Guest blogged by Winter Patriot
The Brad Show goes LIVE! again this week after last week’s unfortunate interruption. This week’s guests include:
* Raw Story’s John Byrne and Larisa Alexandrovna
* Carol Towarnicky of the Philadelphia News
* Nationally Syndicated Columnist Robert Kohler
* Attorney Ted Kalo, who represents the House Democrats and John Conyers
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John Byrne is Editor and Publisher of The Raw Story. His biography is here.
John will be speaking about his most recent investigative piece, Bush Florida 2000 recount committee still owes lobbyist’s former firm $314k,
which was covered in this recent Brad Blog article: BREAKING!!! DELAY FUNDRAISING SCANDAL EXPANDS INTO WHITE HOUSE!!! BIG TIME!!!
THEN:
Attorney Ted Kalo represents the House Democrats and Representative John Conyers.
As loyal Brad Blog readers know, Representative Conyers has been working for Democracy and Accountability, for a long time, sometimes seemingly alone. His name has appeared in several recent Brad Blog articles, including Conyers Pressures White House Over Secret British Memo!! and CONYERS UNLEASHED! DECRIES ELECTION REFORM HEARINGS AS ‘OUTRAGEOUS’, ‘RACIALLY-CHARGED’!
Other recent Brad Blog articles featuring the work of this fine American Patriot include:
John Conyers Meets With Executive Director of Election Reform Comm, Contacts BRAD BLOG!
Conyers to Carter: James Baker ‘Inappropriate’ for Blue-Ribbon Election Commission!
Maxine Waters Joins Conyers! Asks Colleagues to Sign Letter to Voting Machine Companies!
Conyers’ Gannon Resolution: ‘When will we say enough is enough?’
John Conyers Endorses VR’s ‘Divestiture for Democracy’ Campaign!
Dodd and Conyers Introduce Comprehensive Election Reform Legislation
John Conyers – The BRAD BLOG’s 2004 Man of the Year!
Conyers to Object to Electoral College Results!
See also: this article from TruthOut concerning the report “Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio”. You can download the full report (a 102-page PDF file) here.
See also: John Conyers’ blog
LATER:
Deputy Managing Editor Larisa Alexandrovna of The Raw Story will join Brad to speak about the so-called “Real ID Act”. Larisa’s biography is here.
Her recent articles concerning this extremely dangerous legislation include REAL ID ACT CANNOT PASS: URGENT and Immigration bill sparks furor among some House Republicans, gun owners, and civil libertarians; Quietly breaking ranks.
THEN:
Carol Towarnicky was [to the best of our knowledge] the first mainstream reporter to publish a revealing story on the White House comings and goings of Jeff Gannon a.k.a. James Guckert, the infamous gay male prostitute and online pimp who posed as a reporter and apparently gained unfettered access to the White House. See this Brad Blog post for more details: WHITE HOUSE REPORTER WHO DOUBLED AS A GAY HOOKER FINALLY MAKES THE PAPERS! The Raw Story recently broke the story of Gannon’s/Guckert’s White House / Secret Service logs see this item: Gannon-Guckert/Secret Service Docs Reveal Odd White House Comings and Goings… for links and details.
AND, IN THE FINAL HOUR:
Bob Koehler, syndicated columnist, attended the Nash-ional Conference on Election Reform, then started writing about the issues. To his surprise, he found it difficult to get his columns published! His story and his work have been featured in these recent Brad Blog articles:
‘Editor & Publisher’ Picks up on Spiked Koehler Column Story!
Tribune Syndicate Spikes Robert Koehler’s Latest Column!
Chicago Tribune: Nixon ‘Moral Example’ on Election Issues!
Democracy in the Balance: The Silent Scream of the Mainstream Media
Here are a few great columns by Bob Koehler:
Maybe we can’t have election reform without media reform
Citizens in the rain
If they can disable an election, what’s coming next?
Democracy’s Abu Ghraib
The 2004 election was stolen — will someone please tell the media?
The silent scream of numbers
Did the U.S. military deliberately target journalists in Baghdad?
Killing the witnesses
Your [t]rusty correspondent, the lowly and nearly frozen Winter Patriot, featured one of Bob’s other columns in the recent piece “Read ‘Em And Weep”.
Please visit Bob Koehler’s excellent website, BOB KOEHLER’S COMMON WONDERS.
AND FINALLY! It’s been a great show, not without technical problems, but these are to be expected while broadcasting from the road, in a studio where the engineer is a Bush supporter! Just kidding, Ken! Thanks to Ken for looking after the clips and the mix and so on…
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VERSION 1.2, PROPOSED: Citizen State of Elections Hearing in Houston
The 2nd Carter-Baker Faux Election Reform Hearing is scheduled for June 30th in Houston Texas at Rice University.
Is this something we can and should use to bring the Movement out of the closet? Here’s a proposal to do just that:
1. A Citizens Commission Election Justice Summit & 2-day Hearing on the State of our Elections at the University of Houston on June 28-29th followed by a mass demonstration the next day when the Carter-Baker Selection Reform Commission meets at Rice University?
2. Start with a series of virtual on-line working committees to prepare hearing reports covering:
Election fraud investigative findings
Election litigation report
Election suppression report
Electronic voting report
Election exit polls analysis
Election reform report
Restore Democracy activism report
3. Follow up with a June 30th action rallying at Rice University to attempt delivery of the Election Justice Hearing Report to the Carter-Baker hearing.
PRE-HEARING WORKING COMMITTEES SCHEDULE:
Saturday, May 21st – Sunday, June 26th:
Investigative, litigation, election reform, election education, media, and activism committees meet virtually on-line to draft reports for the hearing. Committees
Monday, June 27th, 9:00AM to 5:00PM:
Committee participants meet in Houston to put finishing touches to their hearing reports and testimony.
