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"Karl Rove Believes He Will Rig The 2012 Elections. This message is for him."
Source: http://youtu.be/98frqrKFnQ8
"Karl Rove Believes He Will Rig The 2012 Elections. This message is for him."
Source: http://youtu.be/98frqrKFnQ8
This is wonderful news. Anonymous will be watching, they are best hope.
Silly Rabbits. The "authorities" to whom you want to report Karl Rove are in on the joke, and always have been. Do you really suppose the (s)elections of 2000 and 2004 could have occurred without complicity of significant parts of US federal law enforcement and corporate news media? Next you can tell us how a gaggle of half literate rag-heads outwitted NORAD.
Even if they find the evidence, we will need much more public attention, media coverage and political will for it to mean anything. Remember Gore conceded knowing he won but unable to overcome the political onslaught of the right. Kerry threw in the towel to find the evidence after it was too late. Obama chose to let all this evidence slide, to appear more bipartisan andnow it will bite him in the ass. #mikeconnell #recount
what is different this election is that more people have woken up and there will be an uprising this time if the election is stolen.
But anonymous will release what they find directly on the Internet. It will be read and studied by millions, the media will pick it up, the people, realizing that their democracy has been usurped will demand this wrong be righted. They will get the job done, because they don't bow to the elite.
I was also disappointed when the democrats didn't make a ruckus over the stolen 2000 election and the flipped results of the 2004 election. I believe that America, as a whole would lose so much power if the world was to know that our elections were corrupt, and it would be a security issue. What we say to other nations wouldn't carry any weight. Our boasting of governments run by representives elected by the people would be silenced.
The bigger the war,the more incompetence and cheating Republicans could openly get away with.
You are very idealistic. The people of the Internet won't care and won't read it unless it's disrupting their lolcats viewing or Facebook chats.
The media will pick it up?
Why didn't the media report the recount of 2000 after THEY sponsored it?
Why didn't the media report the subpoena of Karl Rove?
Why didn't the media report when Mike Connell's plane turned into a fireball?
They want to pretend everything OK with our voting, don't you think?
This is genius. Godspeed to Anonymous.
As pointed out by Mark Crispin MIller, there are three legs to the "stool" that is corruption in America: 1) extreme amounts of money in politics, 2) rigging of elections, and 3) corrupt corporate media.
The last of these is crucial: The media is corrupt in part because they benefit from (1). And they are complicit in suppressing an honest discussion of both (1) and (2).
Nobody is saying that the simple fact that Anonymous is watching and accumulating evidence will be sufficient in and of itself to stop Rove and his henchmen from trying to hijack the election, or even to actually reclaim it if they succeed (God forbid.) But it can't hurt to let them know in no uncertain terms that their every move is being monitored, and that the days when they could operate in total darkness like thieves in the night are OVER. It's about time for all of us to give them notice that we will no longer tolerate their flagrant disregard and flaunting of the laws and guiding principles of this country, all in the name of advancing and protecting the interests of their 1% of the top socioeconomic 1%.
I say good for them: keep at it, Anonymous – we need you on our side!
I seriously doubt that Anonymous cares if Romney or Obama wins the election. They are equally in the pocket of the global fascists. Both the Occupy Movement and Anonymous knows this to be true. So why would they want to support anyone from the Democratic-Republican Party, Inc.?
I would sell George Bush's non-soul to see Karl rove so exposed that he could not do anything except try to run and try to hide. Wouldn't it be a joy to see the Republicans trying to deny and distance themselves from him. Get him Anonymous!
Writig from Barcelona…..Let's hope it works! I don't know of a better plan!
Gus W….I have no answers to your questions, and they are good questions that deserve an answer. If 3 out of the past 4 elections are obviously stolen, and the media stays silent, we wouldn't just of lost an election we will have lost our democracy. And that just scares the crapola out of me.
It's a shame that elections are so vulnerable here, but there have always been bandits and robber barons and dictators. What makes enlightened societies different is the people-powered activism and we just don't have it.
Nearly half of us don't vote in Presidential elections and in off-years, it's almost two thirds: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html
In this way, we really are like lambs being led to slaughter. The most important issue, crucial to the preservation of humankind is being summarily ignored by both parties in the refusal to address what climate science is telling us:
God Speed Anonymous!
[…] #Anonymous warns #Republican Karl Rove not to do it this time : http://markcrispinmiller.com/2012/10/anonymous-warns-karl-rove-not-to-do-it-this-time/ … […]
Anonymous, May you be forever touched by his noodly appendage.
Though the following are non-anonymous, they too are trying to save democracy.
Million Dollar Reward Offered To Expose Election Fraud
Today, we offered a million dollar reward for hard information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone using corrupt or fraudulent means to rig a 2012 federal election so the real winner loses. The information must result in a correction of the fraudulent election and must be new information not previously reported.
There has been a great deal of nefarious activity [2] in the run up to this election mostly by partisans on the Republican side of the aisle. Karl Rove is receiving a great deal of scrutiny for raising hundreds of millions from GOP billionaires to defeat President Obama.
So we want cyber sleuths and whistleblowers of all stripes to keep an eye out for things that normally stay hidden, such as manipulation of the tabulation results. We have a tip line 1-888-VOTETIP or send to firstname.lastname@example.com [3].
Feel free to download this reward flyer [1], post it on your site, and send the link around.
In the meantime, wherever you are, do all you can to turn the electronic tide. As Rev. Jesse Jackson has put it, "We can afford to lose an election. We can't afford to lose our democracy."
Why Romney has already won this electronic election, unless…
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
Electronically, this election is over. Mitt Romney has won.
The big loser is not Barack Obama, or the corporate Democratic Party. It is democracy itself.
Unless YOU act now, and are prepared to fight this out for years to come, whatever remains of American democracy is done.
No nation that suffers the theft of three out of four consecutive national elections can harbor the illusion that it is run by the will of its people.
Those who would have it otherwise must work from now to Election Day and beyond, to:
" Check your registration — millions of us need to confirm that we are still registered voters and haven't been purged from the polls. You can do this by checking with your county board of elections either by phone or online, or by contacting you secretary of state's office;
" Occupy the polling sites — come out in droves on Election Day to guarantee that EVERY citizen can fairly vote. Make sure there is no voter intimidation or other repression of voting. Look for broken machines, proliferation of voters forced to vote provisionally, and other irregularities. If something happens to your vote, report it to us;
" Document the vote count — help implement a national network of precinct-by-precinct monitoring systems to track as closely as possible the voter turnout as a check against the final tabulated electronic vote count. Take photos or video of the final precinct voting results posted at polling sites;
" Stop voting machine rigging — Observe the polling stations to monitor which technicians come to "service" the electronic voting machines and how they do it. Take photos or video of them and their vehicles;
" Gear up now for post-election legal and direct action strategies to resist an electronic tally almost certain to be rigged on election night in at least nine swing states…or however many it may take.
Though all the pieces are in place, the GOP theft is not inevitable. But the realities are harsh and demanding:
There are no meaningful, legally binding public checks and balances on the tabulation of votes cast electronically.
" Exit polling has proven accurate to within 1% of the vote — the gold standard for detecting vote tampering in other countries such as Germany, which uses paper ballots. In the U.S., when exit polls don't match the vote count, there's no investigation into tampering. Exit polls are always "adjusted" late election night to conform to the ultimate "official" vote count, even though shifts in Ohio 2004 and elsewhere were virtually statistically impossible. This election, exit polling will not happen in 19 states.
" Despite an almost total blackout from the corporate media, the Romney family has a personal ownership (through the investment firms Solamere and H.I.G. Capital) in Hart Intercivic, which owns, maintains, programs and will tabulate alleged votes on machines in the critical swing states of Ohio, Florida, Virginia and Colorado. Despite various official disclaimers, the election could be decided on Hart machines producing "vote counts" with little connection to how 18 million people actually voted.
" It is inconceivable that the Romney chain of ownership in Hart Intercivic will not influence how that goes. The story has gotten widespread circulation on the internet, but has been ignored or dismissed by most of the corporate media and attacked by the Democratic Party. Petitions at Moveon.org ( http://signon.org/sign/department-of-justice-4?source=mo&id=55840-23655606-NBOySOx )and elsewhere call for a Department of Justice investigation. Tens of thousands of citizens have signed on. But there is no legally binding way by which a professionally rigged electronic vote count can be overturned or even definitively discovered except through the use of unabridged but legally inconsequential exit polling.
