Friday, June 30, 2006

the face of 'democracy' in iraq...


Spreading Cancer
Depleted uranium turns Bush's lies into high-tech horror

By ROBERT C. KOEHLER
Tribune Media Services

June 29, 2006

The unending game of “pretend” that the U.S. media allow George Bush to play on the global stage, so often letting his lying utterances hang suspended, unchallenged, in the middle of the story, as though they were plausible — as though a class of third-graders couldn’t demolish them with a few innocent questions — feels like the journalistic equivalent of waterboarding. Gasp! Some truth, please!

I suggest the prez has forfeited the right to command a headline, or half a story, or an uninterrupted quote: “. . . we’ll defend ourselves, but at the same time we’re actively working with our partners to spread peace and democracy,” he said last week in Austria.

Surely “spreading democracy” should no longer be allowed to appear in print, between now and 2008, unless accompanied by a parenthetical clarification (“not true,” stated as profanely as local standards allow). And that, of course, would only be the media’s first step back into integrity with the public.

The occupation of Iraq, the occupation of Afghanistan, the entire war (to promote) terror . . . please, please, can these no longer be trotted out in consequence-free abstraction, but as the high-tech malevolence they are, actively continuing the incalculable devastation of countries and their populations?

The bodies keep piling up, the toxic horrors spread. Hasn’t anyone in this place ever heard of depleted uranium? Is the health crisis in Iraq and, indeed, throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, not to mention Kosovo and among returning vets for the last four American wars, somehow irrelevant to “the course” we’re asked to stay?

“Two strange phenomena have come about in Basra which I have never seen before. The first is double and triple cancers in one patient. For example, leukemia and cancer of the stomach. We had one patient with two cancers — one in his stomach and kidney. Months later, primary cancer was developing in his other kidney — he had three different cancer types. The second is the clustering of cancer in families. We have 58 families here with more than one person affected by cancer. . . . My wife has nine members of her family with cancer.”

This is Dr. Jawad Al-Ali, director of the oncology center at the largest hospital in Basra, speaking in 2003 at a peace conference in Japan. Why is it that only peace activists are able to hear people like this? Why hasn’t he been asked to testify before Congress as its members debate the future of this war and the next?

“Children in particular are susceptible to DU poisoning,” he went on. “They have a much higher absorption rate as their blood is being used to build and nourish their bones and they have a lot of soft tissues. Bone cancer and leukemia used to be diseases affecting them the most. However, cancer of the lymph system, which can develop anywhere on the body and has rarely been seen before the age of 12, is now also common.”

Depleted uranium — DU — is the Defense Establishment euphemism for U-238, a byproduct of the uranium enrichment process and the ultimate dirty weapon material. It’s almost twice as dense as lead, catches fire when launched and explodes on impact into microscopically fine particles, or “nano-particles,” which are easily inhaled or absorbed through the skin; it’s also radioactive, with a half-life of 4.468 billion years.

And we make bombs and bullets out of it — it’s the ultimate penetrating weapon. We dropped at least 300 tons of it on Iraq during Gulf War I (the first time it was used in combat) and created Gulf War Syndrome. This time around, the estimated DU use on defenseless Iraq is 1,700 tons, far more of it in major population centers. Remember shock and awe? We were pounding Baghdad, in those triumphant early days, with low-grade nuclear weapons, raining down cancer, neurological disorders, birth defects and much, much more on the people we claimed to be liberating. We weren’t spreading democracy, we were altering the human genome.

As we “protected ourselves,” in the words of the president, from Iraq’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction, we opened our own arsenal of WMD on them, contaminating the country’s soil and polluting its air — indeed, unleashing a nuclear dust into the troposphere and contaminating the whole world.

“We used to think (DU) traveled up to a hundred miles,” Chris Busby told me. Busby, a chemical physicist and member of the British government’s radiation risk committee, as well as the founder of the European Committee of Radiation Risk, has monitored air quality in Great Britain. Based on these findings, “It looks like it goes quite around the planet,” he said.

While Bush mouths ironic whoppers — “We will be standing with the people of Afghanistan and Iraq until their hopes for freedom and liberty are fulfilled,” he told the U.N. General Assembly a while back — his actions pass, in the words of former Livermore Labs scientist Leuren Moret, “a death sentence on the Middle East and Central Asia.”

