Are you a conservate, liberal, centrist...............?

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#1: Paleoconservative

 

#2: Paleo-libertarian

 

#3: Conservative

 

#4: Libertarian

 

#5: Centrist

 

#6: Neoconservative

 

#7: Left-libertarian

 

#8: <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org">Radical

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9: Liberal

 

10: Third Way

 

 

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[This message has been edited by rand0M aXiS (edited 07-01-2001).]

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Nice try, but lumping jIvas into political categories just won't do.

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Election-Lawsuit.html

Quietly Florida Admits 2000 Election Fraud

By The Associated Press

April 26, 2002 | Filed at 10:17 p.m. ET

MIAMI (AP) -- A federal judge has approved a settlement between Leon County and civil rights groups that sued over widespread voting problems in the 2000 presidential election in Florida.

The state and six other counties remain in the case brought by the NAACP and four other groups who sued in a dispute that grew out of the long-uncertain results of Florida's vote for president.

"There was nothing they were seeking that was impossible to achieve," Ion Sancho, Leon County supervisor of elections, said Friday. "I've been a proponent of settlement from the moment the lawsuit was filed."

Thomasina Williams, one of the attorneys for voters, said settlement talks are under way with other counties, and she was optimistic that some will follow Leon's move. Trial is set for Aug. 26.

State lawmakers changed election laws in response to complaints after the 2000 election, but critics said the changes didn't go far enough.

In the biggest departure from current procedures, Leon agreed to give a written explanation to voters whose ballots are rejected. The idea to make that a state standard was discarded by the Legislature.

The groups that sued agreed that the settlement "achieves some if not all of the relief" they could have obtained at trial, according to the court order dropping Leon from the lawsuit last week.

The county agreed to address disputes over voting, voter registration and voting lists and will meet with community groups to boost registration, with special efforts targeting minorities and college students. Sancho said he was doing all of that before.

Many voters said their votes didn't count or they were turned away from polls due to mistakes on voter lists, busy telephone lines at election headquarters, punch-card voting machine foul-ups and other problems.

Statewide, the largest numbers of voting problems were found in precincts with high proportions of black and elderly voters.

Under the settlement, both sides will work to restore voters who were wrongly removed from voters lists in the 2000 election. Many law-abiding voters across the state said their names were dropped because they were mistakenly pegged as ex-cons, who generally aren't allowed to vote in Florida.

The county also agreed to improve communication and training for staffers who work on election day.

Leon County includes the state capital of Tallahassee.

[Streetstraw 0]

The Informant Who Lived With the Hijackers

By Michael Isikoff

NEWSWEEK

Week of September 16th. Issue

NEWSWEEK has learned that one bureau informant had a close relationship with two hijackers.

 

At first, FBI director Bob Mueller insisted there was nothing the bureau could have done to penetrate the 9-11 plot. That account has been modified over time--and now may change again. NEWSWEEK has learned that one of the bureau's informants had a close relationship with two of the hijackers: he was their roommate.

The connection, just discovered by congressional investigators, has stunned some top counterterrorism officials and raised new concerns about the information-sharing among U.S. law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. The two hijackers, Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, were hardly unknown to the intelligence community. The CIA was first alerted to them in January 2000, when the two Saudi nationals showed up at a Qaeda "summit" in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. FBI officials have argued internally for months that if the CIA had more quickly passed along everything it knew about the two men, the bureau could have hunted them down more aggressively.

 

But both agencies can share in the blame. Upon leaving Malaysia, Almihdhar and Alhazmi went to San Diego, where they took flight-school lessons. In September 2000, the two moved into the home of a Muslim man who had befriended them at the local Islamic Center. The landlord regularly prayed with them and even helped one open a bank account. He was also, sources tell NEWSWEEK, a "tested" undercover "asset" who had been working closely with the FBI office in San Diego on terrorism cases related to Hamas. A senior law-enforcement official told NEWSWEEK the informant never provided the bureau with the names of his two houseguests from Saudi Arabia. Nor does the FBI have any reason to believe the informant was concealing their identities. (He could not be reached for comment.) But the FBI concedes that a San Diego case agent appears to have been at least aware that Saudi visitors were renting rooms in the informant's house. (On one occasion, a source says, the case agent called up the informant and was told he couldn't talk because "Khalid"--a reference to Almihdhar--was in the room.) I. C. Smith, a former top FBI counterintelligence official, says the case agent should have been keeping closer tabs on who his informant was fraternizing with--if only to seek out the houseguests as possible informants. "They should have been asking, 'Who are these guys? What are they doing here?' This strikes me as a lack of investigative curiosity." About six weeks after moving into the house, Almihdhar left town, explaining to the landlord he was heading back to Saudi Arabia to see his daughter. Alhazmi moved out at the end of 2000.

