We have lacked a flexible power-projection capability that leverages the advantages of space and space flight-programs like space-based laser and the space plane. A space-based laser will someday provide precision strike at the speed of light. It could potentially engage not only targets in space, but also targets in the air, on the ground, and on the sea. But we're not spending the dollars that we need to spend on that program. We kneel at the altar of the [Anti-Ballistic Missile] treaty, in spite of the fact that we know that the ABM treaty is restricting our ability to do what we need [sic] to do.GW (In other words, the ABM and Outer Space treaties prevent the US using space as a gunnery platform for global military rule.)
Issuance
of Navy manual NAVMED P-6410
Performance Maintenance During Continuous Flight Operations
explaining how to use chemicals to keep pilots flying.
PDF
(A continuation of
Nazi research.)
It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.[S citing Reuters]
If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.S
This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.(On Perseverance Month.) [S citing LA Times]
When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them and it was clear who them was. Today we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there.S
Indian Point 2
vents radioactive steam when an aging steam generator ruptures.
NRC initially reports that no radioactive material was released,
but later changes their report to say that there was a leak insufficient
to threaten public safety.
L
`These 3 nuclear [reactors] have accumulated 65 years' worth of stockpiled
highly radioactive waste, which is quite vulnerably stored. Then factor in
the proximity of Indian Pt. to NYC. It is only 24 mi north
of the NYC border. Indian Pt. is surrounded by the densest concentration
of population in the US, the northeast corridor.'
It is a very nice target for those bent on murdering the infidel American
dogs en masse; but 9/11 will be done by people
keen to get the US into one last big war for the brass ring of global
domination and covering up its pending economic collapse.
MCWR
Psy-ops personnel, soldiers and officers, have been working in CNN's headquarters in Atlanta through our program,An outraged phonecall from CNN over the revelation eventually ends up confirming it. Abe de Vries:Training with Industry.They worked as regular employees of CNN. Conceivably, they would have worked on stories during the Kosovo war. They helped in the production of news.
The facts are that the US Army, US Special Operations Command and CNN personnel confirmed to me that military personnel have been involved in news production at CNN's newsdesks. I found it simply astonishing. Of course CNN says these psyops personnel didn't decide anything, write news reports, etcetera. What else can they say. Maybe it's true, maybe not. The point is that these kind of close ties with the army are, in my view, completely unacceptable for any serious news organization. Maybe even more astonishing is the complete silence about the story from the big media. To my knowledge, my story was not mentioned by leading American or British newspapers, nor by Reuters or AP.And Christiane Amanpour is wife of State Dep't spokesman James Rubin. [LF quoting CP citing de Vries Trouw Feb 21] FAIR They were also at NPR. PC · WSWS
The senator has got to understand if he's going to have—he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road.S
Bettie Lou Beets, 62-a-old greatgrandmother texecuted (GWB victim #121).
She had said `the state of Texas will pick up where my husband left off. While
the Texas law enforcement out there did nothing to help me, it is now legal
for them to finish the job.'
I911
After he had failed a reporter's pop quiz last fall about foreign leaders, including the name of the Indian prime minister, Mr. Bush winced today when a moderator mentioned the words `pop quiz.' Jokingly, Mr. Bush dared the moderator to ask him the name of the Indian president. `Do you know who the president of India is?' the moderator asked obligingly. `Vajpayee,' Mr. Bush said, grinning and looking pleased with himself. But Atal Behari Vajpayee is the prime minister of India; the president is K. R. Narayanan. [T quoting New York Times Feb 26]
Hans Blix assumes post of executive chairman of UNMOVIC. BG
Blum warns of how the media will make anything that smacks ofconspiracy theoryan immediateobject of ridicule.This prevents the media from ever having to investigate the many strange interconnections among the ruling class—for example, the relationship between the boards of directors of media giants, and the energy, banking and defense industries. These unmentionable topics are usually treated with what Blum callsthe media's most effective tool—silence.But in case somebody's asking questions, all you have to do is say,conspiracy theory,and any allegation instantly becomes too frivolous to merit serious attention. OLJ
I cannot imagine any responsible citizen objecting to giving his name.RJ
The swing voters—I like to refer to them as the idiot voters because they don't have set philosophical principles. You're either a liberal or you're a conservative if you have an IQ above a toaster.[PS citing IM]
arithmeticquestion:
Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.That strikes me as d@mn useful. I wasn't taught that in school, 20 years ago. And it seems most weren't, because the university registrar had a big poster on the wall explaining how to fill in a cheque.
