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The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
BuzzFlash was forwarded a copy of a new research paper (271k PDF) on the exit polls from the 2004 election.
http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/04/11/...
In "The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy," Dr. Steven F. Freeman says:
"As much as we can say in social science that something is impossible, it is impossible that the discrepancies between predicted and actual vote counts in the three critical battleground states (…)

Fighting in Falluja has created a humanitarian disaster in which innocent people are dying because medical help cannot reach them, aid workers in Iraq have said.
In one case, a pregnant woman and her child died in a refugee camp west of the city after the mother unexpectedly aborted and no doctors were on hand, Firdus al-Ubadi, an official from the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, told Reuters on Wednesday.
In another case, a young boy died from a snake bite that would normally have been (…)

By Ian Urbina
Republished from The New York Times
The New York Times covers the 9/11 Truth movement...
The grainy 30-second commercials are eerie and cryptic, and they suggest a government cover-up of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. One implies that no plane flew into the Pentagon. The other suggests that 7 World Trade Center, which collapsed late in the afternoon that day, was detonated from within.
The advertisements, which ran repeatedly here and in New York between Oct. 20 and Nov. (…)

Likely to Prove as Disappointing to US as the Capture of Saddam
By PATRICK COCKBURN
The belligerent trumpetings of the US Marines bode ill for Fallujah. Sgt Major Carlton W Kent, the senior enlisted marine in Iraq, told troops that the battle would be no different from Iwo Jima. In an analogy the Pentagon may not relish, he recalled the Tet offensive in Vietnam in 1968 and added: "This is another Hue city."
American voters last week never seemed to take on board the extent of the US (…)

It is Bush and Blair, not the Iraqi resistance, who fear free elections
by Sami Ramadani
George Bush and Tony Blair have apparently concluded that they can crush the Iraqi people’s will to resist occupation and legitimise a puppet regime next January by occupying Falluja. Maybe they imagine they can emulate the British forces that terrorised Iraqi Kurdistan in the 1920s by obliterating recalcitrant villages.
The US generals will no doubt deliver Falluja to Bush and Blair after (…)

Stolen Election? Machine Error Gives Bush Thousands of Extra Ohio Votes Palm Beach County Logs 88,000 More Votes Than Voters Voting Group Finds Irregularities In Southern States BBV: Our position is that fraud took place. Voting irregularities found in 7 Southern States Stolen Election 2004 NOBODY ALLOWED TO WITNESS OHIO VOTE TALLY CBS Shows Tie In TEXAS...Bush wins by 31 points??? Outrage in Ohio: Angry residents storm State House in response to massive voter suppression and (…)

by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
The appearance of Osama bin Laden bang on cue was suspicious, to say the least, as is now the increasing evidence pointing toward election fraud in the United States of America on November 2nd. Exit polls in sensitive districts just don’t add up to the official figures. Did Bush fix it?
In Ohio, for instance, the sensitive state which gave Bush the 20 electoral college votes he needed, CNN exit polls among women awarded Kerry the vote by 53 to 47% and among (…)

He married the Revolution. And in the end he became a little dictator, falsely promising democracy by Robert Fisk
Yet again, Yasser Arafat is dying. We thought he’d been killed back in 1982 when the Israeli air force flew around Beirut attacking apartment blocks and homes they thought he was visiting. Their bombs tore to pieces hundreds of innocent Lebanese civilians but Arafat was never there. Then we thought he’d died in a plane crash in the Libyan desert — but it was the pilot who (…)

by Jim Lobe
An influential foreign-policy neoconservative with long-standing ties to top hawks in the administration of President George W. Bush has laid out what he calls "a checklist of the work the world will demand of this president and his subordinates in a second term."
The list, which begins with the destruction of Fallujah in Iraq and ends with the development of "appropriate strategies" for dealing with threats posed by China, Russia and "the emergence of a number of (…)

George W. Bush’s vote tallies, especially in the key state of Florida, are so statistically stunning that they border on the unbelievable.
by Sam Parry
While it’s extraordinary for a candidate to get a vote total that exceeds his party’s registration in any voting jurisdiction - because of non-voters - Bush racked up more votes than registered Republicans in 47 out of 67 counties in Florida. In 15 of those counties, his vote total more than doubled the number of registered Republicans (…)