PROPOSED HEARING AGENDA:
Day 1 – Tuesday, June 28th:
Morning session, 9:00AM – 11:30AM – 2004 election investigation: What went wrong in 2004?
2004 election failures, voter suppression, electronic voting irregularities
Afternoon session, 1:00PM – 4:00PM – Election investigative reports:
Digital voting & vote processing, exit poll analysis
Keynote Address & Q&A, 4:00PM – 5:30PM
Hearing Press Conference, 5:30PM – 6:00PM
Evening, 6:00PM – 11:00PM: Barbecue & musical entertainment
Day 2 – Wednesday, June 29th:
Morning Session, 9:00AM – 11:30AM: Solutions to broken elections
Reports on proposed and pending litigation, election reform legislation, and voter rights
Afternoon session, 1:00PM – 4:00PM: Election Justice Activism
Reports on being the media, how to spread the word, building the movement
Keynote address #2 & Q&A, 4:00PM – 5:30PM
Hearing Press Conference, 5:30PM – 6:00PM
Hearing reception, dinner & musical entertainment, 6:00PM – 11:00PM
JUNE 30th ACTION:
10:00AM – 2:00PM Rally at Rice University to attempt delivery of Election Justice Hearing Report to the Carter Baker Commission Hearing.
3:00PM – 6:00PM: Election Justice Planning Session: Where do we go from here?
POTENTIAL NOTABLE ATTENDEES:
To invite to testify or receive testimony:
POLITICS:
Barbara Boxer
Hillary Clinton
David Cobb
John Conyers
Jesse Jackson
Sheila Jackson-Lee
John Kerry
Cynthia McKinney
Shirley Tubbs-Jones
Maxine Waters
Others?
MEDIA:
Pokey Anderson
Bob Fitrakis
Brad Friedman
Amy Goodman
Jim Hightower
Seymour Hirsch
Bob Koehler
Mike Malloy
Michael Moore
Keith Olberman
Greg Palast
Jon Stewart
Others?
MOVEMENT:
Cliff Arnebeck
Dr. Lora Chamberlain
Clinton Curtis
Cathy Dobb
Lowell Finley
Ted Glick
Bev Harris
Chuck Herrin
Theresa Hommel
Phyllis Huster
Vicki Karp
Lynn Landes
Vicki Lovegren
David Lytel
Josh Mitteldorf
Gregory Moore
Rev. Bill Moss
Richard Hayes Phillips
Larry Quick
Jonathan Simon
Andy Stephenson
Warren Stewart
Susan Truitt
Bernard Windham
and many more… (sorry, I’m at work so am recalling names from memory and I know I’ve left a LOT of important people out!)
Personal invitations issued to Carter-Baker commission members and staff to attend our hearings and hear the testimony.
LOGISTICS
Press Liaison
Communications Committee
University of Houston, Rice University and City of Houston Liaison
Entertainment (Food & Fun) Committee
Working Committees Logistics Committee
Hearing Logistics Committee
Housing & Transportation Logistics Committee
Presenters & Participants Selection & Invitation Committee
RESOURCES
Houston has the following very active organizations which are potential sources for volunteer staffing: DFA, PDA, Green Party, Kucinich group, Jim Hightower meetup group.
FUNDING
With over 100 activist organizations, if each contributes $50, we can readily raise $5,000 which I think I can match, giving us $10,000 to make this happen.
QUESTIONS:
Is this something the Movement can come together and make happen?
Is the Carter-Baker Commission Hearing the right venue to leverage the movement around?
Is the timing right (is the Movement ready for this?)?
There is no doubt in my mind elected Democrats fear for their jobs. 2002 Georgia was the beta test for total election control via electronic election tampering and fraud. It was successful. It laid the groundwork for stealing the 2004 election by massively manipulating votes using DREs, OptiScans, and vote tabulators in the swing states and elsewhere to give George Bush a win not only of electoral votes, but also of the popular vote.
Tom Delay’s HAVA has set the groundwork for total control elections to be installed in all 50 states. Every state with a DRE or OptiScan voting machine will have secret electronic vote tabulating using hackable GEMS software developed by two Republican brothers. All state elections will be under the control of political Secretaries of State (Blackwell and Harris are our future!).
Democrats who think: "Wait til we control the tabulators!", or "If I can survive, maybe I can make a difference around the edges", need to wake up and smell the fraud! The RNC is in near total control of election results now and they will not relinquish that control EVER!
Be a RNC compliant Democrat elected official and you keep your job. Disagree, make a fuss, or be unlucky to have to compete with a RNC up & coming star and you lose.
This is not the RNC of my mother. The Republican party was stolen long before our elections were. Coming out of the 1964 Goldwater defeat, with 40 years of concerted, continued effort, the current RNC is a highly organized, largely secretive, hierarchical organization of over 300 interlocking entities, organized and managed by a small cabal of religious right extremists, neo-conservatives, and neo-nazis.
Meanwhile, We the People are powerless. We have lost the reigns of democracy and we have little recourse. Our press is blackmailed by the RNC with press access to the powerful hanging like Pericles’ Sword over news organizations and reporters. Thus, the press is complicit in its silence about our stolen elections and loss of democracy.
How will this change? What can we do? We struggle in the vacuum of press silence, staying isolated and disorganized. We don’t realize our fundamental political power, not understanding how to use that power or that we must use it if we are ever to overthrow the RNC and its death grip on our country.