A war crime of unprecedented dimension is unfolding as we avert our eyes. Perhaps it’s simply too big to see, or to grasp, so we lull ourselves into the half-belief that the powers that be know what they’re doing and it will all turn out for the best. Meanwhile, the contagion spreads, the children die, the planet becomes uninhabitable.

"Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing the power to make great decisions for good and evil. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe." — Albert Einstein

Thursday, June 29, 2006

in the news...again...

israeli jets destroy bridge on a main road in gaza--according to israeli spokesman, they did this not to punish civilians by restricting inflow of food , water and medicines --but instead to prevent palestinian militia from moving captured israeli soldier out of the area--um dude--if that's your plan to get your p.o.w. back--i don't think it'll work...

as in customary for the editor of deskRat chronicles , upon waking we tune into the news --usually the BBC and NPR to survey what has taken place overnight while this side of the world slumbered ...And as expected , the ham-handed israelis have once again over-reacted and have added to their outrageous gaza invasion --with its attacks on civilian infrastructure including electrical power stations , roads , bridges and drinking water pipelines --all in violation of the geneva accords prohibiting military attacks upon infrastructure vital to civilian life, by the way --we find this morning that the ever pugnacious israelis have added to their excesses , the arrest of numerous members of the palestinian government affiliated with ruling party hamas.

while listening to mainstream media endlessly spin the story and play up the "brutal terrorist kidnapping of the 19 year old baby-faced israeli soldier" and restraining the urge to puke , i'm wondering , am i the only person hearing this hog-swill who asks how in the world does western media find the gall to call a soldier--a tank gunner , captured in a military operation by paletinian militias against a military target who has taken part in the shelling of palestinian civilians--a "terrorist kidnapping" ?

when in battle , one army's soldiers capture another army's soldiers --they are called prisoners of war --not "kidnapping victims".

This was obviously a small battle--a very small skirmish of little military importance in terms of final outcome in this war --the israeli "invincible" defence forces obviously lost this skirmish , and now the media tries to spin what is a clear propaganda victory for the palestinians into a crime of "terrorist kidnapping"

gimme a break !

after israel these past weeks killed in gaza numerous palestinians including a family and kids on a picnic --the palestinians responded and attacked the soldiers of the army that had been mercilessly shelling them with artillery fire , blockading them by air and sea and starving the palestinians by witholding the fifty million dollars a month collected in customs revenues and due the democratically elected palestinian government .

the israelis have slaughtered civilians without hesitation in their efforts to kill off and assassinate any palestinian leadership who won't lay down and give blessings to the zionist ethnic cleansing of the palestinian people-- including the outrageous israeli assassination by helicpoter gunship of a blind cleric in his wheelchair on his way to morning prayers .

hamas to its credit , called for and held a ceasefire for 16 months ...prohibiting attacks on targets in israel--while the israelis continued the entire time of the ceasefire not only to kill and arrest members of hamas , but to grab more land by building a huge wall and at the same time , continue and accelerate the building and expansion of israeli settlements on the disputed westbank territories --territories that the united nations has repeatedly ordered israel to leave and give back to the people israel took them from in the 1967 war.

this one captured israeli soldier --a mere p.o.w. in any other conflict-- is a smoke screen for an invasion of gaza that had to have been planned months in advance...and the simultaneous violation of syrian airspace by israeli jets -doing a fly-by over the syrian presidential palace --low to avoid radar and at above sonic speeds to cause huge bomb-like sonic booms that terrorize civilian populations-- is nothing short of extreme provacation that considering the Us presence and occupation in iraq and afghanistan along with recent regional defense alliances between syria and iran --is a step towards a widening regional conflict reaching from the mediterranean sea to the persian gulf and beyond...

is that what israel ultimately wants ?




* after having long observed a palestinian basic ineffectiveness at handling western media , it was interesting reading this portion of a "democracy now" interview by amy goodman with ali abunimah and shlomo ben ami...another small but clear media victory for the underdog side in this middleast conflict --any lessons to be learned by those of the african diaspora in our long campaign for justice ?


AMY GOODMAN: We're joined on the telephone from Spain by Shlomo Ben-Ami. He's the former Foreign Minister of Israel and a former member of the Israeli Knesset. He wrote the book Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy. We're also joined on the line by Ali Abunimah, founder of Electronic Intifada, electronicintifada.net, speaking to us from Jordan. Ali Abunimah, can you talk about the latest news?

