Title: Palast report
Johnnie Be Good
Greg Palast, July 29,
2004
[Boston] The millionaires are dancing now. The balloons are
falling on John Kerry, John Edwards and their nuclear families.
They're playing Johnnie B. Goode over the
loudspeakers. Democrats are hopping up and down like JFK never
Title: Socialist candidate's view
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/aug2004/kerr-a14.shtml
Kerry and the Democratic
campaign: a descent into farce
By Bill Van Auken, SEP presidential candidate
14 August 2004
The presidential campaign of John Kerry has in the two brief weeks
since the
with a spectator's gloat of
seeming to have taken a stand.
The Nader option provides the voter the cudgel of citizenship to tend
the common good and withstand corporatism.
To vote is not enough.
Dan Scanlan
Title: yes
Federal Court
Rules That Commission on Presidential Debates is a Partisan
Organization
CPD not credible to run non-partisan debates
Nader urges support of Citizens' Debate Commission
Washington, DC: Independent Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader today
applauded a federal court
Bush or the elitist,
get-in-front-of-the-parade Kerry.
Here's my posting of
October 28, 2003, followed by a Nader release yesterday.
Dan Scanlan
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Here's the strategy:
1) Dennis Kucinich seeks (and wins) the Democratic nomination by
convincing Democrats to vote for him
http://www.counterpunch.org/goff08132004.html
This is a long, well-researched article that takes on John Kerry's
environmentalist platform but goes much deeper into broader questions of
oil depletion, global warming, etc. It cites Mark Jones extensively as
well as Henry Liu. Highly recommended.
Title: Re: One Iraq veteran
A young friend, about 20 or so, spent
time in Iraq during his on-going 4
year enlistment in the Air Force. He's now stationed in the
states but
will go back to Iraq in February.
The conversation with him was
depressing. .
The spin is frightening.
Gene Coyle
The
Title: Re: ABK Comrades!
on other hand, nader's folks are pretty
disingenuous re. reps who were
apparently working to help him get on
ballot,
You might want to verify your source.
Here's what Nader has to say about it...
Ralph Nader
Responds to Terry McAuliffe
False Statements
on Republican
Title: nader goes southwest
Nader
Presidential Campaign Announces Southwest Airlines as its Unofficial
Campaign Airline
Based on several years of experience with an upstart airline from
Texas, the Nader Presidential campaign announces Southwest Airlines
as its unofficial campaign airline.
Moveon began in protest of the Clinton impeachment. It began as a
letter that took a
life of its own.
Michael,
I'd like to know more about this. I've been asked to perform at a
benefit for MoveOn and need to decide. (I don't want to help fund a
Kerry front.)
Dan Scanlan
Title: never mind
Moveon began in protest of the Clinton
impeachment. It began as a letter that took a
life of its own.
Never mind, Michael, about more on this. I found what seems to
be the whole story at
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=MoveOn/History.
Dan
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Dan Scanlan wrote:
Moveon began in protest of the Clinton impeachment. It began as a
letter that took a life of its own.
I'd like to know more about this. I've been asked to perform at a
benefit for MoveOn and need to decide.
There's an extensive profile of the MoveOn
Ha! You think you're just going to leave the country when things get
bad? Think again.
U.S. TO IMPLANT ID TAGS IN PASSPORTS
The U.S. State Department plans to implant electronic ID chips in
U.S. passports to allow computer face-recognition systems to match
facial characteristics of the digital
Ashcroft Orders Libraries To Destroy Copies Of Laws
Federal Statutes On Asset Forfeiture May Not Be Published,
In another move towards federal tyranny, the Attorney General John
Ashcroft has ordered the
American Library Association to destroy all copies of the federal
laws on asset forfeiture and
be
given through the present electoral process.
Dan Scanlan
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http://ArnoldWatch.org Weblog August 6, 2004 2:00 pm
Questions Jay Leno Should Ask Arnold Tonight
Jay Leno has a tradition of using viewer-contributed material on the
air. In honor of Governor Schwarzenegger's return to Leno tonight to
mark the one year anniversary of his historic announcement
Title: Let The Voter Beware
Los Angeles
Times
August 6, 2004
COMMENTARY
Democratic Party Should Live Up to Its Name
Nader deplores political skulduggery aimed at keeping him off the
ballot.
By Ralph Nader
Though the Democrats have the right to robustly oppose my independent
presidential
from msnbc.
