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Friday, March 3, 2006. Page 112.

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By Chris Floyd Two weeks ago, an obscure, unelected, Republican-appointed

official in California decided the future of the world. That future -- at least

for the next several years -- will be an accelerating nightmare of war,

corruption, repression, atrocity and terror. That's because the loyal

apparatchik has, with the stroke of a pen, guaranteed the perpetuation of the

Bush faction in power in 2008 and beyond.

 

One of the few certainties in modern U.S. politics is that no Democrat can

win the presidency without carrying California. Thanks to the Electoral College

system set up by the Founding Oligarchs to keep the low-born rabble from voting

directly for president, the big haul of California's electoral votes is crucial

for Democrats to offset the multitude of small, sparsely populated states that

reliably vote Republican. Bagging California doesn't guarantee Democratic

victory, but without it, the cliffhanger electoral counts in the goosed

elections of 2000 and ...

 

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" When the power of love becomes stronger than the love of power, we will have

peace. "

Jimi Hendrix

 

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