Problems Plague Early Florida Vote | October 18, 2004

Let the games begin...

CBS News | Problems Plague Early Florida Vote | October 18, 2004

Al-Zarqawi group vows allegianceto bin Laden

Tell me how the war in Iraq has made us safer, please....

MSNBC - Al-Zarqawi group vows allegianceto bin Laden: "Al-Zarqawi group vows allegiance
to bin Laden
Relationship with al-Qaida leaders had been subject of speculation"

VOTER REGISTRATION FRAUD IN NEVADA

VOTER REGISTRATION FORMS SHREDDED

Will they stop at nothing? Guess not. There's a link to the video story from this city's Channel 8 eyewitness news. They metion my state, too. As co-inky-dink would have it, there are "hundreds" here who might not be registered because the "are you a US Citizen" box was not checked.

Voter Registrations Possibly Trashed

Cuts can't turn AT&T into a gem

Let's see. "Tax cuts are good for the economy." For likely buyers of AT&T, $15.00 bucks a share is too high. The telecom company is going to ELIMINATE 7,400 jobs

Cuts can't turn AT&T into a gem

Bush Ad Surfaces As News Story on Schools

Betcha didn't notice we slipped into communist-style state-controlled news didja? Well, this, along with the Sinclair stuff, ought to get you thinking. ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION YET?

Yahoo! News - Bush Ad Surfaces As News Story on Schools: "Bush Ad Surfaces As News Story on Schools

Sun Oct 10, 5:27 PM ET

By BEN FELLER, AP Education Writer
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has promoted its education law with a video that comes across as a news story but fails to make clear the reporter involved was paid with taxpayer money. "

Afghan election fiasco as Karzai rivals pull out over fraud claims

Remember how Bush touted Blair as a coalition partner? Britain announces a troop pull out. Remember how Bush said, in the first debate, "He forgot Poland" and then the next day Poland announces a troop pull out at the end of next year? Remember how Bush bragged that Afghanistan was having free elections and Iraq soon will?

Telegraph | News | Afghan election fiasco as Karzai rivals pull out over fraud claims: "Afghan election fiasco as Karzai rivals pull out over fraud claims
By Colin Freeman in Kabul
(Filed: 10/10/2004)
Afghanistan's first democratic presidential election was plunged into chaos yesterday after all 15 remaining candidates challenging President Hamid Karzai pulled out, claiming that measures to prevent fraud had failed. Two other candidates had dropped out earlier in the week."

Conservative TV Group to Air Anti-Kerry Film

They won't run Fahrenheit 9/11 but they'll pre-empt regular programming to air this???

Conservative TV Group to Air Anti-Kerry Film:

By Elizabeth Jensen, Times Staff Writer

NEW YORK -- The conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group, whose television outlets reach nearly a quarter of the nation's homes with TV, is ordering its stations to preempt regular programming just days before the Nov. 2 election to air a film that attacks Sen. John F. Kerry's activism against the Vietnam War, network and station executives familiar with the plan said Friday.
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If you are so inclined you can contact Sinclair at

Corporate Headquarters
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.
10706 Beaver Dam Road
Hunt Valley, Maryland 21030
410-568-1500 (Main Telephone)
410-568-1533 (Main Fax)

Investor Relations Contact
Lucy A. Rutishauser
VP Corporate Finance and
Corporate Treasurer
investor@sbgi.net

Sales Questions
Darren Shapiro
VP Sales
410-568-1500

-or-

Jeff Sleete
VP Marketing
410-568-1500

FBI Seized IndyMeida servers in UK

Nazi's?

6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.


Atlanta Independent Media Center (((i))): newswire/33330: PRESS RELEASE: FBI Seizes Indymedia Servers in the UK Current rating: 0
by Indymedia Global Site
07 Oct 2004
Thursday morning, US authorities issued a federal order to Rackspace ordering them to hand over information hosted on Indymedia web servers to the FBI. Rackspace, which provides hosting services for more that 20 Indymedia sites at its London facility, complied by turning over two Indymedia servers to federal authorities, effectively removing those sites from the internet.

CNN.com - Report: No WMD stockpiles in Iraq - Oct 7, 2004

Let the impeachment proceedings begin...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Saddam Hussein did not possess stockpiles of illicit weapons at the time of the U.S. invasion in March 2003 and had not begun any program to produce them, a CIA report concludes.

CNN.com - Report: No WMD stockpiles in Iraq - Oct 7, 2004

CBS News | Schools Warned Of Terror Threats | October 7, 2004�12:35:08

OK, no specific information about anything specific with regard to specific attacks on specific locations, but THE BUSHIES GOT THEIR ASSES KICKED on Iraq today so, ladies and gentlemen.....

TERROR ALERT

CBS News | Schools Warned Of Terror Threats | October 7, 2004�12:35:08

Mother of soldier killed in Iraq collapses, dies - Oct 5, 2004

CNN.com - Mother of soldier killed in Iraq collapses, dies - Oct 5, 2004:

Mother of soldier killed in Iraq collapses, dies

'Her grief was so intense,' hospital worker says

Tuesday, October 5, 2004 Posted: 12:28 PM EDT (1628 GMT)

"TUCSON, Arizona (AP) -- A 45-year-old woman collapsed and died days after learning her son had been killed in Iraq, and just hours after seeing his body."

Ex-key aide to McCain gives support to Kerry

Ex-key aide to McCain gives support to Kerry: "Ex-key aide to McCain gives support to Kerry
Billy House
Republic Washington Bureau
Oct. 5, 2004 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON - A man who until last week was one of Sen. John McCain's top aides is endorsing John Kerry for president, asserting that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have 'waged an unprecedentedly cynical and divisive campaign.'"

Guantanamo has 'failed to prevent terror attacks'

Another story that'll probably get no press in the US. God, I love the British.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Guantanamo has 'failed to prevent terror attacks': "Prisoner interrogations at Guantanamo Bay, the controversial US military detention centre where guards have been accused of brutality and torture, have not prevented a single terrorist attack, according to a senior Pentagon intelligence officer who worked at the heart of the US war on terror.
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Christino, who retired last June after 20 years in military intelligence, says that President George W Bush and US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have 'wildly exaggerated' their intelligence value. "

Supreme Court justice gets racy on talk circuit

This son-of-a-bitch has the nerve to write the dissenting opinion in Lawrence v. Texas?? Perhaps there should be a bit more "prude" in jurisprudence, in this case at least.

Supreme Court justice gets racy on talk circuit