District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?Do you know how many people today can't figure out how property taxing works? There are municipal councillors in this province who have a hard time with it. Yet it was part of the 8th-grade curriculum (of Kansas). I wasn't taught anything useful about the municipal/provincial/federal structure of my government and what each level did. Why not? Even superintendent Gary Norris admits that the standards have been lowered—
—and that the point is to produce good little workers that won't overthrow their masters (as Vidal put it)—it wasn't designed for the whole population…graduation rate is closer to 75-80% now.
Our tests are gearing young people toward the world of work.)
In my experience over the past 30 years, every Whitehouse—save one [Ford's]—has on occasion willfully misled or lied to the press.[via Auletta
Fortree BushNew Yorker 2004 Jan 19 p64]
The commercial press, in another of its brazen hypocritical proclamations, points with pride to the fact that it is free because it upholds a free system in which there are two political parties. But there is probably not one member of the American Newspaper Publishers Association who does not know that the Republican and Democratic parties both feed out of the same bag provided by the monied system, and that the same persons frequently subscribe funds to both major parties. They know this very well, and they also know very well that the press has never given honest news coverage to the formation, platform and campaign of any third party which was independent enough not to feed on the same money. FWR(The "front-page" Amazon reviews, 2003 Oct 29, are 5, 5, 5, 5, 2, and 1-star. The 2- and 1-star reviews are critical not of the idea, but the evidence.
I do think that the US political system has many characteristics of a fascist state…I was disappointed by this book because the author uses too many anecdotal and unprovable stories
I am profoundly sympathetic to the main thesis of this book…this allegedObDisc: Of course there umpteen kinds of self-selection bias in this.)writerrelies too much upon mere juxtaposition and unsubstantiated conjecture
Jul:
Barak's `generous offer' to Arafat. This is never explicitly set to paper, and
thus very hard to evaluate, but it appears to involve a usage of `generous' not
found in reputable dictionaries.
YT
In the `Temporary Control' concept, Israel would occupy for an indefinite period 10% of `sovereign' Palestine—including the entire west bank of Jordan and Dead Sea, leaving Palestine completely surrounded by Israel. Various Israeli `panhandles' would considerably inflate the distances between Palestinian population centres. GS · FMEP `It is hard to imagine the Palestinians accepting such a state. Certainly no other nation in the world has such curtailed sovereignty.' [EI citing `The Impossible Partition' NY Times 2001 Jan 11] `If peace is to be achieved, the parties cannot afford to tolerate the growing acceptance of these myths as reality.' [EI citing `Fictions About the Failure At Camp David' NY Times 2001 Jul 8 by Clinton's special assistant for Arab-Israeli affairs Robert Malley]
AIDS summitbetween orthodoxy and dissent. South Africa defies the embargo on anti-HIV thinking and sets out to conduct 10 experiments testing the HIV theory. RAIDS (It is instructive to compare RAIDS and Farber's versions with Reuters' and VV. They can't even agree on how many were appointed to the committee. The RAIDS article is datelined June but is internally dated between the Pretoria and Durban conferences.) The Durban
Showdownwas rigged against the heterodox, too.
