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<DIV>Unsubstantiated Drudge rumor echoed through the media</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200405020004">http://mediamatters.org/items/200405020004</A></DIV>
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<DIV>In a move anticipated for several months, the state of California has decertified all touch-screen voting machines due to security snafus and vendor stonewalling.</DIV>
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<DIV>U.S. Election Assistance Commission doesn't have enough money to test e-vote machines.</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63322,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2">http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63322,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2</A></DIV>
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<DIV>October 29, 2002, George W. Bush signed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). Hidden behind its apple-pie-and-motherhood name lies a nasty civil rights time bomb. </DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040517&s=palast">http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040517&s=palast</A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800000>6 months before9-11 Paul Bremer was saying that the Bush administration seemed to be ignoring the problem of terrorism and would "stagger along" until a major incident. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=5009783">http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=5009783</A></DIV>
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<DIV>oh man this is so creepy</DIV>
<DIV>Pictures from crowning of the <I>Washington Times</I> publisher<A name=108362997653753669><FONT color=#de7008> </FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog//2004_05_01_barchive.html">http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog//2004_05_01_barchive.html</A></DIV>
<DIV>U.S. Congressmen ushered Sun Myung Moon into the Dirksen Senate Office Building Mar. 23 where he crowned himself the Messiah</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.geocities.com/nomoonies1/1/index.html">the Moon Primer</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Democracy NOW! speaks with Pulitzer-prize winning reporter Seymour Hersh about a <BR>classified internal U.S. army report he obtained that reveals systematic <BR>torture of at least 20 Iraqi prisoners who were subjected to "sadistic, <BR>blatant, and wanton criminal abuses" by their U.S. jailers at the <BR>notorious Abu Ghraib prison.<BR>Listen/Watch/Read<BR><A href="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/03/1411207" target=_blank>http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/03/1411207</A><BR></DIV><A href="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=5009783"></A></DIV>
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<DIV>Bremer 'knew of abuse in November':<BR> FORMER Iraqi human rights minister Abdel Basset Turki said today US <BR>overseer Paul Bremer knew in November that Iraqi prisoners were being <BR>abused in US detention centres.<BR><A href="http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9465475%255E1702,00.html" target=_blank>http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9465475%255E1702,00.html</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>30 More Torture Scandals Probed: <BR>The dossier of terror includes : Claims that POWs were thrown to their <BR>deaths from a bridge. A videotape of the killings is said to have been <BR>destroyed.<BR><A href="http://tinyurl.com/2jmjn" target=_blank>http://tinyurl.com/2jmjn</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Iraqi general refuses to give up Falluja fighters : <BR>The Iraqi general chosen to run a new security force in Falluja <BR>yesterday distanced himself from the US military by refusing American demands <BR>to give up foreign fighters supposedly hiding in the city.<BR><A href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6128.htm" target=_blank>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6128.htm</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>'Chalabi gave Iran information on US occupation of Iraq': <BR>Ahmed Chalabi, and some of his top aides supplied Iran with sensitive <BR>information on American occupation of Iraq which could "get people <BR>killed," a media report said on Monday quoting top Bush administration <BR>officials.<BR><A href="http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?msid=655150" target=_blank>http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?msid=655150</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Sharon: "Israel Will Keep its Nuclear Blackout": <BR>The Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday that Israel will <BR>maintain ambiguity about its nuclear capacity despite of the <BR>international requests of subjecting it to international inspection.<BR><A href="http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/April/week4/043004/nuclear.htm" target=_blank>http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/April/week4/043004/nuclear.htm</A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800000>Israeli forces seal off Yasser Arafat's compound and begin preparations for his assasination</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Report: Republicans Lied to Congress on Medicare </DIV>
<DIV>In a report made public Monday, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service said efforts to keep Richard Foster, the chief Medicare actuary, from giving Democratic lawmakers his projections of the bill's cost — $100 billion more than the president and other officials were acknowledging — probably violated federal law. </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800000>Office of National Drug Control Policy to use tax dollars to fund the campaigns of the "right" candidates.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>GAO Green-Lights White House Interference in Elections</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Events in Iraq have been spinning out of control - and out of control of the spinners - so fast on so many fronts that the W word - withdrawal - is now being mentioned.</STRONG> </DIV>
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<DIV>Kerry Tells of Flying a Jet Over Israel, Bush was still AWOL</DIV>
<DIV>John Kerry wasn't kidding when he told the Anti-Defamation League that he had a different perspective on Israel. Probably no one else in the room has seen the country upside down from an Israeli Air Force jet. </DIV>
