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Voter Perceptions and Political Deceptions: Federal, Ohio and Knox

This is a summary of the perceptions and deceptions I formed an opinion on during the 2004 election.

The federal HAVA Act of 2002 was Chaired/promoted by Ohio Rep Dist 18 Bob Ney to fix the 2000 election problems. But, the wording about verification of voting opened the door for more election fraud.  This is the root cause of the voting machine controversy.

Perception is, counting of votes, as stated in Title III Sec 301 can be trusted with auditing.

Deception is, secret counting is allowed by software written by someone politically biased.

Open Letter In Regards to "Justice Sunday"

The unholy alliance between the corporatists and religious fundamentalists, the "Talibankers," is beginning its final naked play for complete control of the mechanisms of government by pursuing the GOP strategy of imposing the "nuclear option" against minority voices in the Senate. This change would end the use of the filibuster in Senate debates on judicial nominees. Of course, a blitzkrieg of disinformation is being spread about what this means, but anyone devoted to intellectual honesty knows that this radical and unwarranted act is hypocrisy. It is pandering to power over principle (After all, the Senate has approved over 95% of the judgeship nominees made by Bush, a far greater percentage than Clinton nominees approved by the GOP in the 90's. And these handful being rejected are not on religious grounds, but due to their extreme inclination to side with corporations against the interests of America's working class).

Leading this propaganda assault is our homegrown Taliban with their "Justice Sunday" (Just Us Sunday?) event on April 24th, being used to declare their jihad against the Constitution. This event features Senate

Howard Dean Becomes Leader of the Other Pro-War Party; Dean on Iraq: “We're There and We Can't Get Out”

It didn't take long, the former anti-war presidential candidate has now become the pro-occupation leader of the Democratic Party. Just when a majority of the public is saying the Iraq War is not worth it, Howard Dean the new leader of the Democratic Party is saying: “Now that we're there, we're there and we can't get out.”

Like the good partisan he is Dean blames Bush for a war most in his party voted for and an occupation that most in his party recently voted to continue to fund. Of the President Dean said: “The president has created an enormous security problem for the United States where none existed before. But I hope the president is incredibly successful with his policy now that he's there.”

Chairman Dean does not seem to understand that the illegal occupation of Iraq is part of the problem, not part of the solution. In fact, the many fears he expresses regarding pulling out of Iraq are made more likely by the US occupation of Iraq.

Wal-Mart's Free Market Fallacy

Conservatives run around singing the praises of Wal-Mart, proclaiming it an American success story. None other than Dick Cheney calls the Beast of Bentonville his favorite company. But what I love about Wal-Mart is the way the company highlights the phoniness of two centerpieces of the conservative movement’s sloganeering propaganda: the so- called “free market” and “local control.”

In the mythical world of the free market—for which Wal-Mart supposedly serves as a shining example—prices for goods and labor should rise and fall based on the magic of the “invisible hand” of market supply and demand. In the nirvana of the so-called free market, workers can sell themselves for whatever the market can bear.

So let me introduce you to a place called China. Wal-Mart—in its never-ending quest to promote its heartland, Arkansan family values—is a willing customer of the Chinese labor system, where people work 12- to 18-hour days, earn meager wages and have no days of rest—all for the honor of laboring inside factories full of chemical toxins and hazardous machines, leading to sickness and death at the highest rates

Are We "Ugly Americans"?

Somebody please tell Karl Rove to quit holding up the applause sign.    The minions he manipulates are cheering for an America that does not exist.     The abstract concept of America, and its embodiment of liberties and human rights, is a fiction.     Norman Rockwell's portrayal of America was an idealistic perversion of a landscape, that for many, has been littered with oppression, bigotry, greed, torture and even murder.   Goya's brutal "Duel With Cudgels" would come closer to capturing the essence of the underlying mean-spiritedness of this nation that the Bush administration is working so hard to revitalize.    Yes, there is a dark, brutish aspect to this self-proclaimed beacon of freedom and liberty, and I am going to delve into it.    Read on if you dare to take an introspective look at the darker aspects of our national identity.