" Scytl, a Barcelona-based e-voting company, has been contracted to count votes in 26 states through the easily rigged Federal Overseas Voting Program. FVAP is ostensibly geared to let military and other overseas Americans vote absentee by electronic means. But Scytl is positioned to intercept and redistribute such overseas electronic votes as needed through its spyware sister company, CarrierIQ. In a close race, these "votes" can be distributed at will to make the difference in critical swing states.
" Other key voting machine companies, such as ES&S, Dominion, Command Central and more, are controlled by major corporations, some of whose owners are outspoken in their support for the Republican Party. Such support is reminiscent of Diebold owner Walden O'Dell, whose election software and machines helped give George W. Bush a second term in 2004, as O'Dell promised.
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@ Sidney, the point I'm trying to make is that there is already sufficient basis to believe there was massive election fraud under the 'watch' of this electorate and they didn't do anything.
The media has indeed guarded the castle for the crooks, but the internet has allowed enough evidence to permeate the public, including the halls of power and big business. So people "know" about this, but don't do anything – even the Democrats who have the most to lose.
Gus W….I know what your saying. I can't understand why in Gods name the democrats don't blow this up in the media. There is so much documentation of election corruption. The only thing that I can come up with is that the world would know that America is no different from Russia, Iran and all the other countries that do the same thing. The government likes to keep the American people looking down their nose at every other country in order to keep the american exceptionalism fairy alive, which allows this government to stick its nose in any place we want. We are no different, I know this now, and this knowledge gets me sick to my stomach.
Thank you Anonymous. You give me hope for the future of my Grandkids. Give Rove a little taste of what he can expect so he doesn't dismiss you and your capabilities.
Power to the People.
Maria S
Northern Wi
I believe you can and will do it. I believe O will win big, but they are trying to make it look like a horserace. I believe he will win big again, as he must have last time, or they would have rigged it. I believe in us, in you, in us.
Perhaps if the clever individuals of Anonymous were to hack some of the ballot counting machinery owned by the Romney family, and flip the votes to Jill Stein, then it would be obvious to everyone that the system was truly broken, After all shifting votes to one of the 2 parties just won't be noticed, …again…
Perhaps veterans too.
Before the election, more journalists need to report on the following as it might make a big difference among the entire political spectrum. Because if true, we need to know.
Embassy Killings in Libya, the Stench of CIA/Mossad "False Flag" (Updated)
Real Intelligence Reports at Total Odds with Reported News
by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
Recent reports tying Coptic Christians to the "film" which was never the issue in the Middle East upheaval is an attempt by the same forces responsible for the Alexandria church bombings to bring about civil war between Christians and Muslims in Egypt.
First of all as to the "film" or whatever. As news managed to get past the "controllers," it became obvious that the "Israeli" director never existed and the film had been financed by a group out of Las Vegas in the casino business tied directly to the Romney campaign.
This we know. You will see no reporting of this although the security around those funding the film and the quick "pounce" Romney made on Obama are enough to spark curiosity, if such a thing existed.
Actual intelligence sources in Libya have told us the following:
"The killings of the diplomats were done under the cover of the riots which had been orchestrated in advance over a series of days.
Four color printed placards were ready to distribute prior to the Jones "stream-cast" and groups had been warned in advance to prepare for a "serious foreign threat."
The actual killings are said to have been done by a team of newly trained Special Forces from the United Arab Emirates working directly in conjunction with the Mossad.
Crowds were being managed by French DGSE agents, seen by the dozen, and British security service personnel were present but their role was not clear.
What is clear is that this was a carefully planned operation, orchestrating civil protests in order to facilitate the killing of American diplomats."
The reasons for the entire operation are several. Two in particular are mentioned by analysts who actually observed some of the advance planning in both Egypt and Libya.
There are more than two, however.
Netanyahu wished to embarrass President Obama after receiving a "slight" over his upcoming visit to the US. Though Obama phoned Netanyahu, there will be no White House visit.
Netanyahu and his US affiliates carefully orchestrated these terror acts with supporters of the Romney camp including the "donors" responsible for the production of the original film.
CIA cooperation in an attack on American diplomats was arranged through Bush era intermediaries who manage contractor firms that are now tasked with all CIA "black ops"
Netanyahu is very upset at the US for scaling back joint military operations and actually citing Israel, during secret briefings, as a potential threat to US forces.
Netanyahu has been further emotionally destabilized by nearly violent confrontations with US Chief of Staff Martin Dempsey and US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro, a close friend of President Obama's.
As more information comes available and we are able to provide additional verifications, all printed above carries "double" verification already, we will keep our readers informed.
Mitt Romney's Secret Weapon: Clear Channel Radio
In 2008, Bain Capital acquired Clear Channel Radio and 850 radio stations for $24 billion, and records show 14 of the company's directors have contributed more than $700,000 to Romney's campaigns. Romney left the firm in 1999, but still rakes in millions from his sizable share of Bain investments and pays 15 percent tax.
Romney's Bain Capital controls the board of directors of Clear Channel. These are people who started giving to Romney in 1994. This is a social and economic network that is deeply involved in Clear Channel and tightly controlled. These are Romney's friends and allies going back to the very beginning of his political career. And now they control Clear Channel Radio, America's largest and most powerful FM and AM radio station corporation. It operates 850 radio stations and reaches 110 million Americans.
Clear Channel syndicates most conservative talk radio shows including Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Michael Savage. And what about all that "free" advertising that Romney gets every day on hundreds of radio stations across the country on these talk shows? What better way to control the message of conservative talk radio than to BUY it? Rush Limbaugh was given a $400 million contract in 2008 when Bain Capital purchased Clear Channel. He broadcasts on over 600 radio stations. Sean Hannity is heard on over 500 stations by 13.5 million listeners. Hannity also received a new and lucrative contract when Bain purchased Clear Channel in 2008.
It's quite a propaganda budget…but if Mitt Romney wins the White House it's worth it, right?
Read more at http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/10/links-halloween-3.html#W5wxOhX2UITpW0hZ.99
Where is our country's reporters on this. We need them to be accurate, not to choose sides.
Press TV: US military planned mutiny on the Bounty to topple Obama
October 31st, 2012
Admiral Gaouette was part of a group of military officers who have been under suspicion for planning a "Seven Days in May" type overthrow of the US government if President Obama is re-elected.
"His [Romney's] real intent is to occupy Iraq and attack Iran. In the process, America intends on "neutralizing" the nuclear capability of Pakistan. This is the plan, it is known, not just in the Department of Defense, but by all intelligence agencies, the plotters have all been recognized, are all under surveillance and they have not been very careful."
The Obama administration has had American military, both on domestic and foreign bases on high alert since October 1. However, there has been no known terrorist enemy threatening the US. The enemy is called "domestic" but its origins are far from American.
Today, Rear Admiral Charles M. Gaouette was "fired" from his command of one of the three carrier battle groups back to Bremerton, Washington to face an investigation.
It is impossible to adequately state how unusual this is and how serious.
The Navy was clear that the charges had nothing to do with his personal conduct, no rape or sexual misconduct, no stolen money, no drug use, the things that usually bring down careers in the Navy, that and crashing ships into each other.
Gaouette was sent back because the Secretary of Defense found him unfit for command, sent him across the world in the middle of one of the largest combat exercises in history, one both timed prior to an election and one at a critical location, near the Straits of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
Gaouette commanded nearly one third of the Naval and air combat forces in the region.
The decision was made based on a conversation with the Secretary of Defense who, at the end of the talk, believed Gaouette was part of a group of military officers who have been under suspicion for planning a "Seven Days in May" type overthrow of the US government if President Obama is re-elected.
This is not conjecture, dozens of key officers face firing, hundreds are under investigation, all with direct ties to extremist elements in the Republican Party and the Israeli lobby.
Reports received are sourced at the highest levels of the Pentagon and indicate that the administration has been aware of these plans for months. It is not just the Obama administration. This happened before.
Read more at http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/10/links-halloween-3.html#tZgjuaRgK44hxbqL.99
The first link is very colorful – I will say that Romney's "47%" video did include interesting comments about Karl Rove-types working both for Romney's campaign and Bibi Netanhayu's campaign in Israel, also about fear and hate.
