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Friday, December 2, 2005 |
WashingtonPost: "Justice Department lawyers concluded that the landmark Texas congressional redistricting plan spearheaded by Rep. Tom DeLay (R) violated the Voting Rights Act, according to a previously undisclosed memo obtained by The Washington Post. But senior officials overruled them and approved the plan.
The memo, unanimously endorsed by six lawyers and two analysts in the department's voting section, said the redistricting plan illegally diluted black and Hispanic voting power in two congressional districts. It also said the plan eliminated several other districts in which minorities had a substantial, though not necessarily decisive, influence in elections."
PrivacyDigest: "A North Carolina judge ruled that Diebold may not be protected from criminal prosecution if it fails to disclose the code behind its voting machines as required by law. In response, Diebold has threatened to pull out of North Carolina."
11:55:49 AM 
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ChrisFloyd: "The recent revelations about the virulent spread of death squads ravaging Iraq have only confirmed for many people the lethal incompetence of the Bush Regime, whose brutal bungling appears to have unleashed the demon of sectarian strife in the conquered land. The general reaction, even among some war supporters, has been bitter derision: 'Jeez, these bozos couldn't boil an egg without causing collateral damage'.
But what if the truth is even more sinister? What if this murderous chaos is not the fruit of rank incompetence but instead the desired product of carefully crafted, efficiently managed White House policy?
The vast majority of atrocities now attributed to 'rogue' Shiite and Sunni militias are in fact the work of government-controlled commandos and 'special forces', trained by Americans, 'advised' by Americans and run largely by former CIA assets, Global Research reports."
MercuryNews: "Most U.S. troops will leave Iraq within a year, and the Army is 'broken, worn out' and may not be able to meet future military threats to the country's security, U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa. said.
Two weeks ago, Murtha called for U.S. troops to leave Iraq now."
With the regular troops being replaced by death squads, this is a very bleak prospect indeed.
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