Dienstag, 22. Juli 2008

Check your voter registration status

This is a very important concern because tens of thousands of voters have been in the past, and continue to have potential to be, unable to vote using a regular ballot due to inaccurate automatic purges of electronic voter registration rolls.

U.S. citizens should check the status of your voter registration at least a month prior to the November election. All U.S. states are required by federal law to use electronic voter registration rolls now.


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Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:08 AM
Subject: [LWVTopics] Digest Number 2925

1a. Re: NYTimes begins the prediction of election problems in November Posted by: Barbara Simons
Date: Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:30 am ((PDT))

I also am very concerned about large scale voter disenfranchisement, because people's names have been stripped from the statewide computerized voter registration databases, also discussed in the article. While I think that some members of Congress supported the statewide databases because they thought that such a system would make it less likely for people's names to be incorrectly removed from the voting rolls, in fact the opposite is true. The introduction of computers into the process significantly increases the opportunity for widespread disenfranchisement of legitimate voters.

Therefore, voters, especially new voters, should be encouraged to check that their names are on the voting rolls. They should do so enough in advance that there will be time to get their names back onto the voting rolls, if necessary. It would also be good if organizations, such as local LWVs and other election integrity groups, could coordinate collection of information from people whose names are incorrectly missing from the voting rolls. That way, it might be possible to detect a problem (i.e. if large numbers of people living in a certain area complain) enough in advance to perhaps get them fixed - or at a minimum to put out an alert.

Election officials should also be urged to create strong meaningful levels of security to minimize the possibility of names being incorrectly deleted, either because of mistakes or malfeasance.


Barbara Simons, Los Altos/Moutain

P.S. Please feel free to forward this.


Judy Bertelsen wrote: The article linked below predits that our November elections will be strained with all the new voters. It is shameful and stunningly short sighted that Congress didn't pass paper ballot funding legislation.

We will need to work state by state to shore up the election process, especially in areas where many new voters can be expected to register. We need to be registering people as early as possible and informing voters of the process and their rights.

http://tinyurl.com/6nb4jb
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/us/21voting.html?hp


Kathy Dopp

The material expressed herein is the informed product of the author
Kathy Dopp's fact-finding and investigative efforts. Dopp is a
Mathematician, Expert in election audit mathematics and procedures; in
exit poll discrepancy analysis; and can be reached at

P.O. Box 680192
Park City, UT 84068
phone 435-658-4657

http://utahcountvotes.org
http://electionmathematics.org
http://electionarchive.org

History of Confidence Election Auditing Development & Overview of
Election Auditing Fundamentals
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/History-of-Election-Auditing-Development.pdf

Voters Have Reason to Worry
http://utahcountvotes.org/UT/UtahCountVotes-ThadHall-Response.pdf


"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body
and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day," wrote
Thomas Jefferson in 1816



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Urge Texas authorities to honor U.S. international obligations and halt the execution of José Medellín

http://groups.google.de/group/archive_news/t/e8bb7e6ed14538f2?hl=en

Election Fraud and Tyranny

Part 1

Michael Collins, in a Scoop News column: "Mark Crispin Miller's new book, 'Loser Take All,' identifies and analyzes election fraud, the foundation of extremist power in the United States since 2000. Manipulated elections have enabled everything we've experienced from the Iraq war to the current economic meltdown. None of that would have been possible without the ongoing series of 'surprise' wins for extremists and their enablers following the outright theft of the 2000 presidential election."

http://www.truthout.org/article/election-fraud-and-tyranny-part-1

Part 2

Michael Collins for Scoop News: "How did we reach our current state of decline in just eight excruciating years? Aren't we working hard enough? Was there some millennial shift in consciousness and morality? How could we elect leaders like Bush and Cheney and their minions on Capitol Hill? Mark Crispin Miller's latest book, 'Loser Take All,' provides an explanation that precedes any other: election fraud. In his collection of essays, Miller shows that the losers took everything in both the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. That made all the difference."

http://www.truthout.org/article/election-fraud-and-tyranny-part-2



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mark+Crispin+Miller
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10.000 Bürger überwacht

Überwachungsskandal um die Ermittlungen zum Oldenburger Holzklotz-Anschlag: Um den Täter zu finden, hat die ermittelnde Sonderkommission Mobilfunk-Daten von bis zu 10.000 Bürgern ausgewertet. Der Fall zeigt, wie selbstverständlich die Möglichkeiten der Vorratsdatenspeicherung schon jetzt von den Beamten ausgenutzt werden.

