Topic: POLITIK - on November 7, 2006 at 10:26:00 AM CET
HBO SPECIAL Hacking Democracy
Hacking Democracy (HBO Special) Electronic voting machines count about 87% of the votes cast in America today. But are they reliable? Are ... all » they safe from tampering? From a current congressional hearing to persistent media reports that suggest misuse of data and even outright fraud, concerns over the integrity of electronic voting are growing by the day. And if the voting process is not secure, neither is America's democracy. The timely, cautionary documentary HACKING DEMOCRACY exposes gaping holes in the security of America's electronic voting system.
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Topic: POLITIK - on November 3, 2006 at 3:54:00 PM CET
British believe Bush is more dangerous than Kim Jong-il
Carried out as US voters prepare to go to the polls next week in an election dominated by the war, the research also shows that British voters see George Bush as a greater danger to world peace than either the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, or the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Both countries were once cited by the US president as part of an "axis of evil", but it is Mr Bush who now alarms voters in countries with traditionally strong links to the US.
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Topic: POLITIK - on October 26, 2006 at 11:01:00 PM CEST
Putin indicates he'll still be a player in Russia after '08
President Vladimir Putin, barred by Russia's constitution from running for a third consecutive term, signaled Wednesday that he expects to play a role in setting government policy after he leaves office in 2008.
The 54-year-old Russian leader again fended off speculation that he might be considering a way to serve another term. Supporters and various regional groups, including in Chechnya, have called for amending the country's laws to allow him to stay in power.
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Topic: POLITIK - on October 20, 2006 at 12:23:00 AM CEST
O’Reilly on Blogosphere: ‘I’d Go in With A Hand Grenade’
Last night on The O’Reilly Factor, political strategist Larry Sabato bemoaned the “blogs on left and right” and “the things they come up with daily, the vitriol, the vile nature of the comments.”
O’Reilly said that he knew “for a fact that President Bush doesn’t know what’s going on in the Internet.” O’Reilly then said, “I have to say President Bush has a much healthier attitude toward this than I do. Because if I can get away with it, boy, I’d go in with a hand grenade.” Watch it:
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Topic: POLITIK - on October 19, 2006 at 12:48:00 PM CEST
A Question Bush Can't Answer
There are a lot of questions -- about a lot of things -- that President Bush can't seem to answer.
But Fox News's Bill O'Reilly, of all people, asked Bush one of the most important ones in an interview aired last night.
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Topic: POLITIK - on June 13, 2005 at 10:31:00 AM CEST
Austrian Official's Smooch Causes A Stir
Austria's finance minister is 36 and unmarried, but when he was caught kissing crystal heiress Fiona Swarovski at a Paris airport, it became headline news — in part because he was engaged to his former intern at the time.
Karl-Heinz Grasser sued the magazine News, which published photos of The Kiss, in a case that has many in this country of 8 million wondering whether politics may have begun to devolve into American-style mini-scandals that stress style over substance.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 15, 2005 at 3:26:00 PM CET
Writer issues published apology for secret recordings of Bush
The writer who secretly recorded phone conversations in which then-Texas Governor George W. Bush appeared to suggest past illegal drug use, issued a public apology to the president.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 14, 2005 at 12:56:00 PM CET
Bush: No Respect for Press or the People
To see just how Bush loves to give the press the finger, let's recall his philosophy about the press: "You're assuming that you represent the public. I don't accept that." If the press doesn't represent the public, who does? The President? With his ever-shrinking "mandate"? The Bush Administrations "fuck you" attitude towards the Press--and by extension, the American Public--is only now being discussed, as reporters are finally awaking from their stupor to realize they've been conned and scammed into being Presidential lapdogs.
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Topic: POLITIK - on February 27, 2005 at 12:28:00 PM CET
Lalu chucks humour, takes to poetry
For a change, it was neither President A P J Abdul Kalam nor poet-politician Atal Bihari Vajpayee who were reciting poems and couplets in Parliament, but Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, more famous for his rustic wit and humour. "Uthna hai aur bhi oopar, hain oonchaiyan pukaarti, Hai apaar kshamatayen, ashayen tumhe niharti (We have to rise higher, for the heights beckon us. Unlimited capacities and expectations are looking upon you)", Prasad said in his Railway Budget speech while referring to financial challenges.
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Topic: POLITIK - on February 1, 2005 at 8:51:00 AM CET
Backwards Bush
Welcome to the official BackwardsBush website. I created both the website and the key chain with the intention of helping people like you and me cope with the four long years of George W. Bush’s second term.
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Topic: POLITIK - on November 26, 2004 at 1:21:00 PM CET
Toilettenpapier-Hersteller will Bush-freundliche US-Bundesstaaten boykottieren
Jed Ela, Gründer der Brooklyner Toilettenartikel-Firma "ShitBegone", will seine Waren nicht mehr in US-Bundesstaaten liefern, in denen die Partei des Präsidenten Bush die Mehrheit errang.
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Topic: POLITIK - on October 28, 2004 at 11:06:00 AM CEST
Bush-Verwandte werben für Kerry
Auf der Webseite 'bushrelativesforkerry.com' fordern sieben entfernte Verwandte von Präsident Bush die Wähler dazu auf, für den Herausforderer Kerry zu stimmen. Wörtlich steht da: 'Bitte wählen Sie nicht unseren Cousin.'
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