such effects. ”People suffered so much from these,” he said.

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I refuse to fly anymore. I refuse to be treated like a criminal

I am one of those suspicious characters that every single time I fly, get "selected" for "special screening." I get to take off my shoes, spread my legs and arms to get "wanded" and then get patted down. When I ask why I was picked out of line, I was told that it was simply "random screening." The problem is that I "randomly" get selected every single time.

Let me confess what kind of "criminal suspect" I am: I served in the US Marine Corps from 1964-1968, twelve months of which I was in Vietnam as a Marine infantryman, hunting Vietcong for Uncle Sam's Shooting Club. I was wounded in action and medevaced home. I was awarded six combat decorations including the Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Vietnam Cross of Gallantry, Vietnam Service Medal and Vietnam Campaign medal. I went on to serve later in the Army National Guard, as an NCO, then obtaining a comission as the oldest member of my OCS class. I rose through the ranks, eventually transferring ot the Army Reserve to serve as a company commander, battalion staff officer, and finally an intel officer. I retired in 1999 as a lieutenant colonel with 30 years total service. I am now also a 60% disabled vet due to combat wounds which have worsened over the years.

At the same time my day job was as a police officer. I served 26 years with the Tulsa PD, working uniform, plain clothes, SWAT, bomb squad and finally as a police helicopter pilot for 3600 hours of flight time. I received the department's Medal of Valor, two Chief's Medals, and the Department Commendation Medal. Not exactly the profile of a terrorist suspect, eh?

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Media Blackout on Election Fraud by Media News Group

To those of us on the inside of this issue, it seems inconceivable that our local newspapers would offer a front page story on election fraud in Ukraine while ignoring stories of the same right here at home in the United States. Every day, since November 2nd, 2004, stories have emerged detailing such things as malfunctioning voting machines, fraudulent election records in Volusia, Florida, inconsistent numbers of voter registrations vs. vote totals in Ohio, credible university studies showing serious statistical impossibilities in election results, and much more. Yet, these daily revelations have been almost completely ignored by our media. These reports are coming not from persons with tin foil hats as is often claimed, but from PhD level citizens, election officials, and voting rights activists.

But to the rest of America, who get their information from corporate owned media sources, there is nothing missing from the daily news. That's because, if they don't report it, it didn't happen. For most of America, we trust our local papers to report honestly and fairly. But what many of us don't realize is that our local newspapers are not so local after all.

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10/25/04

Is the Annexation of Canada part of Bush's Military Agenda?

Territorial control over Canada is part of Washington's geopolitical and military agenda as formulated in April 2002 by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "Binational integration" of military command structures is also contemplated alongside a major revamping in the areas of immigration, law enforcement and intelligence.

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School bans history materials referring to God including the Declaration of Independence

Among the materials she has rejected, according to Williams, are excerpts from the Declaration of Independence, George Washington's journal, John Adams' diary, Samuel Adams' "The Rights of the Colonists" and William Penn's "The Frame of Government of Pennsylvania."

"He hands out a lot of material and perhaps 5 to 10 percent refers to God and Christianity because that's what the founders wrote," said Thompson, a lawyer for the Alliance Defense Fund, which advocates for religious freedom. "The principal seems to be systematically censoring material that refers to Christianity, and it is pure discrimination."

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Planeloads of Russian Special Forces Land in Ukraine

According to Ukrainian media and Viktor Yushchenko's presidential campaign, two Russian aircraft landed at the Kiev's Boryspil international airport today carrying military personnel of the “Vitiaz” submarine special forces unit.

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Ukraine on brink of 'civil war'

Calling for a general strike, Mr Yushchenko told a vast crowd of supporters in the central Independence Square that Ukraine was on the brink of a "civil conflict".

Mr Kuchma, who backs Mr Yanukovych, denounced the opposition protests and warned civil war "could well become a reality at the present time".