ALI ABUNIMAH: Yes. Good morning, Amy. I'm here in Amman, Jordan, and watching the situation very closely. And it reminds me of the eulogy that Rabbi Yakov Perin gave for Baruch Goldstein, the Israeli settler who murdered 29 Palestinians in Hebron in 1994. He said, "One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail." And this kind of racism is clearly on display in the Israeli reaction to the capture of its soldier in the Gaza Strip by the Palestinian resistance. In fact, last week here in Amman, the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said explicitly that the lives of Israeli Jews are more important than the lives of Palestinians.

And we see that reflected also in the world reaction. Is it not astonishing that the entire world knows the name and face of the Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, while the hundreds of Palestinian children held in Israel's dungeons, not to mention 10,000 adult prisoners, thousands held without charge and trial, abducted from their homes in the middle of the night by Israeli occupation forces, remain nameless and faceless before a silent world?

And I want to say that it's very deeply painful to me as a Palestinian that while Palestinians in Gaza are demonstrating, the families of prisoners are demonstrating to urge the resistance not to release the soldier until their prisoners and hostages held by Israel are released, that the Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas rushed to condemn the legitimate conventional military operation carried out by the resistance and rushed to send his security forces to hunt for the captured soldier on Israel's behalf, when never once in history has he deployed his forces to protect and defend his own people against Israel's daily massacres. It's becoming unavoidable to many Palestinians, if not most, that Abbas is engaged in open collaboration with the occupation.

And a final point, that as far as Israel is concerned, it is rapidly becoming a failed state, unable to learn any lessons from its past. It's now repeating in Gaza and the West Bank all the mistakes of its invasion and occupation of Lebanon. And I believe that if it doesn't drastically and dramatically change course, it will self-destruct within a decade, perhaps taking everyone else in the region with it. It has become an apartheid pariah state, and its leaders are deluded in thinking that they can bludgeon the indigenous Palestinian population, who are now the majority between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, into submission and servitude.

I call on brave Israelis to understand the lessons, which brave white South Africans understood, and to engage in a voluntary process with Palestinians of dismantling completely, starting today, the system of racist laws, walls and settler colonies that are imprisoning both people in perpetual and endless and escalating bloodshed. It needs to stop now.

AMY GOODMAN: Ali Abunimah speaking to us from Amman. Let's turn to the former Israeli Foreign Minister, Shlomo Ben-Ami. Your response?

SHLOMO BEN-AMI: Response to what?

AMY GOODMAN: To what Ali Abunimah just said?

SHLOMO BEN-AMI: No, no. I'm not going to respond to that. If you have any particular question with regard to this operation, with regard to the abduction, with regard of the political situation on the ground -- I'm not going to go into that wider analysis about South Africa and what have you.

Saturday, June 24, 2006

the value in taking life slooooow.....

taoist grandmaster liu hung chieh practicing wu family tai chi chuan (tai ji qwan) in beijing park...the regular practice of slow movement is believed by taoists to enhance health and longevity , eventually leading practitioners to a state of enlightenment...


(*special thanks to Jonathan Versen of "Hugo Zoom" blog for sending us the picture posting 'secrets'-- thanks man--greatly appreciated...)








Charles Darwin's tortoise dies
23-06-2006
From: AAP


THE world's oldest animal in captivity has died on the Sunshine Coast at the ripe old age of 176.
Giant Galapagos tortoise Harriet has died of a suspected heart attack.

She was a star attraction at Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo since the 1980s and even features in the Guinness Book of Records for her longevity.

Her history is as colourful as the hibiscus flowers she lovingly munched on.

It is believed Harriet was one of three animals naturalist Charles Darwin brought back from his trip to the Galapagos Islands in 1835 and which led to his theories of evolution and natural selection.

A few years later, Sir Charles gave them to a Brisbane-bound friend.

For about 100 years Harriet was mistakenly thought to be a male.

At 176, Harriet was recognised as the world's oldest living chelonian - a reptile with a shell or bony plates.

Mr Irwin said he considered Harriet a member of the family.

"Harriet has been a huge chunk of the Irwin family's life," he said.

"I have grown up with this gorgeous old girl and so have my kids.

