music is life festival

music is life festival

Hey, if anyone is in the area and wants to see some great music, the 2006 milfestival is the way to go! http://musicislifefestival.blogspot.com/ . It benefits some local cancer survivors, and is bound to be a great time! I hope to see you there!

Exarchos and Dersham sell out our democracy....

Are they getting kickbacks? Are they intentionally trying to get the "fix" in for the next election? Why else would they vote for a more expensive, less secure, and basically non-auditable system?

Who has anything to gain by not having a voter verifiable paper trail? Only those that want to steal the election. I hope my fellow citizens wake up and keep a very close eye on these two....

Will the mainstream media ever report on the voting fraud of the last presidential election?

If Rolling Stone is the last bastion of journalistic integrity left, I think we are already sunk.

People did notice the fraud back in 2004, but no-one seems to care...

Yet another Bush administration falsification.......

Top Bush Aide Admits Altering Article

These types of intentional manipulation are status-quo for the Bush administration, apparently..... Are the LIES so frequent now, that we have all become numb and complacent?

"On May 25th, President Bush said that Treasury Secretary John Snow had not given him any indication that he was leaving soon.........."

More Lies

And more lies....

And More Lies

AND MORE LIES....

EFF versus At&T

I find it very telling how many House members are up in arms about the office of a corrupt official being searched. It is funny how suddenly they care about "civil liberties" when they risk getting exposed for their corruption, yet they could give less of a damn when the average citizens rights are being stepped on. At least the EFF is still looking out for us.

More Diebold flaws exposed

UPI Story

TMCnet Story

Security Focus Article

"Michael I. Shamos, an examiner of electronic voting systems for Pennsylvania, where primary voting is scheduled Tuesday, calls it "the most severe security flaw ever discovered in a voting system."

We have always been at war with EastAsia

Think Progress noted that Neil Cavuto says we are already at war with Iran.

CAVUTO: But what if I told you it is too late, that we’re already probably at war with Iran and most of us don’t even know it.

I honestly would not be a bit surprised if we are. Bush lied in his speech yesterday when "answering" Helen Thomas' question. We all know that he had every intention of invading, regardless of public opinion, reasoning, morality or ethics....

Salon.com article on Abu Ghraib

279 photographs and 19 videos from the Army's internal investigation record a harrowing three months of detainee abuse inside the notorious prison -- and make clear that many of those responsible have yet to be held accountable.


It's nice to see some REAL journalism out there once and a while. This very disturbing report is one of the most complete I have seen amidst the rhetoric and denial and hype most news companies seem to focus on.

Protect your vote in Centre County!

Why is the type of voting machine important to me?

As American citizens, we are very proud of our representative democracy and our right to vote. We like to think that our votes do count. Many of us take it for granted that our votes will be properly processed and counted. Newer technologies for voting sound great and they can be very useful and effective, if they are properly implemented and if they provide a good paper audit trail. Most every retail business in the USA uses some type of electronic system to record purchases. These systems vary widely, yet most all of them have a very strong audit trail, including paper receipts. Many of the electronic voting systems out there would like us to do away with a paper audit trail all-together. There is no good argument for doing this, especially with the myriad issues and questions surrounding recent elections. A federal law called HAVA or the “Help America Vote Act” is purportedly designed to help with these issues and is providing some funding to states, which is why this issue has come before us at this point. No electronic media is failsafe. Paper is not failsafe either of course, but it is a good lowest common denominator that anyone can use to determine how someone voted. This type of audit trail makes voting fraud or “fixing” the vote more difficult. In a purely electronic medium where you vote is stored in some type of database (with Diebold systems it is Microsoft Access!) it becomes much easier to fix, as there is no “physical” auditable trail to look at if fraud is suspected. No system is completely secure, but with more transparency, and an easy to follow paper audit trail, we can move in the right direction with our new voting machines. The direction we should go is clear in the acronym SARA. We need a system that is Secure, Accurate, Recountable, and Accessible. We also need what is being called (in the mad rush to have an acronym for everything) VVPT or VVPAT a “Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail”.

You can read more online at the following web sites:

http://www.votepa.us/

http://www.wheresthepaper.org/

http://www.verifiedvoting.org/

http://www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

http://www.votetrustusa.org/

http://blackboxvoting.com/

http://www.progressivevote.org/

http://www.electronic-vote.org/

http://www.fec.gov/hava/hava.htm

http://www.hava.state.pa.us/hava/site/default.asp

Please SIGN THE PETITION if you live in Centre County.

Federal Police Force

Some discussion.

When directed by the President, the United States Secret Service is authorized to participate, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the planning, coordination, and implementation of security operations at special events of national significance, as determined by the President.

Here is the actual document.

Here is some more discussion.

Craig Murray’s British Torture Memos

Well, it looks like the UK may have one-upped us on torture. Sure, Condi went around trying to talk out the side of her mouth , and pretend we didn't kidnap (extraordinary rendition) and take people to other countries to be tortured. Sure, McCain finally got Bush to agree to his ban on torture (clearly only because of public opinion, and not because Bush has any problem with torturing, "So long as he is the dictator"). Craig Murray, former ambassador to Uzbekistan has released documents, some say to help sell his new book. Regardless of his motives, if the documents he released against the governments will are true, they demonstrate outright lies, and our government has blood on it's hands too. As KOS points out, this isn't just your "run of the mill" stand on a box and be electrocuted, or threatened by dogs.

"The US marriage of convenience with Uzebekistan, perhaps the most repressive regime in the world, gives lies to all the bullshit post-WMD justifications for invading Iraq ("evil regime" and all that jazz). Among other atrocities, Uzbekistan boils its dissidents alive. And no, that's not from Amnesty International or other "do-gooder" organization, but from the State Department's 2004 human rights report."

Is this what we have come to? Unfortunatley that seems to be the case. Who are the "terrorists" now?

Demand some answers!

George W. Bush, April 20, 2004:"Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so."

Yet another lie from our president. Just lovely.........

Join me to demand censure for Bush and Cheney in addition to the creation of a Special Committee to investigate impeaching the Bush Administration for its widespread abuses of power.

Diebold CEO resigns!!

The chief executive officer of electronic voting company Diebold who once famously declared that he would "deliver" Ohio for President Bush has resigned effective immediately, RAW STORY has learned.


Diebold CEO resigns

Forbes article

And Now, Securities Fraud!

The Press: The Enemy Within

This is a very interesting article by Michael Massing . Well worth a read, here is an excerpt:

As Silverstein suggests, this fear of bias, and of appearing unbalanced,
acts as a powerful sedative on American journalists—one whose effect has been
magnified by the incessant attacks of conservative bloggers and radio talk-show
hosts. One reason journalists performed so poorly in the months before the Iraq
war was that there were few Democrats willing to criticize the Bush
administration on the record; without such cover, journalists feared they would
be branded as hostile to the President and labeled as "liberal" by conservative
commentators.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18555

Moyers on Tomlinson

Broadcastingcable.com has an interview with bill in which he states "Right-wing partisans like Tomlinson have always attacked aggressive reporting as liberal." Definately worth a read.

We were biased, all right—in favor of uncovering the news that powerful people wanted to keep hidden: conflicts of interest at the Department of Interior, secret meetings between Vice President Cheney and the oil industry, backdoor shenanigans by lobbyists at the FCC, corruption in Congress, neglect of wounded veterans returning from Iraq, Pentagon cost overruns, the manipulation of intelligence leading to the invasion of Iraq.