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  • Exit Polls vs Official Counts: Dr. Freeman and Mr. Mitofsky Face-Off in Election Fraud Debate
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Two experts face-off in lively lectures and discussion about the utility of exit polls when compared to official counts, the potential for election fraud and the role of statistics in adjudicating critical issues of public importance. The University of Pennsylvania’s departments of Center for Organizational Dynamics and Political Science and the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Statistical Association (ASAP) will host the debate.
    Like most politically savvy Americans, Steve Freeman (…)

  • How To End The War-Boot Out Bush or Pay Dearly in Blood and Money
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Paul Craig Roberts
    George W. Bush is a natural born liar. He lied us into a war, and now he is lying to keep us there. In his October 6 self-congratulatory speech at that neoconservative shrine, the National Endowment for Democracy, the President of the United States said: "Today there are more than 80 Iraqi army battalions fighting the insurgency alongside our forces."
    Eighty Iraqi battalions makes it sound like the US is just lending Iraq a helping hand. I wonder what Congress and (…)

  • Did the University of Oklahoma Bomber Try to Enter the Football Stadium?
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com
    Summary of Events:
    On the evening of Saturday, October 1, while a football game was in progress at the nearby stadium, Joel Hinrichs, a University of Oklahoma engineering student, was packed with explosives and seated on a bench near a sidewalk in front of the microbiology building. He knew that within a few minutes the sidewalk would be full of people during the halftime break. The west gate of the stadium was a two-minute (…)

  • Cheney’s Halliburton stock options rose 3,281% last year, senator finds
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An analysis released by a Democratic senator found that Vice President Dick Cheney’s Halliburton stock options have risen 3,281 percent in the last year, RAW STORY can reveal.
    Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) asserts that Cheney’s options — worth $241,498 a year ago — are now valued at more than $8 million. The former CEO of the oil and gas services juggernaut, Cheney has pledged to give proceeds to charity.
    The above graph released by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) charts the value of the (…)

  • Poll: Americans Want Bush Impeached
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Poll: Americans Favor Bush’s Impeachment If He Lied about Iraq
    By a margin of 50% to 44%, Americans say that President Bush should be impeached if he lied about the war in Iraq, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
    The poll was conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs, the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,001 U.S. (…)

  • BUSH wins
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    —Saddam didn’t kick the UN weapons inspectors out of Iraq.
    http://www.fair.org/activism/...
    But bush did.
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/-03-17-insp...
    — Saddam targeted extremist Shite al-Sadr & his militia
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/decade/sect4.htm...
    So did bush.
    http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/portrait_...
    — Saddam wouldn’t let human rights groups into all prisons;
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/decade/sect4.htm...
    Neither will (…)

  • No Will, No Backbone:Washington’s War Dems
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Joshua Frank
    These are tremulous times for the Republican establishment. A poll released this past weekend by Ipsos/Associated Press confirms that Bush’s agenda has slid right off the table and into the trash bin. The president’s popularity has plummeted to a meager 39 percent, the lowest of his tenure. At the center of Bush’s nose dive is the Iraq catastrophe, about which two-thirds of those polled strongly criticized Bush’s handling of the invasion and subsequent occupation. The (…)

  • hunger strike
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    hi, Am busy right now, but am wondering why the mainstream media is not covering the hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay?
    – http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en...

  • Gentrification Sweeps Streets of New Orleans Rolling in Cop Cars
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Midnight, on a nice summer night. The air smells sweet and the breeze is lovely. Millions of stars twinkle in the night. Silence amidth a few street lights and no one walking around that I could see. At the turn of the street, Newton Street to be precise, cops, guns and a couple of black young men handcuffed behind their backs, picked up from their home stoop... This was my first encounter as I laid foot in Algiers, New Orleans this morning, 5 hours after a curfew imposed at gun point.
    All (…)

  • Iran: Imperialism’s second strike
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by AIJAZ AHMAD
    U.S. President George W. Bush on the lawns of the White House.
    IRAN has played its diplomatic hand deftly. On the eve of the meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna on September 24, Iran’s highest authorities let it be known that in case countries which get their oil and gas from Iran vote against it, they might face retaliation. When India did vote with the European Union troika (E.U.-3) that has been fronting for the United States, the Iranian (…)