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  • Something’s Coming (Rove tricks before the November Primaries)
    14 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Song Paroday from West Side Story:
    http://www.musical-information.de/all/West_somethings_coming2.mid It will be! I know! There’s something nasty on the way We will see most any day Karl Rove knows! He knows! Such a creep,slimy leech dirty son...of a beech! setting us "free"! I’ve got a feeling there’s a "terror act" due... trouble for you.. everyone...me! Could it be?, yes, it’s sad something’s coming, something bad, I cannot wait! Something sneaky, I don’t know, what it is.. but it (…)

  • Princeton prof hacks e-vote machine
    14 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Princeton prof hacks e-vote machine Updated: 9:48 p.m. ET Sept. 13, 2006
    TRENTON, N.J. - A Princeton University computer science professor added new fuel Wednesday to claims that electronic voting machines used across much of the country are vulnerable to hacking that could alter vote totals or disable machines.
    In a paper posted on the university’s Web site, Edward Felten and two graduate students described how they had tested a Diebold AccuVote-TS machine they obtained, found ways to (…)

  • Bush-Cheney Hit with “Mock” Guilty Verdicts for War Crimes
    14 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    “The government is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people...it emanates from them...its powers are granted by them...” Chief Justice John Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. (1)
    Washington, D.C. - At “Camp Democracy,” on the National Mall, on September 13, 2006, a year-long investigation by a citizens’ “Commission of Inquiry” was concluded. It had focused on this key question arising out of the “mock” indictments of the Bush-Cheney Gang earlier this year: Has the current (…)

  • Tomgram: Crashing the Plane of State into Iraq
    14 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    [Note to Tomdispatch readers: Don’t miss the new project, Lie by Lie just up at the Mother Jones website. A cleverly cross-referenced time-line, It is in the process of cataloguing all the lies and manipulations of the Bush administration on the way to war and thereafter. It may be a work in progress but it’s an important one. Bookmark it. Let me also thank three sites in particular for helping me to keep up on Iraq: As always, Juan Cole’s indispensable Informed Comment blog, Antiwar.com (…)

  • Weeping With the Enemy
    14 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Phyllis Rodriguez lost her son at the World Trade Center. And then she found the mother of Zacarias Moussaoui.
    by Bernice Yeung
    On September 11, 2001, Phyllis Rodriguez got out of bed before dawn. A part-time teacher with two grown children, Rodriguez, then 58, had recently enrolled in a graduate program in teaching literacy. She had an assignment due later that day: Parse the language in a Langston Hughes poem called "Mother to Son."
    After finishing her work at about 7:30 a.m., she (…)

  • Just Try Voting Here: 11 of America’s worst places to cast a ballot (or try)
    14 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Sasha Abramsky
    We used to think the voting system was something like the traffic laws — a set of rules clear to everyone, enforced everywhere, with penalties for transgressions; we used to think, in other words, that we had a national election system. How wrong a notion this was has become painfully apparent since 2000: As it turns out, except for a rudimentary federal framework (which determines the voting age, channels money to states and counties, and enforces protections for (…)

  • The false path to 9/11
    14 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Despite a few tweaks, ABC stands by its deceptive miniseries, and in tonight’s episode, all the lies make Bush look better.
    By Joan Walsh
    Sept. 11, 2006 | Despite right-wing claims that ABC edited the series to make it easier on Bill Clinton, the worst distortions went uncorrected — and there are plenty more to come.
    "ABC bows to Bill & friends," the New York Daily News blared Monday. But that’s only the latest media distortion of the dishonest docudrama "The Path to 9/11." As (…)

  • Historic Latino Congreso Takes Strong Anti-War Stand
    14 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Medea Benjamin
    Billed as the most comprehensive gathering of Latino leaders in the US in three decades, over 1,600 delegates and observers attended the Latino Congreso in Los Angeles from September 6-10. The Congreso grew out of the massive mobilizations of Latinos this spring for immigrant rights, and was a forum to discuss not only the status of immigration reform, but also a wide range of issues from how to best use Latino voting power to global warming to the economic empowerment of (…)

  • How I Was Targeted as a Terrorist: My Adventures with the FBI
    14 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JIM BENSMAN
    I was sitting at home on July 31st when the phone rang and the caller ID said Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI wanted to know if they could come to my place and talk to me. So I asked what he wanted to talk to me about.
    It all started a few days earlier when I went to a public hearing on the Army Corps of Engineers proposal to build a fish bypass for a dam by me on the Mississippi River.
    The Army gave a powerpoint presentation. They showed the initial (…)

  • Banned in Washington - Where’s the Free Speech?
    14 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ann Wright
    So much for free speech in the nation’s capital and capitol. On July, 11, 2006 I was arrested for offering a citizen’s voice in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing against the nomination of one of the Bush administration’s architects of torture, William Haynes, former Department of Defense General Counsel (chief civilian lawyer) for a life-time appointment to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
    Yesterday, September 7, I appeared in the Criminal Division of the Superior (…)