New York understands that just because you use paper ballots doesn't mean optical scanners won't help defraud your elections. Paper ballots are as good as the hands that count them. In NH most ballots are never counted by hand - only by LHS Associates and Diebold. Last I looked, nobody [...]
In NH, nearly 90% of our votes are now controlled by a private corporation - Diebold, and its New England affiliate LHS Associates. Yes we have paper ballots. But we don't count them! The software used to "count" our votes in these Diebold optical scanners was originally developed by a' [...]
SOURCE: ElectionTransparencyCoalition.org
Last night, on the eve of Thanksgiving, election fraud investigator Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D. published an article in the Governeur Times revealing Impossible Numbers Certified in NY-23. Phillips is best known for his book, Witness to a Crime: A Citizens’ Audit of an American [...]
FBI Reports Hate Crimes Up in Arizona, Phoenix, and Maricopa County
By Stephen Lemons in Feathered Bastard
Mon., Nov. 23 2009 @ 3:23PM
The FBI today released its hate crime report for 2008, showing the number of documented hate crimes by participating agencies to be up nationally by about 2.1 [...]
Posted 11/20/2009
KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan (AFNS) -- Correctional experts and Kunar Provincial Reconstruction Team engineers visited the Kunar Prison construction site to conduct a quality assurance check and address potential security concerns recently in the Kunar Province.
Experts with the [...]
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the membership of the Glastonbury
Democratic Town Committee that we strongly urge Majority Leader Harry Reid
to remove Joseph Lieberman from his Chairmanship of the Senate Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs for his continued duplicitous
conduct and his continued efforts to undermine the progressive programs
advocated [...]
..Moving 15 million Americans into this medical ghetto...
...Moving 15 million low-income Americans into a program called [...]
Almost every state legislature in the last two years has confronted the health care issue and the problem of the uninsured and underinsured. Massachusetts and California have captured the headlines with their initiatives and several other states have begun serious discussions on what solutions [...]
By DAVID POGUE
Published: November 12, 2009
Starting next week, Verizon will double the early-termination fee for smartphones. That is, if you get a BlackBerry, Android or similar phone from Verizon, and you decide to switch phones before your two-year contract is up, you'll be socked with a' [...]
PRESS RELEASE
NOVEMBER 14, 2009 PORTSMOUTH, NH-As someone who has watched Ray Buckley smear and assail political leaders in a personal manner over many years it is regrettable that Doug Lambert lowered himself and Granite Grok to Mr. Buckley's standard on his show this morning. While a [...]
SOURCE: Democrats.com The House of Representatives passed health-reform legislation that included an anti-choice amendment that will seriously jeopardize women's access to abortion – making it virtually impossible for private insurance companies that participate in the new health system to offer abortion coverage to women.
This would have the effect of denying women the right [...]
SOURCE: NYT
Acorn Sues Over Funding Vote in House
By KAREEM FAHIM, Published: November 12, 2009
The antipoverty group Acorn filed a lawsuit against the federal government on Thursday, saying that the House violated the Constitution by passing a resolution barring the [...]
There's really no other way to explain why Senator Coburn has put a hold on S. 1963, the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2009.
José Pequeño's name is ironic. In Spanish, "pequeño" means "small", but there is nothing small about this man, his family or the community [...]
SOURCE: Agonist.org
BY Michael Collins
The Supreme Court of the United States will soon announce a major decision on our lightly controlled system of campaign funding. Will it retain some limitations on corporate influence or will the court blow the lid off and cause a perpetual [...]
....The Defense authorization bill passed by the Senate Thursday night included alternations to benefits and practices first announced and celebrated roughly two weeks ago. Perhaps the biggest change is that members of the Federal Employees Retirement System will be able to have [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jeremy Funk, 202-470-5878
DATE: November 8, 2009 Lauren Weiner, 202-470-5870
Americans United for Change Applauds U.S. Reps. Hodes and Shea-Porter For Helping Pass the Affordable Health Care for America Act
“Thank You Representatives Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter for Standing Up to the Big Health Insurance Companies and [...]
SOURCE: OpEdNews, November 8, 2009
House Passes Weak Public Option Health Care Bill, Selling Out Women's Rights. Includes Democrats Who Voted Against Bill
By Rob Kall
Giving a $1.2 trillion gift to the health insurance industry, betraying women's rights, the house gave the white house what it wanted.' [...]