A new 'Bushism': We're gonna get us
The Associated Press
Updated: 1:24 p.m. ET Aug. 5, 2004
WASHINGTON - President Bush offered up a new entry for his catalog of
Bushisms on Thursday, declaring that his administration will never
stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and
More land for the military than for Hawaiians
Two-part series by Winona LaDuke in Indian Country Today:
Part One
http://www.indiancountry.com/?1090938578style=printablestyle=printable
Part Two
http://www.indiancountry.com/?1091536055style=printablestyle=printable
Title: nader to lobbyist
Nader Tells Toby
Moffett: "Stop making false statements concerning allegations of
Republican support."
Rebuts False Allegations of Republican Support
Describes Moffett As a "Corporate Lobbyist," Not a Nader's
Raider
Moffett is Part of the Problem of Corporate Control of
What in the hell would a weak anti-depressant drug be?
A Democrat for president?
Dan
embedded like a suppository
I'm stealing this.
Dan
Title: Re: testing
there's no
need to read this. How does the format look?
Somewhat staid, but it flowed nicely.
Scanlan
Title: War or resistance? Demos go for
war
The great
unmentionable at the Democratic convention: Kerry's antiwar past
By David Walsh
30 July
2004
One of the most striking and dishonest features of the Democratic
Party convention and nomination of Senator John Kerry this week in
Boston has been
Title: Nader says why
Ralph Nader, featured in special Democratic Convention edition of The
Hill, sending a clear message to the corporate political
duopoly.
The Hill
June 29, 2004
OP-ED
I'm staying in the race. Here's why. Get used to it.
By Ralph Nader
Washington, DC is
Title: more nader to moore
Hey Michael, Where's Your Past?
The saga of Michael the Second continues. From a stalwart
collaborator before huge rallies in our 2000 Nader/LaDuke campaign to
a puzzling sidelines posture, to an endorsement of Wesley Clark, you
have perplexed more than a few of your
Subject: FW: politically correct
TO SPEAK ABOUT WOMEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT:
1. She is not a BABE or a CHICK - She is a BREASTED AMERICAN.
2. She is not a SCREAMER or a MOANER - She is VOCALLY APPRECIATIVE.
3. She is not EASY - She is HORIZONTALLY ACCESSIBLE.
4. She is not a DUMB BLONDE - She
The Right Wing's Deep, Dark Secret
Some hope for a Bush loss, and here's why
By John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
(Los Angeles Times, July 28) -- One of the secrets of conservative
America is how often it has welcomed Republican defeats. In 1976,
many conservatives saw the trouncing of
Title: Nader to Kucinich
Dennis, We Thought We
Knew You!
By Ralph
Nader
http://www.votenader.com
Dennis Kucinich has decided to endorse the Kerry-Edwards Campaign. Of
course, since Dennis is a committed, life-long Democrat this is not a
big surprise. But, in doing so he also urged Nader
Title: American know how
200 Female U.S. Soldiers RAPED in Iraq by U.S. Troops
Miles Moffeit / Denver Post, 2004-07-15
Rape kits call attention to assaults
By Miles Moffeit
Denver Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - Sexual-assault organizations across the
country are shipping
of the temple. He
wouldn't attend either one of the corporate orgies.
Dan Scanlan
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How Kerry Can Win
By Kevin Phillips
(The Nation, July 15) -- John Kerry can win, given George W. Bush's
incompetence, and White House strategists realize that. All the
Democrats need to do is to peel away some of the Republican unbase
-- the most wobbly members of the GOP coalition. The caveat is
Halliburton to charge soldiers extra for the
tinkle?
Dan Scanlan
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to
release its final report on the Bush administration's handling of the
Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
From Dan
Scanlan,
If anyone should
know of manipulating the American sheeple, its Clinton. It's the
timing, stupid. Put your blue dress on and bomb Afghanistan and
The Sudan
And I'm wondering, ... if others have had something like this
experience with their
credit cards. In the meantime, you can find me in the barter economy.
Gil
I don't use credit cards, but I do have to register my domain name
every year. A month ago I received an invoice in the mail for the
next
Has any economist calculated the savings to the companies and costs
(in real time x burden) to the consumer inherent in automated
telephone keypad negotiations, automated 411 calls, and muzak
assisted telephone holding patterns?
Dan Scanlan
Checking Your Bill for a New Charge Called 'Oops'
By David Pogue
(SF Chronicle, Dec. 4, 2003) -- Every few years, economists identify
another mutant variation of inflation to keep them awake at night. In
the 1980s, it was stagflation. Three years ago, it was deflation. And
now, meet the economic
also, Kerry and Edwards were the
only senators who abstained from voting on the Federal Marriage
Amendment)
Chicken-hearted donkeyducks.
nd efforts will
be on the positive side of the ledger.
