My sincere apologies but I did not realize this was a holiday weekend. I am old enough to remember when Memorial Day was May 30th. I am moving this meeting to next weekend May 31st same time and place in the hope that more people can attend. I am sorry for the inconvenience.
Sandy
Could you each write a short response to let me know you got this one so we can start blogging. I am sending out the invites to the rest of the group in the hopes I have done this right this time.
Please distribute widely, Digg, Blog, reprints, get this to the media,etc. A YouTube video from Black Box Voting that you won't soon forget: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiiaBqwqkXs THE CAT THAT CONTROLS NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION PROGRAMMINGJohn Silvestro and his small private business, LHS Associates, hasexclusive programming contracts for ALL New Hampshire voting machines,which combined will count about 81 percent of the vote in the primary. Andas to Super Tuesday and beyond: Silvestro also has the programmingcontracts for the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont. Silvestro IS the New Hampshire chain of custody in New England -- Or atleast, a very large component in it. Last fall, with the help of citizens like you, Black Box Voting beganworking on "Chain of Custody" projects, in which we identified some ofthe areas of concern that might affect many jurisdictions at once. Firston the list for the Northeast U.S. is LHS Associates, a vendor withinside access to every memory card, as well as to the chips containingthe "brain" of the Diebold optical scan machines. RARE VIDEO FOOTAGE In an unusual confluence of available video, we obtained footage ofSilvestro grappling with Harri Hursti, the master hacker who had his waywith the Diebold optical scans in Leon County, Florida in the famousexploit that was showcased in the film Hacking Democracy.
To be continued........
Do visit her site and read this one......
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When Hillary Clinton sharpened her attacks on Barack Obama, criticizing him for failing to vote yes or no on a series of abortion bills put forward while Sen. Obama was in the Illinois State Senate, yet, again, Senator Clinton with her much touted experience DID NOT DO HER HOMEWORK, or doesn't her campaign speak with her supporters in NOW and Planned Parenthood and Emily's List, to find out the truth. No, yet again, she puts out FALSE INFORMATION as an example that Senator Obama can't lead, yet fails to INFORM VOTERS the specifics of the actions taken by Senator Obama while serving in the Illinois Senate.
Emily's List, a PAC which supports Senator Clinton know full well the reason behind the "Present" votes of Senator Obama in Illinois or they are incompetent and have not spoken with the leadership of Planned Parenthood in Illinois. No, they know full well the facts behind the votes, but choose not to let the voters know about it. LYING is not the way to gain support I would say to them and LYING they are.
For Senator Clinton's EDUCATION, and for the TRUTH for the voters the facts are this:
From an ABC report on July 17, 2007:
When Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., voted "present," rather than "yes" or "no" on a handful of controversial abortion votes in the Illinois state senate, he did so with the explicit support of the president and CEO of Illinois Planned Parenthood Council.
"We at Planned Parenthood view those as leadership votes," Pam Sutherland, the president and CEO of the Illinois Planned Parenthood Council, told ABC News. "We worked with him specifically on his strategy. The Republicans were in control of the Illinois Senate at the time. They loved to hold votes on 'partial birth' and 'born alive'. They put these bills out all the time . . . because they wanted to pigeonhole Democrats."
Sutherland said Obama approached her in the late 1990s and worked with her and others in crafting the strategy of voting "present." She remembers meeting with Obama outside of the Illinois Senate chambers on the Democratic side of the aisle. She and Obama finished their conversation in his office.
"He came to me and said: 'My members are being attacked. We need to figure out a way to protect members and to protect women,'" said Sutherland in recounting her conversation with Obama. "A 'present' vote was hard to pigeonhole which is exactly what Obama wanted."
"What it did," she continued, "was give cover to moderate Democrats who wanted to vote with us but were afraid to do so" because of how their votes would be used against them electorally. "A 'present' vote would protect them. Your senator voted 'present.' Most of the electorate is not going to know what that means."