"She is possibly one of the oldest living creatures on the planet and her passing today is not only a great loss for the world but a very sad day for my family.

"She was a grand old lady."

Monday, June 19, 2006

tabloid picks up "bush /condie /laura" love triangle story...


*looks like wayne madsen broke the story first , now followed by the globe...maybe being first with this story will help madsen get the funding he needs for his website to stay afloat

yahknow , at one time i actually had a sort of a thing for condie and figured her to be a cold- blooded freak in the bedroom , but now i'm half wondering out loud what that attraction to her says about me , if a woman like her could actually be drawn to someone like dub ???

guess all that "exquisite sex and violence" he mentioned back when he was on the 2000 campaign trail , was simply too much for her to resist...






"June 19, 2006 -- American Media, which owns the tabloids National Enquirer, The Star, and The Globe, and which scooped the mainstream media on Gary Hart's affair with Donna Rice on "Monkey Business II"; Bill Clinton's affair with Gennifer Flowers and salacious details about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky; and Jesse Jackson's illegitimate child has published details of the George W. Bush-Condoleezza Rice relationship and his problems with First Lady Laura Bush in the current, June 26, 2006 issue of The Globe. WMR is quoted in the story.

They got it right about extra-marital affairs of Gary Hart, Bill Clinton, and Jesse Jackson. Now, they have the goods on George W. Bush. There goes Dubya's "5 percent poll bounce." Word from the South: This story ain't playing well among Dubya's white, fundamentalist base, his last bastion of support."--wayne madsen report


after receiving this postcard in the mail , if anything unpleasant happens to wayne madsen , we his readers, will have a direct idea as to the source of the "unpleasantry" {click image for larger version}



dub n cheney take the time to say a special "hello" to an investigative journalist who has on a daily basis skewered them and raked them over the coals for the past year --- madsen received this card --an obvious warning --in the mail shortly before the release of his powerfully on-target , anti-bush book , "jaded tasks" and almost immediately after breaking the "dub /condie / laura" love triangle story that the globe tabloid newspaper has apparently now also picked up...



June 18, 2006 -- WMR has heard through the grapevine that Karl Rove and his pimply-faced minions at the Republican National Committee and right-wing boiler shops around the country are going to target this editor in the aftermath of his recent "pass" from the CIA "Leakgate" Special Prosecutor. If Rove and his boys think that trying to link me with the anthrax attacks is going to have any effect, they are in for a big disappointment. I won't even dignify their ridiculous insinuations with a response, but Mr. Rove might want to think twice about directing his particularly nasty venom at yours' truly. The following is what appeared on a Reich-wing web site called PHXNews, with a link to the FBI's anthrax tip line:
Wayne Madsen New “Person of Interest” in Anthrax Probe ?

An OSI News Exclusive !

OSI : Information THEY don’t want you to see …

Washington, June 4, 2006 : Federal investigators have refused to comment on rumors a mysterious “ W. MADSEN” ,who is said to have had ties to and dealings with the controversial NSA “spy shop”,is being “looked at as a person of interest” in the nearly five-year-old Amerithrax investigation.

http://www.fbi.gov/anthrax/amerithraxlinks.htm

We have been able to confirm there is a Wayne Madsen : self-described as a Washington-based investigative reporter, who was employed by NSA during the Reagan Administration , and who is, to judge by his website : http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/ still privy to much top-secret government information.

Our informants point out that Washington, DC is not very far from Ft. Detrick, Maryland-home of the Army’s Bio-research program-and a relatively short train ride away from Princeton, NJ , location of the deadly “anthrax mailbox” .

A WHOIS lookup shows that PHXNews is located at: 13952 Bora Bora Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292. Typical of right-wing disinformation machines, they are well-funded to the point they can exist in wealthy and chic places like Marina del Rey. Oh, one more thing. While I'm on my upcoming West Coast book tour, I may pay a little visit to Bora Bora Way just to prove my point that the people who are behind these web sites are socially-repulsive, troll-like life forms who are missing large genetic segments found in the human genome.

