Guest guest Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 Thu, 8 Jun 2006 03:21:03 -0400 (EDT) OpEdNews Stolen Election in California? rob Brad Friedman reports that there is something very suspicious about the CA election to replace corrupt cunningham. This should not let any dust settle on it. We need to go after this aggressively. Like Brad said to me in an email. Anyone who " gives a damn about elections is nuts if they sit by and watch this slip away like Kerry in '04! " Mike Whitney brings up a fascinating question. How will Bush handle things now that Afghanistan is heating up? Jim Bush usually writers biting poetry for OpEdNews. Now, he's written a great article on Haditha. So has Mark Lloyd. I found both of them powerful and moving. I've commented on the challenge of working within the Democratic party at the grassroots level. Philadan, a committeeperson in Philly relates some of her experiences at a ward meeting. I think we need to let the light of day in on this level of politics. As you'll see, it also needs some fresh air. We're coming up on a major bill. I mentioned it yesterday and got no support. It's simple. If you value what we do, we really need your support. Without it, OpEdNews. doesn't continue to function. So please, send in a contribution. We need about %800 to $1000 in the next few days. One thing we're going to do with is move to a new website hosting company, because, you may have noticed, the one we're on sucks. It's been locking up, showing error messages or not working at all. Thanks, Rob Kall please click here to read articles from links in the web page version http://www.opednews.com/flyer/news_20060608_1.html Newest Articles By Mike Whitney Afghanistan's Second Intifada A traffic accident has ignited a firestorm in Afghanistan; turning the city's people against the occupation. Kabul is headed for widespread political upheaval. Meanwhile, the Taliban have begun a spring offensive in the south, stretching allied forces to the limit. Let's see how Bush manages a second front in his global resource war. By Jim Bush Abusing And Killing Prisoners And Civilians, And The Conscience Of A Nation By PhilaDan Changing The Party From Within? Democratic Party Politics can be as tough and dirty and partisan politics By Brad Friedman Results Of Close Busby/Bilbray U.S. House Special Election In Doubt! Race to Replace Randy 'Duke' Cunningham in San Diego Was Run on Hackable Diebold Voting Machines, Kept Unsecured at Poll Worker Houses Overnight Before the Election! By Mark Lloyd Haditha Video Games Amerikans are not stupid. They are just utterly uninformed, deliberately, pathetically, crassly, totally, uninformed, dumbed down, ignorant, hypnotized Sheeple. The corporate media keep the people quiet like no other time in history. This is Fascism, wrapped in the flag and personified by a good ol' boy with a cross around his neck. Will you switch off the video games and rejoin humanity? By Andrew Bard Schmookler The Bushite Regime And The Collapse Of Civilizations Jared Diamond's book, Collapse, alerts us to the possibility that bad leadership can drive a society over a cliff into catastrophe. With respect to the two greatest threats to the future of human civilization, the present American leadership is doing just that. By Vi Ransel The Needle's Eye Poem: Using charity to feel big while making another feel small does not absolve the pride or greed of having it all. And though " He ain't heavy, he's my brother " is just a Boys' Town fable, Americans shouldn't have to beg for scraps from anybody's table. By Parry, Robert Why Democrats Lose At dinner a few weeks ago, a well-placed Republican political operative was oozing confidence about GOP prospects in the November elections, not because the voters were enamored of George W. Bush but because the Democrats and liberals had done so little to improve their ability to reach the public with their message. By JGideon 'Daily Voting News' For June 7, 2006 a run-down of the days elections/voting news from across the country and overseas. By Robert C. Koehler Truth Hound: Greg Palast On second thought, you might want to avoid reading Armed Madhouse - it's too infuriating, too heart-breaking. If you don't think ordinary citizens should be players in the high-stakes games of governments and big corporations, stick with the feel-good, celebrity-fawning media that keep us preoccupied with trivia and assured that America is on track and so is the war in Iraq and we're still the world's greatest democracy. By Allen L Roland THE FISH ROTS FROM THE HEAD DOWN We must now face the reality that the current disintegration of our soldier's moral values and ethics in Iraq is a direct reflection of the personality, moral values and ethics of George W Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld ( The moral equivalent of the Axis of Evil ). By Randolph T. Holhut WAR THEN, WAR NOW: ONE VET'S ATTEMPT TO RECONCILE VIETNAM AND IRAQ A Vietnam veteran is using the letters he sent home to his wife to show readers some of the universal truths of war, truths we are learning anew in Iraq. By Sunsara Taylor Center For Disease Control To Women: Prepare To Give Birth! A recent report by the Centers for Disease Control recommends classifying all women as pre-pregnant--whether they intend to conceive or not. It's an audacious leap along the logical fault line that values women as mere fetal incubators. By Evelyn Pringle Bush Stacked Supreme Court Muzzles Public Employees By Richard Mathis Saint Ann Coulter, The Vestal Virgin Defender Of The Faith? Ann Coulter loves to start a fight. Now she's doing it in the name of religion. By Larry Sakin RFK, Jr. And The Stolen Elections Of 2004 Let's suppose for a moment Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has made the case for stolen elections in 2004. Can Democrats still get away with having a gutless agenda? I don't think so. By Bob Tracey Foxed Christians They hooked you with gay marriage, tax cuts for the wealthy, and the guys preaching in your churches backed their play every step of the way, and you believed them too. It's okay. I know that now it is obvious to you that you have been snookered. They didn't outfox you, They FOXED you. By JERRY TENUTO YAKOV'S CATCH-PHRASE NO LONGER APPLIES Is it possible that the BushCheney NSA wiretrapping scheme keeps comic Yakov Smirnov awake at night with nightmares of KGB horrors? Do GOP members of Congress suddenly jolt from their sleep in a cold sweat, visions of FBI office raids dancing through their heads? Should VA bureaucrats be entrusted with anyone's