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  • Diebold AccuVote touch-screen voting machine: No voters required.
    26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why do Diebold’s Touch-Screen Voting Machines Have Built-In Wireless Infrared Data Transfer Ports?
    IrDA Protocol Can ’Totally Compromise System’ Without Detection, Warns Federal Voting Standards Website
    So far, no state or federal authority — to our knowledge — has dealt with this alarming security threat
    We hate to pile on... (Or do we?)
    But, really, with all the recent discussion of California Sec. of State Bruce McPherson’s mind-blowing about-face re-certification of Diebold — (…)

  • MSNBC Countdown provides analysis from David Sirotaan who is an expert on big money’s influence on government
    25 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    MSNBC Countdown provides analysis from David Sirotaan who is an expert on big money’s influence on government:
    This is not a scandal about one deal with one country. What’s especially motivating the President in his threat to issue a veto is the fact that he knows that if Congress is allowed to override this [deal] a precedent is set.
    ...
    America’s trade policy, for two decades, has entirely been [controlled by] corporate-owned free trade. If this deal is allowed to be blocked it would (…)

  • FEDS CALL COURT CERTIFIED DOCUMENTS A "THEORY" IN BILL BENSON CASE
    21 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Posted: February 15, 2005 1:05 AM Eastern NewsWithViews.com
    Bill Benson is a former revenue collector for the State of Illinois. Back in 1984, Benson was commissioned to conduct an investigation into the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Benson traveled to all 48 states which had been admitted to the Union at the time of the ratification of this amendment in 1913. He spent close to a year in the bowels of these state archives collecting official documents. (…)

  • CONNECTING THE DOTS
    9 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CONNECTING THE DOTS
    By Peter Fredson
    February 9, 2006
    The man hitting himself on the head with a hammer was asked why he was doing it. He replied: “Because it feels so good when I stop.” This country is hitting itself on the head but can’t seem to stop.
    Yesterday evening I accidentally tuned in to Larry King who was conducting a live TV report. It showed a number of people in an underground garage milling about, some looking bored, others anxious. They had been working in the Senate (…)

  • The Italian leader is not fit to hold high office, and activists worldwide should join to ensure his election defeat
    7 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A Berlusconi victory would be as damaging as was Bush’s
    by Tristram Hunt
    In typically vulgar style, Silvio Berlusconi committed himself last week to sexual abstinence until the Italian general election on April 9. Unfortunately, Mrs Berlusconi’s well-earned break promises to come at the expense of European politics. For a determined Berlusconi could well win himself another term in office.
    Some 15 months ago the global progressive community headed to America in a forlorn attempt to (…)

  • Freshly Elected Hamas Comes Out From the Shadows
    6 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Outlook Shaped by Years in Exile, Prison
    By Scott Wilson
    GAZA CITY — Ahmed Bahar arrived here in his mother’s womb, the beginning of a journey that has taken him from the refugee camps of the Gaza Strip into exile, prison and, soon, a seat in parliament.
    Along his sandy street flutter the triumphant green banners of Hamas, the radical Islamic movement he has helped foster since before its official founding nearly two decades ago. A professor of Arabic, Bahar is the earnest face of an (…)

  • "...Shall We Not Revenge?"
    6 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery IF ONE wants to understand what the Palestinians did on election day, one has to see the film "Paradise Now", which has been nominated for an Oscar for the best foreign film, after collecting several prestigious international prizes. It explains better than a million words.
    Its makers - the screen-writer-cum-director, Hani Abu-As’ad from Nazareth, and the actors, are Palestinians. (Amir Harel, one of the producers, is a Jewish Israeli.)
    The two main characters, Sa’id and (…)

  • PALESTINE: WHAT’S NEXT?
    3 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    That President Bush is a big fan of elections should surprise no one. He’s won a lot of them.
    But his simplistic equation — elections = freedom = democracy = peace — has been running into a bit of trouble lately.
    The president hyped the deeply flawed presidential and parliamentary elections in Egypt as steps toward democracy. But the result was a dramatic rise in votes for the outlawed Islamic brotherhood and Mubarak’s principal contender for the top job sent to jail. (…)

  • The End of a Political Fiction?
    1 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Adam Hanieh
    Hamas’s landslide victory in the January 25 elections for the 132-seat Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) is an unprecedented turning point for politics in both Palestine and the broader Middle East. Arguably for the first time since the establishment of Israel in 1948, an official administrative power in the West Bank and Gaza Strip has strong popular support and is not directly beholden to Israeli or Western interests.
    Pre-election polls had consistently forecast a (…)

  • The problem with democracy
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    And now, horror of horrors, the Palestinians have elected the wrong party to power
    By Robert Fisk
    "The Independent" — — Oh no, not more democracy again! Didn’t we award this to those Algerians in 1990? And didn’t they reward us with that nice gift of an Islamist government - and then they so benevolently cancelled the second round of elections? Thank goodness for that!
    True, the Afghans elected a round of representatives, albeit that they included some warlords and murderers. But then (…)