My friend Larry Johnson recently (and aptly) said the following about Karl Rove, "Karl is a shameless bastard. Small wonder his mother killed herself. Once she discovered what a despicable soul she had spawned she apparently saw no other way out." Well, Karl. There's something else we know about you. In mid-summer 2004, some time after I wrote an article for CounterPunch about the agit-prop crimes of Karl Rove and while I was speaking out against Rove on a number of radio shows, I was contacted by a credible source in Palm Springs, California who told me he was talking to one of his acquaintances who was just getting over the death of his longtime "significant other." Then the Palm Spring resident dropped the big bombshell -- the acquaintance's "significant other" was Louis Rove, the adoptive father of Karl Rove. Louis Rove reportedly suffered from emphysema.

No wonder Karl Rove is so messed up and hateful. Rather than accept things the way they are and not the way he wants them, Karl Rove demonizes gays, Democrats, Gold Star moms, combat veterans, liberals, the peace movement, and anyone with whom he doesn't agree. No wonder Rove and Dubya get along so well. They are both sociopaths living lies every day and every hour--wayne madsen report

Sunday, June 04, 2006

look at all these "rumors"...

there had been the persistent rumors...that laura had slapped him , upset that his not too bright foreign policies had made the first couple "hated all over the world"







all the unpleasant comparisons to other "leaders" in history...





...rumors that georgie in his all too frequent rages had called laura the "c" word


"oh...you mean he called her a cat , right ?"


...no not "cat" ..the other "c" word-- referring to a not polite term for part of the female anatomy--DICK ! use your HEAD




"oh ..ok ...now i get it ...i use that word too...a lot...but it's not my all time favorite...hahaha "

...georgie is said to have called laura the "c" word as well as called her the "b" word


"i get that one ha ha ...the word that means a female dog ..." brilliant you , DICK !

but like a good christian woman , laura forgave poor georgie .


...she forgave him falling off the wagon with his binge drinking


almost falling down hammered in public





laura forgave his drug relapses



for a long long time laura overlooked the nasty but persistent rumors that georgie was a "brokeback cowboy"


"hey that wasn't me ... i swear it wasn't...that was rummy ...you know how he is..."




rumors about georgie with this guy--





and this guy--



and this gay escort/whitehouse press corp jeff gannon guy , who it appears did sleep-overs upstairs in the whitehouse presidential living quarters


there were other even wilder rumors like this


and this


and even this





now there is this reported by wayne madsen ...

"June 1, 2006 -- Rocky shoals for Bush marriage? Informed sources Inside the Beltway report that First Lady Laura Bush has established temporary residence in the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC as a result of a tiff with President Bush over an extramarital relationship involving her husband. Mr. Bush's tryst is said to involve Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. It is not known how long Mrs. Bush plans to remain at the Mayflower, however, her security detail has been present at the hotel during hours when the First Lady would normally be residing in the White House. While she was National Security Adviser, Rice, who has never been married, referred to George W. Bush as "my husband" before she corrected herself and said, "the president." Rice was speaking at a dinner when she made her "husband" remarks.

WMR is tracking the Laura Bush story.


June 2, 2006 -- A White House source, speaking on background, vehemently denied to WMR that there are marital problems between President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush over a reported extramarital affair between Mr. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. However, two mainstream media sources have confirmed that their sources also have reported an ongoing affair between Mr. Bush and Rice.

The mainstream media is hamstrung in reporting stories about Bush's personal life. For example, in 2001, the media highlighted Bush's comments about his passing out from choking on a pretzel while watching a football game in the White House. In reality, Bush, who claims he gave up drinking years ago, passed out from being inebriated. Washington's movers and shakers knew the story about Bush's drinking but the media studiously avoided it.

June 3, 2006 -- WMR can report that a Mayflower Hotel staffer has confirmed that First Lady Laura Bush spent at least one night this past week at the hotel, which is four blocks north of the White House. Mrs. Bush reportedly moved out of the White House after a confrontation with President Bush over his on-going affair with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The Mayflower's official position on the story is that they can "neither confirm nor deny" the identities of their guests. Because it's penchant for security and secrecy is well known to the Secret Service, the Mayflower has become a reliable hotel for U.S. and international VIPs.