The Benghazi cover-up narrative is a staple on Hannity and talk radio, in the far right wacko-sphere, so somebody is very invested in the story making a difference. They won't let it die, even after front page debunking last week on NYT, WaPo and even by Dr. Rice.
We also remember how quick Romney was to lay blame and politicize the event as it was unfolding, so we know he was geared up for Benghazi-gate. Did billionaire donors bankroll the attack? That's a bit fringy, but the ties to the anti-Mohammed video producer are much more plausible.
The implication that Romney surrogates were in on a plan though is serious – to imply that they would set up an ambassador to be killed as a false flag op is not something we should do lightly, even if it seems perfectly timed to help Romney stage a miracle come-back.
Libya has been a mess since the US bombed it in 1986. Obama's bombing of government armaments in 2011, however was hailed as a success because it was brief and accomplished many objectives.
But for any intentionally-blind tea party person to say Benghazi-gate is worse than the Iraq war fiasco is surreal.
Republican policies sent thousands to their deaths on the false claim Saddam had a WMD program and meant to attack us. Trillions spent on debt, handed to our kids. Some of these same Bush era advisors are already part of Romney's team, ready to use force to advance an agenda that is going to be more "strong" than Obama's.
The Clearchannel/Bain story is way under-appreciated. Go forth and share it. Going now to NakedCapitalism…
Pardon the same comment at two different posts on your site. It seemed to be the thing to do.
"We can no longer accept the government under these circumstances, the money in politics, the rule by special interest, the war for profit and the imposed third world slavery that the American people are expecting their grandchildren to face.
Obama doesn't get off the hook. He is now free to do all those thing he promised."
– Gordon Duff, Senior Editor Veterans Today
The runway has been cleared for Obama to keep his promises. We need to keep up the pressure to make sure he does.
Meanwhile, the voters won.
I thank everyone at Mark Crispin Miller's heroic site and all the heroic election integrity people and the heroic Veterans Today whose insider contributors provided background information so important to the public.
Post election Update:
Romney, Landslide Loser Refuses Timely Concession
GOP Retains Control in the House, Dems Sweep Senate
…by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
America does some really dumb things but running an organized crime boss for president, and a bumbling wimp of one at that, this had gone too far.
What we can tell you is that the senior active and retired intelligence and top law enforcement and DOJ professionals, the drug enforcement officers, they are the ones that beat Romney, not the Obama campaign.
They wouldn't allow Romney to turn America into something even worse than the seemingly hopeless mess we have now and moved.
Probably the worst scam in the entire election was the accusations made by a few stooges, some former military, sold out to organized crime, that accused the president of murdering an ambassador in order to try to lose the election.
Add to that a phony corporate media who never attempted to dig out who paid for ex-CIA Rev. Terry Jones' all day Muslim rant webcast that cost millions of dollars.
This was a smoking gun that the whole thing was the expected October surprise, and took us only a day to find out who all was involved. Data mining is a wonderful thing.
These stories need to be kept and whenever one of these phony military fatass types tries to cash in, they need to be shut down. Veterans Today's archives are backed up on proxy servers off shore and can never be 'disappeared', hacked or firebombed.
Then we have Hannity, Dick Morris, George Will, Newt, and, don't forget poor Sheldon "Kiss of Death" Adelson who thought he bought five states for Romney and got none.
Then we can see how well the Israel lobby did, New York is solidly Obama and, as of this writing, Florida is in play, a state that was supposed to be solid Romney territory with his Cuban connections.
Oops, we forget. Romney got burned for his Castro meetings.
The other upside is that the Israel lobby is now where it belongs, toothless, its massive influx of illegal cash into race after race and voters in almost ever case went the other way.
Cuba, the recent revelations, burned Romney more than we suspected. We ran the story, pushed to do so at the last minute but didn't think it would get solid distribution.
We were wrong. We simply published, others put it in the hands of key political figures and squashed Romney's backing in several key political and ethnic groups.
Our intel friends were busy in more areas also.
They leaked Romney's ties to blood diamonds, money laundering, his ties to Castro and the cartels in Mexico and Columbia.
They even leaked his mistress, a Russian/Cuban spy name Maria Perez Andropov.
A few days before the election, what may actually be the best we have, a flawed lot I admit, but including key members of our military, moved on Romney and Netanyahu and, and, and…
We can no longer accept the government under these circumstances, the money in politics, the rule by special interest, the war for profit and the imposed third world slavery that the American people are expecting their grandchildren to face.
Obama doesn't get off the hook. He is now free to do all those thing he promised.
The fun followup will be the wild conspiracy mongering that has already begun on Fox News, claiming ACORN and the Black Panthers rigged the election.
It is a reasonable estimate, not without some backing, that 5 million votes were flipped to Romney through software hacking, ballot box stuffing and simply destroying ballots.
He still lost big.
…here…despite the fact we are the largest active veterans group and, by miles the most politically effective, we continue to be minimized.
Veterans don't need cigarettes, booze and bingo. Americans don't need a police state. If government doesn't want to hear the unpleasant truth, it can change or we will find a way of removing it. We didn't take down the criminal cabal around Romney and his Bush associates by ourselves but we were a third of that effort, done without one cent of fund raising.
We had Americans with us. Again, my thanks to all that stood with us at VT, numbers I would never have imagined. I am humbled. Please post all election conspiracy theories in the comment section.
Just wanted to let everyone know that if anything happens to me…I have been visited by Mormons, and so the people who back them.
Read more at http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/11/obama-wins-the-system-is-broken.html#VoZ630hfyhMRLObt.99
Bravo for all your efforts to preserve freedom in America. YOU ARE THE TRUE WARRIORS! Thankyou, everyone who did their part and prevented Romney and the corporate oligarchs from stealing our election this time. Blessings!
Just a correction about above comment with link that says, "Read more at Naked Capitalism." I posted there first, copied to post here and did not proof read to alter NC's automatically inserted link on copied text to read "Also posted at Naked Capitalism" so as not to indicate that there was more to read elsewhere.
That automatic link idea may create a feedback loop that creates more of a hub of aligned sites and people. Something to think about.
And, I am still here as you all are also. And, feeling fantastic. Though as Mark Crispin Miller's current posts suggest, we have a lot more to do…together.
Bev…we have to keep our ground game going at full speed for the midterm elections and get people to the polls. The republicans only win when there is a low turnout, and we can't let that happen ever again.
And Wow. Full Circle(s).
Karl Rove Loses Election After Being Checkmated By Cyber Sleuths?
Crossposted from Occupy For Accountability ( http://occupyforaccountability.org/index.php?q=node/1075 )
Last month, we offered a million dollar reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone who rigged a federal election on November 6th. We urged computer experts to contact us with information about any election manipulation of the tabulation results.
We Received A Letter ( http://www.velvetrevolution.us/images/Anon_Rove_Letter.pdf )
On November 12th, we received a letter from "The Protectors," apparently a group of white hat cyber sleuths, mentioning our reward and stating that two months ago, they began monitoring the "digital traffic of one Karl Rove, a disrespecter of the Rule of Law, knowing that he claimed to be Kingmaker while grifting vast wealth from barons who gladly handed him gold to anoint another King while looking the other way."
"The Protectors" said that they had identified the digital structure of Rove's operation and of ORCA, a Republican get out the vote software application. After finding open "doors" in the systems, they created a "password protected firewall" called "The Great Oz," and installed it on servers that Rove planned to use on election night to re-route and change election results "from three states."
The letter indicated that "ORCA Killer" was launched at 10am EST and "The Great Oz" at 8pm EST on November 6th. "The Protectors" watched as ORCA crashed and failed throughout Election Day. They watched as Rove's computer techs tried 105 times to penetrate "The Great Oz" using different means and passwords.
Finally, they issued the following warning to Mr. Rove: don't do it again or they would turn over the evidence to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
We are not in a position to vouch for the contents of this letter any more than we can vouch for the video by Anonymous warning Karl Rove not to rig the election. However, we can analyze that content under the prism of Mr. Rove's history and facts over the past few weeks. We do so in the hope that this will lead to an investigation of Mr. Rove's entire operation ala General David Petraeus. In that spirit, we provided this information to the FBI prior to publication, and followed up after publication. For years, we have campaigned for a complete investigation of Mr. Rove, and we have provided extensive legal memos and evidence to the FBI to support such an investigation. (See e.g., http://protectourelections.org/index.php?q=docs)
We urge others who have information to about election tampering or other criminal violations by Mr. Rove, including violations of campaign finance laws, to provide that evidence to the FBI. We also urge people who gave money to Mr. Rove and his organizations to contact the FBI if they were misled, promised things that did not happen, or were otherwise defrauded.