The whole idea of a confrontation between AIDS rethinkers and AIDS hardliners was just one of many dismaying media misrepresentations. Had journalists promoting notions of massive battles or throngs of protestors done their homework, they would have quickly discovered that our organization was the only official presence at the conference representing alternative views, and that just one of the "dissident" members of President Thabo Mbeki's AIDS Advisory Panel, Dr. Charles Geshekter, was registered as a conference delegate. Instead, reporters misled the public and missed the real story: [I], my husband, and one volunteer took on the entire global AIDS establishment armed with only smiles and facts…[We were told, over and over again, that people had never heard of this before, never had had a chance to see this before, and we were greeted most enthusiastically by a variety of people]…I found that much noteworthy news from the conference went unmentioned…for example…protesters carrying signs that warned
One Dissident, One Bullet…unanimous media silence followed a colorful rally of traditional African healers who use affordable, natural therapies for AIDS, and no press reported their exclusion from official participation in the conference…The most disturbing and blatantly incorrect of the accounts coming from the conference had to be the international news stories of booing crowds and a walk-out during President Mbeki's opening address when we witnessed an attentive, respectful audience during his speech and that his remarks inspired a standing ovation… [(Tho I must admit wondering whether she witnessed that directly, given her earlier statements.)]
We discovered that the media [are] also remiss in [their] portrayal of Nkosi Johnson, the 11 year-old HIV-positive AIDS activist who spoke on behalf of drug therapies at the opening ceremony…During an interview filmed by Robin, Nkosi told me that contrary to official statements, he has been on toxic AIDS drugs for eight years and has become ill while taking them… AAW
Geoffrey Sturchio, executive director of public affairs for Merck Sharpe and Dome admitted funding the controversial ACTUP to demonstrate at the stall of rival Boehringer Ingelheim. The admission came after ACT-UP staged a demonstration at BI and after a vocal altercation with conference organisers…[conference chair] Prof Jerry Coovadia refused ACT-UP San Francisco—one of several ACT-UP chapters who oppose AIDS drug treatments—permission to attend, saying they were disruptive and aggressive. AAW
So when the President was here on July 4, I had the opportunity to shake his hand. I wasn't sure if that was a good idea or not but I did it anyway, and said to him, "Mr. President, I hope you only serve four years. I'm very disappointed in your work so far."(W is big on controlling the media. Recall he cut off Newsweek when they called Daddy a wimp.)He kept smiling and shaking my hand but answered, "who cares what you think?" His face stayed photo-op perfect but his eyes gave me a look that said, if we'd been drinking in some frathouse in Texas, he'd've happily answered, "let's take it outside." A nasty little gleam. But he was (fortunately) constrained by Presidential propriety.
But that was the end of it, until I turned away and started scribbling the quote down in my notepad, so as to remember The Gift forever. When he saw me do that he got excited and craned his neck over the rubberneckers to shout at me, "who are you with? Who are you with?" [Bill Hangley Jr.]
Russert: Right now there's legislation which says that a woman on death row, if she's pregnant, she should not be executed. Do you support that?
Gore: I don't know what you're talking about.
Russert: It's a federal statute on the books that if a woman is pregnant and she's on death row, she should not be executed.
Gore: Well, I don't know what the circumstances would be in that situation. I would—you know, it's an interesting fact situation. I'd want to think— GG
In 2000, the Kansas school board briefly removed Darwinian evolution from the state's science standards and tests, while similar campaigns have been pushed in over 20 states, says People for the American Way. Last spring, two Republican congressmen from Ohio, John Boehner and Steve Chabot, pressured their state's school board unsuccessfully to introduce creationism disguised as(Remove the beam from thine eye. The Lord is not going to bend His design to accomodate the idiocy of those who refuse to see its manifest rules and adapt to them. Ignore the divine laws of Nature, and ye shall expire and His creation purge itself of your kind. He may be merciful and forgiving…but His patience weareth thin.) (I don't know if I beleive in an Architect or not. I do believe that those who do yet refuse to read the laws said Architect wrote in the immutable, inviolable, and inescapable Book of Nature are fools, hypocrites, and blashpehemers of the first magnitude.) (Wish I could remember when and in which State pi was legislated to be 3 so as to make it easier to learn.)intelligent designinto school curricula.Should efforts to de-emphasize the teaching of evolutionary theory actually succeed, one wonders how we could hope to confront tough environmental problems. How, for instance, could we train scientists to fight the virulent new strains of bacteria that have evolved resistance to potent antibiotics? Or, another example: In his book The Beak of the Finch, science journalist Jonathan Weiner tells how the US cotton industry is threatened with collapse because of Heliothis virescens, a moth that has evolved total resistance to all pesticides.
