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Mon Nov 1, 2004 1:58 AM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Favored by shoppers but criticised by organized labor, Wal-Mart -- the world's number-one retailer -- has been a discreet participant in the US presidential election campaign. The company, which reported sales of 256 billion dollars last year, would be the 20th largest economy in the world if it were a country -- larger than Austria or Turkey.
Posting the list of stories so you can scan them and see if you've missed anything - and hold our feet to the fire if we missed anything!
OPB ran a story on Measure 33 this morning, here is some of the misinformation and lies they didn't edit out.
A couple of exciting events happening this week in IPRC-land:
Clarion-Ledger (Mississippi)
October 15, 2004 Platoon defies orders in Iraq Miss. soldier calls home, cites safety concerns
It was a presentation turned into a protest with the trappings of a pep
rally. Over 500 students, parents, teachers, and community members packed into the auditorium of Senn High School on Tuesday night for what was billed as a "Community Forum" about Chicago Public Schools's plan to turn part of Senn into a naval academy run by the Junior ROTC. But the CPS and JROTC presenters weren't able to give their presentation over the chants of "WE SAY NO!", nor were they able to show their video to the audience's turned backs. School and community organizers transformed the event into a real town hall meeting with an open mic, but the CPS and ROTC officials did not stick around to hear what the community had to say.
Every good republican knows the world is solid Kerry territory. A survey by pollsters HI Europe earlier in October found that if Europeans had a vote, they would back Kerry over Bush by a 6 to 1 margin. Bush would win just 6% in Germany, 5% in Spain and a measly 4% in France
bad bush week ends with key endorsement
I watched the "Stolen Honor" video.
We are looking at another racist Jim Crowe election. This time everyone knows ahead of time that this is what is taking place. This time we have been warned. The question is what are you going to do with this knowledge? What are you going to do about black people being barred the vote in the south? Act NOW!
As reported in the Lancet
For those of you that don't know Bev Harris and The Blackboxvoting crew personally, you can now see the video:
www.archive.org/stream/Vot...teTheMovie/votergatethemovie_64kb.mp4 There's several other versions of the video file www.votergate.tv/
Please, let's not forget what happened in the Florida 2000 election.
Happy Halloween everyone
creative piece about absurdities of priveledge
So they can have a consumer product involved in the process of being screwed. You know so it feels normal like going to the mall and shopping. Just kidding. Really.
After quite a bit of yet ongoing discussion, Pdx Indy volunteers are working on some changes to the website.
"Mosh," superficially anti-Bush, is above all an indictment of the U.S. war in Iraq
In a letter issued Friday, attorneys for the Oregon Republican Party demanded that ballots cast by voters in Multnomah County who have not provided proof of identification be set aside and challenged if necessary.
Democrats challenged that request Sunday, saying it flies in the face of Oregon law, which does not require voters to show proof of identification when registering. At stake are the votes of 207,053 first-time voters, of whom 73,226 are between the ages of 18 and 24. Nearly a third live in Multnomah County, which includes Portland, according to Secretary of State Bill Bradbury.
Eminem's Mosh video will awaken the rage within. The time is now to come together and fire the number one weapon of mass destruction: BUSH
Has rense.com been hacked? Or Is my pc giving me grief?
PAX TV (CH 22) is airing 'Stolen Honor' 10 times this weekend. Here's a statement from NewsMAX.com, who is helping distribute this:
Bush graced the conservative stronghold of cincinnati today. I was there with others to give him a "proper welcome."
--of course the article HAS TO COME from Britain to get word on the slavish US press. That in itself is telling of the propagandic uselessless of US corporate media and millions and millions of useless journalistic hack jobs.