 

In the meantime, the CIA was gathering more information about just how potentially dangerous both men were. A few months after the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, CIA analysts discovered --in their Malaysia file that one of the chief suspects in the Cole attack-- Tawfiq bin Attash--was present at the "summit" and had been photographed with Almihdhar and Alhazmi. But it wasn't until Aug. 23, 2001, that the CIA sent out an urgent cable to U.S. border and law-enforcement agencies identifying the two men as "possible" terrorists. By then it was too late. The bureau did not realize the San Diego connection until a few days after 9-11, when the informant heard the names of the Pentagon hijackers and called his case agent. "I know those guys," the informant purportedly said, referring to Almihdhar and Alhazmi. "They were my roommates."

 

But the belated discovery has unsettled some members of the joint House and Senate intelligence committees investigating the 9-11 attacks. The panel is tentatively due to begin public hearings as early as Sept. 18, racing to its end-of-the-year deadline. But some members are now worried that they won't get to the bottom of what really happened by then. Support for legislation creating a special blue-ribbon investigative panel, similar to probes conducted after Pearl Harbor and the Kennedy assassination, is increasing. Only then, some members say, will the public learn whether more 9-11 secrets are buried in the government's files. --with Jamie Reno

[Streetstraw 0]

Liberal with prasAdam, conservative with laxmi, Centrist with RAdhA-KRSNa. Next question?

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WASHINGTON (Jan. 28) - The Bush administration has decided to make public as early as next week intelligence that it believes shows Iraq is hiding banned weapons, The Washington Post reported in its Tuesday editions.

 

The newspaper, citing informed sources, said U.S. intelligence agencies have information that Iraq has been moving and concealing banned weapons systems and related equipment from United Nations inspectors, often days or hours ahead of visits by inspection teams.

 

Asked for comment on the reported Iraqi subterfuge, a senior administration official told Reuters: "I know they are actively engaged in moving and concealing things."

 

President Bush and his national security advisers decided to declassify some of the information and make it public, perhaps as early as next week, in an effort to bolster support for confronting Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with military force, officials told The Post.

 

The report comes as the Bush administration prepares to make its case to the American people that war may be necessary to disarm Saddam Hussein and prove its contention that the Iraqi president is acting to confound weapons inspectors rather than cooperate.

 

On Monday, Secretary of State Colin Powell said the inspectors had reported similar accounts of Iraqi concealment.

 

"The inspectors have also told us that they have evidence that Iraq has moved or hid items at sites just prior to inspection visits. That's what the inspectors say, not what Americans say, not what American intelligence says; but we certainly corroborate all of that," Powell told reporters.

 

Sources told The Post the administration believes the intelligence information shows that members of Saddam's inner circle have personally directed the movement and camouflage of the weapons or have knowledge of the operations.

 

However, the newspaper cited sources as saying that U.S. intelligence agencies have not uncovered a large cache of prohibited weapons or ingredients used in the making of chemical or biological weapons.

01/28/03 00:40 ET

 

We've already proven Pipesmoke Poindexter was lying, so why not?

(Any relation to Coindexter, that cartoon character?)

We've already proven every president & vice-president since Nixon's been lying (save Carter), so why not?

Not so hard. Not so hard to do. If u know how.

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Hey rand0M aXiS, hows about getting links 7, 9 and 10 to work right?

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Because Leftists, Libertarians and Third Wayers never work!

 

Can't you copy & paste?

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Can't you copy & paste?

 

Too much trouble!

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Then tough ....