Frustrated entomologist Martin Taylor notes the irony of the equivalence between the Southern Cotton Belt and Bible Belt.
It's amazing,Taylor notes,that cotton growers are having to deal with these pests in the very states whose legislatures are so hostile to the theory of evolution. Because it is evolution itself they are struggling against in their fields every season. These people are trying to ban the teaching of evolution while their own cotton crops are failing because of evolution. How can you be a creationist farmer anymore?HA
The street price of heroin and cocaine is less than one-fourth of what it was in 1981. The purity of heroin available on the street has increased more than fourfold since 1981. Incarceration for drug arrests has risen tenfold since 1981. The number of drug-overdose deaths has increased more than fivefold since 1981. The proportion of high school seniors reporting that drugs are readily available has doubled since 1981. This is not victory. This is failure. AMPP(Did he miss the point? It's interesting he references from the start of Bush's shadow presidency, not Clinton's)
The big elephant sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job…What's his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?[PS citing S] (
no longer!?)
Spies, Lies, and Secret Weaponsattributes it to a torpedo as well, but a rocket-propelled Shkval.)
We need to stop the exquisite sex and wholesome violence that underscore our children.S
A secret blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001.[RMN and CD mirroring SH Scotland Sunday Herald 2002 Sep 14] see PNAC for the PDF or NZS for a lighter HTML version. `The report was drafted for Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush, Paul Wolfowitz, and Lewis Libby, then Cheney's chief of staff, before the 2000 elections. Today, Cheney is Vice-President; Wolfowitz is Deputy Sec'y of Defence to Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defence. The invasion of Iraq, and control of the Arab Gulf region, is clearly defined as a central strategy in the report.' NZS · NZSThe blueprint, uncovered by the Sunday Herald, for the creation of a 'global Pax Americana' was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice-president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), George W Bush's younger brother Jeb and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The document, entitled Rebuilding America's Defences: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century, was written in September 2000 by the neo-conservative think-tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC).
The plan shows Bush's cabinet intended to take military control of the Gulf region whether or not Saddam Hussein was in power. It says: 'The US has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.' The PNAC document supports a 'blueprint for maintaining global US pre-eminence, precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests'.
In general, life has relaxed a bit since the initial onslaught of the Taliban. One NGO worker explained that the Taliban officer in charge of `Prevention of Vice' forces and responsible for the worst excesses of the Taliban's restrictions in Kabul had been sacked for watching pornographic videos in his office. In contrast to just a few years ago, young boys and girls play together in playgrounds, boys fly kites, and men play volleyball and soccer in parks. I watched teenage and younger girls march around a city block in Ghazni playing drums, something not imaginable in countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Yemen. One Afghan man explained, `Girls are children, too.' CSF(I'm coming to think the Taleban weren't nearly so universally evil as the US mass media have taught us to believe. Now, certainly things weren't what we'd think of as ideal; however, we mustn't forget the Afghan economy had been in the toilet ±20 a. And we mustn't forget who's to thank for that—see '79 Jul 3. And if you follow Chomskyite interpretations of US foreign policy, improving living standards themselves are a reason for US hostility.)
This is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is coming.[S citing NY Times]
ive the man a break! If you drank as much booze as him, and snorted as much coke, you wouldn't remember when you stopped either! Or if you have!S
That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired.S
More and more of our imports come from overseas.S
The Sharon visit did not cause the `Al-Aqsa Intifada.' But it was poorly timed and the provocative effect should have been foreseen; indeed it was foreseen by those who urged that the visit be prohibited. More significant were the events that followed: the decision of the Israeli police on Sep 29 to use lethal means against the Palestinian demonstrators; and the subsequent failure, as noted above, of either party to exercise restraint.(I believe Sharon knew exactly what the effect would be.)
