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Double Standards: Bill Clinton and the “Anybody But Bush” Movement
If the Democrats take power this November they will probably continue the same policies as Bush. We know this because Clinton did basically the same thing when he was in office....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 11:47am PDT
Leonard Peltier for President
Leonard Peltier is the Presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party in California. This article gives an overview and update of his case and his campaign for a presidential pardon....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 11:20am PDT
Brazilian General Attempts To Influence US Election
In an interview posted on the website of Agencia Brasil, the Brazilian government's official news agency, Lieutenant-General Augusto Heleno Ribeiro said comments made in March by Kerry had raised the hopes of supporters of Jean-Bertrand Aristide that the former Haitian president would be able to return to power.
"Statements made by a candidate to the presidency of the United States created false hopes among pro-Aristide supporters," Ribeiro told the agency. "His (the candida...
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 10:03pm PDT
It Was And Is the Theft of the Election Stupid.
Could somebody please tell me how this alternate reality appeared totally blotting out the well-documented history of election 2000. The alternate reality I am speaking of is the one that seems to have taken over the minds of the Democratic Party and their party hacks like Paul Bagala a host on CNN's Croosfire who up until Nader announced his candidacy to run for the presidency in 2004 claimed over and over and over again on the air that George Bush and the Republican dominated Supreme Court...
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 6:16pm PDT
Bike for Renee Tomorrow!
Please join us in supporting Renee Saucedo's campaign for Supervisor -District 9 and get a little exercise while you're at it: "Bike for Renee -- Parade and Outreach in District 9" (Mission, Bernal Heights, Portola)...
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 3:59pm PDT
Free New Song, mp3 Celebrating Alabama's Ghettos State, And News Of Government Abuses
In the link below is the song to commemorate my not being able to attend city council meetings and an arrest and other abuses. I was a bank examiner and auditor, now I am auditor/artist on the run after whistleblowing on fed...enjoy...
Posted: Fri, Oct 15, 2004 11:34pm PDT
THE YEAR OF SURRENDERING QUIETLY
The correlative to a politics of ‘Anyone but Bush’ has become: not a word against Kerry! Alexander Cockburn on the great silence of progressive America as the Democratic candidate pledges more troops for Iraq, greater fiscal austerity and a strong hand in the war on terror....
Posted: Fri, Oct 15, 2004 10:47pm PDT
Jon Stewart Bitchslaps CNN's 'Crossfire' Show
In what could well be the strangest and most refreshing media moment of the election season, "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart turned up on a live broadcast of CNN's "Crossfire" Friday and accused the mainstream media — and his hosts in particular — of being soft and failing to do their duty as journalists to keep politicians and the political process honest....
Posted: Fri, Oct 15, 2004 9:51pm PDT
Sinclair Broadcasting: Hold Your Ground, Says Frontiers of Freedom
"These liberal Democrats are afraid of the truth," said Kerri Houston, Vice President of Policy for Frontiers. "If they actually had combat boots, they would be shaking in them for fear that the American people will learn the real story of what John Kerry said upon returning from his short tour of duty in Vietnam, and how it was used to by the Vietcong to torture our POWs."...
Posted: Fri, Oct 15, 2004 12:46am PDT
Showdown with Sinclair. Friday, October 15, High Noon
STOPSinclair.org will deliver
tens of thousands of citizen signatures to Sinclair's Hunt Valley, Maryland
corporate headquarters....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 11:51pm PDT
Bush was AWOL (again)from the National...debate
Now it's official, Boy George was AWOL at last night's national TV debate between himself and Mass. senator John Kerry. On all major questions put to him, the White House intellectual bantamweight "ducked" most of them, instead went into prepared rants on irrelevant topics......
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 8:08pm PDT
Kerry: Discrimination Against Gays Must End
I believe that because we are the United States of America, we're a country with a great, unbelievable Constitution, with rights that we afford people, that you can't discriminate in the workplace. You can't discriminate in the rights that you afford people."
However, he said that he believes marriage should be between a man and a woman and that the issue should be left to the states....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 1:06am PDT
Consider the Internet an Electronic Voting Machine -- vote swap
California has about 1 million 'spare' votes for Kerry. Use VotePair to swap them with third party supporters in swing states....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 12:41am PDT
Talking Drums: SABC Community News
Here's the latest edition of Talking Drums: the Sacramento Area Black Caucus Community News, from Faye Kennedy....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 12:15am PDT
ARCATA CITY COUNCIL CALLS FOR IMPEACHMENT OF BUSH, CHENEY, RUMSFELD
he Arcata City Council last night adopted a resolution calling for the
impeachment of George W. Bush, Richard B. Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld
for violations of international and Constitutional law. The resolution
cites the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq as “crimes against peace”,
the supreme crime under the Nuremberg Principles, and a violation of
the Geneva Accords and the United Nations Charter....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 11:16pm PDT
Cheney Vows To Attack U.S. If Kerry Elected
GREENSBORO, NC—In an announcement that has alarmed voters across the nation, Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that he will personally attack the U.S. if Sen. John Kerry wins the next election....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 10:43pm PDT
Right Wing Beer Baron Pete Coors Now Proposing Lowering Drinking Age (to make more money?)
Peter Coors is in a tight race for the US Senate in Colorado. He is also a strong supporter of lowering the drinking age.
His remarks on this have angered health professionals in a state where two underage college students were found dead in fraternity houses last month after nights of heavy drinking.
Peter Coors is a racist homophobe who appears in Coors commercials even though they pretetend to distance themselves from him when they market to the gay community. While hard-right on most i...
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 9:43pm PDT
Investigation into Trashed Voter Registrations
An employee of a private voter registration firm alleges that his bosses trashed registration forms filled out by Democratic voters because they only wanted to sign up Republican voters.
The allegations have set off a political firestorm stretching from Las Vegas to Washington D.C., and beyond....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 8:45pm PDT
the Brotherhood.
(do you remember about four years ago, when election night seemed to last into january?)...
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 5:27pm PDT
Filmmakers support SF Green Party School Board Candidates
Straight Outta Hunters Point director Kevin Epps and other local filmmakers are supporting Green Party School Board Candidates at an event at New College Friday Oct 15th...
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 2:44pm PDT