... after a short gasp for fresh air:
The Divided States of the North American South (DSNAS) hopefully will
entangle
themselves in neo-secessionist wars (of courts, of words, of money) and
leave thereby
the rest of the world in Peace!
And worldwide - we will see more GWB-free zones springing up and people’s
tribunals against US-UK becoming important
!
gwBush speaks for himself:
"We'll be tough and resolute as we unite, to make
sure freedom stands,
to rout out evil, to say to our children and grandchildren, we were
bold enough to act, without tiring, so that you can live in a great
land and in a peaceful world. And there's no doubt in my mind, not one
doubt in my mind, that we will fail." - George W. Bush
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namaste
wrote:
Wallow In Chaos, And
Laugh
A pro-Bush outcome and one enormous bitter pill and you without your
vodka
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/11/03/notes110304.DTL&nl=fix
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Wednesday, November 3, 2004
Oh dear God please not again.
Oh dear God please don't let it be all convoluted and depressing and
messy and stupid and please don't let it all embarrass us on an
international level all over again even more than it already has and
even more than it already is and even more than we've endured lo these
past four debilitating and soul-crushing years. Hello? Please? Is it
already too late?
Why yes, yes it is.
And lo and behold, it was apparently another completely tortuous and
entirely knotted presidential election, unfinished until the wee hours
and reeking of E-voting suspicion and exit-poll miscalculation and it
all came down to, what? Ohio? Are you serious? What a thing.
And now Kerry's conceded and the white flag has been raised and we are
headed toward the utterly appalling notion of another four years of
Bush and another Republican stranglehold of Congress and repeated GOP
chants of "More War in '04!"
Which is, well, simply staggering. Mind blowing. Odd. Gut wrenching.
Colon knotting. Eyeball gouging. And so on.
You want to block it out. You want to rend your flesh and yank your
hair and say no way in hell and lean out your window and scream into
the Void and pray it will all be over soon, even though you know you're
an atheist Buddhist Taoist Rosicrucian Zen Orgasmican and you don't
normally pray to anything except maybe the gods of really exceptional
sake and skin-tingling sex and maybe a few luminous transcendental
deities that look remarkably like Jenna Jameson.
It simply boggles the mind: we've already had four years of some of the
most appalling and abusive foreign and domestic policy in American
history, some of the most well-documented atrocities ever wrought on
the American populace and it's all combined with the biggest and most
violently botched and grossly mismanaged war since Vietnam, and much of
the nation still insists in living in a giant vat of utter blind faith,
still insists on believing the man in the White House couldn't possibly
be treating them like a dog treats a fire hydrant.
Inexplicable? Not really. People want to believe. They want
to trust
their leaders, even against all screaming, neon-lit evidence and stack
upon stack of flagrant, impeachment-grade lie. They simply cannot
allow that Dubya might really be an utter boob and that they are being
treated like an abused, beaten housewife who keeps coming back for
more, insisting her drunk husband didn't mean it, that she probably had
it coming, that the cuts and bruises and blood and broken bones are all
for her own good.
And this election, it might be all be very amusing, in a Mel Gibson-y,
blood-drenched hamburger-of-Christ sorta way, were it not so sad and
dangerous. It might all be tolerable and cute, in a
violence-engorged,
sexist, video-game-y sorta way, were it not so lopsided and wrong.
This election's outcome, this heartbreaking proof of a nation split
more deeply and decisively than ever, it simply reinforces the feeling
among much of the educated populace: It is a weirdly embarrassing time
to be an American. It is jarring and oddly shattering and makes you
rethink what it really means to be a part of this country. The
answer:
It doesn't mean much at all. Not really. Not anymore.
This is the common wisdom on the progressive Left. Those first four
toxic Bush years? A fluke. A phantasm. A stolen election. A
gaff, a
mugging, a crime. But this? An election this close makes
you
reconsider. Maybe, after all, we aren't nearly as far along as we
think. Maybe we're not all that sophisticated or nuanced or
respectable a nation as we sometimes dare to dream.
Maybe, in fact, we're regressing, back to the days of guns and
sexism and pre-emptive violence, of environmental abuse and no rights
for women and a sincere hatred of gays and foreigners and minorities.
Sound familiar? It should: it's the modern GOP (actually, NeoCon, LDC) platform.
