Guest guest Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 Wed, 7 Jun 2006 01:45:42 -0400 (EDT) OpEdNews; Good Election News rob to read articles, please click here to see the web page version http://www.opednews.com/flyer/news_20060607_1.html Newest Articles By David Sirota Populist John Tester Scores Huge Win Against D.C. Dems & For The Rest Of Us There are a lot of lessons to learn from this primary. First and foremost, when Democrats take strong positions and courageously stand up to the powers that be, they are rewarded. By Kall, Rob It's Not About Banning Same-Sex Marriage. It's About Birth Control, Abortion And Feudal Regression To A New Dark Age The marriage amendment isn't about marriage. It's about pumping up the neanderthal theofascist minority that really wants to take us back to the dark ages when Kings got their power directly from God. By David Griscom, Ph.D. How The 2004 Election Was Stolen On Optical Scanners: John Brakey And The " Hack And Stack " Techniques used to make vote fraud invisible. By Bob Burnett Iraq - How Do You Spell LOSER? Why can't the American public recognize that the war in Iraq is over? The US lost. By Laurence A. Toenjes Congressional Candidates, Take The Pledge For Real Lobby Reform Democrats must step up to the plate, as opposed to the trough, and pledge real lobby reform if they get control of Congress next session. By Mike Whitney The Media's Bloody Footprints The media operates " for profit " , right? Which means that the news is crafted to meet the interests of ownership, correct? Then how is it that most Americans still believe we have a " free press " ? The corporate media has concealed the deliberate destruction of our constitution and lied the country into a bloody war of aggression. It is the most corrupt institution in American life…and the most lethal. By Bev Harris, Black Box Voting Latest Voting Rumbles: Hear The Train A'comin', Comin' Round The Bend... One poll worker summed it up like this: " If this election isn't thrown out, I'll eat my hat. " By Jason Miller Of Water, Human Beings And Other " Worthless " Commodities A satirical portrayal of what multinational corporations could do and a critical examination of what they are doing... By Charles Sullivan Sacred Ecology And Capitalism As a result of over population and unbridled greed, virtually all of the world's great ecosystems are in decline. The global ecology is the underpinning of the world economy. Impairment of the ecology guarantees the collapse of the global economy. Capitalism is the primary culprit. By JGideon 'Daily Voting News' For June 6, 2006 a run-down of the days elections/voting news from across the country and overseas. By Gail Jonas The Power Of One And " Invisible Ballots " How one activist caught the " bug " after watching " Invisible Ballots " . By Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers " Groundhog Day " In Asia: Unwinnable Wars Despite warnings from generals not to do so, America gets stuck in a war-loop every time it gets involved militarily in Asia. Presidents never learn. By Allen L Roland JUNE 6, 1968 / THE DAY THAT HOPE DIED I remember that day well It is frozen in my memory. Cold stored with feelings of anguish, of shock, of disbelief, of immense sorrow. I awoke that morning to the crushing news of Robert Kennedys death . By Mickey Z. America: The Land Of Denial (What we missed while the Yankees played the Red Sox) By Kathy Dopp, UtahCountVotes.org The Diebold PR Machine, Diebold's Phony " watchdog " Website & More The Diebold PR-machine - described in this 22 page BlackBoxVoting report - includes photos of original source documents, a video of Mike Radke and another Diebold representative plagerizing themselves in a hearing, and a phony Diebold web site (blackboxwatchdog.com) run by a Diebold employee who also operates or owns several porn sites. By Evelyn Pringle Ortho Evra Patch Maker Johnson & Johnson Waves A White Flag By David Swanson Nine State Democratic Parties Back Impeachment: Whose Table Is It, Nancy? Nominal leader of the Democrats in Congress Nancy Pelosi, following talking points produced by the Republican National Committee, recently told her fellow Dems to keep impeachment off the table. This past weekend, the Democratic Parties in Maine, New Hampshire, and Hawaii passed resolutions demanding impeachment. This, of course, raises the question: Whose table is it, Nancy? By Jim Bush The Mass Production Of Fear By Jim Bush Haditha! By Jay Daverth Haditha And The Milgram Experiment Our leadership must shoulder the blame for Haditha By Steven Leser Bush And Rove Wag The Gays - Yes They Are Incompetent, But You Should Support Them Because They Hate And Want To Discrim I recommend that everyone in America who is straight and is against discrimination of the type that led to the Holocaust join PFLAG - Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays on their website at http://www.pflag.org By Ben Marble, M.D. Reality Based Solution To " Gay Marriage " Issue Redefine marriage By Tadzio Koelb Pyrrhus Revisited: How Bush Can Turn Legislative Losses Into Electoral Victory - And We Could, Too When is a victory not a victory? When winning makes you look bad. By Eugene Weixel About " Illegal Aliens " Should the US just let people come in with no restrictions? By Daniel Geery The DNA Frame Continuation of the DNA of the human species is our most pressing problem. The issue of human extinction is a real one, and yet one that is generally ignored or shoved aside. By Paul Titterton Breaking All The Rules: " You Can Not Beat Children " Beatings in Basra By Esbe Dear Dems: You Had Me At Hello…You Lost Me At " we Will Not Seek Impeachment " Why we need to give the GOP more rope and hold complicit Dems accountable. By Joel Wendland Adjusting Chinese Currency Is No Fix Those who favor a policy of China increasing the value of the yuan believe that it would cause the price of goods manufactured in China to go up, encouraging US consumers to purchase fewer goods from that country and thus reduce the trade imbalance. By Rabbi Michael Lerner The Only Winning Way To Fight The Ban On Gay Marriage The opposition to gay marriage comes from two different kinds of concerns...The first is that there is a huge crisis in family life today, and the Right has been able to convince people that the crisis is in part generated by homosexuals. A movement to defend gay rights must address that family crisis. By Debby Bodkin Let's Put Out One Fire Before Jumping To Another! Let's put out one fire at a time. Clergy sexual misconduct is a hot fire that has been burning for many years, then jump to immigration reform. By Muhammad Khurshid Taliban Increases Terrorist Activities The Taliban increased their terrorists activities creating great fear among the people of tribal areas. They have appealed to the United States to help them in saving them from terrorists. By John Rodwick Montana US Senate Candidate Jon Tester Is A Straight Shooter I liked the guy a lot. He seemed to be the genuine article and showed no fear about speaking his mind when he was asked some tough questions where he could have hedged on his opinion so as not to alienate anyone like Max Baucus, who obviously has seniority, but is not an effective change agent. He described himself as a progressive Democrat. By Anthony Wade The Politics Of Distraction – The Gay Marriage Ploy Don't be fooled again. George Bush could care less if gays get married as long as you are talking about if they should. That is how he wins. The 2006 elections will be about many issues. It will not be about gay marriage stupid. By Mike Whitney The Media's Bloody Footprints The bloody footprints from Haditha lead straight to the corporate headquarters at Time Warner and FOX News. They are every bit as guilty as anyone who served in Kilo Company. By JGideon 'Daily Voting News' For June 5, 2006 a run-down of the days elections/voting news from across the country and overseas. By Bev Harris, Black Box Voting How To Validate Your Own Elections, Tips For CA Voters For Tomorrow's Primary This coming November, control of the U.S. Congress will be determined in a nationwide general election. Primary elections are your chance to practice citizen oversight activities. With its massive population, California elections will play a particularly large role in control of the U.S. House of Representatives. By Cindy Sheehan The Abominations Of War This is the most difficult article that I have ever had to write, but I have to write it anyway, unfortunately. By Allen L Roland PETE McCLOSKEY / AGELESS REPUBLICAN MAVERICK McCloskey is a fresh breeze of honesty and integrity in the stagnant air of Republican corruption, deception and lies. By David Swanson Let's Stay In Iraq Until It's Peaceful Or We're Sane, Whichever Comes First Have you ever heard someone try to argue that the Iraq War was a mistake but that now the proper course is to continue the mistake a bit longer or to carefully end it in a long and complicated way that could take months or years? Have you ever wondered how such a position, if examined in detail, could possibly make any sense? By Joshua Frank Leftists For Occupation? It's not just right-wingers who support the occupation of Iraq. By Missy Comley Beattie