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TEXT JOCKEY // TJ PHRASER (Fraser Clark) & THE MEDIA EVOLUTION MIXING THE TRACTS LIVE ON THE KEYBOARD @ A MEDIA-MEME RATE OF 160 IPP * * Ideas Per Paragraph TO SUBSCRIBE, WRITE “I wanna get UP!” TO fraser@parallel-youniversity.com TO UNSUBSCRIBE, HIT REPLY WITH REMOVE IN THE SUBJECT BOX (\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/) "The
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UP!is the primary right by which all other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery..." Thomas Paine. "When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil." Thomas Jefferson. UP! “If Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, or Mahatma Gandhi had been elected as the Palestinian leader, they would have been labelled terrorists by the Israelis, and the Americans would have readily agree.” Saeb Arakat. >> if that ain't the truth, nothing is. [inca_ra] UP! salute to young fighters wearing flip-flops “Most fighters in Iraq are Iraqis who are outraged to see their country's resources robbed while they live in slums, drink water mixed with sewage and have no say in the political process. Nineteen months after "liberation" they can see how little the liberators have done to ease their suffering. No wonder an increasing number of Iraqis are either joining or supporting the resistance, realising that, as in the past, they must fight on their own. UP! Should Bush Be
Indicted For War Crimes
The fact that the editors would allow this piece to run
is, in and of itself, major news.Asks Canada's Largest Newspaper Moreover, the assertions and careful analysis may likely affect U.S. foreign policy and trade with Canada - not to mention the affect it will have in the oval office. Breaking news in… TomFlocco.com forums UP! “Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” Winston Churchill. UP! Bassnectar - `Diverse systems of throb' [CURRENT CULTURAL GROOVES THAT KEEP STEFAN UP!] From the Noam Chomsky sample sprinkled intro to the surprise extra track this album sets a new standard... Funky & Raw yet beautiful and thoughtful ... A potential classic.. www.bassnectar.net Zogby article: Odds are 250,000 to 1 on discrepancy between exit polls and election results. http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/111604Z.shtml up! INSIDE THE ELECTION FRAUD
BATTLE
by Betsy R. VasquezThink Kerry’s Not Involved? Think Again. It’s Called ‘Fighting Smart’. When Senator John Kerry (D-MA) talked about how his policy would be different in Iraq, he kept saying, in effect, ‘It’s the how, stupid.’ He said repeatedly he would fight a “smarter” war. Flash forward to today. Following the election, there was a problem apparent. The exit polling didn't match the ballot count, and many reasons for that began to become apparent. John Kerry was faced with 3 options.
But people who think this are thinking in Bush terms, all or nothing, either you are for the war or against it, that either Senator Kerry was for recounting the votes or he was against it. The reality is, John Kerry has chosen a 3rd, much smarter course just as he said he would. He realized that to launch a public campaign calling the vote into question would be disastrous. In fact, he likely realized he would we walking right into a Bush-set booby trap. In particular, during our election coverage we talked about the pending battle of Fallujah, about the timing of it being an election ploy, about how it was following in the constant Bush pattern of creating a media event to sway the election, as he did last time by making the run up to the Iraq invasion come to a head exactly on election week. Well, the Fallujah battle began hitting the media hard in the week before the election, right on cue. Of course it was billed as the solution, the battle that if you just keep Bush in office will wipe out those insurgents and solve the problems over there. This was yet another obvious use of our nation’s troops by President Bush as if they were campaign volunteers rather than non-partisan volunteers to defend our nation. But Fallujah, it turns out, seems to be even more than that. Fallujah, in effect, was the get away car for an election heist. Following the fiasco in Florida in 2000, Gore was able to battle on for 30 days to seek a fair accounting. All the while, the Bush camp claimed he should just stop and give up because his delaying of (what they were saying was) the inevitable, end was threatening the nation’s security and stability. They said the stock market was suffering, the nation was unstable, and so Gore should just give up and accept the result as is. Imagine what they would have said about Fallujah. This time, John Kerry had made clear he