Weiter unter...
http://www.gulli.com/news/holzklotz-mord-10-000-b-rger-2008-07-22/



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Flu pandemic, could the flu be the roll out of WIMAX?

Flu pandemic, could the flu be the roll out of WIMAX? Is it right to continue rolling out untested and unregulated microwave technology? The Government need to urgently invoke the precautionary principle.

Read the following paragraph taken from an article called ³Radiation Poisoning of America², Idaho Observer by: Amy Worthington

Arthur Firstenberg, who founded the Cellular Phone Task Force, wrote that, on November 14, 1996, New York City's first digital cellular provider activated thousands of PCS antennae newly erected on the rooftops of apartment buildings. Health authorities reported that a severe and lingering flu hit the city that same week. In response to its classified newspaper ad advising that radiation sickness is similar to flu, the Task Force heard back from hundreds of people who reported sudden onset symptoms synchronous to microwave start up symptoms similar to stroke, heart attack and nervous breakdown. Firstenberg then gathered statistics from the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and analyzed weekly mortality statistics published for 122 U.S. cities. Each of dozens of cities recorded a 10-25 percent increase in mortality, lasting two to three months, beginning in the week during which that city's first digital cell phone network began commercial service. Cities with no cellular system start up in the same time period showed no abnormal increases in mortality.


Eileen O'Connor


World warned over killer flu pandemic

Monday, 21 July 2008

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/world-warned-over-killer-flu-pandemic-872809.html

The world is failing to guard against the inevitable spread of a devastating flu pandemic which could kill 50 million people and wreak massive disruption around the globe, the Government has warned.

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Military takes steps to prepare for a pandemic flu
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/5078595/

Weaponized Avian Flu, Your Coffin
http://groups.google.de/group/archive_news/t/566fb593838625ec?hl=en



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wimax
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Bad Days for Newsrooms and Democracy

For Truthdig.com, Chris Hedges writes: "The decline of newspapers is not about the replacement of the antiquated technology of news print with the lightning speed of the Internet. It does not signal an inevitable and salutary change. It is not a form of progress. The decline of newspapers is about the rise of the corporate state, the loss of civic and public responsibility on the part of much of our entrepreneurial class and the intellectual poverty of our post-literate world, a world where information is conveyed primarily through rapidly moving images rather than print."

http://www.truthout.org/article/the-internet-is-no-substitute



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chris+Hedges

A Battle Over "the Next War"

In The Los Angeles Times, Julian E. Barnes and Peter Spiegel report: "For more than 30 years, the Pentagon establishment considered it an essential duty to prepare for a war of national survival. But under Gates, that focus has fallen from favor. In public speeches and private meetings, Gates has chastised many commanders as ignoring wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while they plan for speculative future conflicts. 'We should not starve the forces at war today to prepare for a war that may never come,' Gates said in a stinging address last month, one of a series he has delivered. Gates even has coined a term for what he sees as a military disorder: 'next-war-itis.'"

http://www.truthout.org/article/a-battle-over-the-next-war



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Gates
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Air pollution is substantially harming every major ecosystem type

http://www.nature.org/tncscience/misc/art25396.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=air+pollution
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Now is the time to push for real impeachment hearings

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7748/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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Answer to energy crisis? Stop using oil

The Coloradoan - Fort Collins, CO, USA

Since then, US production has dropped to 5.1 MBpD and continues to decline rapidly as developed fields run out of oil. Republicans argue that drilling new ... http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080722/OPINION04/80721029/1002/NEWS01



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Finanzmarktkrise: Wie erfindungsreiche Banken, ausgeklügelte Finanzprodukte und gierige Investoren die Finanzmärkte ins Trudeln gebracht haben

