Tag: Current Events

  • BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | New Florida vote scandal feared A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan – possibly in violation of US law – to disrupt voting in the state’s African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals. How is Bush still president? Why is…

  • MSNBC – City installs 100-block WiFi ‘hot zone’ This is wild! I really had no idea that this was happening in little ‘ole Spokane! I was sitting in the staff lounge, reading the latest discarded copy of Time Magazine (Oct. 18th) and I happened across a gigantic article (with pictures and everything!) about how Spokane…

  • Yahoo! News – Video: Abducted Aid Worker Pleads for Life Margaret Hassan, the kidnapped director of CARE International in Iraq (news – web sites), wept and pleaded for Britain to act to save her life in a video aired Friday. “Please help me. This might be my last hours,” the gaunt Hassan begged, shaking with…

  • Howard Dean: Take Our Airways Back Since the public owns the airways, Sinclair Broadcasting and other big corporations ought to be required to act in a way which supports democracy, not attacks it. Sinclair Broadcasting has violated the fundamental responsibilities they are accountable for in a democratic society. If the president will not do his…

  • Yahoo! News – Bush, Cheney Concede Saddam Had No WMDs “You don’t make up or find reasons to go to war after the fact.” – John Kerry According to the article above, Bush’s rational for going to war with Iraq was because of abuses with the oil for food program. Bush and Cheney seem to…