Unlike Senator Clinton who could care less about fellow Democrats, or "down ticket" candidates (and for those that don't know what "down ticket" means, it is candidates for office that are running for state legislative positions, or Governor, or Senator, not for President, thereby being "down ticket") Senator Obama was seeking to protect other Democratic state legislators from being boxed into corners the Republicans wanted to force them. The "Present" votes were just that.
You want your wages garnished as punishment if you do not enroll in Hillary Clinton's MANDATED health insurance proposal? Well that is what she is proposing and in the same breathe is blasting Senator Obama's plan for NO MANDATE but rather LOWER COSTS so people can AFFORD to voluntarily enroll in a plan. Take your pick. Garnished wages, or lower cost insurance you can afford.
Senator Clinton would be outraged if Senator Obama demanded she remove a campaign ad but it appears she seems fit to demand he remove one of his. Interesting to note, the ad running in New Hampshire was running in Iowa for a MONTH with no complaint from Senator Clinton. Now she is attacking the ad, stating that Senator Obama is stating false facts in the ad. NOT TRUE. She continues to state that his plan would leave out 15 million citizens. This is NOT TRUE. His plan would cover EVERY American citizen. His plan is to make it AFFORDABLE and he disagrees with Senator Clinton that the government should MANDATE health insurance.
Now her plan is coming to light. Newsday.com is reporting that Hillary Clinton's top advisers say she'll consider garnishing the wages of people who fail to enroll in her mandatory health insurance plan - on a day when the campaign launched a blistering attack on Barack Obama's health care proposal.
I am urging every Obama supporter to read and familiarize themselves about these issues. We must be informed and vigilant.
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Please distribute freely - printer-friendly pdf version of this report,click here:http://www.blackboxvoting.org/moonshine3.pdf (contains 38 footnotedsources and references)Contributions are tax-deductible and always appreciated!An original Black Box Voting investigative report: http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/70968.html (discussionarea)By Bev Harris In 2007, Black Box Voting embarked on a year-long investigative seriesexamining elections in what we call the Moonshine territories –reputedly the most corrupt local governments in America. What we foundhasstaggering implications for the design of American election systems asawhole. Our current system only works if we trust every human link inthe chain. In this report we will knock the concept of trust-basedelections out the window.What follows concludes with examples from places like Illinois, NewYork, Oregon and California. It begins with our examination of the"TrustMe" election model as it is implemented in locations like Kentucky,West Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas. What we found inthese locations quickly unravels into an indictment of faith-basedelections in all 50 states. Much more on this site!!!
This is the kind of hidden in plain sight we should be aware of with regard to Hillbill. We must be vigilant of all things relative to their former activities!
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But you know, sometimes speeches can come back to haunt you Senator Clinton. As in the UN Speech you gave where you praised the work begun by Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. If you hadn't done your homework on her, as you appear to not do your homework these days, thus making such terrible decisions as in authorizing President Bush to invade Iraq, then praising the work of Margaret Sanger who in fact was a special guest speaker on multiple occasions for the KKK rallies was either reckless on your part, or you just did not know her history, or didn't bother to even look it up, or was it the other way around Senator Clinton? You AGREED with Margaret Sanger when she wrote that the purpose in promoting Birth Control was "to create a race of thoroughbreds", (Birth Control Review, Nov. 1921, pg. 2) or her statement, "The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it" (Eugenics Publc. Co. 1920, 1923)
I guess you can now state you didn't agree with her or her writings, but then why praise her work in opening up the first Abortion/Birth Control clinic in Harlem?
I guess this gives you deniability and "wiggle room" to get yourself out of the messes you get yourself in to. But they are of your own making Senator Clinton, and the praising of Margaret Sanger, (The ICPD Cairo Plus Five Forum UN Population Forum Keynotem, The Hague, Netherlands February 9, 1999) while not well known as yet, will soon be sent out to every single African American community newspaper so they can see for themselves that indeed not only were you "in bed" with actual communists, but you believed the work that Margaret Sanger did in starting what would latter be named Planned Parenthood was laudable even though now the "new" Planned Parenthood is attempting to distance themselves from the initial goal of what would become NAMED "Planned Parenthood". Planned Parenthood, in it's inception was racist, geared solely to reduce the reproduction of black American women. Did you really believe in the words of Margaret Sanger? Such as: On blacks, immigrants, and indigents: "....human weeds, 'recless breaders,' ' spawning....human beings who never should have been born," ( Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization) referring to immigrants and poor people and blacks. Did you actually know about and agree with her "Negro Project"? If you are going to make a keynote address to the UN and in it you praise the work of Margaret Sanger, then one must assume you did your homework and you KNEW about her "Negro Project".