Preserving The Sanctity Of Marriage By Robert Jensen Attacking Iran: Bad Policy Is A Bipartisan Affair By Sunsara Taylor Countdown To Democrats' Betrayal … Or Mobilize To DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME? The will of the people will NOT be expressed in the 2006 elections. Listen to what the Democrats themselves are saying. Time for resistance to drive out the Bush regime. Mobilize for nation-wide protest on October 5th! Read more... By Joaquín Ramón Herrera It Begins With The Bean And Ends With The Blade. How Häagen Dazs Churned a Fancy, Spicy Taste Out of Chocolate, Milk, and Indian Blood. By Richard Mathis Will You Invite Helen Thomas On The O'Reilly Factor, Bill? Helen Thomas' new book gives the low-down on how the press has better served the current administration rather than democracy. By Vi Ransel Revelations Corporations seek pockets of poverty like pit vipers lock on to heat, taking advantage of cheap, docile labor and creating corporate fiefs By Tedbohne WHERE IN HELL WAS KILO COMPANY'S COMMANDER? Iraq and Afghanistan are failed states thanks to Bush By John R Moffett When The Republican Bubble Bursts Why are rich, Republican bigwigs still so happy with the George Bush presidency when most of the rest of us have decided that we have had more than enough of it? Simple, George Bush helped make them much richer than they ever could have possibly become under an independent and responsible administration. By Jane Stillwater BUSH KNEW: An Important Link Between Stolen Elections And 9-11 More and more facts are proving that the 2000 and 2004 elections were stolen. Did Bush know about this, one of the most massive and heinous crimes in U.S. history? And would a man capable of committing such a crime be also capable of committing another of the most massive and heinous crimes in U.S. history? Duh. By William Wilson Right Wing Priorities-- Homophobia Over... Everything? Flood Victims, Global Warming, Environment, War, Debt... Which is worse: thousands of poor people dying in floods, or men getting it on with each other? So why are the Religious Right so fascinated with homosexuality? By Jim Prues THE WINDS OF CHANGE Some notes on the sea change occurring in these times, and where we may be headed. By Www.wearewideawake.org WHO's On First With We The People Health care is NOT a commodity. The facts on the ground are that the richest country in the world has 46 million uninsured and many millions more that are underinsured. By Kathy Kelly Learning From The Courage Of Ali-- Right Livelihood Ali, an 11 year old boy was severely injured by accident. While he was climbing a high voltage tower, the power was turned on. Electricity surged through his body, leaving him armless. It seemed a miracle that he survived. He is bright, energetic, and thoroughly engaging. Brian Wilson was similarly maimed, but by intentional US military action on US soil. By Becky Burgwin Howard Dean And The Stonewall Democrats By Dave Lindorff Follow The Money. Oops Bush Won't Let That Happen Tough to do when one of the 750 acts the president set aside include a signing statement saying that the Inspector General would have no authority to investigate contracts or corruption issues involving the pentagon By Thepen If You Could Make ONE Phone Call Now To Stop The War NOW, Would You Do It? A new virtual phone bank technology has been developed that enables you to have much more impact than just working as an activist alone. This article introduces the interface and it's application in the primary challenge of Bob McCloskey (D-CA-29). By Linda Milazzo The Final Stretch: Linda Milazzo's " Conversation With Marcy Winograd " Based on my in-depth interview with Marcy Winograd, she may be a newcomer candidate, but she's irrefutably NO newcomer to the machinations of government and the needs of the constituents in California's " District 36 " . By Rob Kall Tap The Power Of Story To Max Your Message Or Campaign The most powerful way to get people to embrace your ideas is to package them in stories. This article describes how to identify stories to use to promote your candidate, issue or product. By Allen L Roland JOHN BOLTON / THE FACE OF HUBRIS & FASCISM Republican stooge and Bush's interim Ambassador to the U.N.John Bolton is the perfect face and voice for the Cheney/Bush neocon fascist agenda of preemptive war and arrogant power politics. By Mike Bailey Time For The VA Colonel To Come Clean By Mary Shaw Senator Frist's Twisted Priorities Are flag burning and gay marriage really this nation's most pressing concerns? By Paul R. Lehto, Attorney At Law The False-Fake Debate Over RFK Jr's Rolling Stone Article Started By Salon Ignores Democracy And What's Important In 2005, Paul Lehto filed a lawsuit against Sequoia and Snohomish County, WA. This was one of the first, if not the first, of many lawsuits by citizens taking legal means to protect the integrity of voting from electronic voting machines and those who impose them on the public. By Mickey Z. Haditha And Rumsfeld's Ratio Rumsfeld sez: " 99.9 percent of our forces conduct themselves in an exemplary manner. " That's what scares me. By Fleming Spiritual Progressives Unite To Confront The Religious Right, The Anti-Religious Left, And The Empire During the third week of May, in Washington D.C. over 1,200 patriotic Americans of all faiths and the spiritual but not religious came together for the second conference of The Network of Spiritual Progressives/NSP and to lobby Congress. The activists are challenging the misuse of religion, God and spirit by the Religious Right and the anti-religious and anti-spiritual biases within the Liberal Left. By Runner RFK Jr.'s " Was The 2004 Election Stolen? " - So Now What? RFK Jr.'s investigative report in Rolling Stone, " Was the 2004 Election Stolen? " is extraordinarily thorough and well written - So Now What? By Michael Boldin Politicians Lie? Say It Ain't So! .... the federal government extracts over Two Trillion Dollars from us every single year. Yet, with all this unthinkable wealth, it has been incapable of reducing poverty, improving our schools, preventing 9-11, catching those who perpetrated the attacks, making health care affordable, reducing crime, and so on. Going even further, each year, it passes new laws that make it legal to pry into your life even more... By James Richard Brett Garcetti V. Ceballos; Alito Kills Whistleblowing In Garcetti v. Ceballos the Supreme Court has summarily removed the First Amendment from public employees rights. It is another appalling nail in the coffin of democracy and justice! That 50 cycle hum you hear in the background is the Founding Fathers spinning in their graves. By Alex S Gabor SOROS AND ME PART VI - Bankruptcy Bills Break Into Global Bloodletting By Vi Ransel Soylent Greed poetry By Mark Lloyd Oil Vs Ethanol - Part 2 - " How To Eat Crow " By Steven Leser Associated Press Writer Andrew Taylor Crafts Biased Article - Says Potential Future Democratic House Leaders All `Libera News is supposed to be fact-based and not include judgments, opinions or subjectivity. If you want to include any opinions or subjective information, you write an editorial and clearly label it as such. By Mark S. Tucker Local " Progressive " Papers Eat Toad For Harman Need a good screed to fire up for June 6? Step right up! Starting with the Harman / Winograd race and proceeding to the Fascist Police State, if anything's missing, it wasn't for lack of trying. Ladies and gentleman, sharpen the claws, grit the teeth, gird the loins...it's show time! By Jay Daverth Bringing Up Hitler It's perfectly ok to compare our leaders to Hitler if and when they behave that way. Comparing Bush to Hitler isn't so much an exaggeration, it's just good common sense. By Mark E. Smith Global Warming Vs. Election Integrity What should our top priority be? Is it health care, global warming, peak oil, election reform, or something else entirely? By Rachel Gladstone-Gelman Leaving The US-- Moving To Canada Beacause it's small... and Canada-- Freedom and integrity of our voting system have been rendered absent, as has my faith in many fellow citizens who use it. By Www.wearewideawake.org Gutting Net Neutrality Can Happen Next Week Next week, House members will be voting on a law governing our nation's communications policy... CALL CONGRESS: CALL CONGRESS: 202-224-3121 Tell your Rep. to Vote NO on the COPE telecom law if it doesn't protect Net Neutrality. By Larry Sakin Cleaning House H.B. 3099, which calls for clean elections for Congressional candidates, is languishing in committee and not being covered by the general media. By Jane Stillwater Ashes & Diamonds: Ideas On How To Protect Our Savings From Bush's Fire Sale On The Dollar Under the looming threat of mega- inflation, I asked my friend Stephen how Americans could change their dollars into something safer. His answers surprised me. Gold? Silver? No.... Diamonds! Why? Because DeBeers has complete commodity control. Then my friend Martie told me why there WOULD be a war on Iran -- for the same reason. Commodity control. By Joel Wendland Haditha Massacre Raises Doubts About Conduct Of War Revelations of atrocities in Haditha, Iraq and a possible subsequent cover up continue to deeply divide Americans over the