News:Prisoners at Abu Ghraib Said Included Kids
"WASHINGTON (AP) - A boy no older than 11 was among the children held by the Army at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, the former U.S. commander of the facility told a general investigating abuses at the prison. "

More Studies Slam Secondhand Smoke

Teresa Heinz Kerry "openly skeptical about results from November election": "16. In Ohio, the lines were 4-10 hours long in heavily Democratic (inner city, liberal college campuses) THIS WAS BLATANT SUPPRESSION! THIS IS UN-AMERICAN. NOT ONLY DID THIS VIOLATE HAVA, BUT IF YOU EVER READ THE CONSTITUTION, YOU WOULD BE AWARE OF THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE!

and were you aware of this:

20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA
Did you know....
1.
80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
Link
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2.
There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry. http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/04280 04landes.html
3.
The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers. http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.h...
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/04280 04landes.html
4.
The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main63 32436.shtml
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886
5.
Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/0 03_200.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitrakis/031 1004fitrakis.html
6.
Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with the Bush family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News& p;file=article&sid=26
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News& p;file=article&s i d=26 http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php
7.
Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates. http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm http://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel27.ht...
8.
ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes. http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/04280 04landes.html
9.
Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters. http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041020evotestates/pfin ndex.html
10.
Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm
11.
Diebold is based in Ohio. http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm
12.
Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as senior managers and developers to help write the central compiler computer code that counted
50% of the votes in 30 states.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml
13.
Jeff Dean, Diebold's Senior Vice-President and senior programmer on Diebold's central compiler code, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf
14.
Diebold Senior Vice-President Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years. http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf
15.
None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio. http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/26/loc_elexoh....
16.
California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it. (See the movie here blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov .) http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190
17.
30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main63 32436.shtml
18.
All - not some - but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates. http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html
http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&na ame=News&file=article&sid=950
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&na ame=News&file=article&sid=950 http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm
19.
The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's brother.
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/7 7628725.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10544-20 004Oct29.html
20.
Serious voting anomalies in Florida - again always favoring Bush - have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation.
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/governmen nt/policy/story/0,10801,97614,00.html
http://www.uscountvotes.org /



paper not vapor

Teresa Heinz Kerry hasn't lost her outspoken way: "THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: A practicing Catholic, as is her husband, Heinz Kerry remains outraged at attacks by bishops on her husband's pro-choice views.

'You cannot have bishops in the pulpit -- long before or the Sunday before the election -- as they did in Catholic churches, saying it was a mortal sin to vote for John Kerry,' she said.

Heinz Kerry gave no examples. Last year, a few ultraconservative prelates said they would not allow the Democratic nominee to receive communion in their dioceses. The bishop of Colorado Springs declared that Catholics voting for pro-choice candidates were not welcome at the communion rail.
'The church has a right and obligation to teach values,' Heinz Kerry declared. 'They don't have a right to restrict freedom of expression, which they did.'"

The catholic Church should stay the hell out of politics until it can decide whether the murder of even one innocent Iraqi (Vote for Bush) is more godly than the choice of a preteen victim of incest rape, bringing more baby rape victims into the world (so the bishops have more playthings?)

GOP Abuse of Power, Report by House Democrats Alleges (washingtonpost.com): "Pelosi, a liberal who has few weapons besides rhetoric to use against the conservatives who control Congress, described the forthcoming report as documenting 'devastating details of the profound abuse of power that characterizes House Republicans after 10 years in the majority.'
'While this Republican administration has spoken strongly about promoting democracy around the world, the House Republican leadership is working feverishly to undermine democracy here at home,' she said in a statement to be released with the report.
Pelosi said the leaders 'ram bills through committees without full discussion, permit few if any floor amendments, and if need be, hold open floor votes until enough arms have been twisted to ensure passage.' In November 2003, the House leadership kept a roll call going for two hours and 51 minutes -- more than double the previous record -- until they could round up enough votes to pass President Bush's Medicare revision and prescription drug bill. "

Look what I found on WRH:
White House Defends Interrogations
A senior Bush administration official says a secret CIA program
to transfer suspected terrorists to foreign countries for
interrogation is a legal alternative to the cumbersome and
expensive process of holding them in U.S. facilities.
Posted Mar 6, 2005 02:37 PM PST
Category: TORTURE SCANDAL


This fails to adress the real issue.
For two years, the US Government has been torturing, or shipping to other countries to be tortured, people that the US thought might know where Saddam had hidden his weapons of mass destruction.
Except, of course, that Saddam did not HAVE any weapons of mass destruction.
The claims that Saddam did have banned WMDs came from the Pentagon Office of Special Plans. The Pentagon Office of Special Plans is now known to have been inflitrated by an Israeli spy operation.
So, whether the torture was done in US facilities, or 'outsourced', it still comes down to the same thing. The US Government has been torturing innocent people for information they could not possibly have. The US Government has been torturing innocent people for information they could not possibly have. The US Government has
been torturing innocent people for information they could not possibly have. The US Government has been torturing innocent people for information they could not possibly have."

Wounded Italian Reporter Recalls Ordeal:
"Giuliana Sgrena described how she was wounded and Italian intelligence officer Nicola Calipari was killed as she was celebrating her freedom on the way to the airport. The shooting Friday has fueled anti-American sentiment in a country where people are deeply opposed to the war in Iraq.
``I remember only fire,'' Sgrena wrote in her newspaper, the communist daily Il Manifesto. ``At that point a rain of fire and bullets came at us, forever silencing the happy voices from a few minutes earlier.''
Sgrena said the driver began shouting that they were Italian, then ``Nicola Calipari dove on top of me to protect me and immediately, and I mean immediately, I felt his last breath as he died on me.''
Suddenly, she said, she remembered her captors' words, when they warned her ``to be careful because the Americans don't want you to return.'' "