was prepared to fight 100 times as hard and long as Gore did if necessary. In fact, he had solicited funds for just that eventuality so he could battle all over the nation if necessary to ensure that every vote was properly counted. As we know and saw on election night as Bush’s people began calling Networks demanding they call Ohio for their camp the Bush team’s strategy was to try and force all questions to be closed ASAP. Last time, they weren’t prepared for that part. This time, they were. Picture if John Kerry had chosen to call the election into question. Immediately, the Bush camp would talk about how 50,000 of our troops are just about to launch the biggest military operation since the invasion of Baghdad. And, just a couple of days after the election, it was launched. You can imagine the arguments from the Bushies: “How could Senator Kerry undermine our security while our troops are in the midst of battle.” Fallujah was to be the pressure point that would, if not stop Kerry from uncovering all the dirt and getting a fair election count, at least tarnish his name with much of the nation and, as importantly, create something with which the right-wing dominated media could hammer him, making it seem as if he is only caring about himself and not the nation. It was quite a well-crafted plan. Completely amoral, but smart. Unfortunately for them, John Kerry was smarter. A concession speech, in effect, means nothing. It is not legally binding in any way. So, if you were thinking like a Bush goon, you’d expect Kerry to either refuse to concede in the meantime, and so your booby trap would work perfectly, or he’d see the writing on the wall and let it go, as wimpy Democrats are prone to do. But John Kerry chose a smarter course. Ask yourself the question, what if John Kerry were to do both, concede publicly but, simultaneously look into every instance of mischief, and see if in fact the election was fair or fixed. This would be a no lose situation for him. The booby trap would become irrelevant, as he’d have done the right thing for the nation and its troops. But at the same time, he is as free to look into any voting irregularities as he would have been had he not conceded. Even better, he could do it without the press going insane and the nation being kept on the edge. All the lawyers he could have sent to look into things could still look into things, and if the election is truly called into question, he could then, with ample justification so as to make it legitimate, come out publicly and retract his concession. It’s the prosecutor, one of Kerry’s previous jobs, who thoroughly prepares and investigate his case before levelling charges. You may have a real hunch that someone’s responsible, but until you believe you can win the case in court, you don’t make the allegation. It’s called fighting smart. And the Bushies, just as they failed to plan for the subtleties of Iraq, haven’t even caught on yet what’s happening, that they are, in fact, being outflanked and attacked after being tricked into looking the other way. up! AND JUST IN CASE YOU DON’T QUITE BELIEVE KERRY’S ON THE CASE, AND THINK HE JUST TURNED OUT TO BE A WIMP WHO DIDN’T LIVE UP TO HIS WORD, TAKE A LOOK AT THIS LETTER FROM HIS BROTHER, RELEASED PRIVATELY TO HIS SUPPORTERS: Cam Kerry's Letter I am grateful to the many people who have contacted me to express their deep concern about questions of miscounting, fraud, vote suppression, and other problems on election day, especially in Florida and Ohio. Their concern reflects how much people care about the outcome of this election. I want to you to know we are not ignoring it. Election protection lawyers are still on the job in Ohio and Florida and in DC making sure all the votes are counted accurately. I have been conferring with lawyers involved and have made them aware of the information and concerns people have given me. Even if the facts don't provide a basis to change the outcome, the information will inform the continuing effort to protect the integrity of our elections. If you have specific factual information about voting problems that could be helpful to the lawyers, please e-mail it to the given address rather than to me. The election protection effort has been important to me personally, and I am proud of the 17,000 lawyers around the country who helped. It's obvious that we have a way to go still, but their efforts helped make a difference. Their work goes on. Thank you, Cam Kerry. CKerry@Mintz.com Make no mistake, John Kerry will never publicly call the election into question unless enough fraud turns out to truly challenge the result. And so, in effect, he is not at this point contesting the election. But in reality, he is like the DA