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2008-10-19T22:21:00.000-07:00

Smells Nixonian

2005-07-02T12:42:00.000-07:00

From election frauds, to fake intelliegence to justify Iraq war and now white house links to Valarie Plame/CIA case dirty work this current Bush administration seems to be very much Nixonian. The policies, foreign or domestic is build on lies, fraud and immoral & illegal power plays with false spins.

It is a matter of time that will indicate if this administration will have the same fate as that of the Nixon bandwagon. With a false sense of political capital that derives from the ignorance of a large section of the American public, the administration will continue to enforce its policies of lies & deception as they are able to get away with it. When will the american public wake up and do something about it is matter to see!

Downing Street Memos

2005-06-20T20:25:00.000-07:00

Major news network again fails to report the news what the Americans should know.

Liar, Liar..........Impeachment time

The Washington Post, Deep Throat, Bush, WMD Jokes...and Me

Halliburton in bed with Iran

2005-02-02T23:29:00.000-08:00

Vivienne Walt from Tehran reports in the February 7th issue of the Fortune magazine:

"Tehran, the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, part of the "axis of evil"? Yes, the company was a tenant, confirmed the guard in the lobby of a building on Bucharest Street when we dropped in one recent afternoon. The staff rarely invited guests up to their tenth-floor offices, said the guard, and the company's name was not among those displayed on the lobby wall. Halliburton finally dispatched two Iranian staff members to ask this reporter to leave. Said the guard softly: "We're not too sure what the company is up to."

The article continues to provide some mind bogging information:

"Actually it's no big mystery. In January Halliburton and the local Oriental Kish Oil won a $308 million contract to drill for gas in Iran's giant South Pars field. "Halliburton and Oriental Kish are the final winners," Akbar Torkan, managing director of Pars Oil & Gas, said on national TV. The statement sparked fury among Iran's hardliners. One newspaper warned, "Footsteps of the Yankees heard moving in on Iran's oil sector."

While Halliburton insists its activities in Iran are entirely legal, some in Congress claim that the Houston oil services giant is milking a loophole in the U.S. embargo that allows foreign subsidiaries of American companies to work in Iran. "They are operating on the very boundaries of legality of U.S. law," says Dan Katz, chief counsel for Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-New Jersey), who has long argued that Halliburton—once run by Vice President Dick Cheney—is exploiting its political clout.

So are U.S. companies tiptoeing back into Iran, ten years after Bill Clinton imposed sanctions?"

Amazing .......isn't it?

Why I no longer respect John McCain

2005-01-29T01:45:00.000-08:00

"Principle" is a very rare virtue in Politics. However, that integrety I 'thought' I saw in John McCain, the Republican Senator from Arizona. Infact I even termed John McCain as a 'respected' Republican. But opinions change with a person's action and so did mine.

McCain joined Bush endorsing, supporting and accompaning the President on Airforce One saying that Bush had a better plan for the War on Iraq. Election is over. McCain now says he has absolutely no confidence on Rumsfield and on the Bush Administration, on fighting the war in Iraq. Hellooooo!

I wish Senator McCain would have been a man of principle who would have stood for his COUNTRY and not for his party!

Dr. King

2005-01-17T11:24:00.000-08:00

“These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.”

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 6th 2005 can make or break the Democratic Party!

2005-01-03T20:00:00.000-08:00

Strike your hammer when the iron is hot!

The democrats from Howard Dean to other Democratic pundits had been scratching their heads as what went wrong on November 2, 2004 that their Presidential candidate lost. The answer still remains unknown. With speculations from moral values to war president never lost, the true analysis of Kerry loss may remain unknown for a long time.

Whatever the reasons maybe, 1 out every 5 voters in the Presidential election of 2004 believe there was some kind of fraud committed. That is a staggering amount given National media decided to collectively ‘black out’ the coverage. Even New York Times decided not to shoulder the responsibility of launching a full investigation on Ohio Voter Fraud. However, we saw the rise of the ‘next generation’ media, Bloggers! Series of blog sites came into the forefront to report the election fraud issues. Brad Blog is one such rising star in the making.

America is divided into two parts Democrats and Republicans. Be it Red State or Blue State the nation is still divided in more or less two equal political hemispheres. With 2 out of every 10 national voter today is convinced that there was election fraud. And the number skyrockets to 4 out of 10 Kerry voters believe that there was Fraud committed on election night. These are very serious charges, brought to light by series of circumstantial evidences. Reporting on this can be found all over the Internet.

The Democratic Party now stands at the threshold where it can make or break itself on January 6th. It can show that it is a strong party that is not afraid to ‘stand up for it’s people’ and their just causes. Bringing the ‘voter fraud’ in Ohio and Florida on January 6th, the party can regain respect not only from Democrats but from Republicans who feel themselves to be betrayed. However, if the Party like John Kerry fails to contest the Presidential Election 2004, the Senators will do a great damage to the future of their party. They will wrongfully ignore 40% of their party base. Half or more of this 40% base will not show up in the polling booths next year or 2008. Already a very fragile party will get fragmented. The Blue states will start evaporating!!

And that is my point!

Death of National Media imminent in few years

2004-12-15T22:50:00.000-08:00

John Kerry conceded on November 3rd, 2004. This election, when the dust settles will go down to history as an election that was rigged with fraud, manipulation and hacking of the vote.