war on and occupation of Iraq. By Ken Knabb Reflections On The Uprising In France; Lessons Learned Analysis of the recent revolt in France, with translations from original French documents and graffiti. The movement has already achieved two victories-- success in forcing the government to back down and refutation of the snide, long prevailing " conventional wisdom " : " Revolution is obsolete. There is no alternative to the reigning system. Don't be too radical or you'll alienate the general public. " By Web, The Joke; A Kids' View Of Sex getting some while the kids are home By Bob Fitrakis And Harvey Wasserman RFK And Rolling Stone Nail Ohio's Stolen 2004 Election, But Much More Must Be Done Now we'll see if there's any further media follow-up. And if the Democratic Party actually DOES SOMETHING about the fact that America is about to be hijacked again in 2006, and then for the third straight presidential race in 2008. By Robert Parry Is O'Reilly A Nazi? Just Asking If someone else had done what Fox News star Bill O'Reilly did the other day – malign American troops who fought in the Battle of the Bulge and at Iwo Jima – it's hard to imagine how ugly the Fox News reaction would be. By Thom Hartmann Stand Up For Democracy With Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s brilliant new article tells how an American politician illegitimately took the office of president by outright theft and fraud. Although such high crimes and misdemeanors have been rumored in previous elections, none in the history of the republic have been so thoroughly documented. George W. Bush is not the legitimate president of the United States. By Larry Beinhart Foaming Republicans Today's Republican Party is a stool that rests on three legs of fear: fear of foreigners, fear of dark people and fear of sex. By Len Hart You Know You're Living In A Dictatorship When Public Opinion Becomes Irrelevant When Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said recently that journalists could be prosecuted for espionage, it was clear that an official crackdown on truth telling is one of several defining characteristics of a police state. There is yet another equally reliable sign of dictatorship: public opinion doesn't mean a thing! By Dan DeWalt Mobilize For Peace And Impeachment New impeachment/peace efforts are popping up daily. Where are you in this struggle? By JGideon 'Daily Voting News' For June 3, 2006 a run-down of the days elections/voting news from across the country and overseas. By David Swanson Eleven Excellent Reasons Not To Join The Military But even such a person, facing a highly unpleasant and unrewarding work life, and facing a taxpayer-funded multibillion-dollar advertising campaign for military recruitment, would not for an instant consider joining the military if they had read " 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military. " By Allen L Roland ANGELIDES IS THE MAN / TO BEAT ARNOLD IN NOVEMBER Phil Angelides is the ideal progressive candidate to not only represent the Democratic party but to handily defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger in November. By Evelyn Pringle Bush - Most Hated President Ever Stole Both Elections By Missy Comley Beattie Liking George Bush Why I'm forcing myself to support the president. By David Swanson John Bonifaz Rocks The House Reports confirm John rocked the House at the Massasschuettes Democratic State Party Convention this AM with his speech! By Fried; Edlen-Nezin Great Food, Great Sex Description of new book on food factors for sexual fitness By Steven Leser Ann Coulter - Trying To Beat An Election Fraud Rap The Peevish Eva Braun of the Far Right is now Hoping for Amnesty from a Liberal, Bleeding Heart Judge By Mark S. Tucker No More Corporate Soldiers...Ever Again Has corporatism eaten enough of your soul yet to wake you up? If not, be content to let your children die gruesomely on foreign soil, because that's what's killing them. This little article doesn't even come close to my sentiments, but it's a start. By Kent Welton NewSpeak For The New World Order - What You Must Hear Every Day The Mantra of Globalization, A catechism for your Neo-slavery - What you must see and hear every day. Newspeak for the New World Order. By Jane Stillwater Teenage Angst: Jordan Gets Busted, Nathan Researches Juvenile Hall.... Sometimes juvenile hall is the only place a kid can get a good education, some rational parenting, three square meals a day and a real bed all their own. to read articles, please click here to see the web page version http://www.opednews.com/flyer/news_20060607_1.html Best News Links from the Web By 9 Top Intel Analysts - Niger Docs Neocon " disinformation Operation...black Ops " inked To White Hse 9 experts who have served in C.I.A., State Dept, Def. Intel. Ag., and the Pentagon refer to the Niger documents as " a disinformation operation, " others as " black propaganda, " " black ops, " or " a classic psy-ops campaign. " But whatever term they use, at least 9 of these officials believe that the Niger documents were part of covert ops to deliberately mislead the American public. By Was The 2004 Election Stolen? RFK, Jr. And Farhad Manjoo Face Off The nation still needs a thorough and honest exploration of what happened across the country, so we can begin the urgent work of instituting real reforms -- ensuring that such abuses do not continue to undermine democracy and cast doubt on the integrity of our entire electoral system. By Salon Answers Its Critics Debate rages (online, at least, if not in the MSM) regarding the merits of RFK Jr. vs. Manjoo. By Great Moments In Republican Bigotry ....t's very sad that after 47 years of marriage all it takes is me [a gay individual] getting married in Massachusetts to threaten the Inhofe's marriage. I'd have thought it would have taken a lot more to get Senator Inhofe (R-Hawaii) to dump his wife for a guy. By The Real Threat To Marriage: Top 10 GOP Adulterers The traditional media may be interested almost exclusively in the sex lives of Democratic politicians, but on the hypocrisy index, it is hard to score higher than Republicans pontificating about saving the institution of marriage while so many of their leaders are serial and long-time adulterers: By RFK, Jr. And The Stolen Elections Of 2004 Kennedy's article has been out for close to a week and it's received little to no notice from the mainstream press. All the more reason to make sure we have courageous Democratic candidates who speak to the needs of the American people and refuse to be eclipsed by the potential shenanigans of a political party desperately clinging to power. By Ohio 2004: The Howard Dean Interview Touch-screen voting machines absolutely cannot be relied upon. Our recommendation was optiscan ballots — where you actually have custody of the actual ballots after the ballots have been passed through the computer. That's the most reliable system to use. And people should not use the electronic voting machines. Even electronic voting machines with paper trails can be manipulated. By More Repuglican Hypocrisy: Bible Belt States Have Highest Divorce Rates. And They Worry About Gay Marriage? By comparison nine states in the Northeast-- where allegedly amoral, faithless, Volvo-driving, Birkenstock-wearing, NY Times-reading lefties are found--were among those with the lowest divorce rates: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Rhode Island. Perhaps these born-again Christians should actually practice what they preach. Family values? Now that's a joke. By Florida Voting Activists Protest Machines " It is so ironic that they wouldn't approve the [other machines], but that they are now approving machines that have been proven to have security vulnerabilities, " Pynchon said. " I have absolutely no confidence that these machines will record our vote accurately. " By Centrist Third Party Forming-- Planning To Use Internet To Build A group of primarily centrist Democrats from the Carter administration and a few others are talking of creating a third party. Hmm. Rake off a few percentage points on moderate side of Democrats. Would a right wing group invest ten or twenty million to energize such a project? By Arkansas: Election 2006: " A Royal Mess " " Do you think ES & S keeps enough well trained people on their staff to program nationwide, general elections every month? Of course not! " Nunnally wrote. " So who is going to be doing the programming in October for the general elections? Either there are going to be far too few trained people to get the job done, or we are going to have our most critical election programmed by StaffMark, Kelly Girl, and illegal aliens. " By Molly Ivins: Flag Burning And Other Dubious Epidemics I believe what we have here is a difference over moral values. The Republicans are worried about the flag, gay marriage and the terrible burden of the estate tax on the rich. The rest of us are obviously unnecessarily worried about war, peace, the economy, the environment and civilization. Another reason to vote Republican—they have a shorter list. By Maryland: Lamone Finds A Firm That Will Approve Diebold Paperless Voting State Board of Elections responds to calls for independent testing of Diebold machines By hiring a Diebold