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Mysterious ‘George W. Bush: Our leader' billboard graces Orlando freeway

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10/23/04

Militant groups control 60 percent of Fallujah: witnesses

NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq, Nov. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Militant groups in battle-torn Fallujah have controlled 60 percent of the central Iraqi city and surrounded dozens of US Marines in Jolan district,witnesses said Sunday.

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Mass Offensive Launched South of Baghdad

Some 5,000 U.S. Marines, British troops and Iraqi commandos launched raids and arrested suspected insurgents Tuesday in a new offensive aimed at clearing a swath of insurgent hotbeds south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. Translation: "They didn't STAY conquered!"

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Plague of Locusts

A swarm of locust is seen in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, in the Red Sea, Sunday Nov. 21, 2004. Swarms of locusts that arrived from Egypt to southern Israel devoured lawns and palm trees on Sunday, causing a panic among farmers and children. (AP Photo/Mori Chen)

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10/22/04

Flashback: Edwards calls on Bush to return funds from Diebold exec

John Edwards is calling on President Bush to return more than $100,000 donated to his campaign by a major manufacturer of voting machines, saying the relationship could damage confidence in elections.

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ANOTHER WAR CRIME

Take a close look at these dead bodies. Many have been stripped to the waist, and the body on the right is clearly wearing handcuffs. Since one does not handcuff an already dead man, we may conclude that this invidual at least met his death while already a prisoner of war.

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10/20/04

Saddam's wife says thats not her husband

The outcome of their meeting turned out to be quite scandalous. Sajina claims that the person she encountered was not her husband, but his double.

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Violence Breaks Out All Over Baghdad

Barge into a Mosque (with shoes on), shoot up a bunch of people in the middle of their prayers, 4 dead, 20 wounded, bullet holes everywhere in their house of worship... You were expecting flowers?

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Anti-Bush Protesters Battle Police at Chile Summit

Tens of thousands of people streamed through central Santiago carrying banners and chanting slogans against the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq, including "Fascist Bush is a terrorist."

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How the Grinch stole the White House . . . again

November 20, 2004—Despite corporate media attempts to kill or ridicule away the story, Talk Radio and the Internet are abuzz with considerable evidence that John Kerry was elected president on November 2, but that Republican election officials made it difficult for millions of Democrats to vote while employees of four secretive, GOP-bankrolling corporations rigged electronic voting machines and then hacked central tabulating computers to steal the election for George W. Bush.

The Wall Street Journal recently revealed that: “Verified Voting, a group formed by a Stanford University professor to assess electronic voting, has collected 31,000 reports of election fraud and other problems.” AP/ABC observes that some of the first 1100 problem machines were taken off-line—but many others were not.

University of Pennsylvania researcher Dr. Steven Freeman, in his November 2004 paper “The Unexplained Election Poll Discrepancy,” concludes: “The odds of the discrepancies between predicted [exit poll] results and actual vote counts in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania could have been due to chance or random error are 250 million to 1,” so the unavoidable hypothesis is that they were caused by “systematic fraud or manipulation.”

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10/19/04

UL Executive Speaks Out on WTC Study

"The buildings should have easily withstood the thermal stress caused by pools of burning jet fuel." - Kevin Ryan

We know that the steel components were certified to ASTM E119. The time temperature curves for this standard require the samples to be exposed to temperatures around 2000F for several hours. And as we all agree, the steel applied met those specifications. Additionally, I think we can all agree that even un-fireproofed steel will not melt until reaching red-hot temperatures of nearly 3000F (2). Why Dr. Brown would imply that 2000F would melt the high-grade steel used in those buildings makes no sense at all.

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11/18/04

Bev Harris Finds 'Missing' FL Vote Records In Trash!

Kathleen Wynne and I showed up at the warehouse at 8:15 this morning. There was Lana Hires looking especially gruff, yet surprised. She ordered us out. Well, we couldn't see why because there she was, with a couple other people, handling the original poll tapes. You know, the ones with the signatures on them. We stepped out and they promptly shut the door behind us.