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<DIV>U.S. Deletes, Alters Gender Issue Web Data -Report</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>The Bush administration has stripped information on a range of women's issues from government Web sites, apparently in pursuit of a political agenda, researchers reported on Wednesday. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1896&e=14&u=/nm/bush_internet_women_dc">http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1896&e=14&u=/nm/bush_internet_women_dc</A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800000>Wherever Dick Cheney travels, deluxe hospital rooms are prepared, just in case</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#800000>At least in Florida</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.wftv.com/newsofthestrange/3264007/detail.html">http://www.wftv.com/newsofthestrange/3264007/detail.html</A></DIV>
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<DIV>What kind of absurd political twilight zone is it where George Bush and Dick Cheney can make John Kerry look like an unpatriotic chicken by focusing attention on his combat duty in Vietnam? </DIV>
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<DIV class=headlineStory style="PADDING-TOP: 15px">Groups gear up for big RNC protests</DIV>
<DIV class=deckStory>From satire to civil disobedience, a variety of tactics likely</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#008000>Buffett signs on as Kerry's economic advisor.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>IRAQI force to provide security for first convoy to Fallujah<BR>Xinhua</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#008000> Bush moves to reheat cold war with Cuba</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>WAR turns Fallujah from an active town into a ghost city<BR>Boston Globe</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800000>Bush campaigning to show that he is a regular guy. A regular guy, whose owned 3 oil companies, a baseball team, had a father who was head of the CIA, and had his election fixed by his brother</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800000>Fun with White House Search Results</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>HOUSE OF BUSH, HOUSE OF SAUD: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties,</STRONG> by Craig Unger. Scribner, 356 pp., $26.</DIV>
<DIV>BUY IT </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800000>New ABC poll. Bush wins most "likeable, friendly, and compassionate" catagories. Kerry wins most boring.</FONT><A href="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=5009783"></A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800000>USDA prohibits cattle farmer from testing his cows for Mad Cow Disease.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>BUSH rejects dialogue with N Korea over nuclear issue<BR>Hi Pakistan</DIV>
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<DIV>Americans Urged to Leave Saudi Arabia </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800000>Iraqis quit Pentagon-funded newspaper, claiming "They are trying to control us. We are being suffocated."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Dhia al-Shweiri spent several stints in Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, twice under Saddam Hussein's rule and once under American. He prefers Saddam's torture to the humiliation of being stripped naked by his American guards, he said Sunday in an interview with The Associated Press.</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=style9><STRONG><FONT face=Verdana size=4>Bush Says He'll Use `All Assets' to Fight Terror </FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>Troops 'Swapped Hundreds of Abuse Pictures' : <BR>The potentially explosive claims, if proven, would contradict Prime <BR>Minister Tony Blair’s assurance that any misconduct in British ranks was <BR>“exceptional” and limited to a handful of servicemen.<BR><A href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6129.htm" target=_blank>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6129.htm</A><BR><BR><BR>Angry ex-detainees tell of abuse:<BR> Iraqis say they endured physical, psychological hardship in U.S. <BR>custody<BR><A href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6130.htm" target=_blank>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6130.htm</A></DIV>
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<DIV>HALLIBURTON: a hand in every pocket<BR>The Globe and Mail</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040501/BKHALL01/TPEntertainment/Books" target=_blank>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040501/BKHALL01/TPEntertainment/Books</A><BR><BR><BR>A year on from 'Mission Accomplished': <BR>An army in disgrace, a policy in tatters and the real prospect of <BR>defeat<BR><A href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6133.htm" target=_blank>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6133.htm</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>“These colors don't run,”:<BR> France Invades U.S. (Part 4): <BR>Safely ensconced in a bunker in an undisclosed location, Cheney <BR>exhorted his Republican God resisters to fight on. When asked if he would <BR>leave the bunker and join his forces to defeat the French, Cheney claimed <BR>his pacemaker might be picked up by the enemy radar and besides he has <BR>other priorities at the moment.<BR><A href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6136.htm" target=_blank>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6136.htm</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>God save America ... : <BR>The race for the White House will be decided by fundagelicals. That's <BR>good news for twice-born George Bush<BR><A href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6131.htm" target=_blank>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6131.htm</A><BR><BR><BR><BR>The Jesus Factor: <BR>George W. Bush : "I believe that God wants me to be president." <BR>Video and text<BR><A href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jesus/view/" target=_blank>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jesus/view/</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Juan Cole on our Photo Wars: <BR>When you incarcerate large numbers of people beyond the reach of any <BR>court and under conditions lacking legality or oversight, it's hardly <BR>surprising that an attitude of impunity develops among the imprisoners <BR>from which abuse and torture follow all too naturally.<BR><A href="http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/" target=_blank>http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Just a massive fix to justify Bush's revenge': <BR>All the fancy charts, the briefings, the spin, the secret, secret <BR>intelligence was all a big fix to justify George W Bush's revenge on a nasty <BR>but pathetic Middle Eastern dictator whose regime was sinking into the <BR>sands of the Iraqi desert. Bush's War on Terror was a load of baloney.<BR><A href="http://tinyurl.com/34xlp" target=_blank>http://tinyurl.com/34xlp</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>KERRY Must Be Tough on Patriot Act<BR>Pacific News Service</DIV>