Here's the thing: for tens of millions of us, it is simply
unconscionable that we could possibly be led for another four years by
a small and spoiled little man who has very little real idea what he's
doing and even less of how the hell he got there. It would be
funny,
in a Adam Sandler, toilet-humored sort of way, were it not so poisonous
and depressing. And yet it looks like we're stuck with it, like a shard
of glass buried deep in the eye.
And the rest of the world? Well, it can only watch us and shake its collective head and wonder just what the hell is wrong with us, why so many millions of us would even consider
re-electing the world's most inept and war-hungry and insanely
inarticulate man to four more years of unchecked power, why our
much-hyped much-coveted supposedly ultrasuperior democratic system is
so very deeply blotchy and knotty and spoiled.
So then, to much of Europe, Russia, Asia, Canada, Mexico, the Middle
East -- to all those dozens of major world nations who want Bush out
almost as much as the educated people of America, to you we can only
say: We are so very, very sorry. We don't know how it happened, either.
For tens of millions of us, Bush is not our president and never will
be. That's how divisive. That's how dangerous. That's how very sad it
has become.
The GOP (NeoConArtist) steamroller appears to be just too powerful, just too well
oiled and blood soaked and fear inducing to be stopped just yet.
After
all, the Right has been working on this master plan and building their
takeover strategy for about forty years (Longer). It's gonna take those of us working for change and progress
and raw spiritual juice a little more than one or two years to dissolve
it away like the cancer it so obviously is.
Apparently, there are lessons yet to be learned. Apparently, we must
hit some sort of new low between now and 2008, attain some sort of
seriously vicious status in the world before we will snap out of
it.
You think?
This much is clear: We are not, with a grim Bush victory, headed for
buoyancy and friendship and sincere hope for something new and
refreshing. We are not, with another four years of what we just
endured, headed toward any sort of easing of bitter tension, a sense of
levity, or sexual openness, or true education, or gender respect, or a
lightness of spirit and of step.
Maybe the best we can hope for, at this ominous and slightly sickening
moment, is one hell of a lot more patience
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heroay
wrote:
DON'T READ, or you'll be sick!!
REMEMBER WHEN WE USED TO CRITICIZE,
RIDICULE EVEN, THIRD WORLD 'ELECTIONS'? NOW, OUTRIGHT, THE
LAUGH IS ON
US. THIS COUNTRY DOES, LIKE ANY OTHER, DESERVE
THE
SCOUNDRELS WHO RUN THE SHOW.
With Kerry's
concession, America has become a one-party nation. If the Democrats
could not defeat a President who lied the nation into a war, then the
Democrats have ceased to be relevent. [THEY HAVE]
Giving up without a
fight. [SAME AS GORE?]
FRAUD
LOOKS PROBABLE
In states with paper trails, the vote results
match the exit polling numbers. In state with eletronic voting machines
with no paper trails, the vote results do NOT match the exit polls, and
Bush leads.
Don't Be American
Many times over the last nine hours I’ve thought
kindly of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have worked
tirelessly over the past four years against the policies of the Bush
presidency. To those people I must ask forgiveness for my siding with
the world outside America. It is they, as well as the people who voted
for Bush, who will have to bear the shame of belonging to a society
that democratically elects war criminals to office.
It
was standing room only at local polls
In Suffolk, Bob Rogers also had difficulty with an
electronic machine. He said he tried to vote for Sen. John F. Kerry,
but the machine kept highlighting President Bush instead. The precinct
captain finally had the machine reset, he said.
Possible
evidence of voter fraud in Ohio
What's worse, Stefan noticed the pick-up truck of
the supposed county board of election - the truck the ballots for 40
precincts were loaded into - had a big Bush-Cheney 2004 sticker in the
back window. Stefan did say that he followed the truck to the election
headquarters, though he didn't see what transpired after the truck
pulled into the election hq parking lot. As Stefan explains it, the
poll managers had such an extensive list of voters rights and
regulations that they had to follow, including it being illegal to have
any partisan buttons etc. in the polling place, yet the ballots for
voters in over 40 precincts were put in the hands of Bush-Cheney
partisans.
MASSIVE VOTE FRAUD HAPPENING
This election is being stolen before your eyes.
The criminals are not even bothering to hide the theft.
If a government cannot prove the honesty and accuracy of the
election by which they claim authority, the people are neither morally
nor legally obligated to obey that government's dictates or to pay its
bills.
Group
tallies more than 1,100 e-voting glitches
And those are just the ones that were spotted!
EXIT
POLLING VS. ACTUAL SUGGESTS FRAUD...