There was a trash bag on the porch outside the door. I looked into it and what do you know, but there were poll tapes in there. They came out and glared at us. We drove away a small bit, and then videotaped the license plates of the two vehicles marked 'City Council' member. Others came out to glare and soon all doors were slammed.

So, we went and parked behind a bus to see what they would do next. They pulled out some large pylons, which blocked the door. I decided to go look at the garbage some more. Kathleen videotaped this. A man came out and I immediately wrote a public records request for the contents of the garbage bag, which also contained ballots -- real ones, but not filled out.

A brief tug of war occurred, tearing the garbage bag open. We then looked through it, as Pete looked on. He was quite friendly.

We collected various poll tapes and other information and asked if they could copy it for us, for our public records request. "You won't be going anywhere," said Pete. "The deputy is on his way."

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FALLUJA ARITHMETIC LESSON

Today's New York Times, page 1: "American commanders said 38 service members had been killed and 275 wounded in the Falluja assault."

Today's New York Times, page 11: "The American military hospital here reported that it had treated 419 American soldiers since the siege of Falluja began."

Questions for the class: 1. If 275 soldiers were wounded in Falluja and 419 are treated for wounds, how many were shot on the plane ride to Germany?

-WRH

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UC Berkeley Research Team: Electronic voting irregularities may have awarded 130,000 to 260,000 excess votes to Bush in Florida

A research team at UC Berkeley will report that irregularities associated with electronic voting machines may have awarded 130,000 - 260,000 or more excess votes to President George W. Bush in Florida in the 2004 presidential election. The study shows an unexplained discrepancy between votes for President Bush in counties where electronic voting machines were used versus counties using traditional voting methods. Discrepancies this large or larger rarely arise by chance -- the probability is less than 0.1 percent. The research team, led by Professor Michael Hout, will formally disclose results of the study at the press conference.

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11/17/04

FALLUJA: Summarily Executed

Just as the dust settles the reality sinks into the main-stream media. Countless people all over the world screaming out that the attacks on Fallujah must stop, witnessing crimes against humanity unfolding on our televisions. Now they finally see the crimes and the charges begin to be laid. Its premeditated murder when an unarmed or injured person is summarily executed.

The media see it now, of course after thousands of voices all over the world cry out. They finally see the implications of such behaviour and considered the repercussions of a lawless and illegal war. As Norman Hermant from Lateline (ABC) rightly points out, if the insurgence think that coalitions forces take no prisoners or that they will be summarily executed even when unarmed they will fight to the death.

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Yasser Arafat : Death, Delusion and Democracy

It's worth noting how this narrative has been written. The Israelis, with their continued occupation, their continued illegal construction of colonies for Jews and Jews only on Arab land, their air strikes and helicopter executions and live-fire shooting at stone-throwing children, are not part of this equation. They are just innocently waiting to find a new "negotiating partner" now that Arafat is in his grave. Ariel Sharon, held "personally responsible" for the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre by the Kahan commission report, remains, in George Bush's words, "a man of peace". No one asks whether he can control his own army. Or whether he can control his own settlers. He wants to close down the colonies in Gaza - even though his spokesman has told us that this will put Palestinian statehood into "formaldehyde".

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Bush threatens mankind, says Caldicott

11/16/04 "SMH" --- Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr Helen Caldicott fears US President George Bush's re-election will lead to Armageddon and she isn't sure if mankind would survive another four years.

"This is the most serious election that has ever occurred in the history of the human race, without a scrag of doubt," she told smh.com.

"I don't know if we'll survive the next four years ... I don't think the Americans have, on the whole, the faintest idea - and I have to say also I don't think most Australians do either. But it's not just the threat from nuclear war. It's the threat of what's happening to the environment, the global warming which is occurring rapidly now, to ozone depletion, to species extinction, to deforestation - it's the whole thing."

Speaking from her son Will's Boston home, the Australian paediatrician, who runs the Nuclear Policy Research Institute in Washington, has just spent a frantic two-and-a-half months criss-crossing America to deliver her anti-nuclear and anti-Bush message. She discovered the country was more divided than at any time since she first stepped onto American soil in 1966.