The USSR survived 70 years until people recognized their fundamental power and used it to break the grip of communism. How long will we wait before we break the grip of the RNC’s USA-INC 4th Reich?
keep it coming, Kip
Kip, this is an amazing post! I’d like to take it over to CCN to share with my Clarkie friends if it’s okay with you.
Kip, #2 Great "CALL TO ACTION" which I hope will be seriously considered here [and acted upon]!
Suggestion: Invite AC4VR’s Mark F. (Thor) Hearne
to present his detailed "evidence" of "mass voter fraud"!
John Byrne is Editor and Publisher of The Raw Story. His biography is here.
John will be speaking about his most recent investigative piece, Bush Florida 2000 recount committee still owes lobbyist’s former firm $314k, which was covered in this recent Brad Blog article: BREAKING!!! DELAY FUNDRAISING SCANDAL EXPANDS INTO WHITE HOUSE!!! BIG TIME!!!
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Here’s Sheila Leavitt’s excellent work from a previous post with hyperlinks added! (It’s a bit of a work in progess, format/layout wise) There is a reference to Judith Alter’s Fact Sheet, which is not online as yet! If anyone is interested in polishing this further, I’m more than happy to email what I have to-date! I thought Sheila’s handywork should be immortalized with a permanent sidebar link!
What are your thoughts guys?
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REASONS FOR NOT GETTING OVER IT – TALKING POINTS.
Compiled by Sheila Leavitt
Black Box Voting http://www.blackboxvoting.org
is a leading nonpartisan, nonprofit, consumer protection organization for elections, funded by citizen donations.
Ohio’s Odd Numbers
an article by Christopher Hitchens published Feb. 20, 2005 in Vanity Fair: This is a well-written, mainstream press piece giving background on not only the obvious problems in Ohio (long lines in minority precincts, selective paucity of voting machines), but documenting VERY SUSPICIOUS tallies in certain predominantly black counties. Many believe, that these are not isolated “glitches,” but a peek at the visible results of largely hidden electronic fraud.
Analysis of the 2004 Presidential Election Exit Poll Discrepancies, released March 31, 2005 (updated April 11, 2005): a multi-author, peer-reviewed study of the Edison/Mitofsky Election System 2004 Report (released January 19, 2005). This study was backed by the Utah-based non-profit corporation, US Count Votes. Their concluding sentence reads: “The absence of any statistically-plausible explanation for the discrepancy between Edison/Mitofsky’s exit poll data and the official presidential vote tally is an unanswered question of vital national importance that demands a thorough and unblinking investigation.”
Congressman John Conyers wrote yesterday: “In my view, the trump card in this debate was recently handed down by US Count Votes in a new study that finds the chances of the official reported results of the 2004 election being accurate in light of this poll data is one million to one. One million to one. Case closed.” Rep. John Conyers, writing on his Blog, Tues. April 5, 2005. For the full text see: conyersblog.
A fact sheet prepared by Judith Alter, Ed.D, titled “Santa Fe County: 2004 Election and the Straight Party Option.” Dr. Alter’s data suggests that machine-tallied votes in this county may have been erroneous because machines were calibrated to tally straight party votes in a way that significantly benefited Mr. Bush. [Not yet available online].
A Fact Sheet presented by Bernard Windham, a member of Common Cause from Florida, who has undertaken a heroic analysis of the thousands of specific complaints made by voters from around the country to the EIRS election day Hotline. The Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS) is a web-based software application designed to help voter protection organizations identify and respond to situations preventing voters from voting or from having their votes recorded as intended. The site links to state by state complaints.
A troubling PRESS RELEASE from Mr. Brad Friedman of http://www.bradblog.com
titled: American Center for Voting Rights & the Baker/Carter Commission on Federal Election Reform: The Fix Is In. This report details the problems with a “voting rights” group, one of whose founding members, Mark F. (Thor) Hearne, II, was “the National Attorney for Bush/Cheney ’04 Inc. and leader of the recently invented, phony GOP front group calling themselves the "non-partisan" American Center for Voting Rights
(ACVR) has been seated on the Academic Advisory board for this commission!”.
A fact sheet “North Carolina’s ballot blues” from Joyce McCloy, coordinator of the N.C. Coalition for Verified Voting http://www.ncvoter.net, a non-partisan organization of citizens from across the state who are very concerned that North Carolina is moving forward in with the implementation of DRE’s (electronic voting machines) that are not secure, not reliable and not voter verifiable. They call for improved security and increased transparency in all election systems used in North Carolina.
A fact sheet from The Open Voting Consortium http://www.openvotingconsortium.org, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to developing open voting systems. The fact sheet is called “Transparent Liberty: Accountable Election Systems.” On their website you will find the an academic article titled A PC-Based Open-Source Voting Machine with an Accessible Voter-Verifiable Paper Ballot (with Arthur M. Keller, Alan Dechert & Karl Auerbach) a compilation of recommendations resulting from 4 years of work by this organization.
A document posted on the website of the non-partisan voters’ rights organization http://www.votersunite.org, titled “Restoring Confidence to Voters.” This is a report from the Independent Election Committee appointed by the Mercer County Board of Commissioners documenting voting problems from Nov. 2004 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
An “Official Ohio Recount Affidavit” from Dr. Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D., professor at the University of Oregon, in which he documents his own exhaustive research into election fraud in Ohio.
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Here are the websites of just a FEW of the many legitimate voting rights/election reform organizations providing a factual information resource.
http://www.blackboxvoting.org
http://www.counteveryvote2004.org
uscountvotes.org
http://www.votersunite.org
http://www.donotconcede.com
http://www.velvetrevolution.us
http://www.openvotingconsortium.org
http://www.caseohio.org
http://www.ballotintegrity.org
http://www.helpamericarecount.org
By the way, I disagree with Brad on one thing. I think this thread is just starting to get good and we should keep it running for the whole four hours. Anyone disagree? if so, tell me why and maybe you can change my mind.
