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Friday October 20, 2006 · 5:25 PM PDT

2006/10/20 · 17:25

This election is going to be a big day for dkos and the nation. Kos and the tech team are busily preparing for the load, but what if it isn't enough? There are sites that can take over but which ones? How will we know where the community has gone. Read More

Mexico News Roundup 9/1/06: Mexico Tensely Awaits Fox Speech

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Friday September 01, 2006 · 12:41 PM PDT

2006/09/01 · 12:41

Here is your Mexico News Roundup for September 1st, 2006.

Mexico tense ahead of key speech
By Duncan Kennedy
BBC News, Mexico City
Hundreds of riot police have surrounded Mexico's Congress building ahead of a speech from the outgoing President, Vicente Fox.
They are on guard against thousands of supporters of the left-wing candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Some of his party's deputies have threatened to disrupt Mr Fox's speech inside the chamber.
Mr Lopez Obrador claims he was robbed of victory by massive fraud in the recent presidential election.
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Wednesday August 16, 2006 · 3:59 PM PDT

2006/08/16 · 15:59

It's the August 16th, 2006 Mexico News Roundup.

First we have another good article from John Ross at http://counterpunch.org

Towards Armageddo and After
Endgame Engulfs Mexico
By JOHN ROSS
Mexico City.
They carried the coffin of Jose Jimenez Colmanares on their shoulders through the narrow streets of Oaxaca city into the old colonial plaza they had occupied for months and deposited it outside the state government offices. There his comrades - striking schoolteachers and militants of the mostly-indigenous Oaxaca Popular Peoples' Assembly (APPO) mourned the fallen car mechanic with furious epithets and accusations. Jimenez, the husband of a striking teacher, had been gunned down by goons during a march two nights before and the assailants had been tracked to a nearby warehouse where they were captured by the furious crowd and their hideout burnt to the ground.
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Monday August 14, 2006 · 8:00 PM PDT

2006/08/14 · 20:00

Welcome to the Mexico News Roundup, August 14, 2006.

Mexican Police, Protesters Clash
By VOA News
15 August 2006
Mexican riot police have fired tear gas to disperse protesters who massed outside Congress to demand a full recount in last month's disputed presidential election.
Officials say the tear gas was fired to end a brief clash Monday between police and supporters of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
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http://www.voanews.com/...

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Saturday August 12, 2006 · 8:14 PM PDT

2006/08/12 · 20:14

Hola!

Here is your dkos Mexico News Roundup for 8/12/06.

First, some election irregularities have been uncovered...

MEXICO CITY -- In contesting the official results of Mexico's presidential election, aides to Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador have insisted their cause is about more than just arithmetic. It's about justice and democracy, too, they say.
But with a partial recount of the July 2 election winding down Friday, Lopez Obrador's supporters found hope in hard numbers.
They said the recount was uncovering enough irregularities to challenge official results that had scored the election for Felipe Calderon of the conservative National Action Party.
And the trend, leaders of Lopez Obrador's leftist coalition said, favored their candidate.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

Mexico News Roundup - 8/8/06

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Tuesday August 08, 2006 · 2:01 PM PDT

2006/08/08 · 14:01

Not to break up the dkos Joementum, but... it's Mexico News Round up time, August 8th, 2006.

MEXICO CITY, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Mexican leftists blockaded a ministry and threw open highway toll gates on Tuesday in an escalation of protests against what they say was fraud in last month's presidential election.
It was the first time the demonstrators have disrupted federal facilities in weeks of protests to support candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who lost the election by 0.58 percentage point to conservative Felipe Calderon.
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http://www.alertnet.org/...

Hats off to the Mexican people for standing up for themselves.

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Mexico News Collective Round Up - 8/02/06

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Wednesday August 02, 2006 · 5:05 PM PDT

2006/08/02 · 17:05

Welcome to the first Mexico news collective diary. This will be, we hope, a somewhat regular diary covering news related to Mexico. It's an open thread format. Mexico will be the primary focus, but we're not too picky yet.

This diary exists because people expressed interest in it. If you want this to be a regular part of the kos diary family contribute to it. Stories, links and pictures are great, and if you can give none of that there is always mojo. Read More

A dkos Mexico News Collective?

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Tuesday August 01, 2006 · 12:05 PM PDT

2006/08/01 · 12:05

I'm proposing that we start a Mexico interest collective here on kos in order to pay better attention to important news from Mexico. At this point the election is critical but there will surely be other stories.

Usually when there is an important story going on someone with a strong interest and subject background will step up and track an issue. There doesn't appear to be a regular diarist for issues regarding Mexico.

Riots Feared in Mexico

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Thursday July 06, 2006 · 4:50 PM PDT

2006/07/06 · 16:50

FEARS of violent street protests grew in Mexico last night after the conservative presidential candidate won a razor-thin victory that was immediately challenged by his left-wing opponent.

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Wednesday July 05, 2006 · 4:37 PM PDT

2006/07/05 · 16:37

The sites digg.com and delicious.com are two at which all kossacks should register. These sites are user communities which submit and rank webpages.

Delicious is owned by Yahoo!.
They intend to use the data from delicious to rank webpages. The fact that the pages in these system are human reviewed and selected makes them more likely to have relevance. Read More

Riders vs. Rowers: an American metaphor

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Sunday June 18, 2006 · 10:18 PM PDT

2006/06/18 · 22:18

Imagine a large boat on a river. The current where the boat sits is swift as a large waterfall sits not too far downriver. Everyone on the boat has an oar with which to paddle, and provided that a fair portion of the people row the boat stays above the falls, if not, down they go.

Some people on the boat can't row because they are too young, old or weak; they're riders. Some people don't row because they're tired and need rest. Some people who can row look around at all the other rowers and figure the boat is going to be OK without their help. They see the other riders and wonder why they shouldn't be able to ride too; they wonder why they should be discriminated against because they're healthy enough to row.

Other rowers start to notice these healthy riders and wonder why they have to row when these other healthy people don't. "It's not fair" they think, and start to consider rowing a bit less themselves. Read More

Liberals say...

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Thursday February 23, 2006 · 3:26 PM PST

2006/02/23 · 15:26

This port sale blowup is getting to me. I'm so tired of hearing non-liberal pundits tell me what "liberals" think about this or that so here is my new rule; in order for a pundit to claim that liberals have a stated opinion on something he must cite the liberals he is talking about.

The big talking point now is that liberals are hypocrites because they support racial equality but are against the sale of the ports to Dubai because it is an Arab country. To be sure, some liberals do feel that way, I just don't have any idea who they are and don't know their names. Other liberals, like John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi have been extremely outspoken about port security, repeatedly claiming that the ports are one of our country's truly vulnerable locations.

The big time conservative pundits of today are allegedly tough minded, smart, and hard working. They can do the little bit of extra work to cite the liberals of which they speak. They aren't just making them up, right?

(cross posted on etrans)

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