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The Bush administration is going to be wired around the neck of the American people for four more years, long enough for the stench to sicken everybody. It should cure the country of electing Republicans.
So, fellow progressives, stop thinking about suicide or moving abroad. Want to feel better? Eat a sour grape, then do something immediately, now, today. Figure out what you can do to help rescue the country — join something, send a little money to some group, call somewhere and offer to (…)

...Meanwhile, this week Human Rights Watch issued its long-awaited conclusive report on Saddam’s genocidal record. As far as I know, the major news media has not picked up the report, which is available on the internet at HRW’s website, http://www.hrw.org/reports/2004/iraq1104/1.htm
I read about the report in the British press. It turns out that in 19 months HRW’s experts have not been able to find the missing 100,000 bodies it said were of Kurds who had been rounded up and trucked south (…)

IF YOU THINK THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN.... AGAIN....
Black Box Voting’s Bev Harris, the leading authority on e-voting, has just lauched the largest Freedom of Information Act request ever for the audit trails on the electronic voting machines one third of the country used in Tuesday’s election. In order to also force a recount in 34 STATES, Black Box is asking all those who want a full recount, who believe the exit polls were NOT wrong, to do the following ASAP:
FAX RALPH NADER AT (…)

IF YOU THINK THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN.... AGAIN....
Black Box Voting’s Bev Harris, the leading authority on e-voting, has just lauched the largest Freedom of Information Act request ever for the audit trails on the electronic voting machines one third of the country used in Tuesday’s election. In order to also force a recount in 34 STATES, Black Box is asking all those who want a full recount, who believe the exit polls were NOT wrong, to do the following ASAP:
FAX RALPH NADER AT (…)

It’s not about caving in to terrorists, it’s not about wanting a lack of morality, and it’s not about hating Republican voters. It is about wanting the freedom of choice as individuals over our lives that a democracy is supposed to allow. It’s about not shipping jobs overseas and destroying the economic foundations of the middle class and impoverishing millions of Americans.
It’s about having every citizen’s vote count and be counted fairly. It’s about killing people in defense only. It’s (…)

First, an open letter to the Democratic constituency:
How on Earth can we get the Democratic leadership to listen? Is it even possible? Surely after the defeat handed this party with the forces they managed to muster, they must realize there is something horribly wrong with their thinking?
I am hearing everywhere that John Kerry abandoned his promise to make every vote count and capitulated far too easily, and that is being used to highlight the perception that Democrats are morally weak (…)

Interesting comment extract from Michael Moore’s site just after the elections. www.michaelmoore.com
But, please, let us look to the numerous names of the soldiers died in Iraq just in the part of the American side -it is to say of the other one as so much more- as you will not find this list in several places online, that’s true! (below) ...
(do not hold the time to try anymore translation today, forgive me;-) A.
Friday, November 5th, 2004
Dear Friends,
Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. (…)

" Chers tous,
J’ai traduit rapidement cet entretien parce qu’il me semblait, dans la formulation paradoxale et ironique de Toobin lui-même, dresser subtilement la question de la pertinence de la démocratie américaine de nos jours, divisée entre une majorité démocrate, mure, dépourvue de possibilité de révélation électorale, et une minorité républicaine, actuellement réactionnaire plus que conservatrice, renforcée en puissance permanente d’élire le pouvoir pour tous : ce qu’elle vient de (…)

October 31, 2004 _ (The Times)
Fading Arafat fights to keep hold of $1billion war chest Uzi Mahnaimi, Ramallah and Matthew Campbell, Paris
IN THE END it came down to money. While fighting for his life in a French military hospital, Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, was engaged in another, secret battle last week as he tried to keep control of bank accounts that are central to his survival in power.
Arafat’s godfather-like sway over his people derives less these days from his (…)

November 3, 2004 - Now we are told the kidnappers of CARE’s Margaret Hassan ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,134206 8,00.html ) have threatened to hand her over to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - the mythical master terrorist who supposedly chops off heads and then posts videos of the grisly executions on the internet-unless British troops are removed from Iraq in 48 hours.
Interesting the kidnappers decided to announce this mid-stride in the corporate election of the next CEO of the (…)