SOURCE: OpEdNews
November 7, 2009 at 21:51:52
Manifest Positivity: Talking with Dave Berman
By Joan Brunwasser
I first encountered Dave Berman after the 2004 Presidential election. He had been writing about election integrity for years. Since then, his areas of interest have expanded and evolved. We're here to talk about what he's up' [...]
As the former Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Senator Gregg continues to have opinions about how and how much of our money should be spent. A few things to keep in mind when reading his remarks are:
1) The federal government is not like a family [...]
Exposed: The Worldwide Efforts Of The Global Energy Lobby To Kill Progress On Climate Change
Exposed: The Worldwide Efforts Of The Global Energy Lobby To Kill Progress On Climate Change
Huffington Post Katherine Goldstein
First Posted: 11- 5-09
By MARK WHITEHOUSE
The pain of the financial crisis has economists striving to understand precisely why it happened and how to prevent a repeat. For that task, John Geanakoplos of Yale University takes inspiration from Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice."
The play's focus is collateral, with the money lender Shylock [...]
Responding to your email message--
Dear Ms.
Thank you for contacting me about health care reform. This is one of the most important issues facing our nation and I appreciate hearing your thoughts and suggestions for how we might address it.
In New Hampshire and across [...]
Loose with numbers: Medicare fraud report a fiction
By PIERRE TRISTAM
ESSAYS
I haven't watched CBS' "60 Minutes" in years. But it was one of those stories that stops you in your tracks: Medicare fraud is "a $60 billion crime." Medicare is the $456 billion government health insurance program serving 46 million [...]
ACORN Under Attack, Labor Offers Support
By Paul Burton
Despite recent negative news reports, the activist group ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) continues to advocate for [...]
By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the [...]
Federal regulators close 9 banks
NEW YORK — Regulators shut California National Bank of Los Angeles and eight other banks as the weak economy continues to produce a stream of loan defaults.
The banks closed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation were in California, Illinois, Texas and Arizona. They were [...]
SOURCE: sunlightfoundation.com
Some really weird stuff went down when Sunlight gave a Congressional bill and a camera to a local couple.
[...]SOURCE: The Nation
Pelosi's Not-So-Robust Public Option posted by John Nichols on 10/29/2009 @ 12:02pm
The public option was always a compromise for serious supporters of health-care reform, who -- like Barack Obama when he was running for the Senate in 2003 -- knew that [...]
SOURCE: [awomanisnotapreexistingcondition.com]
Tell Congress being a woman is not a pre-existing condition
Greetings!
We have been having Council Meetings throughout the state for the last couple of months and will return to Concord for our next meeting, November 4th. It would be my pleasure to welcome you to one of our upcoming meetings. The schedule is available on our web site, [admin.state.nh.us].
Let [...]
SOURCE: PDAmerica.org
Healthcare Hoax from Hell By David Swanson October 29, 2009
Published by AfterDowningStreet.org.
Lies, damn lies, and promises from Democrats. An amendment allowing states to create state-level single-payer healthcare has been stripped out of the House healthcare bill, after [...]
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Posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:30 AM
Obama to Sign Law Protecting Troops From Toxic Fumes
Katie Connolly
....
Today Eller, Sheridan, and the many others affected by these pits are getting some good news, thanks in part to the work of Rep. Tim Bishop, Democrat of New York, and [...]
N.H. college says Drew enticed its poetry muse
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
STAR-LEDGER STAFF
An unusual lawsuit over what a federal judge has dubbed "poetry in motion" continues to pit Drew University against a small liberal arts college in New Hampshire.
The dispute began last year after Anne Marie Macari, then interim [...]
Imagine instead of the headline above we saw a different headline: "NH leads the nation in eliminating unconstitutional concealed computerized vote counting". The NH Secretary of State and the NH Legislature both had the chance to make it happen in 2006, when NH Fair Elections Committee-endorsed legislation that would have [...]
In New Hampshire, clerks not only certify elections from e-voting optical scanners "counting" our paper ballots, but more often than not it would appear that those results literally don't even add up. Why does the NH Secretary of State certify these results and why has the NH Secretary' [...]
