manufactured consent

* urgh. i can hear party noises. people having fun and giggling and that. its so weird. they are playing u2. praps i should drop in.

* "The Lucas County,ohio, Democratic Headquarters was burglarized overnight, and three computers, including the party’s main system, were stolen." http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041012/NEWS03/41012016

* "COLUMBUS, Ohio A voter group challenging the results of the November second election in Ohio has refiled its complaint with the state's highest court."

* " Reports from throughout Ohio present a clear and disturbing pattern of state and local election officials obstructing the recount of Ohio’s 2004 presidential vote, according to the Green Party’s presidential campaign which initiated the recount and is monitoring the process... In two counties, Monroe and Fairfield, election officials have refused to do a full hand recount, as required under Ohio election law, when hand and machine tallies don't match. They instead have opted to get new machines to count the votes... In the vast majority of counties, election officials have pre-selected precincts to be sampled, rather than chosen them randomly, as required by law. In Cuyahoga County, the pre-selection of precincts eliminated those which reported the most problems on Election Day, thwarting the intent of the recount and raising serious concerns about the integrity of the process."
http://votecobb.org/press/2004/dec/pr2004-12-17.php

* " Green Party’s presidential candidate David Cobb lashed out at Sen. John Kerry, saying he Democratic nominee has tried to “undermine,” “delegitimize” and “minimize” the Ohio recount."
http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=502

* "Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz asked Thompson on Dec. 10 to declare an emergency so the Pentagon could begin giving all military personnel anthrax inoculations again. Wolfowitz said a classified November 2004 intelligence community assessment raised concerns about a heightened risk to U.S. military forces of attack with anthrax... The Pentagon's anthrax vaccination program was suspended in late October by a federal judge in response to a lawsuit filed by six anonymous plaintiffs. The lawsuit argued that the vaccine was not proven to protect against inhaled anthrax, and led to health problems."
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1204/121704c1.htm

* " half of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq might still be alive if only our troops had been properly equipped.... Army suicide rates are soaring, up 40 percent in the past year." http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18251

* ""Syria is not going after the big fish, which is really the people that we're interested in," Gen. George Casey, the chief of the multinational force in Iraq, said." http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-12-16-syria_x.htm

* franklin, ohio "Nearly one out of three (31%) Democratic precincts had less voting machines in 2004 than in 2000 compared to less than one out of six (16%) Republican precincts. Looking at it a different way, of the 217 precincts where voting machines were subtracted, 184 (85%) were Democratic." gotv. http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/12/1708672.php

* "The Associated Press, National Public Radio, and The Washington Post each received subpoenas this week from the lawyer representing former U.S. Army researcher Steven Hatfill, who is suing the federal government under the Privacy Act for trying to link him to the 2001 anthrax attacks and leaking information about him. There are rumors circulating in several Washington bureaus of as many as a dozen other subpoenas." journos are toast. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000739735

* could things be going any worse in iraq? mosul is a mess. fallujah is a mess. samarra is a mess. greenzone is a mess - the ozzie residence got hit the other day - i kinda wish some ozzies would die (substitute say 10 dead iraqis) so that there's some uproar here.

* i need a story with a nickname

* "The glaring contradiction between Bush’s praise for the three honorees and the disasters over which they presided—in Tenet’s case, within the US as well as in Iraq—points to an additional motive behind the awards. In the atmosphere of crisis and palace intrigue surrounding the Bush White House, the medals suggest a payoff to buy the silence of individuals in a position to tell tales that could prove highly damaging." http://wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/mofr-d16.shtml

* "After 40 years, I'm part of a huge community of scientists who have become alarmed with our discovery, that we know from our knowledge of the ancient past, that if we continue our present growth path, we are facing extinction," Barrett said. "Not in millions of years, or even millennia, but by the end of this century." sweet. http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/print/0%2C1478%2C3099128a10%2C00.html

* " the US State Department has a Fact Sheet entitled, “Iran: Voices Struggling To Be Heard.”" pointing particularly to Shirin Ebadi ( the Iranian dissident who is the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize,), who is described as one of Iran’s ‘Voices of Hope’ - in a nice twist, she isnt allowed to publish in the US, either. Iran is bad.
http://www.juancole.com/2004/12/fisher-guest-editorial-us-squelches.html

* who is gonna take scottpeterson's place? michaeljacko?

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