By Brad Friedman on 5/10/2010 12:43PM Here We Go Again (Again): 100% Unverifiable E-Voting Systems Set for Use in PA, KY, Elsewhere… After all these years, not much has changed for the denialist jurisdictions who still insult their voters by using 100% unverifiable electronic voting machines. Pittsburgh’s WTAE filed a report last week with a [...]
Written By BGH The nation is in financial ruin, brought about by many factors but one thing most likely certain… the average citizen had little hand in the selling of mortgage backed securities, default swaps or designing the next brontosaurus proportioned SUV for GM. Unqualified borrowers would not have received balloon loans, zero down payment [...]
For eight years, the American people have been held hostage on a roller-coaster ride from Hell commandeered by their rogue Commander-In-Chief, “W.”, and his senior sidekick, Dick Cheney. Careening from the chaos of the Florida fiasco of 2000, when the winner of the presidential election was shunted aside and the loser was inaugurated following a [...]
I was amazed and then dismayed tonight to see a segment on ABC’s 20/20 that began by pointing out the problems with electronic voting machines. Here’s the text version. Rather than drawing any conclusions about the obvious unverifiability of DRE machines, or explaining the “government”‘s failure to meet the standards so easily met by the [...]
You remember the illegal alien driver’s licenses championed by disgraced former NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer, right? The ones that tripped up Hillary Clinton? Well, some vigiliant GOP lawmakers in NY remember them, too. And they’re trying to make sure they don’t wreak havoc on election results next month. Officials held a hearing today on thousands [...]
Written by Chris Floyd The idea of “victimless crimes” has been around for a long time, but the ultra-modern 21st century has given us a bold new concept: perpetratorless crimes. This is by now a familiar dynamic: Outright, undeniable crimes are committed, often very heinous ones — mass murder, military aggression, torture, vast financial corruption [...]
“Since 9/11, our Constitutional rights have been systematically dismantled: USA Patriot Act – A 342 page document presented to Congress one day before voting on it that allows the government access to your bank and email accounts, as well as your medical and phone records with no court order. They can also search your home [...]
Newly released footage, which was buried to avoid confiscation, shows riot cops arresting and abusing a giant group of people for nothing. Now that we’ve had a few weeks to settle, a look back at Labor Day in the Twin Cities. Labor Day was of course also Day One of the Republican National Convention. Video [...]
St. Paul is a window into our future. It is a future where, as one protester told me by phone, “people have been pepper-gassed, thrown on the ground by police who had drawn their weapons, had their documents seized and their tattoos photographed before being taken away to jail.” It is a future where illegal [...]
What does a police state look like? That is a good question. Maybe it looks something like this. Here is a photo of a small group of people trying to hold a demonstration in Denver at the Democratic Party convention. Notice the police overkill. But at least there is still freedom of the press! Right? [...]
Denver has assembled an army of police and stocked up on an array of new equipment to deal with the unknown during the Democratic National Convention. Mayor John Hickenlooper said the city and its partners developed what may be one of the most comprehensive security plans for an event of this magnitude. “You never know [...]
Transcript: Some Democratic Leaders say Impeachment is off the table. So, let us set a new table for our nation, upon which we place the Constitution and where we demand that all those who have taken an oath to defend it .. keep their promise and protect our nation from the threat within. Please go [...]
CNBC business analyst Mark Hanes delivered the economic news on MSNBC, then asked host Joe Scarborough to explain why Hillary Clinton isn’t being given more credit for narrowly winning the primary in Indiana, where some early polls had showed Obama leading. Scarborough explained that Clinton failed to meet recent expectations and that, just as with [...]
