time warped president

* "President Bush has ordered plans for temporarily disabling the U.S. network of global positioning satellites during a national crisis to prevent terrorists from using the navigational technology, the White House said Wednesday... The president also instructed the Defense Department to develop plans to disable, in certain areas, an enemy's access to the U.S. navigational satellites and to similar systems operated by others. The European Union is developing a $4.8 billion program, called Galileo." galileo is toast. and that network that shanes mate silvio (adacel) is/was helping build... http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_gps_121604,00.html?ESRC=eb.nl

* "Across the US electors in at least five states, for the first time in history, turned the heavily scripted and ritualized electoral college proceedings into a forum for political action. Frustrated by the relative inattention to wide spread real voting violations now numbering in the tens of thousands, Electors called for congressional investigation and legislative action.

Vermont electors, on the record and in front of TV cameras and a number of statewide media outlets, expressed their concerns for our democracy with "57,000 complaints already received by the Congressional Judiciary Committee, we call on Congress and especially our Vermont Congressional delegation to investigate." They enumerated credible violations affecting hundreds of thousands of voters across the US, Elector Jeffrey Taylor reports.

Opening the traditional statement of thanks for being introduced at the beginning of the Massachusetts Electoral College 2004 session, Elector Cathleen Ashton of Wayland, took the opportunity to demand "Every vote be counted and every vote count."

As described in local news reports, for the first time in history, Electors in Maine also went on the record using the voting process to "call for national voting reforms." Their statement pointed to the kind of electoral reforms Maine has that lead to more genuine elections, such as same day registration, allowing ex-felons to vote, and clean election reforms "but our four electoral votes are held meaningless if our sister states cannot hold elections that are fair, accurate and verifiable," Elector Lu Bauer said after the brief ceremony at the State House.

Most extraordinarily, one elector in California cast his ballot provisional upon Òall votes being counted Ð provisional, absentee, under- and overvotes, computerized without paper ballots, even getting valid votes from those turned away illegally, intimidated, discouraged by incredibly long waits, etc.Ó This incredible act as a creative attempt to get this message read on the floor of Congress when they open the ballots on January 6 to consider whether to certify the vote."
wow - that CA thing is pretty cool. and pretty quiet. http://nov3.us/

* a new votemachine has just been authorised - carlucci is involved. sweet. for some reason the pressrelease doesnt mention carlisle... http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041216/cgth012_1.html

* heres an hourlong cspan vid of rogerailes (head of faux) if u r interested "But you know, we spend less than they do because they have CNNi, which is CNN International, or as we call it, the anti-American channel... Well, the best way to get distribution around the world is to be the BBC or Al Jazeera or CNNi, basically do -- if you watch it day in and day out, you can't find a whole lot good about America. Now, they have no obligation to do good stories about America, but they do have an obligation to have balance and context. And Al Jazeera simply doesn't. BBC doesn't. And CNNi is less offensive, but they don't do it much, either. And I think that context is critically important to the news." http://www.q-and-a.org/Program/?ProgramID=1001

* btw theres a big socsec discussion going on. i wont be joining in on discussing the detail - unless u 4 are interested.

* speaking of socsec and ailes - faux are getting into radio 'properly' and also financial news. everyone who watches faux will be broke. perfect

* btw - theres another rogerailes who writes a blog which is pretty good. speaking of blogs http://www.jameswolcott.com/ is also pretty good - he is the editor of vanity fair.

* btw - ive been a lazy ass. forever, ive been meaning to start organising the jumble of stuff i send - but im usually already voraciously into the next articles that ive got backed up to read. but ill try to spend an extra minute or so putting each snippet into categories - the whole mutual exclusivity thing might be a problem - but categories will prolly be something like war/politics/corruption/election. or somesuch. an alternative is that i actually separate each category into different emails, notated in the subjectline, if that would help. starting with the next email. another alternative is that the pendulum has swung way too far since the last time i asked for input, and people want more luke editorial/rantalot, rather than just using quotes to point to articles. another alternative is that i could provide summaries of stuff, say each of the above mentioned categories, say once a week or so - ie i could post everything to the blog instead of sending the emails, and then try to make sense of it every sunday or some such. or i could just post everything to the blog and stop sending emails and u could go there whenever. or not go there.
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