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Sunday, November 14, 2004

Election Fraud

There seems to be mounting concern about the election results in America. We haven't had much of it reported here.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm

It used to be we'd be watching the so called third world countries voting and worrying they had no right to elect their own leaders fairly. Some claim it's sour grapes because Kerry lost...I mean, nearly half their nation voted for him, the same as a huge percentage voted Labour here. You used to go out and vote and then just talk about the elections weeks afterwards. Now it just seems to be another thing which is malfunctioning. We used to get news and information. Now we get one scam after the next. Like the Hardy asbestos case here. I sound like my Grandma...I don't know what the world is coming to.

Every day I get up and there are horrible headlines. Crashes, explosions, threats. We had and 18 year old girl who secretly gave birth to her baby and then is supposed to have killed it because it was found the next day with head injuries. Dark days indeed. I think there was a period in Art around the 1850s called the Nightmare era. It was similar in the world then and it spawned the writings of Kafka, Dumas, Trollope and the famous Arabian Nights by Sir Richard Burton. It's when Senator Daniel Webster gave his 7th March speech to endorse the Compromise of 1850 to try and avert civil war. It's also when the University of Sydney was founded, our oldest university.

Maybe we just go through similar things as our ancestors. Why don't we learn?

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