On election night, Mr. Rove worked the three states that held the key to the election – Ohio, Florida and Virginia. But when he tried to access the Ohio election website, he kept getting error messages.
Finally, immediately after Ohio was called for President Obama around 11:30 EST, Mr. Rove appeared on FOX News to dispute the call, saying the election there is far from settled and the call was "premature."
Lessons Learned And Our Position
At VR, we have spent the past decade exposing flaws in the election process, especially the use of electronic voting, secret software and cyber attacks on tabulation systems. Princeton computer scientists, Argonne Laboratories experts, GOP insiders and even the CIA have shown that electronic election manipulation is both possible and occurring.
Based on our experience and the supporting evidence, we take the letter from "The Protectors" at face value. Karl Rove had the means, motive, experience and opportunity to do whatever it took to win the election for his clients. If he, in fact, intended to use improper and illegal means to digitally manipulate the election, and white hat cyber sleuths who stopped it discovered that, then that is a good thing. We hope that those cyber sleuths will provide that evidence to the FBI, post it publicly or send it to us to do so.
One thing that is not clear from the letter is the relationship between the cyber manipulation and Project Orca. Were they both part of Karl Rove's scheme? Were they using the overlapping servers or databases? Did "The Great Oz" automatically cause problems for Project Orca? Did Mr. Rove plan to use the data from "Project Orca" to help the cyber manipulation scheme succeed? We would like to know the answers to these questions so we can more fully understand the legal and moral implications of "Orca Killer."
As far as lessons learned, we are hopeful that those who have been skeptical and opposed to greater security in elections will now get on board in a bipartisan manner to, as President Obama said, "fix" the broken election system. We are hopeful that billionaires, SuperPacs and politicians will see, as governments in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere have seen, that a few dedicated cyber sleuths can protect democracy from corrupt power brokers by thwarting electoral crimes. We are hopeful that everyone will see Karl Rove for what he is – a scammer who can't win without cheating and manipulating election results.
Mark Crispin Miller's coverage of Cliff Arnebeck's legal explanation of election night should be in the Related Posts area at top or here.
What REALLY happened in Ohio on Election Night
Cliff Arnebeck and Bob Fitrakis are the two Ohio attorneys who deposed Mike Connell, and who have otherwise been working to expose Karl Rove's election thievery since 2004.
From Cliff:
Some hackers/spooks hacked Romney's computers, which crippled his election day get out the vote activity. However I fail to see how this relates to Rove's meltdown on Fox News that night.
A successful hack of the Romney campaign computers would have affected all of the operation, would have been illegal, and would have been known to Rove early on election day. So, it does not explain Rove's dramatic disconnect over Fox's calling Ohio for Obama at the 11 PM (EST) news hour.
The hack we discovered was limited to Ohio. Its use was coming from Bob Urosevich the same guy who personally delivered a malicious patch in Georgia 2002 which flipped the votes and outcome in their governor and US Senate races. Our exposure of the problem in court through one of the top cyber security experts in the world (so certified by NSA) occurred at about 3:15 PM on election day.
Urosevich would have been informed that the fix had been exposed and that an Ohio judge with jurisdiction had expressed willingness to adopt the corrective action recommended by our expert. He and the one operative who would have been positioned pull the trigger, instead nixed the operation. Neither of them would have been so foolish as to contact Rove to inform him that the Ohio fix was off. Rove's communications were surely being monitored by law enforcement authorities.
Thus, Rove's mistaken rant over Ohio being prematurely called for Obama.
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Taco of the Week: Tacos de Birria, Coatzingo Restaurant, Queens
Searching for great tacos around the five boroughs with Sara Markel-Gonzalez.
Searching for a kind of taco that I have not yet covered in my weekly taco posts, when I saw tacos de birria de res on the menu at Coatzingo on 82nd Street in Elmhurst, Queens, I knew it would be my next stop. Birria is slow-braised meat, and res is beef, specifying the type of meat, which could be goat, mutton, or whatever protein is handy.
The birria taco at Coatzingo was full of fall-apart-tender chunks of the beef, and was topped with onions and cilantro; I added salsa roja—thin and very spicy, but lacking any other flavor. That said, the meat was flavorful enough, tasting of chiles and cinnamon, to compensate for the salsa.
Since it's impossible to order just one type of taco, I also tried a chorizo taco, a taco de suadero, and a vegetarian taco, since I had such a great experience with veggie tacos last week.
The chorizo taco was interesting, since I was expecting the greasy, red, crumbled type of chorizo, and it turned out to be thin slices of sausage—the chorizo variety that is closer to a hot dog. Sweet and salty but with no spice, it had a nice bite, and of course, less fat. The green salsa had much more flavor than the red.
Next to the chorizo was the suadero, which, when I ordered, was told it was going to be bistec, and it was—chewy pieces of grilled beef, with a slight charred flavor. Not a bad taco, but between the two beef tacos, the birria was far superior.
The vegetarian taco was actually quite good—filled with Mexican rice, chopped tomatoes and onions, slices of white cheese, and guacamole, it was all too easy to keep eating. Maybe because the rice was so good, with lots of soft peas and carrots; maybe it was the generous spoonful of guacamole, which I can never have too much of. Either way, it was a nice meatless option.
This is not the Taqueria Coatzingo on Roosevelt Avenue and 76th Street; they do not serve tacos de birria. That is in Jackson Heights; this one is on Elmhurst, and they aren't under the same ownership.
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Just two days separated a letter from Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone magazine and a report from the president of the Dallas Federal Reserve, each remarkably calling for the end of "too big to fail" banks.
Taibbi wrote his letter to Occupy Wall Street (OWS) supporters on March 27, giving a short talk to them about the worst of the banks—the Bank of America—and then handing out copies of it to the demonstrators. In typically lurid prose, Taibbi said that Bank of America
has systematically defrauded almost everyone with whom it has a significant business relationship, cheating investors, insurers, homeowners, shareholders, depositors, and the state. It is a giant, raging hurricane of theft and fraud, spinning its way through America and leaving a massive trail of wiped-out retirees and foreclosed-upon families in its wake….
But Bank of America hasn't gone out of business, for the simple reason that our government has decided to make it the poster child for the "Too Big To Fail" concept. Because it is considered a "systemically important institution" whose collapse would have a major, Lehman-Brothers-style impact on the economy, two consecutive presidential administrations have taken extraordinary measures to keep Bank of America in business, despite a staggering recent legacy of corruption schemes.
In addition, Taibbi wrote,
This bank is like the world's worst teenager, taking your car and running over kittens and fire hydrants on the way to Vegas for the weekend, maxing out your credit cards in the three days you spend at your aunt's funeral.
He concluded that the only way to solve the Bank of America "too big to fail" problem is to let it be subject to free-market forces: "It would be a great sign of America's return to healthier capitalism if we could allow one of the worst of public-private monsters, Bank of America, to sink or swim on its own, in the free market."
Scarcely two days later Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve of Dallas, introduced a massive study of "too big to fail," completed by Harvey Rosenblum, head of the bank's research department. Fisher wrote:
If you are running one of the "too big to fail" banks [i.e., Bank of America, and others], I doubt you are going to like what you read in this annual report….
[These banks] were a primary culprit in magnifying the financial crisis, and their presence continues to play an important role in prolonging our economic malaise….
In my view, downsizing [these] behemoths over time into institutions that can be prudently managed…is the appropriate policy response. Only then can the process of "creative destruction" [of the free market]…work its wonders in the financial sector just as it does elsewhere in our economy.
The "too big to fail" concept allows the federal government, in coordination with the New York Federal Reserve, to decide which banks to rescue with taxpayer bailouts, based upon their "systemic" importance. Like mountain climbers secured by a lifeline, if one climber falls, the others go with him unless the lifeline holds. But this analogy relies on a third party determining which climber to save—such as Bank of America—and which to let fall to his death—like Lehman Brothers. And that decision has become so politicized through graft, insider dealing, and cronyism that it is made not in the interest of serving the public and letting the free market sort out winners and losers, but by "who knows whom." As Sheldon Richman, editor of The Freeman magazine, pointed out:
Like his predecessors, Obama has been a good friend to big companies, especially banks. Take Bank of America. Bank of America is what you'd expect of a financial institution coddled by government subsidies and privilege: inefficient, corrupt…and a frequent corporate-welfare recipient.