SOURCE: TowardFreedom.com
Montrealers Deliver a Fiery Message to Bush: You Are Persona Non Grata
Written by Charlotte Dennett, Photos by Robin Lloyd
They threw shoes – so many shoes that hotel staff had to roll out a laundry bin onto the street to pick them all up, and [...]
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
Published: October 24, 2009
FOR decades, when troubled homeowners and banks battled over delinquent mortgages, it wasn’t a contest. Homes went into foreclosure, and lenders took control of the property.
On top of that, courts rubber-stamped the array of foreclosure charges that lenders heaped onto borrowers and [...]
US President Barack Obama has declared swine flu a national emergency.
The White House said the president signed the proclamation concerning the 2009 H1N1 outbreak on Friday evening.
It increases the ability of treatment facilities to handle a surge in H1N1 patients by easing the implementation of emergency plans.
Last week [...]
If you're reading this post, chances are that you're pretty familiar with the concept of net neutrality and understand what's at stake in the debate surrounding the FCC's proposed rules. But what about your parents, grandparents, friends and significant others? If you know someone who could use a quick primer [...]
A Stunning Documentary All Communities Should See
SOURCE: washingtonpost.com
President emphasizes economic benefits of stalled legislation
By Michael D. Shear and Juliet Eilperin
Saturday, October 24, 2009
BOSTON -- President Obama touted the economic benefits of green technologies in a speech Friday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, challenging Congress to pass comprehensive energy legislation and describing [...]
Senators Reid, Schumer and Leahy have introduced the Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act as part of comprehensive health insurance reform to eliminate the outdated insurance industry antitrust exemption, and force health insurance companies to compete fairly.
President Obama's overhaul hinges on six crucial individuals and their skill at negotiating behind closed doors. Now Rahm Emanuel, Nancy-Ann DeParle and the others will see if their efforts pay off.
By Peter Nicholas
October 21, 2009
Reporting from Washington
Peter R. Orszag, the White House official steeped in budget detail, is now [...]
10.20.09: Election Defense Alliance Opens Public Review of Sequoia Voting System Source Code By Jim March
Election Defense Alliance, a nonprofit organized to review and improve voting system technology and operations, has come into possession of thousands of lines of software written by Sequoia Voting Systems as part of a public records response [...]
SOURCE: OpEdNews
October 20, 2009
A Censored Headline and why it Matters:
German High Court Outlaws Electronic Voting
Justices of the German Federal Constitutional Court.
(DailyCensored.Com) The justices above are clearly the most rational group of high level functionaries [...]
SOURCE: OpEdNews
October 19, 2009
Part Three: Talking with Former Health Insurance Executive Wendell Potter
By Joan Brunwasser
Welcome back for the conclusion of my interview with former health insurance executive, Wendell Potter. Let's circle back to the more personal for a bit, Wendell. When you decided to [...]
SOURCE: Rollingstone.com
A scheme to flood the market with counterfeit stocks helped kill Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers — and the feds have yet to bust the culprits
BY MATT TAIBBI, Posted Oct 14, 2009 9:30 AM
Watch Matt Taibbi break down short-selling vs. naked short-selling on his blog, Taibblog.
n Tuesday, [...]
SOURCE: OpEdNews
October 18, 2009
Part Two, Talking with Former Health Insurance Executive Wendell Potter
By Joan Brunwasser
Welcome back for the second installment of my interview with former health insurance executive Wendell Potter. So, Wendell. You decided to speak out. How did you go about figuring out [...]
As I am sending this Update, as unbelievable as this seems, it is snowing to beat the band in Nashua!!
I hope all of you are enjoying our first snowstorm of the season.
Debora
NEWS RELEASE FOR DISTRICT FIVE October 8, 2009 FROM DEBORA B. PIGNATELLI, Executive Councilor
October 7, Concord, NH - Listed below [...]
And yes, a whole bunch of Senators actually voted to continue contracting with companies prohibiting employee legal and civil rights
Sen. Franken Questions an Arbitration Lawyer about Binding Arbitration
SOURCE: - The BRAD BLOG -
Diebold's Optical-Scan System FAILS in Sarasota, FL
County election director Kathy Dent's 'solution' as bad or worse than the actual problem...as usual...
