OpEdNews - Diary: GORE VIDAL: "THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN MY LIFETIME

"This is the most important vote that you'll probably ever cast. Because should this gang of thugs continue in the two houses of Congress, there isn't any chance of getting the Constitution back...."

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DIANE'S NEWS CLIPS begins here :)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> http://eddiestinson@gmail.com : Gore Vidal VIDEO: Welcome to the third Reich: GORE VIDAL: "THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN MY LIFETIME "This is the most important vote that you'll probably ever cast. Because should this gang of thugs continue in the two houses of Congress, there isn't any chance of getting the Constitution back...." click here _________________________________ http://eddiestinson@gmail.com: GOVERNMENT CONCEALED 180 DIEBOLD VULNERABILITIES BRAD BLOG EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS: 'THE PENTAGON PAPERS OF E-VOTING' - THE LONG-SOUGHT 2003 STATE OF MARYLAND'S 'SAIC REPORT' ON DIEBOLD SECURITY VULNERABILITIES - NOW RELEASED IN FULL! >> http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3731 _________________________________ Submitted by: .ron corvuswire@verizon.net For specific advice on How to Steal Back Your Vote, go to >> http://www.gregpalast.com/steal-back-your-vote _________________________________ Karl Rove's LAST Dirty Trick: RoboLies Karl Rove has been bragging for weeks about his "72-hour program" to swing the elections, which predict a Democratic takeover of Congress. Now we know what it is: a dirty trick campaign using robocalls. The calls are made to Democrats and swing voters at all times of day or night to make them angry. And they pretend to be from the Democrat ("Hello, I'm calling with information about Lois Murphy"). If you hang up, they call back 7-8 times, and each time you hear the Democrat's name, to get you angry at him or her. If you stay on, you get to hear a scathing attack on the Democrat. Karl Rove's whole career has been devoted to dirty tricks. In 2002, his dirty trick was to force Congress to vote shortly before Election Day for the Iraq War based on two months of White House lies about WMD's and Al Qaeda ties. That dirty trick has cost the lives of 2,834 brave young Americans (16 so far in November), $2 trillion in debt to our children and grandchildren, and unleashed massive bloodshed in Iraq. [snip] More details >> http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com | http://dailykos.com .......snip...... 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Report election fraud to 1-888-VOTETIP or tips@velvetrevolution.us and you might collect a reward of up to $500,000 for information leading to overturning a House or Senate race and conviction of the person or persons responsible. .......snip...... http://archive.democrats.com/elandslide/subscribe_module.cfm?campaign=ads _________________________________ IF LINK DOESN'T WORK, THEN PASTE ARTICLE LINK(S) INTO YOUR BROWSER -- OR GO DIRECTLY TO >> http://www.truthout.org Robert Fisk | This Was a Guilty Verdict on America as Well http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606L.shtml Robert Fisk writes: "So America's one-time ally has been sentenced to death for war crimes he committed when he was Washington's best friend in the Arab world. America knew all about his atrocities and even supplied the gas - along with the British, of course - yet there we were yesterday declaring it to be, in the White House's words, another 'great day for Iraq.'" ----- Robert Parry | Bush Will Say Anything http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606O.shtml Robert Parry writes, "The November 7 elections are shaping up as not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats, but a test of how gullible - and how divorced from reality - the American people have become." ----- William Fisher | Where Are You Harry? http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606B.shtml William Fisher writes: "Duncan Hunter, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, announced he would be seeking the Republican Party's nomination for president in 2008 ... What he didn't announce is that he had one of his staffers insert in the Defense Department's funding bill, literally in the middle of the night, a provision to shut down the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, known as SEGIR ... American occupation officials have been sent to jail on bribery and conspiracy charges, and SEGIR has exposed disastrously poor construction work by well-connected companies, and discovered that the military did not properly track hundreds of thousands of weapons it shipped to Iraqi security forces." ----- David Olive | End of the Neo-Cons http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606J.shtml David Olive writes: "Whether or not the Republicans lose control of one or both houses of the US Congress on Tuesday, the neo-conservative vision that has guided American foreign policy since 2001 