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Bush Assassination Film is just fictional as was ‘The Path to 9/11’
By Mary MacElveen
September 14, 2006
At this point, I challenge any station to air the movie that depicts the assassination of George W. Bush. This movie is a piece of fiction as was the ‘Path to 9/11’ But, knowing our corporate controlled media, they will not because they are ‘gun shy’ since the conservative base within this country will have a field day trying to shut down the airing of this movie. I know that was (…)

Song Paroday from West Side Story:
http://www.musical-information.de/all/West_somethings_coming2.mid It will be! I know! There’s something nasty on the way We will see most any day Karl Rove knows! He knows! Such a creep,slimy leech dirty son...of a beech! setting us "free"! I’ve got a feeling there’s a "terror act" due... trouble for you.. everyone...me! Could it be?, yes, it’s sad something’s coming, something bad, I cannot wait! Something sneaky, I don’t know, what it is.. but it (…)

Canada fights to keep its water By Linda Duffin Business Reporter, BBC World Service, Calgary, Canada
One country has abundant fresh water, far more than it needs. Across the border there is simply not enough and it has yet to find a solution to the problem.
This is the situation Canada and the US find themselves in.
Canada has, by some estimates, up to 20% of the world’s fresh water supplies and only 0.5% of the world’s population.
You would think there would be enough to go (…)

Princeton prof hacks e-vote machine Updated: 9:48 p.m. ET Sept. 13, 2006
TRENTON, N.J. - A Princeton University computer science professor added new fuel Wednesday to claims that electronic voting machines used across much of the country are vulnerable to hacking that could alter vote totals or disable machines.
In a paper posted on the university’s Web site, Edward Felten and two graduate students described how they had tested a Diebold AccuVote-TS machine they obtained, found ways to (…)

“The government is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people...it emanates from them...its powers are granted by them...” Chief Justice John Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. (1)
Washington, D.C. - At “Camp Democracy,” on the National Mall, on September 13, 2006, a year-long investigation by a citizens’ “Commission of Inquiry” was concluded. It had focused on this key question arising out of the “mock” indictments of the Bush-Cheney Gang earlier this year: Has the current (…)

[Note to Tomdispatch readers: Don’t miss the new project, Lie by Lie just up at the Mother Jones website. A cleverly cross-referenced time-line, It is in the process of cataloguing all the lies and manipulations of the Bush administration on the way to war and thereafter. It may be a work in progress but it’s an important one. Bookmark it. Let me also thank three sites in particular for helping me to keep up on Iraq: As always, Juan Cole’s indispensable Informed Comment blog, Antiwar.com (…)

Phyllis Rodriguez lost her son at the World Trade Center. And then she found the mother of Zacarias Moussaoui.
by Bernice Yeung
On September 11, 2001, Phyllis Rodriguez got out of bed before dawn. A part-time teacher with two grown children, Rodriguez, then 58, had recently enrolled in a graduate program in teaching literacy. She had an assignment due later that day: Parse the language in a Langston Hughes poem called "Mother to Son."
After finishing her work at about 7:30 a.m., she (…)

by Sasha Abramsky
We used to think the voting system was something like the traffic laws — a set of rules clear to everyone, enforced everywhere, with penalties for transgressions; we used to think, in other words, that we had a national election system. How wrong a notion this was has become painfully apparent since 2000: As it turns out, except for a rudimentary federal framework (which determines the voting age, channels money to states and counties, and enforces protections for (…)

Despite a few tweaks, ABC stands by its deceptive miniseries, and in tonight’s episode, all the lies make Bush look better.
By Joan Walsh
Sept. 11, 2006 | Despite right-wing claims that ABC edited the series to make it easier on Bill Clinton, the worst distortions went uncorrected — and there are plenty more to come.
"ABC bows to Bill & friends," the New York Daily News blared Monday. But that’s only the latest media distortion of the dishonest docudrama "The Path to 9/11." As (…)

by Medea Benjamin
Billed as the most comprehensive gathering of Latino leaders in the US in three decades, over 1,600 delegates and observers attended the Latino Congreso in Los Angeles from September 6-10. The Congreso grew out of the massive mobilizations of Latinos this spring for immigrant rights, and was a forum to discuss not only the status of immigration reform, but also a wide range of issues from how to best use Latino voting power to global warming to the economic empowerment of (…)