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Elective Amnesia: Why does George W. Bush get a free ride?

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana

George Bush lost the 2000 election by half a million votes.  When the state of Florida wanted to recount votes, Bush operatives disrupted the disreputable Florida elections commissions that held the key to a fair count.  But there was no point. Lists of felons from the Governor Bush Texas government were used to knock 50,000 legally registered voters off the Florida voting lists.  Many of whom were minority voters.  Turnout in Florida was very high.  Without that preemptive strike, there would have been no recount necessary.  Bush would have lost Florida outright.  The 2000 election was stolen. (Image)

Bush got in and immediately planned an invasion of Iraq, the greatest foreign policy disaster in the history of the country.  The true cost is over three trillion dollars.

Commander in chief Bush presided over a profound command failure leading up to 9/by failing to acknowledge overwhelming intelligence evidence of a plot to attack U.S. skyscrapers with airplanes.  The military command was so disarrayed; the U.S. Air Force could only mount a few fighters in defense and they arrived late.

Bush took Clinton era deregulation and allowed Wall Street to set up a big casino scam that brought the economy and many of the people to their knees financially.

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Violations Prevail in Egypt’s Constitutional Referendum

By: Rana Mamdouh

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Published Tuesday, December 18, 2012
ALAKHBAR, Beirut, Lebanon

Cairo – The official results of the first round of Egypt’s constitutional referendum have yet to be released, but arguments over the outcome have already begun. Forces opposed to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) insist that voters rejected the draft constitution by 66 percent. Morsi’s supporters, on the other hand, insist that the result was in their favor with 56.55 percent approving the constitution.

These contradictory reports come amidst silence from the supreme committee charged with supervising the constitutional referendum. Officials maintain that results will not be disclosed until the second round of voting, scheduled to take place next Saturday, 22 December 2012.

The numerous violations and irregularities reported during election day prompted civil political forces to protest again today in Tahrir Square and even in front of al-Ittihadiya presidential palace. From there, protesters headed to the headquarters of the supreme committee for supervising the constitutional referendum and demanded a re-vote. Read the rest of this entry »

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Part II – Rigged Elections for Romney?

Michael Collins

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Part I of this series suggested that there may well have been massive vote flipping for candidate Mitt Romney in the Republican primaries (Rigged Elections for Romney (10/22/12)  The article and the initial research analysis were received broadly.  In addition, highly motivated citizens across the country and a team of high school students contacted the authors for help replicating the research in their states.  The researchers, Francois et al., point out that this can be done with their open source techniques.

The basic argument is straightforward.  If you look at precinct level voting data arranged from the smallest to the largest precincts, you will see Romney’s gains increasing substantially as the cumulative vote increases.  For example, Ohio and Wisconsin show this clearly as do eleven other states presented here.  This extraordinary vote gain from smallest to largest precincts is so out of line, that the probability that this would happen by chance alone is often less than 1 out of a number represented by 1 preceded by 100 zeros and a decimal point, a value beneath the statistical package’s lower limits.  As a result, the researchers termed the suspected vote flipping for Romney the “amazing anomaly.” (The Amazing Statistical Anomaly) Read the rest of this entry »

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Totalitarianism in the US: An Accident Waiting to Happen

By Numerian
First appeared in The Agonist

Listening to Paul Ryan’s speech at the Republican National Convention, I couldn’t place where I had come across something quite like this before. Then it struck me – Pravda! I used to subscribe to Pravda in high school and college, first to learn Russian, and second, to pursue a college program in Soviet studies. Pravda was a newspaper that specialized in the Big Lie – the Five Year Plan was always ahead of schedule, Soviet industrial capabilities exceeded that of any other country, people were starving on streets all across America. The newspaper was a non-stop stream of lies, just as Paul Ryan’s speech was studded with Big Lies – lies that were easily disprovable, such as Barack Obama did nothing about the Simpson-Bowles recommendations to reduce the budget deficit (Paul Ryan didn’t mention he voted against these recommendations when the House killed any chance of enacting them); or that Obama made it easier for people to live off welfare (the President altered the enrollment rules of welfare at the request of Republican governors); or the Romney favorite – Obama cut over $700 billion of Medicare benefits for individuals (the cuts were imposed on hospitals and insurance companies, not beneficiaries, and Romney has the same cuts in his economic plan).  (Image:  Wikipedia) Read the rest of this entry »

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Polite Fascism Contracts The Right To Vote – The turning point for VoterID legislation

Introduction: The article below was written right after the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision upholding Indiana’s Voter ID law.  By upholding that law, the court allowed subsequent laws restricting the right to vote throughout the country. 

Voter ID laws require that citizens present a photo identification before they cast their ballot.   This requirement solves a fictional problem, “voter fraud,” individuals voting illegally.  I review the court’s decision based on totally inadequate evidence and provide background on the little-discussed origin of laws like this.   As Civil War Reconstruction ended, the KKK and other white supremacist groups in the Old South sought to stop black Americans from voting.  The laws did just that for decades until the Voting Rights Act helped correct the problem.

There is no more reason for Voter ID laws now than there was in 2008, unless the goal is to suppress voting by the poor, the young, and minorities.  These groups are far more likely to be without an acceptable photographic identification than the rest of the population.

Michael Collins, August 30, 2012

(Links to core documents and scholarship on this subject are provided at the end of the document.)

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Polite Fascism Contracts The Right To Vote

Scoop Independent News (First Published)
Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 8:45 pm

Column: Michael Collins

Another Supreme Outrage


Justices Stevens, Kennedy, and Roberts combined with Scalia, Alito, and
Thomas to take voting rights back to1898. Image (left), Image (right)

Polite Fascism Contracts The Right To Vote

William Crawford, et al, Petitioners 07-21 v.
Marion County Elections Board et al.

Indiana Democratic Party, et al., Petitioners 07-25 v. Todd Rokita,
Indiana Secretary of State, et al.
U. S. ____ (2008) Opinion of STEVENS, J.

By Michael Collins

They wear their robes but leave the hoods off, the polite justices of the Supreme Court. They write decisions then issue them in a formal setting, behind the columns of a capitol monument, with a history that confers a dignity not deserved. The Court embodies the dilemma of our modern culture. The most awful acts are committed with bland justification by polite people who hide behind institutional trappings; for the sake of the few, at the expense of the many. Read the rest of this entry »

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