Abraham The Dirty Truth: the oil and chemical dependency of GWB
The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!S
I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question.S
settlersclub, axe, and burn a Palestinian farmer in a
reënactment of Krystallnacht.TN
There needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.S
`Current analysis is that the USS Cole was attacked in
a false flag
operation designed to drag America into the current Middle
East conflict, firmly in the side of Israel…There was no rubber boat
and there were no militant Arabs present…The pattern of the damage,
and microscopic fragments recovered from the engine room and its environs,
suggest the USS Cole was struck by a television-guided Rafael
Popeye 2' possibly with a 10-t mininuke warhead.
[LF
mirroring readably
JV]
[JV
quoting
WF
although no `official' source for Popeye story]
(For precedent, see attack on Liberty.)
Kyoto supporter, leading opponent of Ashcroft's pro asbestos bill. Even dead, Carnahan still collected enough votes to defeat Ashcroft in the senate race.MP
If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders.(I've just put in a whole run of these Dubyisms, and in most you can see what was in his
mind.But, just how the h@ll do ERs and gag orders go together?)
Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know it.CB
If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.S
There is madmen in the world, and there are terror.S
involved in an abortion in Texasin '71. CNN buries the story. [D citing BC, AP]
Pentagon emergency drill around airliner crashing into Pentagon.
CR
citing
Army
after we go out and work our hearts out, after you go out and help us turn out the vote, after we've convinced the good Americans to vote, and while they're at it, pull that old George W. lever, if I'm the one, when I put my hand on the Bible, when I put my hand on the Bible, that day when they swear us in, when I put my hand on the Bible, I will swear to not—to uphold the laws of the land.S
This becomes a widely disseminated theory.
This guy
doesn't buy it, but I don't find his arguments convincing. It seems based on
the idea that Iraq acting alone in switching to euros is supposed to be enough
to wreck the dollar. But the article doesn't claim that. The article adopts
the setting an example
idea that's used against Cuba. (Cuba is not
in itself a threat to the US. But the example it would set to Latin America, of
succeeding in and after shrugging off the US yoke, was a threat to the
US which had to be crushed swiftly. This is the true form of the infamous
domino theory.
)
He talks about Iraq's switch to euros as if it had not happened, and wouldn't
affect the US if it had. But the article claims Iraq had already made major
moves to the euro, and though it didn't kill the dollar in itself (obviously),
Iraq gained by the move—and other oil-bearing countries
would note that. Regardless of the grudges they may bear against the US, if
switching might be selfishly beneficial, why not do it?
And if Iraq made a success of selling oil in euros, so much greater the
threatening example. If a big US supplier like Venezuela kicked over the greenback traces, I'm convinced that would be a big risk to the
dollar; suddenly the US would have to have a ready supply of money which
it's not allowed to print.
His claim that such a move would just hurt other OPEC countries doesn't wash. Why not switch to euros too (unless the US prohibits it)? Why couldn't they change their reserves same as everyone else?
He has a couple of things right: exporters, including the EU and especially Japan and the rest of Asia, want a strong dollar
. Japan has already
(as of 2003)
been undercutting its own currency to keep the yen down re the dollar.
But the real question is how long will they be willing to do that?
Japan has (as of 2003) also made noises about being tired of it. And if they
have to buy their oil in euros…?
If this were the only risk to the dollar, I'd dismiss it. But the US has
made itself rather fragile. Once upon a time, it made stuff people wanted.
It doesn't do that anymore. (Even Microsoft is losing its shine.) It was
one thing when the world needed dollars to buy Made in the USA. Now they need
dollars mostly to buy oil. If that goes away, what?
(I have no idea what the countries that sell oil do with it all. What do
they get out of it other than not being invaded?)
This feller
has a different objection: Is that also why the US is planning to invade Denmark and Norway, two
countries with large new oil reserves found off shore?
It's absurd. For one thing, those finds are not all that large in real
terms, just in recent-find terms. Also, the US is a long way from being able
to spin/sell the idea that Denmark and Norway pose a threat; they're neither
communist nor Islamist.
