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Nader-Camejo Commends “Johnny-Come-Lately” John Kerry for Supporting the Third-Party Battle to Recount on His Behalf in Ohio Ralph Nader to Kerry: “Why did you wait so long?”
Washington, DC: The Nader-Camejo campaign commends John Kerry for supporting the heated battle for a recount in Ohio. The Kerry-Edwards legal intervention in defense of the recount comes 21 days after the Nader-Camejo campaign issued a public challenge to the candidate to initiate an Ohio recount, and 25 days after an (…)

Twenty years later, the Dow/Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal continues to wreak havoc on the lives of thousands. And yet corporate officials have never answered for their actions.
By Mark Hertsgaard
On the night her world changed forever, Rashida Bee was 28 years old and had already been married for more than half her life. Her parents, traditional Muslims, had selected her husband for her when she was 13. He worked as a tailor, and they lived together in her parents’ modest home in the (…)

WELCOME TO THE MACHINE http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4651 Early survey numbers from the 2004 National Wheel of VOTER Challenge now stand: Paper-Trail Voting: 98.6% No Paper-Trail Voting: 0.0% Other: 1.4% On December 2nd, 2004, Americans were extended a $1,000 challenge to write an email that justifies "No Paper Trail Voting." Chief Panel Judge, Robin Baneth, Information Technology Consultant based in Raleigh, North Carolina granted an exclusive to trumpet (…)

Meacher writes:-Now allegations are surfacing that the use of electronic voting systems and optical scanning devices may have had a significant influence on the result. Computer security experts insist that such sys- tems are not secure and not tamper-proof, yet they were used to count a third of the votes across 37 states. Though the Democrats remain strangely coy about the whole subject, academics and political analysts are now drawing comparisons between areas that used paper ballots and (…)

Silent protester is a powerful voice against official ‘lies’ From Jeremy Page in Kiev NATALYA DMITRUK’s silent protest was perhaps the least obvious of all the demonstrations in support of Viktor Yushchenko. But it was one of the most courageous.
For three years, the sign- language interpreter had dutifully translated the news twice daily on UT-1, the state-run television channel that is the mouthpiece for Viktor Yanukovych, the Prime Minister.
But when Tatyana Krav-chenko, UT-1’s (…)

Will The Real Mark Kimmitt Please Stand Up? Nov 30, 2004 By Bruce Kennedy, JUS
Remember Brig. Gen. Mark T. Kimmitt? He was one of the top brass US generals who gave countless press conferences detailing the American “progress” in the war in Iraq. For those who don’t know his background, Kimmitt’s father, Joseph Stanley Kimmitt, is a former Col. in Army who morphed his military service into a Washington, DC, public relations, or lobbyist gig rather, called Kimmitt, Senter, Coates, & (…)

Hello all
A quick final update on the local social forum networking meeting happening in Sheffield this weekend. This looks like its lining up to be a really though-provoking and enjoyable weekend, bringing in a range of different experiences and opinions. The final details are:
Saturday 4th December Meet 10am for 11sharp start. Sharrow Community Hall, John Street, off Bramall Lane. Will go on until about 6pm, with the option of various entertainments in the evening. This day is intended (…)

Open Letter to John Kerry the true War Hero:
Remember reaching in the water and pulling your comrade into the swift boat? America is in the water. Reach in. Our hand is up and we are sinking. Bullets are flying, piercing the waves around us.
Please PUBLICLY request a re-vote in Ohio and Florida. Every criticism of the Ukrainian election is valid in Ohio. Florida was probably hacked. We WILL follow you into the streets!
1) 13 hour waits to vote in Columbus? To vote for YOU. Machine (…)

Open Letter to the Chief of VOTE Land Security, whoever you are:
VOTES have more privacy than VOTERS do. On average, a U.S. citizen is on video survellience camera by 800 cameras a day while our VOTES are able to elude detection with Casper stealth technology, courtesy of Diebold, ESS, and Sequoia. Airport handlers pat down for "breast bombs" while our VOTES can go anywhere they want unfettered. Oh, to be a VOTE!
The nation turns its lonely eyes to you the Chief of VOTE Land Security, (…)

SAVE THE MACHINES, SAVE THE VOTING MACHINES! My Fellow ’Americans:’ I will send a $1,000 cashier’s check to the first election official, politician, statistician, professor, broadcast journalist, blogger, editor, vote machine manufacturer, programmer, anyone who can convince me of the superiority of non-paper trail voting to paper-trail voting. I challenge you, READER; You, Keith Olbermann; YOU my right-wing brother in Utah; YOU, Jim Baker, YOU, Tom Delay; YOU, David Corn; YOU, Bill (…)