Stay strong,
Dan Scanlan
Title: Monkey see, monkey do
Monkey see, monkey do:
Iyad Allawi, the
new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a pistol and executed as many as
six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station, just days
before Washington handed control of the country to his interim
government, according to two
Title: Just in time for the election?
WAR WITH CHINA: Just in time for the election?
Sailing Toward a
Storm in China
U.S. maneuvers could spark a war.
By Chalmers Johnson
LOS ANGELES
TIMES
July 15, 2004 Los Angeles Times -- Quietly and with
minimal coverage in the U.S. press, the Navy
A cloud over civilisation
Corporate power is the driving force behind US foreign policy - and
the slaughter in Iraq
JK Galbraith
Thursday
July 15, 2004
The Guardian
At the end of the second world war, I was the director for overall
effects of the United States strategic bombing survey - Usbus, as
Title: Hawking black hole
NewScientist.com
Hawking cracks
black hole paradox
19:00 14 July
04
Exclusive from
New Scientist Print Edition.
After nearly 30 years of arguing that a black hole destroys
everything that falls into it, Stephen Hawking is saying he was
wrong. It seems that black
Title: Turkey Shoot
TURKEY
SHOOT
by Dan Scanlan
(P)resident George W.
Bush, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Homeland Security Director Tom
Ridge, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield, Secretary of State
Colin Powell, National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice and their
many cohorts
speaking of the Saudis, they regularly behead murderers, etc. So the
beheading of captives by Iraqi insurgents isn't as shocking to
people in the Middle East as it might be to us Amurricans.
If Halliburton collects enough of the nubs, should it be taxed for
additional capital gains?
kucinich folks have to make decision at some point re. that
They should be told to leave the Democratic Party and joing the Green Party.
--
Yoshie
er, might you mean the Nader/Camejo campaign?
Dan Scanlan
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for the activists. No doubt about it.
The easy thing to forget about Nader is that electoral politics and
the Green Party are just two of the many prongs of his civic thrust.
Dan Scanlan
sent by Women's Int'l League for Peace Freedom (WILPF)
URGENT:
Sign on to Call for UN Election Observers for the US Elections
Dear Colleagues,
On Thursday, July 1, 2004, eight members of the US Congress sent a
letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations asking for UN
oversight of
Louis wrote...
Maybe he should have proposed John McCain as his
running-mate instead of Peter Camejo. I'm sure that would have gotten
him a clean bill of health from the Nation Magazine, Salon.com,
commondreams.org and alternet.org just as it got John Kerry.
Nader has not sought the endorsement
Fahrenheit On The Brain
Who cares if Moore's flick is flawed, shameless propaganda? At least
it makes America think
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Wednesday, July 7, 2004
Oh my God but Michael Moore is
NY Press, July 7, 2004
DONKEY. ELEPHANT. CHICKEN?
Right on!
If so, let me remind you that newspapers are not so different from
politicians. They exist to sell advertising. What goes on the page in
between the ads is not so very important.
I thought the function of news was to keep the ads from bumping into
one another.
Dan Scanlan
I just heard that Kerry is going to get his nipples pierced because
Bush has a Dick Cheney.
(which hears God telling
him to go to war), Bush will have been given permission to do
whatever he wants. And his is the closest stuck-up finger to nuclear
holocaust.
Dan Scanlan
recall that late henry gonzalez (dem congressman from west texas) filed
numerous articles of impeachment against bush
Title: like father, like son
U.S.
Representative Henry Gonsalez (Democrat, Texas), introducing articles
of impeachment against George H.. W. Bush.
(Could it be
used today by U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich without
alteration?)
January 16,
1991
Mr Speaker, it is with great sadness, yet great
Come join the
BILLIONAIRES FOR BUSH
for a Bush Birthday Bash
George Bush has given so much to the Billionaires that we just had to
give something back. So on Tuesday, July 6th, from 5:00 to 7:30PM at a
bucolic location on the north side of Santa Monica Boulevard between
Canõn and Rodeo Drives in
based on
equal rights for all and that takes into account high speed mass
communication, so that the rule is one media outlet and one vote per
person. Let every voice, not just some, be heard loud and clear.