who says, “At this time we are not charging President Bush with anything.” Evidence first. It’s the best strategy for him personally, the best strategy politically, and the best strategy for the nation. up! Dubtronic Science - `Live in the Mix' [CURRENT CULTURAL GROOVES THAT KEEP STEFAN UP!] One of the most diverse soundsystem style mix cds ever... www.omrecords.com PROVISIONAL BALLOT COUNT NOW ONGOING IN OHIO!! by Samuel A. Stanson, The Moderate Independent. Yes, the provisional ballots have begun, at last, to be counted in Ohio. And, county by county, the vast majority of the 155,000 of them are being accepted as legitimate, in percentages ranging from 75% to 90%, according to The Plain Dealer out of Cleveland. Just to make things seem as much like Florida last time as possible, overseas ballots were still coming in up until Friday, which means they may well have been filled out and sent after the election ended. Whatever, the counting of the provisionals has begun, but, rather than being the final word, this will only be the beginning. Once this recount is official, that will mean not only will we get to the bottom of the districts in which cute things like over 1000% of registered voters casting ballots occurred, but an additional 92,672 "spoiled" ballots - ballots which were made using that familiar old punch card technology, and so which may be valid votes but just have had a hanging chad issue - will be reviewed and, when appropriate, counted. www.moderateindependent.com/v2i21ballot.htm up! Electronic
Voting Was
Rejected
By Ireland!
In Ireland, during the last referendum (OCT 19,
2002), electronic
voting was used in 7 constituencies (Dublin
Mid-West, Dublin South, Dublin South West and Dun Laoghaire).Then the Irish Government proposed electronic voting be used nationally in the forthcoming local and european elections, scheduled to take place on Friday 11th June, 2004. The boxes were nedap/powervote, NOT Diebold or the lads, but Dutch - but with no voter verifiable paper trail. http://www.election.nl/bizx_html/IVS-GB/ However, an Independent Commission on Electronic Voting and Counting at Elections (known as the "Commission on Electronic Voting") established by the Government of Ireland on 1 March, 2004 recommended otherwise. The Commission said it had not been able to satisfy itself sufficiently as to the accuracy and secrecy of the chosen system. The Commission report recommended further time for testing and quality assurance and made detailed and valuable recommendations for the conduct of this further testing. Electronic voting will therefore not take place in Ireland in the meantime. The following information outlines the process of electronic voting, used in previous elections. http://www.oasis.gov.ie/government_in_ireland/elections/electronic_voting.html Joe McCarthy has released a new spreadsheet (xls format) (pdf format, summary) indicating projected costs for the electronic voting system. It indicates that the total spent so far is €53,264,335 and that over its 20 year life span the system is likely to cost at least €110,429,089. 30th April 2004 The Commission on Electronic Voting have said that they are "unable to recommend the use of the proposed system at the local and European elections". The report is available for download from their website. http://evoting.cs.may.ie/index.shtml So, it’s not gone yet... there’s a commission, i.e. it’s a backburner... the commission said provisionally no, but if the tech was ok then yes. To be honest I agree, but you'd need proper machines, and Diebold and the lads is a whole other matter. http://www.iol.ie/~aecolley/record.html They've spent millions on it, the machines malfunction, and there’s no voter verifiability. the opposition are pushing for open source systems. Thomas Stewart, Dublin up! Adam Freeland Rejects Raving Bush Girls Outspoken British breaks star Adam Freeland found himself performing for George W's notoriously fun-loving daughters Jenna and Barb at a US rave and says he was horrified when he realised who they were. "I was in Chicago playing a We Want Your Vote gig and the promoter had told me that the Bush daughters might be there and I'd been like 'yeah, whatever'” said Adam. "Then about an hour into my set I dropped 'We Want Your Soul', the vibe picked up and a few new heads came onto the floor from the adjacent VIP room, including one pissed up girl who was jumping around, pulling hard on a fag who was obviously a party girl." "Then I saw her face and I got this weird deep sickly churning in my stomach; she looked exactly like George W and I realised 'fuck', it ‘s her! George W's daughter going nuts to We Want Your Soul, miming the words.” "I felt like I'd seen the antichrist (not