apologist rather then a security expert to conduct tests. TrueVoteMD Calls Review a " Whitewash in the making " . What the heck is Linda Lamone doing? Anyone mad about this? By Reward For The Hereditary Elite It doesn't matter if you are liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican. There is no possible excuse for doing what Congress is poised to do this week: Abolish the estate tax. The federal government faces a future of expanding deficits. What is the dumbest possible response to this? Take a source of revenue and abolish it outright. By Stephen Colbert's Commencement Speech At Knox College By Early Primary Day Meltdown Reports an Joaquin is registrar Debra Hench's county. She has been amongst the most vociferous supporters of Diebold. As expected, she takes the Diebold company line in the article above, by attempting to blame poll workers for problems with her machines. New info also suggests that she's been closely involved, personally, with a team of Diebold disinformation experts. More on that to come soon. By CNN's Lou Dobbs Says Private Voting Machine Companies A " Threat To Our Democracy " ....it's no different from the " local " privatized ownership of all of the other companies, such as Diebold, ES & S, etc. They are equally, if not more, partisan and their privatized (and secretized) ownership of our public elections should be of equal concern to Lou Dobbs, and all other, mostly rightwingers, who are suddenly concerned about the ownership of Sequoia! By Coulter On 9/11 Widows: `I Have Never Seen People Enjoying Their Husbands' Death So Much' See Video of Ann make a jackal out of herself AGAIN. By Limbaugh: Liberals Are `Ecstatic' About Haditha, Planning `Gang Rape' Of War Supporters Limbaugh asserted that " the left " and " the drive-by media " is happy about allegations of misconduct against civilians by U.S. troops at Haditha. Moreover, they planned on using Haditha to " gang rape " U.S. troops and undermine the war effort... By MoveOn Targets Four In Congress For Aiding 'war Profiteer' Halliburton Four U.S. Representatives are coming under fire this week from MoveOn.org Political Action Committee. The ads, which will run through June 16th, target Reps Nancy Johnson (R-CT), Thelma Drake (R-VA), Chris Chocola (R-IN), and Deborah Pryce (R-OH). By Iranian Television Broadcasts Footage Of Alleged Ishaqi Massacre At Ishaqi In this two minute segment broadcast on Iranian television June 2, some images of dead children at the alleged American massacre of 11 civilians in Ishaqi VIDEO By U.S. Stocks Fall As Global Markets Drop Stocks sagged in early trading Tuesday following Monday's selloff, which was sparked by hawkish comments by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. That decline reverberated globally, sending most international markets lower. By U.S. To Give Iran Nuclear Technology A package of incentives presented Tuesday to Iran includes a provision for the United States to supply Tehran with some nuclear technology if it stops enriching uranium — a major concession by Washington. By New Domestic Policy Chief Karl Zinsmeister Fudged His WH Resume New White House domestic policy chief Karl Zinsmeister has now acknowledged he didn't found the American Enterprise magazine, as the White House claimed when it announced his appointment in late May. By First Real Test Of Voter Sentiment A hard-fought U.S. House election in California that could offer clues about voter sentiment before November's midterm election highlights a busy day of voting in eight states on Tuesday. By Will Joe Lieberman Become A Casualty Of War? Lieberman, the party's vice presidential nominee in 2000, faces a growing challenge from a political neophyte who has rallied Democrats angered by the senator's enthusiastic backing of the war and willingness to support Republican President George W. Bush on other issues. By Guess Who Won A GOP Straw Poll? That would be former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Among 540 MN GOP activists at the state party convention, Gingrich took nearly 40% in a straw poll of potential 2008 presidential candidates. Is this the beginning of a political comeback for Mr. Gingrich, one that will lead him to the White House? Our First Lady would be his Third Lady...that ole GOP sanctity of marriage! By Why Deficits Matter America's national debt is growing at an unsustainable rate, and the consequences could be disastrous. By Capitalization Of Russian Stock Market Should Be 70% Of Gdp By 2009 - Zhukov The capitalization of the Russian stock market should reach 70% of GDP by 2009 in accordance with a strategy to develop the financial market in 2006-2008. By Lawmakers Accept Nearly $50 Million In Travel & Perks Over 5 1/2 years, Republican and Democratic lawmakers accepted nearly $50 million in trips, often to resorts and exclusive locales, from corporations and groups seeking legislative favors, according to the most comprehensive study to date on the subject of congressional travel. By Senate Takes Up Gay-rights Ban Amid Criticism Opponents said the measure was a transparent attempt to shore up support among social conservatives before November's congressional election, in a similar manner to the 2004 presidential campaign, when Congress should be dealing with issues like high gasoline prices and the war in Iraq. " The reason for this debate is to divide our society, to pit one against another, " Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said. By More Severed Heads Found In Iraq Police in Iraq have said on Tuesday that they found nine severed heads, wrapped in plastic bags and left in a fruit box by the side of a road. By Iran 'positive' On Nuclear Offer Incentives aimed at persuading Iran to halt sensitive atomic research contain " positive steps " and " ambiguities " , its chief nuclear negotiator has said. By The REAL Threat To Marriage: The Top 10 GOP Adulterers Tt is hard to score higher than Republicans pontificating about saving the institution of marriage while so many of their leaders are serial and long-time adulterers.... By How A Typical New York Times Article Is Really Bushevik Propaganda Disguised As News This is an administration that has been proven to lie daily, brazenly and egregiously. Yet, the New York Times continues to treat White House sources pedaling White House " spin " as purveyors of fact. By The Good News From Haditha One reason there hasn't been a great outcry from within Iraq over news of Haditha is that every day the civilians of Iraq now face terror from other Iraqis.George Bush threw open the gates of hell. Who knows how or when those gates can be closed. But when John Murtha insists the US must leave now, he is speaking an obvious truth - there is nothing the US can do now, except deepen the violence. It must leave Iraq immediately. By Will Your Primary Vote Be Counted? .... a consensus is emerging from top to bottom that the system is broken, even if there is not yet a consensus about what to do about it. But increasingly even the more mainstream experts acknowledge that for the 2006 election, the creaky bridge continues on a shaky foundation. By CBS Tragedy In Iraq More political cartoons. By Normalizing The Unthinkable: On The Failure Of The World's Press Pilger told me that he'd never been as concerned about the state of the media as he was today. " I think there's a lot of reasons to be very concerned about the information or the lack of information that we get. There's never been such an interest, more than an interest, almost an obsession, in controlling what journalists have to say. " By Top Ten Cloves: What President Bush Will Do To Help Congress Pass The Gay Marriage Ban By Stand Up For Democracy With Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Our national mega-corporate-owned media - now so driven by ad dollars that sensationalized " missing white girls " trump real news - will only respond if enough of us raise enough questions with their editors and writers. Or if more of our members of congress begin to speak out with the rare courage Congressman John Conyers showed when he pursued his investigation despite a virtual news blackout from the mainstream media. By Fitrakis Responds To Manjoo's Salon Article In conclusion, it appears that Manjoo, in his zest to be the great " de-bunker " of grassroots activists and progressive writers, simply creates his facts as needed. No surprise that he thinks Bush won. After all, he seems to adopt the same intelligence-gathering methods Bush used in Iraq which are favored by Fox News. His approach reminds me of that famous quote from Ronald Reagan " Facts are stupid things " . By A Semi-Comprehensive Quizzing O Manjoo's Rebuttal Of RFK Jr. This afternoon I read with great interest Farhad Manjoo's rebuttal in Salon of Robert Kennedy Jr.'s article in Rolling Stone. Despite my huge admiration for RFK Jr., deep inside I harbored a hope that he was wrong on this, and that Salon and Mr. Manjoo were going to show me the way. Sorry to say, I'm just not there yet. By Emergency Injunction Filed Over Questionable Use, Placement Of Diebold Tabulators, Uncertified Software On Computers In In addition, the BRAD BLOG received an email indicating that one voter at least -- Michael Shure, a political