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“Election-Tampering By Diebold” Rides Again Posted 22 Jul 2008 under General
Yet another story has surfaced about Diebold engaging in cyber-tampering with election results. This one relates to the 2002 Georgia elections, which produces these two striking surprises: Some critics of electronic voting raised questions about the 2002 Georgia race even at the time. Incumbent Democratic Sen. Max Cleland, who was five percentage points ahead of Republican [...]
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The State Department’s Latest Embarrassing Scandal Posted 24 Jun 2008 under Bush Man Date, Corruption, Rice
It’s interesting how scandal after scandal has erupted in the State Department, many of them pointing to systematic mismanagement, but Condi Rice has consistently avoided any measure of accountability or blame. The most egregious of these was probably the State Department’s longstanding role as Blackwater USA’s dedicated enabler and cover-upper—from trying to dismiss and whitewash mass [...]
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Hank Paulson: Wrong About Everything, All the Time Posted 14 Mar 2008 under Economy, Hank Paulson
Paulson: No Big Bailout Needed - Wall Street Journal (2/19/08): Following the U.K.’s surprise move to nationalize mortgage lender Northern Rock, will the U.S. need to make similar moves? “Absolutely not,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told CNBC, dismissing talk that the Bush administration needs to initiate a widespread bailout program to assist the financial industry and [...]
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The Battle Over MI and FL Posted 10 Mar 2008 under 2008 Presidential, Hillary, Obama Uber Alles
And so I, like many other people, carry around in my head the unquestioned belief that the Clintons “will use every trick in the book –- overhanded, evenhanded and underhanded –- to try to wrest the nomination from Obama.”
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Worst PR Statement Ever? Posted 12 Oct 2007 under Bush Man Date, Corruption, Iraq War
Here’s what Blackwater USA spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell was reacting to: A US rights group announced Thursday it was filing a lawsuit against private security contractor Blackwater on behalf of a survivor and the families of three victims of a deadly September 16 shootout in Baghdad. The suit in a Washington federal court accuses Blackwater of murder and [...]
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The Moral Bankruptcy Of The State Department Posted 02 Oct 2007 under Bush Man Date, Corruption, Iraq War, Rice
Under Condoleeza Rice, Ph.D. (even if that degree is only from the University of Denver, a lesser institution of higher learning), the State Department has probably established itself as the high-water-mark for moral bankruptcy, exceeding even the mark previously set by Ken Lay’s Enron. The Prince of Blackness, aka Erik Prince, the “multi-millionaire right-wing fundamentalist Christian [...]
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The First-Blush State Department Blackwater Report Posted 28 Sep 2007 under Bush Man Date, Iraq War
WaPo has details: According to the report, the sequence of events leading up to the shooting began at 11:53 a.m., when a car bomb exploded 25 yards outside of the Izdihar financial compound, just over a mile northwest of the Green Zone. One principal was inside, accompanied by a Blackwater personal security detail identified as Team [...]
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Rappers Goin’ Broke Tryin to Keep Up With Me Posted 21 Aug 2007 under Bush Man Date, Economy
“It’s nine five, i survive, hard shit is still real You know sex, money, drugs, death, the whole ordeal Murderers to kill, Alizé makes me ill Jump in my rocket to the moon, spark an L and just chill I got to own stocks and bonds, kid, just because i want ‘em And million dollar bidnesses with Darkman written on [...]
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Jumping For Joy Posted 06 Mar 2007 under Podium Spin, War on Terror
Are you one of the millions of Americans who had been worrying about the Bush regime’s controversial surveillance programs? The NSA’s domestic surveillance program, for example, the one that was warrantless for so long (because only that way could The Homeland be protected) before they claimed they had stopped living in sin and made [...]
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What Did They Expect Posted 30 Nov 2006 under Bush Man Date, War on Terror
This is why I have lost all patience with the morons who think Republicans are better at “keeping us safe:” U.S. warns of possible Qaeda financial cyber attack The U.S. government has warned U.S. private financial services of an al Qaeda call for a cyber attack against U.S. online stock trading and banking Web sites beginning Friday, [...]
