%8 Manchurian by own petard! || Reagan Quotes

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Missing were the reporters representing our major dailies, television and cable news.I urge all citizens to research the Alternative State of the Union proposals and publicize them widely. Activists should demand an explanation from all Corporate Mainstream Media outlets for their lack of coverage of progressive political figures, events and proposals.
---------------------------------------/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/The Manchurian Candidate
Recently, I watched the 2004 remake of the Manchurian Candidate with my 12 year old son. After that, we dusted off and viewed the 1962 version for comparison. The 1962 film centers on foreign communist plotters who try to install a double-agent brainwashed puppet in the Oval Office. In the 2004 remake, a Halliburton-like multi-national corporation is behind the plot. I began pondering the policy initiatives of a double-agent president. Clearly, his objectives would be: - long-term economic harm to the United States - disrupt American military power - loss of American prestige in the world - increase world hatred and distrust of the United States
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Former Nigerian Official Warns Country On Electronic Voting
Na'Abba questioned why the Federal Government and the National Assembly seem bent on adopting the Electronic Voting System for the country when even in India where the machines are produced they were not in use for that country's voting system. He expressed concern that the refusal of India to use the system should have raised reasonable doubts in the minds of the legislature regarding the effectiveness and rig-proof ability of the system.
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Drafting Hitler By David Brooks
At first I sympathized with your anger at the Danish cartoons because it’s impolite to trample on other people’s religious symbols. But as the rage spread and the issue grew more cosmic, many of us in the West were reminded of how vast the chasm is between you and us. There was more talk than ever about a clash of civilizations. We don’t just have different ideas; we have a different relationship to ideas.
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Alaska Dems Must Wait Longer To Get Election Files
Metcalfe and Brown also said they were troubled by Brewster questioning the stated purpose for which the records were sought -- to verify election results. Brewster said in her letter that a bipartisan state review board had confirmed the election results. Alaska law does not require citizens to provide a reason for obtaining a public record, Brown said. "The public owns these records," Brown said. "It's our right to have them. They don't get to withhold them just because they don't agree with us."
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Detailed analysis of the certified election data from the New Mexico General Election in 2004 revealed alarming irregularities that focused nationwide attention on the state. New Mexico has led the nation in presidential undervote rate for several election cycles (2.87% in 2004), and research revealed that 82% of the undervotes occurred on paperless electronic voting machines. At the same time, the presence of 2,087 presidential “phantom votes” (situations in which more votes were counted than ballots cast) revealed a chaotic and under-resourced certification process.
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Scientific Proof Cheney's Shooting Story A Lie
The mainstream media is ignoring this literal smoking gun evidence. Anytime they wish, the local police can conduct their own ballistics tests and they will have the exact same findings. The media can conduct their own tests. The ballistics of shotguns and birdshot is well known to tens of millions of Americans who hunt fowl. We have now scientifically proved with an engineer and a police officer on-site conducting the test that the American people are being lied to and a cover-up is in progress.
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"Not Guilty" Says Woman Arrested After Hanging Anti-Bush Posters
Fisher made it clear that she’s not afraid to go to jail, and that her case is part of a bigger problem - the fascism creeping across the United States. At every opportunity, she pointed to the need to drive out the Bush regime. Fisher said she’s being prosecuted in order to intimidate others who stand up to the growing police state. Gilbert said he expects the evidence to show that the police overreacted in a matter that has serious First Amendment and political implications.
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US Senate Candidate In MD Charges Electoral Failures, Misinformation By Board Of Elections, Diebold
It was also revealed on Thursday, that Lamone had allowed uncertified Diebold voting machines to be used in elections in Maryland in both 2002 and 2004. Diebold's election equipment has since been show to be hackable, prone to massive failure, and has lost votes in recent elections according to a recently released non-partisan GAO Report, a recent "hack test" in Leon County, FL, and scores of other confirmed reports, studies and analysis from around the country. Lamone is also the curent President of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED).
Hackable Diebold Machines Covertly Re-Certified In California By SofS Secretary of State McPherson seems to have a thing for making major announcements late on Fridays just before holidays. Following in what seems to be a pattern of his, he announced late this afternoon that he was certifying Diebold Optical Scan and AccuVote TSx (touch-screens) for use in elections in the state. The re-certification (they had been originally decertified in California in 2004 when it was revealed Diebold had installed illegal software updates on the machines) is conditional on some items but not on the one thing point he had announced last December when he sent the system back to federal authorities for further testing. At that time he said he was sending the machine\'s memory cards to the federal Independent Testing Authority (ITA) Lab for reinspection in light of the news out of Leon County, Florida that the cards used "intepreted code" which is specifically banned by the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). A "hack test" in that county revealed that an entir!\n ely election could have its results flipped by a hacker exploiting that "interpreted code" -- without a trace being left behind. McPherson made his announcement today without waiting to hear back from the ITA lab.Hackable Diebold Machines Covertly Re-Certified In California By SofS
Secretary of State McPherson seems to have a thing for making major announcements late on Fridays just before holidays. Following in what seems to be a pattern of his, he announced late this afternoon that he was certifying Diebold Optical Scan and AccuVote TSx (touch-screens) for use in elections in the state. The re-certification (they had been originally decertified in California in 2004 when it was revealed Diebold had installed illegal software updates on the machines) is conditional on some items but not on the one thing point he had announced last December when he sent the system back to federal authorities for further testing. At that time he said he was sending the machine's memory cards to the federal Independent Testing Authority (ITA) Lab for reinspection in light of the news out of Leon County, Florida that the cards used "intepreted code" which is specifically banned by the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). A "hack test" in that county revealed that an entire election could have its results flipped by a hacker exploiting that "interpreted code" -- without a trace being left behind. McPherson made his announcement today without waiting to hear back from the ITA lab.--------------------------------------------------
A Game Of Chicken On Capitol Hill
Under White House pressure, the Senate Intelligence Committee flinched and backed away from an investigation of the Bush administration's warrantless eavesdropping program. In return, the committee got not much from the White House other than a vague commitment to provide greater disclosure and to cooperate on legislation affecting the wiretapping, which the White House insists isn't needed in any case
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2,273 Officially Dead In Iraq<
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National Debt -- $8.245 Trillion
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Bush toured a Johnson Controls Inc. battery development center and looked at two hybrid SUVs before speaking at a company headquarters in Milwaukee.

Bush said he envisioned a future in which a plug-in hybrid car could drive 40 miles on a lithium-ion battery, then stop at a filling station for ethanol, a fuel usually made from corn. The trip wouldn't require a drop of oil, he said.

In his State of the Union address last month, Bush said the United States must break an addiction to Middle East oil. He has called for improving alternative-fuel technology to reduce U.S. oil imports from the region by 75 percent by 2025.

'WE'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING ... NOW'

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A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
Edward R. Murrow

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

Edward R. Murrow

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
Edward R. Murrow

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Edward R. Murrow, television broadcast, December 31, 1955

- More quotations on: [Prejudice]

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Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan

Don't be afraid to see what you see.
Ronald Reagan

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
Ronald Reagan

Facts are stupid things.
Ronald Reagan

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Ronald Reagan

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
Ronald Reagan

I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.
Ronald Reagan

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
Ronald Reagan

People don't start wars, governments do.
Ronald Reagan

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan - More quotations on: [Politics]

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
Ronald Reagan

The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
Ronald Reagan

The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
Ronald Reagan

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Ronald Reagan

To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will.
Ronald Reagan

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
Ronald Reagan

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984