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"I am grateful to the many people who have contacted me to express their deep concern about questions of miscounting, fraud, vote suppression, and other problems on election day, especially in Florida and Ohio. Their concern reflects how much people care about the outcome of this election.
I want to you to know we are not ignoring it. Election protection lawyers are still on the job in Ohio and Florida and in DC making sure all the votes are counted accurately. I have been conferring with (…)

Broward County officials want prosecutors to investigate about 30 registered voters who attempted to cast ballots twice in the Nov. 2 election.
Members of the county’s canvassing board, who certified the county’s election results Friday, said they were concerned about voters who cast ballots by touch-screen voting machine at early-voting sites in the days before Nov. 2, then tried to cast paper ballots at the precincts on Election Day.
Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes said she has (…)

by Reginald Fields
Columbus
Tales of waiting more than five hours to vote, voter intimidation, under-trained polling-station workers and too few or broken voting machines largely in urban or heavily minority areas were retold Saturday at a public hearing organized by voter-rights groups.
For three hours, burdened voters, one after another, offered sworn testimony about Election Day voter suppression and irregularities that they believe are threatening democracy.
The hearing, (…)

In Ohio, the Republicans adhere strictly to the infamous vote fraud motto: Vote Early and Vote Often.
Cuyahooga county is only one of 48 counties connected with voter fraud in Ohio and Florida.
You may have seen the associated press story about the precinct in Cuyahoga county that had less than 1,000 voters, and gave Bush almost 4,000 extra votes.
But that turns out to be only the tip of a very ugly iceberg. The evidence discovered by some remarkably careful sleuthing would convince (…)

Many British people regard the battle beginning at Falluja and last week’s casualties among the Black Watch with dismay, even revulsion. They perceive an ugly predicament in Iraq growing worse by the day, and Tony Blair allowing hapless British troops to be dragged ever deeper into it. Here, they say, are the first fruits of the re-election of George W. Bush, an ignorant and dangerous man. Heaven help those shackled to his chariot wheels. The Daily Telegraph, London The U.S. forces are (…)

by Naseer Al-Nahr
As US troops and Iraqi security forces were battling Iraqi resistance in Fallujah yesterday, they were fighting to retake parts of Mosul in the north overrun by the Iraqi resistance.
US and Iraqi forces have been fighting for hours to recapture the Sheikh Fatih station in the city’s southwest from Iraqi resistance fighters, US Capt. Angela Bowman said.
Two US soldiers were wounded in sporadic fighting in the nearby town of Tal Afar, where Iraqi resistance fighters had (…)

by Dahr Jamail
It never fails to get my adrenaline flowing when my hotel rumbles from a car bomb detonating in central Baghdad.
Last night around 7pm the explosion occurred at a hotel compound which houses foreign contractors over near Firdos Square.
Shortly there after the "Green Zone" took a sustained mortar attack which went on long enough for them to hit the blaring sirens which warn the inhabitants to take cover, long after the mortar rounds had stopped falling.
Iraq’s borders (…)

BBC News November 11th (just to imagine what it could be 4 days later.)..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4004873.stm
Eyewitness: Smoke and corpses US troops, backed by Iraqi forces, are locked in a fierce fight to wrest the city of Falluja from rebel control. The BBC News website spoke by phone to Fadhil Badrani, an Iraqi journalist and resident of Falluja who reports regularly for Reuters and the BBC World Service in Arabic. We are publishing his and other eyewitness (…)

Rick Gagliano, 11/15/04, Downtown Magazine John Kerry lost the election on November 2nd.
Or did he? Internet bloggers, web sites, professors with stats, Ralph Nader, the Greens and Libertarians in Ohio, and probably millions of people who haven’t seen or heard the theories focusing on potential fraud, manipulation and more - thanks to a media blackout on anything suggesting the election is not over and done with - beg to differ.
More on the mainstream media later. First, what about (…)

by Omar Khan November 14, 2004
The Department of Defense seems continually faced with the difficulty of waging a war upon a population while maintaining that it is doing so on behalf of that population. But it is fortunate not to face this difficulty alone. A vast literature has been developed and deployed to effectively manage and promote its excursions in language that its intellectuals can contribute to and the public can repeat.
After the US invasion of South Vietnam, one such (…)