Dan Scanlan
*
http://www.votenader.org/why_ralph/index.php?cid=54
Title: bush vent
A good site for
venting.
http://www.spankbush.com/index.asp?ref=593949
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/30/bush.nader/index.html
Bush allies illegally helping Nader in Oregon
Complaint filed with Federal Election Commission
Wednesday, June 30, 2004 Posted: 8:19 PM EDT (0019 GMT)
America Votes 2004
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Efforts by two conservative groups to help
Title: election concern
Voting official
seeks process for canceling Election Day over terrorism
Friday, June 25, 2004
BY ERICA WERNER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - The government needs to establish guidelines for
canceling or rescheduling elections if terrorists strike the United
States
Louis wrote...
That's nothing in comparison to Gore inspiring more than 200,000
registered Democrats in Florida to crossover and vote for George W. Bush
in the last election. The Democrats should not worry about the tiny
number of Democrats who vote for Nader. They should try to figure out
how to
' campaign in 2000
failed
to reach 5% minimum in votes to qualify greens for matching funds in
04...
of course, he's a non (even anti) party guy and always has been, a
'common
cause' type, he's never been a member of green party, his prez campaigns
have not been about building a green party...
Dan
Title: nader to moore
Ralph Nader letter to Michael Moore:
http://www.votenader.org/why_ralph/index.php?cid=54
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Noonday in the Shade
By PAUL KRUGMAN
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On April 2003, John Ashcroft's Justice Department disrupted what
appears to have been a horrifying terrorist plot. In the small town
of Noonday, Tex., F.B.I. agents discovered a weapons cache containing
fully automatic
a revolutionary device to pull it up.
Dan Scanlan
Title: extra money
One of the
biggest problems facing Afghanistan's first elected post-Taliban
government will be the country's illicit cultivation of opium
poppies, which satisfied almost three-fourths of the world's opium
demand last year. The trade, 20 times that during the Taliban's last
Charles. Ronald Reagan.
I'm a patriot-- but I'll pick my own day of mourning.
Dan Scanlan
Grass Valley CA
Country-pickin'
'flation
©1979 Dan
Scanlan
There's this
country-pickin' 'flation
Runnin' round
the nation
Keepin'
people poorer than they are.
They got a
presidential 'lection
Cause
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1231978,00.html
The Guardian - June 5, 2004
I have been in torture photos, too
The Abu Ghraib images are all too familiar to Irish republicans
by Gerry Adams
News of the ill-treatment of prisoners in Iraq created no great
surprise in republican
Dan and the rest of the list, please do not send graphics to the
list. It takes up
enormous bandwidth. It fills up mailboxes and puts an inordinate
cost on some people
outside the United States.
Just send a URL.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA
Title: url for odd bodkins
The Odd Bodkins cartoon on Reagan is at
http://www.coolhanduke.com/bodkins.html
Dan
You've seen one dead president, you've seen them all.
The Quotable Bush
I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his
hand cut off by Saddam Hussein.
-- President Bush, meeting Iraqi amputees at the White House on May 25.
Right now Dennis has more power than John Kerry -- he can introduce
articles of impeachment in the House.
And he should.
Step up to the plate Dennis!! We can't wait for the November fraud.
Dan Scanlan
Grass Valley
IMPEACHIMPEACHIMPEACHIMPEACH
the same thought.
Iraq is a test run for shutting down the American people.
Dan Scanlan
November's too late. Impeach now.
Sender: The National Security Archive [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: NSARCHIVE [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Update: Read the Kissinger Telcons
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
National Security Archive Update, May 26, 2004
READ THE KISSINGER TELCONS
Five years after the National Security Archive initiated legal
Title: how many
How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to
replace a light bulb?
The answer is seven:
1. One to deny that a light
bulb needs to be replaced.
2. One to attack and
question the patriotism of anyone who has questions about the light
bulb.
3. One to blame the
Title: correct
HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT WOMEN AND MEN AND BE POLITICALLY
CORRECT:
(new 2004 version)
WOMEN:
1. She is not a BABE or a CHICK - She is a BREASTED AMERICAN.
2. She is not a SCREAMER or MOANER - She is VOCALLY
APPRECIATIVE.
3. She is not EASY - She is HORIZONTALLY ACCESSIBLE.
4. She
okay, while we're on the subject of answering rhetorical questions,
can corporations attain orgasm?
Yes, with a stroke of luck on the floor.
Scanlan
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of the government. The Florida voting fiasco was, to me,
the coming home of our destruction of the electoral process in other
countries, especially Latin and South America. Today Reuters'
reporters, tomorrow Sy Hersch?