Early on election day she was convinced Democratic challenger John Kerry would win but reality soon set in. "This is what I've been afraid of and I actually can't believe it's happening," she said. "The voter turnout was so high, which should have supported Kerry.

"I don't think I've ever felt so personally, politically devastated in my life and that includes when [former president Ronald] Reagan won a second term of office - which was pretty devastating for me as I was so heavily involved in the anti-nuclear movement in those days.

"But this is worse, these people are much worse than the Reagan people."

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Another VIBE award show another fight

Many in the constantly feuding rap community speculated that longtime Dre antagonist Suge Knight, who attended the awards, arranged for Dre to get punched. Suge and Dre started the legendary Death Row record label together in the late 1980s, then had a bitter separation over money and the violence that has surrounded Knight during his 15 years in the music business.

Knight denied any involvement in the attack on Dre.

This tradition needs to end

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11/15/04

US liberals: a 'people without a country'

November 12, 2004—On Sunday a young American, distraught over Bush's election, drove to ground zero in Manhattan and shot himself. Canadian consulates are reporting a substantial increase in Americans applying for residency, while actor Robert Redford's antipathy for Bush is such that he has expressed the desire to live in Ireland for the next four years.

Thomas L. Friedman wrote in his post-election op-ed "Two nations under God (Gulf News, November 8)": " . . . We don't just disagree on what America should be doing; we disagree on what America is".

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The Despoiling of America

It happened quietly, with barely a mention in the media. Only the Washington Post dutifully reported it.[1] And only Kevin Phillips saw its significance in his new book, American Dynasty.[2] On December 24, 2001, Pat Robertson resigned his position as President of the Christian Coalition.

Behind the scenes religious conservatives were abuzz with excitement. They believed Robertson had stepped down to allow the ascendance of the President of the United States of America to take his rightful place as the head of the true American Holy Christian Church.

Robertson’s act was symbolic, but it carried a secret and solemn revelation to the faithful. It was the signal that the Bush administration was a government under God that was led by an anointed President who would be the first regent in a dynasty of regents awaiting the return of Jesus to earth. The President would now be the minister through whom God would execute His will in the nation. George W. Bush accepted his scepter and his sword with humility, grace and a sense of exultation.

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Intelligent American Voters Lost More Than An Election

It is so blatantly arrogant and hypocritical for an American government to have the audacity to destroy another country under the pretense of "spreading democracy", when this same government can't even ensure that our own democratic system will work on the most critical day of the year. We've had almost 230 years to perfect our brand of democracy, and this is the best we can do? What kind of democracy should Iraqis expect from us? That's a rhetorical question, of course, as democracy was never the reason for destroying Iraq.

I wonder if the religious voters who are so jubilant over their influence on this election even realize what they've done. Are they aware that there is a bill being considered now to grant God more power than the U.S. Supreme Court? This bill probably sounds like a wonderful idea to these religious voters, but the Founding Fathers (many of whom were religious) are turning in their graves. When drawing the blueprint for this country 230 years ago, they made absolutely sure that government and religion would remain seperate. It has always been a cornerstone of what America represented to the world - freedom.

Yet, as these voters wave flags and proclaim their fervor to "let freedom ring", they elect someone who promises to do his best to undermine freedom in our own country, as he did with the so-called "Patriot" Act. As these same religious voters enthusiastically warn that other more tolerant religions encourage a prophetic doomsday "New World Order", this is exactly what George W. Bush has been pursuing for four years. Do religious voters even see the contradiction? Granted, they believe that the world is 6000 years old, and that fossils are planted by a spooky boogieman named Satan to deceive people (like those blasphemous scientists do), but voting for Bush?

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11/14/04

Florida Election Flash

The flash version of the Palast report on Election 2000.

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11/13/04

Osama bin Laden - a dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government

The real Osama died in December 2001. That is why all the more recent Osama have turned out to be fakes.

