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The Mysterious Case of David Cobb The Mysterious Case of David Cobb
By JOSHUA FRANK
http://www.counterpunch.com/frank03062006.html...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 12:31am PST
Budget Surplus: Will the People Have a Say? After news of an unexpected budget surplus of $137 million hit City Hall, just about every elected representative threw out a proposal for spending it before there was time to blink. Now, as the debate over the competing proposals heats up, it’s important to remember a crucial voice in the process - the people of San Francisco. Budget and Finance Committee Chair Chris Daly has called for an initial public hearing on all proposals March 15, and will hopefully call for a following series of hea...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:12pm PST
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Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 1:25pm PST
Berkeley City Council should respect will of voters and implement 'free' elections Green Party candidate for Secretary of State, Dr. Forrest Hill, will participate in a rally calling on the Berkeley City Council to respect the will of the voters and implement IRV. The rally will be held on TUESDAY (March 7) at 6:30 p.m. in front of Old City Hall (2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way)....
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 4:14pm PST
Whistleblower charged w/ 3 felonies for exposing Diebold's crimes A whistleblower in Los Angeles is in legal trouble and needs our help. Stephen Heller is alleged to have exposed documents in Jan. & Feb. 2004 which provided smoking gun evidence that Diebold was using illegal, uncertified software in California voting machines. ...
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 11:28am PST
Robert M. McDowell: Portrait of an FCC lobbyist FCC nominee Robert M. McDowell's filings with the Federal Communications Commission in the late 1990s reveal a scrappy lobbyist who enjoyed direct access to top FCC officials and on more than one occasion scolded them, describing their decisions as "inconsistent and capricious."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 10:15am PST
Governor Losing Conservative Appeal Recent poll ratings are improving for Governor Schwarzenegger but conservatives don't appear to be sold on the governor to lead California for another four years....
Posted: Sun, Mar 5, 2006 9:48pm PST
Declassified: Ayatollah Khomeini (video/x-pn-realvideo 25.8MB) Historical look at the relationship between Iran and the US. Includes how the US installed a pro-western dictatorship with secret police via the Shah. [44 minutes]...
Posted: Sun, Mar 5, 2006 10:23am PST
BTL:Civil Liberties Advocates Maintain Bush's Illegal Conduct Constitutes... ...Impeachable Offenses ~ Interview with Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sun, Mar 5, 2006 6:25am PST
Diebold Whistleblower Facing Charges An open letter to Bruce McPherson and the citizens of the United States...
Posted: Sat, Mar 4, 2006 5:01pm PST
Someone Accessed 40 Palm Beach County Voting Machines Nov 2004 The internal logs of at least 40 Sequoia touch-screen voting machines reveal that votes were time and date-stamped as cast two weeks before the election, sometimes in the middle of the night....
Posted: Sat, Mar 4, 2006 4:32pm PST
Oakland City Council Candidate Aimee Allison Opens Oakland Campaign Office Today 
There will be festivities and grass-roots action! The event starts at 11 am at 3208 Grand Avenue in Oakland near the Grand Lake Theater....
Posted: Sat, Mar 4, 2006 9:47am PST
The Clintons, the Doles and the Dubai port deal: political duplicity and class interest While Senator Hillary Clinton, Democrat of New York, was attacking the Bush administration over the Dubai ports deal, her husband Bill was advising United Arab Emirates officials on how best to smooth over the controversy and push the deal through....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 10:40pm PST
Bush visit to Pakistan will intensify Musharraf’s crisis US President George Bush arrived in Pakistan last night amid heavy security and a series of anti-US protests in cities across the country. While the main purpose of the one-day trip is to help shore up the shaky regime of President Pervez Musharraf, the Bush administration is directly responsible for much of the political turmoil confronting the Pakistani military strongman....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 10:38pm PST
Britain: Behind the suspension of London Mayor Ken Livingstone Every so often, an incident occurs that reveals issues more fundamental than those presented as its immediate source....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 10:35pm PST
Bush & Co have violated every major Republican Principle (audio/mpeg 323.6KB) Jim Fetzer of 911ST.org on Real Republican Values. This is just a 41 sec clip from a two hour show.
He's says something to the effect of this:
The Bush administration is the most blatantly corrupt administration in US History.
AND they have violated many important Republican principles such as
balanced budgets
constitutional government
non-interventionist foreign policy
and keeping government out of peoples’ personal lives.
Why would any Republican support this Bush and his ...
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 6:51pm PST
Resolution to Impeach Bush-Cheney Passes 7-3 On Tuesday, February 28, 2006, the City and County of San Francisco became the first large municipality to call for the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney, by a 7-3 vote. Supervisors Sean Elsbernd, Michela Alioto-Pier, and Sophie Maxwell cast the dissenting votes (Sup. Jake McGoldrick was absent for the vote). Sup. Chris Daly commenced his introduction of Agenda Item 27 with "I initially thought this ... would be a noncontroversial piece of legislation. Perhaps it still is, maybe...
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 5:35pm PST
Candidate Filing Deadline is March 10 Last day to file for offices on the June 6, 2006 ballot is 5 p.m., Friday, March 10. If the incumbent does not file, the deadline is extended to 5 p.m., Wednesday, March 15....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 12:39pm PST
Snap election heightens political crisis in Thailand A decision by Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to dissolve the national parliament and call a snap election for April 2 has only intensified the political difficulties confronting his government. The main parliamentary opposition parties have announced a boycott of the poll, calling into question the legitimacy of any result....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 7:20am PST
Step 2: Bush lied -- Congress must speak out Thanks in part to your efforts, the breaking news about Bush's smoking gun Katrina warning is spreading rapidly. However, the media is largely not featuring what is perhaps the most obvious revelation of all: Bush lied....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 9:33pm PST
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