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<DIV>In case you missed it: <BR>US finds strange bedfellows in UN vote on torture: <BR>The United States has aligned itself with some of its fiercest and <BR>least democratic enemies in opposing efforts to strengthen an international <BR>treaty that outlaws torture, according to diplomatic sources. <BR><A href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1019.htm" target=_blank>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1019.htm</A><BR><BR>More on this topic<BR><A href="http://tinyurl.com/35rrn" target=_blank>http://tinyurl.com/35rrn</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>US military torture is old history: Buried Secrets<BR><A href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6127.htm" target=_blank>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6127.htm</A></DIV>
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<DIV>FRANKEN PLANS SENATE RUN<BR>Comedian and liberal talk show host Al Franken put the odds of a <BR>challenge against Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., in 2008 at better than 50-50, <BR>and said he would make a decision by late next year.<BR>(Associated Press)<BR><A href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/2004-05-02-franken-senate_x.htm" target=_blank>http://www.usatoday.com/life/2004-05-02-franken-senate_x.htm</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Sharon Aide: Gaza Plan 'Unstoppable' Despite Vote : <BR>Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's U.S.-backed Gaza withdrawal plan <BR>is "unstoppable" despite being resoundingly rejected by his own <BR>right-wing party, his deputy said Monday.<BR><A href="http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=858668" target=_blank>http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=858668</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>How to Lose Friends and Not Influence People: <BR>I have some very uncomfortable news to report, or rather, non-news to <BR>confirm: There is rising anti-Americanism in Europe. The sentiment was <BR>confirmed by the comments of diplomats, journalists, and academics, the <BR>reportage I saw on television and in print, and the casual <BR>conversations I had in restaurants, on trains, and at parties.<BR><A href="http://gadflyer.com/articles/?ArticleID=87" target=_blank>http://gadflyer.com/articles/?ArticleID=87</A></DIV>
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<DIV>KOPPEL MADE A POLITICAL STATEMENT. SO WHAT? <BR>"Despite what he said about it, Ted Koppel and Nightline were making a <BR>political statement [Friday] night by reading the names of 'the fallen' <BR>in Iraq," writes Jay Rosen. "And there is nothing wrong with that-- <BR>although it is risky because many will object." <BR>(PressThink) <BR><A href="http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/" target=_blank>http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/</A><BR><BR><BR>Lots Of Mistakes: <BR>He alienated our most important allies — France, Germany and Russia — <BR>and had to put together a comic coalition of the bribed and the <BR>browbeaten.<BR><A href="http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20040503/index.php" target=_blank>http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20040503/index.php</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>if it's not on TV, it's not happening.<BR><A href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FE04Ak03.html" target=_blank>http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FE04Ak03.html</A><BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>India orders probe into Iraq mercenaries: <BR>The Indian government is parrying allegations that it is allowing <BR>ex-soldiers to work as mercenaries in Iraq following pressure from the <BR>United States.<BR><A href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2369D4E0-B683-42AA-BF06-06A01B795A4F.htm" target=_blank>http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2369D4E0-B683-42AA-BF06-06A01B795A4F.htm</A><BR><BR><BR>What you think you know about Al Qaeda: Think Again:<BR><A href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2536&print=1" target=_blank>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2536&print=1</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Seven Iraqis die in British custody. <BR>How many soldiers are charged? None: <BR>This is not the first incident to involve the Queen's Lancashire <BR>Regiment and allegations of brutality.<BR><A href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=517303" target=_blank>http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=517303</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>US IS LOSING WAR OF PHOTOGRAPHS<BR>"The Bush administration, despite the savvy of its spinmeisters and <BR>Hollywood-trained publicists, has lost the war of images abroad," writes <BR>Juan Cole. "Although it has had more success in managing war images at <BR>home, cracks have increasingly opened up on the domestic front as well."<BR>(TomDispatch)<BR><A href="http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?pid=1416" target=_blank>http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?pid=1416</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>UK ARMY RAISES DOUBTS OVER TORTURE PHOTOS<BR>Doubts were raised yesterday about the authenticity of shocking <BR>photographs published in The Daily Mirror that purported to show British <BR>troops apparently mistreating prisoners in Iraq. Sources within the Queen's <BR>Lancashire Regiment, the regiment implicated in the scandal, argue that <BR>the photographs may not have been taken in Iraq.<BR>(The Independent)<BR><A href="http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=517641" target=_blank>http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=517641</A><BR></DIV>
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