Jen,
spread the word! I retain no copyright to my posts.
Picking up John Byrne LOUD AND CLEAR in Australia!
WP #9 —
I vote keep this thread going. What say everyone?
Kip #3 —
"How will this change? What can we do? We struggle in the vacuum of press silence, staying isolated and disorganized. We don’t realize our fundamental political power, not understanding how to use that power or that we must use it..[…]"
Dead nut statements Kip! We the peoples are the ONLY legitimate power in America. Only when we as individuals recognize and exert our powers will be begin to govern our country.
So what in the hell are we waiting for people? Get off your butt and perform YOUR PATRIOTIC DUTY NOW and EVERYDAY!
Get out there and make some noise!!!
Love that RAW RADIO sting!
Kip, thank you!
Winter Patriot, unless Brad had a specific reason for the thread NOT to keep going, why not? I guess if it get’s too long another thread could be started later, right?
The time they are a changin’!!!
USSR didn’t have the Internets! 🙂
USSR didn’t have Brad Friedman either 🙂
It’s Winter Patriots call…As many (or as few threads) as he wants!
Thanks guys! A bit of a comedy of errors tonight, eh? That’s what makes it RAW.
re #16. Thanks, Brad. ONE!
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Was that Laura B doing Stand-up!
Thanks very much to John Byrne of Raw Story, on behalf of all us 6 or 7 listeners … for hanging tough despite the delays and the Bush-supporting engineer Ken deliberately sabotaging everything, and for keeping us laughing and informed at the same time … in addition to all the usual reasons … best to you and Raw Story, John, and we hope to hear you on Raw Radio again soon.
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I think there are more than just 6 or 7, from what I am hearing… try a few thousand:)
Keep it going Winter.
The PayPal link works fine tonight. Can’t afford much, but every little bit helps!
Bushwacker – Laura’s little stand up routine from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was all the corporate cable news shows could talk about all week. Oh and runaway bride of course…
Perk up kids, it is still early… stimulate some convo:)
re #22 and #24 — Larisa: I could chat more if I wasn’t already multitasking. What is everyone else’s excuse? 😉
Kip – fantastic – do it! do it!
Winter, I am prepping to go on, answering email, taking calls and posting in 3 forums…. I think I can safely say I am multi-tasking.
JEN! Can’t wait for the Bu$h’s STAND DOWN ROUTINE!
Ted: after hearing you talk about the surreptitious changes made in the Congressional Record, it really does seem like we are living in the age of the "Ministry Of Truth" — that branch of our government which earns its keep by changing our history while we sleep. 🙁
I’ll be shocked if the corporate cable news shows make this British "memo" a story. I can’t believe they mentioned it on CNN!
The paper that broke the story of the Bush/Blair memo was referred to as a "London tabloid" on CNN. Video on crooksandliars.com .
Horkus #31 – So I guess Faux News isn’t the only corporate cable news network that has a legal license to lie… I was actually shocked to hear that CNN had mentioned it – now I get it. End of that story.
re #27 That’s great Larisa. I’m doing this and washing dishes and a few other things as well.
Any extra time-slices left, Larisa? How about a game? Your choice: make a move as White or take Black and reply to 1.f4. 😉
Here’s an encore presentation of a previous message from Larisa of The Raw Story, who wrote:
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There are 64 million of us who showed up on November 2nd to get rid of George Bush.
By too few voting machines in minority precincts,
By disinformation campaigns directed at Democrat strongholds,
By e-voting exploits that denied unknowable numbers of voters their votes for John Kerry,
Our voices were silenced or worse, stolen.
Here’s the little secret: We the people, the 64 million of us, are still out here and we don’t like what has happened to our country any more today than we did on November 2nd. Spread the word!
Okay, so now, according to Ted, with the British memo we have an IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE. Time to get the e-mail and letters going to the senate and congress from the American people and get that JERK GEORGIE PORGIE thrown off the THRONE AT THE WHITE HOUSE!!!
HORKUS#31 JEN #32
Here’s the CNN video link here.
Hi, Kip – love your number: 64 million!!
Thanks to Ted Kalo on behalf of all "6 or 7" of us. Or "a thousand"… or however many there are … I have no doubt that Larisa was right, but I’m following along with Brad’s joke about "6 or 7 people", which of course was started by the hilarious Robert Pastor.
Bob Pastor may very well believe that there are only 6 or 7 of us. But he doesn’t know anything. Larisa knows a few things. This broadcast is reaching many thousands of people. And there will be more who hear this interview on the net later, and there will be more listeners next week too, and I agree with Kip’s comment (in #35) except I think when they finally get around to counting how many people voted [or wanted to vote] against George Bush, we will find out that there were a lot more than 64 million of us… 😉 How sweet that will be!
I also like the first caller’s suggestion (Katrina): a march in Washington D.C. on July 4th by a million Americans calling for the IMPEACHMENT OF BUSH! Why stop at a million?????
Radio show is warming up!!! Great music!!!
There are two memos, the real one with the 2002 date and the fake one now being showcased with a 2003 date… the first one is real. They are trying to confuse people.
re #40 … why stop at a million? why indeed? and once we get to DC we are not leaving!
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Deputy Managing Editor Larisa Alexandrovna of The Raw Story has joined Brad and at the moment they are speaking about the so-called "Real ID Act". To read her most recent articles concerning this extremely dangerous legislation, click here and here.
Tell Larissa that Randi Rhodes (Air America) spent 2 days on RealID last week.
