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Feb. 5th, 2003 01:20 pmVia various friends etc.
Read about the African American Republican Leadership Council. They need your support - I'd recommend sending them tins of boot polish.
At the request of the USA, a reproduction of Pablo Picasso's 'Guernica' that hangs outside the UN Security Council has been covered up shortly before Colin Powell is due to address that body on the need for war on Iraq. (Well, after John Ashcroft's attempts to clothe the statues of Washington DC, I can't say I'm *too* surprised...)
In 1996, Chuck Hagel (R) ran for Senate in Nebraska, a state that hadn't given a Republican the victory once in the last 24 years. Such a brilliant campaigner was Hagel that he won over almost every demographic group, much to the surprise of exit pollers whose figures had him losing. In 2002 he repeated the performance, this time capturing a whopping 83% of the vote.
But Mr. Hagel's genius isn't limited to political campaigning. Until 1995 he was CEO of American Information Systems, a company so highly-regarded that it was chosen to supply computer voting systems for the 1996 Nebraska senate election. (Its successor, ES&S - the largest voting machine company in America - still does, and Hagel owns a large interest in that company.)
So advanced are AIS/ES&S's systems that their programming is a proprietary secret - only ES&S can check the software that counts the votes. And one of the great things about electronic voting is, it means you no longer have all those annoying paper votes lying around.
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0131-01.htm
http://www.thehill.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx
http://www.polizeros.com/stories/2002/11/08/votingMachines.html
Guess who's glad the Space Shuttle blew up? Not just Saddam... (Warning: if this link doesn't cause offence, you're probably not the sort of person I want to know.)
Read about the African American Republican Leadership Council. They need your support - I'd recommend sending them tins of boot polish.
At the request of the USA, a reproduction of Pablo Picasso's 'Guernica' that hangs outside the UN Security Council has been covered up shortly before Colin Powell is due to address that body on the need for war on Iraq. (Well, after John Ashcroft's attempts to clothe the statues of Washington DC, I can't say I'm *too* surprised...)
In 1996, Chuck Hagel (R) ran for Senate in Nebraska, a state that hadn't given a Republican the victory once in the last 24 years. Such a brilliant campaigner was Hagel that he won over almost every demographic group, much to the surprise of exit pollers whose figures had him losing. In 2002 he repeated the performance, this time capturing a whopping 83% of the vote.
But Mr. Hagel's genius isn't limited to political campaigning. Until 1995 he was CEO of American Information Systems, a company so highly-regarded that it was chosen to supply computer voting systems for the 1996 Nebraska senate election. (Its successor, ES&S - the largest voting machine company in America - still does, and Hagel owns a large interest in that company.)
So advanced are AIS/ES&S's systems that their programming is a proprietary secret - only ES&S can check the software that counts the votes. And one of the great things about electronic voting is, it means you no longer have all those annoying paper votes lying around.
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0131-01.htm
http://www.thehill.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx
http://www.polizeros.com/stories/2002/11/08/votingMachines.html
Guess who's glad the Space Shuttle blew up? Not just Saddam... (Warning: if this link doesn't cause offence, you're probably not the sort of person I want to know.)
