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Desperation and 80 Pound Paper Stock in Ohio | America Coming Together (ACT)

"Citing an arcane ruling that requires voter registration cards be printed on 80 pound stock paper, Blackwell is threatening to void registrations submitted on a lighter weight paper, demanding they re-apply. There is no time to reapply and thousands of voters could be left off the rolls."

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CBS News | Internet Info Sharing Goes Wiki

Well, one of my internet projects made it to CBS, hope they are not lying about it! It is linked under "a growing breed of Internet knowledge-sharing communities" called Wikis.

"Wikipedia is unique for an encyclopedia because anybody can add, edit and even erase. And the Wikipedia is just one — albeit the best known — of a growing breed of Internet knowledge-sharing communities called Wikis. "

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Anarchogeek: Who's Who of The Armed Iraqi Resistance

"Baghdad Al-Zawra has a who's who of armed iraqi resistance organizations. (via juan cole) It's good to get a real sense of what's happening beyond the random attacks and more attacks. It also explains some of the ideology of the groups, the funding, and links."
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Just got off the phone with Sprint, my cell phone company. Paid a bill, having trouble with my banks auto-deduct.

The crazy thing is that Sprint has started to do a total lock down on its operators. I asked if they were unionized where the operator was. She said "I can not answer that." Then I ask where the call center was located, "I can not answer that." But she could give me a location code.

Does anyone know where a Sprint call center is with the location code of V99?
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Just got off the phone with Sprint, my cell phone company. Paid a bill, having trouble with my banks auto-deduct.

The crazy thing is that Sprint has started to do a total lock down on its operators. I asked if they were unionized where the operator was. She said "I can not answer that." Then I ask where the call center was located, "I can not answer that." But she could give me a location code.

Does anyone know where a Sprint call center is with the location code of V99?
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Emma Goldman Finishing School
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Spezzato :: Maureen Evans: a rant on Canadian social state nostalgia

"America's funny because we Canadians often think of it as a Hellishly victimizing environment, rather than, at least potentially, an effective wake-up call to the collective problem of capitalism, and an inspiration to see the connect between their own and others' lives, globally. Canadians like to think of Canada as a more civilized place than the States, but there are really less and less fundamental differences in our societies' guiding economic principles; our nations are like trains at different places on increasingly parallel tracks. At least Americans — what with all their president's talk about taking over the world — are hard-pressed not to be aware of the place they are at."
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BANCO The Black Autonomy Network Community Organization

"To help or force Berrien County to administer justice with fairness , equality, and integrity. To resolve matters before our community and in the court in a timely manner with trained and a motivated staff. To provide courteous and prompt service in a manner that inspires public trust and confidence. To make sure the promise of the constitution is answered with a resounding yes, for all our nations people."
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"Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. I went to the store the other day. I was only in there for about 5 minutes. When I came out, there was a city cop writing out a parking ticket. I went up to him and said, "come on, buddy, how about giving a senior a break?"

He ignored me and continued writing the ticket. I called him a name. He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn tires. So I called him a worse name. He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing a third ticket. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more I abused him the more tickets he wrote. I didn't care. My car was parked around the corner, and this one had a "Re-Elect George Bush" bumper sticker on it. I try to have a little fun each day now that I’m retired. It's important at our age."
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Live Nude Weblog! :

"Workers at the Minnesota Beef Industries plant in Buffalo Lake voted to join United Food and Commercial Workers Local 789 today. The margin was 53-46 in favor of unionizing."
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Fight for the Future - Unions Change Lives

"Imagine for a second what you could do if your salary almost doubled. What would you be able to do? What would you buy for yourself? for your family? Perhaps you might be able to afford your first house, or start socking away money for your kids’ education. If you’re struggling, you could give up a second or third job."

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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: September 19, 2004 - September 25, 2004 Archives

"Don Rumsfeld said yesterday that elections in 'three-quarters or four-fifths of' Iraq might be good enough.