Dan Scanlan
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Reuters staff abused by U.S. troops in Iraq
By Andrew Marshall
TENTATIVE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION SCHEDULE
New York, NY
6:00 PM Opening Prayer led by the Reverend Jerry Fallwell
6:30 PM Pledge of Allegiance
6:35 PM Burning of Bill of Rights (excluding 2nd amendment)
6:45 PM Salute to the Coalition of the Willing
6:46 PM Seminar #1: Iraq Stratergies?Voodoo/DooDoo
bumper sticker seen yesterday:
[picture of US flag] These Colors Don't Run the World.
I saw one in Albuquerque this last week that showed Rumsfield, Bush,
Cheney and Powell and had the legend, Don't swap horsemen in the
middle of the apocalypse.
of
pushing for a more meaningful discussion (and correction) of the
underlying systemic ill.
The first step to recovery is, alas, admitting that we ain't who we
pretend to be.
Dan Scanlan
Max wrote...
At the risk of a round of raspberries I'll tell my Cambodia story.
Raspberries are good for you. Thanks for the story.
Dan Scanlan
leadership.
I feel like a redwood today -- a little pithy.
Dan Scanlan
, I'm looking for the connection between the exposure of
American torture and the final installment of Friends.
Dan Scanlan
Title: Impeach
"Dirty pool," says Kerry
Kucinich of Ohio Launches
Impeachment Bill in House
Several House Republicans join effort,
say shame is "too much to carry"
WASHINGTON - The United States House of Representatives was
thrown into a flurry of scrambled activity today when Rep. Dennis
http://ArnoldWatch.org Weblog April 14, 2004 7:45 pm
The Real Workers' Comp Deal
by Doug Heller
ArnoldWatch hears that the real deal in Sacramento has nothing to do
with the language of the workers' comp bill itself but with a
political agreement on another measure.
Tipsters tell us that in
A Strategy for Iraq
By John F. Kerry
While we may have differed on how we went to war, Americans of
all political persuasions are united in our determination to succeed.
Apparently, he doesn't know me.
Dan Scanlan
[how many electoral votes does the Holy Spirit have?]
You'll have to take this up with the Supreme Court.
Dan Scanlan
, that there's another side.
Dan Scanlan
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Title: one to watch
from
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/mar2004/meji-m24.shtml
Citing killing
of civilians, lies:
US soldier refuses to return to Iraq
By Jeff Riley
24 March
2004
A Florida National Guard soldier returned to his base of deployment
at Fort Stewart, Georgia, to face charges
===
THE DAILY MIS-LEAD
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2010620l=23197
===
BUSH MARKETS BURMESE PRODUCTS; EVADES OWN TRADE BAN
According to a new report, President Bush's official campaign is
selling clothing made in Burma - a country
.
Dan Scanlan
in 1996, and in Sacramento and Chico
CA in 2000. He's very compelling, funny and scholarly, in my opinion.
When he's finished, you get the sense it is only because time ran
out, not because he ran out of things to say.
Dan Scanlan
The Russian word for irony is ironiya. The word for iron is
zheleznoye. So no pun.
I wasn't sure if I smelt one or not.
Scanlan
An article from the Christian Peacemaker Teams' newsletter,
Signs of the Times http://.www.cpt.org
Iraq: Retribution - The Order of the Day
In hopes of gaining greater access to detainees held by U.S. forces,
three Iraqi human rights lawyers from the Organization of Human
Rights (OHR) tried to
Title: embedded journalists
U.S. Videos, for
TV News, Come Under Scrutiny
By Robert Pear
The New York Times
Monday 15 March 2004
WASHINGTON, March 14 - Federal
investigators are scrutinizing television segments in which the Bush
administration paid people to pose as journalists praising
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=14042696method=full;
siteid=50143
Mar 12 2004
WORLD EXCLUSIVE Mirror.co.uk
MY HELL IN CAMP X-RAY By Rosa Prince and Gary Jones
A BRITISH captive freed from Guantanamo Bay today tells the world of
its full horror - and reveals how
Bush's disturbing sleeping disorder
By Hunter S. Thompson
The national news was crowded with big stories this week, and most of
them turned out to be somehow joined at the hip with major league
Sports -- especially Football and its sinister connections with
tainted money and naked women. It was
, corporations are comprised of individuals acting
in consort, and are not fictional. But they are not real in the sense
of individual humans, either. When was the last time that the
management, directors, shareholders, vendors and lawyers of a
corporation incarcerated en masse for murder or treason?
Dan
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