Solutions to problems like "too big to fail" and its worst example, Bank of America, however, are largely missing. Taibbi wants the free market to operate and clean out the mess at Bank of America:
In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market—the executives would loot their own firms once [and] then they'd be looking for jobs [elsewhere].
But Taibbi's plan for how to get there from here is missing. Author Rosenblum is also out of answers:
Concentration in the financial sector is anything but natural. Banks have grown larger in recent years because of artificial advantages, particularly the widespread belief that government will rescue the creditors of the biggest financial institutions. Human weakness will cause occasional market disruptions. Big banks backed by government turn these manageable episodes into catastrophes.
What about Dodd-Frank, the bill explicitly sold as the remedy for "too big to fail?" Says Rosenblum,
The new law leaves the big banks largely intact. ["Too big to fail"] institutions remain a potential danger to the financial system. We can't be sure that some future government won't choose the expediency of bailouts over the risk of severe recession or worse. The only viable solution to ["too big to fail"] lies in reducing concentration in the banking system, thus increasing competition and transparency.
Despite the noise from Taibbi and the sonorous lamentations from Rosenblum, the movement actually to change and improve the system and remove the risks of banks such as Bank of America appears to be stillborn. Only a major outside crisis that overwhelms the banking system altogether—sufficient to sever even the Fed's promised lifeline of support—is likely to bring any positive change.


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IE ripe for attack, despite Microsoft claims
Year of living dangerously
Posted in The Channel, 1st February 2007 04:24 GMT
Windows Vista may be "dramatically more secure" than Windows XP but Internet Explorer is destined to remain Windows' Achilles' heel.
Attacks on browsers will continue their inexorable ascent during the next 12 months, despite changes designed to lock out hackers and thwart remote attacks.
A new security report from IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) blames the increase on the "exploit as a service industry" where material is being increasingly sold using a traditional channel model. Also, half of websites that carry material designed to infect browsers are capable of camouflaging their attack.
The most popular exploit last year was the MS04-013 critical vulnerability that hit versions of Windows dating back to Windows NT and was disclosed in 2004. It is unclear if MS-ITS can still be found in Windows Vista.
ISS's report makes even more troubling reading because Microsoft has given Windows Vista a clean bill of health and it has also taken responsibility for ensuring security with an architecture that shuts out experienced security partners.
That's going to be a problem as ISS notes that even tried and tested security specialists have faced increased difficulty detecting and solving malicious code. Malware has became harder to spot as viruses, rootkits and spyware increasingly blur the lines by borrowing each other's characteristics.
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Aus 59 Designs von 16 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
I, Michael Perkola, am the Marketing Manager at The Ingenium Group. I'm an American with 3 years of professional design experience. However, my skills are rusty and your web design skills are likely to be far superior to mine. I need your help to improve Ingenium's out-of-date website.
Ingenium Group is a recruitment company with offices in Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. We work to bring executives and senior managers to foreign and multi-national companies in Asia Pacific.
We wish to raise the quality of site to the standard set by our competitors. Please refer to the following sites to gain a general impression of that standard:
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The current website http://www.ingeniumgroup.com/ needs to be updated with your winning design.
Executives and Human Resources Managers at multi-national companies. Their age will be 35-50. On average, their nationality is Japanese, though they will be bilingual in English and have experience working abroad.
The audience is highly educated and have graduated from the world's top business schools. They are business-savy and read publications such as the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and The Financial Times.
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It's been around two years that I've been reading comics (regularly), thanks to the New 52 and Brandon at Wizard's comics. There's been some ups, downs, and complete blindsides. But, one thing has really stood out to me – how does DC keep making such awful decisions?
I don't want to make this post into a big 'bash DC' thing that people that are way more in tune with things are able to do in a much more intelligent way than I feel I can, but as a consumer, its becoming increasingly difficult to justify continuing to support the things DC does that I DO like a lot because of what has been happening to the other stuff that I like. It's putting me in a position that I just don't know what to do – do I continue to buy the stories that I like and supporting the titles I think have really interesting characters, or do I just walk away on principle?
I don't know what the answer is. I guess I'll have to talk with my trusted comic advice folk on that.
Changing gears a little – Marvel, on the other hand, has been engaging me big time lately and seem to be doing lots of things 'right' in the eyes of this consumer.
Last night, I read the first three issues of the current X-Men event, Battle of the Atom. HOLY HELL. It's so good. The event isn't like the events I've read from Batman (Night of the Owls) where the other titles have tie-ins and aren't really necessary to read. Each book is engaging the main story. Each book is necessary reading. Each book doesn't seem 'shoehorned' in so that they can throw a special event banner on the cover. When I heard about the event, I was a little weary, given that I didn't really know if I was buying into something worth my time (and money). In short – it has been so far.
(Edit: A reader asked what X-titles I was reading to get a sense of how much knowledge I have of what is going on with the mutants. I'm only reading X-men. Battle of the Atom #1 does an excellent job of summarizing the major plot points you need to know to get into this event.)
Feeling my way through the masses of books that are available (and of interest to me) has been a really eye-opening experience. I'm glad that I've picked up this hobby and I expect that I will keep buying comics for years to come.


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That's because Aaron won second place in a clue-collecting contest based on the popular book series 39 Clues, which follows a pair of siblings around the world in search of clues left behind by their recently-deceased grandmother.
When he heard the news initially, Fernando didn't believe he was one of 66 winners that beat out over 560,000 other participants who registered to find clues via the books, trading cards, and interactive online games.
"I was like, 'Mom are you serious? Are you kidding?' I thought she was kidding around!" said Aaron, who has collected 10 of the 39 clues that will ultimately be revealed by the end of the series.
He is contemplating uses for his prize money of $750, a hefty sum for an eight-year old, but he has generously set aside $50 for a charity of his own accord.
Aaron's mom, Meena Narraph, approves of the book series because she believes it instills a sense of cultural awareness in children. She has even started reading the books.
"Lately, everything has been 39 Clues that he's learned all this information from, and I think it's great for the kids, especially the history part of it, that they go into different countries and they're learning about different places," said Narraph.
Aaron admitted he was only mildly interested in history before, but ever since he picked up 39 Clues, he can't get enough of learning about the past. His parents even took him to the Smithsonian Museum so he could see in person the Hope Diamond he had read so much about.
He acknowledged that it was wonderful being rewarded for doing something he loves, but he said he would continue reading the books even if there were no incentives other than sheer enjoyment.
"I love it. It's like the best book series in the world," said Aaron. "I can't wait to see what happens next!"


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There's a kind of rose I've got used to calling a primrose, and which some of you lot swear are not, so I figured that since all you had to go by was the buds, I'd best post some blooms. Then you can duke it out amongst each other, and I'll know whether I'm on a primrose path or not.
For bonus points, advise the clueless amongst us how to tell the difference between primroses and just roses.
This one was taken on May 31st, 2012 along the trail between the North Creek Ballfields and the wetlands. Banks of them, there, filling the air with a fine, heady scent.
A white version, shot on June 24th up where the North Creek greenbelt mostly ends.
A new outburst of rosy beauty, photographed near the complex on September 19th.
So there's those. They smell like roses, but I always associate actual roses with the cultivars such as these beauties:
(Did those make your eyes pop? They make mine pop. I can't remember the variety, but I like to think of these as flamenco dancers. They've just got that Spanish flair to them somehow.)
Anyway, sure I've gone wrong somewhere. You can set me straight, and then we can all know whether we're stopping to smell primroses or just roses or something else that is not a roses except by common name.


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We oppose Islam, not Muslims. We are against hate, not faith
Garudaman wrote:QS. 42:39. And those who, when tyranny strikes them, they defend themselves,
QS. 42:40. And the retribution for an evil act is an evil one like it, but whoever pardons and makes reconciliation - his reward is [due] from Allah. Indeed, He does not like wrongdoers.