commentator on Sirius Sattelite's The Young Turks radio program -- who voted on the Diebold touch-screen machines was given the incorrect ballot. By US Fed. Reserve Chair. Buries Stocks, Bonds On Inflation Talk " Given recent developments, the medium-term outlook for inflation will receive particular scrutiny, " Bernanke told a group of bankers. NASDAQ fell 2%. DOW dropped 200 pts., and 2-year U.S. Treasury note sank sharply. By Senator Sellout If left-liberal bloggers have any influence on the DNC, they should use their muscle right now to block a grotesque sellout--handing GOPers an odious victory on the inheritance tax. GOP give-away will create a $1 trillion hole in future federal revenue. If this happens, forget about universal health care... By REPORT: Desert Cities Are Living On Borrowed Time, US Included The 500 million people who live in the world's desert regions can expect to find life increasingly unbearable as already high temperatures soar and the available water is used up or turns salty, according to the United Nations. Desert cities in the US and Middle East, such as Phoenix and Riyadh, may be living on borrowed time as water tables drop and supplies become undrinkable. By Back To The Well Political cartoon on Bush's sudden attention to the gay marriage amendment. By Medicaid Rules Toughened On Proof Of Citizenship Bush plans this week to issue strict standards requiring more than 50 million low-income people on Medicaid to prove they are United States citizens by showing passports or birth certificates and a limited number of other documents. By Looking To The Future: George W. Bush Brushes Up His Resume Would you hire this man? By Rice's Iran Gambit three factors militate against Bush now granting sufficient U.S. concessions to the Iranians to make diplomacy work. 1st, he's boxed in by his " War on Terror " rhetoric. 2nd, he is in denial about the extent to which his policies have undermined the US' negotiating position with Iran. And 3rd, Bush believes (and most of the senior U.S. leadership), that anything, even a war with Iran, is better than a nuclear-armed Iran. By GOP Buttons On Their Shirts And Faith On Their Sleeves The party platform, adopted Saturday, declares " America is a Christian nation " and affirms that " God is undeniable in our history and is vital to our freedom. " " We pledge to exert our influence toward a return to the original intent of the First Amendment and dispel the myth of the separation of church and state, " it says. By PENTAGON CALLS 'OPERATION INSTANT EXONERATION' A SUCCESS - Satire At a press briefing at the Pentagon today, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld revealed that Operation Instant Exoneration, in which military officials charged with wrongdoing are exonerated more swiftly than ever before, was the culmination of months of meticulous planning. " We have worked hard to make our military probes faster, lighter, and more cursory than ever before. " By Video: Wolf Blitzer, Bush/Cheney Spokesman Gang Up Vs. Robert Kennedy On CNN Holt spent no time speaking to the serious charges made by Kennedy in Rolling Stone but rather made up his own phony, unsupported nonsense. In the meantime, Blitzer allowed Holt to spread his unsubstantiated garbage without being challenged even once. By A Guided Tour Of Class In America Tom Engelhardt interviews Barbara Ehrenreich on the prey and the predators By America Needs Debra Bowen As CA's Sec Of State Specifically, Bowen has studied, learned, investigated, held hearings and delved deep into that murky territory of electronic voting, electoral integrity and the threat to our democracy posed by the privatization of our public electoral system by corporate interests using secret software to " count " America's votes. By Probing A Bloodbath The Marines were well prepared for war, but not for insurgency. Did some of them snap—and slaughter innocent civilians in cold blood? (Indeed, only now, in the late spring of 2006, when the Iraq war has been spluttering along for almost as long as the time it took America to win World War II, is the military finalizing a draft of a manual on counterinsurgency.) By How The U.S. Military Deliberately Lied About Haditha And Tried To Cover It Up The U.S. military deliberately ignored accounts by eyewitnesses, letting stand a U.S. cover story for a period of six months. The truth about the case is still hidden under the cover of an " on-going " investigation. It is doubtful that any meaningful investigation was ever conducted into one of the more recent outrages among " ...countless My Lai massacres " in Iraq. By Canadian Terror Probe Expands To 7 Nations ....including US. Does this mean Canada would be within its rights to attack the United States according to the Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive strikes/war on countries where terrorists' attacks are planned? By Dow Closes Down Almost 200 Points Inflation fears sent stocks plunging Monday as jitters over high oil prices exacerbated signals that the Federal Reserve will keep lifting interest rates to contain price increases. The Dow Jones industrial average sank nearly 200 points. By 'The US Has Failed In Somalia - Again' US backing of Somalia's secular warlords has backfired with the seizure of Mogadishu by rival Islamist militia and the worst violence in the country for 15 years, an analyst has said. By My Lai To Haditha: Lessons From The Law Of War If these killings were not justified by the exigencies of war, they fall outside the scope of what is known as combatant immunity. Whether characterized as war crimes or as criminal homicides in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the underlying premise is the same: even in war there are limits on when it is permissible to kill. By Bush Panders To GOP Right Wing Nut Fundamentalists' To Write Discrimination Into Law Neither chamber is likely to pass the amendment by the two-thirds majority required to send it to the states — three quarters of which would then have to approve it. By Peter Daou: Haditha: Selective Moral Outrage Growing number of prominent rightwingers who seem to be coming unhinged over recent reports of U.S. atrocities in Iraq By LA Congressman Built Web Of Firms Focus shifts from raid to congressman's corporate network By Iranian Oil Bourse Nearly Ready To Open The Iranian Oil Bourse is in its final stages, Iran's Fars news agency reported Monday. According to the Fars report, the board of directors of the Intl. Bourse Co., which is charged with establishing the bourse, will review the final draft of the articles of association of the Iranian bourse this week. By 'I Just Bought Your Hard Drive' Trusting 'company policy' can put all your personal data in the hands of a new owner. By Beyond The Minimum Wage: New Policies To Raise Wages The reality for working Americans is that wages have been largely stagnant for over three decades. For many workers pay has actually gotten worse, meaning that this generation is the first one in American history which is not doing signficantly better than the previous one. By Cooper's Credibility In Question With Washington's attention focused on the murky fate of top White House official Karl Rove, one surprising and potentially significant development in the ongoing CIA leak case against top White House official I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby has largely escaped notice. It concerns questions about the credibility of one of the reporters at the center of the case - Time magazine correspondent Matthew Cooper. By At 25, AIDS' Relentless March Leaves Legacy Of Misery Grim prognosis for hard-hit nations, skyrocketing deaths By Islam: The Video Game Hopes are the game will help to reverse negative connotations of Islam in the west and evoke new pride among young Muslims. By A Touchy Subject The proposed introduction of patriotism into the national curriculum has provoked fear among Japanese schoolteachers. By Peru's Comeback Kid Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has scored an own goal in his campaign to forge an anti-US front in Latin America. Chavez threw his support behind Ollanto Humala, a populist former army lieutenant, in Peru's presidential election, held yesterday. The move backfired spectacularly, paving the way for a remarkable political comeback by Alan Garcia. By Islamist Fighters Take Mogadishu An Islamist militia has taken control of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, after weeks of intense fighting against an alliance of warlords. By Armed Men Kidnap 50 In Baghdad The attackers - dressed in police uniforms - stormed the stations, in the centre of the capital, abducting drivers and passengers preparing to travel out of Iraq. The victims were herded into more than a dozen vehicles before being driven away. By Marine's Wife Paints Portrait Of Haditha Troops On 3rd Tour With Drug & Alcohol Problems The wife of the unnamed staff sergeant claimed there had been a " total breakdown " in the unit's discipline after it was pulled out of Falluja in early 2005. " There were problems in Kilo company with drugs, alcohol, hazing [violent initiation games], you name it, " she said. " I think it's more than possible that these guys were totally tweaked out on