Exit polls and ‘actual’ results don’t match;
Evoting states show greater discrepancy.
The mainstream media is trying to sell the idea
that voters lied tothe exit pollsters and that's why the exit polls
were "wrong".
How
They Could Steal the Election This Time
On November 2 millions of Americans will cast their votes for President
in computerized voting systems that can be rigged by corporate or
local-election insiders. Some 98 million citizens, five out of every
six of the roughly 115 million who will go to the polls, will consign
their votes into computers that unidentified computer programmers,
working in the main for four private corporations and the officials of
10,500 election jurisdictions, could program to invisibly falsify the
outcomes.
FLAshback:
Ohio: Ground Zero For Bush Fundraising
But when you look at three Ohio mega-fundraisers
for Bush -- W.R. Timken, CEO of Timken Company; Anthony Alexander,
president of FirstEnergy Corporation; and Walden O'Dell, CEO of Diebold
Corporation -- a delicious microcosm emerges: In these three examples
of special interest fundraising, we have three of the recurring themes
of Bush's administration. 1) Tax cuts for the wealthy (Timken) that
have produced job stagnation and cuts for the common folks; 2) Paybacks
to corporate polluters (Alexander); and 3) Support from
well-positioned, powerful players (O'Dell), which has created the
appearance of rigging the game to aid his success.
In Chapter 11 of her
new book "Black Box Voting In the 21st Century" released early today in
.PDF format at Blackboxvoting.com and here at Scoop Ms Harris observes.
"If you strip away the partisan rancor over the 2000 election, you are
left with the undeniable fact that a presidential candidate conceded
the election to his opponent based on [results from] a second card that
mysteriously appears, subtracts 16,022 votes, then just as mysteriously
disappears."
It should come as no
surprise that Diebold machines come up with vote results that do not
match the exit polls.
As I made each choice,
they were shown correctly on the screen. However, when I reached the
review screen, two of my votes had been changed. I corrected them
before casting ballot, but am wondering if this may have happened to
other voters who may not have reviewed their ballots. (I was with two
friends who said they didn't bother to review theirs, but just assumed
they were okay.)
Russian
Observer Shocked by U.S. Election Procedures
“In my opinion there are possibilities to forge the elections results
and these possibilities are caused by serious, as we see it, violations
of the electoral law,” the MP said in a telephone interview.
Voters Report Problems with
Computer Systems
Voters across the United States reported problems
with electronic touch-screen systems on Tuesday in what critics said
could be a sign that the machines used by one-third of the population
were prone to error.
ONE THIRD OF THE VOTE ON ELECTRONIC MACHINES MAY
BE IN ERROR. This election is totally discredited.
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truthout wrote:
What
a Bush Win Will Mean for America
By Mark Tran
The Guardian U.K.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/comment/story/0,14259,1342535,00.html
Wednesday
03
November 2004
A
second term in the White House for Bush could have far reaching effects
not only on the economy, but on the social fabric of the country, says
Mark Tran.
As he
heads for
another four years in the White House - barring a shock in Ohio -
George Bush will have the chance to tilt the supreme court firmly to
the right and leave a lasting imprint on the US's social and political
fabric.
Three
of the
nine supreme court justices could well step down in the next few years.
Chief justice William Rehnquist, an 80-year-old Nixon appointee, who
was hospitalised last week following complications arising from thyroid
cancer, is surely looking at retirement. Justices John Paul Stevens,
84, and Sandra Day O'Connor, 74, have also indicated an interest in
stepping down.
Unlike
presidents, supreme court justices are not hobbled by term limits and
can stay on for decades. The president who appoints them is therefore
presented with an opportunity to mould the powerful body according to
his political tastes - with the caveat that such judges can often
confound expectations.
We
can expect
big battles in Congress as Democrats seek to block Mr Bush from packing
the court with conservative judges. The president has made it clear
what kind of judges he wants in the court, holding up as models two of
the court's most conservative members, Antonin Scalia and Clarence
Thomas.
In
the coming
years, the supreme court is expected to consider some of the most
divisive social issues in the US: private property rights and
government land seizure, gay marriage and partial-birth abortion.
The
importance
of the court cannot be underestimated. It was the supreme court that
segregated American schools and then reversed the judgment. It was the
supreme court that made the famous Roe v Wade ruling that confirmed a
woman's right to an abortion. The amendment has long been a bugbear for
the religious right, which may well seek to overturn the ruling once Mr
Bush has made his appointments.