Thanks Larissa. You’re awesome. You, too, Brad!
FYI
High Crimes and Misdemeanors:
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Article 2 section 4 (US Constitution):
Section 4. The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
Quote from http://www.c-span.org/questions/week119.htm:
Then Representative Gerald Ford put it into practical perspective in 1970, when he said an impeachable offense is "whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history."
Larisa #42
Re-post Here’s the links to the British memos.
The Federal Government should have no right to collect information about me. How long before my travel is restricted? How long before I hear, "Show me your Identity Card, and be quick about it!"? How long before politicians (or, say, the RNC) get their hands on our data files?
Shades of the Fourth Reich!
Thanks again to the lovely and talented Larisa Alexandrovna.
Brad: get Larisa on again soon, y’hear?
6 or 7 fans can’t be wrong!
Listening to Larissa, it can be concluded that the American people need websites that provide copies all the legislation that goes before congress and the senate, so it can be reviewed and discussed throughout America PRIOR, PRIOR, PRIOR, to it being voted on by elected officials. Do such sites already exist? The American people need to GET BUSY (okay BUSIER) and start providing the elected officials with a considerable amount of DIRECTION on how, when, where, why and WHAT the elected officials are supposed to be doing on behalf of the American people. Sitting back and hoping for the best is NOT the way to carry on the business of properly running America.
Brad: If you see this in time, you might want to tell Carol about this "fantasty headline" some joker posted a few days ago:
Thanks to Carol — and what an hour: TWO ballsy female reporters, back-to-back on the Brad Show!!
Bernie Taupin wrote this:
Let’s zap ’em all right between the eyes!
Ok, Carol??
Larisa for co-host!
Gannon / Guckert video clip regarding his press access to the White House!
Peggy #52 —
Lets do it!
Peggy #52, I even made summaries for Senate leaders on this bill….they have not read it. It has come out of conference, passed again in the House and is awaiting for return of the Senate to be passed sometime this week. Call ALL OF YOUR SENATORS!!!! I am exhausted:(
Hi all!
Link to GG and leaks to other countries.
Link here.
We need a new Constitutional Amendment that makes it illegal for congressmen or senators to vote on any legislation — or for a president to sign any legislation — which they have not read.
I am not holding my breath about this but it is clearly one of the things that we need very badly. The presidential clause alone would bring our federal government to a standstill.
Hey! why not make it retroactive like the so-called "Real ID Deal" is? Then by passing it we could implicitly repeal the so-called Patriot Act! And the so-called Homeland Security Act … and a lot of other evil legislation besides…
Re: #56
Sorry, direct Gannon / Guckert video clip here!
What a great job you are doing, Larisa! Thank you so much…we’re all calling and writing!
My above link #59 is very important…reasons the story isn’t getting out!!!
Peggy –
I think the best sources are the Senate and House sites where you can see legislation as it is introduced, sponsors, the committees it’s assigned to, etc.
http://www.senate.gov/ and http://www.house.gov/
Supplement that with enewsletters from watchdog groups.
The thing is, it’s a full-time job keeping up with the legislation — both good and bad that come up. We have to specialize!
Peggy –
I think the best sources are the Senate and House sites where you can see legislation as it is introduced, sponsors, the committees it’s assigned to, etc.
http://www.senate.gov/ and http://www.house.gov/
Supplement that with enewsletters from watchdog groups.
The thing is, it’s a full-time job keeping up with the legislation — both good and bad that come up. We have to specialize!
Peggy –
I think the best sources are the Senate and House sites where you can see legislation as it is introduced, sponsors, the committees it’s assigned to, etc.
http://www.senate.gov/ and http://www.house.gov/
Supplement that with enewsletters from watchdog groups.
The thing is, it’s a full-time job keeping up with the legislation — both good and bad that come up. We have to specialize!
It is not that journalists are not reporting it is simply that we have no delivery mechanism large enough to take on the opaque media structure. The people have to be our delivery mechanism. The people have to be our life blood and we have to be their truth. That is the only way. I called Senators while in the hospital on Monday and by the time I got home this thing had passed the House, after conference. John, Brad, et all called me as though someone had died, afraid to tell me the news. This is my key issue. Voting will not matter if you can be picked up and charged for no reason. The Bill of Rights is the only protection we have, when that is gone, voting will not matter.
I don’t want to sound negative, but I have lived in another country. I have lived under a communist regime and I can tell you that we are becoming even worse. Okay, now really I am going to bed, so I can get up in a bit and make my pennies for my bread and butter, lol. Thanks peg and winter, you are very kind with your comments. 😎
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just in case you missed it the first and second times….
WP #60 —
I couldn’t agree more!
Many thanks to Carol Towarnicky, the second ballsy female reporter to join us this evening. Best wishes to you, Carol, and good luck with the e-mails in Philly!
Thank you, Carol Towarnicky, for your appearance tonight!
Brad, enjoyed your Carol Towarnicky interview immensly, she certainly is a couragous journo, and shining light in this locked down MSM environment!
Thanks Carol!
Thanks, Peg C – fascinating…are we getting closer to putting the sob in jail???? Or, should I say, sobs…???
Is this live? I thought I heard this before. Also, heard that it was a repeat before it came on. What’s going on. Will Koehler be on. Was looking forward.
Larisa – thanks for all your hard work. In the final analysis, all the BAD and WRONGFUL laws that are passed can be reversed and undone by any future LAWFUL and ELECTED congress and senate. They may think they are winning…but all their evil work can be torn down, and the rights of the people re-instated…it is all temporary…they will be hanged by their own evil deeds…
What’s happened? The final hour was going to be with Koehler. This is a re-run…
re #74. Yes the current segment is a rerun from two weeks ago. I’m not sure why it is on now or what happened to Bob Kohler or what is going to happen next. Anyone else?
