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Greg Palast is a New York Times-bestselling author[1] and a journalist for the British Broadcasting Corporation[2] as well as the British newspaper The Observer.[3] His work frequently focuses on corporate malfeasance but has also been known to work with labor unions and consumer advocacy groups. Notably, he has claimed to have uncovered evidence that Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, and Florida Elections Unit Chief Clay Roberts, along with the ChoicePoint corporation, rigged the ballots during the US Presidential Election of 2000 and again in 2004 when, he argued, the problems and machinations from 2000 continued, and that challenger John Kerry actually would have won if not for disproportional "spoilage" of Democratic votes.[4] He is considered to have begun reporting for the BBC/Observer due to media bias/reporting restrictions in the US. The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...
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John Ellis Jeb Bush (born February 11, 1953), a Republican, is the forty-third and current Governor of Florida. ...
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Katherine Harris (born April 5, 1957, Key West, Florida) is a former Secretary of State of Florida and member of the US House of Representatives. ...
ChoicePoint (NYSE: CPS) is a data aggregation company based in Alpharetta, near Atlanta, Georgia, USA, that acts as a private intelligence service to government and industry. ...
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Palast lectured at Cambridge University[5] and the University of São Paulo[6]. He lives in London and New York City. Palast is originally from Los Angeles, and was educated at the University of Chicago,[7] where he studied with the "Chicago Boys". The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and has a reputation as one of the worlds most prestigious universities. ...
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In September 13, 2006, after filming a camp of Hurricane Katrina refugees in Louisiana near a massive Exxon oil refinery, Palast reported that a complaint had been filed against him for the unauthorized videotaping of a "critical infrastructure asset." [8] Palast's office later indicated that Exxon had "called off the dogs" and that no charges would be filed. This article is about the Atlantic hurricane of 2005. ...
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Exxon logo Exxon is a brand of fuel sold by ExxonMobil. ...
A graphic novel adapting Palast's newest book, Armed Madhouse, is currently in the works.[9] Trade paperback of Will Eisners A Contract with God (1978), often mistakenly cited as the first graphic novel. ...
Armed Madhouse is a 2006 book (ISBN 0-7139-9797-4) collecting articles by investigative journalist Greg Palast. ...
Election concerns
Palast's reporting asserted that ChoicePoint was biased towards the Republican Party and used inaccurate data during the 2000 Election. He alleged that tactics included listing voters as felons for crimes said to be committed in the future[citation needed] (Thomas Cooper, convicted January 30, 2007[citation needed]); that people convicted of a felony in different states and rights restored by said states were not allowed to vote, despite the restoration of their rights; and that people were listed as felons based on a coincidence of name, despite data (such as date of birth) showing a criminal record did not apply to the voter in question, with "scrub lists" 90 percent wrong.[citation needed] ChoicePoint (NYSE: CPS) is a data aggregation company based in Alpharetta, near Atlanta, Georgia, USA, that acts as a private intelligence service to government and industry. ...
The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ...
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Schlenther v. Florida Department of State (June 1998) rules Florida can't prevent a felon in Connecticut who kept his voting rights in Connecticut from voting in Florida.[citation needed] But Florida insisted felons, granted rights, receive clemency from Governor Jeb Bush, possibly needing two years.[citation needed] NAACP filed suit arguing Florida violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the US Constitution, while others argued Florida violated the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.[citation needed] The case was settled out of court.[citation needed] Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ...
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is one of the oldest and most influential hate organizations in the United States. ...
The National Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. § 1973-1973aa-6)[1] outlawed the requirement that would-be voters in the United States take literacy tests to qualify to register to vote, and it provided for federal registration of voters in areas that had less than 50...
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The National Voter Registration Act of 1993, commonly known as Motor Voter, was signed into effect by President Clinton on May 20, 1993. ...
Palast has also written that Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., not Pres. George W. Bush, won Ohio and New Mexico (two states with electoral margins close late in the October polls) citing exit poll results.[citation needed] As exit polls are used to judge the honesty of elections worldwide,[citation needed] Palast argues, the same should be true in the U.S.. John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts, in his fourth term of office. ...
An exit poll is a poll of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations. ...
He appeared in the 2004 documentary Orwell Rolls in His Grave, which focuses on the hidden mechanics of the media, its role as it should be and what it actually is, and how it shapes (to the point of almost controlling) U.S. politics. Orwell Rolls in His Grave is a 2004 documentary film written and directed by Robert Kane Pappas. ...
Palast alleges that Andrés Manuel López Obrador and not Felipe Calderon won the last Mexico presidential election[10]. Andrés Manuel López Obrador (born 13 November 1953) is a Mexican politician, affiliated with the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). ...
Felipe Calderon (born August 18, 1962 in Morelia, Michoacan) Is a Mexican politician that was the Ministry of Energy in Vicente Foxs administration from 2003 to 2004. ...