Some Washington observers believe that the recent flare up between Laura Bush and the president stems from the fact that her poll numbers are twice as favorable as her husband's (60 percent to 29 percent). Laura Bush's recent solo missions to New Orleans, Colorado, and an AIDS conference at the United Nations represent a virtual declaration of independence from the most unpopular president in U.S. history. "She's [Laura's] taking a page right out of Hillary's book," said one Washington pundit. Rice, on the other hand, has been very close and loyal to Bush since she signed on as his chief foreign policy adviser in 2000. WMR has been told of intimate encounters between Mr. Bush and Rice on trips to New York City (multiple occasions) and New Orleans following Katrina.


June 4, 2006 -- More on George W. Bush's "Sanctity of Marriage" gay marriage constitutional ban.

George W. Bush's marital problems have just taken another turn for the worse. Apparently, Mr. Bush has not only engaged in an extra-marital affair with a member of the opposite sex who is also a senior member of his Cabinet, but also a member of the same sex. WMR received the following release this morning from Leola McConnell, Democratic candidate for Governor of Nevada (who has been endorsed by WMR). McConnell is a one-time professional dominatrix.

"President Bush's speech to the nation Monday. If he doesn't say he's a gay American or at the least a bisexual one then he shouldn't be making one at all. And the notion that it would be in regards to writing bigotry into our nation's Constitution is reprehensible. Too bad it isn't me doing the rebuttal because in 1984, I watched him perform (with the enthusiasm of homosexual male who had done this many times before) a homosexual act on another man, namely Victor Ashe. Victor Ashe is the current Ambassador to the nation of Poland who should also come out like former Governor McGreevey of New Jersey and admit to being a gay American. Other homo-erotic acts were also performed by then private citizen George Bush because I performed one of them on him personally.

I am the woman this website (bushssecretlifein84.tripod.com) speaks of that has been posted on the net nearly two years now. None of this would be the business of anyone but President Bush's little ruse to save his failed presidency by using DOMA [Defense of Marriage Act] to divide Americans one from the other has to be exposed as the act of a desperate closeted homosexual man. The only crime in being GLBT is in the hiding. The President needs to come clean with the American people about his own past sexual behavior before he tries to besmirch the humanity of people in search of sincerely committing to the same bonds of matrimony he's afforded. He violated his own vows of monogamy having a homosexual affair with a long time family friend of whom his wife had no knowledge. His hypocrisy seems to know no bounds.

I had planned to run for governor of Nevada without going into any of this but his planned nationally televised address to the nation makes it necessary for me to address his attempt at division in as public a way as he picked to try this Bushification of reality regarding same sex marriages.

Sincerely,
Leola McConnell
Liberal Democratic candidate for Governor of Nevada"


---

The editor was asked what sort of relationship George W. Bush could be having with Condoleezza Rice? My reply was that it was likely aberrant and involved something like the relationship King Edward VIII had with Wallis Simpson, who was rumored to have had androgen insensitivity syndrome.


"

Saturday, June 03, 2006

so throw the bums out out of office and into jail...why don'tcha ?








kennedy's article quoted and linked below, starts out at a strong pace , runs a good race , his description leaves no doubt as to the outcome of the fixed course the elections have followed, but like al gore , john kerry and howard dean , robert kennedy jr. after an extensive and convincing expose on bush voterfraud and illegal shennanigans, also pulls up lame at the finish line and trots across instead of going all out for the win...we must ask why?

these guys know it was rigged , they know that bush stole the elections of 2000 and 2004 chiefly by disenfranchising black voters and trampling all over black people's rights , they know the bought off media whores are either silent or still whimpering lapdogs of the republican party, yet , there seems to be a line these prominent white liberal "friends" of ours all refuse to cross --an allegiance they hold obviously greater than any loyalties professed at least every four years by them to us over fried chicken , potato salad , cornbread and collard greens after a googobb of songs about righteousness , the Lawd , soul stirring sermons and a ton of "amens" in our churches the sunday before election day--the official and long-standing traditional "won't see you again till the next four years is up" black community church services when somebody needs our help to get into office...our "liberal friends" hold an allegiance to THEIR OWN system --greater than any friendship for us they may profess --regardless of how corrupt their system may be , and regardless of how damaging and painful it's treatment may be to us , regardless of how destructive to our lives it may be...their allegiance is pledged to their own...and ours should be to ours , but it's not... for this failure as a people , we are losers when we easily could be otherwise... and it's as simple as that...




bought negro ken blackwell certifies 2004 election theft




http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen



http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060106R.shtml




illustration by matt mahurin


Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
By Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Rolling Stone

Thursday 01 June 2006

Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted - enough to have put John Kerry in the White House.