The November 3rd Election Day is nearing, so naturally the words "glitch," "hiccup," "snafu," and "snag" are back in the headlines, instead [...]
October 18, 2009
Talking with Former Health Insurance Executive Wendell Potter
By Joan Brunwasser
Wendell Potter has been in the news quite a bit lately. He's the former health insurance industry executive who is now speaking out about industry practices as we debate how to reform [...]
And yes, a whole bunch of Senators actually voted to continue contracting with companies prohibiting employee legal and civil rights
Sen. Franken Questions an Arbitration Lawyer about Binding Arbitration
SOURCE: OpEdNews.com
October 15, 2009
An Interview with Dr. Ulrich Wiesner (Dr. Wiesner Filed a Lawsuit in Germany Claiming E-Voting Unconstitutional AND WON
By Kathleen Wynne – Founder HCPBnow.org
Former Associate Director of Black Box Voting.org
“The very word secrecy is repugnant in [...]
SOURCE: Truthout.org
Wendell Potter tells Greg Palast health insurers' dirty secret. (Photo: Fighting Bob Fest)
Special Feature: Listen to Greg Palast's exclusive interview with health insurance company whistleblower Wendell Potter.
Also, [...]
SOURCE: LegalSchnauzer.com
Has President Barack Obama improved the U.S. Department of Justice since inheriting a dysfunctional mess from George W. Bush almost 10 months ago?
If you were to pose that question to Tamarah Grimes, a former paralegal in the DOJ's Middle District of Alabama, she almost certainly would reply, "Heck, no!"
Grimes blew [...]
SOURCE: Black Box Voting
You may have heard: There will be a hearing in the U.S. Senate about the ES&S monopolistic takeover of America's voting system. (ES&S bought Diebold's Premier Election Solutions, giving it control over 75% of our jurisdictions).
Here is a copy of the letter BLACK BOX VOTING has sent [...]
In 2007, California's Secretary of State Debra Bowen conducted a "Top To Bottom Review" (TTBR) of all electronic voting machines used in the state. The review findings were so disturbing that California decertified the Diebold voting machines - optical scanners and touchscreens - used in California elections. These optical scanners [...]
One of eight segments [...]
We must force the truth about 9/11 to be exposed
Opinion
October 08, 2009 2:00 AM
Oct. 5 — To the Editor:
Columbus Day signals the end of the myth that the Earth is flat. Let it also signal the end of the myth that 19 Arabs staged an extremely high-tech attack [...]
SOURCE: nytimes.com
October 8, 2009
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Let Congress Go Without Insurance
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Let me offer a modest proposal: If Congress fails to pass comprehensive health reform this year, its members should surrender health insurance in proportion with the American population that is uninsured.
It may be that the lulling [...]
Health Care and the 'Predator State'
It is corporate power, not the government, that we need to worry about.
By Thomas Frank
In June 2008, I used this space to call on then-Sen. Barack Obama to add economist James K. Galbraith's book, "The Predator State," to his reading list. As [...]
WellPoint Subsidiary Fights Maine
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Maine, a subsidiary of WellPoint, the nation's largest insurer, wanted the state to approve an average rate hike of 18.5 percent on its policyholders. Maine rejected the increase and now the insurer is fighting for the hike in court. Robert [...]
WellPoint Subsidiary Fights Maine
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Maine, a subsidiary of WellPoint, the nation's largest insurer, wanted the state to approve an average rate hike of 18.5 percent on its policyholders. Maine rejected the increase and now the insurer is fighting for the hike in court. Robert [...]
Dr. Alice Chen shares a story--
SOURCE: opednews.com
Vote of No Confidence in E-Voting Merger, Part Two: Talking with Democracy Warrior Nancy Tobi
By Joan Brunwasser (about the author)
We're back for the second part of the interview with Democracy Warrior Nancy Tobi. Can you walk us through Black Box Voting's anti-trust case, Nancy?
Black Box' [...]
SOURCE: NYT
October 1, 2009 White House Proposes Changes in Bill Protecting Reporters’ Confidentiality, By CHARLIE SAVAGE
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has told lawmakers that it opposes legislation that could protect reporters from being imprisoned if they refuse to disclose confidential sources who leak material about national security, according to [...]
