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Today's headlines:
US Multi-National Dynecorp Tasked to Rebuild the Police Force
and the Justice and Prison Systems of Ira;
Dynecorp’s Dark Past & Its Involvement in the Slave
Trade in Bosnia;
How the Atlanta Journal and Major Media Across the Country
Lied About What Cynthia McKinney Really Said on Flashpoints
and Why They May Have Lied;
Greg Palast on the Stealing of the Next Presidential Election;
Poet-on-Assignment Aurora Levins-Morales;
8:00:00 PM PST
Dennis Bernstein: introduction: Dyncorp tasked to rebuild
the criminal justice system of Iraq; about Dyncorp’s
corrupt past, and its involvement in human slave trade in
Bosnia; The Atlanta Journal and other US media across the
country lied about what Cynthia McKinney really said on Flashpoints
March 25, 2002; Greg Palast on the stealing of the next presidential
election; plus poet-on-assignment Aurora Levins-Morales
8:00:00 PM PST
Dennis: DynCorp employees ran a human slave trade in Bosnia,
now moving on to conquer Iraq.. interview with journalist
Kelly Patricia O’Meera
8:12:07 PM PST
Dennis: more on DynCorp's history of political ties, corruption,
and feeding at the government trough.. an interview with former
HUD official, Catherine Austin Fitts
8:35:02 PM PST
Dennis: now w BBC investigative reporter, Greg
Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.. Greg:
about the Atlanta Constitution Newspaper and other US media
misreporting Cynthia McKinney's Flashpoints interview March
25, 2002.. (original
text summary -scroll down to March 25) (unedited
original audio).. Greg: her real words spun, chopped,
and twisted inside and out.. (hear
her original interview).. to say that Cynthia said Bush
knew ahead of time about 911.. I challenge the Atlanta Constitution
to prove their words.. Dennis: she called for a wide ranging
investigation into the money trail, into the warnings that
were ignored.. Greg: everyone looking at Halliburton, Cheney's
old company.. about the 94,000 African American voters scrubbed
from the voter rolls in Florida right before the 2000 election..
the company that provided the phony felon list for Katherine
Harris is 'Choice Point'.. and now 'Choice Point' is the biggest
recipient of 'Homeland Security' funding.. now corporate lobbyists
are rewriting the laws of Iraq.. an occupation of lobbyists..
Grover Norquist working on Iraqi tax laws.. Dennis: a group
of art dealers met with the Bush administration before the
war.. and then the US army let the Iraqi Museum get looted..
Greg: we have seen great liberators heist art before.. and
the Carlyle Group banging that cash register.. George Bush
Sn, an arms dealer for Carlyle.. GW a former board member
of Carlyle.. they have really hit the jackpot.. designed a
weapon called The Crusader, a self propelled howitzer.. useless
to the Pentagon, but they still got 450,000,000 to *not* build
it.. about computerized voting, will be the end of democracy..
no paper trail, a recipe for absolute disaster.. the machines
in the precincts where you touch the screen.. they can just
record a different vote, or glitches, where votes don't register..
about Cynthia McKinney, and the public political lynching
of an uppity black woman.. Greg: DENNIS, YOU'RE THE BEST,
OUR WEAPON OF MASS INSTRUCTION IN THE BAY AREA..
8:53:07 PM PST
music break Bush It
8:53:47 PM PST
now w Aurora Levins Morales, Flashpoints *poet on assignment*..
about Brian Willson who lost his legs protesting weapons manufacture..
Aurora reads her "Port Chicago Chant"..
8:57:27 PM PST
Marvelous Mary Bishop: wrapup
8:58:27 PM PST
End today's show. today's review by John Lionheart
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