MANIPULATION FROM THE (FAKE) LEFT: "The Star and Tribune had a run a poll saying that John Kerry had a 9 per cent lead over George W Bush in Minnesota. Rival polls claimed the race was tied. The paper's editor had endorsed Kerry, and the Republicans believed they had uncovered a liberal plot... MANIPULATION FROM THE CORPORATE CHRIST RIGHT: "Gallup's polls, used by CNN and USA Today, had given Bush a 14 point lead but other polls conducted at the same time put it at around 3 per cent....George Gallup Jr, son of the poll's founder and director of its research centre, was a born-again Christian of the nosiest type who had said earlier this year that 'the most profound purpose of polls is to see how people are responding to God'. 'We thought the purpose is to faithfully and factually report public opinion,' moveon.org retorted with a sniff. You get the picture. Religious fundamentalists in the polling industry..." THE CLENCHER "The polling companies dismissed the protests as overheated allegations from an angry campaign. But the demonstrators were on to something. How can one poll give Kerry a nine point lead in Minnesota and others give him no lead at all? Why do CNN viewers hear that Bush is cruising to a landslide victory, while he's in the tightest race imaginable on other channels?....[P]ollsters fear their racket is 'on the way to extinction'...that the public is fed up with being pestered...Huge numbers refuse to talk to pollsters. Morin found that 'in some surveys fewer than one in five calls produces a completed interview - raising doubts whether such polls accurately reflect the views of the public....Only two of the 11 final national polls were right in 2000."
The instructions printed on ballots in Multnomah County, Oregon lead many voters to fill out their ballots in a way that facilitates later vote-tampering.
Protesters stormed the Victoria Secret in Minneapolis's Mall of America around 1 pm October 31st.
New study shows correlation between decline of IQ and rise of GOP
The Will of the People Will Not Be Expressed in This ElectionRevolutionary Worker #1257, October 31, 2004, posted at http://rwor.org There is a big problem. Millions of people are looking at the U.S. presidential election as a crucial turning point in world events. And at the same time the workings of this system have worked coldly to stifle their voices and choices.
Tune into Air America's Mike Malloy show this Monday night (Election Eve) to hear 9/11 researcher Mike Ruppert, author of "Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil." According to Ruppert, VP Cheney and other government officials helped plan the 9/11 attacks--and Cheney played a pivotal role on the day of the attacks.
Guantanamo-style US torture-camp on UK colony Diego Garcia
Are we asking the right questions for the most perplexing problems?
"Imagine a school where every teacher is amazing, charismatic, knowledgeable and can address every student's needs.. All we have to do to attain the New American Dream is convince a majority to vote in its best interest.."
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See the numbers laid out in graph form, for the Senate and the House:
Forty-five senators and 186 representatives in 2003 earned 80- to 100-percent approval ratings from the nation's three most influential Christian right advocacy groups -- the Christian Coalition, Eagle Forum, and Family Resource Council. Many of those same lawmakers also got flunking grades -- less than 10 percent, on average -- from the League of Conservation Voters last year. We are not talking about a handful of fringe lawmakers who hold or are beholden to these beliefs. The 231 legislators (all but five of them Republicans) who received an average 80 percent approval rating or higher from the leading religious-right organizations make up more than 40 percent of the U.S. Congress. (The only Democrat to score 100 percent with the Christian Coalition was Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia....But the influence of theology, although less discussed, is no less significant. Inhofe, like DeLay, is a Christian Zionist. While the senator has not overtly expressed his religious views in his environmental committee, he has when speaking on other issues. In a Senate foreign-policy speech, Inhofe argued that the U.S. should ally itself unconditionally with Israel "because God said so." ....231 Christian right-backed legislators...cherished beliefs may lead to the most dangerous and destructive self-fulfilling prophecy of all time.
BEV HARRIS: "By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden location, a second set of votes is created; and this set of votes can be changed in a matter of seconds, so that it no longer matches the correct votes." Harris appeared before the California Voting Systems Panel (CVSP) on April 21, 2004, presenting a smoking gun Diebold internal memo proving the company had not corrected Diebold's Global Election Systems (GEMS) software flaws even though it had updated and upgraded the GEMS program. She also showed Democrat Howard Dean how to fraudulently alter the GEMS system on CNBC-TV. [SHE WAS DENIED U.S CORPORATE FASCIST MEDIA COVERAGE.] ...convened August 11, 2004 CVSP meeting, member Jim March formally requested a demonstration of the double set of books in GEMS; and while the short 3-minute demonstration had been scheduled, the panel refused to watch it and would not look at Harris' presentation. Curiously, the panel met privately afterwards with Diebold officials--but without informing the public...
