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...bombs explode almost daily because of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's ill-conceived military planning. The U.S. budget deficit is exploding. Bush has diminished individual rights in the U.S. And we are told he was re-elected because Americans trust his morals and because he makes them feel safer. As the Americans say, Go figure...
...that a country with a free press, which saw multitudes of ideas contested and volleyed back and forth during the presidential campaign, could not make 51% of its voters see the simple truth that the incumbent has not made their world safer and does not deserve a second term? How can people in nations with repressive governments continue to argue that a free media will disseminate the truth and ensure the well-being of citizens after what just happened...
...voting machines, there are other companies that do. For example, Sequoia Voting Systems, the third largest voting systems company in the country, already employs a system that prints a simultaneous paper ballot with each touch screen vote cast. It is precisely the receipt that currently makes using an ATM safer than a paperless voting machine— the physical, unalterable, readable proof of the transaction. Yet somehow this is something that neither ES&S nor Diebold has managed, despite the fact that more than three-quarters of Diebold’s 2003 revenue was in ATM and similar sales...
...Even though the Sudanese Army reclaimed Tawila the day after the rebel attacks, the remaining civilians don't feel any safer. Far from protecting them, the townspeople say they are again the soldiers' prey. "They have treated the people in a bad way," says one man. "They beat us, they harass us, they take our things." And sometimes they rape...
...years. Tron Hummelvoll Klofta, Norway How is it that a country with a free press, which saw multitudes of ideas contested and volleyed back and forth during the presidential campaign, could not make 51% of its voters see the simple truth that the incumbent has not made their world safer and does not deserve a second term as their President? How can people in nations with repressive governments continue to argue that free media will disseminate the truth and ensure the well-being of citizens after what just happened in the U.S. ? Chuah Siew Eng Kuala Lumpur