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  • These People Count our Election Results?
    20 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The News
    CEO of Vote-Counting Company Refused Entry into the U.S. PDF | Print | Email By John gideon and Ellen Theisen, VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA October 17, 2005 On October 14, 2005, Antonio Mujica, CEO of Smartmatic, was refused entry into the United States. His Visa was revoked by the U.S. Embassy in Venezuela. See (http://www.vcrisis.com/index.php?content=letters/200510160629) Ten months ago, Smartmatic, a Venezuelan-owned company, purchased Sequoia Voting Systems, (…)

  • PUTTING GEORGE BUSH ON TRIAL
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WHO IS ON TRIAL?
    By Peter Fredson
    October 19, 2005
    Today on the TV screen I saw a picture of Saddam Hussein in a prisoner’s dock in Iraq. There was a lot of empty space in the framework around the former dictator and I felt that other people should have been included. Was this not for crimes against humanity? Was it not for war crimes?
    I feel deeply that the entire Bush cabinet of 2000-04 should be in that dock. George, Dick, Donald, Colin, and Condi with Karl and a half dozen other (…)

  • A Sociologist Confronts ’the Messy Stuff’
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By CLAUDIA DREIFUS
    Troy Duster is emphatic: the genomic revolution is moving way too fast.
    In more than a dozen books and articles, Dr. Duster, immediate past president of the American Sociological Association, urges geneticists to slow down and check their methods as they search for links between genes, disease and race.
    A professor of sociology at New York University, Dr. Duster, 69, wrote "Backdoor to Eugenics" and contributed to "Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind (…)

  • Miers Hearings to Begin Nov. 7
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JESSE J. HOLLAND
    WASHINGTON — Confirmation hearings for White House counsel Harriet Miers, President Bush’s choice to succeed Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court, will commence the first full week of November.
    Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said the decision to start the hearings on Nov. 7 was passed on to Republican Judiciary Committee members by Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., at a meeting this morning.
    "That’s what the chairman told us," Coburn said after leaving the private meeting. (…)

  • Judy Miller’s Reporting: A Cancer on the New York Times?
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Arianna Huffington
    Signs of trouble and Judy Miller were like Mary and her little lamb. Everywhere that Judy went, a flashing warning sign was sure to follow.
    Indeed, in looking back on her career, it’s clear that there were more red flags popping up around Judy Miller’s work as a journalist than at a May Day parade in Red Square.
    We now know that Miller’s bosses were being warned about serious credibility problems with her reporting as far back as 2000 — a warning that came from a (…)

  • Good Night, And Good Luck
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by PETER TRAVERS
    Does George Clooney have a box-office death wish? You have to wonder why the star of Ocean’s Eleven would risk his standing as a pinup for ka-ching to direct, co-write and co-star in a movie set in the 1950s, shot in black-and-white and focused on a fifty-year-old battle between TV newsman Edward R. Murrow, indelibly played by David Strathairn, and the Commie-hunting Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
    Wonder no more. Clooney knows exactly what he’s doing: blowing the dust off ancient (…)

  • MEDIA RELEASE: Prosecution of George W. Bush for Torture
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    World Exclusive
    MEDIA RELEASE
    October 19, 2005
    Prosecution of George W. Bush for Torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay Prisons
    Notification of Canadian Officials
    Lawyers against the War (L.A.W.) learned Nov 17, 2004 that George W. Bush was coming to Canada on Nov 30, 2004. During this period L.A.W. wrote to various governmental ministers advising of them that George W. Bush stood accused of the most grave crimes known to law, including torture, and therefore should be denied (…)

  • Sloppy Reporting by the Wall Street Journal about Joel Hinrichs and the University of Oklahoma Bomb
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Michael Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com To appreciate these comments, readers need to review this Wall Street Journal article about the OU bomb.
    It was written by Ryan Chittum and Joe Hagan. Chittum is an OU journalism graduate. OU president David Boren, mentor and patron of George Tenet, has worked frantically to convince the media that the death of bomber Joel Hinrichs was just an "individual suicide" by an "emotionally troubled" student.
    It was quite a (…)

  • Squeezing the Have-Nots
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    de William Greider
    The country is overloaded now with explosive political preoccupations, too many to keep straight, but there is one more potential disaster lurking behind the headlines—the economy. Not to worry, say the newspapers. The White House assures us the Bush economy is going great. The Federal Reserve agrees. Notwithstanding the tempest that flattened the Gulf Coast, the Fed is worried that the economy is expanding too strongly—it might provoke price inflation. So, trying to (…)

  • Reporter, Times Are Criticized for Missteps
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Media Analysts Question Decisions by Miller, Newspaper’s Editors Regarding Leak
    By Howard Kurtz
    Media analysts assailed New York Times reporter Judith Miller and her editors yesterday for what they called a series of missteps and questionable decisions revealed in two lengthy articles about the problems of covering the CIA leak investigation while defending the embattled journalist.
    Alex Jones, a former Times reporter who heads the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public (…)