In other words, run the place on Florida rules."
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Gizmodo : Tracking Employees, Shocking Them

"CNet has a story up about the growing trend within corporations to use GPS-enabled phones to monitor and track employee whereabouts which features this lovely quote from Sanjay Shirole, CEO of one of the firms that makes the tracking software:"

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"The People's Republic of Seabrook: Truth is the first casualty in Republican politics"
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Baghdad Year Zero (Harpers.org)

"It was only after I had been in Baghdad for a month that I found what I was looking for. I had traveled to Iraq a year after the war began, at the height of what should have been a construction boom, but after weeks of searching I had not seen a single piece of heavy machinery apart from tanks and humvees."
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Mark Dilley - Powered By Bloglines

Apparently I had a bloglines weblog available to me all this time... what to do?
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What plane hit the Pentagon?

Seriously folks, look at this. (added later - it has a rockin soundtrack)

edit: OK - Solomon has whipped me back from the edge of the conspiracy spiral. Thanks to George as well. I remember being there a year ago on this issue.

points:

1 - apparently the black box from the plane was there
2 - US Government operating in secret, visa vi the confiscated video tape, isn't new and isn't logical.
3 - Pentagon building is made of material that possibly could have absorbed much of the energy.
4 - Plane hiting the ground still doesn't make sense.

I do disagree with Solomon in his analysis of equating "hid a plane full of people somewhere and kept it secret, "they" should do a much better job at hiding how bad Iraq is going right now."

There is no way that a planned, conceived covert operation can be compared to an invasion of a country.

And that is what the argument is.
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Canto do Brazil

Excited about this!!
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I'd like to break that story | Metafilter

"Dan Rather: : 'If the documents are not what we were led to believe, I'd like to break that story. Any time I'm wrong, I want to be right out front and say, 'Folks, this is what went wrong and how it went wrong.'' (reg. req.)

Andrew Sullivan: 'Memo to Rather: you can't break that story, because someone else in pajamas already did. Check the frequency, Kenneth. You are so far from being out front on this, you are leagues behind in the dust. Have you heard of the Internet? You can find it on that weird machine in your office they call a computer.' "
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Derek Seidman: Fighting for a Starbucks Workers Union:

"Daniel Gross is the lead organizer in the ongoing IWW IU/660 effort to establish the only unionized Starbucks in the United States. He's a worker at the 36th and Madison Starbucks in New York City, the immediate focus of the campaign."
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Seeking the Polls: GWOT: The Score Card

"Since the Bush/Cheney campaign has made the global war on terror a central piece of their re-election campaign, I would like to take a look at how well we are doing in this war. The following is a critical analysis of the current efforts in the Global War on Terror (aka GWOT). Because of controversy as to the importance of the Iraqi conflict in GWOT, I've left it out of this analysis on purpose."
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BugMeNot.com

Bypass Compulsory Web Registration
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Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Far graver than Vietnam

"Far graver than Vietnam

Most senior US military officers now believe the war on Iraq has turned into a disaster on an unprecedented scale "
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Anarchogeek: It's official, there were no weapons of mass destruction

"It's official, there were no weapons of mass destruction

So Bush, Cheney, and the gang lied to go to war, it was illegal, there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. More than 12,700 Iraqi's and 1,165 occupation soldiers have been killed."
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Can we really afford this?



If the above image and slogan beat Dukakis, the below image surely has that potential.


Can we really afford this?
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WOMEN IN BLACK


REGIONAL MARCH - REGIONAL MARCH - REGIONAL MARCH - REGIONAL MARCH

Saturday, October 9, Ann Arbor

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Please join WOMEN IN BLACK
in silent protest against
U.S.-sanctioned violence in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine

EVENT STARTS PROMPTLY AT NOON!

