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 <title>Who Counts the Votes America?</title>
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 <description>&lt;blockquote &gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” - Stalin&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Who counts the votes in America? Machines.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In Alaska, and probably most other states, poll workers are not allowed to hand count the votes to verify the machine totalled them up correctly. Let me reiterate- &lt;strong &gt;Humans are not allowed to verify the machine results.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:31:24 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>300 Alaskan Soldiers just back, Ordered to Return to Iraq</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;300 Soldiers from the 372 Stryker Brigade ordered back to Iraq.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote &gt;&lt;p&gt;About 300 U.S. soldiers who just weeks ago returned home to Alaska after a year in Iraq are being ordered back to try to help bolster security in Baghdad, the U.S. Army said on Monday...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The order provoked anger and disappointment among some of the soldiers&#039; families in Alaska. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N14437695.htm&quot;&gt;(Reuters)&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Soldiers: Standing up for the Truth is the courageous thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Even with the FOX propaganda 24/7, I&#039;ll bet at least 30 out of the 300 troops know that they&#039;re not liberating the Iraqis.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;c&quot; src=&quot;http://benfrank.net/patriots/files/images/iraqi_liberty.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:09:27 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Official Election Pamphlet Bio &amp; Statement</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong &gt;Bio:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For the last 6 years I have been studying politics intensely. The passage of the Patriot Act after the events of 9/11 made me start questioning the intentions of our leaders.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As I watched the run-up to the war in Iraq, and investigated the lies we were being told by our government and the Corporate media and the effect these lies would have on innocent people, I felt that I must get involved and do everything to stop the atrocity before it happened.. Many years later, I am still fighting to stop a war that never should have started.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I live by words of the great Martin Luther King Jr: &quot;Silence is betrayal&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:38:00 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Alaska Election 2004: The Numbers Don&#039;t Add Up</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The Alaska Election Results from 2004 don&#039;t add up, yet the state won&#039;t release the records so a transparent examination can find what happened to the missing votes. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/7386582p-7298824c.html&quot;&gt;According to the State Div. of Elections&lt;/a&gt;, it&#039;s Diebold&#039;s software and we have no right to access their trade secrets.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How can any intelligent American accept that as an answer? We cannot verify the validity of our election results because a Private (Republican Owned) Corporation owns the machines. This makes no sense in &quot;the land of the free&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:43:46 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>The Democratic Party Infiltrated: A Personal Account</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;This is what happened in the 2004 Democratic Primary in Alaska.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My wife and I were newbies to the political process, we had never been to a caucus before, never been involved in politics other than casting a vote every few years. This time we were watching closely, and we became aware that John Kerry was a Republican with a Democratic nameplate. We saw Howard Dean collect $40 million in anti-war money, then turn around and support 40,000 more troops Kerry. Whatever happened to fighting for what you believe in? How is it possible that we had a Presidential election between two pro-war candidates? Why didn&#039;t America have a real choice, ie Bush vs a Dem that would end the war?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This story outlines how the DLC stole Alaska for Kerry. Hopefully my experience will help others to be prepared to expose the status-quo stooges in their state.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:48:53 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Exxon&#039;s Crime Against Alaskans</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;In 1989 the Exxon Valdez Oil Tanker ran aground spillling 30 million of gallons of crude oil into Alaska&#039;s Prince William Sound. Everyone knows that, but did you know that 30,000 Alaskan Fishermen and Native Tribes won a $5 Billion lawsuit against Exxon in 1994?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As of this writing, 2/23/06, &lt;strong &gt;Exxon still has not paid a dime to those most affected by the spill.&lt;/strong&gt; Thousands of Alaskans experienced severe financial hardship- how many families were broken up due to the financial &amp;amp; emotional stress caused by Exxon?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://benfrank.net/patriots/accountability/exxons_crime_against_alaskans&quot;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:22:22 -0500</pubDate>
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