However, on November 14, a New York Times editorial delivered the final verdict on what is now the conventional wisdom amongst media:

There is no evidence of vote theft or errors on a large scale. There is also no way to be sure that the nightmare scenario of electronic voting critics did not occur: votes surreptitiously shifted from one candidate to another inside the machines, by secret software. Its important to make it clear that there is no evidence such a thing happened, but there will be concern and conspiracy theories until all software used in elections is made public.

American mainstream media journalists are sheep mentality. Well let me be little more respectful to them and say they have IQ as nearly as Cows. No major media covered the Election 'red flags'. Either they failed to recognize it or deliberately ignored it.

A lot of Americans saw a clear disconnect between the exit polls, optical scanner machines favoring Bush and more. However the Internet, especially the bloggers, 1 man media operations, individual guys like myself who jumped in to fill in the gaps what New York Times, et. al. Could not provide. Cable and Dish changed the Television landscape for Network guys. The Blogosphere will do the same.

And that is my point.

Time to ask for a Re-vote in OH, FL & PA

2004-12-09T17:09:00.000-08:00

Lets make the playing field fair and square. To ask for a re-vote in the whole country may be too expensive and too impractical. But the states that decided the white house in 2004 elections were Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida.

“Exit Polls to Protect the Vote"
- New York Times Martin Plissner
- October 17, 2004 WASHINGTON - Since the 1960's, the exit poll, that staple of election-night television, has been used along with other tools to declare winners when the polls close in each state, and its accuracy is noted later when the actual vote count proves it right. A landmark exception, of course, came in 2000, when the networks initially gave the decisive Florida vote to Al Gore. But now exit polls are being used in some places to monitor the official vote count itself, either to validate the outcome or to mount a challenge to it. That has happened in several countries in the last year, and in the United States one organization plans to use exit polls in five closely contested states in November to measure whether there have been impediments to voting. Last fall, an American firm, whose polling clients have included Al Gore and John Edwards, was hired by some international foundations to conduct an exit poll in the former Soviet republic of Georgia during a parliamentary election. On Election Day, the firm, Global Strategy Group, projected a victory for the main opposition party. When the sitting government counted the votes, however, it announced that its own slate of candidates had won. Supporters of the opposition stormed the Parliament, and the president, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, later resigned under pressure from the United States and Russia."

There is a lot of evidence of foul play in the 2004 elections. If the Republicans can show us that there has been a 'odd voting behavior' like machine counts for Kerry in a way high in Republican precincts or Republicans had to wait for 3-10 hours in their precincts compared to a democratic precincts in that geographic area then we will definitely take into account for annomality.

Exit poll results, analysis of data from Stephen Freedman and others that Bush had .002% to win both Florida and Ohio, thousands of voter intimidations, electronic voting machines are hacker friendly and the list goes on point to the fact something had gone wrong somewhere in the night of November 2, 2004.

Well, being a registered independent voter as I have had exercised my vote on Republican, Democratic, Libertarian or Green Party candidates. I vote for the candidate whom I think can ‘deliver the goods’. I am socially liberal, progressive and fiscally conservative, believe in less government, less taxes and free trade. I am not asking for a revote in Ohio or Ohio and Florida. To ask for a nationwide re-election may be unrealistic and too expensive burden on taxpayers. All I am proposing is a revote in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida. Let Kerry come and fight in Pennsylvania too. Lets make the playing field even. Make sure the election is not rigged and no foul play occurs. Let the 300 million Americans pick up the tab for the re-election in these 3 states so we do not burden the taxpayers of these 3 states. That would be the price for a true democracy. This would legitimize us to preach the rest world that we are truly the second largest ‘fair’ democracy in the world.

Is this a fair deal?

Rebuttal to "Conspiracy Theory"

2004-12-08T15:42:00.000-08:00

I noticed Mark Hyman who is the Vice President for Corporate Relations for Sinclair, from Sinclair Broadcasting write "The presidential election was over more than a month ago yet the three and a-half million-vote victory margin for George Bush is still not convincing enough for the Angry Left.They are still looking for evidence of conspiracies, of voting fraud and of proof that the election was somehow stolen."

This is what I had to say to Mark Hyman whose company Sinclair Broadcasting like Fox News forget that media has a moral responsibilty for "Fair and Accurate Reporting". Did I say 'moral responsibility'?Great are those who can rise above thier party color and vote for the candidate that is good for the country and the world at large.

Having said this.....

WHAT IF on November 2, 2004 the Exit Polls predicted Bush would win with 300+ electoral votes and Kerry actually won the election as President of United States.

WHAT IF the private companies(Diebold, ES&S, etc.) that count 95% of the votes were Kerry donors and one of them in a Democratic conventions said he will make "Kerry win in Ohio".

WHAT IF the Secretary of the State of State of Ohio put 1 voting machine in Republican counties for every 1,000 voters and 1 voting machine for every 187 voters in Democratic counties.

WHAT IF John Kerry's brother Cam was the Governer of Florida and Kerry was trailing by significant margin on the exit polls with Bush and when the votes were counted Kerry won.

WHAT IF there was an unlimited list of voter fraud stories in a state where Cam Kerry was Governer and in Ohio where a secretary of state was also the chairman of Kerry-Edwards campaign.

Will you not ask the question "What really happened and why did it happen?" Do you think the 'Neo Cons' would not have complained and not try to seek the truth. Do you think those in the 'Angry Right' would have accepted results and gone home quietly.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" Dr. Martin Luther King.

And that's my Point.