that I'm a Christian) but it was fukking odd and strange and her sister was there with her too, though she wasn't afflicted with looking like him," he continued. "If Bush dressed up as a girl, he'd be his daughter. Poor fukking girl." "I thought maybe I should go find her, chat her up or something (it didn't look like it'd be that tough), try to get her into bed just so I could infiltrate her mind, infiltrate her family, change the world, or even just tell my mates I'd shagged a Bush.” "But I didn't," he laughed. [www.skrufff.com] up! Icaros Ancient Ayahuasca Ceremony... [CURRENT CULTURAL GROOVES THAT KEEP STEFAN UP!] This `Ethnic Field recording' CD from Iquitos is a revelation... The beats keep rocking at around 130 bpm and the soundscapes created by these acoustic instruments could even teach the Orb a few things about psychedelia! www.ayahuayra.org OHIO: Official Recount Now Certain! David Cobb, 2004 presidential candidate for the Green Party. "We announced our intention to seek a recount of the vote in Ohio. Since the required fee for a state-wide recount is $113,600, the only question was whether that money could be raised in time to meet the filing deadline. That question has been answered. Thanks to the thousands of people who have contributed to this effort, we can say with certainty that there will be a recount in Ohio. “The grassroots support for the recount has been astounding. The donations have come in fast and furiously, with the vast majority in the $10-$50 range, allowing us to meet our goal for the first phase of the recount effort in only four days" The Green Party is working with the Libertarian Party - both parties were on the ballot in Ohio - in securing a recount. The presidential candidates for the two parties have demanded that Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, a Republican who co-chaired this year's Bush campaign in Ohio, recuse himself from the recount process. The media director for the Cobb-LaMarche campaign, Blair Bobier, said today: "The Ohio presidential election was marred by numerous press and independent reports of mis-marked and discarded ballots, problems with electronic voting machines and the targeted disenfranchisement of African-American voters. A number of citizens' groups and voting rights organizations are holding the second of two hearings today in Columbus, Ohio, to take testimony from voters, poll watchers and election experts about problems with the Ohio vote.." www.caseohio.org www.votecobb.com up! Nader Demands
Recount
Stepping in to help is the man who was supposed to
be the spoiler, Ralph
Nader. As the Washington Post reports,
he’s using New
Hampshire as a staging ground to call the
Diebold machine-recorded electronic votes into question.Why is he doing it in New Hampshire, which Kerry won? Is he going after Kerry? Not at all. It is tactically brilliant. In New Hampshire, any candidate can call for a recount as long as he offers to pay for it and in this small state it costs $2,000 dollars! So Nader has chosen to challenge the results there so that, if there turns out to be a problem with the machines or whatever, the votes must be challenged everywhere. As the WashPost reports, "We have received reports of irregularities in the vote reported on the AccuVote Diebold Machines in comparison to exit polls and trends in voting in New Hampshire," Nader wrote Secretary of State William M. Gardner. "These irregularities favor President George W. Bush by 5% to 15% over what was expected." Clearly he is charging that the machines skewed in favor of President Bush. New Hampshire was just the easiest, smartest, and cheapest place to get a first crack at making the case, and so opening a Pandora’s Box that will spread out across the nation. So enjoy the non-Moderate Independent media’s coverage of Fallujah and ignoring of the recount. But rest assured that people are on the case, and that Kerry is taking the fight to them in such a smart matter they don’t even know what’s hitting them. And remember, Watergate didn’t break the week after the election, but in the end, the devil got his due. And on another note, the overground media should be given some credit. As one Washington Post reporter told me, you can bet they’re looking into all of this. And, as you see with the above Washington Post story, when they get something concrete they’re going to print. [see article: Losing by 335,000 in N.H., <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38000-2004Nov9.html>] up! And lest you not realise what exactly is going on, this today from Olbermann: “With news this morning that the computerized balloting in North Carolina is so thoroughly messed up that all state-wide voting may be thrown out and a second