Eine Broschüre vom ver.di Bundesvorstand Berlin - Bereich Wirtschaftspolitik – vom Juli 2008 (pdf) http://wipo.verdi.de/wirtschaftspolitische_informationen/data/08-03_finanzmarktkrise.pdf

Read this document on Scribd: Finanzmarktkrise



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Open letter to all American voters

Frontiers of Freedom
by Lee Ellis

07/21/08

I don’t care whether you are a Republican, Democrat or Independent; all I know is that you are an American in heart and mind, even though, you may be like me, born of mixed heritage from immigrant families who escaped foreign shores to build lives here in this new land. You are still a product of this great melting pot of Americanism. Yes, my skin is olive and I am now an old geezer left over from WWII, where I served in the South Pacific, but sometimes age combined with many life experiences wakes us up, having given us some knowledge of history and civics. With that possibility in mind, let’s look at what is facing us in the future...

http://tinyurl.com/5vkjq5


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Poor ballot designs still affect US elections

USA Today

07/21/08

Poorly designed ballots continue to plague U.S. elections, even after Congress set aside $3 billion to overhaul voting systems to prevent a recurrence of the flawed Florida ballots that deadlocked the 2000 presidential race, a study out today concludes. Problems with confusing paper ballots in 2002, absentee ballots in 2004 and touch-screen ballots in 2006 led thousands of voters to skip over key races or make mistakes that invalidated their votes, according to the study by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. ‘In the big election meltdowns … where thousands of votes were lost, ballot design was the primary cause,’ says Lawrence Norden of the Brennan Center...

http://tinyurl.com/6nwmbc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Executive Director Vincent Warren Denounces Mukasey Scheme to Have Congress Delay Habeas Hearings

Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0721-05.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vincent+Warren
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Iran and the US: Beyond the War of Rhetoric

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0721-01.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Real+News+Network

COINTELPRO Comes to My Town: My First-Hand Experience With Government Spies

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/21/10496/



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Russia may aim nukes at Europe

RUSSIA is considering aiming nuclear weapons at western Europe for the first time since the end of the Cold War, according to senior defence sources in Moscow.

http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2008/07/20/wld01.asp



Russia needs bombers in Cuba due to NATO expansion - ex-commander

The possible deployment of Russian strategic bombers in Cuba may be an effective response to the placement of NATO bases near Russia's borders, a former Air Force commander said on Monday.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080721/114527149.html



Reuters: Russian Companies Now Own 10% of U.S Steel Industry

The weak dollar has made many U.S. companies cheap in comparison to their counterparts in the Euro zone, and many wealthy Russians are purchasing luxury properties in the U.S. for the same reason.

http://www.russiablog.org/2008/07/reuters_russian_companies_now.php


From Information Clearing House



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Obama tells Karzai he plans to continue "terror war"

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama pledged steadfast aid to Afghanistan in talks with its Western-backed leader Sunday and vowed to pursue the war on terror "with vigor" if he is elected, an Afghan official said.

http://tinyurl.com/5v9jrf


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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Death of Free Internet is Imminent

Canada Will Become Test Case

By Kevin Parkinson

The plan is to convert the Internet into a cable-like system, where customers sign up for specific web sites, and then pay to visit sites beyond a cutoff point.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20330.htm

Drilling Ourselves Deep In A Hole

By Firmin DeBrabander

We, aim to squeeze more oil from a taxed planet, and further entrench ourselves in our sorry addiction. This nation's repeated gambles on oil will likely cost American prosperity-and superiority-in the 21st century.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20332.htm

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Offshore Drilling Dangerous and Destructive Despite Rhetoric of New Technologies
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/21/10504/



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What if electronics just suddenly ceased across the whole country, all at once?

http://www.democratherald.com/articles/2008/07/21/news/opinion/7edi01_oil.txt

'Invisible Wars' of the Future: E-Bombs, Laser Guns and Acoustic Weapons
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/5043125/

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'N. Korea May Develop Electromagnetic Pulse Weapon System'

By Michael Ha

A top US scientist warned American lawmakers of a possible catastrophic national security scenario: a possible development of Electromagnetic ... http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/07/116_28088.html