The idea Iraq is fought in no small part for the petrodollar is better
developed by
F. W'm Engdahl,
An academic study that appeared right before the presidential election reports that less than 30% of the population was aware of the positions of the candidates on major issues, though 86% knew the name of George Bush's dog. The general thrust of propaganda gets through, however. When asked to identify the largest element of the federal budget, less than ¼ give the correct answer: military spending. Almost half select foreign aid, which barely exists; the second choice is welfare, chosen by 1/3 of the population, who also far overestimate the proportion that goes to Blacks and to child support. [AF quoting Chomsky]
GWB: `They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.' CB
DrugWar,
The Land of the Freehas 5% of Earth's population and 25% of its prisoners. MR (ie, the US has 6.3× the prisoners-per-capita of the rest of the world) While most (all?) States deny the vote to the incarcerated,
Florida, and eleven other states of the former Confederacy, disenfranchise felons for life.Thus none of these persons vote, and some will never vote at home again. Convicts tend to the Democratic. As do blacks, who make up a disproportionate amount of the convicted.
Essentially, the drug war and felony disenfranchisement served the same purpose in the 2000 election as the old Jim Crow era poll tax, a tax on voting that made it difficult for blacks to participate.FP But even with this, plus opaque and corrupt balloting machinery [also MC], and a misleading and perhaps illegal ballot layout, it will take more than a month of legal maneuvering in Florida to accomplish the installation of GWB. In the end it turns out GWB lost, but this fact gets lost in the 9/11 hubbub, another convenient coïncidence. SMH Florida just happens to be governed by Dubya's brother Jeb. (If this sort of thing was going on in one of those `tinpot little African countries' [Yes Prime Minister]…indeed, shortly, the US will have decide what how much to say about the Zimbabwe federal/general election.) The same country as produced the Magic Bullet `relies on the trappings of legality to explain the events of December 2000, which in any country not called America would have been described by an American administration and press as an obvious and shameful overthrow of the democratic process, and would be officially deplored. … This administration is nearly a million votes short of legitimacy and its chief apologist [Fleischer] has the unmitigated gall to suggest that anyone who questions its official pronouncements [eg Rep. McKinney] [is] a conspiracy nut.' Fox `News' had a Bush cousin, John Ellis, calling the FL race GWB's before the results were in. LLL
One Diebold machine in FL actually produced a negative count, -16022 for
Gore, in a poll with only 585 registered voters. The Socialist Workers Party
got 9880 alleged votes there, out of 11000 in the whole country. This
negative count was accepted by the central machine without question—it
was people who noticed Gore's total going backward. So much for elementary
sanity checks.
[RMN
citing USA Today Nov 29]
MH
·
LG
(Fortunately that poll used real, paper ballots, and the count was eventually
sane-itised. It was cleared up somehow, but I now doubt by paper.)
Something very strange happened on election night to Deborah Tannenbaum, a Democratic Party official in Volusia County. At 10 p.m., she called the county elections department and learned that Al Gore was leading George W. Bush 83,000 votes to 62,000. But when she checked the county's Web site for an update half an hour later, she found a startling development: Gore's count had dropped by 16,000 votes, while an obscure Socialist candidate had picked up 10,000—all because of a single precinct with only 600 voters. [DV quoting WP]The promulgated explanation is
faulty memory card, although the evidence is against it: the checksums passed; and the count sum was correct. The Volusia and Brevard errors were big enough to be noticed; noöne knows how many little creeping errors there were in FL.
Gore called Bush and Gore's staff surrounded the vice president to listen in on what would become a historic conversation at 2:30 a.m.Circumstances have changed dramatically since I first called you,Gore said to Bush, Toobin wrote.The state of Florida is too close to call.
Are you saying what I think you're saying?Bush asked according to Toobin.Let me make sure that I understand. You're calling back to retract that concession?Gore sensed an annoyance in Bush's tone and shot back
you don't have to be snippy about it.Toobin says Bush then told Gore that his
little brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, had assured him that he won the state of Florida and for that matter the presidency of the US.
Let me explain something,Toobin quoted Gore as saying in his response to Bush.Your little brother is not the ultimate authority on this.
