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Monday, August 2, 2004 |
Seattle Times: "The U.S. attorney in Seattle has used a Patriot Act provision to charge 15 people with smuggling marijuana money out of this country as part of a multimillion-dollar drug operation based in Canada."
10:34:18 AM 
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The Nation: "On November 2 millions of Americans will cast their votes for President in computerized voting systems that can be rigged by corporate or local-election insiders."
Sun-Sentinel: "An embarrassed state Republican Party apologized Thursday for a GOP campaign brochure that urged voters to use absentee ballots, undermining efforts by Gov. Jeb Bush and Secretary of State Glenda Hood to inspire confidence in new touch-screen voting machines.
Democrats, civil-liberties organizations and voter-rights groups have been trying to appeal a state rule that prohibits manual recounts of the touchscreen voting machines, which leave no paper record, and in many cases have been urging voters to use absentee voting as a way to keep such a paper record."
ConcordMonitor: "Charles McGee, the former executive director of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee, admitted yesterday to jamming Democratic party phone lines on election day in November 2002." We also know what they did with the votes and voters in Florida.
10:26:37 AM
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Independent: "The gap between rich and poor in Britain has widened since Tony Blair became Prime Minister, with glaring regional differences and a rise in the number of people with no savings at all, an influential report on the state of the nation has found.
'Britain is far from being a progressive or just society,' the report says. 'Levels of child poverty continue to surpass those of many of our more successful European partners, and inequalities in income, wealth and well-being remain stubbornly high.'"
Blair's comrade-in-arms is making a mess of it as well. "The White House forecast Friday that the U.S. budget deficit for this year will be a record $445 billion, nearly 20 percent larger than last year's highest-ever." I can still hear him saying, a few years ago, those democrats were only spenders.
IPS: "Despite scandals over human rights abuses and war profiteering, private military contractors are expanding their presence overseas, and may even be involved in helping to draft the next U.S. defence budget.
Last week Congress approved an additional 25 billion dollars for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and seven percent more for the rest of the Pentagon's programmes, in a 417.5-billion-dollar defence bill."
NY Times: "In an echo of the savings and loan industry collapse of the 1980's, the federal agency that insures company pensions is facing a possible cascade of bankruptcies and pension defaults in the airline industry that some experts fear could lead to another multibillion-dollar taxpayer bailout."
10:14:21 AM
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