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  • Wheel of Voter Resolution 2005
    31 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Four Wheel Of Voter WOV Challenges (still open!): Alas, we are ending 2004 with all four Wheel of Voter Challenges unsolved. The $1,000, $2,000, $500, and $100 prizes remain unclaimed, respectively. Let’s review how to win because on face value these challenges are not quite as hard as climbing Everest, solving perpetual motion, or curing the common cold:
    1) Justify non-paper trail voting is better than paper-trail voting (ok, not so easy). _ A bit rhetorical.
    2) Nerd heaven: Someone (…)

  • No Honor, No Humanity
    31 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "George Bush has purged the last of his father’s senior advisers, handing over control to his neocon allies"
    In the article A state of chaos published Dec. 30,2004 in The Guardian, Blumental writes: To begin with, Bush has unceremoniously and without public acknowledgement dumped Brent Scowcroft, his father’s closest associate and friend, as chairman of the foreign intelligence advisory board. The elder Bush’s national security adviser was the last remnant of traditional Republican realism (…)

  • Conyers to Object to Ohio Electors, Requests Senate Allies
    31 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Representative John Conyers, ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, will object to the counting of the Ohio Electors from the 2004 Presidential election when Congress convenes to ratify those votes on January 6th. In a letter dispatched to every Senator, which will be officially published by his office shortly, Conyers declares that he will be joined in this by several other members of the House. Rep. Conyers is taking this dramatic step because he believes the allegations (…)

  • Sibel Edmonds: Still Silenced, But Why?
    31 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jim Hogue
    It is fair to say that the Bush administration, through the efforts of Attorney General John Ashcroft, has confirmed its complicity in the 9/11/01 attacks. In his legal appeal to Judge Reggie Walton to silence FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, Ashcroft has inadvertently, through the very language of the appeal, provided eloquent proof of treason and misprision of treason within the highest levels of government.
    Their refusal to release the report of the Inspector General, and (…)

  • Ohio Recount a Sham, Public Protests Needed
    30 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Columbus, OH - A day after the conclusion of the flawed recount of Ohio’s presidential vote, Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb called on Congress to challenge the legitimacy of Ohio’s Electoral College delegation.
    "The recount of Ohio’s presidential vote was conducted in clear violation of both the spirit and the letter of the law. We can have no faith in the results when both the initial election and the recount were conducted in a haphazard and clearly illegitimate manner. (…)

  • A Republican in Boston
    30 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    RE: Group holds fast to Kerry cause with Beacon Hill vigil By Donovan Slack, Globe Staff (December 29, 2004) http://www.boston.com/news/...
    by Robin Baneth
    Yesterday, a member of the Boston Coalition Against Election Fraud — petitioning outside John Kerry’s home — tried to persuade a passerby to send a post card to Kerry urging the senator not to certify the electoral college results. The pedestrian replied that he was perfectly happy with the election results, being a Republican. ’’I (…)

  • The Buck Never Stops at the Top
    29 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Helen Thomas
    The FBI has blown the whistle on the Defense Department’s military investigators by accusing them of abusive treatment of prisoners of war in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
    The FBI was especially outraged that the interrogators of suspected terrorists had posed as FBI agents.
    Administration officials usually are pretty clubby folks who close ranks in times of trouble. But apparently, the FBI was not ready to take the fall for the Pentagon’s atrocious treatment of some (…)

  • Reggie White’s Mixed Legacy
    29 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    Reggie White, a former football star and preacher who took part in a 1998 ad campaign that said gay people have short life spans, died this week. He was 43 years old.
    According to most news reports, White was the equivalent of Mother Teresa in football pads. His beatification includes gushing testimonials about how he was a wonderful “Man of God” who was a great role model to children.
    “As great a player as Reggie was, he was a better person. Every life that he touched (…)

  • Beyond Neverland: What to do AFTER we’ve deposed GWB Hook
    29 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jane Stillwater No, I’m not identifying with Peter Pan these days because America has become NeverNeverLand. I identify with Peter Pan because I’m just a little guy up against the Prince of Darkness. "Jane! Don’t you know that all your efforts aren’t doing any good? You are just one little person up against a 100-trillion-dollar mob. Give it up!" Never. I’ll just think happy thoughts, cover myself with pixie dust and keep dreaming of a better world. If accepting (…)

  • Sour Red Grapes: Contest 2004
    29 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In a recent article regarding the Ohio re-count effort called "Election Lawsuits Not Constructive ," we hit upon that quirky expression employing that resonating image of sour grapes: "A substantial number of the complaints and lawsuits appear to be frivolous, serving no good purpose. Often, they sound like sour grapes complaints voiced by those who simply can’t cope with the fact that their candidates lost the election."
    Yikes. Could this be true? Are we insane anti-fascists solely (…)