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Interests Not Served By Republicans or Democrats
Reuters (50 minutes ago): "At least 51 of the Senate's 55 Republicans, along with at least one Democrat, plan to vote for Alito, according to an unofficial tally based on statements and interviews with lawmakers and aides in the 100-member chamber.... Democrats have not threatened a filibuster since they do not appear to have the votes to sustain such a procedural roadblock. But they have made clear that they intend to make Alito and the high-court an issue in the November congression...
Posted: Wed, Jan 25, 2006 12:08pm PST
Filibuster Alito Now
Silence will never carry a heavier price......
Posted: Wed, Jan 25, 2006 9:51am PST
Canada’s new Conservative government will intensify assault on workers’ rights
Under the leadership of neo-conservative ideologue Stephen Harper, the Conservatives won a plurality of House of Commons seats in Monday’s general election, forcing Prime Minister Paul Martin to announce that his Liberals will soon turn over the reins of power to a minority Conservative government. In his concession speech, Martin, who has headed the 12-year-old Liberal regime since December 2003, also announced that he will soon step down as Liberal leader....
Posted: Wed, Jan 25, 2006 7:06am PST
Harvey Milk Democratic Club Faces Denial of Charter
The Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC) will vote tomorrow on whether to renew the club charter of the Harvey Milk Democratic Club, a vote which some believe could turn in to a proxy war between the left and right wings of the city’s Democratic Party. For the first time since providing club charters, the DCCC asked applicants for a party loyalty oath, which if signed would preclude clubs from endorsing any non-Democrat for any elected or appointed office. Because of the Milk Club’s rec...
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 9:21am PST
Bush Braces For Impeachment Hearings
False Reports To Congress, Electronic Surveillance Without Warrant...
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 7:28am PST
Diebold in Florida: "I Saw It Hacked"
I was one of ten people present at the "hack" of the Leon County, Florida voting system, which took place on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 around 4:30 in the afternoon at the county elections warehouse. Leon County's voting system is the Diebold Accu-Vote OS 1.94w (optical scan)....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 10:44pm PST
Canada Conservatives win election
Canada's prime minister has admitted defeat to the Conservatives of Stephen Harper in Monday's general election....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 10:36pm PST
Diebold allows memory cards with visual basic script to alter votecount
Can you tell us about some of your e-voting machine hacking activities? On Tuesday, Dec. 13, we conducted a hack of the Diebold AccuVote optical scan device. I wrote a five-line script in Visual Basic that would allow you to go into the central tabulator and change any vote total you wanted, leaving no logs. It requires physical access to a machine, which in many counties isn’t very difficult to get -- you have elections offices full of volunteers....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 7:19pm PST
Democracy protesters on the march as 27 are killed in Nepal
At least 27 people were killed in Nepal as thousands of protesters took to the streets of Kathmandu to demand that King Gyanendra restore democracy....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 7:39am PST
Newsom Moves to the Right
"And while Newsom accuses cable car workers of being crooks, he has yet to say a negative word about the serial evictors for profit plaguing North Beach and other neighborhoods."...
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 7:36am PST
Upcoming World Can't Wait Events
Tuesday, January 31st at Union Square in San Francisco: Massive
Demonstration to Drown Out Bush’s STATE OF THE UNION address
Saturday, February 4th: Converge in Washington D.C. at 11:00 AM at the White House for a historic demonstration in front of the White House demanding that BUSH STEP DOWN! AND TAKE YOUR PROGRAM WITH YOU!...
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 10:10pm PST
CodePINK's Sorry State of the Union SPEAK-OUT!!
Speak-out while bush speaks sorry - the only way to stomach his address is with a bunch of like-minded folks & a few trademark CodePINK activities! We promise, the viewing of the State of the Union Address will never be more empowering or thought-provoking as sharing it with CodePINKers! Join us 5:00 at Union Square Sports Bar in San Francisco...
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 6:45pm PST
BTL:Filibuster is Last Hope for Opponents of Alito Supreme Court Confirmation
Interview with Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 5:58am PST
Strike call after Nepal clashes
Nepal's main political parties have called for a national strike to protest against the arrest of hundreds of pro-democracy protestors in Kathmandu....
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 11:50pm PST
SNP reveals 'CIA flight' dossier--BUT WE SHOW IT!
[SECRET DOSSIER FOLLOWS, with proof (PHOTOS, dates, times) that CIA planes landed in Scotland. To DOWNLOAD THE ACTUAL 24-page report, including PHOTOS, links, charts, front-company histories, CIA Air Organizational Chart, details of CIA plane sightings, and more, go to following PDF (size = 213 kB):
http://www.snp.org/snpnews/2005/snp_press_release.2006-01-18.7084056278/2006-01-20.0197801266/download
To see all the photos at once (LONG 1.15 MB download), go to: http://www.cageprisone...
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 10:29am PST
Canadian elections herald a dramatic intensification of class conflict
Whatever the results of Monday’s federal election, whichever party or combination of parties forms Canada’s next government, the coming period will see a dramatic intensification of class conflict....
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 8:27am PST
Man related to OK City bombing is free while supposed ELF & ALF members now on the hook
Irony of Ironies:
Michael Fortier, who was in on the plot to kill over 150 people in Oklahoma City and did nothing to stop it, is out of jail in just over 10 years.
Meanwhile, Jeff Free Luers is sentence to 20 years for torching 3 SUVs, that were later repaired and sold, and over a dozen other activists have recently been indicted or arrested across the country for property destruction (http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/01/1796764.php & http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.p...
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 1:59pm PST
APPEAL LAUNCHED IN BUSH TORTURE CASE
Litigating George W. Bush for war crimes....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 12:12pm PST
Anti-rally curfew shuts down Kathmandu
Some 15,000 soldiers and police are patrolling Nepal's capital after a day-long curfew was imposed to derail plans for a protest against King Gyanendra....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 7:19am PST
Who is Stephen Harper, the Conservative poised to be Canada’s next prime minister?
Who is Stephen Harper, the Conservative poised to be Canada’s next prime minister?...
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 7:15am PST