QS. 42:41. And whoever avenges himself after having been wronged - those have not upon them any cause [for blame].
QS. 42:42. The cause is only against the ones who wrong the people and tyrannize upon the earth without right. Those will have a painful punishment.
QS. 42:43. And whoever is patient and forgives - indeed, that is of the matters [requiring] determination.
sum wrote:Please tell me what right have Muhammad and other muslims to impose Islamic laws on other innocent people living as they choose by their own laws in their own lands.
....if you disagree over anything, refer it to Allah and the Messenger...
Garudaman wrote:who says Muhammad the Messenger of God do that?
manfred wrote:Gandhi was a clever and principled man, but he either was either mistaken about the nature of Islam or he tried to use Muslims for his political aims
manfred wrote:He was also a very clever politician who know that he could not achieve his aims without at least some support of the Indian Muslims. So he did what needed to be done in his view
On 30 January 1948, a few months after India gained its independence from Great Britain, he awakened at Birla House in Delhi at an early hour, 3:00 a.m., to continue his work hammering out solutions to the problems that plagued his land. That morning, he labored on a draft of a new constitution for the Indian National Congress, stressing as usual his major concerns for his newly independent and strife-ridden nation: that villages be empowered, that discrimination based on the caste system be abolished, that religious intolerance and violence between Hindus and Muslims cease. Still distraught over the partitioning of his land into a Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan, he had weakened himself after independence through fasts and hunger strikes staged as satyagraha, .or "truth and firmness," protests against the killings of Hindus and Muslims and the mistreatment of Pakistan. He weighed a mere 107 pounds that day
Balls-of-Titanium wrote:Yes, because I remember the echoes coming out of and againGujarat of pain and agony, of women getting ganged raped in front of their families, of men sliced into pieces by rampaging mobs, of the leader of the riot movement getting re-elected again
The Pakistani Army in Bangladesh committed horrendous atrocities of rape and torture particularly on Hindu women and perpetrated a genocide of millions of Hindus in 1971.They pierced the women with swords in their private parts.
manfred wrote:Before I forget, mono, you seem to frequently suggest that all things pagan are bad and must be avoided at all costs.
All pagans since time immemorial breathed air. So when are you ceasing this filthy pagan habit?
manfred wrote:Before Christianity, abortion was also commonplace, and the only know method of birth control, other than, of course, killing the baby. Afterwards, it was obviously still practiced, but less openly.
Rainbow it is obvious Gandhi was using another's phraseology. However the Hindu concept of yugadharma was surely a powerful influence.
Garudaman wrote:4:36. Worship Allah and associate nothing with Him, and to parents do good, and to relatives, orphans, the needy, the near neighbor, the neighbor farther away, the companion at your side, the traveler, and those whom your right hands possess. Indeed, Allah does not like those who are self-deluding and boastful.
for theists, humanism usually is command of God! how about atheists? what's the point/purpose of humanism, for atheists?
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I find that Midwest submissions tend to get easily missed on SummitPost. Truthfully, climbs our region have a hard time stacking up with more vertically favored regions to the east and west. Therefore you won't likely find any of our peaks making Photo of the Week. Nonetheless, Midwesterners have carved themselves a nice little niche here on SP and I thought it would be helpful to create a central point where we can share the hidden gems located across our region...
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Who's the mole? 'Tinker Tailor' complex, atmospheric
Yes, we imagine, international espionage is probably pretty much like this. No thrilling car chases and no big action sections, but rather a series of weary men, smoking and drinking tea or whisky, in a series of conversations that circle an enigma. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is about the search for a high-level Soviet spy within MI6, the British intelligence service. This mole is not to be found in an exotic location, but seems more than likely to be one of the men in the room.
The movie is based on John le Carre's 1974 novel, which redefined modern spy fiction and inspired an ambitious 1979 BBC adaptation. There was reason to believe le Carre knew his subject. In the real world, where his real name is David Cornwell, he was one of the British spies who were betrayed by Kim Philby, the notorious MI6 operative who was a double agent for the Soviets. In the fictional version, MI6 is headed by Control (John Hurt), who studies a series of intelligence leaks and becomes convinced there's a mole in the agency; the nature of the intelligence suggests it must come from high up, and Control narrows his list of suspects to five men close to him. Full review.Read more on: movie review


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"Visions without the empty tomb do not account for a resurrection belief; Tom Wright has hammered this point home repeatedly."
The reason Wright has to keep repeating this is because it is a faulty argument refuted by the reality of believer behavior. Elvis is dead and buried, but fans still see him. Rossen himself acknowledges the way belief denies reality in his remarks on Carrier's piece:
Repetition is one way that bad arguments like Wright's seem acceptable.
Carrier goes on to make interesting analogies to the rumor of theft reported in Mt 28:15, suggesting that Matthew blames the rumor on conspiracy ("the Jews' desire to conceal the truth") in the same way that the Heaven's Gate cult claimed the proof against their imminent spacecraft to be the conspiratal work of an earth traitor. And just as Matthew accuses Jews of paying off guards, the survivors of Jonestown accused the government of fabricating evidence and paying off forensic doctors to fabricate evidence which made them look bad. This is perhaps more plausible than many of the pious would today be comfortable acknowledging.
Meanwhile, inspired by the Empty Tomb, Lee Edgar Tyler writes on Price:
I recently re-read Price's article "
It is, I must say, a pretty sorry excuse for argumentation. And I am predisposed toward his conclusions, at least most of them. When a person purporting to support objective scholarship indulges in such polemics, he does more harm than good to all sides of the debate. I could go on, but I think the essay (which begins with a comparison of the Christ of evangelical Christians to the comic book character Superboy) speaks for itself. Or not.
This is, I must say, a pretty sorry excuse for argumentation. When a person purporting to support objective scholarship indulges in such polemics, he does more harm than good. I think Tyler's rhetorical polemics here speaks for themselves: Price is less interested in the comparison of Superboy to Jesus than in comparing the efforts of Superboy to vindicate his own legend to the efforts of modern apologists to save the Jesus of myth:
In any case, it's a sad rhetorical trick to invite others to agree that someone must be a bad arguer by appealing to their sense of indignation that someone would dare to compare Superboy to their particular Sacred Character from the Past.
I remember a particular Superboy comic book in which the Boy of Steel somehow discovers that in the future, he is thought to be as mythical as Peter Pan and Santa Claus. Indignant at this turn of events, he flies at faster than light speed and enters the future to set the record straight. He does a few super-deeds and vindicates himself, then comes home. So Superboy winds up having the last laugh --or does he?
Of course, it is only fiction! The people in the future were quite right! Superboy is just as mythical as Santa Claus and Peter Pan.
This seems to me a close parallel to the efforts of Christian apologists to vindicate as sober history the story of a supernatural savior who was born of a virgin, healed the sick, raised the dead, changed water into wine, walked on water, rose from the grave and ascended bodily into the sky.I used to think, when I myself was a Christian apologist, a defender of the evangelical faith, that I had done a pretty respectable job of vindicating that story as history. I brought to bear a variety of arguments I now recognize to be fallacious, such as the supposed closeness of the gospels to the events they record, their ostensibly use of eyewitness testimony, etc. Now, in retrospect, I judge that my efforts were about as effective in the end as Superboy's! When all is said and done, he remains a fiction.[emphasis mine]


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>>> Doctor who gave Rick Perry experimental stem cell treatment says governor declared "I don't mind being the first"
>>> Perry's back surgery included experimental stem cell therapy
Over the last two months, Rick Perry, a state representative with multiple sclerosis and the spine surgeon who performed the governor's July 1 adult stem cell infusion have been laying the foundation for the commercialization of the controversial procedure in Texas.
In the month before Dr. Stanley Jones injected Perry with his own lab-grown stem cells during a spinal fusion — designed to speed recovery of the possible presidential hopeful's back injury — lawmakers passed a health care bill that quietly authorized creation of a state adult stem cell bank. That amendment was added, with input from the governor's office, by Rep. Rick Hardcastle, R-Vernon, who has MS and says he is about to start receiving stem cell infusions from Jones as part of a new human trial.
And in the weeks since Perry's stem cell infusion, the Texas Medical Board has held a stakeholder meeting — largely at the governor's and Jones' direction — to discuss how to regulate the procedure in Texas. It's pretty clear where Perry stands: Two days before last week's Medical Board meeting, Perry sent a letter to the board chair espousing the economic and life-altering potential of adult stem cells and asking members to recognize "the sound science and good work that is already being done" as they consider new regulations.