election day scheduled, the story continues.” up! And, even better, this from a first-hand witness’ e-mail being circulated among Kerry supporters: SUBJECT: Basic Report From Columbus I worked for 3 days, including Election Day, on the state-wide voter protection hotline run by the Ohio Democratic Party in Columbus, Ohio. Hundreds of thousands of people were disenfranchised in Ohio. People waited on line for as long as 10 hours. It appears to have only happened in Democratic-leaning precincts, principally (a) precincts where many African Americans lived, and (b) precincts near colleges. I spoke to a young man who got on line at 11:30 am and voted at 7 pm. When he left at 7 pm, the line was about 150 voters longer than when he'd arrived, which meant those people were going to wait even longer. In fact they waited for as much as 10 hours, and their voting was concluded at about 3 am. The reason this occurred was that they had 1 voting station per 1000 voters, while the adjacent precinct had 1 voting station per 184. Both precincts were within the same county, and managed by the same county board of elections. The difference between them is that the privileged polling place was in a rural, solidly republican, area, while the one with long lines was in the college town of Gambier, OH. Lines of 4 and 5 hours were the order of the day in many African- American neighbourhoods. Touch screen voting machines in Youngstown OH were registering "George W. Bush" when people pressed "John F. Kerry" ALL DAY LONG. This was reported immediately after the polls opened, and reported over and over again throughout the day, and yet the bogus machines were inexplicably kept in use THROUGHOUT THE DAY. Countless other frauds occurred, such as postcards advising people of incorrect polling places, registered Democrats not receiving absentee ballots, duly registered young voters being forced to file provisional ballots even though their names and signatures appeared in the voting rolls, long-time active voting registered voters being told they weren't registered, bad faith challenges by Republican "challengers" in Democratic precincts, and on and on and on. I was very proud of the way so many Ohioans fought so valiantly for their right to vote, and would not be turned away. Many, however, could not spend the entire day and were afraid of losing their jobs, due to the severe economic depression hitting Ohio. up! "Electors are certified on Dec. 7. They actually vote on Dec. 13. But those votes are not opened by Congress until Jan. 6. So there is still time to challenge the results in other close states such as New Mexico, Iowa and Nevada." Jonathan Turley, professor of constitutional law at George Washington University. www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6452480 up! 'COVER-UP' BID OVER POST VOTE PROTEST Lawyers for Birmingham City Council chief executive Lin Homer are seeking a High Court blocking order to prevent thousands of completed postal vote application forms from being publicly released. Petitioners, who allege elections in Aston and Bordesley Green earlier this year were riddled with fraud, fear the move, if successful, will destroy their chances of proving that corruption took place. up! How to Hack the Vote: Short Version by Chuck Herrin, CISSP, CISA, MCSE, CEH For anyone who is curious, I’ve put together this shortened document that will show you exactly how easy it is to break into Diebold’s GEMS software, which is used to tabulate regional voting results. This software runs on regular Windows machines and counts the votes from multiple precincts that may have used touch screens (which have their own problems), optically scanned punch cards, or other balloting methods. It is responsible for the accurate reporting of tens of millions of votes cast using many different types of ballots. That’s right even if you used the older systems like punch cards, your vote can still be Hacked when the numbers all come together. Wanna see how easy it is? I’m going to show you, step by step and with screenshots, how an attack against our election system could very easily steal a State-wide or even a National election without leaving a trace. This attack would be easy to carry out, difficult to detect, and exert enormous influence on the results, leaving the humble voter coldly left out of the decision-making process. <http://www.chuckherrin.com> up! OTHER SITES INVOLVED IN VOTERGATE Black Box Voting - Bev Harris http://www.blackboxvoting.org Voters Unite: www.votersunite.org Black Box Voting www.blackboxvoting.org Vote Scam www.votescam.com Want To Know www.wanttoknow.info/electronicvotin Verified Voting http://www.verifiedvoting.org Votergate - watch this Important 30 Minute Video http://www.votergate.tv Stolen Election - Mark Elsis http://stolenelection.net/ No Stolen Elections! http://www.nov3.us Justice for Bush http://www.justiceforbush.com Steal Your Election http://solarbus.org/stealyourelection Ohio Recount News http://www.recountohio.org The Randi Rhodes Show on Newsradio 1290 WJNO >>trying to stay on top of vote fraud http://www.therandirhodesshow.com/main.html UP! (\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o
