On Election Day, 2004, election fraud was epidemic in Ohio (and throughout the nation). Would-be Democratic voters were impeded or disabled by the thousands,
especially (though not only) in the inner cities and in college towns.

Bush/Cheney’s drive to block the vote was particularly flagrant in Gambier, Ohio, home of Kenyon College. While student voters at nearby religious schools had quite an easy time of it, Kenyon’s students had to wait for hours and hours and hours. Those long lines sooned turned out to have been purposely created, through the deliberate under-supply of working e-voting machinery to the polling sites at Kenyon. (The same thing happened all throughout the state and nationwide.)

After the election, Kenyon students wrote up an account of what they went through on that day and very late into the night. It’s called The Longest Line. As it did not receive its due attention–and as we’re heading toward another presidential race–I offer it to you for download here.

MCM

Giuliani is a one-man mud-slide.

Here’s a fitting name for him: “Mayor Scumbag.”

MCM

“The contradictory and stunning reality is that Giuliani Partners,
the consulting company that has made Giuliani rich, feasts at the
Qatar trough, doing business with the ministry run by the very member
of the royal family identified in news and government reports as
having concealed Khalid Sheikh Muhammad-the terrorist mastermind who
wired funds from Qatar to his nephew Ramzi Yousef prior to the 1993
bombing of the World Trade Center, and who also sold the idea of a
plane attack on the towers to Osama bin Laden-on his Qatar farm in
the mid-1990s.”

Rudy’s Ties to a Terror Sheikh
Giuliani’s business contracts tie him to the man who let 9/11’s
mastermind escape the FBI
by Wayne Barrett
November 27th, 2007 3:39 PM

Three weeks after 9/11, when the roar of fighter jets still haunted
the city’s skyline, the emir of gas-rich Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin
Khalifah al-Thani, toured Ground Zero. Although a member of the
emir’s own royal family had harbored the man who would later be
identified as the mastermind of the attack-a man named Khalid Sheikh
Muhammad, often referred to in intelligence circles by his initials,
KSM-al-Thani rushed to New York in its aftermath, offering to make a
$3 million donation, principally to the families of its victims. Rudy
Giuliani, apparently unaware of what the FBI and CIA had long known
about Qatari links to Al Qaeda, appeared on CNN with al-Thani that
night and vouched for the emir when Larry King asked the mayor: “You
are a friend of his, are you not?”

“We had a very good meeting yesterday. Very good,” said Giuliani,
adding that he was “very, very grateful” for al-Thani’s generosity.
It was no cinch, of course, that Giuliani would take the money: A
week later, he famously rejected a $10 million donation from a Saudi
prince who advised America that it should “adopt a more balanced
stand toward the Palestinian cause.” (Giuliani continues to
congratulate himself for that snub on the campaign trail.) Al-Thani
waited a month before expressing essentially the same feelings when
he returned to New York for a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly
and stressed how important it was to “distinguish” between the
“phenomenon” of 9/11 and “the legitimate struggles” of the
Palestinians “to get rid of the yoke of illegitimate occupation and
subjugation.” Al-Thani then accused Israel of “state terrorism”
against the Palestinians.

Read more.

Lobby to Hide Cancer Dangers Has Government’s Helping Hand
By Michelle Chen, In These Times
Posted on November 19, 2007, Printed on November 29, 2007

Industry special interests are burying information on cancer-causing chemicals and, according to watchdog groups, the government is helping them do it — in the name of “data quality.”

In a study of the National Institutes of Health’s National Toxicology Program, OMB Watch, a
DC-based policy-research group, reports that industry is frustrating the work of government
researchers with petitions that are light on science but heavy with accusations of anti-business “bias.”

Public interest advocates warn that corporations are co-opting the federal Data Quality Act to
paralyze scientists with frivolous allegations of inaccuracy, driving a stealth assault on
public-health research.

Read more.

Friends,

Come hear Hannah Rosin speak this Tuesday night, about her book God’s Harvard.
It’s about Patrick Henry College, a college that trains youthful
theocrats for leadership,
cultural and political, throughout the nation.

MCM

First Tuesdays Series:
Hanna Rosin

Tuesday, Dec 4th – 7:00 PM

McNally Robinson Bookstore
52 Prince St.
New York, NY
212-274-1160

Author of God’s Harvard (Harcourt)

This monthly series hosted by author and activist Mark Crispin Miller
features authors whose books tackle political and public issues from
a stance outside the mainstream. Hanna Rosin’s book God’s Harvard is
an exploration of Patrick Henry College, a conservative Christian
college with a mission: to educate and train students to serve God
through “careers of public service and cultural influence.”