Injecting patients with their own stem cells is a hotly debated practice: While some physicians swear by the procedure's restorative properties, others argue it has little clinical evidence of success. The procedure has sparked a national debate over where doctors' medical autonomy ends and FDA regulation begins.
Central to the debate in Texas is Jones, a Houston orthopedic surgeon and personal friend of both Perry's and Hardcastle's who believes he was cured of debilitating arthritis by having an infusion of his own stem cells in Japan. Jones is working, along with a Korean company best known for cloning dogs and marketing "stem cell cosmetics," to launch the adult stem cell business in Texas.
A first step could be a stem cell bank. The amendment Hardcastle stuck onto an omnibus health care bill during June's special session authorizes the state's health and human services commissioner to establish an "autologous" adult stem cell bank — meaning a place for patients to store their own stem cells for future use.
Hardcastle said the governor's office didn't ask him to carry it — as the only member of the Legislature with MS, he said, it's been on his mind for "a long time" — but one of the governor's staffers did advise him on it. Somewhat involved, Hardcastle said, was Jones, who has already removed some of Hardcastle's stem cells to prepare them for re-injection.
A spokeswoman with the Health and Human Services Commission said the agency is in the very early stages of considering whether to create the stem cell bank. A few weeks ago, the agency received a letter from Houston Reps. Beverly Woolley, a Republican, and Senfronia Thompson, a Democrat, expressing their "serious concern" with the measure, for fear it might hinder the work of public and private scientists.
Meanwhile, Texas Medical Board spokeswoman Leigh Hopper said the regulatory agency held a stem cell stakeholder meeting last week — "at the governor's behest, via Dr. Jones" — to start dialogue about adult stem cell treatments in Texas. The question? If Americans are — like Jones — increasingly flying all over the world to get promising stem cell treatments, shouldn't Texas be a scientific and economic center for it?
Perry wrote as much in a letter he sent to Texas Medical Board president Irvin Zeitler Jr., two days before the stakeholder meeting, and three weeks after his own infusion.
"It is my hope that Texas will become the world's leader in the research and use of adult stem cells," he wrote.
This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune at http://www.texastribune.org/texas-people/rick-perry/perry-allies-lay-groundwork-tx-stem-cell-industry/.


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This discovery will allow scientists for the first time to reach static pressure levels exceeding four million atmospheres, a high-pressure environment where new unique compounds could be formed, materials change their chemical and physical properties and metals become insulators. An international team of scientists using a new high-pressure anvil design and technique in conjunction with high-energy X-rays was able to create 640 gigapascals, or GPas, of pressure. This is 50 percent more pressure than previously demonstrated and 150 percent more pressure than accessible by typical high-pressure experiments.
Pressures at this level have vast ramifications for earth science, cosmology, chemistry, shock physics and material science. Static pressure of 640 GPa is six million times the pressure of the air at the Earth's surface and more than one and a half times the pressure at the center of the Earth. Research at these pressures could lead to new revelations about how the Earth evolved and how iron, the most abundant material inside the Earth's core, functions at extremes.
This new super-high-pressure capability was developed by scientists from the University of Bayreuth in Germany, the University of Chicago and the University of Antwerp in Belgium. The physical properties of tiny materials (less than one micron thick) were investigated in situ at ultra-high pressures with high-resolution micro X-ray diffraction techniques at the GeoSoilEnviro Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources, or GSECARS, a beamline operated by the University of Chicago at the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. Details appear today in the article "Implementation of micro-ball nanodiamond anvils for high-pressure studies above 6Mbar" in the journal Nature Communications.
"The ability to do static experiments at this pressure range has only been theorized about," said Vitali Prakapenka, an author on the paper and scientist at the Center for Advanced Radiation Sources at the University of Chicago. "We aren't stopping here. We expect to increase the accessible pressure range close to one terapascal, or 10 megabars, to probe materials at conditions corresponding to the core of gas giant planets, such as Uranus and Neptune, which have pressures of about seven megabars."
Previous studies have been limited because the only way to reach such high pressures was to use dynamic compression (shockwaves), which also generate high temperatures and only nanoseconds of observation time. The discovery of a way to apply static pressures allows experimental studies of physical and chemical properties of materials in situ at high pressures with a number of various techniques to test long-held theories, including metallization of hydrogen.
"This new technique could revolutionize the study of high-pressure science," said Leonid Dubrovinsky, one of the paper's authors and a scientist at the University of Bayreuth.
Since the late 1950s, scientists have been using diamond anvil cells to generate extreme pressures to test the durability of materials, to create new properties of materials, such as superconductivity, and to replicate high-pressure conditions of planetary interiors. Yet, until now, scientists have struggled to reach pressures of the Earth's inner core, which is 320 to 360 GPa. Only a handful of experiments have been reported at these pressures, and the maximum achieved pressure had been about 420 GPa.
Scientists were able to triple the normal experiment pressure level by adding a second set of micro-anvils (10-20 microns in diameter) between two gem-quality single-crystal diamond anvils of about one-quarter of a carat each. This secondary anvil is made of superhard nanocrystalline diamond semi-balls fabricated from glassy carbon using newly developed technique in a large volume press at high pressure and temperature.
"The nanocrystalline diamond balls have very high yield strength and are less compressible and less brittle than single-crystal diamonds," said Natalia Dubrovinskaia, one of the paper's authors and a scientist at the University of Bayreuth. "That allows us to drastically extend the achievable pressure range using micro-balls as second stage anvils."
The GSECARS beamline is available for use through the general user proposal process at the APS.
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Argonne National Laboratory seeks solutions to pressing national problems in science and technology. The nation's first national laboratory, Argonne conducts leading-edge basic and applied scientific research in virtually every scientific discipline. Argonne researchers work closely with researchers from hundreds of companies, universities, and federal, state and municipal agencies to help them solve their specific problems, advance America's scientific leadership and prepare the nation for a better future. With employees from more than 60 nations, Argonne is managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science.


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Evolution of Submarines
In 1776, the small human-powered "Turtle," built by David Buschnell, was used by the Colonial Army in an attempt to sink the HMS Eagle. Although unsuccessful, this marked the first use of submarines for combat.
Human-powered submarines continued to be used, but the need for a more powerful propulsion plant was apparent. Coal burning (steam) and gasoline engines worked, but it was not until the introduction of the diesel-electric power plant in the later part of the 19th century that submarines became viable undersea vessels.
Diesel electric drive permitted submarines to make long-range voyages, demonstrated by the German "U-Boats" in World War I (1914-1918). Endurance in undersea vessels increased to over 6,000 miles. As their range increased, so did the size of the submarines.
Thirty years later, during World War II, submarines were still slow and their submersion time was limited. Great improvements in sensors, including RADAR and SONAR, increased the submarine's usefulness.
The greatest advance in submarine technology occurred on January 21, 1954, with the launch of the USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered vessel. Nuclear power enabled submersible vessels to become "true submarines," operating underwater for indefinite periods of time.
Just as the USS Nautilis was nearing completion, a parallel revolution in submarine design was advancing. In an effort to reduce underwater resistance, a "Tear Drop" shaped hull was introduced. This new design allowed greater underwater speed and maneuverability.
Today's submarines are a culmination of more than 200 years of advancing science and technology. Nuclear power, hull design, air generation and electrical sensors have created the "true submersible," a vessel that can stay underwater indefinitely. What will be the next major scientific breakthrough in submarines? The answer is unknown. One thing is certain though, the evolution of submarines is far from over.
Click these links to find out more about submarines:
The Historic Naval Ships Association (HNSA)
Official U.S. Navy Submarine Page


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WASHINGTON, July 26 (UPI) -- Judges appointed to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court are largely conservatives with experience in the executive branch, an analysis has found.
Critics say that background makes them more likely to defer to government requests for domestic spying, The New York Times reported Thursday.
Republican presidents appointed to the bench 10 of the 11 judges assigned to the secret courts by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., the Times found in an analysis of judges selected for the court since it was created in 1978.
Six of the 11 once worked for the federal government.
