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Trudeau makes his debut as Tory attack ads take aim – Politics – CBC News
Posted by Harry Sifton, Tuesday, April 16, 2013Justin Trudeau sweeps Liberal leadership with 80% support – Politics – CBC News
Posted by Harry Sifton, Sunday, April 14, 2013Hillary Speaks! (The Onion)
"How bad do I want it? Do I want it bad enough to waste years of my life—years I’ll never get back—meticulously crafting my public and private image to somehow appear relatable to a populace with 57 percent voter turnout? Do I want it bad enough to spend sleepless night after sleepless night dumbing down my deeply held political convictions into a pile of generic rhetorical slop that even the most dimwitted American can barely comprehend?"Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, April 12, 2013
Our Broken Voting System: Five Outrageous Facts | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, April 11, 2013Harper’s: How to Rig an Election – The G.O.P. aims to paint the country red
this report from Victoria Collier in Harper's came out last Oct and is now available online - it's an important piece + one of the best summaries of voting irregularities I've read so far .. Meanwhile I'm still waiting to see if there's any more tidbits of info about Anonymous' juicy claim to have blocked Rove from hacking/stealing the last election - Thanks Anonymous!Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, March 15, 2013
Robert Parry: Rethinking Watergate/Iran-Contra
Parry in Consortium News ..newly disclosed documents have put old evidence into a sharply different light and suggest that history has substantially miswritten the two scandals by failing to understand that they actually were sequels to earlier scandals that were far worse .. In the case of Watergate [] the evidence is now clear that Nixon created the Watergate burglars out of his panic that the Democrats might possess a file on his sabotage of Vietnam peace talks in 1968 .. At the start of the Iran-Contra investigation, Attorney General Edwin Meese had set the time parameters from 1984 to 1986, thus keeping outside of the frame the possibility of a much more serious scandal originating during Campaign 1980, i.e., whether Reagan’s campaign undermined President Jimmy Carter’s negotiations to free 52 American hostages in Iran and then paid off the Iranians by allowing Israel to ship weapons to Iran for the Iran-Iraq War.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, March 11, 2013
How Swing-State Republicans Are Already Trying to Rig the Next Presidential Election | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, March 1, 2013Ecuador Chooses Stimulus over Austerity
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, February 18, 2013Presidential voting: Moving the goalposts | The Economist
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, February 8, 2013Colin Powell Explains Voter Suppression to O’Reilly
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, February 5, 2013Obama’s shameless finance reform flip-flopping – Salon.com
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, February 3, 2013Political Disaster — Members of Congress Expected to Spend 5 Hours a Day Begging for Money
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, January 12, 2013Have You Ever Wondered What Compells Your Conservative Relatives to Vote the Way They Do?
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, January 5, 2013What Happened to Public Education on Election Night?
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, December 5, 2012How gerrymandering helped GOP keep control of House
Timothy McNulty at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ..since the GOP not only flipped the House in 2010 but totally controlled 21 state governments, including Pennsylvania's, it allowed the party to master post-census congressional redistricting around the country. On Nov. 6, Democrats won the [House] popular vote by 500,000 votes nationally but took just 201 of the 435 U.S. House seats. In Pennsylvania, Republicans took hold of 13 of 18 congressional seats while being outpaced by 75,000 total votes. Mr. Obama won 53 percent of the state's vote, but Democratic candidates won 28 percent of the seatsstill think we live in a democracy?? - mab .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, December 1, 2012
Thom Hartmann: Why it’s not crazy to think Anonymous stopped Karl Rove From Stealing the Election
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, November 30, 2012
Cliff Arnebeck: What REALLY happened in Ohio on Election Night
Arnebeck via Mark Crispin Miller ..Some hackers/spooks [i.e. Anony/mous] hacked Romney’s computers .. 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 [] 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 Obamahaha! interesting theory .. more on this here (Thom Hartmann), here (Salon) and here .. we'll wait and see where this one goes or doesn't go - mab .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, November 26, 2012
State Initiatives to Revoke Corporate Personhood and Overturn Buckley v. Valeo Win Big
from Reclaim Democracy ..One state went red and the other blue in the presidential election, but citizens of Montana and Colorado agreed by vast margins that we need to amend the U.S. Constitution to revoke the overwhelming power of money over elections. In Montana, early returns showed a whopping 75 percent of voters supporting Initiative 166, which directs Montana’s congressional delegation to help pass an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would revoke corporate personhood .. In Colorado, Amendment 65 had won overwhelmingly with 73 percent of votes as of this writing. The measure instructs Colorado’s congressional delegates and state legislature to support an Amendment that allows Congress and the states to limit campaign contributions and spending .. In addition to calling for an Amendment to revoke corporate personhood, Montana’s I-166 adds “the people of Montana regard money as property, not speech.”.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Sunday, November 11, 2012
Glenn Greenwald: Obama and progressives – what will liberals do with their big election victory?
Glenzilla ..With [the election] results, one can choose to see things two ways: (1) emboldened by their success and the obvious movement of the electorate in their direction, liberals will resolve that this time things will be different, that their willingness to be Good Partisan Soldiers depends upon their core values not being ignored and stomped on, or (2) inebriated with love and gratitude for Obama for having vanquished the evil Republican villains, they will follow their beloved superhero wherever he goes with even more loyalty than before [i.e. cuts to social security and medicare and war with Iran]. One does not need to be Nate Silver to be able to use the available historical data to see which of those two courses is the far more likely one.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, November 9, 2012
Will Obama Encourage a Purge at the DCCC in a Push to Take Back the House in 2014?
Edward Teller in Firedoglake ..As [DCCC critic Howie] Klein notes, “When will the corrupt Inside-the-Beltway Democratic Establishment learn that actual Democratic voters don’t want Blue Dogs and that Republicans have their own reactionaries so they don’t need them?” To take back the House in 2014, the Democrats need to do the opposite of what Obama functionaries like Rahm Emanuel [and Blue Dog DCCC head Steve Israel] did to progressive activists and candidates between 2008 and 2012. By the beginning of December we will see if the White House will move leftward in the upcoming term. If they do move left, and want to regain the U.S. House, pushing for a full purge of the DCCC might be a helluva a place to startnot holding my breath - mab .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, November 8, 2012
Barack Obama’s re-election: A country divided | The Economist
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, November 7, 2012Election 2012: Liberal Schadenfreude Hits Impossible Heights
via Talking Points Memo ..President Obama winning would have satisfied most Democrats, winning decisively in the Electoral College was a bonus. And it only got better for progressives from there as an array of victories, big and small, tangible and symbolic, trickled down in elections and ballot measures around the country. From a stunning Senate wave to new ballot measures on drugs and gay marriage to meltdowns among their favorite nemeses, Democrats had plenty to rub in conservative’s faces (and they did, often, on Twitter). Here’s a quick rundown of a few of the more savory wins for the left.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Evidence of Fraud in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election: A Reader | Global Research
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, November 6, 2012Is the GOP stealing Ohio? Uncertified, “experimental” software patches have been installed on machines in 39 counties of the key swing state
here we go again - Brad Friedman in Salon ..Last week, Bob Fitrakis and Gerry Bello at FreePress.org reported an important story concerning what they described as “uncertified ‘experimental’ software patches” being installed at the last minute on electronic vote tabulation systems in 39 Ohio counties [etc etc .. Republican officals declined to comment .. etc etc .. little coverage of this in corporate media .. etc etc]so today Fitrakis is suing in Ohio state court - we've definitely seen this movie before, and it didn't end well - mab .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Tuesday, November 6, 2012