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Widespread Voting Problems in Nashville

Despite lengthy preparations and an unprecidented number of early voters, reports of voting problems were widespread across Nashville today. In a large number of cases involving questions of voter eligibility, poll workers were unable to reach Metro election officials to resolve the problems, and in many cases had to send voters away without voting or with instructions to come back later. Why election officials were not able to respond to poll workers in a timely fashion is not yet clear. Other problems included confusion over absentee ballots, lack of handicapped access to polling facilities, long lines, and voters being required to declare their party affiliation before being allowed to vote.

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"American soldiers operating on Canadian soil."

Crucial to preserving Canadian sovereignty is maintaining an independent armed forces. The Americans want us to fold our military into theirs but Ottawa knows that Canadians want no part of it. That's why the Liberals might try this "about a year from now when people cool down..." because "command under one commander may create perceptions of sovereignty issues". Unbelievably, Ottawa is willing to pursue this in spite of "difficult questions about the legal liability of Canadian soldiers answering to a U.S. commander and American soldiers operating on Canadian soil." You read that right: "American soldiers operating on Canadian soil." That means that should there be a major terrorist attack that can somehow be tied to Canada, the Americans will have the legal right to occupy our country.

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11/11/04

US deploys tanks against protesters in Westwood California

LOS ANGELES, November 9, 2004 - At 7:50 PM armored tanks showed up at an anti-war protest in front of the federal building in Westwood.

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Some Say U.S. No Longer Feels Like Home

After the election, my husband and I asked ourselves, 'How could our country be heading backward? How could so many people miss or choose to ignore the obvious failures of the Bush administration?'" the former Florida resident said.

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Rebels 'stage show of strength'

Rebels - who have recently been fighting US troops in the city - are reported to have been dancing and shooting into the air in a show of force, the BBC's Caroline Hawley in Iraq reports.

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'Body parts everywhere' in Fallujah

Casualty figures were unavailable from Fallujah, where estimates for the number of its 300 000-strong population who fled ahead of the long-threatened assault vary widely from 20 to 90 percent. Oh yes, George Bush is bringing freedom to those Iraqi people.

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11/10/04

Keith Olbermann Breaks Votergate Story on National, Mainstream Media

A quick and haplessly generic answer now to the 6,000 emails and the hundreds of phone calls. Firstly, thank you. Secondly, we will indeed be resuming our coverage of the voting irregularities in Ohio and Florida -- and elsewhere -- on this evening's edition of Countdown {8:00 p.m. ET}.

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Glitch gives Bush extra votes

It was a glitch. No, really, just a glitch. It's not like anyone INTENDED for Bush to get those extra votes. Really. Honest."

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US Troops Reportedly Gassing Fallujah

US troops are reportedly using chemical weapons and poisonous gas in its large-scale offensive on the Iraqi resistance bastion of Fallujah, a grim reminder of Saddam Hussein’s alleged gassing of the Kurds in 1988.

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Blue states buzz over secession

Secession, which didn't work very well when it was tried once before, is suddenly red hot in the blue states. In certain precincts, anyway.

One popular map circulating on the Internet shows the 19 blue states won by Sen. John Kerry -- Washington, Oregon, California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Maryland and the Northeastern states -- conjoined with Canada to form the "United States of Canada." The 31 red states carried by Mr. Bush are depicted as a separate nation dubbed "Jesusland."

The idea isn't just a joke; one top Democrat says, "The segment of the country that pays for the federal government is now being governed by the people who don't pay for the federal government."

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11/08/04

Help America Audit -- 5 Things You Can Do Immediately

I was tipped off by a person very high up in TV that the news has been locked down tight, and there will be no TV coverage of the real problems with voting on Nov. 2. Even the journalists are pretty horrified. My source said they've also been forbidden to talk about it even on their own time, and he was calling from somewhere else. He was trying to figure out how to get the real news out on vote fraud. This is a person I've worked with off and on for nearly two years, and the voice was so somber it really bothered me.

