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I read your December 6 article on the above bill and am properly horrified. Can't this be challenged on the grounds that it is illegal and unconstitutional? I hope that will happen. Meanwhile I will write to the governor in the hope that a few million others will do so as well. Thank you for your diligence in reporting.

Eugene McCarthy, prophet with honor

Former Senator Eugene J. McCarthy’s death is a subtle reminder to Americans of everything that he represented to our political system. McCarthy’s legacy will be twofold: that he gave the United States a chance to abandon the two-party system, an opportunity the country wasted, and that his refusal to adopt Madison Avenue-style political tactics left him behind the curve in the television era.

Diebold "hack test" - Sec. State / Black Box Lawyer square off

UPDATE ON CALIFORNIA DIEBOLD VOTING MACHINE "HACK" TESTING

Letter faxed and mailed Dec. 9, 2005 To: California Secretary of State, Bruce McDannold, cc: Bruce McPherson From: John S. Baker, Atty at Law, Dorsey & Whitney So. Cal. Office

“I represent Black Box Voting, Inc., a non-partisan, non-profit 501c(3) corporation. On June 16, 2005, Black Box Voting sent a request to examine the Diebold Election Systems component: the programmed “electronic ballad box” memory cards used in optical scan and touch screen voting systems (“Component”). This request was made pursuant to California Elections Code Section 19202 (“19202 Request”), which provides:

ANY PERSON OR CORPORATION OWNING OR BEING INTERESTED IN ANY VOTING SYSTEM OR PART OF A VOTING SYSTEM MAY APPLY TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO EXAMINE IT AND REPORT ON ITS ACCURACY AND EFFICIENCY TO FULFILL TIS PURPOSE. THE SECRETARY OF STATE SHALL COMPLETE HIS EXAMINATION WITHOUT UNDUE DELAY.

“In the 19202 Request, Black Box Voting asked that the Component be evaluated for five possible flaws with respect to: the latest optical scan

Scotland: stop the war!

Today, Cindy Sheehan and Scottish mothers who have lost their sons in Iraq held a rally outside the Scottish parliament, spoke at a cross-party meeting of Members of the Scottish Parliament, were welcomed to the City of Glasgow by the Lord Provost, and addressed an anti-war rally in Glasgow.  This, plus the trips up to Scotland from London and back took Cindy and Andrew Burgin and me about 16 hours, so we're a wee bit knackered, but we're learning to speak the lingo – and I'm going to run out for fish and chips after posting this.

Thoughts from the heartland

We all have thoughts, most of us have opinions. These are just two of the ways we are all alike. Most division among people is intentional. If thought is the vehicle of opinion and if we choose what to and what not to think about, how reliable can most opinions be?

If you’re anything like me and I know that you are, one of the things you like the least is being lied to. There is plenty of information available across the entire spectrum of the press and electronic media to indicate that ‘a whole lot of lyen’s going on.’

We hear that Afghanistan is secure and stable with only sporadic violence from isolated pockets of the former Talaban and Al Quita elements. When in truth there is daily violence and Afghani civilians and American troops and internationals are still being killed regularly. We hear the good things the Afghani government is doing, when in reality the current government does not and has never controlled any more than thirty- five per cent of the country of Afghanistan.

In Iraq we hear that the ‘liberal press’ never highlights the progress and positive developments that are occurring. The fact is that on the tally

Lethal Lyrics: The machinery to kill fascists

Dylan to English Dictionary, by A.J. Weberman (Dylanologist).
2005. New York: Yippie Museum Press.
560 pages. ISBN: 1-4196-1338-3.
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'Keep on Trashin': Volume 1 of The Free Press Anthology available online!

The introduction and first volume (1970-71) of GOATS IN PRISON: FROM HIPPIES TO HEADLINERS (Being Book One of the Columbus Free Press Papers) is now available as a free Adobe .PDF download at

http://stevenconliff.com

The teaser includes rarely seen documentation of the 1970 Ohio State University riots, like yearbook photos and the incredibly sophisticated proto-simulation (OK, it's a boardgame) "Keep on Trashin'!" which gives the first volume its distinctive title.

Conliff, official spokesman for project editor Zorba the Freak, stated that a prize will be given to whoever spots the most typographical errors before the spring thaw. When asked to specify, he became surly and unresponsive.

For further information:
http://www.freepress.org/dispatches/2005/display/197

We're melting

One wonders what the Wicked Witch of the West must have been thinking in that terrifying moment in the Wizard of Oz after Dorothy doused her with water, when she realized that she was melting and no amount of evil spells was going to change that? With the recent deluge of melting glaciers and warming seas, it seems we residents of planet Earth may be reaching a very similar moment.

Our glaciers are melting at an ever quickening pace and there seems to be little we can do to stop it. According to recent studies, the Helheim glacier, one of the largest in Greenland, is melting at a rate much faster than expected. If it continues, Greenland will likely become much smaller and SEAS COULD RISE AS MUCH AS THREE FEET DURING THIS CENTURY. The accelerated melting is attributable to Greenland's warming temperatures which have risen five degrees Fahrenheit in the last ten years.

One of the most critical side effects of glacial melting is the threat posed to the Gulf Stream which could be shut down by the rising ocean water levels. The Gulf Stream protects Northern Europe from freezing temperatures. THE LAST TIME THE GULF STREAM FAILED, BRITAIN WAS COVERED IN

Rumsfeld’s handshake deal with Saddam: history out of media bounds

Christmas came 11 days early for Donald Rumsfeld two years ago when the news broke that American forces had pulled Saddam Hussein from a spidery hole. During interviews about the capture, on CBS and ABC, the Pentagon’s top man was upbeat. And he didn’t have to deal with a question that Lesley Stahl or Peter Jennings could have logically chosen to ask: “Secretary Rumsfeld, you met with Saddam almost exactly 20 years ago and shook his hand. What kind of guy was he?”

Now, Saddam Hussein has gone on trial, but such questions remain unasked by mainstream U.S. journalists. Rumsfeld met with Hussein in Baghdad on behalf of the Reagan administration, opening up strong diplomatic and military ties that lasted through six more years of Saddam’s murderous brutality.

As it happens, the initial trial of Saddam and co-defendants is focusing on grisly crimes that occurred the year before Rumsfeld gripped his hand. “The first witness, Ahmad Hassan Muhammad, 38, riveted the courtroom with the scenes of torture he witnessed after his arrest in 1982, including a meat grinder with human hair and blood under it,” the New York Times reported on Dec. 6. And: “At one

War on Christmas

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