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Here is an interview with Mark Crispin Miller, author of "Fooled Again" all about how the 2004 election was stolen, just like the one in 2000. This is the most important issue we have in this country. Until the Democrats decide to get off their backsides and start doing something about this then nothing else matters. Republicans will steal every election, despite Bush's current 36% approval rating, and we will soon have 9 Alito's on the Supreme Court.


Alternet

Election Theft Emergency




The Washington Note
Paul Wolfowitz Busy Neo-Conning the World Bank: Staff Rebellion Brewing

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Paul Wolfowitz, architect of America's failing foray into Iraq as Rumsfeld's former Deputy at the Pentagon, now heads the World Bank and finally seems like his true self is coming out of the closet.

In recent months, picking up steam in recent weeks, there has been a massive exodus of top talent from the World Bank. According to reports, the senior Ethics Officer at the Bank has departed. Also on the exit roster are the Vice President for East Asia & Pacific, the Chief Legal Counsel, the Bank's top Managing Director, the Director of Institutional Integrity (which monitors internal and external corruption), the Vice President for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development, and the head of ISG (Information Solutions Group).


AP
Documents Show Army Seized Wives As Tactic

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The U.S. Army in Iraq has at least twice seized and jailed the wives of suspected insurgents in hopes of "leveraging" their husbands into surrender, U.S. military documents show.
In one case, a secretive task force locked up the young mother of a nursing baby, a U.S. intelligence officer reported. In the case of a second detainee, one American colonel suggested to another that they catch her husband by tacking a note to the family's door telling him "to come get his wife."




Truthdig
President Jonah by Gore Vidal

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“Finally, we shouldn’t be surprised at the antipathy toward democracy displayed by the Bush administration…. As already noted, fundamentalism and democracy are completely antithetical. The opposite of the Enlightenment, of course, is tribalism, groupthink; and more and more, this is the direction in which the United States is going…. Anthony Lewis who worked as a columnist for the New York Times for thirty-two years, observes that what has happened in the wake of 9/11 is not just the threatening of the rights of a few detainees, but the undermining of the very foundation of democracy.


N.Y. Times
Prosecutor Will Step Down From Lobbyist Case


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The investigation of Jack Abramoff, the disgraced Republican lobbyist, took a surprising new turn on Thursday when the Justice Department said the chief prosecutor in the inquiry would step down next week because he had been nominated to a federal judgeship by President Bush.
Daniel Miller/Associated Press
Noel L. Hillman of Justice Dept. is nominated for a federal judgeship.
The prosecutor, Noel L. Hillman, is chief of the department's public integrity division, and the move ends his involvement in an inquiry that has reached into the administration as well as the top ranks of the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill.




Times U.K. Online
Prepare yourself for the unthinkable: war against Iran may be a necessity


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