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  • Candidates Officially Request Ohio Recount
    9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    COLUMBUS, Ohio - With support from John Kerry’s campaign, two third-party candidates for president officially asked on Tuesday for a recount in Ohio, the state that put President Bush over the top in November.
    The requests, mailed to all 88 counties, were expected to arrive by Wednesday.
    Generally, county election boards must agree to a recount, as long as the parties bringing the challenge pay for it. And the Green and Libertarian parties collected enough donations to cover the required (…)

  • People’s Choice Awards Nominates "Fahrenheit 9/11" as "Favorite Film of the Year"
    9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael Moore
    Dear Friends,
    May I take a break from our post-election despair to share with you a little piece of happy/silly/cool news?
    "Fahrenheit 9/11" has been nominated by the People’s Choice Awards as the American public’s "Favorite Film of the Year." The five nominees were chosen from a poll of thousands of Americans in mid-to-late November. The other nominees for best film are "Spiderman 2," "The Incredibles," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (with Jim Carrey), and (…)

  • The Catch-22 of Voting (Breaking News Commentary)
    9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    RE: "Ohio Vote in the 2004 Election" 12/8 Panel Hearing by House Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, Chaired by Conyers (MI) America: During yesterday’s hearing in DC, the all-encompassing point was delivered by Jonathan Simon, Political Survey Research Analyst and the person who downloaded the pure exit polling data CNN before it was altered to match end results. This is the same data analyzed by Stephen Freeman that determined that Bush had more of a chance of winning THREE jackpot (…)

  • Is Revolution Possible in the US ?
    9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ONE SEGMENT of progressives reacted to George Bush’s victory in the 2004 presidential election with despair. “Maybe this time,” Nation magazine columnist Katha Pollitt commented bitterly, “the voters chose what they actually want: Nationalism, pre-emptive war, order not justice, ‘safety’ through torture, backlash against women and gays, a gulf between haves and have-nots, government largesse for their churches and a my-way-or-the-highway president.”
    Liberal author Garry Wills concluded (…)

  • House Forum on Ohio Election Voting Procedures
    9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    House Forum on Ohio Election Voting Procedures
    Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Cmte., hosts a forum on the 2004 election vote in Ohio and possible irregularities in the vote itself and the subsequent counting of ballots. Many other Congressmen and interest group representatives take part in this event.
    12/8/2004: WASHINGTON, DC: 3 hr.
    Look for the above text at this site:
    http://c-span.org/videoarchives.asp?CatCodePairs=,&ArchiveDays=100
    You will (…)

  • Uncle Sam Wants Your Kids - Now!
    9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David H. Hackworth
    We’ll soon have 150,000 U.S. troops stuck in the ever-expanding Iraqi quagmire, a number that will probably grow even larger before Iraq holds elections presently scheduled for the end of January ’05.
    Maintaining such a force is a logistical and personnel nightmare for every grunt in Iraq. And according to several Pentagon number crunchers, it’s also driving the top brass bonkers.
    Meanwhile the insurgents continue cutting our supply lines and whacking our fighting (…)

  • Kucinich: “The Iraqis Will Not Be Handed Freedom Based On Lies”
    9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, gave the following speech today on the House floor:
    “Nearly thirteen hundred brave American men and women have sacrificed their lives in Iraq. Yet the central reasons for the US invasion have fallen apart: Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. No proof that Iraq was instrumental with Al Queda’s role in 9/11. Iraq was not trying to get nuclear materials from (…)

  • Police State ID Card Bill Passes Without Congress Even Reading It
    9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Police State ID Card Bill Passes Without Congress Even Reading It 3,000 page bill passage mirrors first Patriot Act sneak-through
    Ron Paul Liberty Committee | December 7, 2004 http://capwiz.com/liberty/issues/alert/...
    Related: Emergency Alert: National ID/Patriot Act 2 Legislation On Verge Of Passing http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2004/...
    UPDATE: December 7th at 7:38 p.m. The U.S. House passed the conference report on the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (…)

  • The Ghost of Christmas Future tells all: $2 a day wages and the Rape of Cincinnati
    8 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jane Stillwater The Ghost of Christmas Future appeared to me last night. "What did he look like? What did he say?" "He wore a caveman outfit and rode a bike. It was a Schwinn. He showed me what I would look like after I gained 50 pounds and told me to lay off the eggnog." "That’s all? That’s IT?" "Nope. He also showed me what will happen to Americans if they keep that idiot George Bush in office." It was not a pretty picture. He took me to the (…)

  • Seeking the DNC Chair-What Direction Would Dean Go?
    8 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Months after he fled the Democratic primaries with his tail between his legs, Howard Dean is again in the spotlight, where is (half-heartedly) seeking the chair of Democratic National Committee. Dean hopes his influence can steer the Democratic Party away from future electoral defeats. But even if Dean is victorious, he will not be guiding the Democrats’ foreign policy agenda in a new direction. The fact is, Dean’s own foreign policy agenda is strikingly similar to that of George W. Bush. (…)