...anyone thinking of emigrating, please make sure wherever you go is at least 400 feet above sea level - otherwise you may find yourself swimming in a few years considering the powers that still be.
What a cold, dark, heartless day this has become.
Dan
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Thinking of Emigration...
3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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Kerry ’concedes defeat’
3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
48 commentsWASHINGTON
President George Bush has won a second term as US president after the Democratic
challenger, John Kerry, today called him to concede defeat in the bitterly-contested
race for the White House, the Associated Press has reported.
Mr Bush has won a mandate to govern a divided and anxious nation, his promise
of steady, strong wartime leadership trumping Mr Kerry’s fresh-start approach
to Iraq and joblessness.
After a long, tense night of vote counting, Mr Kerry called (...) -
Election Unresolved As Ohio Residents Fight Disenfranchisement
3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
12 commentsby Joshua Breitbart
Ohio voter groups have called for a statewide walkout and protest in Columbus as the US presidential election hinges on thousands of provisional ballots and claims of disenfranchisement.
After a day of huge turnout and widespread reports of voting irregularities [1 | 2 | 3] the polls closed in Ohio with a margin of fewer than 150,000 votes separating Bush and Kerry out of more than 5 million cast. Polls stayed open late into the night to accommodate people who (...) -
Converge on Columbus
3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
by Toledo League of Pissed Off Voters People from across Northwest Ohio are invited hit the streets of the Capital-Columbus this Wednesday to protest disenfranchisement and prevent another stolen election. The November 3 Columbus demonstration is planned for noon at the Columbus Statehouse and at 5p.m. at the Columbus Federal Building.
Join with NW Ohio Groups to demand “Democracy Not Disenfranchisement” in Ohio.
November 3 events are being planned in dozens of cities across the (...) -
Voting irregularities in Michigan and Ohio
3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby MichiganIMC An early rundown of reports that we’ve received from Michigan and Ohio on voting irregularities, including poll challengers, voting machine malfunctions, ID-checking, and intimidation.
Detroit: A Volunteer working with Moses and People For the American Way (Detroit) as a poll watcher has called in to explain his experiences with "poll challengers." Challengers are affiliated with a group or party, and in Detroit there has been a high presence of Republican challengers. (...) -
Osama endorses Bush
3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby Gene Messick
"For bin Laden, the Bush Administration’s massive ignorance about Islam and what drives al-Qaeda has worked greatly to his advantage. Bush cannot imagine how to win the hearts and minds of Iraqis, other than promise them "democracy". He will have to continue blowing up a major portion of Iraq before it can be made "secure" for elections."
Why did Osama bin Laden emerge from two years of silence on the eve of American’s closest 2004 elections? Was it just to play a (...) -
In God - or reality - we trust
3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Pepe Escobar
"We will export death and violence to the four corners of the Earth in defense of our great nation." - George W Bush in Bob Woodward’s Plan of Attack
It all boils down to Iraq. Will the majority of Americans reject George W Bush because of his defining moment - launching an indefensible preemptive war?
No matter what happens on election day - or days or weeks if the multibillion-dollar special again goes to the Supreme Court - the fact is that at least half of the (...) -
GOP doing all it can to keep minorities from voting
3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
BY JESSE JACKSON
A record minority vote will turn out today, I predict, the product of an effervescent mobilization to express the vote. But that same minority community is now witnessing a despicable drive to suppress that very same vote.
President Bush, having waged the most negative campaign by any incumbent president in memory, is presiding over a systematic effort to stop African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans from voting.
The mobilization to express the vote is a new (...) -
When Donkeys and Elephants Fly
2 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
11-2-04
WHEN DONKEYS AND ELEPHANTS FLY by Husayn Al-Kurdi
There are four major dates on the US government calendar, three of them annual holidays and the fourth the quadrennial spectacle of the presidential election. On the fourth of July each year, the American people are prompted to celebrate the war exploits of the US empire, overlooking the fact that the USA lost many of its wars, including its first war against the so-called Barbary Coast pirates of North Africa and its most (...) -
Also-ran Nader can still decide race
2 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
by Gary Younge in Akron, Ohio
The independent candidate, Ralph Nader, limped into the home stretch of his presidential campaign yesterday, with barely 1% of voters behind him.
Despite a huge collapse in support compared to 2000 and little organisation on the ground, Mr Nader’s meagre showing could still prove a decisive factor in a tight race.
"The reality is the Nader factor is arguably still there," Chris Kofinis, senior adviser to the anti-Nader group TheNaderFactor.com told the (...)