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REGIONAL MARCH
Sat, Oct 9, Ann Arbor, 5th & Liberty,
Contact debnajor@yahoo.com or jherrada@umich.edu
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Please Wear Black, Everyone Welcome, Men Women and Children

About Women in Black:
We are women of varied ethnic and racial heritages who gather to oppose the use of violence and terror as a means to political ends.

P.O. Box 14474, Detroit, MI 48214

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You can view upcoming "Women in Black - Detroit" events on the WEB at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WIB-Detroit
OR
http://www.geocities.com/sueghan/WIB-Detoit.html

If a friend forwarded this to you and you like to receive timely email reminders for upcoming WIB events, send an email to
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You can contact us at
sueghan@yahoo.com
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Where do soldiers go when they die?

Do they sail away across a patriot sky?

Or drift on the breeze of the lie

That killed them?

via a truthout email
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Michigan IMC: feature/6619

"Voting While Black"
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randomWalks: The Girls In Their Summer Hot Pants

"The RNC is coming to town, and area sex workers are ready to accommodate the demand:

The on-again-off-again prostitute with streaked pixieish hair looks less like a hooker than a bartender at Galapagos—which made her ideal for one politically charged client last year. He’d asked her to show up at his apartment wearing a black hoodie with patches and no perfume or deodorant. “I said, ‘Do you want me to dress like a protester?,’ and he said, ‘Yeah.’ He tied me down, spanked me, and wanted to yell at me a lot. He said, ‘You bad girl! You smashed the Starbucks!’ He was a very conservative Wall Street banker, and he basically wanted to fuck the movement.”
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Blog Left: Critical Interventions Warblog (war blog, Iraq, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Bush, Gulf War II, left)

"the more you read about the bush family, the nastier it all gets"
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Seat of the Revolution

Why does the government censor this?
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Seat of the Revolution

"Take a look at this Video Excerpt of Ben Barnes talking about getting Bush and other rich Texans into the National Guard during the Vietnam War."
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Interesting High-speed Video Clips
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Psychotria Nervosa: Hallibacon

"About 30 activists wearing pig snouts assembled at a breakfast sponsored by gas and oil supplier Halliburton. The activists accused the Bush administration of favoring Halliburton when it awarded billions of dollars in contracts in Iraq because Vice President Dick Cheney was the company's CEO between 1995 and 2000, immediately before he became President Bush's running mate."
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Rhino's Blog

Why vote for Kerry?
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To The Barricades!: September 2004 Archives

"Premise: 'Terrorism' is a method, not a system of belief, or a government, or a state.

Second premise: 'Terrorism' is used by those who have nothing to lose -- no national status, no economy, no reputation, no respectability."
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David Grenier: Unsurprising

"From Truthout: Young Republicans Support Iraq War, but Not Willing to Join the Fight."
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Anarchogeek: Thoughts about the evolution of indymedia since 1999

"The indymedia network has added a new local imc every 11 days. That's a sustained level of growth which has only been possible because of the flexible and decentralized network form of organization which the indymedia network has adopted. The network is grounded in a set of principles of unity which lets each group adapt their organization and activities to the local political environment while providing some standards and integrity across the network."
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BushOut.TV: Swiftvets strike back: "Sellout"

pretty interesting...
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If you tolerate this... - the Greenpeace weblog: New Book about Greenpeace

"But the crew of the first Greenpeace voyage to Amchitka in 1971 are the real stuff, and one of them, Rex Weyler, has written one of the best reads imaginable about what it was like to be a part of the heady, flower-powered core group of mind-bombing hippy peaceniks that got the whole ball rolling."
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slacktivist: The ownership of society

"The end result of that "far more radical agenda" is an America in which wages, and only wages, will be taxed. People with lots of disposable income -- the wealthy -- will be able to shelter that income in tax-free investments, which in turn will create more tax-free investment income."
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Wampum: Happy Birthday Net

15' of grey cable. 1969
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Women On Waves

Fighting for abortion rights in Portugal
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Beautiful Flash: Voice Yourself
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