Patrick Henry boasts an impressive roster of students with the kind
of focus and ambition that could have gotten them admitted to Harvard
or Yale. Instead, they chose to attend Patrick Henry, where they are
trained to become the elite of the evangelical movement. Booklist has
called Rosin’s book “A captivating look at struggles within the
conservative movement,” while Newsweek writes that she approachs the
subject with “with compassion, avoiding the stereotyping that so
often characterizes books and articles about religious groups.” Join
us for an evening of discussion of a complex cultural, religious and
academic movement.

The permanent Republican majority: Daughter of jailed governor sees White House hand in her father’s fall
Larisa Alexandrovna
Published: Tuesday November 27, 2007

Part two of a Raw Story Investigates series on the architects and the execution of backroom Republican politics

In Part II of the RSI special investigation, The Permanent Republican Majority, the daughter of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman sits down for an exclusive interview about the family’s ordeal and her father’s case.

To fully understand what the Don Siegelman case is about, please see “Part I – The Political Prisoner” of this series.

Throughout a week of phone and email discussions, Ms. Siegelman spoke and wrote about her father’s conviction and imprisonment on bribery and conspiracy charges and about the continued harassment of the family and those around them. The family home was broken into. Her father’s attorney had his office ransacked. Even the key whistleblower in the case – Dana Jill Simpson – had her house burned down and her car run off the road.

She maintained throughout all of these communications that Karl Rove – the former White House Chief of Staff – helped engineer her father’s fate with the help of two judges and two US Attorneys.

Indeed, Republican attorney and whistleblower Simpson testified that Bush-appointed Federal Judge Mark Fuller, who presided over Siegelman’s trial, was selected in advance by Alabama Republican operatives working in concert with the US Justice Department. That department was then headed by Alberto Gonzales, who has recently resigned in disgrace.

Read more.

Read original post.

Anonymous said…

These figures are usually bogus. Remember how the Lancet’s figures were debunked. Also keep in mind: These casualty figures also usually include sectarian violence. Iraqi vs. Iraqi. These deaths are tragic as well, but you can’t put the blame on the U.S. soldiers.

10:28 PM

MCM said…

No-one ever actually debunked The Lancet’s figures. Pro-Bush flacks _impugned_ them through snide strokes of mere assertion (such as your claim that “these figures are usually bogus”).

Moreover, all those deaths are undeniably a consequence of the US invasion of Iraq, whoever’s done the killing in specific cases. You CAN, therefore, “put the blame” on Bush’s policy (unless your intellect’s been crippled by Bush/Cheney-worship).

1:48 PM

Anonymous said…

It was shown how the casualty figures were arrived at by doing a mini-survey of casualty reports from hospitals and then plugging in mathematical extrapolations that had no business being a part of this report. This is a casualty report, not a poll.

The people of Iraq no longer have Saddam murdering them by the truckload; unfortunately, some of the people took this as an opportunity to murder other people who don’t belong to their sect of Islam. That’s on them. It is not on Bush.

And if Saddam had been left in power, he would eventually go back to murdering his own people by the truckload. Would the left then find a way to blame Bush for that? I bet they would.

11:50 PM

MCM said…

“It was shown,” eh? By whom? The Pentagon? Your mom? The fact is that The Lancet’s estimate still stands; but it’s irrelevant to _this_ new figure of 1,000,000+ dead. You have no grounds for dismissing it, other than to say that “these figures are usually bogus.”

On the other hand, you argue that, although Iraqis _have_ been dying “by the truckload,” Bush is not responsible, although this is his war. (He and Cheney really cared about Iraq’s security after their invasion, eh?) Then you argue that Saddam Hussein would have murdered just as many.

Well, Saddam Hussein was monstrous——just as monstrous when the Reagan/Bush administrations armed and funded him as he was thereafter. But, bad as he was, his regime did not kill as many of his people as have died since Bush invaded.

Your posts are little quagmires of illogic and disinformation. One could spend hours trying to set the record straight. So I’ll now leave this conversation, and ignore your next post, brave Anonyous.

10:22 AM

Radioactive Ammunition Fired in Middle East May Claim More Lives Than Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Sherwood Ross
November 19, 2007

By firing radioactive ammunition, the U.S., U.K., and Israel may have triggered a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East that, over time, will prove deadlier than the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan.

So much ammunition containing depleted uranium(DU) has been fired, asserts nuclear authority Leuren Moret, “The genetic future of the Iraqi people for the most part, is destroyed.”

“More than ten times the amount of radiation released during atmospheric testing (of nuclear bombs) has been released from depleted uranium weaponry since 1991,” Moret writes, including radioactive ammunition fired by Israeli troops in Palestine.

