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The Real Issue Behind the Bayview Video Uproar
Community activist and publisher of BeyonChron.org, Randy Shaw, pinpoints and analyzes a deeper issue underlying the recent Police Video scandal in San Francisco....
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 1:25pm PST
The Moral Hell of Condoleezza Rice: Torture and White Phosphorous
By JOHN CHUCKMAN...
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 7:04am PST
Breaking: Eugene McCarthy Dead
1968 Presidential Candidate, Eugene McCarthy, has passed away about an hour ago. Age 89....
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 9:04pm PST
Wrapped in a Flag of Deceptions: So These are the Democrats?
Hillary Clinton wants to be president so badly that she is now wrapping herself in the flag. It was reported this week that she will now be co-sponsoring a bill in the Senate with Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah), who is one of the very worst right-wing reactionary folks in Congress. The bill would make it a crime to desecrate the flag. Hillary is doing this to try to win conservative voters to her side. The move shows just how much contempt she has for people. Does Hillary think that conservatives ...
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 10:28pm PST
Diebold "hack test" - Sec. State / Black Box Lawyer square off
AT ISSUE
Procedures to be negotiated include:
1) The secrecy provisions written by Diebold -- Black Box Voting takes the
position that all facets of the test should be open to the public and to the media
2) Access and time limits -- Diebold wrote that a time limit would be set but
did not specify whether it would be 30 seconds or two weeks. Diebold left
a "blank" after the time limit item...
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 2:52pm PST
12/15: Todd Chretien for Senate 2006 Announcement
Thursday, December 15 at 10am
One Post Street in San Francisco
At Montgomery Street BART stop
In front of Feinstein's office...
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 2:50pm PST
Voice Of God Revealed To Be Cheney On Intercom
WASHINGTON, DC—Telephone logs recorded by the National Security Agency and obtained by Congress as part of an ongoing investigation suggest that the vice president may have used the Oval Office intercom system to address President Bush at crucial moments, giving categorical directives in a voice the president believed to be that of God....
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 7:05am PST
US softens stand on Eypt's Muslim Brotherhood
The United States has signalled the possibility of making contact with members of Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood after the opposition group's stunning success in parliamentary polls....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 8:26pm PST
Prison
The prison of the future will extend over the whole territory. Old ideas of social correction, when it was believed that detention would alter behaviour, will come to be substituted by the ideology of control and consensus....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 2:47pm PST
The DeLay Scheme: Blatantly Buying Our Government
The big corporate interests that pumped money into Tom DeLay's scheme to control the Texas legislature and break precedent by rewriting an established congressional redistricting plan in mid-decade, knew full well what they bought in Texas. They bought our government....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 9:02am PST
Alabama's Taliban
Two "holier than thou" preachers, one back and one white, visited my office on different days last week but on the same mission. The men are riled up over words I wrote about Chief Justice Roy Moore running for Governor on a 5000-pound statute or monument promoting the Ten Commandments. The white preacher also was not pleased with some words I spoke about Condi Rice on this show. The two evangelical visitors are, to me, Alabamas equivalent of the intolerant Taliban in Afghanistan....
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 8:55pm PST
Chronicle Frames Schwarzenegger Appointment in False Light
The Governor’s appointment of Democrat Susan Kennedy as his chief of staff has been trumpeted in the San Francisco Chronicle as a “potentially dramatic change” reflecting his “penchant for making out-of-the ordinary decisions.” Really?...
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 1:51pm PST
Israel and Egypt's elections
Sharon's surprise departure from the Likud in Israel and the gains made by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt's parliamentary elections changed the landscape in both countries. Will this affect the relationship between them? Asks Mohamed Sid-Ahmed...
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 3:12pm PST
Bush accused of 'recycling tired rhetoric'
President George Bush said yesterday that America was on course for "complete victory" and he ruled out any firm timetable for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. Instead he declared that Iraqi forces were beginning to take the lead in the battle against the insurgency....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 3:04pm PST
Violence mars Egypt vote
Riot police restricted access to many polling stations in the final stage of Egyptian elections in what the Islamist opposition said was an attempt to cap its gains in parliament....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 2:55pm PST
Former UC Davis scientist to run for secretary of state (California Aggie, 11/22/05)
Forrest Hill will be the Green Party candidate running for Secretary of State. He is a strong advocate of choice voting, demands there be a paper trail for electronic voting machines, and wants to create more districts so that the districts are smaller in size (much closer to the average state district in the US), more accurately representing the needs of voters....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 12:19pm PST
Masked in the street denouncing the electoral fraud and capitalism
Yesterday, a group of 30 masked demonstrators departed from the Juan Gomez Millas campus of the University of Chile [Santiago] with the intention of protesting against the elections that are approaching in December....
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 7:13pm PST
Black Box Voting - What's going on with California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson?
It looks like he wanted to make a media splash about testing voting machines to see if they could be hacked, then, as with all the wmd stories, let reality play out differently and the news stories correcting the situation will only come out later, buried and unseen by most. Remember, this is the guy who was INSTALLED after the witch hunt (headed up by the Chronicle) forced out Kevin Shelley, who tried to put in security measures against vote fraud....
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 9:46am PST
One earthquake could leave two-thirds of Californians without drinking water
On November 1, 2005 California’s Department of Water Resources (DWR) issued a report stating that a simple 6.5-magnitude earthquake in Northern California’s Delta region could produce more than 30 levee breaches on 16 Delta islands. This would flood tens of thousands of homes and a massive area of productive farmland, causing around $30 billion in damages. However, the most alarming news, by far, was the realization that such an event could render unusable the drinking water supply of two-thi...
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 6:35am PST