Rave Culture
and
Religion
the UP! is a global edutainment round-up, broadcast weekly to =[13,287]= Alternative// Activist// Zippy// Trance// New Age// Peace folks recommended to the Parallel YOUniversity// Megatripolis Dance Dept as "showing signs of life". Since recipients forward it widely to their own lists and sites, we conservatively estimate 30,000+ direct recipients. A further 30,000 read it on the YOUniversity's site. And, because of its 'mix' of 'specialist' & 'general' content, it's increasingly being posted on a variety of sites worldwide, making an estimated total weekly readership of =[275,000+]= (\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o/)(\o Graham St John (ed) London, New York: Routledge, 2004 Vast numbers of western youth have attached primary significance to raving and post-rave experiences. This collection of essays explores the socio-cultural and religious dimensions of the rave, 'raving' and rave-derived phenomena. Rave Culture and Religion provides insights on developments in post-traditional religiosity (especially 'New Age' and 'Neo-Paganism') through studies of rave's Gnostic narratives of ascensionism and re-enchantment, explorations of the embodied spirituality and millennialist predispositions of dance culture, and investigations of transnational digital-art countercultures manifesting at geographic locations as diverse as Goa, India, and Nevada's Burning Man festival. Contributors examine raving as a new religious or revitalization movement; a powerful locus of sacrifice and transgression; a lived bodily experience; a practice comparable with world entheogenic rituals; and as evidencing a new Orientalism. Rave Culture and Religion will be essential reading for advanced students and academics in the fields of sociology, cultural studies and religious studies. UP! ‘Counterculture Through The Ages; From Abraham to Acid House’ by Ken Goffman (a.k.a. R. U. Sirius) and Dan Joy. Foreword by Timothy Leary. Villard (Random House), New York, 2004. Hardcover, 25.95, 432 pps. ISBN 0-375-50758-2. Kirkus reviews A popular frolic undergirded by a wealth of research and a seriousness of intent, from two stalwarts of the alternative consciousness media. Countercultures wax and wane, write Goffman, a.k.a. R.U. Sirius (How to Mutate and Take Over the World, 1996, etc.), and Psychedelics Encyclopedia contributor Joy, but they have always been with us: freethinking, innovative, subversive, individualistic, antiauthoritarian, troublemaking, sceptical of received opinion, and against all constraints on individual creative will. Goffman and Joy have chosen 13 countercultural moments for "their likely familiarity to a broad contemporary readership," though they also introduce additional renegades and misfits such as Diogenes, the man who told Alexander the Great to "get out of my light" (a countercultural rallying cry if there ever was one). In a modestly groovster tone that works well with the topic at hand, they cover Socratic critical thinking and humour; Jewish subversiveness from Abraham (our first dropout) to Bob Dylan; the graceful spontaneity of Taoism, its revolt against rationalism, objective certainty, and the limits of language; the Sufis' elevation of the individual to sacred status; the troubadours of Provence, whose jibes at the noble court were tolerated because of the brilliance of their compositions. They tackle the Transcendentalists and the Surrealists ("the unexpurgated, uncensored unconscious"), the restless and proliferating artists of blues and bebop, the mutating and maverick self-realisations of the Beats, hippies, glitters and glams ("the first countercultural rebellion against hippie conformity"), punks, and hackers, whose belief in the freedom of information harks back to the roots of counterculturalism. Goffman and Joy don't find all is beautiful in the countercultural garden: "Tensions and contradictions remain between the individualistic nonconformist nature and the democratising spirit of the counterculture." But without society's thorns, what a dull, uninspiring world it would be, with so much less laughter and pleasure. Freeing your head may not be painless, but Goffman and Joy convincingly suggest taking two of your chosen pharmaceuticals and