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Commission finds US vulnerable to electromagnetic pulse attack http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0808/081908kp1.htm

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Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack: A Preventable Homeland Security Catastrophe

Heritage.org - Washington, DC, USA

The detonation of the nuclear warhead releases photons in the form of gamma radiation and x-rays. These energetic particles scatter in every direction away ...

http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandSecurity/bg2199.cfm



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Influx of Voters Expected to Test New Technology

Ian Urbina, The New York Times: "With millions of new voters heading to the polls this November and many states introducing new voting technologies, election officials and voting monitors say they fear the combination is likely to create long lines, stressed-out poll workers and late tallies on Election Day."

http://www.truthout.org/article/influx-voters-expected-test-new-technology



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Wetlands Could Unleash "Carbon Bomb"

Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters, reports: "The world's wetlands, threatened by development, dehydration and climate change, could release a planet-warming 'carbon bomb' if they are destroyed, ecological scientists said on Sunday."

http://www.truthout.org/article/wetlands-could-unleash-carbon-bomb



The "Green New Deal"

Andrew Simms, BBC News: "Now, a unique new group of specialists in finance, energy and the environment is arguing for a Green New Deal that will deliver a comprehensive solution to the triple crunches of the credit crisis, high energy prices and climate change."

http://www.truthout.org/article/the-green-new-deal-climate-crisis-roosevelt-revisited



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US-Africa Relations to Militarize?

Matthew Blake for The Washington Independent writes: "When President George W. Bush toured Africa in February, he found African leaders steering the conversation to the Pentagon's new US Africa command, or Africom. Africom is slated to begin operations in September. It marks the Pentagon's first centralized operation for Africa, like the Defense Department now has, for example, Eucom for Europe or Centcom for the Middle East. The Pentagon, though, has envisioned using Africom as more than a military command. It is designed to help build US soft power in Africa, through what it calls active security missions - like building schools and digging wells."

http://www.truthout.org/article/us-africa-relations-militarize



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=militarize

Congress Prepares to Review "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Jamie Reno for Newsweek reports: "Fifteen years after the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy was enacted for the US military, Congress is prepping to review the law."

http://www.truthout.org/article/congress-prepares-review-dont-ask-dont-tell

Obama in Iraq

Juan Cole for Informed Comment writes about Barack Obama's visit to Iraq, as well as the recent attempt by the Bush administration to "muddy the waters this weekend regarding the interview of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki with Der Spiegel, in which he expressed approval of Barack Obama's plan to get US troops out of Iraq within 16 months of next January."

http://www.truthout.org/article/obama-iraq



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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UK conference on a precautionary approach for wireless technologies

http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/?p=920

Mercury in vaccines causes autism

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/376.html



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News from Intomobile.com

http://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/t/ebcd90b0419d1df5

Is Obama under the influence of the military-petroleum complex?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis117.html

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Obama on the Brink

Robert Scheer writes for Truthdig.com: "Barack Obama is betraying his promise of change and is in danger of becoming just another political hack. Yes, just like former maverick John McCain, who has refashioned himself as a mindless rubber stamp for the most inane policies of the miserably failed Bush administration. Both candidates are embracing, rather than challenging, the fundamental irrationality of Bush's 'war on terror,' which substitutes hysteria for rational analysis in appraising the dangers the country faces."

http://www.truthout.org/article/obama-brink



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Benny Morris argues for nuclear genocide against Iran

http://list.lewrockwell.com/t/1034264/12759198/52164/0/?u=aHR0cDovL2FudGl3YXIuY29tL2p1c3Rpbi8%2fYXJ0aWNsZWlkPTEzMTY4&x=19a5780a

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British PM Warns Iran in Landmark Israel Speech

By AFP

His comments on Iran's nuclear drive echoed a warning by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Tehran had two weeks to respond seriously to an international offer or face further "punitive measures."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20329.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
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The Banks Are Broke

http://media.lewrockwell.com/LRC-002-The_Banks_Are_Broken.mp3

CENTCOM's Master Plan and U.S. Global Hegemony

http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs84.html



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