speed or something when they shot those civilians in Haditha. " By Understanding Haditha Bush acknowledged last month that the United States has been paying for the acts committed at Abu Ghraib " for a long period of time. " But Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), who served for 37 years in the Marines, said recently that the acts committed in Haditha in Nov. 2005 could be " worse than Abu Ghraib. By What Happened At Haditha And when we finally got our hands on this videotape, it became very clear to us that these people could not have been killed outdoors by an explosive device. They were killed in their homes in their night clothes. The night clothes are significant, because Iraqi women and children, especially, are very, very unlikely to go outdoors wearing their night clothes. It is a very conservative society. By Army Manual To Skip Geneva Detainee Rule The Pentagon's move to omit a ban on prisoner humiliation from the basic guide to soldier conduct faces strong State Dept. opposition. By Russ Feingold - Bucking Convention All The Way To The White House? Chris Cillizza's take on Feingold's chances at the White House. He refers to Russ as " Dean 2.0 " which may or may not be helpful. By RFK And Rolling Stone Nail Ohio's Stolen 2004 Election, But Much More Must Be Done ....There's no reason to doubt that every one of these dirty tricks---and much much more---will be used again here and nationwide in 2006 and 2008, to guarantee that this horrendous GOP reign of terror and error will plunge ever deeper into the American soul. By Analysis Of Connally Spreadsheet And Other Documents The Free Press is releasing these articles by Ron Baiman that generally support the analysis by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the current issue of Rolling Stone. Also see Richard Hayes Phillips' Through a Glass Darkely. By Mass Killers Come In All Colors For decades police and FBI officials, forensic specialists, profiling experts, and psychologists tagged a mass killer as a hate filled, sexually repressed, loner, white male. The victims of black mass killers are in many instances other blacks or non-whites. They often live in the poorest inner city neighborhoods where the murder rates are far higher than in middle-class suburbs. More often than not, they are poor minority women. By A Shot From Omaha: Warren Buffet Invests In Israel In A Big Way What makes his decision to purchase Iscar all the more remarkable is that it is Buffet's first investment of this size outside the United States. People are often shocked to hear that Israel has more companies listed on Nasdaq than does any country outside of North America, that there are more high-tech start-ups, engineers, scientific publications and R & D spending per capita in Israel than anywhere else... By CA: Bush Rating Slips Into 'uncharted Waters' The low numbers were unprecedented for a president with a substantial amount of time left to serve. Other presidents with extremely poor ratings -- Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Bush's father, George H.W. Bush -- were on the way out when they sank to such lows. By BBC NEWS: Climate Chaos: Bush's Climate Of Fear Some of America's leading climate scientists claim to Panorama that they have been censored and gagged by the administration. One of them believes the publication of his report, which catalogues the unprecedented rate of ice melt in the Arctic, was delayed as Americans prepared to vote in 2004. By Haditha Massacre: " I Hope The Investigation Goes Up The Food Chain " In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, Michael Sallah -- who won a Pulitzer Prize for his investigative reporting on war crimes in Vietnam -- discuss the parallels between the massacres at Haditha and My Lai. By World Bank: Venezuela Decreased Poverty The number of homes living in poverty decreased from more than 40% to 30%. Chavez accomplishing something Bush/Neocons can not and did not...and don't seem to want to do in US. By Bush's India Plans At Risk Opposition grows to the idea of forging a nuclear alliance with the Asian power. Some in Congress fear the major policy shift could boost Iran. By Federal Judge Allows Lawsuit Against NSA A federal judge will go ahead with hearings in a legal challenge to a warrantless domestic surveillance program run by the NSA. The ACLU in Detroit and the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York filed lawsuits against the program saying it violates Americans' rights to free speech and to privacy. By A One-town Renewable Energy Independence Rebellion Some say the goal may be too ambitious, too fantastic, for any place, much less little Reynolds, Ind. True, most of the plans are just that, for now. But in the end, the town wants to secede from America's energy grid and power itself entirely with renewable sources, like its corn and pigs. By Cruise Missles Multiplying Like Rabbits Thought you knew missile proliferation? Think again. Cruise missiles are spreading across the globe at an alarming rate, threatening to escalate regional tensions. By A Weakening Weapons' Taboo - Nukes, They're Back Today, although the taboo on use remains strong, accumulating developments threaten to erode it: Russia's return to greater reliance on nuclear weapons in its defense policies, heated rhetoric from India and Pakistan, pursuit of nuclear weapons by North Korea and possibly by Iran, and the dismal failure of the May 2005 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference. By Deadly Quackery - US 'AIDS Denialists' Encourage Its Spread A bizarre theory has gained ground — one that claims that H.I.V. is harmless, and that the antiretroviral drugs that curb the growth of the virus cause rather than treat AIDS. Such talk sounds to most of us like quackery, but the theory has emerged as a genuine menace to public health in the US and, particularly, in South Africa. American AIDS denialists are partly to blame for South Africa's backsliding AIDS policy. By Are US Marines Able To Distinguish Between An Insurgent And A Baby? Now that we have reached the one place we most wanted to avoid, it will not do to focus blame narrowly on the Marine unit suspected of carrying out these killings and ignore the administration officials, from President Bush on down, who made the chances of this sort of disaster so much greater by deliberately blurring the rules governing the conduct of American soldiers in the field. By Bush/Neocon War Creates Vast Oil Smuggling Scheme Aiding Insurgents Iraq's war crippled oil pipelines & refineries are now being used to aid a vast smuggling network that is costing the Iraqi government billions of dollars a year and putting $$ in pockets of insurgents...IRAQ IS NOW A NET OIL IMPORTER - buying more than selling By Total $$ Borrowed For Bush/Neocon Iraq Disaster = $286,000,000,000 National Priorities Project By 2,490 U.S. Casualties In Iraq; 17,774 Wounded GlobalSecurity.Org By DOWD: Teaching Remedial Decency It is admirable that the Marine commanders want to morally sensitize the troops while they are in such a hostile environment, but it also seems a bit absurd, sending them to summer school in " core values. " There's no way to teach someone not to shoot an unarmed woman or child. If somebody doesn't already know why they shouldn't murder a baby, it's not clear that a refresher course will help. By Estate Tax Repeal Would Be A Federal Budget Buster There's an idea under consideration in Washington that would swell the federal budget deficit, drive our nation deeper into debt and likely force damaging cuts in education, health care and other key services, just so we can make a small group of millionaire heirs even wealthier. How are the backers of this idea doing it? Through a combination of fear and distortion. {It's the GOP Way! By Women Candidates Herald Historic Kwuaiti Ballot Thirty-two women will be among 402 parliamentary candidates standing for election in Kuwait on June 29, the first time in the history of the Gulf Arab state that women will be allowed to seek office. By Poll: Bush's Approval Rating Hits New Low In California Bush's approval ratings among Californians continue to drop, hitting another new low in a statewide poll released Sunday. The Field Poll showed only 28 percent of voters approve of Bush's job performance - the lowest rating any president has received in the state in three decades. Sixty-five percent of voters disapprove of the job he's doing, while 7 percent have no opinion. By Poll: Md. Voters Favor Drug Treatment Over Prison A newly released poll shows that a majority of Maryland voters believe substance abusers should get treatment instead of prison. Voters also think the state's alcohol tax should be increased to pay for expanded drug treatment programs. By Poll: Black Men In America Black men in America today are deeply divided over the way they see themselves and their country. Black men report the same ambitions as most Americans -- for career success, a loving marriage, children, respect. And yet most are harshly critical of other black men, associating the group with irresponsibility and crime. By Bolivia Head Starts Land Handout Bolivia's president has given more than 30,000 square km (18,600 sq miles) of land to