Another extraordinary posting. Please go and read it in its entirety
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What makes the media’s coverage of Hillary Clinton even more deplorable are the recurring examples of noncoverage. Over and over they have refused to cover Mrs. Clinton’s staggering number of personal, political, and financial scandals, ignored her leftist political agenda, and dramatically downplayed her significant political failures. Plain and simple, they have whitewashed her record to turn her into the formidable presidential candidate we’re all assured she is.Of course, Hillary’s supporters, in and out of the media, love to tell us that no one has been has been more investigated or scrutinized than Hillary Clinton. But that claim is not just wrong, it is utterly absurd. We need to take a step back to discuss what constitutes a “news” story in the first place. A news story on a political scandal involves a few stages. First there is the allegation, which, if it carries a whiff of credibility, leads to the second step — investigation. A thorough investigation, examining all the angles while seeking independent confirmation of charges, is complete only when it has reached the third stage of the process — resolution, where the theoretical, the hypothesis, is proven or disproven and there is now fact, truth.
That is how the investigative process should work. But in the case of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the liberal media have consistently refused to cover credible allegations, even when other media sources were uncovering one scandalous action after another.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1672153_1672144_1672134,00.html
Barack is a 6. I know we cando better!!
As most of us know the temptation to "alter" Sen. Barack Obama's vote totals in both the primaries (Clinton) and the general (repugs). It will be crucial to suppress the African American vote as well as First Americans, hispanics, etc.
I urge each supporter to begin to familiarize themselves with the new info coming out and the support we can provide to the groups that are struggling so hard to make this a fair fight.
I urge each person to seach for this issue at Verfied Voting, BlackBoxVoting.org, etc. to note the states that are exhibiting big problems and those which are at least working on some kind of resolutions not Maryland and a host of other states unfortunately.
A brillaint essay on "The Gender Card" ........
I know of women in high level positions, working in CEO positions who do battle on a daily basis with "the old boys club" of business who wouldn't think of using the "gender" card, yet you, who wish to be president choose to do so? You wish to be President but when the going gets a little too close to the fact you are hypocritical in your stances on many issues of interest to the voters you use the "woe is me" card and that the men are picking on you? And you think that is going to get women to respect you?
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On another note:
It would really be helpful if bloggers on this site would identify the links so we do not keep going to the same site over and over.
Thanks
Urgent attention to the fine points of this "Iran" issue.
Once again......The Barack Obama Report.......is a MUST read!!
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In fact, well after the legislation submitted by Senator Obama, President Bush is finally asking for exactly what Senator Obama proposed. And, it appears by your email printed on "The Caucus" blog, you also now agree with Senator Obama's approach? Financial pressure on Iran. Now Senator Clinton, I don't mean to tell you how to do your job or run your campaign, but having a fit because you made a bad choice and voted in favor of the Iran vote calling their army terrorists and now you are feeling the heat and attacking Senator Obama for his well thought out proposed legislation, I suggest you actually READ what Senator Obama proposed before accusing him of calling the Iranian army terrorists. Please point out exactly where the wording of this legislation states that. Senator Obama stated that Iran uses their oil and gas revenue to FUND TERRORIST GROUPS, not that their army were terrorists, or can't you read? Or did you just not read it? Like the intelligence report that stated that Iraq had no WMD? I gather you tend to not bother reading legislation, you just show up and vote.
