Friday, April 23, 2004
Be very afraid of the Diebold e-voting machines | More evidence of US missteps in Iraq | What's really good with the Kingdom Holding Co. & Kerr-McGee?
Image courtesy: Daily News
Pentagon Ban on Pictures of Dead Troops Is Broken (New York Times)
Now that these pictures are out everywhere, will Tami Silicio and her husband (who was also fired) get their jobs back at Maytag Aircraft?
Bremer Says 'Baathist' Policy Poorly Applied. This might be as close as we'll get to an admission from Team Bush that the Iraq post-war strategy has been botched from the get for now. (Reuters)
More on the controversial e-voting machines made by Diebold (owned by admitted GOP booster Walden O'Dell) to be used by many key battleground and swing states in the Presidential election this year: California Grills Diebold Over E-Voting Foul-Ups. (Common Dreams | story via Slashdot)
Randi Rhodes on Air America Radio has just started ranting about this in the last couple days, but they've been running for at least a few weeks now: what's up with the heavy advertising campaign the Saudi-based Kingdom Holding Company has been running on CNN? This company has ownership stakes in Boeing, Priceline.com, Citigroup as well as many other major "American" companies. While KHC is buying airtime on there, don't expect CNN to do any exposes any time soon on how our Saudi "allies" and the Royal Family (who own the Kingdom Holding Company, I believe) are in fact major sponsors of Al Qaeda and other Islamic fundamentalist terror groups in the Middle East. Or that they bankroll many of the Madrasa schools that teach the anti-Western, miltiant Wahhabist strain of Islam practiced by these groups and supply most of their recruits too.
Ditto for Kerr-McGee and the feel good ads they've been running for months on CNN now. Seriously why does an oil exploration company need to do an extensive consumer-targeted PR camapign?
