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Unprecedented Security Preparations For Bush Inauguration
An unprecedented level of security is planned for George W. Bush's inauguration on Jan. 20, including six thousand police officers, 2,500 military personnel, and dozens of federal security agencies on patrol....
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2005 9:55am PST
Christian Group Wants to Carry Crosses at Inaugural Parade
Christian Defense Coalition: Secret Service Refuses to Remove Crosses from List of Prohibited Items at Inaugural Parade Route...
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 10:48pm PST
Not One Damn Dime Day--Jan 20
On "Not One Damn Dime Day" those who oppose what is happening in our name
in Iraq can speak up with a 24-hour national boycott of all forms of
consumer spending....
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 8:58pm PST
Conyers Thanks Internet Activists, Bloggers
Nice to know someone cares when we bother to repost, email and organize in our spare time....
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 1:47pm PST
LA Times: 'Is Al Qaeda Just a Bush Boogeyman?'
"The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear," a three-hour historical film by Adam Curtis recently aired by the British Broadcasting Corp., argues coherently that much of what we have been told about the threat of international terrorism "is a fantasy that has been exaggerated and distorted by politicians. It is a dark illusion that has spread unquestioned through governments around the world, the security services and the international media."...
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 11:21am PST
Anybody But Hahn? A Mayoral Convention for the Animals
A few months ago, the country heard the Democrats' mantra "Anybody but Bush." On January 9, 2005 at the Citizens for a Humane Los Angeles mayoral convention at Beverly Garland's Holiday Inn in North Hollywood, one group of animal rights and welfare advocates supported the "Anybody but Hahn" theory while another argued "Vote your Heart."...
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 12:42pm PST
Senator Boxer on Her Objection Ohio Certification
I thought you would be interested in the following statement....
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 9:29am PST
The Joe Warren Story - a Canadian who was wrongfully Convicted for 21 years
Never before has a case of
Unlawful and Unconstitutional
Been Exposed in Canada like this.
Please go to www.thewrongguy.ca
'21 years' of incarceration.
Letter from 'The Law Society of Upper Canada':
http://www.thewrongguy.ca/part07/Package07_Page_040.pdf
The Starting of the Re-Instated 'Habeas Corpus Act':
http://www.thewrongguy.ca/part07/Package07_Page_040.pdf...
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 12:03pm PST
The Joe Warren Story - a Canadian who was wrongfully Convicted for 21 years
Never before has a case of
Unlawful and Unconstitutional
Been Exposed in Canada like this.
Please go to www.thewrongguy.ca
'21 years' of incarceration.
Letter from 'The Law Society of Upper Canada':
http://www.thewrongguy.ca/part07/Package07_Page_040.pdf
The Starting of the Re-Instated 'Habeas Corpus Act':
http://www.thewrongguy.ca/part07/Package07_Page_040.pdf...
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 9:25am PST
The Donkey that Refused to Kick
Had Kerry called for a new election, his huge base would have followed him..The democratic nominee for president of the United States never seems capable of this righteous chutzpah. It's too bad there's not a donkey around who can kick anymore...
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 8:29am PST
One Representative and One Senator: January 6th at Senator Boxer's SF office (video/quicktime 19.2MB)
The Electoral College vote tabulation halts at Ohio. Four-minute QT movie. 19MB....
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 6:45pm PST
US Defaults On 40% Of Its Trillion Dollar Foreign Debt
THE NAKED HEGEMON...
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 5:57pm PST
Gonzales nomination hearing: US Senate welcomes a war criminal
Virtually all of the news reports of Alberto Gonzales’s appearance before the Senate panel considering his nomination as US attorney general had similar headlines: “Gonzalez repudiates torture,” “Gonzales disavows torture tactics,” “Gonzales says he’s opposed to torture.”...
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 1:20pm PST
We're All Black Now!
Now that Electronic Jim-Crow has officially stolen the 2004 presidential and congressional elections it can be officially declared that the South has finally won the civil war. It took a 150 years for the proslavery, segregationist, white supremacist movement in America to accomplish the task but they finally did it....
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 1:15pm PST
In the Clearing Stands a Boxer... a letter from Michael Moore
This is the first step on a necessary road toward making sure that everyone is allowed to vote and that every vote is counted (something we did not see in 2000 or 2004) so the next time around ALL of us can be confident, when the election results come in, that they reflect the will of the people, not the whim of mechanical error and human obstruction....
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 10:52am PST
In the Clearing Stands a Boxer... a letter from Michael Moore
This is the first step on a necessary road toward making sure that everyone is allowed to vote and that every vote is counted (something we did not see in 2000 or 2004) so the next time around ALL of us can be confident, when the election results come in, that they reflect the will of the people, not the whim of mechanical error and human obstruction....
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 10:39am PST
Dancing in the Dark (LIke the Old-Time Lefties Always Did)
American progressives seriously started mass-scale organizing only about a year ago. In just one year we came within reach of victory.
That's remarkable. Now is no time to quit....
Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2005 11:51am PST
Gonzales Grilled on Role in Torture at Confirmation Hearing
Alberto Gonzales' role in paving the legal groundwork that led to the torture of detainees in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay was the central focus of a Senate hearing yesterday, which is considering his nomination to succeed John Ashcroft as attorney general. Gonzales delivered more than seven hours of testimony, most of it responding to questions from Committee members on his role in setting the stage for the abuse of detainees. We hear excerpts of the hearing and speak with journalist Mark D...
Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2005 9:23am PST
Well, There It Is Lads and Gents....The Glorious American Democratic Elections!
And we should export this to the rest of the world?...
Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2005 12:47am PST
The Boxer Rebellion
Senator Barbara Boxer Forces Debate of Ohio Vote Count...
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 8:13pm PST