News Junkie Scott's Blog (6/24/07)

Making a point about costs in criminal cases

This is plight of Balochistan people under oppressive Pakistan . FREE BALOCHISTAN

...and all alone in the USA Government

La unica forma de salir del subdesarrollo cronoco.

Nearly three weeks after election day, there are still no definitive results for the Philippine elections to the Senate and House of Representatives. Counting is still continuing and in a number of provinces it has not even begun. This has nothing to do with inefficiency and everything to do with ballot-rigging. The Philippines is one of the most corrupt ‘democracies’ in the world. During the 2004 presidential election, the victory of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was widely attributed to large-scale fraud. A tape was massively circulated of a conversation between the President and Virgilio Garcillano, head of Comelec, the national election commission. Arroyo was heard addressing him familiarly, ‘Hello Garci’, and the election chief proudly assured her that he would guarantee her a million-vote majority.

News Junkie Scott's Blog (6/22/07)

Baltimore's only progressive Internet public-radio station presents its first annual on-air GLBT Pride Weekend June 23 and 24.