Read more.

Does the name “Alan Hevesi” ring a bell?

MCM

Giuliani billed obscure agencies for trips
By: Ben Smith
November 29, 2007 07:43 AM EST

As New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons, according to previously undisclosed government records. The documents, obtained by Politico under New York’s Freedom of Information Law, show that the mayoral costs had nothing to do with the functions of the little-known city offices that defrayed his tabs, including agencies responsible
for regulating loft apartments, aiding the disabled and providing lawyers for indigent defendants.

At the time, the mayor’s office refused to explain the accounting to city auditors, citing “security.”

The Hamptons visits resulted in hotel, gas and other costs for Giuliani’s New York Police
Department security detail. Giuliani’s relationship with Nathan is old news now, and Giuliani regularly asks voters on the campaign trail to forgive his “mistakes.”

Read more.

At 2:32 AM, Anonymous said…

Before the 2002 gubernatorial elections, Bob Riley asked Choctaw Indian lobbyist Michael Scanlon who represented the casino-operating Choctaw Indians in Philadelphia, Miss., to funnel from the Choctaw Indians in return for helping him get elected governor over Don Siegelman and if he was elected he would kill any hopes of Alabama getting a state lottery and block the Alabama Poarch Indians from getting a class 3 gambling license. Scanlon was to see that the money was laundered before the 2002 election through the Republican Governors Association, the Alabama Republican Party and to the Business Council of Alabama.. Scanlon had an interest in the 2002 Alabama elections, where Riley faced Democratic Gov. Don Siegelman, because Siegelman was advocating a state lottery, which could have attracted customers away from the Choctaws’ two casinos in Philadelphia, Miss.
In 2002, Scanlon funneled the following amounts of Choctaw money to help Riley’s election campaign:

(1) Scanlon funneled $500,000 in October 2002 to the Republican Governors Association, which soon after transferred the money to a related Republican committee, which in turn donated $650,000 to Riley and $150,000 to the Alabama Republican Party the same month.

(2) Scanlon funneled $100,000 to four Alabama-based political action committees controlled by Montgomery lobbyists Joe Fine and Bob Geddie that contributed heavily to Riley’s campaign.

(2) Scanlon funneled $9,000 plus later another undetermined amount to Progress PAC, the fundraising arm of the Business Council of Alabama, which also contributed heavily to Riley.

(3) Scanlon’ also funneled $75,000 to “Riley” through the National Republican Congressional Committee, $50,000 to the NRCC, and the NRCC gave Riley $360,000.

In late 2001 Scanlon had paid $155,000, for the Choctaw Indians, to the public relations firm of Lunde and Burger for professional campaign services in Alabama which was used to defeat the lottery and gambling in Alabama while Siegelman was governor.

Friends,

Here is an amazing two-part exposé of the real reason why Don Siegelman
is in the slammer. (Kudos to Raw Story and its
ace reporter, Larisa Alexandrovna.)

He’s there because he dared to question the suspicious “win” whereby Bob Riley,
his Republican opponent, seemingly replaced him as the governor of Alabama:

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/The_Permanent_Republican_Majority_1125.html

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/The_permanent_Republican_majority_Daughter_of_1127.html

The piece includes an interview with Don’s daughter Dana. Here’s a bit of it:

RS: But something changed overnight, is that correct?

DS: Well, the next morning, November 6th, my
dad’s opponent, Bob Riley, came on Alabama
statewide television announcing that he had won,
and that there had been an error with the ballots
in Baldwin County. How he had news of this and my
dad, the governor, did not, is beyond me.

RS: How close was the election?

DS: Close enough for there to be skepticism with Bob Riley’s proclamation.

RS: So your father wanted a recount?

DS: My dad wanted a recount because it was
blatantly obvious that the ballots had been
tampered with.

RS: Blatantly obvious?

DS: They announced that my dad was the winner
when there were enough votes accounted to
accurately state that. For new votes to
mysteriously appear the next morning, it seems
clear that they had been tampered with one way or
another.

RS: Have you heard of a man by the name of Dan Gans?

DS: I don’t know of Dan Gans, but I do know that
someone, or some people, are to blame. Baldwin
County had always voted predominantly Democrat.
For them to suddenly change their mind, in the
percentage that was shown, is nearly impossible.
Specialists have analyzed this election, and all
of them have come to the same conclusion: The
ballots were forged in the middle of the night.

PLEASE READ AND CIRCULATE BOTH ARTICLES.

AND LET US ASK (AGAIN): “WHERE ARE THE DEMOCRATS?”

MCM