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	Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips Millions Without a Voice of the Vote clipped by: papananook clippers remarks: If I hadnt been pardoned by Pres. Gerald Ford (bless the man) for my Fed. conviction of refusal to serve in the Military in protest of the Vietnam war in 70, I wouldnt be voting now. Some would probably say I dont deserve to vote because Im a refusenik...but then those people are....well...wrong! Clip Source: www.commondreams.org Disenfranchisement-people being denied their right to vote-takes many forms, and has a major impact on electoral politics. In Ohio in 2004, stories abounded of inoperative voting machines, too few ballots or too few voting machines. Then there was Florida in 2000. Many continue to believe that the election was thrown to George W. Bush by Ralph Nader, who got about 97,000 votes in Florida. Ten times that number of Floridians are prevented from voting at all. Why? Currently, more than 1.1 million Floridians have been convicted of a felony and thus aren?t allowed to vote. We can?t know for sure how they would have voted, but as scholar, lawyer and activist Angela Davis said recently in a speech honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Mobile, Ala., ?If we had not had the felony disenfranchisement that we have, there would be no way that George Bush would be in the White House.? ?I can?t vote,? he said, ?because I did time in prison affects African-American and Latino men zum Artikel... Anzeige Into the next world with a plasma TV clipped by: mickfinn clippers remarks: Less than 16pc now live on less than a dollar a day, compared to 58 per cent in 1993, although many can still only dream of having a flat screen television in this life. Yet, despite rising inflation, some urban people are thriving. In the build-up to this year?s festival, affluent Vietnamese thronged to new boutiques stocking such capitalist icons as Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Cartier. Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk Vietnamese are getting richer, but the flat-screen televisions, motor scooters and mobile phones they burn as offerings to their ancestors this lunar new year are still only made of paper The age-old tradition of burning "hang ma" offerings has shifted from replicas of common household goods to luxury items because, according to the anthropologist Shaun Kingsley Malarney, "The living want their dead relatives to feel good too." According to Nguyen Huu Nang, 60, who makes the models, "The Honda SH150 and Dylan models are now the favourite scooters for the departed The Communist government discourages religious belief but the old traditions have endured Two decades ago the regime began a process of "doi moi" (renewal) market reforms which have delivered one of the fastest rates of poverty reduction anywhere in the world A property tycoon drew attention by importing a Rolls Royce Phantom for the occasion ? for driving rather than burning Tags: boom time in vietnam zum Artikel... McCain Dusts Off Mushroom Cloud clipped by: AtlLiberal clippers remarks: Since the republican obviously are going to score any points on economic issues or health care, theyve decided to trot out the the straw man of the Democratic president waving the white flag of surrender. I guess its tghe best they can do. Pretty pathetic... Clip Source: www.reuters.com McCain challenges Democratic rivals on Iraq war NORFOLK, Va., Feb 8 (Reuters) - Sen. John McCain, his victory as Republican nominee for the U.S. presidency virtually assured, turned his sights on his Democratic challengers on Friday, saying they were weak on national security and their Iraq stance would hand al Qaeda a victory. McCains remarks, and the response from Democratic presidential contenders Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, pushed Iraq war policy back to center stage in the presidential race after weeks of focus on the faltering U.S. economy. Speaking to reporters after a security round-table meeting in Norfolk, Virginia, the home of a major U.S. naval base, McCain accused Obama and Clinton of wanting to set a date for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. "I believe that would have catastrophic consequences," said the Arizona senator, a former Navy pilot and prisoner of war in Vietnam. Tags: politics, gop, mccain, iraq, terror zum Artikel... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de