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  • Vote Fraud Theorists Battle Over Plausibility
    25 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Terry M. Neal
    After my recent column on President Bush’s popularity woes, a torrent of e-mail flooded in from angry Democrats insisting that Bush’s relative lack of popularity only reinforced their belief that the 2004 election was stolen.
    Regular readers are well aware that I’m not a conspiracy theorist. My natural journalistic skepticism applies not just to politicians and people in power, but to wild-eyed theories as well. The Talking Points column that followed the polling piece (…)

  • JEALOUS KERRY FUMES AS DEM BOOSTS HILL
    25 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A fuming John Kerry had "daggers in his eyes" after a fellow Democrat promoted Hillary Rodham Clinton for president - suggesting the 2004 loser is green with envy at a potential rival.
    The flap was touched off two weeks ago when Clinton spoke at a Minneapolis Democratic dinner and Sen. Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) told the cheering crowd that he was introducing "the next great president of the United States."
    Two days later, Kerry came over to Dayton on the Senate floor "with daggers in his (…)

  • The United States of No-More-ica
    24 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The United States of No-More-ica
    Largely, my opinions in the great political debates of America don’t matter. And equally largely, I don’t care. I’ve voted once in the last twenty years, and I can’t even remember when it was or for whom I voted. I make more than my fair share of political noise, but that’s simply my free choice. There are things I like about the United States, things I don’t particularly care for, and some things that I absolutely abhor. I still, to some degree, have the (…)

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger sued for groping and libel
    18 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    London groping case dogs governor British libel law seen as benefit to TV host’s suit
    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s treatment of women he encountered as a movie star has largely faded from public discourse, aside from the occasional Doonesbury cartoon that depicts the governor as a giant hand addressed by reporters as Herr Gropenführer.
    But there’s one incident that refuses to go away. A British television interviewer, Anna Richardson, says Schwarzenegger pawed her during a publicity stop (…)

  • Irish Times breaks silence about Bush fraud 2004
    18 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In a column entitled “Senator Frist in a fluster over Democrats filibuster” in The Irish Times (conservative/liberal Irish newspaper of record) today, the paper’s US correspondent Conor O’Clery addresses the renewed fuss brewing in the US about allegations of fraud in the presidential elections of last November.
    See excerpt below.
    I am naturally delighted that O’Clery has come good on a promise to give the matter some attention, following messages about the statistical analysis and Clint (…)

  • The Silence of the Scams: Psychological Resistance to Facing Election Fraud
    16 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Few Americans know about the historic event that happened on January 6, 2005, the official date for counting electoral votes. For the first time since 1877, congressmembers challenged the electoral count. Representative Stephanie Tubbs-Jones of Ohio, accompanied by the lone senator, Barbara Boxer of California, led the challenge of the Ohio vote count. Although massive fraud was reported around the country, only Ohio was officially cited.
    It is curious that an issue so profound and (…)

  • The 2004 election was stolen - will someone please tell the media?
    15 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ROBERT C. KOEHLER Tribune Media Services
    As they slowly hack democracy to death, we’re as alone - we citizens - as we’ve ever been, protected only by the dust-covered clichés of the nation’s founding: “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”
    It’s time to blow off the dust and start paying the price.
    The media are not on our side. The politicians are not on our side. It’s just us, connecting the dots, fitting the fragments together, crunching the numbers, wanting to know why (…)

  • Kerry: Trickery Kept Voters From Polls
    11 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press Writer
    BOSTON - Many voters in last year’s presidential election were denied access to the polls through trickery and intimidation, former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry told a voters’ group Sunday.
    "Last year too many people were denied their right to vote, too many who tried to vote were intimidated," the Massachusetts senator said at an event sponsored by the state League of Women Voters.
    "There is no magic wand. No one person is (…)

  • America’s Broken Electoral System: Get over it, says mainstream press
    11 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Throughout 2004, the “swing state” of Ohio was in the media spotlight. Prior to the election, it was a site of alleged voter fraud and suppression; as Extra! reported (12/04), the news media tended to portray the charges as partisan ploys rather than significant threats to the electoral process.
    Then, on November 2, Ohio became this election’s Florida: Once again a tight race hinged on the electoral votes of a state too close to call. At the end of the night, with only about 130,000 votes (…)

  • Berlusconi suffers local election wipeout
    11 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Popham in Rome
    Silvio Berlusconi has suffered the gravest electoral rout of his political life this week, with his centre- right coalition losing power in 11 regions from the far north of the peninsula to the heel of the boot.
    The regional elections appeared to have been blotted out of the nation’s consciousness by the death of the Pope, but in the event turnout was high at 71 per cent. And the result was freely admitted to have been a disaster by commentators on the right as (…)