personal data? By Fleming Church, State And The Philosophy Of Christ What Christ was on about was confronting the empire with words and NOT a sword. He didn't give a flip about most of what USA Christians go on and on about in the 21st century. Imagine a world when everyone who claimed that they are a Christian actually did what the Master taught. By Greg Palast " Godless " Is Gutless Palast Challenges Coulter to a Debate please click here to read articles from links in the web page version http://www.opednews.com/flyer/news_20060608_1.html Best News Links from the Web By Ann C*ulter Isn't Fun To Hate Anymore This disgusting piece of garbage has reached new lows. We won't even spell her name on our site. subject categorized under piece of sh*t By Labels Matter: The 'Right To Fear Queers' Amendment But is the urge to prevent two women or two men from forming a truly committed relationship a " value? " How? Is it a manifestation of sexophobia, a basic fear of sexuality? It certainly seems so. It is not their " values " system, it is there " fear " system, even, a psychological disturbance. Let us please, from here on, refer to them as " sexophobic voters. " By Sidney Blumenthal: Bush Sr. Tried To Rescue Family Legacy And US From Rumsfeld-- To No Avail. Jr.'s The Decider Former President George H.W. Bush waged a secret campaign over several months early this year to remove Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The elder Bush went so far as to recruit Rumsfeld's potential replacement, personally asking a retired four-star general if he would accept the position. But the former president's effort failed, apparently rebuffed by the current president. By How The Mainstream Media Consistently Panders To The Right And Screws The Left Foser points to many other double-standards the media has been guilty of involving Bush, Bill and Hillary, and Al Gore. His piece is a scathing indictment of the media's blatant right wing bias. It's a terrific, highly recommended read. Warning: it will make you angry. By Tim Russert: Will You Ask Your Next Republican Guest About Coulter's 9/11 Smear? This Sunday, you asked Senator Barack Obama to respond to Harry Belafonte's remarks about George W. Bush being a " terrorist. " Why? Why did you ask this question? Harry Belafonte isn't an elected official, he doesn't speak for Democrats, he doesn't represent Senator Obama, he doesn't represent the Democratic Party, and he is entitled to his own opinion. By Senator Slams Cheney For Lobbying Congress On Wiretaps Specter complain(ed) that efforts by the White House to stonewall Congressional inquiries into the program " denigrates the constitutional authority and responsibility of the Congress and specifically the Judiciary Committee to conduct oversight on constitutional issues, " ROLL CALL reports Wednesday. By Cheney's Office Declares Exemption From Secrecy Oversight Open-government advocates say Cheney's refusal to divulge even basic information about classification activities reflects an alarming pattern of broadening executive privilege while narrowing public accountability. Said Steve Aftergood of the Project on Government Secrecy, a division of the public-interest association American Federation of Scientists: " It's as if they're saying, `What we do is nobody's business.' " By Ex-Ohio Official Pleads Guilty To Charges Gasper acknowledged in the federal case that he accepted tuition for his son and stays at a Florida condominium in exchange for business deals with the bureau's $15 billion investment fund.The charges against him were just part of an expected series of charges against others connected with the bureau's investments, Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien has said. By Citizens 1, Corporations 0 Humboldt County residents organized to put Measure T on the ballot, declaring, " Our Founding Fathers never intended corporations to have this kind of power. " " ... individuals hold these political rights by virtue of their status as humans in a democracy and, simply put, a corporation is not a person. " By The Wave Vs. The Wall The wave overwhelmingly favors Democrats: an unpopular war in Iraq, job approval ratings for President Bush at record lows, corruption scandals that have engulfed GOP congressional leaders, and polls showing voters favoring Democrats and their positions on the issues by distinct margins. But Republicans still benefit from the wall: a long-term trend that for years has led to steadily fewer competitive districts. By Bush's Mommy Lawyers Back in my schooldays, there were a couple of kids who always seemed able to get a note from their mother excusing them from doing their homework or even going to class. George W must have had a momma like that. By Congressional Castration This administration has usurped plenty of congressional power over the last six years as well as chipping away at the third " co-equal " branch of government, the courts. But Bush's signing statements, which treat congressional legislation like boxes of See's candy, is the most blatant, obnoxious and dangerous coup of them all. By Results Of Close Busby/Bilbray US House Special Election In Doubt! The most vulnerable voting machines ever created and used in an American election were given to random, volunteer poll workers in San Diego to keep in their houses overnight to do with as they please. The systems were " guarded " by little more than a thin strip of plastic " tamper tape " over some, but not all, of the machines dozens of vulnerable physical access points. By CNN's Lou Dobbs Hammers Electronic Voting For Third Straight Night! While Dobb's initial focus for his reports concerns the foreign ownership of the Sequoia Voting Systems company, his reports, and the guests he's interviewed, also focus on the broader aspect of private ownership of all the voting machine company's running our public elections, as well as the security vulnerabilities of the hackable and unreliable electronic machines. By It's Not Just American Tanks That Rumble In Afghanistan While sidelined with the " Kabul Rumble, " InterventionMag's man in Afghanistan, Stewart Nusbaumer, explores " this stinking place's " sad and sordid history. By NYT Editorial: Block The Vote, Ohio Remix If there was ever a sign of a ruling party in trouble, it is a game plan that calls for trying to win by discouraging voting. please click here to read articles from links in the web page version http://www.opednews.com/flyer/news_20060608_1.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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