How the Afghan Election Was Rigged – By Peter W. Galbraith

No one will ever know how Afghans voted in their country’s presidential elections on Aug. 20, 2009. Seven weeks after the polling, the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) is still trying to separate fraudulent tallies from ballots. In some provinces, many more votes were counted than were cast. E.U. election monitors characterize 1.5 million votes as suspect, which would include up to one-third of the votes cast for incumbent President Hamid Karzai. Once fraud occurs on the scale of what took place in Afghanistan, it is impossible to untangle.

Many white people don’t believe an African American should be president – Jimmy Carter

one thing about Jimmy Carter in his last days, he speaks his mind about most issues without obsfucation

NYT: “I live in the South and I’ve seen the South come a long way,” he said. But, “I think it’s bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people not just in the south but around the country … that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country. It’s an abominable circumstance and grieves me and concerns me very deeply.”

Officer Omar Edwards – Black cop murdered by white ‘brother’ Andrew Dunton

Officer Omar Edwards with wife Danielle and their 1 1/2-year-old Xavier and 7-month-old Keanua

Laura Pendergest-Holt – a lady you might want to know

we’ve been getting a lot of hits on the flagship [temporarily down]  finally found a picture of Laura Pendergest-Holt on this site Bizz Buzz

BALDWYN – Laura Pendergest-Holt is the youngest and perhaps most unlikely member of the Stanford Financial Group trio accused of an $8 billion fraud.

Imperial Diplomacy – John Pilger

populistamerica: From British involvement with the genocidal Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, to the supply of warplanes to the Indonesian dictator Suharto, knowing he was bombing civilians in East Timor, to the denial of vaccines and other humanitarian aid to the children of Iraq, my experience with the Foreign Office is that Higson was right and remains right.

USS Kearsarge imperialistic ambitions in Guyana championed by three negroes

funny after big whitey toss you a bone, he comes right back with a negroe ambassador and a negroe commander of a military ship and you all whoop and holler because he give out two vaccinations and give out three spectacles. all services that should’ve been provided by the cocaine chittagongs of PPP Crime Inc. in the first place

From left are Commander Fernandez “Frank” Ponds of the US Naval Ship, Kearsarge; US Ambassador to Guyana, John Jones; Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy

Exxon Valdez $2.5 billion oil spill ruling overturned

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out the record $2.5 billion in punitive damages that Exxon Mobil Corp had been ordered to pay for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska, the nation’s worst tanker spill.
By a 5-3 vote, the high court ruled that the punitive damages award should be slashed — limited by the circumstances of the case to an amount equal to the total relevant compensatory damages of $507.5 million.

Texas Republican Party endorses racist Obama pin

it’s just gettig warm. this is only the beginning..the point has already been made, so you can go through the motions of apologising and giving money to charity et cetera

that’s how the game is played

AUSTIN – The Republican Party of Texas will donate to charity the $1,500 it received for leasing a booth at its state convention to a vendor who sold a racist button.

Anita Gay vigil (Black woman murdered by Berkeley Police Rashawn Cummings)

Indybay:On June 16th, around a dozen protesters gathered at Ashby and MLK in Berkeley to protest the shooting of Anita Gay, grandmother, mother, and resident of Berkeley. She was killed on February 16, 2008 by a Berkeley Police officer who is now back on the street. Following the killing of Anita Gay by Berkeley police Justice for Anita! Justice for All! was formed.
The group is composed of family, friends, and concerned community members.