Tried calling Brad…no answer. Can’t be a technical issue. I’ll post something if I hear from him.
What’s the station number? I’ll call there and ask the haps.
Are we on the air?
No…Big gay hour is rebroadcasting.
We are getting a rerun of the big gay hour from 2 weeks ago. WTF?
Oh wow! We’ve been having so much trouble with our internet connection I’ve been FRUSTRATED. Have heard little bits & pieces. Maybe I can catch some tomorrow at my mom’s.
I heard some of Larisa! Good God Almighty — Amerika. I heard a little about the ID bill and its implications. KGB KGB KGB — I HOPE they hang themselves.
I heard some of Brian (??) Anderson this a.m. on C-Span2 after Adrianna Huffington was on. Anderson wrote Southpark Conservatives (??) I’m iffy on it because he turned my stomach. Anybody else see it? He seemed fairly intelligent, but has embraced the right-wing ideology and claimed that Liberals aren’t getting time with newspapers & shows because our ideas aren’t popular with the majority of the population. (WE KNOW BETTER — damn KGB.)
Anyway — LOVE IT BRAD, LARISA, CAROL — I heard a little bit of y’all tonight.
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BRAD IS ON NOW.
WE MISSED FROM THE TOP OF THE 4th HOUR, BRAD.
ALL GOOD.
Has the tech done something?
Weird — what’s happening?
Brad can you play that BrightEyes tune again?
Still getting gay hour…just cut in again live.
I suggest you replay bright eyes.
Was it a "Ken the bush supporter" hijacking?
good choice, Brad. Next week it is. Hi, Bob!! We Love YA!
Torqued #91 –
That was my suspicion (#86). Pretty dirty trick if so.
Ghandi — "then they fight you…"
I don’t like to see people fired…but maybe "Ken" and "Kathleen" should be fired???!!! Or is the situation beyond their control???
Yes people should definitely read "Citizens In The Rain"
click here
Kerry IS NOT the person with the most at stake. It’s not about Kerry. It’s about the votes of the people being counted ACCURATELY!
Many thanks once again to Bob Kohler, a brave and honest man if there ever was one! Right on, Bob! You ROCK!!
my favorite Dead song in the world!!
Eyes of the World!! I LOVE you BRAD!!!
We love you, Brad. Keep up the great work. It can only get better and better!
ding ding ding … Peggy gets the prize for post # 100 …. but what’s the prize?
Bob Koehler is one of our TRUE PATRIOTS! Thank you Bob!!!
Looking forward to listening tomorrow or when the mp3 version appears.
Good Work Brad — how frustrating the night must have been for you, but it doesn’t matter to us. Getting the truth on the air is the most important thing. Can’t wait for next week!
Drive safely Brad. C’ya on the left coast.
My sentiments exactly, Brad. Love the show, the blog and the good hearts making it happen!
Since I am feeling in a criticial mood…this "radio" business, while it should be as "fun" as possible, it is also "critical" in getting the word out…innocent people are dying every day. And it is very bad for business to employ and rely on "bush supporters" to get the job done. They very naturally oppose the message that you are trying to get out and having them "on the team" is asking for trouble. No good can come of it. Kerry having a "Bush supporting" lawyer was a bad, bad idea. It is very bad "zen", bad "vibes", counter "psyche", a bad move and bad idea. When there’s work to be done, your team should believe in the goal, all be on the same side, working together, have a mutual understanding and passion. Having the opposition in your midst is bad, bad, bad. It interrupts the flow and the chemistry. Deliberate sabotage is not required…it is in the "will", in the "air", the desire for failure!!! Do you "understand" me???
Peggy #105
I missed a lot of the show. Please tell me about Kerry’s "bush supporting" lawyer. I didn’t know this. TIA!
Just recorded a "replacement" top of hour…Should be available for the rebroadcast tomorrow!
Thanks for all guys! You all rock! See ya from the Left!
P.S. I sent my advertisement for the Brad Show with links, times & dates out to my email list earlier today. Hope everybody got to listen!
Hi, Kira! First of all, sorry for the rant. But Brad works so hard, and all the technical glitches really, really annoyed me…because he deserves far better assistance that he received…
Anyway, it was not on the show, but I read (and not everything you read is true), but I read somewhere that Kerry’s lawyer, or one of his principal lawyers, was a prominent Republican supporter. When I head that, right away I shook my head in disbelief…what a losing strategy that is…you don’t hire people who are more than likely going to vote for your opponent…while giving you "advice" on how to "win"…shear common sense (or stupidity)…in my opinion.
But I’m obviously in an irritated (irritating) mood.
that is, one of Kerry’s principal lawyers during the presidential campaign/election process…
Hi, Peggy. I share your frustration, but on the other hand…
It sounded to me like Ken wasn’t the most experienced engineer you could ever meet, but I don’t think he was trying to sabotage things for political purposes. In my opinion, Brad was lucky to be able to find an engineer at all, in a "foreign" city and on such short notice. When he gets back to the left coast, you can expect the technical quality of the show to approach your exacting standards. From my point of view, yes, the glitches have been annoying, but at least they haven’t all favored the same candidate! 😉
And considering what Brad’s been working with, and how much notice he has had, it’s amazing that he’s been able to do three new shows in the last four weekends. That never could have happened without Ken the engineer and george w. bush supporter. Sometimes good help is tough to find. And you have to Rock On with the help you have, rather than the help you wish you had! Radio is messy sometimes! But it will get better …
Thanks Winter Patriot. We’re all so frustrated lately, I guess we jump to conclusions. I apologize for my earlier rants.