indigenous peasant communities under a programme of agrarian reform. By Grateful Dead Keyboardist Dies At 51 Vince Welnick, the Grateful Dead's last keyboard player and a veteran of several other bands, including the Tubes and Missing Man Formation, has died at age 51. Cause of death unknown. Autopy to be performed. By Students " executed " As Iraq Violence Rages On Gunmen in Iraq dragged 24 people, mostly teenage students, from vehicles and shot them dead, police said, as violence raged in the country on Sunday. Iraqi leaders appeared deadlocked on naming new interior and defense ministers seen as critical to restoring stability in a country bloodied by relentless insurgent and sectarian killings. By Iran Threatens Global Oil Crisis If Attacked By US Iran's top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned Sunday that oil shipments from the Gulf region would be disrupted if the United States attacked his nation. By Press Accounts Suggest Possible Military 'Cover-up' In Ishagi Killings The Iraqi police charge that American forces executed the civilians, including a 75-year-old woman and a 6-month-old baby. The BBC has been airing video of the dead civilians, mainly children, who appeared to be shot, possibly at close range. Photographs taken just after the raid for Agence France-Presse, and reports at the time by Reuters and Knight Ridder, also appear to largely back up the charge of an atrocity. By Feingold Stirs Convention With Criticism Of War Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin brought his anti-war message to the Democratic State Convention receiving a rousing reception from hundreds of delegates who approved an impeachment resolution targeting GW Bush. By ABA To Review Bush's Legal Challenges To Constitutional Authority The board of governors of the American Bar Association voted unanimously yesterday to investigate whether GW Bush has exceeded his constitutional authority in reserving the right to ignore more than 750 laws that have been enacted since he took office. By A New Look At: Kerry Won!!! Statistical Tools Everyone Can Use The 2004 Election Controversy will not stop. Statistical analysis of polls is now more accessible with free interactive Excel-based election models available on the Internet. Plus an interview with TruthIsAll. Special for Scoop Independent Media from Washington DC, Michael Collins, Dec. 21, 2005 By The Strange Death Of American Democracy ....with the willing complicity of all the major outlets of the corporate media, a single corporatist party controls the executive functions of the central government, both houses of the legislature, and the judiciary- then turn(s) what should have been a landslide electoral defeat into a dubious but effectively unassailable victory. By Bush Slogan: Lying Every Day Keeps The Truth Away telling the truth in the Bush Administration is like striking a stake into the heart of a vampire By The Queen Of Earmarks-- Another Republican Morasse Of Corrpution Unfolding? Letitia Hoadley White, workded for Representative Jerry Lewis, Republican of California before becoming a lobbyist. Now, Ms. White's success has drawn less welcome attention. Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Mr. Lewis and other lawmakers may have traded earmarks for illicit payments from lobbyists and contractors — an outgrowth of the bribery indictment of Randy Cunningham, a former congressman from California. By Canada Lays 17 Terror Charges suspects caught by Canadian spies checking internet activity By Ahmadinejad Insists On Playing Into The Administration's Hands In an interview with Germany's Der Spiegel, he comes across as a Neo-Nazi. " Why, " he asks, " are the crimes of [the Nazis] emphasized so greatly, instead of highlighting the great German cultural heritage? " By The State Of The Nuclear Taboo " Today, " writes Nina Tannenwald for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, " no U.S. agency is devoted to nuclear self-restraint. " What's needed, she concludes only half in jest, is " a sort of Bureau of the Nuclear Taboo, " to serve as an independent watchdog. By Could You Please Tell Me, What Is This Thing Called Baseball? By Kabul Goes Baghdad InterventionMag's Stewart Nusbaumer, in Kabul to write about the reconstruction (or lack thereof) of Afghanistan, reports on the protests and gun battles going on around him. " Today in Kabul the veneer of national progress was ripped off. " By Robert Fisk: The Shocking Truth About Iraq I remember clearly the first suspicions I had that murder most foul might be taking place in our name in Iraq...Could Haditha be just the tip of the mass grave? The corpses we have glimpsed, the grainy footage of the cadavers and the dead children; could these be just a few of many? Does the handiwork of America's army of the slums go further? By Return To Ishaqi: The Pentagon's Shaky Self-Exoneration It seems that the Pentagon, that veritable fount of veracity, has probed itself for the alleged execution-style slaying of civilians in Ishaqi, and found that the operation -- which left 11 civilians dead, including five children under the age of five -- was in fact an exemplary feat of arms, strictly by the book. By An Emerging Pattern Of U.S. War Crimes And Atrocities In Iraq Suggests A Heinous Policy The " few bad applies " defense falls apart in the face of " ...countless My Lai massacres " in Iraq and new revelations. A pattern of war crimes emerges. News of other incidents supports the proposition that the Bush administration has deliberately waged a war on the civilian population of Iraq. By Al Versus Hillary? No Contest The years out of office have revealed Al Gore to be a true leader, combining reflection, honesty and conviction, while the former First Lady has failed to clarify her vision in any way. By Maine Democrats Adopt Bush Impeachment Resolution Democratic State Convention delegates adopted a resolution Saturday calling for impeachment proceedings against President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, but they opted not to include the measure in their party platform. By Diebold V. Democracy So. HAVA was written with absurd standards by a corrupt congressman, under the influence of cash from a corrupt lobbyist, paid by Diebold, a company that corruptly sold uncertified software to California for the 2004 election (and settled out of court for $2.6 million), whose voting machines are revealed to be corruptible-with Bush's most important election, legacy-wise, just months away. By Salt Lake Tribune: Diebold's Reassurances Are Not Enough The corporate attitude is basically that the system is only vulnerable to people who are crooked. That is like saying that you need not lock your doors, take your car keys or call your children in after dark unless you are paranoid enough to think that there are any would-be criminals out there. By Afghan Massacre : The Convoy Of Death VIDEO In Afghanistan, filmmaker Jamie Doran has uncovered evidence of a massacre: Taliban prisoners of war suffocated in containers, shot in the desert under the watch of American troops. The film provides eyewitness testimony that U.S. troops were complicit in the massacre of thousands of Taliban prisoners during the Afghan War. By Antarctic 'cold Rush' Raises Fears For Last Great Wilderness A building boom in the frozen wastes of the Antarctic, one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet, has raised fears that the icy continent will fall prey to the worldwide search for oil, gas and other minerals. By Iraq PM: Civilians Killed Daily ' " just On Suspicion " Iraq's new prime minister yesterday accused American forces of killing civilians " just on suspicion " . Nouri al-Maliki said violence against civilians had become a " daily phenomenon " . " They crush them with their vehicles and kill them just on suspicion, " he said. " This is completely unacceptable. " By Normalizing The Unthinkable John Pilger, Robert Fisk, Charlie Glass, and Seymour Hersh on the failure of the world's press By Poll: 44 Percent Of West Bank Settlers Prepared To Leave Homes With Israel's new government planning to relinquish large parts of the West Bank, a growing number of Jewish settlers are giving up the struggle for their homes. At the same time, Israel is strengthening settlements in areas it plans to keep. By Worse And Worser New survey says: Bush is worst president since 1945. And a Rolling Stone article by R.F.Kennedy Jr. suggests Bush got there by stealing Ohio. I know, I know. We're stuck with the SOB for 31 more months. Still, the litany is an unhappy one. By New Energy Plans To Deal With Rising Prices May Stall Congress Congress's impulse to pass energy legislation, so urgent just a month ago, has lost steam amid a combination of rancorous regional and partisan battles bode ill for even modest proposals. By Looking For Signs In Early Elections Some key primary elections next week will say something about how incumbent Republicans will fare going into November's election. By Judge Throws Libby A Small Bone ....the only question the jury will be asked to resolve in this matter will be whether the defendant intentionally lied to the grand jury. The prosecution of this action, therefore, involves a discrete cast of characters and