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11/07/04

Iraqi officer dissappears with US battle plans

This is a major screwup. In addition to the plans being known by the enemy, the US Forces are now confronting the fact that as they march into Falluja with the Mujahadeen in front of them, and the Iraqi troops behind them, they may wind up shot from EITHER direction.

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China Steps In Firmly In Support Of Iran

Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing has said in Tehran that Beijing opposes US efforts to refer Iran to the United Nations Security Council over its nuclear programme. Okay, so the US will not be able to use the United Nations to rubber-stamp an invasion of Iran. So, how will Bush manufacture consent to proceed?

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11/06/04

Iraqi rebels invite media to "embed" in Falluja

Falluja insurgents besieged by U.S. and Iraqi troops on Saturday invited journalists to "embed" with them to report their side of the war. "All media will be allowed into Falluja to witness the crusade against Islam and see the real face of America. U.S. media will not be excluded," said a statement by the Falluja Mujahideen Shura (council), composed of insurgent leaders, tribal chiefs and Sunni Muslim clerics. "We will protect and transport them to the location of the events. There will be a special building for the journalists." Expect the US to bomb the journalists' building and find some way to blame Al Qaeda for it.

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Increased security for the President we all voted for

An unprecedented level of security will frame President Bush's second inauguration, with officials planning to use thousands of police from across the country, new screening technology for inaugural guests and a military contingent that could include a combat brigade of up to 4,000 troops. Why? Didn't we all vote for the guy?

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11/05/04

Outrage in Ohio: Angry residents storm State House in response to massive voter suppression and corruption

Toledo, Ohio Hundreds of angry Ohio residents marched through the streets of Columbus—Ohio’s Capital—this evening and stormed the Ohio State House, defying orders and arrest threats from Ohio State Troopers. "O-H-I-O ! suppressed democracy has got to go,"they chanted. After troopers pushed and scuffled with people, nearly a hundred people took over the steps and entrance to the State’s giant white column capital building and refused repeated orders to disperse or face arrest. People prepared for arrests, ready to face jail—writing lawyers phone numbers on their arms, signing jail support lists and discussing non-cooperation and active resistance (linking arms, but not fighting back).

A freshly painted banner held on the steps read "ONE VOTE DENIED = DEMOCRACY IN TROUBLE! 100’S OF 1000’S OF VOTES SURPRESSED = DEMOCRACY FAILED" articulated the crisis. An unprecedented massive grassroots voter registration and get out the vote effort and widespread opposition to Bush went up against the massive coordinated Republican effort to suppress, intimidate and possibly steal millions of votes. In addition to the voter suppression and intimidation is the fact that Bush campaign co-chair Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell is in charge of the election and vote counting. But much deeper questions about fundamental flaws in the system hang in the air.

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BlackBoxVoting files fleet of FOIA requests

Excerpt: At 8:30 p.m. Election Night, Black Box Voting blanketed the U.S. with the first in a series of public records requests, to obtain internal computer logs and other documents from 3,000 individual counties and townships. Networks called the election before anyone bothered to perform even the most rudimentary audit.

... Among the first requests sent to counties (with all kinds of voting systems -- optical scan, touch-screen, and punch card) is a formal records request for internal audit logs, polling place results slips, modem transmission logs, and computer trouble slips.

An earlier FOIA is more sensitive, and has not been disclosed here. We will notify you as soon as we can go public with it.

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Government Insider Says Bush Authorized 911 Attacks

Stanley Hilton was a senior advisor to Sen Bob Dole (R) and has personally known Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz for decades. This courageous man has risked his professional reputation, and possibly his life, to get this information out to people.

"This (9/11) was all planned. This was a government-ordered operation. Bush personally signed the order. He personally authorized the attacks. He is guilty of treason and mass murder." --Stanley Hilton

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Vote Fraud in Florida

In Broward County , Florida , it has been discovered that voting machines were programmed to start counting backwards once a total of 32,000 votes was reached. No explanation of why in the world anyone would think about having a vote machine count backwards.

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