On
the
economic front, the White House has been building up problems that will
have to be tackled sooner or later. In his first term, the Bush
administration engineered what an International Monetary Fund economist
termed as the "best recovery that money can buy".
That
recovery
rested on huge tax cuts and massive government - especially military -
spending. The result has been enormous US budget and trade deficits
that the IMF believe to be unsustainable. Unless Mr Bush starts to soak
up the pool of red ink, interest rates will have to rise as a
corrective measure, which could push the US into recession.
To
tame the US
deficit, Mr Bush may well have to make a u-turn and raise taxes - as
his father, despite his "read my lips, no new taxes" pledge, did before
him. Perhaps the only consolation for Kerry supporters is that Mr Bush
will now have to take some unpalatable measures to correct the massive
economic imbalances that have developed under his first term.
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Mark
Tran
reported for the Guardian from the US from 1984 to 1989.
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adelaideinstitute wrote:
Why did
George W Bush win the November 2, 2004 US election?
1. For the
same reason that Australian John Howard won his election - both
condemned anti-heterosexual marriage, and so the family became supreme
again - much to the majority's liking.
2. Support
for Israel - signing of the GAS (Global Anti-Semitism) Bill,
gained
support of International-multinationals.
3. Use of
simplistic them-us categories, and allusions to patriotism.
4. The USA
is not ready yet for a Jewish President.
5. Telling
lies to find cause for war, i.e. 9/11 scam.
6. 280
million people dumbed down and saturated with fear.
7. US media
manipulating FACTS because in White House pocket.
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scherrer wrote:
Unfortunately my
prediction was correct.
USA chose Bush, so they chose war!
Bush’s order to
attack Fallujah can be expected in the next days.
The USA is extremely polarized, urban costal liberal
vs. rural Middle West and southern conservative and religious bigotry
is booming. Half of the USA is regressing back into the dark Middle Ages.
The decisive factor ticking the balance for Bush were “moral values”
and religion.
US will shift
further to the right edge. Foreign policy will become even more
imperialist. Powell will be gone and replaced by one of the neocon
extremists (perhaps Wolfowitz). The likelihood that USA will antagonize the rest of the world is
greatly increasing.
Bush needs to pass
the military draft bill in order to “win the war” in Iraq. He needs more soldiers to break the military
stalemate in Iraq. This is now easier because both houses of Congress have
a clear Republican majority. The anti-war movement must multiply to
prevent this.
The Bush gang wants
to bog down the resistance in Iraq as soon as they can in order to win strategic
manoeuvrability, e.g. the credible threat to be able to start new wars.
Keep in mind, the US superpower is not that super. It can not launch two
major wars at the same time.
The only good news:
More wars will make a financial breakdown in the USA possible, considering the current 420 billion
federal budget deficit. This is could prevent the worst, aggression
against more countries in the Middle East,
or North
Korea
for that matter.
One conclusion is
that the people’s tribunals against US-UK are now more necessary than
ever, to uphold the notion of accountability and as a catalyst for the
anti-war movement.
CP Scherrer
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*Sydney Peace Prize winner urges Iraqi resistance*
: ABC News
Wednesday November 3, 2004
Controversial author Arundhati Roy has urged people to join the Iraqi
resistance.
Ms Roy will deliver a lecture in Sydney tonight, where she will be
presented with the Sydney Peace Prize.
Like last year's winner, Palestinian Hanan Ashrawi, Ms Roy's selection
has once again come under attack from some quarters.
The judges have awarded the prize to Ms Roy for her commitment to the
philosophy and principles of non-violence, which the Booker Prize
winner says should be used by Iraqis opposed to Coalition forces in
their country
Ms Roy also defended her call for people to join the Iraqi resistance.
"One wasn't urging them to join the Medhi army [in Iraq] but to become
the resistance, to become part of what ought to be a non-violent
resistance against a very violent occupation," she said.
"That is to redefine what resistance means, you know we can't just
assume that resistance means terrorism because that would be playing
right into the hands of the occupation."
Ms Roy, who urged Australians to vote against Prime Minister John
Howard at the election, says it is difficult to see why the war was not
a major election issue.
"The sense that that kind of brutality is good, or at the very least
acceptable and in the interests of people here is, I suppose, one of
the biggest dilemmas that face the world today," she said.
"On the one hand that democracy is circumscribed by the idea of a
nation state and on the other hand these huge wars and the movement of
global capital are global in that sense, so there's a big discrepancy
there."
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ECOTERRA Intl.