Another local example of Republican antipathy to democracy
3m:45s online video of THE BELIEVERS marching and performing "NEW (R)EVOLUTION" for tens of thousands on stage and in the streets at the various peace march/rally concerts since the Iraq War. If you weren't there, you'll feel like you're there while watching "New (R)evolution!"
Using the same techniques he applies to the photos from the Cassini Saturn probe, a JPL photo expert at NASA examined pics of Bush's back from all three debates. The astonishing images of what were under the jacket are all revealed here. So are the President's lies.
Eugene Wild Oats is closing and injustice happening, help needed
Problems seem inevitable, not only because of the furious battles waged over the management of absentee ballots, provisional ballots, voter rolls and other bureaucratic arcana, but also because the new generation of electronic voting machines replacing the reviled old punchcards have been shown to be unreliable, unverifiable and alarmingly prone to malicious intervention.
"...the system is starting to break down before a single vote has been counted." "...one Associated Press poll found most voters assume voting will conclude with a legal battle. Two-thirds of Democrats and 56 per cent of Republicans expect to wake on Wednesday to find the race unresolved." ***About five million Americans have ALREADY had their voting rights stripped [by political crony 'purges' of voter rolls] in this way.***
My myth of Israel was shattered. Through such Jewish voices as Ralph Schoenman, Norman Finkelstein and Lenni Brenner, a whole new picture of the "homeland" was emerging. I read the "Hidden History of Zionism" by Schoenman and "The Holocaust Industry" by Norman Finkelstein. I began researching the writings of Lenni Brenner and attended a meeting at which he spoke. I listened to the lectures of the late Edward Said. I was learning that Zionism was a dangerous geo-political movement and the part that the Rothschilds had played in establishing the state of Israel. I was learning about the Rothschilds' unholy relationship with the Nazis. I was learning about the atrocities that were being perpetrated on the Palestinians. I wondered "How could people who had suffered so much turn around and do the same thing to the people who were living on that land?" I was questioning everything I had been taught. According to Lenni Brenner's book, Zionism in the Age of Dictators (Ch7) the Zionist party was the only other political party in Nazi Germany that enjoyed a measure of freedom, and could publish a newspaper. The reason: Zionists and Nazis had a common interest, making German Jews go to Palestine. (
http://www.marxists.de/middleeast/brenner/ch07.htm) Anyone who listens to the mainstream media thinks that Israel is a helpless country who has to be constantly on guard against terrorist threats. Through the effective use of "fear" and the virtual media blackout, people are kept in darkness. People have swallowed and choked on a veritable feast of lies. --- I watched a video called "Palestine is Still the Issue" by John Pilger. Why has this documentary never been shown on network television? --- I don't know why certain Jewish people would feel "chosen" and my question would be "chosen for what?"
As a progressive who has watched and feared government since Nixon, I have always stood by those right-wingers who support the 2nd Amendment! And now the time has come...
If this is how the Republicans want to live and the right-wing sheep of this nation want to follow their ruling elites blindly, then should this election be stolen or lost, the time will have come for the Left put succession bills in all states that are strongly Democratic.
local activist, anarchist and independent media producer raided and jailed
for immediate release: octber 30 10:00 pm est
It didn't sound like a hard question.
After George W. Bush delivered a tepidly received address to a convention of minority journalists, a Native American editor from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer asked, "What do you think tribal sovereignty means in the 21st century?"
Administration lawyers argue that only the Justice Department, not the voters, may sue to enforce provisions in the Help America Vote Act.
seriously?
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