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SOURCE: The Hill

Ohio station: Tubbs Jones may be taken off life support
By Jared Allen
Posted: 08/20/08 12:41 PM ET

After suffering a massive aneurysm while behind the wheel Tuesday night in Cleveland, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio) is in grave condition and may be taken off of life support as early as this afternoon, according to WOIO in Cleveland.


Tubbs Jones was “for all intents and purposes dead when they brought her into the hospital” Tuesday night, the station reported in a breaking news update that interrupted regular morning programming.

The station, reporting from outside Huron Hospital in East Cleveland, where Tubbs Jones was brought Tuesday night, said her condition was “grave.” The report also indicated that life support could be “withdrawn sometime Wednesday afternoon.”

Tubbs Jones’s office released a statement earlier Wednesday saying the congresswoman had suffered an aneurysm and described her condition as stable.Her office could not be reached to confirm WOIO reports that her life is in immediate jeopardy

Scott Lehigh has a good op-ed in the Globe about the Corsi smear job and one of the diarists on KOS does a good job of running down where else the hit job is being decried.

In addition, the Globe has done a bit of journalism and brought some of Corsi's earlier endeavors to light.

SOURCE: OpEdNews

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August 18, 2008

Vendors are Undermining the Structure of U.S. Elections

By Ellen Theisen

A VotersUnite report on the current situationand how to reclaim elections — in 2008 and beyond. by Ellen Theisen, Co-Director, VotersUnite.Org

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Executive Summary

As we approach the 2008 general election, the structure of elections in the United States — once reliant on local representatives accountable to the public — has become almost wholly dependent on large corporations, which are not accountable to the public. Most local officials charged with running elections are now unable to administer elections without the equipment, services, and trade-secret software of a small number of corporations.(1)

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SOURCE: Westword.com,Thu Aug 14, 2008 at 01:27:52 PM

If you can’t stand the irony, stay out of Gitmo on the Platte.

That’s a nice little phrase I’m coining to describe the “temporary arrestee processing center” – aka vacant warehouse filled with cages and razor wire – that Denver is preparing in the event that protesters arrested during the Democratic National Convention overfill the city jails.

Another phrase I came up with today: If you can’t stand getting chased by scary black trucks, don’t try to sneak inside Gitmo on the Platte and take pictures. See the slide show here.

CBS4 first reported on the existence of the facility yesterday, capturing footage from the inside. But for some reason it didn’t disclose its exact location, except to say it was a city-owned building in northeast Denver. The same non-disclosure came from the Denver police and sheriff departments, although the mayor’s office said it will offer tours of the facility next week.

It's been apparent for a long time that Iraq has served as a "stand-in" while the U.S. demonstrates its military prowess to impress the major Asian powers whose capabilities are, perhaps, a little less.

Now it seems to be South Ossetia's turn to bear witness to what happens when a U.S. client, in this case Georgia, decides to put the weapons and training it's been provided to the test.

But, South Ossetia is also different. It's proving to be a "stand-in" for all the ordinary people who've been getting bombed in Iraq for five years--a situation the electronic media have been prevented from showing us.

SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle

Rule by fear or rule by law?
by Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg

Monday, February 4, 2008

"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."

- Winston Churchill, Nov. 21, 1943

Since 9/11, and seemingly without the notice of most Americans, the federal government has assumed the authority to institute martial law, arrest a wide swath of dissidents (citizen and noncitizen alike), and detain people without legal or constitutional recourse in the event of "an emergency influx of immigrants in the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs."

Beginning in 1999, the government has entered into a series of single-bid contracts with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States. The government has also contracted with several companies to build thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly to transport detainees.

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Rather than pay attention to the many emails and tips about election day irregularities and exit poll discrepancies they received after the 2004 election, corporate media reporters and journalists collectively rolled their eyes or stuck their fingers in their ears and said, "La la la la la I'm not listening!" But a rare exception was Tribune Media Services syndicated columnist, Bob Koehler, who was one of the first to report nationally on the glaring problem, got the story out and now we can be prepared for what lies ahead in 2008.

Apparently, Rick Warren, the pastor of Saddleback Church has a way with words. The Los Angeles Times, in a story on the upcoming Civil Forum for Obama and McCain at the megachurch, reports his assessment of the presumptive major party nominees as follows:

"America has a choice. It's not between a stud and a dud this year," Warren said. "Both of these men care about America. My job is to let them share their views."

His use of the word "choice" alone may have been enough to set some evangelicals on edge and prompt them to protest the Saturday evening event (slated to be covered by CNN at 5:00PM, PDT and streamed on the web, courtesy of KDOC and the Orange County Register).

Yeah, I know you don't want to hear it. Some people here would rather sit around and snicker at George W. Bush saying something else stupid--this time while he's in China. Think Progess has a pretty good summary, including the video that was pulled from YouTube because of a third party ownership claim.

Worthless stuff is usually not worth claiming. But, that's not the only reason I'm going to give you an opportunity to reconsider whether what Bush said was stupid or part of an orchestrated campaign. That NBC interrupted its coverage of the Olympics with this vignette may or may not be significant.