Previous chief justices Warren Burger and William Rehnquist, both conservatives, also named judges to the intelligence court, but their selections were more ideologically diverse, the analysis revealed. Under those justices, 66 percent of the selections were Republican appointees, while only 39 percent had prior jobs in the executive branch.
Timothy Edgar, who has advised both the Bush and Obama administrations on civil liberties related to intelligence issues, said, "If the court is seen as skewed or biased, politically or ideologically, it will lose credibility."
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., says the study shows "people with responsibility for national security ought to be very concerned about the impression and appearance, if not the reality, of bias -- for favoring the executive branch in its applications for warrants and other actions."
Blumenthal has proposed the chief judges from each of the 12 major appeals courts pick a district judge for the surveillance court. The chief justice would continue to name an appellate panel, but six other Supreme Court justices would have to sign off on the selections.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., has introduced a bill that would give the president the power to name the surveillance court judges, with the approval of the Senate.


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Forum Post: Will the United States exist for a thousand years?
Posted 6 years ago on July 18, 2013, 3:56 p.m. EST by JackHall
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Formerly - Will the United States still be here in a thousand years? Part III
The Obama administration allowed millions of dollars in federal stimulus funds to go to foreign companies, despite recent statements by President Barack Obama that he opposes "shipping jobs overseas."
Obama's 2009 economic stimulus spending law--the $787 billion American Recovery and Reivnestment Act--gave millions of federal dollars to foreign companies or funded domestic companies that built factories in foreign countries or bought foreign products. For example, there is the North Carolina LED manufacturer Cree Inc. Cree was awarded $39 million through a stimulus-funded tax credit program in January 2010. However, half of the company's employees are in China and the company opened a manufacturing plant in Huizhou City, China in November 2009.
Cree CEO Chuck Swodoba said he did not consider Cree Inc. to be run like a completely American company. "Cree management never runs this company as a US company. We consider Cree to be a global company with local wisdoms." Swodoba also said he would continue expanding into China, adding that Cree would keep creating jobs there because it could take advantage of both China's human resources and its "state-of-the-art technology." "We will continue to invest here [China] for both human talent and the most state-of-the-art technologies,"
Taking advantage of both China's human resources and its "state-of-the-art technology?" The computer, transistor, telephone, television, Internet, are American inventions, invented in the United States.
Another example of stimulus outsourcing is Japanese wind energy firm Eurus Energy, whose U.S. subsidiary, Eurus Energy America, received $91 million in stimulus funds to build a wind farm in Texas, according to a 2010 report from American University. That wind farm reportedly was built with wind turbines manufactured by another Japanese company – Mitsubishi. "Eurus Energy America, the U.S. subsidiary of a Japanese firm, received $91 million in stimulus money for its Bull Creek wind farm in Texas. The farm consists of 180 Mitsubishi turbines," the American University report said. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, files) Eurus told American University that the wind farm was actually built by British firm RES Americas and is now being run by EnXco, an American subsidiary of the French energy firm EDF Energies Nouvelles.
Perhaps the best-known example of Obama administration funding of foreign companies is its $500-million loan guarantee to Finnish automaker Fisker Automotive. That loan, part of the Energy Department's electric vehicle lending program, was made to help Fisker establish a U.S. manufacturing presence.
However, the company never established an American factory, choosing instead to shutter its U.S. operations and continue building cars in Finland.
Obama Outsourcing
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-administration-outsourced-jobs-stimulus-funding [right click]
If anyone thought the Democratic Party would follow in the foot-steps of Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression, they were misled. The sluggish economy in the United States can be attributed not only to Wall Street, and the 1% elite private investments overseas, but also economic betrayal by our own government, led by President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party.
In the summer of 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor of New York, was nominated as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party. In his acceptance speech, Roosevelt addressed the problems of the depression by telling the American people that, "I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people." In the election that took place in the fall of 1932, Roosevelt won by a landslide.
The New Deal Roosevelt had promised the American people began to take shape immediately after his inauguration in March 1933. Based on the assumption that the power of the federal government was needed to get the country out of the depression, the first days of Roosevelt's administration saw the passage of banking reform laws, emergency relief programs, work relief programs, and agricultural programs. Later, a second New Deal was to evolve; it included union protection programs, the Social Security Act, and programs to aid tenant farmers and migrant workers. Many of the New Deal acts or agencies came to be known by their acronyms. For example, the Works Progress Administration was known as the WPA, while the Civilian Conservation Corps was known as the CCC. Many people remarked that the New Deal programs reminded them of alphabet soup.
By 1939, the New Deal had run its course. In the short term, New Deal programs helped improve the lives of people suffering from the events of the depression. In the long run, New Deal programs set a precedent for the federal government to play a key role in the economic and social affairs of the nation.
Roosevelt New Deal
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/depwwii/newdeal/ [right click]
The New Deal has had its detractors throughout the following 7 decades.
Who Repealed Glass-Steagall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0k2PmF-o5Q [right click]
How could New York elect Franklin Roosevelt to the Governor's office in 1928 and then elect George Pataki nearly 70 years later? Pataki served three consecutive four-year terms from January 1, 1995, until December 31, 2006.
The middleclass has witnessed the New Deal being dismantled for the "good of the country" by Republicans and Democrats from Reagan through Obama. Yet how would the population of the United States be faring without social security, food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid, FDIC, and unemployment benefits?
"Today we see how utterly mistaken was the Milton Friedman notion that a market system can regulate itself. We see how silly the Ronald Reagan slogan was that government is the problem, not the solution . . . I wish Friedman were still alive so he could witness how his extremism led to the defeat of his own ideas."
— Economist Paul Samuelson (January 2009)
How the Government Caused the Great Recession
http://www.american.com/archive/2010/december/how-government-failure-caused-the-great-recession [right click]
The Great Recession (also referred to as the Lesser Depression, the Long Recession, or the global recession of 2009) is a marked global economic decline that began in December 2007 and took a particularly sharp downward turn in September 2008. The initial phase of the ongoing crisis, which manifested as a liquidity crisis, can be dated from August 7, 2007, when BNP Paribas, citing a "complete evaporation of liquidity," terminated withdrawals from three hedge funds. The bursting of the U.S. housing bubble, which peaked in 2006, caused the values of securities tied to U.S. real estate pricing to plummet, damaging financial institutions globally.
The global recession has affected the entire world economy, with greater detriment to some countries than others. It is a major global recession characterized by various systemic imbalances and was sparked by the outbreak of the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis and financial crisis of 2007–08. The economic side effects of the European sovereign debt crisis, austerity, high levels of household debt, trade imbalances, high unemployment and limited prospects for global growth in 2013 and 2014 continue to provide obstacles to full recovery from the Great Recession.
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Visualizing disease incidence in the context of socioeconomic factors
Disease incidence is usually connected to biological factors such as genetics, eating habits, exercise and so on. But are there are other socioeconomic factors that influence disease incidence as well? This TED talk from Bill Davenhall inspired us to explore socioeconomic factors that may influence disease incidence.
To explore the connections of socioeconomic factors such as education levels, regional population, income level of the area where you live and the air pollution in terms of toxic levels, we developed a visualization tool called DiseaseTrends. DiseaseTrends allows the exploration of possible correlations between those socioeconomic factors with diabetes prevalence and cancer incidence rates across counties throughout the United States. A user can interactively explore these factors at a county, regional (user defined cluster of counties), state or national level.
When a user explicitly selects a county, we display 5 similar counties based on their socioeconomic factors. The motivation behind this feature is to allow users to identify similar counties that may have varying disease incidence rates, which may in turn lead to further exploration.
As mentioned above, a user can specify regions manually that cross state boundaries. A user defined circular cluster can be specified using Ctrl on PC, Cmd on Mac – then click and drag. Here the user has specified four regions. The maximum prevalence (in red) and the minimum (in green) across the selected region is highlighted in the panels below.
We use bullet graphs (pdf link) as introduced by Stephen Few to display the quartile distribution of a factor as well as the corresponding state and national average (faint and dark vertical bars).
Through this tool, we can easily see the now popular diabetes belt, as shown here
High incidence rates in Native Indian reservations such as Navajo County, Sioux County, Rolette County and Big Horn County too can be seen.
We would like to mention that DiseaseTrends does not imply any causation and can merely hint at possible associations. It is completely up to a researcher in the field of public policy / public health to further investigate the findings.
More details about DiseaseTrends can be found in our paper.