November 26, 2004
November 13, 2004
Aftermath of the Election
There's a lot of very disturbing reports emerging from aftermath of the election. Unless someone has something to hide, there's absolutely no reason to not sign this petition. Let's dig up the facts, and find out if there's any legitimacy to all the different claims.
Why did Cuyahoga County, Ohio report 93,000 more votes than actual voters? This is just the tip of the iceberg, I've been told. There's some seriously weird stuff going on......
We do need better accountability.
How about Petition to Congress requesting an investigation into the Presidential Election of 2004?
http://www.petitiononline.com/uselect/petition.html
The American government has certainly spent a lot of money for seemingly useless investigations over the years. When it comes to confirming the legitimacy of democracy, we cannot afford to compromise on this sort of thing.
If you need more information on this situation, go to:
http://www.truthout.org
http://www.blackboxvoting.org
http://www.gregpalast.com
http://www.verifiedvoting.org
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
http://www.clevescene.com/issues/2004-11-10/news/feature_print.html
By all means, please write to your government officials or favorite newspaper to ask for better investigations of this situation.
November 7, 2004
House Dems Seek Election Inquiry
By Kim Zetter, Wired News
04:38 PM Nov. 05, 2004 PT
Three congressmen sent a letter to the General Accounting Office on Friday requesting an investigation into irregularities with voting machines used in Tuesday's elections.
The congressmen, Democratic members of the House of Representatives from Florida, New York and Michigan, cited a number of incidents that came to light in the days after the election. One was a glitch in Ohio that caused a memory card reader made by Danaher Controls to give George W. Bush 3,893 more votes than he should have received. Another was a problem with memory cards in North Carolina that caused machines made by UniLect to lose 4,500 votes cast on e-voting machines. The votes were lost when the number of votes cast on the machines exceeded the capacity of the memory cards.
There were also problems with machines that counted absentee ballots in Florida. Software made by Election Systems & Software began subtracting votes when totals surpassed 32,000. Officials said the problem affected only certain countywide races on one of the last pages of the ballot. Elections officials knew about the problem two years ago, but the company failed to fix the software before the election this year.
Reports from voters in Florida and Ohio also indicated that some of them had problems voting for the candidate of their choice. When they tried to vote for John Kerry, they said, the machine either wouldn't register the vote at all or would indicate on the review page that the vote was cast for Bush instead.
In their letter, representatives John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, Jerrold Nadler of New York and Robert Wexler of Florida asked the GAO to "immediately undertake an investigation of the efficacy of voting machines and new technologies used in the 2004 election, how election officials responded to difficulties they encountered and what we can do in the future to improve our election systems and administration."
READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE AT:
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65623,00.html
November 1, 2004
BinLaden Plan- Drive Bankruptcy of USA
Bin Laden Transcript Outlines Plan to Bankrupt U.S. Through War
Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden said he is trying to bankrupt the U.S. through its war on terror, a strategy he says felled the Soviet Union two decades ago in Afghanistan, according to a translation by al-Jazeera television of his full, videotaped statement.
``The mujahedeen recently forced Bush to resort to emergency funds to continue the fight in Afghanistan and Iraq, which is evidence of the success of the bleed-until-bankruptcy plan -- with Allah's permission,'' bin Laden said in the video that aired on the Qatar-based satellite network, according to the translation, posted today to al-Jazeera's Web site. The channel aired portions of the statement on Oct. 29.
President George W. Bush's administration plans to seek an additional $70 billion from lawmakers for Iraq and Afghanistan, the head of the U.S. Army Materiel Command, General Paul Kern, said on Oct. 26. The U.S. Congress last year approved $87 billion for military operations and rebuilding in the two countries.
READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE AT:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aQwY7PFwX6oI&refer=us
377 Tons of Missing Explosives? How About 250,000 Tons?
from MSNBC News / Associated Press, dated October 31, 2004:
“There is something truly absurd about focusing on 377 tons,” said Anthony Cordesman, a defense analyst and Iraq expert with the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. He contends Iraq’s prewar stockpiles “were probably in excess of 650,000 tons.”
Underscoring the depth of Iraq’s militarization before the March 2003 invasion, the Pentagon says U.S.-led forces have destroyed 240,000 tons of munitions and have secured another 160,000 tons that is awaiting destruction.
Through mid-September, coalition forces inspected and cleared more than 10,000 caches of weapons, U.S. arms hunter Charles Duelfer said in a recent report. But up to 250,000 tons remain unaccounted for, according to military estimates, much of it in small stashes scattered around the country.
“I caution that there is a lot that we probably don’t know about, because this was a country, as the inspectors acknowledged, that was awash in weapons,” Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita said Friday in Washington.
The 377 tons that Iraq says vanished from Al-Qaqaa sometime after the April 9, 2003 fall of Baghdad represents just “one 1,000th of the material that we are aware of,” Di Rita said.
READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE AT:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6376212/