In May of 2007 Palast said he'd received 500 emails Karl Rove exchanged through an account supplied by the Republican National Committee. Palast says the emails show a plan to target likely Democratic voters with extra scrutiny over their home addresses, and he also believes Rove's plan was a factor in the firing of U.S. Attorneys.[11]
Long Island Lighting Company In 1988, Palast directed a US civil racketeering investigation into the nuclear power plant builder Long Island Lighting Company. A jury awarded the plaintiffs US$4.8 billion; however, New York's chief federal judge reversed the verdict. The racketeering charges stemmed from an accusation that LILCO filed false documents in order to secure rate increases. LILCO sought a dismissal of these charges the grounds that Suffolk County lacked authority under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and that the allegations of a history of racketeering did not qualify as a continuing criminal enterprise. [12] Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ...
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LILCO Logo of the 80s and 90s The Long Island Lighting Company, or LILCo [ lil-co ], was an electrical power company for Long Island, New York. ...
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Exxon Valdez Palast has also taken issue with the official story behind the grounding of the Exxon Valdez, claiming that the sobriety of the Valdez’s captain was not an issue in the accident. According to Palast the main cause of the Exxon Valdez accident in 1989 wasn't human error but was, instead due to an Exxon decision to not fix the ship's radar in order to save money. The Raytheon Raycas radar system would not have detected Bligh Reef itself - as radar, unlike sonar, is incapable of detecting objects under the waterline of this ship. However the radar system would have detected the "radar reflector," placed on the next rock inland from Bligh Reef for the purpose of keeping boats on course via radar. This article is about the tank vessel Exxon Valdez. ...
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Palast argues that this penny pinching was particularly noteworthy when one considers the fact that the original owners of the land, the local native American tribe, took only $1 in payment for the land other than a promise not to pollute it and spoil their fishing ground.
Reliant Energy Palast asserts that Reliant Energy maintains a file on him, including false data regarding his sex life, which they distribute as propaganda against him (1-p.112). Reliant Energy, Inc. ...
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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (ISBN 0452283914, Penguin Plume USA) is a 2002 book written by left-wing investigative journalist Greg Palast. ...
Criminal Complaint by the Department of Homeland Security On September 11 2006, Palast announced that he had been charged by the United States Department of Homeland Security, for filming an Exxon oil refinery. Exxon logo Exxon is a brand of fuel sold by ExxonMobil. ...
Palast does not deny that he was involved in filming the facility (as part of a documentary on the mishandling of Hurricane Katrina). However he asserts that there was no danger of this aiding terrorists (Palast stated that aerial photographs of the facility are freely available on Google Maps). This article is about the Atlantic hurricane of 2005. ...
He argues that the Exxon corporation was motivated by his past criticisms of them in relation to the Exxon Valdez disaster, rather than a concern with terrorism. This case is therefore claimed to be an example of 'terrorism' legislation being used to protect the economic interests of powerful American corporations.[8] This article is about the tank vessel Exxon Valdez. ...
Representatives from the Palast office later that day indicated that Exxon had "called off the dogs" and the Homeland Security had changed their tune, suggesting that the first phone call was "merely an inquiry" and that no charges would be filed.
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External links - GregPalast.com - 'The Writings of Greg Palast' (official website)
- Scoop.co.nz - 'OPEC & The Economic Conquest Of Iraq', Greg Palast
- New York Inquirer Interview with Greg Palast
- Palast article 'On the 2006 Mid-Term Elections'
- Palast's YouTube page
- "A Sleeper Cell of Rove-Bots" - May 24, 2007 interview
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References - ^ "Paperback Nonfiction", The New York Times, 2007-05-20. Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
- ^ "BBC - Search results for Greg Palast" (HTML), BBC News. Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
- ^ Greg Palast Profile. Comment is Free. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
- ^ Palast, Greg (2004-11-04). Kerry Won. commondreams.org.
- ^ Think Twice 2002: list of speakers. Think Twice Conference at Cambridge University. Retrieved on 2007-08-24.
- ^ Currículo do Sistema de Currículos Lattes (Ildo Luis Sauer). University of São Paulo. Retrieved on 2007-08-24.
- ^ Alumni Connections. University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
- ^ a b Palast, Greg (2006-09-12). Palast Charged with Journalism in the First Degree. gregpalast.com.
- ^ Steffan, Suzi (2007-04-19). Badass Supersleuth and the Bozo Factor A Q&A with investigative journalist Greg Palast. eugeneweekly.com.
- ^ Articles from June to August, 2006 on gregpalast.com : [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
- ^ Diehl, Jeff (2007-05-24). The Future of America Has Been Stolen. 10zenmonkeys.com.
- ^ Lilco Loses Bid to Dismiss Suit Charging Racketeering. nytimes.com (1988-05-19).
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