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Monitors: Court vs. Commission

[Miss Mabrouk of Egypt] Setting the stage for confrontation: Independent organizations will NOT be allowed to monitor the elections, says the Electoral Commission. Last Saturday, the judiciary ruled the opposite and also said the issue is not within the realms of the commission.

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[Ratiocination] You Tell 'Em, John: If you, like me, have been wondering about how many of your tax dollars were going to pay for the White House Communications Director to spout Republican campaign talking points, or for the weekly "Presidential" radio address to be all about attacking John Kerry, or for Secret Service agents to be arresting citizens for trying to attend campaign rallies, if you were tired of hearing people from the administration talking, but not doing anything, about our nation's problems, and if you were really, really wondering just what national security issue Condi Rice needed to discuss with the Cleveland Browns, you may enjoy these words from John Edwards:

[Blog.zmag.org] "Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone" (ZNet Blog): As best I can tell as of the moment (note this morning’s date and time), not only has the IAEA failed to get around to archiving any of this material yet. But this single phrase---nuclear-weapon-free zone---drawn directly from the text of the IAEA’s own resolution on Friday, the 24th, has received but two mentions-in-passing within the voluminous coverage the mainstream English-language news media have devoted to the alleged Iranian nuclear “ambitions,”

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[Hnn.us] History News Network: Russell Mokiber and Robert Weissman of the Multinational Monitor (www.multinationalmonitor.org) named Dow Chemical among it’s top 10 worst corporations of 2004 because, as they say: “The world's largest plastic maker, Dow purchased Union Carbide in 1999. At midnight on December 2, 1984, 27 tons of lethal gases leaked from Union Carbide's pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, immediately killing an estimated 8,000 people and poisoning thousands of others.”