getting on with it. UP! US Plans $200 billion Internet for War The Pentagon is building its own secure Internet, the Global Information Grid, or GIG, at a cost of $200 billion or more. The goal is to give American commanders and even troops a moving picture of all foreign enemies and threats - "a God's-Eye view," or more likely “Satanic Situationer”. New York Times Nov. 13 UP! "The core of our American democracy is the right to vote. Implicit in that right is the notion that that vote be private, that vote be secure, and that vote be counted as it was intended when it was cast by the voter. And I think what we're encountering is a pivotal moment in our democracy where all of that is being called into question."- Kevin Shelley, California Sec. of State. http://www.verifiedvoting.org UP! great job on the UP!, as always ... it's the only bit of email that causes me to put everything else aside until i've finished it. sometimes we get a little crazy over here when we think about how totally fucked an awful lot of our fellow Americans are right now. a bunch of damned fascist Christians have taken this country over in so many subtle ways that it's scary. and when i think about that for too long, i freak out, and then in comes another UP!, and i remember that we're not in this battle alone, that the Tribe is worldwide, and while we may not all agree on every little detail, we sure do see the Big Picture the same way. .... thanks for keeping us all in touch. peace, love, & light, lorenzo, los angeles UP! “Bush is a moralist with the intelligence of a13 year old kid. Normally this moralist thing disappears with growing up, but with him it didn't. Moralist thinking doesn't matter so much privately, taking vague things for truth, but in politics it can afflict hundreds of thousands of innocent people.” Peter Singer. UP! 'Let The Mainstream Bury The Mainstream' Surfing the web on my new computer and seeing the millions of 'alternative' sites of one type or another, I am struck once more (for the millionth time!) how far this 'This Thing of Ours' (like Cosa Nostra but I mean Alternative Culture) has come... so when people see Kerry lose to Bush or see how conservative America may still be, they should not be depressed or deluded... 'Alternative Culture' in America and the West in general has caused a massive change since the 60's, and I mean massive... much bigger or faster than any previous alternative movements have managed to establish... it may have left the Bush/Kerry/Blair paradigm overtly in place but it has kikked the chair from under them... underneath the surface 'Our Thing' (which of course is an extremely broad term for lots of personal and groups’ views) has shredded & replaced so much of it. simply surf the web for alternative culture websites and stop in AWE... yes I am literally Awed by how much there is... how far the tentacles have spread... you know when Jesus said Let the Dead bury the Dead? I say let the Mainstream bury the Mainstream (and then we can create a new Mainstream with the positive energy and changes that we produce) >> it’s already in place! as is so much else, from health to economic systems to a new world spirituality based around the sacred mushroom! so don’t get negative or frustrated or angry, folks, when the surface of the mainstream paradigm doesn't change to our desires instantly... that will come in time... and that will take a long time… but under the surface is where we’re burrowing with great results... my mother eats tofu and my father smokes dope... so I say to the alternative culture... cut the anger (and the emphasis on conspiracy theories) and pseudo-snobbery (like calling Bush voters stupid) >> ignorant, not stupid, and thanks to a 20 year zillion dollar campaign to keep them so. and get on with the WORK that needs to be done, both in developing positive alternative institutions, and in developing positive alternative selves! A(wo)men GoodJeff, Oxford UP! Foundation 2ND ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL. [CURRENT CULTURAL GROOVES THAT KEEP STEFAN UP!] This limited edition CD has the legendary Moulton St Players in top form in a variety of sessions ranging from funk to afrohouse - for open minded househeads... www.foundationclub.com Hi Fraser - I am Alaskan, so please do not get my message confused with one from America. Indeed, we do need an uprising. In addition to the tax-revolt-protest you suggest - which I/we totally support - how about a plan to cancel voting registrations? We were denied our absentee ballots as we are not registered 'R' (a long story no need to print), and the previous elections had a similar deal when our name info was demanded to be attached to our ballot as it was dropped in