You do what you have to do,Bush said and hung up the phone on Gore. DV
Ultimately Gore is credited with 50 999 897 votes and Bush 50 456 002
FEC
(Bush wins because of the electoral-college foolishness). The probability that
a coin-toss would have produced a greater spread than the Gore-Bush result is
99.1% 0.0% (I'd used variance in place of stddev).
What's interesting is that it's the purely digital voting that's so suspect,
and yet all we hear for the next months is hanging chads
and dimpled
chads
and pregnant chads
, things of tangible, paper ballots. It's as
if the whole thing was spun to discredit paper so as to shape opinion
in favour of digital, no-paper-trail voting.
Meantime, Canada carries out an entire federal election, writ to result, using trusty ol' pencil-n-paper. (Nevertheless we somehow end up with J. J. J. Chrétien again. But by 2003 Mar I'm tremendously grateful, for the PCs or *gaack* Alliance would've put us on offense in an unjustified, illegal war.) Our own electoral system is far from perfect, but speaking as a former candidate's agent, poll clerk, and deputy returning officer, it's a lot more difficult to fiddle the figures in a Canadian election. Every ballot is evaluated by hand in the presence of at least four persons, and the counts in all polls are public information and usually in the newspapers the next morning. Furthermore our ballots are simple, one `issue' or seat each. I would much rather we had a more Condorcet-like electoral system, but I see no way to do it without introducing ballot-counting machinery, and there is no way to do that and keep the process transparent. I believe public credibility is vital in an election, and even though the particular method of synthesiszing individual choice into mass choice may be imperfect, it can be understood and inspected by just about anyone, no special training needed.
Israeli prof. Tanya Reinhart: `Not long ago, the Western world was shocked and angered at Milosevic atrocities against the Kosovo Albanians, which were described as ethnic cleansing. But what Israel has started executing is incomparably worse…[Milosevic] did not send Apache helicopters to bombard residential areas…He did not put the Kosovar towns under siege; he did not use missiles from tanks, and he did not send snipers to wound and kill en mass.' JA (Note that these charges against Milosevic crumble at his trial, while Sharon steps up such actions and proudly tells the world.)
one of the greatest Chairmen of the Banking CommitteeDG he was critical of or opposed to the Fed. N
Bills have been introduced to repeal the Federal Reserve Act (thereby abolishing the Federal Reserve), to abolish the FOMC, to remove Reserve Bank presidents from the FOMC, or even to impeach Chairman Volcker and all the members of the FOMC at that time. Congressman Henry Gonzalez, a longstanding member and ultimately chairman of the House Banking Committee, brought a special zeal to these efforts and over the years was the author of several such measures.Fed (a month before HBG died. see also McFadden, Patman)
Talk of attacking Iraq had begun immediately after Bush seized control, even before he took the oath of office. In December 2000, CNN was broadcasting a new logo for(This is consistent with the oil-currency theory; Iraq switched to selling in euros last month.)The Unfinished Waraccompanied by slices of footage of a sinister Saddam Hussein and his henchmen. DC
the United States has quietly begun to align itself with those in the Russian government calling for military action against Afghanistan and has toyed with the idea of a new raid to wipe out Osama bin Laden…what kind of government should replace the Taliban. Thus, while claiming to oppose a military solution to the Afghan problem, the United States is now talking about the overthrow of a regime that controls nearly the entire country, in the hope it can be replaced with a hypothetical government that does not exist even on paper…[PS citing CCR] (Murmurs of a US-Russia move on Afghanistan continue until 9/11; ie, it starts under Clinton but continues under Bush. Apparently 9/11 just lets the US do it without Russia.)
14: Decreases in AIDS cases preceded the introduction of new drug treatments (Dec 1995) by three full years [Although the data plot for the next item indicatesdeaths among persons w/AIDSdeclined—because AZT went out of fashion?]16: The introduction of AZT (1987) did not cause a decline in the AIDS death rate
68: In
AIDS ravagedZambia since 1980 the population has increased and even the rate of increase in population has increased!69: In
AIDS ravagedSouth Africa many coffin makers are either doing a slack trade or have gone out of business [SoD citing CDC HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report, Year-end '97 (v9#2); CDC; UNPP; VM]
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