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Who Needs Voters?
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
Those who count the votes decide everything."
- Joseph Stalin
Who needs voters when you can have a Dimwit chosen by a pack of rabid right-wing justices in the US Extreme Court choose your resident for you? When you can have a Secretary of Snake in charge of certifying a pivotal state's election who was Dumbya's campaign official? When you can have a mob of paid Republican political operatives to disrupt vote counting in that state? When Dumbya's own brother is governor of that state, with the power to cast the decisive vote for electors in it's heavily Republican legislature; a legislature which was poised to install the dork if all their other pranks had failed.
Why bother to count votes when you can just throw them away based on the fact that they are from areas too poor to afford decent voting machines? Why bother when every dirty trick in the book can be used to delay counting votes until it is too late? Why not just say that recounting can't be done until the contest phase of the election, then when that arrives just say it needed to have been done before it!
Hey, why even allow people from minority areas to vote to begin with when we can just make up an arrest record for thousands of them! And let's throw in a few roadblocks on the way to the polling places! With Dumbya's brother Jeb as boss of all the authorities in Florida, there's no stopping us! Gidyap horsie! And just for kicks, let's make a ballot to use in the elderly Jewish areas which confuses Gore with Buchanan! What fun!!
Now we have a president who has the intellect of common lake trout and acts like an adolescent; who publicly admits an aversion to reading and can barely pronounce his own name; who is a tool of corporate fatcats one of whom is our vice president; who thinks the issues of global warming and ozone depletion need more study before they can be proved to exist; who has an agenda of raping the environment and turning back the clock on our social evolution and doing whatever will benefit big biz and further enrich the 5% who already hold the majority of our wealth; whose biggest accomplishment in life was to quit drinking; whose mountain of hypocrocies and outright lies continues to grow; who forces extremist fascist right wing policies on the country despite having the mandate of a rotten egg, and who makes fun of people he executes.
He couldn't wait a few more days to get an accurate vote count which would decide the country's fate for the next 4 years because delay wouldn't be "for the good of the country", after his party had spent over a year dragging the country through every soap opera detail of Clinton's extramarital adventure down to the last microscopic sub-nucleac sperm particle. So Clinton screwed an intern. Bush is screwing the whole country! Now who should be impeached?
But ya gotta hand it to him, Dumbya sure knows how to steal an election!
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The truth about George Bush's anti-AIDS push
The President is returning a favour from the big US drug companies, writes Kenneth Davidson.
Those who pay the piper, call the tune. In campaigning for the 2002 US Congressional elections, the Republicans spent million (compared with million for the Democrats) and million of the total was raised personally by President George Bush.
According to Public Campaign, a non-profit, non-partisan group campaigning for electoral reform in the US, many of Bush's State of the Union messages to Congress last month were designed to satisfy the desires of his largest campaign contributors.
Thus, more than half the benefits of the billion income tax cuts will go to Americans earning more than ,000 a year. And they make the bulk of personal contributions of or more, which have totalled .8 billion since 1999.
Bush said in his address that social security funds for younger workers are to be shifted into "retirement accounts that they will control and they will own", which will generate billions in new commissions for Wall Street, whether the market goes up or down.
He proposes billion in tax breaks to resource-extraction industries; to shield utilities from mandatory steps to reduce air pollution; and to open more federal land to logging.
These concessions, all of which have dubious economic or social benefits, provide a handsome return on donations to federal parties and candidates since 1989 which, according to Public Campaign, total: million from securities and investment firms; million from extraction industries; million from utilities; and million from the timber industry.
Missing from the list of rewards was the billion AIDS relief program for Africa, which seems to have received a good press, even from Bush's traditional opponents.
The proposal caught everyone by surprise. According to the Planned Parent Federation of America, on his first day in office, Bush restored the Reagan-era "global gag rule" on international family planning assistance.
In May 2002, Bush Administration representatives at the UN Children's Summit opposed the use of condoms for HIV/AIDS prevention.
In July, Bush withheld from the UN Population Fund million in funding for birth control, maternal and child care and HIV/AIDS prevention. In August, he withheld more than million in funding programs to support women and tackle HIV/AIDS in Afghanistan.