..."The issue of what happened in 2004 is not an academic one. For the second election in a row, the president of the United States was selected not by the uncontested will of the people but under a cloud of dirty tricks. Given the scope of the GOP machinations, we simply cannot be certain that the right man now occupies the Oval Office - which means, in effect, that we have been deprived of our faith in democracy itself.

American history is littered with vote fraud - but rather than learning from our shameful past and cleaning up the system, we have allowed the problem to grow even worse. If the last two elections have taught us anything, it is this: The single greatest threat to our democracy is the insecurity of our voting system. If people lose faith that their votes are accurately and faithfully recorded, they will abandon the ballot box. Nothing less is at stake here than the entire idea of a government by the people.

Voting, as Thomas Paine said, "is the right upon which all other rights depend." Unless we ensure that right, everything else we hold dear is in jeopardy. "







watch the video for yourself
http://www.iwilltryit.com/fixed1.htm
Computer programmer Clinton Curtis testified at the December 13th, 2004 Congressional hearing in Columbus, Ohio naming Republican Congressman Tom Feeney as the person who hired him to prepare vote-rigging software.

The programmer claims that he designed and built a "vote rigging" software program at the behest of then Florida Congressman, now U.S. Congressman, Republican Tom Feeney of Florida's 24th Congressional District.

Clint Curtis, 46, claims that he built the software for Feeney in 2000 while working at a sofware design and engineering company in Oviedo, Florida (Feeney's home district)
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Curtis, in his affidavit, says that as technical advisor and programmer at Yang Enterprises, Inc. (YEI) he was present at company meetings where Feeney was present "on at least a dozen occasions".

Feeney, who had run in 1994 as Jeb Bush's running-mate in his initial unsuccessful bid for Florida Governor, was serving as both corporate counsel and registered lobbyist for YEI during the period that Curtis worked at the company.

Feeney was also concurrently serving as a Florida state congressman while performing those services for YEI. Feeney would eventually become Speaker of the Florida House before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002. He is now a member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.

At an October 2000 meeting with Feeney, according to the affidavit and BRAD BLOG interviews with Curtis over the past three days, Feeney inquired whether the company could build a "vote fraud software prototype".

At least three YEI employees are said to have been present at that meeting; Curtis, company owner, Mrs. Li Woan Yang, and her executive secretary, Mike Cohen. Two other YEI employees may have come in and out at different points of the meeting according to Curtis.

Curtis says that Feeney "was very specific in the design and specifications required for this program."

"He detailed, in his own words, that; (a) the program needed to be touch-screen capable (b) the user should be able to trigger the program without any additional equipment (c) the programming to accomplish this needed to stay hidden even if the source code was inspected."

Though there was no problem with the first two requirements, Curtis explained to the Congressman that it would be "virtually impossible to hide such code written to change the voting results if anyone is able to review the uncompiled source code"

Nonetheless, he was asked at the meeting by Mrs. Yang to build the prototype anyway.

Curtis, "a life-long Republican" at the time, claims that it was his initial belief that Feeney's interest was in trying to stop Democrats from using "such a program to steal an election". Curtis had assumed that Feeney, "wanted to be able to detect and prevent that if it occurred."

Upon delivery of the software design and documentation on CD to Mrs. Yang, Curtis again explained to her that it would be impossible to hide routines created to manipulate the vote if anybody would be able to inspect the precompiled source code.

Mrs. Yang then told him, "You don’t understand, in order to get the contract we have to hide the manipulation in the source code. This program is needed to control the vote in South Florida."

Mrs. Yang then took the CD containing the software from Curtis, reportedly for later delivery to Feeney.

In other meetings with Feeny prior to the 2000 elections, it became clear to Curtis that Feeney had plans to suppress the vote in strong Democratic precincts. In the affidavit, Curtis claims that in those meetings Feeney had "bragged that he had already implemented 'exclusion lists' to reduce the 'black vote'." Feeney also mentioned that "proper placement of police patrols could further reduce the black vote by as much as 25%."

Curtis says that he submitted his resignation to YEI effective December 2000, but stayed on until they had found someone to replace him in February of 2001. He eventually became employed by the Florida Dept. of Transportation (FDOT) after leaving YEI.