Thu - April 12, 2007

A FRAUD?


NYTimes: "A federal panel responsible for conducting election research played down the findings of experts who concluded last year that there was little voter fraud around the nation, according to a review of the original report obtained by The New York Times.
Instead, the panel, the Election Assistance Commission, issued a report that said the pervasiveness of fraud was open to debate.

The revised version echoes complaints made by Republican politicians, who have long suggested that voter fraud is widespread and justifies the voter identification laws that have been passed in at least two dozen states.
Democrats say the threat is overstated and have opposed voter identification laws, which they say disenfranchise the poor, members of minority groups and the elderly, who are less likely to have photo IDs and are more likely to be Democrats."

The cheek those Republicans have! George W. Bush became president by fraud. And the scheme to perpetrate the fraud was... to accuse large numbers of voters of fraud.

Posted at 12:08 PM    

BEYOND TERROR


Yahoo: "The US-led and British-backed war on terror is only fuelling more violence by focusing on military solutions rather than on root causes, a think tank warned Wednesday.
'The 'war on terror' is failing and actually increasing the likelihood of more terrorist attacks,' the Oxford Research Group said in its study, titled 'Beyond Terror: The Truth About The Real Threats To Our World'."

Avaaz: "Nearly 400 men are trapped in the prison at Guantanamo without charge or trial. This prison is the symbol and the center of President Bush's assault on international law. But now we have a chance to shut it down - Bush's own Secretary of Defense is publicly calling for closing Guantanamo. Bush's advisors are split, and a global outcry could tip the balance. Sign the petition."

Posted at 12:06 PM    

IT'S NUKULAR, STUPID


PressTV: "A documentary aired on Italian TV channel, RAI 24, has claimed that the U.S. military is keeping 480 nuclear warheads across Europe, 90 in Italy.
The Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has banned the deployment of so many nuclear warheads in Europe.
The documentary has also called on the Italian government to comply with its obligations under the NPT and demand the removal of the weapons from the Italian soil."
RAI24: "Despite the deep secret on this issue, an American non governmental organization, NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), has published the map of the atomic devices in Europe and in Italy: about 480 atomic bombs in Europe and 90 in Italy."
Video.
This information dates from 2005. More. Report.
Guardian: "Russia is preparing its own military response to the US's controversial plans to build a new missile defence system in eastern Europe, according to Kremlin officials, in a move likely to increase fears of a cold war-style arms race.
The Kremlin is considering active counter-measures in response to Washington's decision to base interceptor missiles and radar installations in Poland and the Czech Republic, a move Russia says will change 'the world's strategic stability'."

Posted at 12:01 PM    

Fri - June 11, 2004

Florida rigs elections


TBO: "For the second straight presidential election, Florida's law against former felons voting, a law grounded in Old South racism, may prevent thousands of people from voting.
Some of those people may be legally entitled to vote. Others won't be able to navigate the bureaucratic hurdles of the state's clemency process to get their rights restored in time for the election.
Today, as the 2004 election nears:
- More than 43,000 Floridians are on the waiting list to have their rights restored, some of whom first learned in 2000, after voting for years, that they weren't legally entitled to vote. The restoration process can take years, and the list is growing, not shrinking.
- Hundreds of people wrongly removed from voter rolls in 2000, who never committed felonies or whose rights had been restored, may not yet have been put back on the rolls.
- A lawsuit charges that Florida's felon disenfranchisement is unconstitutional and affects up to 600,000 people.
The vast majority of them are black and would be likely to vote Democratic."

Posted at 04:31 PM    

Riots expected


Observer: "Hundreds of troops will be deployed to defend vital supermarket depots in the event of fresh fuel protests in the autumn.
Supermarkets have been told by Home Office officials to expect military assistance as part of draconian government plans to protect Britain's economy from a repeat of the events of 2000 when protesters brought the country to a standstill."
It is clear that governments, politicians, only have one thing in mind, control of the population, not control of prices, not welfare, not employment and healthcare for all. It's all about protecting the interests of Tesco and Sainsbury along with global brands and manufacturers including Heinz, Kraft, Nestlé and Unilever as well as the main water companies.

Posted at 04:30 PM    

What you are missing on my Radio blog


The following postings should have appeared on my Radio blog. Upstreaming is not possible yet. Maybe this will be my home for the coming weeks, months. Thanks for bearing with me.
I added a search box.

Posted at 03:17 PM    

Thu - June 10, 2004

The wars


For information on Iraq, Bush and related horrors, go to the Information Clearing House or the links in the yellow bar of my Radio blog.

Posted at 11:12 PM    

Starvation



BBC: Hundreds of children have started to starve to death in Sudan's war-torn western province of Darfur.

Now, that is a problem.

Posted at 01:55 PM    

Radio trouble


I am having trouble with my Radio Userland. It won't upstream. There could be something wrong with only the Radio app. But there might be a hardware failure somewhere.
I'll take a day or two off first, occasionally post in this iBlog and then I'll see.

Posted at 11:59 AM    

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