events, and this Court will not permit it to become a forum for debating the accuracy of Ambassador Wilson's statements... By Wen Ho Lee Settles Suit Lee sued the DOE and Justice for violating his right to privacy " by leaking information that he was under investigation as a spy for China. " The government is paying Lee $895,000 to cover his legal fees and associated taxes. Five news outlets added $750,000, essentially buying the freedom (and silence) of their reporters by ending the lawsuit. By Venezuela Backs Proposal To Sell Oil In Euros Instead Of US Dollars Minister Ramirez said " Iran has an initiative that we support. They are going to start to do oil transactions in euros. " OPEC said some member countries had raised the possibility but added that they had not formally tabled the proposal to the bloc. By REPORT: Bush Pressures Chile To Shun Venezuela With an arrogance bordering on intimidation, the Bush admin wishes to impose its will onto Chile's sovereignty and force that country to impede Venezuela's admission to the United Nations Security Council. By US Soldier Gets 90 Days For Abu Ghraib Abuse A U.S. Army dog handler was demoted and sentenced to 90 days of hard labor on Friday for using his dog to assault a prisoner at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. By How They Stole Ohio The GOP 4-step Recipe to 'Blackwell' the USA in 2008 Abracadabra: Three Million Votes Vanish By Key Fact In National Review's Global Warming Article Is `Completely Wrong' So it's the same shell game again. Take a finding for the interior of the eastern part of the continent and pretend the whole continent is gaining ice, even though studies show the western and coastal areas are losing ice at a rapid pace. By Daily Look At U.S. Military Deaths In Iraq As of Saturday, June 3, 2006, at least 2,476 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 1,953 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. By Iran Welcomes Unconditional Talks On Nukes A breakthrough in negotiations over Iran's nuclear program is possible, the republic's president told the U.N. chief Saturday while welcoming unconditional talks with all parties, including the United States. By Journey To The Heart Of Bushlandia But then Idaho, to borrow a term gaining popularity on leftwing blogs, is part of " Bushlandia " : the three remaining states, clustered in the mountainous west, where the president still enjoys approval ratings of 50% or more. According to the latest polls, Idaho tops the league at 52%, with neighbours Utah and Wyoming on 51% and 50%. By Chavez Set To Challenge Hollywood Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has inaugrated a Caracas film studio complex he hopes will counter the cultural " dictatorship " of Hollywood. By Many Killed In Basra Car Bombing A car-bomb attack has killed at least 28 people and wounded 62 others in the southern port city of Basra, while in Baghdad a Russian diplomat has been killed and four embassy workers have been kidnapped. By Voice Of The Unpeople - John Pilger's New Book John Pilger is a very unusual journalist. He writes about people on the receiving end of grisly western policies - whether bombs or economic " advice " - and then exposes the motivations of those who are responsible. By Poor Suffer Worse Gas Pains - Poll Budget-busting gas prices are forcing more than half of Americans to cut back significantly on how much they drive, although wealthier families are keeping the pedal to the metal, a poll released yesterday showed. By Democrats Set Up Debate On Bush Actions The platform committee of the Maine Democratic Party made sure Friday that the annual state convention will address whether to chastise the Bush administration for its handling of key issues, including the war in Iraq. By Bush, Taft Fall To Ohio Poll Historic Lows The poll, sponsored by the University of Cincinnati, found Bush with 35 percent approval and Taft at 26 percent — the rates are the lowest for a president and governor since the poll began in 1981. By RFK And Rolling Stone Nail GOP Ohio's Stolen 2004 Election The story of the stolen election of 2004 has FINALLY busted into the mainstream media, thanks to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Rolling Stone Magazine. We all owe them great thanks. By The System In Crisis - Slow Economic Growth (Part One) In the U.S., what we call " the system " is beset by multiple crises. Credit card debt, home mortgage debt and the national debt have all skyrocketed in recent years. By Empty Boots And Baby Shoes More importantly, why haven't our elected leaders taken the time to reflect, discuss, and decide on a clear exit strategy that would prevent more empty boots and baby shoes from being added to the growing pile of casualties in Iraq every day? By Spinning Out Of Control - Afghanistan A growing disconnect exists between the daily reality of war experienced by the common Afghan and how this war is represented to the American general public by the corporate media, many non-governmental organizations favoring " humanitarian interventions " around the globe (e.g., Human Rights Watch), and the U.S. military and its defense minions. By Smart Answers To A Big Problem Latin America has made progress in providing universal primary school education in large part because governments made primary education a priority. Bush & GOP made the military industrial complex their top priority. By US Commanders Knew Haditha Deaths From Gunfire: Paper Marine commanders in Iraq knew within two days of the killings in Haditha in November that gunfire, not a roadside bomb, had killed Iraqi civilians but they saw no reason to investigate further By Ku Klux Klan Raises Anti-immigrant Clamor A Ku Klux Klan group led an anti-immigration march in Russellville on Saturday without incident, but not without opposition. By NYSE And Euronext Merger = First Transatlantic Stock Market The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has agreed to buy the pan-European Euronext exchange, creating the first transatlantic stock market. By BBC Launches 24-hour News In US The BBC's global news channel, BBC World, has launched in the US, aiming to capture audiences hungry for international news. By Iraqis Reject US Ishaqi Findings The Iraqi government has rejected the findings of a US military investigation into the deaths of 11 civilians in the village of Ishaqi, north of Baghdad. By Coulter Accused Of Voter Felony. Hires Bush's Florida Recount Lawyer For Defense... Elections Supervisor Arthur Anderson gave Coulter until April 30 to explain what happened, but she has yet to answer his registered letters. Now with lawyer Jimenez, Kelly said, officials will wait " a few more weeks " before starting a procedure that could strip Coulter of her right to vote here and refer the case to State Attorney Barry Krischer for possible prosecution. By Is It Raining Aliens? India: Dr. Godfrey Louis has isolated strange, thick-walled, red-tinted cell-like structures about 10 microns in size. Stranger still, dozens of his experiments suggest that the particles may lack DNA yet still reproduce plentifully, even in water superheated to nearly 600 & #730;F. (The known upper limit for life in water is about 250 & #730;F.) By Ted Kennedy: Vote Against Iraq War My Best Sen. Edward Kennedy on Friday declared his vote against the Iraq war the best he has cast since being elected in 1962. By 17 Terror Suspects Arrested In Toronto - Explosives Found The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they had arrested 12 male adults and five youths on terrorism-related charges, including plotting attacks with explosives on Canadian targets. The suspects were either citizens or residents of Canada and had trained together By Bush Slogan: Lying Every Day Keeps The Truth Away ....telling the truth in the Bush Admin is like striking a stake into the heart of a vampire. By Abramoff Stench Sticks To Ralph Reed's Campaign For Lt. Governor Jack's the bad smell Republicans can't lose No matter how often They check their shoes. By Russian Embassy Staff Seized In Iraq; 1 Dead One Russian diplomat has been killed and four embassy workers have been kidnapped in Baghdad, while a car bomb attack has killed at least 21 people and wounded 80 others in Basra. By Haditha Lawyer: Execute Those Responsible A lawyer who had several relatives among 24 Iraqis allegedly slain by U.S. Marines and is representing kin of other victims complained in a videotape Saturday that US compensation paid to the families was inadequate. Let's give them Rummy...it's his fault for crappy leadership & endless lies from day one of this quagmire! By Bush Calls For Gay Marriage Ban Why now? Because his popularity is so low he has to look up to see bottom. So is the GOP Congress and Senate. This issue has no purpose other than to appeal to the Religious Right Wing Nuts. After the election, as before, the issue will be dropped like a hot potato. Lying, scumming, hypocrites. By Fear Of Failing How can the Democrats win if the party is scared of its own shadow? to read articles, please click here to see the web page version http://www.opednews.com/flyer/news_20060607_1.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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