Gore: Not considering running again

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Saturday May 20, 2006 · 12:17 PM PDT

2006/05/20 · 12:17

I found this in a BBC article about the premiere of An Inconvenient Truth at Cannes:

Mr Gore said the world faced a stark choice between the end of civilisation and a future for its children.
He also said he was not considering running again for presidential office in 2008.
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"I don't plan to be a candidate again for national office," he said. "There are other ways to serve."

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Thursday January 05, 2006 · 3:11 PM PST

2006/01/05 · 15:11

On January 3, Democracy Now! interviewed John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. Perkins recapped the basic idea of the economic "hit" during the interview:

Find a poor country with coveted natural resources and loan them billions of dollars you know they can't repay.
Have 90% of the money go to contracted US companies such as Bechtel and Halliburton, with the rest going to local elites, but none of it to the poor or the middle class.
When the unmanageable debt payments come due, arrange to have them sell us their natural resources for pennies on the dollar in lieu of the loan payments.
Additionally, force them to gut their social programs to facilitate loan payments, insuring they stay poor.

And if the leaders of such countries refuse this con game?

Well, says Mr. Perkins, then we just kill them. Read More

Prisoners abandoned and drowned in New Orleans

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Tuesday September 27, 2005 · 4:15 PM PDT

2005/09/27 · 16:15

On today's Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman interviewed Corrine Carey from Human Rights Watch, who are investigating some 517 prisoners unaccounted for in the wake of Katrina. According to the HRW representative:

We went through that list and came up with 517 people who were still unaccounted for. We're certainly not saying that those people drowned in the facility, but there are credible reports, consistent reports from inmates of being left in that facility in locked cells. And so, we'd like to know from the Orleans Sheriff and from the Department of Corrections what happened to those 517 people....

[B]y Monday, when the storm hit, guards were no longer in the facility. The inmates were left to fend for themselves during the storm. The most disturbing thing is that the water began to rise in many of the buildings. Some inmates tell us that the water had come up to their chest level, and they were still in locked cells.

channeling Emma Goldman

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Sunday December 19, 2004 · 2:27 PM PST

2004/12/19 · 14:27

It's clear by now that the GOP wants a return to the robber baron era of the 1890's. They want to roll back the 20th century. And they've already succeeded in echoing the robber barons to a considerable extent. We've got oil magnates in power, corporate control over much of Congress, the erosion of civil liberties, millions of working poor with not enough to eat, and imperialist warfare.

Consider what Emma Goldman said of the war in the Philippines:

But when the smoke was over, the dead buried, and the cost of the war came back to the people in an increase in the price of commodities and rent-- that is, when we sobered up from our patriotic spree-- it suddenly dawned on us that the cause of the Spanish-American war was the price of sugar.

The parallel with the Gilded Age is hardly new. But if this is old hat, then why can't we follow through with this analogy and realize that the vote is not going to restore our liberal democracy? Read More

Counties with high Bush margins have elections supervisors appt'd by Jeb

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Thursday November 04, 2004 · 12:09 PM PST

2004/11/04 · 12:09

Kossack CynicalBrit gave a link to some Florida vote data at this site. I was able to use this data to calculate, county by county, the expected Bush margin of victory (or loss). The expected Bush margin was based on party ID on voter registrations, and on the actual total voter turnout on election day. If you compare that to how much Bush actually won (or lost) by in each county, you get the "surplus" Bush margin. That is, you come up with a figure for unexpected, extra Bush votes. Read More

Paula Zahn shows tone is changing

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Monday October 25, 2004 · 5:30 PM PDT

2004/10/25 · 17:30

The first 15 minutes of Paula Zahn's nightly show on CNN was not what I have been seeing. It had a distinctly different tone, slightly anti-Bush, although not really pro-Kerry.

The lead story was "over 100,000" Kerry supporters showing up in Philly. Lots of video of Clinton. True, they suggested that much of the crowd was really there to see Clinton, but having the Big Dog behind him can only help Kerry. There was also good Kerry footage, in which he went through a litany of ways in which Bush has put the troops in greater danger, and said he had "failed the test of Commander in Chief." Read More

Can Kerry win 1 Nebraska EV?

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Wednesday October 20, 2004 · 10:11 PM PDT

2004/10/20 · 22:11

Several election night scenarios could put Kerry and Bush at a 269-269 electoral vote tie. If that happens, the House selects Bush. But what if Kerry eeks out an unexpected EV from the Omaha district?

The talking heads on cable rarely mention that Nebraska (along with Maine) splits its electoral votes. Two go to the overall state winner, and each congressional district gets one of the remaining three.

If the 2nd congressional district (containing Omaha) went for Kerry, that would turn a 269-269 tie into a Kerry victory with exactly 270 votes. Is it possible? Read More

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Gore: Not considering running again

Evo Morales and the Economic Hit Men

Prisoners abandoned and drowned in New Orleans

channeling Emma Goldman

Counties with high Bush margins have elections supervisors appt'd by Jeb

Paula Zahn shows tone is changing

Can Kerry win 1 Nebraska EV?