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REPOST:

Greg Palast, Author of Armed Madhouse, on How Rove May Have Already Stolen the 2008 Election
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Thu, 05/17/2007 - 4:06pm. Interviews
A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW
People ask me: Are they going to steal the 2008 election? No, they’ve already stolen the 2008 election. We still have a chance of swiping it back, but the reason I’ve expanded and put out the new edition of Armed Madhouse is to tell you how they will steal in 2008, and what to do about it. That’s one of the main new things. Plus a special chapter on New Orleans and my bust down there.
– Greg Palast
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You might say, since the 2000 election, BuzzFlash and Greg Palast have shared many a foxhole in the fight for democracy. He’s a workaholic, like we are — and he doesn’t flinch one iota in investigating the powers that be.
One of the things that makes Palast such an incredible asset is that he is in the I.F. Stone tradition of his doing thorough research. As much as he’s built up a Sam Spade sleuthing persona, it is grounded in his ability to shift through large piles of documents and data that most modern reporters would just look at and cry, "No way, I’ve got to meet someone for a daquiri."
Mainstream jounalism in D.C. is built on the "easy story," as in the one that is handed to you by the Executive Branch. Actually, Palast doesn’t work in D.C. much at all. He is out traveling around the country — and world — doing actual investigations into what is really going on.

WTF!
John McCain is such a moron!
Here are some "McCainisms":

"We have a lot of work to do. It’s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border." –referring to a border that does not exist, July 21, 2008

"I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government
took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to
Czechoslovakia." –referring to a country that no longer exists, Phoenix, Arizona, July14, 2008

• Hillary wins PA primary effectly killing me inside.
• I found out I owe Vermont 320 dollars.
• In order to stop owing Vermont money, I have to put in several hundred dollars worth of repair to my car, then inspection fees, then registration fees.
• My paycheck bounced and the store I work at is going out of business. Yeah, I got charged overdraft fees and a returned check fee.
• Blowback on the great (stupid) biofuel idea.
• OLPC is dropping linux for windows.
• Super cool UFO’s in Arizona? No, it was a fucker.
• Goodbye, 4th amendment.
• Lastly, there is no god.

What’s the best way to keep people from foreign lands that you’ve indoctrinated with your consumer culture from coming in to your country? If you have corporate ties that make Mussolini look friendly, unlimited cash to waste, and no feasible possibility of building a 2000 mile wall, then the answer might be Boeing’s Virtual Border Fence®.

What is a Virtual Border Fence® you might ask? It’s a series of 100 ft tall towers equipped with cameras, radar, and other sensors that was supposed to enable border patrol agents to keep out of that desert heat and only have to check their blackberries every once in a while.

Unfortunately, as the Washington Post has reported yesterday, the project’s Pilot program along about 28 miles of the US border in Arizona was a complete failure. It turns out that the cost of this virtual fence is much more than a real fence would have cost, at more than $3 million dollars per mile.

The project has now been delayed because of technical difficulties, including radar systems activated by rainfall, cameras that apparently aren’t as good as we thought they were, and the government’s inability to print money fast enough to feed to Boeing.

It’s still unclear as to whether Michael Chertoff is the actual son of the devil.