has run its course. The neo-cons' grand design lies in ruins, having accomplished nothing other than to shrink America's stature in the world." ----- FOCUS | William Rivers Pitt: The Rat Pack http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606Z.shtml William Rivers Pitt writes: "Ken Adelman, Michael Ledeen, Frank Gaffney and Richard Perle have spent many years waiting for the opportunity to road-test their wild ideas about how to deal with the world, and with the installation of the Bush administration, they finally got their big chance. Now that the wheels are coming off, however, they are trying to pretend that none of this has anything to do with them." ----- New Telemarketing Ploy Steers Voters on Republican Path http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606K.shtml ----- New Hampshire Makes GOP Stop Some Automated Calls http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606C.shtml ----- Cameras Show Army Recruiters Misleading Students http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606M.shtml An ABC News undercover investigation showed Army recruiters telling students that the war in Iraq was over, in an effort to get them to enlist. ----- The American Conservative | GOP Must Go http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606D.shtml The American Conservative writes: "It should surprise few readers that we think a vote that is seen - in America and the world at large - as a decisive 'No' vote on the Bush presidency is the best outcome ... On November 7, the world will be watching as we go to the polls, seeking to ascertain whether the American people have the wisdom to try to correct a disastrous course." ----- David Swanson | Rumsfeld and Hussein: Partners in Crime http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606E.shtml "In the course of making the world less safe for democracy, Donald Rumsfeld has overseen the slaughter of 650,000 Iraqis and 3,000 Americans. He has targeted civilians, journalists, hospitals, and ambulances. He has used white phosphorous as a weapon on civilian families. He has used depleted uranium and a new form of napalm. (When did melting the skin off children become a family value?) He has approved the hiding of prisoners from the Red Cross, the detention of Americans and non-Americans without charge or counsel, and the use of torture. Acceptable torture techniques were posted on the wall at Abu Ghraib in the form of a memo from Rumsfeld," writes David Swanson. ----- Glenn Greenwald | An Ideology of Lying http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606F.shtml "It is not news to anybody that Bush followers lie repeatedly and aggressively," writes Glenn Greenwald. "But what does continue to amaze is that there is literally no limit on their willingness to do so even when - especially when - it requires them to ignore and contradict even the most glaring facts which everyone can see, as clear as day, right in front of our faces." ----- War Simulation in 1999 Pointed Out Iraq Invasion Problems http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606N.shtml A series of secret US war games in 1999 showed that an invasion and post-war administration of Iraq would require 400,000 troops, nearly three times the number there now. And even then, the games showed, the country still had a chance of dissolving into chaos. ----- Michael Schwartz | The Couch Potato's Guide to Election Night http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606P.shtml ----- Tennessee Senate Race May Reach Beyond Election http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606A.shtml ----- Iraq Vets Target Congressional Races http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606G.shtml Veterans of the Iraq war are mobilizing for Tuesday's elections nationwide - mostly on the side of Democrats critical of President George W. Bush's handling of the war. ----- Jean-Marcel Bouguereau | The Irresponsible http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110606H.shtml Jean-Marcel Bouguereau suggests that trusting that current world leadership will attempt to save the human race from the depredations of unchecked industrialization would be an obvious mistake. ----- Virginia State Board of Elections Secretary Finds Widespread Incidents of Voter Suppression http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606S.shtml _________________________________ STOP IMMEDIATELY THE REPRESSION IN OAXACA! [snip] ... the criminal attacks the government of Gov. Ulises Ruiz Ortiz and President Vicente Fox are committing against the people of Oaxaca, [snip] ... the murders, the arbitrary detentions, the use of tanks, helicopters, teargas and heavily armed police to suppress the just demands of the Oaxaquan people, including the murders of 19 people so far, among them, U.S. Indymedia journalist Brad Will, and the detention of 120 people. We also denounce the attack against the students and their families in and near the Autonomous University of Benito Juárez. ...................... We also blame the government of the United States