09 November 2006
Reuters The Democrats took the House of Representatives earlier
Democrats have wrested control of the Senate from Republicans with an upset victory in Virginia, giving the party complete domination of Capitol Hill for the first time since 1994. Jim Webb's win over incumbent Senator George Allen on Wednesday gave Democrats their 51st seat in the 100-seat Senate, an astonishing turnabout at the hands of voters. Allen was the sixth Republican incumbent senator defeated in Tuesday's elections. |
Last Updated: Wednesday, November 8, 2006 | 9:42 PM ET
CBC News The Democratic Party seized control of the U.S. Congress Wednesday night for the first time in a dozen years after picking up a sixth and final Senate gain in Virginia.
The Democrats won a solid majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in the mid-term elections on Tuesday, but had to wait an extra day on the Senate due to extremely tight races in Virginia and in Montana. |
Alternet
08/11/2006 Seven days after George W. Bush told reporters that Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney were "doing fantastic jobs" and would stay on until the end of his presidency, and one day after Americans gave an overwhelming vote of no confidence to the administration's policies, Donald Rumsfeld answered calls from both Democrats and Republicans and resigned.
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Bev Harris
Blackboxvoting 08/11/2006 Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld will resign, reportedly to be replaced by former CIA director Robert Gates. Did you know that Robert Gates was involved in the voting machine industry?
Gates was on the board of directors of VoteHere, a strange little company that was the biggest elections industry lobbyist for the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). VoteHere spent more money than ES&S, Diebold, and Sequoia combined to help ram HAVA through. And HAVA, of course, was a bill sponsored by by convicted Abramoff pal Bob Ney and K-street lobbyist buddy Steny Hoyer. HAVA put electronic voting on steroids. |
Reuters
09/11/2006 Robert Gates, President Bush's new nominee as U.S. Secretary of Defense, is no stranger to controversy on Capitol Hill. His last nomination, for CIA chief in 1991, produced a grueling though ultimately successful confirmation battle.
But some who voted against him before -- in part to protest what they said was his selective memory about past scandal -- said Wednesday they were willing to consider his qualifications to replace Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon. [...] Beyond charges that he hid the truth about the Iran-Contra affair from Congress when that scandal was breaking in the 1980s, Gates in 1991 overcame potentially disqualifying claims that he skewed intelligence reports in the 1980s to suit the Reagan administration's hardline anti-Soviet views. |
www.chinaview.cn 2006-11-09 11:06:36
WARSAW, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- A delegation of the European Parliament has arrived in Warsaw to continue its probe into alleged prisons, run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Europe, the Polish news agency PAP reported on Wednesday.
The delegation began its three-day work in Poland by meeting the Newsweek journalist in the country, Jaroslaw Gizinski, the report said. |
By DERRILL HOLLY
Associated Press Wed Nov 8, 2006 WASHINGTON - Activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Wednesday as she led about 50 protesters to a White House gate Wednesday to deliver anti-war petitions she said were signed by 80,000 Americans.
The Berkeley, Calif., woman, whose son was killed in Iraq more than two years ago, was arrested along with three other women on the sidewalk outside the White House gate, said Lt. Scott Fear, a U.S. Park Police spokesman. They were charged with interfering with a government function after they blocked the gate and ignored orders to move, he said. |
09/09/2004New study shows correlation between decline of IQ and rise of GOP
"Stupid people love Bush" new study proves According to the prestigious Southern California think tank, The Gluton Group, stupid people prefer President George W Bush over Senator John Kerry by a 4-to-1 margin. As Chief Resident Dr. Louis Friend characterized the results of the research, "the less intelligent you are, the more you like Bush." This landmark study, conducted over a 5 month period, involved 2400 likely voters bridging all economic stratas in the 17 states generally considered up for grabs on November 2nd. Participants were tested for intelligence, then asked to fill out a 12 page series of questions involving the Presidential candidates with results released earlier this week.
www.chinaview.cn 2006-11-09 17:46:52
TEHRAN, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Iran's chief nuclear negotiator AliLarijani has said that a draft UN Security Council resolution seeking to impose sanctions on Tehran is a "psychological move," the official IRNA news agency reported on Thursday.
Concerns of the West, especially the United States, over Iran's nuclear program had no legal basis, Larijani said in a television interview Wednesday night. |
By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer Wed Nov 8, 4:51 PM ET
VIENNA, Austria - Russia has crossed out large sections of a U.N. Security Council draft proposing broad U.S.-backed sanctions on Tehran's nuclear and missile programs, according to a document obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.
The paper outlines Moscow's proposed amendments to a Security Council draft resolution drawn up by Britain and France and broadly endorsed by the United States. Russia's changes weaken the draft resolution's demands that Tehran stop working on a reactor that can produce plutonium and that Iran allow tougher U.N. inspections of its nuclear program. They also delete any reference to Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant, which Russia is helping build. |
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