Let's go back to earlier in the week.

It seems that on Thursday, Barack Obama answered a question from a little girl which NewsBusters.org covered thusly:

Vincent Bugliosi lays it out: Forget impeachment. Try Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld and all the rest for murder.

Former LA Deputy District Attorney, who successfully prosecuted, dozens of murder cases, makes the case that George Bush is indictable for murder.

Any state or city that had a citizen killed in the course of the Iraq War is eligible for pressing charges and bringing these lying psychopaths to justice.

Local farmers’ markets fun, and doing great

Standing in line, I counted eight people ahead of me. We were patiently waiting to purchase vegetables, especially tomatoes, from a vendor at the Newport Farmers’ Market on a recent Friday afternoon. The woman behind me said the vendor had sold his 125 pounds of tomatoes the prior week in an hour and fifteen minutes. Business was sure brisk while I was there.

Last Thursday, the Greater Chamber of Commerce had a business after hours event at the Claremont Farmers’ Market. I picked up some old fashioned, freshly made biscuits. The lady from Beryl Mt. View Farm in South Acworth told me how long I could keep them if I did not want to freeze them. The farmers’ markets are fun to visit and to buy from people who have produced the products.

I called Lorraine Merrill, our Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture, Markets and Food, on Friday to get her take on how New Hampshire’s farmers’ markets are doing. Her response, “they are doing great.” Governor Lynch, in fact, has proclaimed this week to be New Hampshire Eat Local Week. His proclamation notes that “eating more New Hampshire grown foods helps preserve the New Hampshire way of life we cherish” as well as encourages growth of local businesses and workforces, generates added income. He also stated that “knowing where your food comes from and the farmer who grew it adds to our eating pleasure and contributes to better personal health.”

Send a Neighbor, not a Career Politician to the Council

The Presidential candidates are talking about bringing change to Washington, It’s time to bring change to District 4 !!!

I am running because I believe that District 4 deserves a positive, efficient and proactive Executive Councilor representing them. This campaign is about bringing independent leadership, efficiency, and accountability to Concord on behalf of the people in District 4 and the people of the state of New Hampshire.

Whether you live in District 4 or not, all decisions made by the Executive Council affect YOU!

My priorities include:

• Developing transportation and highway plans that are viable for NH and that protect our Environment, including public transportation such as Light rail and Bus service
• Ensuring that the needs of our children and their education are not based on political outcomes
• Ensuring that the Executive Council secures contracts with responsible employers who will hire NH workers
• Working to change the State Bid process so that Companies wishing to do business with the State Of New Hampshire, have to state the percentage of New Hampshire workers they will employ, and the benefits that they will provide them, should they receive the contract.

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SOURCE: Department of State Revenues

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Reporting Entity And Scope

The reporting entity and scope of this audit and audit report are the revenues deposited and expenditures paid of the New Hampshire Department of State (Department) for the ten months ended April 30, 2007. Not included in the reporting entity are the State boards and commissions that are related to the Department by statute.

The report describes certain financial activity of the Department of State, as it existed during the period under audit. The Department prepared the auditee responses included in the constructive service comments section of this report.

Organization

The Department of State was established under the executive direction of the Secretary of State by Chapter 5, of the Revised Statutes Annotated. Part 2, Articles 67 and 69, of the New Hampshire Constitution, requires the Secretary of State to be chosen by joint ballot of the senators and representatives, and to appoint a deputy secretary to perform the duties of the office, if the Secretary of State is unable.

SOURCE: AP News

7/30/2008, 2:42 p.m. ET

By LAURIE KELLMAN

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — A House panel Wednesday voted to cite former top White House aide Karl Rove for contempt of Congress as its Senate counterpart explored punishment for alleged Bush administration misdeeds.

Voting 20-14 along party lines, the House Judiciary Committee said that Rove had broken the law by failing to appear at a July 10 hearing on allegations of White House influence over the Justice Department, including whether Rove encouraged prosecutions against Democrats such as former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman.

The committee decision is only a recommendation, and a spokesman for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she would not decide until September whether to bring it to a final vote.

With little more than three months before Election Day, it wasn't clear whether majority Democrats could take any substantial action in a political environment in which time for the current Congress is running short and lawmakers face a host of daunting legislative problems and a cluttered calendar.

Sorry - but state sovereignty is one thing. Accountability is another altogether. The NH Dept of State has used federal funds to investigate citizen watchdogs instead of obvious election irregularities, appears to have violated state law in the conduct of its elections, appears to have changed election results without explanation on their website, appears to have accepted unreconcilable numbers from city and town elections, and now this. It's all too easy to just give these guys a pass. It is time to hold our NH election officials accountable.

SOURCE: Boston.com
The Associated Press

By Norma Love, Associated Press Writer | July 29, 2008

CONCORD, N.H. --Secretary of State William Gardner is out of compliance in how his office spent $1 million in federal funds to help with election improvements, state auditors told lawmakers Tuesday.