for its complicity by silence regarding this great crime. [snip] http://www.iacenter.org/ | Presidente Vicente Fox Quesada, Fax: +52 (55) 5516 9537 / 5573 2126, | E-mail: radio@presidencia.gob.mx | webadmon@appresidencia.gob.mx _________________________________ Excerpted from: http://mediamatters.org Matthews: Democratic victory will "look bad for the president and world diplomacy" On the November 4 broadcast of NBC's Nightly News, MSNBC host Chris Matthews claimed that if the November 7 midterm election "breaks bad for the president," the "world press, which is anti-American already, will jump on this and say [President] Bush has lost his control over his own government. It'll look bad for the president and world diplomacy." Read more >> http://mediamatters.org/items/200611050003?src=other ----- MSNBC's Brewer: PA Senate race with Dem ahead by 13 points is "tight," but TN Senate race with Republican ahead by 12 is "all but over" On the November 5 edition of MSNBC News Live, anchor Contessa Brewer described the Pennsylvania senatorial race between incumbent Sen. Rick Santorum (R) and Democratic challenger Robert Casey Jr. as "tight" and "right down to the wire" just before citing the latest MSNBC/McClatchy/Mason-Dixon poll showing Casey ahead of Santorum by 13 percentage points (52-39 with a +/- 4 margin of error). Yet moments later, while an onscreen graphic showed the latest Mason-Dixon/Tennessee Papers poll, which put Tennessee Republican Senate candidate Bob Corker ahead of his Democratic challenger, Rep. Harold Ford Jr., by 12 percentage points (50-38 with a +/- 4 margin of error), Brewer pronounced that race "all but over." Read more >> http://mediamatters.org/items/200611050005?src=other LA Times labeled Sweeney "an economy and energy expert," failed to note Sweeney's ties to big oil Read more >> http://mediamatters.org/items/200611050001?src=other ----- More of interview revealed Stephanopoulos failed to challenge Cheney on further falsehoods Read more >> http://mediamatters.org/items/200611050007?src=other ---- NY Times article left unchallenged Snow's assertion that it is "preposterous" to suggest Saddam verdict timed for political reasons Read more >> http://mediamatters.org/items/200611050006?src=other _________________________________ Carole JEAN Editor: http://bigpictureworld@yahoo.com "The Arms Market and the Arms Race." Rodrigue TREMBLAY, Ph.D. http://www.thenewamericanempire.com/tremblay=1044.htm _________________________________ Excerpted from: http://http://www.freepress.net Net Neutrality Is Aimed at Small Firms During a recent panel discussion, a Google executive warned that small businesses would be harmed the most if the federal government fails to guarantee the unencumbered flow of Internet content. -- David Hatch, National Journal http://www.freepress.net/news/18871 ----- Pentagon Widens its Battle to Shape News of Iraq War The Pentagon is reorganizing its public affairs operation in an attempt to influence news coverage and is adopting tactics more often associated with a political campaign, rather than the military. -- David S. Cloud and Thom Shanker, New York Times http://www.freepress.net/news/18875 ----- What Price Legacy? Why would The New York Times Co. sell the Boston Globe? Start with the number $1 billion. -- Steve Bailey, Boston Globe http://www.freepress.net/news/18887 _________________________________ http://jablankfort@earthlink.net Perle says he should not have backed Iraq war It is interesting how all those Jewish advocates of the war, from the neocons like Perle and Adelman to Tom Friedman (see today's NY Times) are faulting the Bush administration for not doing the job right, as if the present situation in Iraq had not been publicly predicted by Bush Sr., James Baker III, Brent Scrowcroft, as well as members of the intelligence establishment who had opposed the war, not to mention some less well known critics from the Left. Between Perle and Friedman there are no essential differences and now that both are running scared from the war they helped to create, one may assume that they have realized the US has lost and they are looking to avoid the blame. These were also the folks who have pushed for a US confrontation with Iran and this may be further evidence that the US will not attack Iran as they had hoped. Jeff Perle says he should not have backed Iraq war >> http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-na-neocons4nov04,0,855850.story _________________________________ http://www.huffingtonpost.com | http://www.davidcorn.com | http://www.VoteFraud.org _________________________________ WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER GETS UPDATED Last week, Microsoft released Windows Media Player 11. It works with XP machines running Service Pack 2. It is the same media player that's been included with Windows for years. However, it has been freshened with new features. The download is free >> http://www.komando.com/downloads/category.aspx?id=2276 Be sure to listen to me Monday through Friday. 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