Power to the Peaceful!
This is for Brad regarding the John Conyers let investigation
CNN Brief Report on UK Memo Re: Conyers and the 88 congressman inquiry letter to bu$h.
Why did Ted Turner sell CNN. And why doesn’t he start a new network? where is Ted?
Brad, I sent you a link re: what I feel is an out of the norm, but necessary topic, and idea for interview.
Well, I’ve got to tell you all the experience I had today regarding the David Ray Griffin rebroadcast on C-SPAN here via Cox Cable in South Orange Co., CA where I live. I work on Saturdays and last week I messed up recording it because the timer on my infrequently used VCR was off. This week, I made sure everything was set right and the recording went fine. I sat down to watch it this evening, after the Brad Show, and, about 20-25 minutes into the presentation, when Griffin was just getting going on the problems with the Pentagon "plane crash", he was interrupted mid-sentence and viewers were taken to the all important rebroadcast of the 5/3/05 Laguna Niguel City Council meeting. We were finally returned to the Griffin 9-11 presentation as he was answering the last few questions. I imagine the mess-up in the 4th hour of Brad’s show tonight was innocent, but I have NO DOUBT the preemption on C-SPAN was intentional. I am very curious to know if anyone else might have watched the original broadcast on Cox Cable in South O.C., CA last week and whether it was shown in its entirety then.
Other than satellite DISH network, there are no real alternatives to COX Cable here. It infuriates me. Teresa and others were wondering before the original broadcast last week if it would actually occur. Well, C-SPAN broadcast it but, obviously, censorship occurs at different levels and in different ways!
Very interesting report, Steve. I watched last week on my computer from the C-SPAN site and saw it all. I’d be curious to know if it was shown on COX last week, and any other details you can find out.
You REALLY should have David Ray Griffin on the show!
Thanks for doing such a great job.
Peter
Given the extensive use of "flawed" 2004 Exit Poll data by Public Strategies Inc in their Post Election Report (November 12th, 2004) to their client the RNC, one wonders whether the GOP has subsequently angrily, demanded their money back!
Matthew Dowd
Position – Chief Campaign Strategist
Prior to campaign – Senior Advisor to the RNC
Other positions held – Director of Polling and Media Planning for Bush-Cheney 2000. Dowd oversaw the entire public opinion effort in 2000 and directed the strategic targeting and implementation of the nearly $150-million advertising budget.
Prior to this, Dowd served as president and founding partner of Public Strategies, Inc, an Austin-based, international public affairs firm. Public Strategies began with four employees in January 1989 and, when Dowd left ten years later, the company had 116 employees with revenue over $22 million a year. During this time, Dowd served as former Texas Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock’s chief campaign consultant in his two successful runs for lieutenant governor. In 1987 and 1988, Dowd served both on the Senate and campaign staffs of former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas).
Background story on Public Strategies Inc,
here.
More digging required perhaps?
Kip #2,#3
I think it is important to note that it is the neocon element within the RNC that has taken over and taken it over the top. But both the general membership of the RNC and the DNC are unaware cause, as you say, the press has hoodwinked them by refusing to run the relevant stories.
I feel it is a mistake to put all republicans in the same bag. It is a better strategy, and more realistic, to focus on the neocon element so that the republicans can get a grip and expel the neocons.
If we group those in the republican party into one bag it gives the neocons power … if we do bipartisan things in areas where there is comonality with the moderates, they will notice the neocons within their ranks and resist them.
I think I am asking the question, "Isn’t it better that all moderates resist the neocons together so the resistance to neocon extremes will have more impact?"
Larisa #66
You said "The Bill of Rights is the only protection we have, when that is gone, voting will not matter." True, and traditionally the courts, and specifically the federal courts, have been the protectors of those rights.
There is a serious movement in the neocon element of the republican party to place extremist judges, who do not have proper respect for the Bill of Rights, into lifetime office. Hence the debate over the "nuclear option" of removing the filibuster.
Both the House and the Senate are headed by neocons.
This BLOG has been wise, as have others, to focus on those radical neocons and take note that it will be moderate republicans who stop the neocons within them. The sanity movement needs moderates from both parties to defeat the neocons.
Last night I heard Larisa speak on the BLOG radio program about the National Identity Card Legislation and how it will affect all of us. It’s been bothering me so I put this list of resources together so people can get informed and then act on the National ID Card bill.
Last-minute maneuvering is taking place in Washington as backers of the REAL ID Act seek to attach the controversial proposal to unrelated legislation, hoping to avoid a public hearing on the national ID plan. The REAL ID Act seeks to impose federal identification standards upon the states and mandate that state DMVs collect sensitive personal information.
Let’s act now, before it’s too late!
Link to the actual bill:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/b...d109:h.r.00418 :
Comprehensive site, with excellent links on history, opponents and supporters, and news articles:
http://www.epic.org/privacy/id_cards /
Petition:
http://www.usalone.com/realid.htm
Surveillance as a global issue:
http://www.privacy.org/pi/activities/idcard /
Privacy International is a global human rights group that acts as a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations. PI is based in London, England, and has an office in Washington, D.C.
CATO Institute articles on National ID Cards:
http://search.cato.org/query.ht...#038;qc=allcat …
Hi, Winter #111 – Thank you for your patient words for my sometimes very impatient self.
Hi, Dredd – Questions: If the current administration was put into office through illegal methods, i.e., fradulent elections, manipulated election results, then it seems reasonable that all actions taken by an "illegal" administration, as well as senators and congressmen who have been similarly illegally put in place, can be swept aside as also illegal.
