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  • Prominent Statisticians Urge Investigation of U.S. Presidential Election Results
    31 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Prominent Statisticians Refute ’Explanation’ of 2004 U.S. Exit Poll Discrepancies in New Edison/Mitofsky Report and Urge Investigation of U.S. Presidential Election Results.
    President Bush won November’s election by 2.5% yet exit polls showed Kerry leading by 3%. Which was correct?
    "There are statistical indications that a systematic, nationwide shift of 5.5% of the vote may have occurred, and that we’ll never get to the bottom of this, unless we gather the data we need for mathematical (…)

  • Neocons Drive The Nation Toward Ruin, Iraqi Guerrillas Kill Our Soldiers, Veterans Are Ignored, and Americans fall asleep
    31 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Stewart Nusbaumer For three decades, since the end of the Vietnam War, veterans of that bloody fiasco have said, “been there, done that,” implying Americans should listen to what they have to say about war.
    We fought a war so we understand the horror of war — horror is not always easy to remember, especially, when in youth, videogames were one’s greatest threat. We fought a war so we know war should be the last option, which seems to have slipped the minds of most Americans. We fought (…)

  • For Domestic Consumption Only
    31 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    For Domestic Consumption Only Bush May Have Thought He Was Speaking To The Aspirations Of The Oppressed Around The World, But Because Of His Ignorance Of The World He Certainly Missed His Mark Michael Coblenz January 30, 2005 President Bush’s gave a wonderful speech at his inauguration last week. If was full of beautiful rhetoric, lofty ideas, and deft connections between our founding principles and our current struggles. But it was so completely unlike anything that has come out of Bush’s (…)

  • Nazi Party Road Signs In Marion Co. Draw Ire
    31 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Nazi Party Road Signs In Marion Co. Draw Ire kgw.com and AP Staff January 28, 2005 SALEM - Angry Marion County residents are complaining about a decision to allow the American Nazi Party to participate in the "Adopt-a-Highway" cleanup program, but county officials defended their action Thursday saying they had no choice.
    The complaints started Monday after two green signs went up along rural Sunnyview Road recognizing the Nazi Party’s commitment to keeping the road clean by regularly (…)

  • Vote Machine Fraud documented in Florida Coastal Counties- Hearings to be Held Feb 1 & 3
    31 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The biggest Democratic counties in Florida are Palm Beach, Broward, and Dade. Each of these counties had dozens of precincts where vote-switching was reported. Most involved switches from Kerry to Bush, but there a few reported cases of votes switching from Kerry to a minor candidate or no vote. (Recall that non-votes were likely to be switched to Bush. A smaller number of reports documented votes switched from Betty Castor to Mel Martinez in Florida’s U.S. Senate race. Poll workers and poll (…)

  • Don’t use FDR to undermine Social Security
    31 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    IN HIS inaugural address, President George W. Bush invoked the name of my grandfather, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as part of his campaign to privatize Social Security. Similarly, a political organization supporting that drastic change recently ran a television commercial using a newsreel clip showing President Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law. The implication that FDR would support privatization of America’s greatest national program is an attempt to deceive the (…)

  • Canada Moves To Counter US Privacy Threat
    31 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Canada Moves To Counter US Privacy Threat Jim Bronskill January 30, 2005 OTTAWA (CP) - The government will revamp the wording of future federal contracts with the aim of countering US powers, granted under anti-terrorism laws, to tap into personal information about Canadians.
    The move is intended to prevent the US Federal Bureau of Investigation from seeing sensitive Canadian data the government supplies to American firms doing business with federal departments in Ottawa.
    The (…)

  • $9B Missing in Iraq includes funds to pay "ghost" employees
    31 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    From Reuters "The report said the CPA failed to ensure funds were not used to pay "ghost" employees and cited one example where CPA officials authorized payment for about 74,000 guards but only a fraction of these could later be validated."
    From AP story below:
    "Some of the transferred funds may have paid "ghost" employees, the inspector general found.
    CPA staff learned that 8,206 guards were on the payroll at one ministry, but only 602 could be accounted for, the report said. At (…)

  • The Antiwar Movement Awakening
    30 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Manuel Valenzuela
    The Iraq war is this generation’s anti-war and peace movements’ Vietnam. To this reality we must awaken, for in tragedy can an enormous opportunity be seen. The awakening is already taking shape, yet for it to triumph it must continue growing, waking from the doldrums of decades of complacency, dusting off the cobwebs of resistance and evolving to new times and means. It is up to us, millions strong, some more vocal than others, some more courageous than most, each (…)

  • Haitians Take Issue With Inaugural Speech And Method; Bush Should Tread Lightly
    30 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Haitians Take Issue With Inaugural Speech And Method; Bush Should Tread Lightly Sasha Kramer Friday, January 28, 2005
    “It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture.” - George W. Bush, Jan. 20, 2005 Haitians have a radically different perspective of US foreign policy. . .
    The U.S.-sponsored overthrow of Haiti’s democratically elected government in February of last year has pushed the country to (…)