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  • Another comment of American elections
    5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Interesting comment extract from Michael Moore’s site just after the elections. www.michaelmoore.com
    But, please, let us look to the numerous names of the soldiers died in Iraq just in the part of the American side -it is to say of the other one as so much more- as you will not find this list in several places online, that’s true! (below) ...
    (do not hold the time to try anymore translation today, forgive me;-) A.
    Friday, November 5th, 2004
    Dear Friends,
    Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. (…)

  • USA: the Republican island in the Democrat ocean
    5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    " Chers tous,
    J’ai traduit rapidement cet entretien parce qu’il me semblait, dans la formulation paradoxale et ironique de Toobin lui-même, dresser subtilement la question de la pertinence de la démocratie américaine de nos jours, divisée entre une majorité démocrate, mure, dépourvue de possibilité de révélation électorale, et une minorité républicaine, actuellement réactionnaire plus que conservatrice, renforcée en puissance permanente d’élire le pouvoir pour tous : ce qu’elle vient de (…)

  • Too many voting ’irregularities’ to be coincidence
    5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Right now there is no hard proof, but the circumstantial evidence is a mile high. Looking at all of these ’irregularities’ it’s hard to imagine how one could conclude that this election was clean.
    1. There were complaints in several states about the touchscreen voting machines not working properly.
    Roberta Harvey, 57, of Clearwater, Fla., said she had tried at least a half dozen times to select Kerry-Edwards when she voted Tuesday at Northwood Presbyterian Church.
    After 10 minutes (…)

  • Tucson Police use violence against marchers
    5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ARIZONA-USA
    Tucson Police use violence against marchers by Emrys Wednesday November 03, 2004 at 11:35 PM
    TPD arrests 6 and shoots marchers with pepper bullets
    Tucson Police reacted with unwarranted violence against protestors in Tucson for committing the crime of walking in the street. About 200 people joined the “Don’t just vote, take action” march organized by several activist groups in Tucson, spearheaded by the National Lawyers Guild.
    Police arrested a total of 6 people during (…)

  • Bush/Cheney ’04: "More votes than voters: Now THAT’S a mandate!"
    5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Look at page 23 on the voter returns for Franklin County, Ohio:
    – http://www.franklincountyohio.gov/boe/...
    Check out the presidential totals for precinct Gahana 1:
    The Libertarian: 13 Bush/Cheney: 6253 Kerry/Edwards: 1916 Constitutional Party: 10
    Now, check out the senatorial vote in that precinct:
    Republican: 2848 Democrat: 1259
    Did 4000 people vote for Bush/Cheney and just skip the senatorial vote?
    No. Check out the precinct voter count: 4346.
    An additional 4000 (…)

  • Kerry Won. Here are the Facts.
    5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kerry Won. Here are the Facts.
    Thursday, November 4, 2004
    Bush won Ohio by 136,483 votes. Typically in the United States, about 3 percent of votes cast are voided-known as “spoilage” in election jargon-because the ballots cast are inconclusive. Drawing on what happened in Florida and studies of elections past, Palast argues that if Ohio’s discarded ballots were counted, Kerry would have won the state. Today, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports there are a total of 247,672 votes not (…)

  • Outrage in Ohio:Angry residents storm State House in response 2 massive voter suppression & corrupt
    5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Outrage in Ohio: Angry residents storm State House in response to massive voter suppression and corruption
    by David Solnit
    November 3 - Toledo, Ohio Hundreds of angry Ohio residents marched through the streets of Columbus-Ohio’s Capital-this evening and stormed the Ohio State House, defying orders and arrest threats from Ohio State Troopers. "O-H-I-O ! suppressed democracy has got to go,"they chanted. After troopers pushed and scuffled with people, nearly a hundred people took over the (…)

  • Presidential Votes Miscast on E-Voting Machines Across the Country
    5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Voters from at least half a dozen states reported that touch-screen voting machines had incorrectly recorded their choices, including for president.
    Voters discovered the problems when checking the review screen at the end of the voting process. They found, to their surprise, that the machines indicated that they voted for one candidate when they had voted for another. When voters tried to correct the problem, the machine often made the same error several times. While in most cases the (…)

  • Interchangeable Figureheads. Selling the War on Terror
    4 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By LANCE SELFA
    The great open secret of American political stability is the way the two-party system works to insulate the ruling class from the consequences of its disastrous policies. When one party dedicated to carrying out the big business and imperial agenda falls out of favor with the voters, there’s always the other one, waiting in the wings with predictable policies, ready to take over. In this way, American voters get to "throw the bums out," while at the same time replacing them (…)

  • Election Reactions from Germany : "Our Values Systems are Separating"
    4 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George Bush has been re-elected. Leading German foreign policy experts tell SPIEGEL INTERNATIONAL what the outcome means for transatlantic relations.
    Even before Kerry’s Wednesday concession, politicians and thinkers in Germany were at work strategizing the future of foreign relations with the world’s only superpower.
    A number of serious issues divide Germany and the United States — from the go-it-alone attitude of incumbent President George W. Bush to the Iraq war to Washington’s (…)