Radio Havana Interviews Chomsky

Telephone interview by Bernie Dwyer for www.cubadebate.cu with Professor Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 28th August 2003.

[Bernie Dwyer] A couple of new popular books have recently been published such as Weapons of Mass Deception and Stupid White Men. Do you see them as a viable alternative to the corporate media?

[Noam Chomsky] No, they are not trying to be an alternative to the corporate media. They are just books among the many books written about the way the corporate media function and there is by now, in the United States, more than any other western country that I know, a rather significant popular movement concerned with the corporate media, which is virtually all the media within the United States, and the way they function as a kind of propaganda system.

There is also a lot of popular protest against efforts to increase the concentration of the media in fewer and fewer hands so as to prevent even the limited diversity that exists. The books that you mention are just two of the many. The books themselves, the critical literature

Videos expose false arrests at 2004 Republican Convention protests in New York

Seven months after the mass arrests of over 1,800 protesters at the Republican Convention in New York City last summer, 91 percent of the nearly 1,700 cases that have been concluded have resulted in acquittals or the dismissal of charges. Four hundred cases were dismissed after video recordings made by volunteer observers and others showed that there was no reason for the arrests, the New York Times reported last week. Some of the videos also exposed false testimony by the police.

In the case of Dennis Kyne, arrested on the steps of the New York Public Library last August, police officer Matthew Wohl testified at trial last December that “we picked him up and we carried him while he squirmed and screamed. I had one of his legs because he was kicking and refusing to walk on his own.”

Global Economic Collapse

The coming global economic collapse will turn America into third world "basket-case" economic status as a nation when it arrives. Even now, its economic infrastructure is being largely gutted and outsourced to other nations such as China.

Down will come the US Dollar, up shall come the European Euro, the new international currency. A shift in geo-political power to democratic/socialist Europe will, in turn, follow. Europe will become the new global superpower and eventual center for world government after the fallout of America's Crash into the dust-bin of history.

In 2005, British Prime Minister Tony Blair stated that the euro will become the world's premiere currency by 2012 at the latest. The US dollar has been plunging in value against the euro for years. The globalists now have America right where they want it, and are eagerly moving in for the kill.

The collapse of the US dollar will reduce America to a level of chaos, poverty and deprivation Americans are woefully unprepared for. It will be a period of tremendous hardship and economic deprivation. The trucks will no longer be

John Bolton & the Battle for Reality

The John Bolton nomination battle is one of those rare moments when a window has opened onto how the U.S. public was rushed into war with Iraq and, in a larger sense, how conservatives seized control over the flow of information that shapes policy.

Bolton may be – as former State Department intelligence chief Carl Ford Jr. said – “a quintessential kiss-up, kick-down kind of guy” who bullies those below him who come up with inconvenient facts. But Bolton’s abusive tendencies are not just a personality flaw; they are part of a broader political strategy.

Since his early days as a protégé of Sen. Jesse Helms, Bolton was part of a new aggressive breed of conservatives, who came of age during the Vietnam War and who thus understand the importance of keeping a lid on public dissent.

In practical terms, that means influencing or controlling what the public perceives as reality, often exaggerating threats to stampede the people in a desired direction. That need to manage information, in turn, requires discrediting individuals who can effectively challenge the factual constraints….

Activists Spur Historic Call to Exit Iraq

This past weekend, at the California State Democratic Party Convention in Los Angeles, the largest gathering of state-party Democrats in the nation, activists with Progressive Democrats of America led by PDA Executive Director Tim Carpenter successfully lobbied 2,000 delegates to pass a resolution calling for the termination of the occupation of Iraq. The resolution included specific language demanding the withdrawal of American troops from that country. "The California Democratic Party," reads the resolution in part, "calls for the termination of the occupation…of American troops in Iraq."

This victory is a powerful statement not only to the national Democratic Party but to the Republican administration and the majority in Congress.

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