As for attacking him about not being there for the vote you unwisely cast, you know exactly why that happened. Senator Obama was in New Hampshire for an appearance and you saw your opening, and had that Iran vote moved up so he COULDN'T make it back in time to vote against it.
Now my research has shown that you have fundraising for you an Iranian by the name of Alan Quasha.
Political junkies will recall Quasha as the controversial figure who bailed out George W. Bush's failing oil company in 1986, folding Bush into his company, Harken Energy, thus setting him on the path to a lucrative and high-profile position as an owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, and the presidency. The persistently unprofitable Harken--many of whose board members, connected to powerful foreign interests and the intelligence community, nevertheless profited enormously--faced intense scrutiny in the early 1990s and again during Bush's first term.
http://thinkonthesethings.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/did-obama-skip-the-iran-vote/
This is a must read.
David Broder's column today is just the latest example of the media lodging the false charge against our candidate. Hillary did it first in the last debate: "Sen. Obama did not show up for the Iran vote".
I cannot find the Congressional Record of Harry Reid cancelling the vote but I did read it on this blog.
Each and every one of us as well as the Rapid Response MUST post that item on every MSM blog page for the next month every time the Iran vote is mentioned.
I am very dissappointed that the senator has not chosen to take Reid on but I understand the political sensitivities.
Pls take this seriously!!! They are mentioning it each and every time the subject is mentioned. We also must bombard Durbin's website to ask why he betrayed Sen obama on this vote and gave HillBillpolitical cover on this important issue.
I am begging each person to save the CR piece and post it in as many places as possible. In particular we should be calling in to CSAN Morning Journal just like Ron Paul's people do to make this point. It is going to take a concentrated effort on our part if the campaign does not feel that they can do it.
Please visit the site, read the whold thing and then send all your friends to read this item. It is crucial that we use this item to fight fire with fire!
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Hillary been endorsed by Rev. Harold Mayberry, who’s “preached against homosexuality.” And the Gay Community is quiet about that and now they are jumping on Obama…can someone explain to me the reasoning behind the gay community kissing up to the Clintons regardless all their anti gay policies(from dont ask dont tell to defence of marriage Act) but Obama is there for them to bash…please stop the double standard…though one thing I know is that Obama is not anti-gay and will get the vote of those who support his policy…no matter what… I spoke personally with my Gay friends in the REALWORLD, and they can't figure out what all the fuss is about. They know Senator Obama's stance on Gay rights, and any well informed Gay activist will know his stance, it is only those so-called expert "bloggers" many paid for by the Clinton Machine who are doing the attacking. In the REAL WORLD this is not even an issue! Senator Obama has consistently supported Gay rights and welcomes everyone to join his special website for LGBT supporters at:
Good Morning Bloggers,
If you want to be really informed then "The Barack Obama Report" is the place to start. There isn't a new thread every day but when there is one it is a doozy!!!
The one just posted on Terry McAuliff (HillBills Campaign Manager) is astounding. You can see the flow of dirty money to the scams from which the Clintons have benefitted clearly and plainly. This is manatory reading!
Now is the time to begin looking at our individual states!!!! The systems used, deadlines, serving as election judges (we need to be in the room when votes are counted), digital cameras for every voter to record all stages of the process outside the building, lines, police, inside the building, etc. etc.
This is just some of the ways the various elections results around the country can (will)be manipulated, there are many more.
No election is small. County officials in "small" elections have enormous influence on the process. It is not just the federal elections of president, senate and house.
I hope you will go to the site and become more informed so that when the slanted news shows and papers are printing inaccurate info, at least you will know better.Sandy
*****A look at these forms should prompt you to have a look at your own state's financial reports, which you can find here:
http://www.eac.gov/clearinghouse/reports-on-state-expenditures-of-hava-funds-1
* * * * *New on Black Box Voting: California Registrar of Voters urging people to switch to absentee - why you should NOT: http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/73/55275.html
* * * * *That pesky King County Diebold GEMS audit log -- like the 18 and a half minute gap in Nixon's Watergate tape, this 2004 primary audit log has three hours deleted:http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/285/54805.html
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