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  • KERRY WON OHIO JUST COUNT THE BALLOTS AT THE BACK OF THE BUS
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Most voters in Ohio chose Kerry. Here’s how the votes vanished.
    by Greg Palast
    This February, Ken Blackwell, Ohio’s Secretary of State, told his State Senate President, "The possibility of a close election with punch cards as the state’s primary voting device invites a Florida-like calamity." Blackwell, co-chair of Bush-Cheney reelection campaign, wasn’t warning his fellow Republican of disaster, but boasting of an opportunity to bring in Ohio for Team Bush no matter what the voters (…)

  • Berlin Wall
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a long barrier separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the surrounding territory of East Germany. Its intent was to restrict access between West Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. It existed from 1961 until 1989.
    Background
    After World War II, Berlin, like the rest of Germany, was divided into four sectors, although it was surrounded on all sides by the Soviet sector of Germany. The Soviet Union, the United States, the United (…)

  • Arafat and Vanunu: Two Prisoners of War
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Israel’s move against Mordechai Vanunu, the man who exposed their nuclear secrets, couldn’t have been timed better
    by Justin Raimondo
    The death of Yasser Arafat overshadows the re-arrest of Mordechai Vanunu, and it was, as they say, no accident: Arafat had barely breathed his last gasp when 20 to 30 heavily armed Israeli police commandos stormed the Anglican cathedral of St. George in Jerusalem, seized Vanunu, and confiscated his computer, while their superiors absurdly yelped that he (…)

  • The onslaught in Fallujah : shooting at a fly that has landed on a horse’s head
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “If your attack is going exceptionally well, it is probably an ambush.” Old military maxim
    by Maarten Vanheuverswyn
    On the face of it, the siege of Fallujah seems to be going relatively well for the US troops. Most of the city has been captured and according to the mass media “Operation Phantom Fury” will be finished in a couple of days. Though yesterday the US army suffered some losses, these were nothing compared to the figure of 600 insurgents killed, probably more. It is indeed (…)

  • Anything But Straight
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    The gay movement is the canary in the coalmine for the future of the Democratic Party. If party leaders move right and abandon basic fairness and equality, it is a strong signal that they will capitulate and surrender their other core principles too. This may lead to widespread disillusionment and the creation of a powerful third party that will shake-up American politics.
    For the record, I have always been a proud Democrat and I still expect to die as one. I have loathed (…)

  • Arafat : the Dreamer Who Relied on Emotion and Failed to Protect His Own People
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Fisk
    He was everything loyal and everything miserable about the Palestinian dream. I have a tape recording of Arafat, sitting with me on a cold, dark mountainside outside the Lebanese port of Tripoli in 1983 where the old man - he was always called the old man, long before he was elderly - was under siege by the Syrian army, another of the Arab "brothers" who wanted to lead the Palestinian cause and ended up fighting Palestinians rather than Israelis.
    Even worse, the Syrians (…)

  • Rocket the Vote
    14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Naomi Klein
    P. Diddy announced on the weekend that his “Vote or Die” campaign will live on. The hip-hop mogul’s voter-registration drive during the U.S. presidential elections was, he said, merely “phase one, step one for us to get people engaged.”
    Fantastic. I have a suggestion for phase two: P. Diddy, Ben Affleck, Leonardo DiCaprio and the rest of the self-described “Coalition of the Willing” should take their chartered jet and fly to Fallujah, where their efforts are desperately (…)

  • Warezed SoundForge Files In Windows Media Player
    13 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An anonymous reader writes "German PC-Welt magazine reports that Microsoft used an illegal copy of SoundForge 4.5 (Google translation) for editing Wave files shipped with Windows Media Player.
    You can check that yourself by opening any file in the [Windows location] \Help\Tours\WindowsMediaPlayer\Audio\Wav\ folder in notepad or other editors of your choice and looking at the last line.
    There you will find a reference to SoundForge 4.5 and also a user called ’Deepz0ne’ who happens to be (…)

  • Eulogy for America
    13 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The epitaph reads: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Born July 4, 1776 - Died November 2, 2004
    by David R. Hoffman
    Ladies and gentlemen, we gather here today to mourn the passing of the United States of America, a nation that once stood as a beacon light of hope for the world.
    America was betrayed and murdered on November 2, 2004. Also killed during this time of madness were the following virtues: truth, justice, integrity, freedom, compassion, brotherhood, tolerance, faith, hope, charity, (…)

  • The First Casualty of War is: the Casualty Figures
    12 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    “And when it is said unto them: Do not make mischief in the earth, they say, we are only peacemakers” (Al-Koran 2:11)
    by Yamin Zakaria
    In the name of peace they have been terrorising the innocents, committing mass murder and pillaging their resources as billions of oil revenue are still unaccounted for. In occupied Palestine, the same story, the ones who constantly cries wolf about being victims and desiring peace have been busy ethnic cleansing the natives to pave the way for God’s (…)