All appointments by this so-called "president" could be invalidated and the country returned to the rule of law??
Hi, MMIIXX and Kira – A number of weeks ago I was reading an article on the ‘net, and within the article or story was another story told by a man who reported he was attacked with a laser gun and woke up several days later, unable to recall what happened to him, except that there was/were needle marks in his left arm on the inside of the elbow, and he was wondering "what he told them". I immediately recalled that we were puzzled as to the location of the "suicide" cuts on Lemme’s arm, on the inside of the elbow (is that correct?) and were discussing the possibility of laser gun burns on his chest? And it occurred to me that Lemme’s murderers may have injected him with some "truth serum" type drug to find out what "evidence" he may have had; but Lemme had a bad heart which couldn’t withstand the laser, the torture and the drugs, and died. So they cut him on the inside of the left elbow to hide the injection marks. Just wondering…
Peggy-
Lemme would have to have been cut before he died based on the amount and spray of blood. That would require a beating heart and a good blood pressure at the time he was cut. This is starting to sound like CSI isn’t it.
JPentz – Thanks. Got it. You had suggested someone from OpTruth.org and, in fact, we were going to have Paul Reikhoff, the founder, on this weekend’s show, but a last minute scheduling glitch on his end made it impossible. Working to get him on as soon as possible in the future.
Peggy – Go easy on both Ken and Kathleen. Both were topnotch and gave freely of their time in a pinch. Kathleen was perfect straight down the line, and Ken was excellent as well given what we had to work with due to a number of difficult situations. He’s a good guy, not a rapid Bushie in truth, and after 3 weeks engineering The BRAD SHOW, I’d be shocked if he ever supported a Repub again!
Tune in for the Rebroadcast at Noon (ET) tomorrow and in the fourth hour (3pm ET) you’ll be able to hear the "lost segment" including the Bright Eyes tune!
Thanks again guys, I may soon be heading "off the grid" for a bit as I hustle back across the country. Working all the way, actually, just may not have time to blog about it until the other end.
Thanks again WP for an *awesome* job here tonight!
PEGGY did I miss something
you said "remember Lemme with the needle and truth serum in his arm to "give up the details" and his "suicide, CUTS to cover up the needle marks"
tell me more
re: COMMENT #123 [link]
…Peggy said on 5/8/2005 @ 9:57am PT…
If the current administration was put into office through illegal methods, i.e., fradulent elections, manipulated election results, then it seems reasonable that all actions taken by an "illegal" administration, as well as senators and congressmen who have been similarly illegally put in place, can be swept aside as also illegal.
All appointments by this so-called "president" could be invalidated and the country returned to the rule of law??
Makes a LOT of sense to me. i.e., kill the head of the dragon rather than try to put out all of the fires that it set.
Peggy do you mean "tazer" or Laser"
Quantum leap to say:
"Lemme’s murderers may have injected him with some "truth serum" type drug to find out what "evidence" he may have had"
What was the story "on the net" about ?
Another step forward?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/n...ationworld-hed
Hi, MMIIXX #126 – Yes, I mean tazer. It was probably a story posted on this website by someone else. If I have time, I’ll look for it. I am only speculating about Lemme, as we all were in mid-March, I think it was, when the posts numbered over 800.
Hi, Steve #124 – my point was that the cut was located in that "odd" spot perhaps to cover needle marks??? Since it was an "odd" spot for a suicider to choose? I don’t know – just speculating about what may have happened.
Here it is:
Deer in the Headlights
It’s a long article, but I’ll go get the paragraph for you which struck me, and made me think of Mr. Lemme.
Here’s the paragraph from "Deer in the Headlights":
So, what to do? I’m probably the wrong person to offer an opinion, because I’m sitting here with two little scars on my chest … the nearest guess I have is from a Taser hit 10 or 11 months ago. One of the wounds would not heal until I pulled a small piece of shirt material out with tweezers. I still have the shirt with the holes in it. Meanwhile, I developed a nice bruise over a vein inside my right elbow. I really wish they’d use the left, y’know. Hard to hide the bruise when you’re shaking hands, etc. I’m missing no more than 3 to 5 hours of time I can’t account for, but after all this time I’ve only got a vague memory of what transpired, and one or two faces I might recognize; nothing more. And I’m really hoping I’ll recover the whole thing, but not successful so far. So much for being an objective journalist!
Peggy #123 The key is "if". And that is determined by those who are in now.
It will be very difficult to undo the damage once it is done. What usually happens when a judge goes bad is that the appellate courts at first just reverse the judges decisions.
If the judge persists in wrong rulings they order the court presiding judge to not assign any more of that type of case to that judge (for example civil rights cases).
It think that is the more likely scenario.
George #127 yes, good find. The mention of the British Iraq memo in the tribune is good. Here is a link to the article.
Do ya reckon our old comrade Manannananbananabaloneymanana
was doing it for $5 a blog?
I was the first caller (Katrina) on the show and I hope many more than 1 million gather in Washington on July 4th (I just think we need at least a million to get everyone’s attention) …
This post I put on VR Watch today is another/further attempt to stop what is happening to our country and to our liberties.
Participate in the birth and growth of a web site that will allow all of us to keep an ‘Eye on Congress’ so that we will know what laws they are trying to pass and use this knowledge to take action to stop any legislation that might be detrimental to our well-being.
Hello to all, I just read something that may be the answer to your prayers. A site by a man by the name of Karl Schwarz, that could turn everything around!! I urge you all to go to http://www.karlschwarz.com, wow, he has the potential to change America’s disastrous course!! Please read what he has to say!! Thanx everyone, if you like what he has to say then SPREAD THE WORD!!!