Last month, the US killed a deal agreed to by 143 World Trade Organisation members to allow developing countries without the ability to produce cheaper generic drugs for HIV/AIDS and other diseases to import generic drugs at lower prices from countries such as India, rather than the more expensive patented drugs from the US and Europe.
The US pharmaceutical manufacturing industry is one of the top 10 industry contributors to federal US political campaigns. Prescription drugs cost twice as much in the US as in other developed countries, and the industry makes three times the profit of other industries.
The question is, will the money proposed for the AIDS relief program benefit Africa by being used to buy the drugs from the cheapest source - or, as is more likely, will the money be used to subsidise production by the American pharmaceutical manufacturers, to protect their markets in developing countries?
Bush could do far more to minimise the AIDS epidemic now sweeping the Third World by reversing the infamous "global gag rule", which promotes needless deaths by discouraging safe sex, and unwanted pregnancies, which lead to unsafe abortions.
The International Planned Parenthood Federation calls the policy "Bush's secret war" and says his actions "are a testament to the Bush Administration's war against women and his overall contempt for their fundamental civil and human rights".
Bush's war against women has regional as well as global security implications, implications that the Clinton administration recognised.
At a UN Population Fund meeting in Auckland last week, the New Zealand Health Minister said 40 per cent of the Pacific Islands' contraceptives previously came from donors such as the fund, but that by 2000, partly because of the success of the safe-sex awareness programs, donors met only 27 per cent of the region's estimated needs.
US bullying in international forums and its effort to gut international reproductive health programs was in evidence yet again at the UN Asian and Pacific Regional Population Conference, held last December in Bangkok (and at which the US was represented because of its ownership of the island of Guam).
According to Dr Martha Campbell from the Berkeley School of Public Health, "the Bush delegation was young, pro-life, bright, well trained, legally savvy, deceptive and threatening . . . In the corridor we witnessed the US delegation threatening at least one high-level Asian delegate with his country's loss of US foreign aid and the loss of his own career".
In the wash-up, every country represented at the meeting defied the US, but all their time was taken up, according to Campbell, in "preventing damage by a 500-pound gorilla from Guam".
The US delegation demanded the deletion of a recommendation for "consistent condom use" to fight AIDS, even though a Berkeley study found condom distribution to be astonishingly cost-effective, at .50 a year of life saved. In contrast, antiretroviral therapy costs more than .
This expensive option is obviously more acceptable to the religious fundamentalists who give the Bush Administration its moral dimension, and to the pharmaceutical manufacturers who want an even bigger return on their political investment in Washington.
(http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/02/09/1044725671018.html)
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hypocrisy of the day award (april 3rd 2003)
Bush Administration officially adopts "Who gives a shit?" policy toward all the violence in the occupied territories. Maybe adopts is a bit harsh, since that seems to have been their policy all along. Despite a long tradition of the United States actually pretending to care about peace, the "Nobel Peace Prize Nominee" Dubya doesn't even seem to notice the daily violence inflicted on the occupied territories by the puppet, some say terrorist, Israeli army. European Union takes initiative to try to stop the Israeli violence.
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Now for our first inductee into the Hypocrite Party.
Dubya (Shrub) Bush
Why is Dubya our first inductee? Plenty of good reasons. We won't even talk about his comments that his state's system of executions is perfect. We will talk about his statements that he is better than Gore just one area, integrity.
Integrity? This is the man that had his cocaine arrest in 1972 expunged from the public record by paying off public officials. This is the man who used his family’s connections to get him appointed to the National Guard at a time when no other appointments to the Guard were being accepted. This is the man who used his family connections to get sweetheart deals such as the sale of his Arbusto oil company, in which he invested ,000 and came out with more than a million, and his family connection partnership in the Texas Rangers, in which he invested ,000 of borrowed money, provided almost nothing of value, and later sold for a profit of .2 million. This is the man who allowed his friends in the oil industry to write legislation directly affecting the regulation of their business in Texas. And now this is the man who is happy to ignore all the election irregularities in Florida while he blithely puts together a transition team and his new cabinet. This is a man who says he has integrity?
Bush anything but moronic, according to author
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who needs voters????
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