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I know I have been absent for a few months (production has been hell)...BUT...I read this today at lunch and..well..it needs to be mass distributed to someone other than the Rolling Stoner Crowd who don't vote anyway. I challenge you to NOT be pissed about this. if you are PLEASE forward it to your congreeman (the links as always are at the bottom of this article) and newspaper editor and NPR commentator and ask them why this is NOT being invvestigated. Was the 2004 Election Stolen? By Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Rolling Stone - Thursday 01 June 2006 Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted - enough to have put John Kerry in the White House. The complete article, with Web-only citations, follows. For more, see exclusive documents, sources, charts and commentary. Like many Americans, I spent the evening of the 2004 election watching the returns on television and wondering how the exit polls, which predicted an overwhelming v...

Tookie was a thug and a gangster of the most violent type. There are dozen’s like him on the streets and hundreds more being produced everyday. His death changes nothing. Tookie spread violence and mayhem all over the city and throughout his neighborhood. Violence and mayhem are out of control all over the city, in every neighborhood. His death changes nothing. Tookie helped to perpetuate hopelessness and despair on the streets where he lived. Hopelessness and despair have always lived on the streets of our cities and will continue to until the issues of hopelessness and despair are addressed for what they are: Hopelessness and Despair. His death changes nothing. Tookie probably directly, and without question indirectly through his actions, was responsible for countless deaths. There have been and continue to be, countless deaths caused by gang violence and criminal activity. People who will never exist again. His death changes nothing. Tookie was a symbol of viciousness and cruelty fo...

In researching Funding Access-vs.-Prevention at 14th ICASA AIDS Conference in Nigeria there was this other topic, indirectly effecting the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. Its wider effects on the world stage are equally staggering, and it effects every person on every continent to some extent. The issue is the fledgling democracy of Afghanistan and threat that the illicit opium trade poses in destabilizing the democratic process and stability in the entire region. Opium is bleeding Afghanistan of its chances of democracy. Go anywhere in southern Kandahar, Afghanistan (the former spiritual stronghold of the Taliban) and you’ll run in to poppy fields. Drive 20 minutes in any direction and you’ll find farmers busy harvesting their crop, in spite of the Interim Authority's January 2002 ban in on poppy cultivation. An estimated 1.7 million people are directly involved in opium production, as widespread and family-based poppy cultivation proliferates in 28 of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. ...