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* Political Right - Left And The Middle *
By definition one would assume that - - Right - - is correct. Or is it?
The political right is neither right in its conduct, nor in its intention nor in its supposed knowledge of the world and people. The political right and their talking heads in the Christian mass media know so little about so much....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 11:03am PDT
‘Smoking e-mail’ implicates Jeb Bush in vote suppression
The Sarasota Herald Tribune obtained a “smoking e-mail” proving that Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was “personally involved” in ramrodding a new voter purge list for the 2004 election, even though the data firm that prepared it warned of its many “flaws.”
In an exchange of e-mails last May 4, Jeff Long of the Florida Secretary of State’s office wrote that the firm “recommended to the Gov. that they ‘pull the plug’ on the CVDB (Central Voter Database) primarily because they weren’t comfortable with...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 9:41am PDT
Man threatens to run down controversial election figure
Police have arrested a man who threatened to run over US Representative Katherine Harris, the former Florida secretary of state critics blame for much of the 2000 presidential election debacle....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 9:32am PDT
Secret Document Suggests GOP Preparing to Challenge Black Vote in Florida
Investigative reporter Greg Palast exposes a secret document within the Republican Party in Florida that contains nearly 1,900 names and addresses of voters in the predominantly black and Democratic areas of Jacksonville. The so-called "caging list" could be used to block and harass African-American voters....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 9:15am PDT
Voter Verifying Campaign Launched; Higher Minority Voter Turnout is Goal
Voter verification is the thrust of a new nationwide voter education effort being launched by the non-partisan NAACP National Voter Fund (NVF), designed to generate the largest minority voter turnout in any presidential election....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 12:43am PDT
Red Sox Victory More Than Baseball
The Red Sox Victory tonight in the 2004 Worl Series, is a forecast of significant transformations to come......
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 11:36pm PDT
Voters still without ballots in a jam
Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore said she had mailed out 128,000 ballots through Monday. Requests made through Sunday have been taken care of and about 7,000 are being mailed out each day, she said.
Hood's cheery optimism wasn't shared by party officials or those worried that they won't get their ballots soon enough to mail them back to arrive before Tuesday's 7 p.m. deadline. They spoke darkly of election office phones that constantly ring busy, questions that go unanswered, sample ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 9:30pm PDT
Absentee ballots 'lost' in Florida
Nearly 58,000 absentee ballots for the US presidential election may never have reached Florida's Broward County voters, who had requested them more than two weeks ago, election officials said.
State police are investigating the matter, they said.
Hundreds of people have called the county elections office to complain that they never got their ballots. The phone system was so overwhelmed some frustrated voters could not get through....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 9:26pm PDT
Their dirty tricks to disenfranchise voters
AN OFFHAND remark that George W. Bush made during the second presidential debate told the whole story. When asked whether he’d decided on any new appointees for Supreme Court, Bush joked that he hadn’t “picked anybody yet. Plus, I want them all voting for me.”...
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 7:26pm PDT
Bush Campaign Comes Out for Kerry
Yes, Bush Can, an independent group dedicated to communicating Bush
policies directly to the public, has abandoned its campaign and is
officially endorsing John Kerry for President....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 6:50pm PDT
Let a Thousand Cameras Roll - Keep the Election Honest With Video.
A grassroots media uprising begins to swell around Election Day....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 5:11pm PDT
TERRORIZING the FIRST AMENDMENT
ALLEGED COURTHOUSE BOMBER WINS FREE SPEECH CASE...
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 11:40am PDT
The founding fathers described a plan that might shorten the war.
The war might be shortened with a "changing of the guard" on election day....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 10:04am PDT
Global War Tribute
Iraqi oil is lost to the world market. Instead of the rosy promises of the neoconservatives who wanted to turn Iraq into America's private gas station, the opposite is happening.. The whole world has to pay for the disappeared oil on account of US crimes against the Iraqi people....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 8:19am PDT
Making Votes Count: Is a Theft of the 2004 Election Already Underway?
We speak with New York Times editorial writer Adam Cohen about voter suppression and fraud in the 2004 election. From U.S. soldiers being told to use non-secret ballots to the Pentagon counting the votes of the military and U.S. citizens living abroad. From partisan secretaries of state overseeing the election to Homeland Security preventing new U.S. citizens from registering and much more....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 6:25am PDT
Why the news blackout on Hasan Akbar?
Hasan Akbar is the African-American Muslim U.S. Army sergeant who is accused of having killed two officers and wounded 14 others in a fragging incident at a base in Kuwait a few days after the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. His trial apparently started on Monday, but there's been virtually no current news coverage....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 3:46am PDT
November 3rd Nationwide Day of Action
A time for popular outrage and widespread non-cooperation if Bush is elected, if the elections are canceled, or if there is overt election fraud again....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 1:13am PDT
Elderly vent anger over flu shot crisis
CHICAGO — “I can’t believe that seniors citizens have got to go through this mess,” Anna said to me as we stood in line for a flu shot early Monday morning out side the Atlas Center for the Aging here.
“This is horrible,” she added as adjusted the oxygen lines to her nose. “I don’t believe it.”...
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 6:01pm PDT
‘Smoking e-mail’ implicates Jeb Bush in vote suppression
The Sarasota Herald Tribune obtained a “smoking e-mail” proving that Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was “personally involved” in ramrodding a new voter purge list for the 2004 election, even though the data firm that prepared it warned of its many “flaws.”
In an exchange of e-mails last May 4, Jeff Long of the Florida Secretary of State’s office wrote that the firm “recommended to the Gov. that they ‘pull the plug’ on the CVDB (Central Voter Database) primarily because they weren’t comfortable with...
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 5:58pm PDT
The Vote Fallacy: Strategically Advancing Radical Politics in the 2004 Elections
While election seasons are widely seen as times when the polity practices politics, this is an illusion; electoralism that accepts the premises of representative democracy is conceptually distinct and incompatible with practicing true politics....
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 5:54pm PDT