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  • Whistleblowers Expose How Private Contractors Loot US Taxpayers
    4 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Former managers working with Custer Battles, a high-profile private security company in Iraq, are accusing the firm of using affiliated "shell" companies in the Cayman Islands and other "tax haven" countries to fraudulently overcharge on government contracts by tens of millions of dollars. The accusations are spelled out in a lawsuit filed under the False Claims Act and made public October 8.
    Custer Battles, headquartered in McLean, Virginia, first grabbed headlines after winning a $16.5 (…)

  • U.S. preparing for lifetime jailing of terror suspects without trial
    4 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Washington Post | January 2, 2005
    WASHINGTON - Administration officials are preparing long-range plans for indefinitely imprisoning suspected terrorists whom they do not want to set free or turn over to courts in the United States or other countries, according to intelligence, defense and diplomatic officials.
    The Pentagon and the CIA have asked the White House to decide on a more permanent approach for potentially lifetime detentions, including for hundreds of people now in military and (…)

  • A Connecticut Yankee at the Crawford ranch: Carpetbagging as an art form
    4 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jane Stillwater
    In The Last Juror, a John Grisham novel, the hero moves to a small town in Mississippi and soon discovers that "it takes at least three generations to be accepted in Ford County. Regardless of money or breeding, one cannot simply move there and be trusted: A dark cloud of suspicion hangs over any newcomer and I was no exception."
    So? Where is the "dark cloud of suspicion" hanging over George Bush? This self-styled "Bubba" was born in Connecticut, went to prep school in (…)

  • 2004 vote fraud documents
    4 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As you know, there have been thousands of irregularities, including intimidation in the 2004 Election and citizens want to know why nothing is being done to investigate.
    Please join the chorus of voices demanding a recount or revote so that American citizens can feel as secure as the Ukrainians that our voices are heard in this country too.
    Join President Bush in calling for a fair, free election without intimidation. The people in a democracy have the right to be heard and their votes (…)

  • 10 Reasons for Congress to Investigate Ohio Election Fraud
    4 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This is an abridged version of the FreePress.org’s latest documentation of Votergate Ohio. The full version is here:
    The Bush-Cheney ‘do-everything’ strategy in Ohio covered a very wide range of tactics, from disenfranchisement of minority voters to discarding of ballots to tampered tabulators and much more.
    Taken as a whole, this compendium of error, fraud, cover-up and contempt indicates that this was not a legitimate election, and is not worthy of being certified by the Congress of (…)

  • Media Whites Out Vote Fraud Despite Well Documented Evidence
    3 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There is strong evidence of vote theft in Ohio. That will be news to anyone who gets their news from a television or from most print media.
    When forced to talk about ethics, media big shots often insist that they draw no conclusions. They endlessly reported Dick Cheney’s claims that Saddam Hussein was behind the attacks of September 11, 2001, but it would not have been their place to label that a "conspiracy theory." When it comes to election fraud in Ohio and other U.S. states, on the (…)

  • The US is Losing Iraq
    3 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ben Frank
    "The CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the State Department warned President Bush this week that the United States and its Iraqi allies are not winning the battle against Iraqi insurgents Iraqi insurgents who are trying to derail the country’s Jan. 30 elections." As Mike Rivero at WhatReallyHappened.com pointed out, ’not winning’ equals ’losing’.
    On New Year’s Eve it was reported that, "the last six months of 2004 proved the deadliest period for US forces in Iraq, (…)

  • Ohio’s non-recount ends amidst evidence of fraud, theft and judicial contempt mirrored in New Mexico
    3 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    COLUMBUS — The Ohio presidential recount was officially terminated Tuesday, December 28.
    But the end comes amidst bitter dispute over official certification of impossible voter turnout numbers, over the refusal of Ohio’s Republican Supreme Court Chief Justice to recuse himself from crucial court challenges involving his own re-election campaign, over the Republican Secretary of State’s refusal to testify under subpoena, over apparent tampering with tabulation machines, over more than (…)

  • Dennis Kucinich was right on Iraq: The Occupation is a Failure
    2 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Quotes from Dennis Kucinich on Iraq over the last year. Dennis was right across the board, tell me again why this wisdom was ’unelectable’.
    10/14/03 - “To support this war spending bill ($87 billion) would only serve to throw good money after bad... This Administration led this nation to war based on falsehoods and lies... This President should not be trusted with one more dime of taxpayer money to pay for his misguided policy."
    10/28/03 - "The assertion by the President that daily (…)

  • Re-Vote Ohio
    2 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ted Glick
    (This article was put together with much assistance from colleagues who have been deeply involved in the Ohio recount.)
    “Our next governor should enter office without any doubt about the legitimacy of his or her office. The people of Washington deserve to know that their governor was elected fair and square. Unfortunately, the events of the past few weeks now make it impossible for you or me to take office on January 12 without being shrouded in suspicion.”
    Dino Rossi, (…)