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   Dredd said on 1/1/2008 @ 6:07am PT: [Permalink]

   Happy New Year to all!

   May we all do a better EI movement job this year, anti-fascist job this year, and strive harder to put Amurka down and bring America back up.

   Love to all true freedom fighters …

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   Dredd said on 1/1/2008 @ 6:32am PT: [Permalink]

   May I suggest a new year’s resolution for the enablers of fascism in Amurka’s current gummit, especially the spineless enablers in congress:

   stop enabling fascism and the demise of America …

   In our eyes you are naked to the bulk of true freedom fighters:

   “There are few things as odd as the calm, superior indifference with which I and those like me watched the beginnings of the Nazi revolution in Germany, as if from a box at the theater. … Perhaps the only comparably odd thing is the way that now, years later….”

   These are the words of Sebastian Haffner (pen name for Raimund Pretzel), who as a young lawyer in Berlin during the 1930s experienced the Nazi takeover and wrote a first-hand account. His children found the manuscript when he died in 1999 and published it the following year as “Geschichte eines Deutschen” (The Story of a German).

   The book became an immediate bestseller and has been translated into 20 languages””in English as “Defying Hitler.”

   I recently learned from his daughter Sarah, an artist in Berlin, that today is the 100th anniversary of Haffner’s birth. She had seen an earlier article in which I quoted her father and e-mailed to ask me to “write some more about the book and the comparison to Bush’s America Amurka. … This is almost unbelievable.”

   (Ray McGovern, emphasis added).

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   JUDGE OF JUDGES said on 1/1/2008 @ 9:59am PT: [Permalink]

   Dredd there’s still a quite away to go for too many folks to get it.

   The nazi’s have stolen the mic’s and cut thye cables . . .
   

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   pat driscoll said on 1/1/2008 @ 12:47pm PT: [Permalink]

   somewhat off topic, but election fraud nonetheless.

   on 29 december, UK guardian and rupert murdoch’s UK times had totally opposite stories on the kenyan election results:

   Guardian: President heads for humiliating defeat as Kenyan voters throw out the old guard
   · Odinga poised to replace Kibaki by big majority
   · Ministers lose seats in beating for ruling party
   Xan Rice in Nairobi
   Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki appeared to be heading for a humiliating election defeat last night as voters signalled their discontent with his government by evicting most of the powerful political old guard from office.
   Local television stations reported that, with more than half the votes counted by midnight local time, opposition leader and former political prisoner Raila Odinga had won 3.6m votes, a 51% share, compared with 42% for Kibaki, on 2.9m votes. Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement was also heading for an overwhelming victory over Kibaki’s Party of National Unity.
   http://www.guardian.co.uk/kenya/story/0,,2233055,00.html

   UK Times: Polls put President ahead in Kenyan elections
   An early exit poll put President Kibaki ahead with 51.3 per cent of the vote, against 39.6 for Mr Odinga.
   http://www.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle3101499.ece

   then forbes has this:

   Forbes: EU observers question Kenya vote result
   Graf said his mission had evidence of presidential tallies announced in polling stations on the election being inflated by the time they were released by the electoral commission in Nairobi…
   Odinga, who had led Kibaki in pre-election opinion polls and in early media tallies, walked out on the press conference during which the results had been due to come out, and claimed that Kibaki was stealing victory…
   http://www.forbes.com/afxnewsli...fx4481674.html

   guardian followed up with this:

   Guardian: Riots and vote-rigging claims as Kenyan polls go to the wire
   With nearly 90 per cent of the votes counted, the election commission gave Raila Odinga, an outspoken former political prisoner, a tiny lead: 3,880,053 votes compared to Kibaki’s 3,842,051. Kibaki, 76, who has consistently lagged behind Odinga in opinion polls, had been trailing by nearly a million votes overnight and the rapid closure of the gap led to claims by the opposition Orange Democratic Movement that his government was trying the steal the election.
   http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2233212,00.html

   then UK Independent yesterday had former UN official, salim lone, doing a commentary:

   Salim Lone: We Kenyans are the victims of an outrage
   http://comment.independent.co.u...cle3298392.ece

   in this commentary, lone explains that all present at the count agreed odingo won the election according to the count, but kibaki shut down all news reporting on tv and announced himself the winner. although the story is still on the Independent’s homepage, the story is missing and even blogs who picked up the story didn’t include all the text and their links bring up nothing. google results for the Independent article do not have ‘cached’ links.

   corpmedia meanwhile talks of mob riots since kibaki was ‘re-elected’!!!! murdoch’s UK Times has just such a ‘mob’ headline today.

   it seems to me murdoch media is in the game of calling elections worldwide and damn the results. and murdoch keeps getting away with it, just as he did in the US in 2000 and 2004. nice. 2008 should be the year americans continually protest the media.

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   KestrelBrighteyes said on 1/1/2008 @ 4:14pm PT: [Permalink]

   Happy New Year everybody!

   We’ve traveled far this past year – 2007 was, indeed, “The Year of Accountability”.

   And in that spirit, I’d like to officially name 2008 – “The Year of Metamorphosis” The changes will be drastic, and sometimes painful – but definitely for the better. Here’s hoping that we can someday tell our grandchildren that this was the year we ended fascism in the United States of America.

   And let’s hope our country has learned its lessons this time.

   Y’all stay warm and safe, and have a wonderful 2008.

   It’s been a long December, and there’s reason to believe…

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   JUDGE OF JUDGES said on 1/1/2008 @ 5:20pm PT: [Permalink]

   {why does it take this site forever to load or it just me ?}

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   Pat said on 1/1/2008 @ 6:35pm PT: [Permalink]

   Happy new year Brad & co.
   Let’s hope Cheney forgot to install his latest windoze updates.

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   Dredd said on 1/2/2008 @ 4:46am PT: [Permalink]

   JoJ #6 ask the programmer journalist 😉

   JoJ #3 yep, all we have is hope, which is a deceptive brew at times …

   I think KBE #5 has a reasonable approach …

   Pat #7 there is a lot of windoze these daze … 🙂

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   Fan said on 1/2/2008 @ 8:43am PT: [Permalink]

   Brad
   Bree Walker just mentioned u on Stephanie Miller show today (1/2). 1800 Steph 12

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    patginsd said on 1/2/2008 @ 9:47am PT: [Permalink]

    Happy New Year, Brad and all!

    -despite the fact that Brad’s 2005 card is a real stomach-turner… (I was easily led there, to my woe)

    I have much to be thankful for- and Brad and this blog are right on TOP!!!!

    May we all be girded for battle.
    May we acquire the tools, energy, and volume we require.
    May they all add up to fireworks this year!

    Full steam ahead folks!
    This blog is the BEST!

    – Pat in San Diego

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    JUDGE OF JUDGES said on 1/2/2008 @ 9:57am PT: [Permalink]

    Pat
    I was listening to Big Bree before I switch over to Lionel & rolled over and went back to sleep and missed it … but I had a good dream . . .

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    GWN said on 1/2/2008 @ 10:09am PT: [Permalink]

    Happy, and a MUCH BETTER New Year all.

    (I am glad to see it finally stopped snowing in LA 🙂

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    MarkH said on 1/2/2008 @ 10:28am PT: [Permalink]

    Brad (and friends),

    Can you tell us all which states the Dems might have the most trouble with (in terms of election processes) for this primary and the general election?

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    GWN said on 1/2/2008 @ 10:49am PT: [Permalink]

    OT but interesting:
    Michael Moore said he was asked by Rolling Stone magazine (a couple of months ago) to do a cover story where he would ask questions that no one else was asking Clinton, Obama and Edwards. Obama and Edwards agreed. Clinton said no, and the cover story was killed.

    http://www.michaelmoore.com/wor...dex.php?id=220

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    Brad Friedman said on 1/2/2008 @ 11:39am PT: [Permalink]

    MarkH – Every one of them.