the box. You see, the sadness in my life is that Alaska has been fully annexed to the 'States'. (Hawaii too - illegally stolen by the US Navy in 1892). Voter Registrations are easy to cancel - and easy to restore - if one chooses to participate (again) in a system that is plagued with Lies, deceit, fraud, and all sorts of criminal activity. So really - I urge you to support the plan for millions of Angst-filled Americans to cancel their membership in the Voting Game. After all - voting supports a system we all know sucks (in a big way) - a system we all give far too much import to. We all need to rise above politics - put all Lawyers, Politicians, Federal Agents, Judges, and their ilk in a tea cup and shrink em down - take away their presumed power. I do not know how the 'UP!'s' arrive in my mailbox - and I love what you write. Thanks and blessings to the P-U!!!!!!! tom lee., alaska >> a bit like the Greek women refusing their men sex till they stopped fighting, huh? UP! I see major potential after Arafat's death for Israel to try to (unobtrusively) pick Palestine's leaders and control Palestine that way. Of course pro-Israelis have long been operating exactly thus with the leaders of America and those of other countries that they have historically identified as strategic to them. Palestinians can proudly observe that the zionists didn't puppetise Arafat, but now, very importantly, they have to identify and guard against zionist attempts to make puppets of less steadfast leaders. Jennifer Winkler, Washington. UP! Tantric Booty Call [CURRENT CULTURAL GROOVES THAT KEEP STEFAN UP!] Indo-Caribbean flavours infuse this limited compilation release that ranges from hi-energy floor fillers to deep spiritual ambience.. www.govindamusic.com - www.soulsalaam.com WHAT IS A FRAUD AUDIT? BlackBoxVoting.Org http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ A fraud audit is not the same as a recount. It does not presume innocence. It does not make the assumption that if there is an anomaly with a benign explanation, it's okay to stop investigating. Any embezzler (or vote manipulator) worth his salt will build in an explanation that makes it sound like it could be an honest mistake, or a "glitch." Any investigator worth his salt knows you have to look deeper. Forensic auditing begins with indicators, like oddball statistics, mismatched records, or secretive, obstructive behaviour. The next step is to obtain diagnostic documents. Later steps may include pulling all the ballots for hand recounts. Bev Harris, founder of Black Box Voting, has interfaced with law enforcement, including the FBI, state attorneys-general, the IRS, local police, and banking authorities, in several previous investigations during her work as an investigative writer. Her methods for isolating fraud have resulted in convictions or settlements from embezzlers and financial fraudsters. Black Box Voting is the first publicly funded, independent consumer protection group to investigate this election using forensic auditing methods. Irresponsible Media You may have seen recent stories in the media (ABC News, Salon.com), and at other voting integrity Web sites like VerifiedVoting.org, telling you there is no reason to believe suspicions of fraud in the 2004 election. In fact, no member of the media nor any organisation has done any real forensic auditing to determine whether there was fraud or no. Trust in our electoral process is critical to our democracy. We need the right kind of investigation into anomalies, using appropriate methods. "Feel-good" statements, dismissive of real concerns into voting integrity, are not responsible. The truth is what it is. We might see something very uncomfortable unfold during these investigations. Or, maybe not. It's still too early to tell, but the evidence is mounting. Snoopy 50-Year-Old Women Think of this like an assets investigation in a bad divorce: One party may have things to hide, the other party (we, the voters) wants to find out the truth. If you are looking for hidden assets owned by your ex, you don't call in a computer scientist from a university. You enlist the help of private investigators, accountants, lawyers, and your plain old common sense. In fact, snoopy 50-year-old women have proved invaluable in investigating voting machines. This is not a computer problem. It’s not something a reporter who spends 4 hours researching a story can pronounce judgment on. We have been surprised to see prominent scientists announcing "results" before the data is in. We don't know what happened on Nov. 2. We will find out. Here's what Black Box Voting is doing to investigate appropriately: We are doing forensic analysis of the available evidence. We are targeting specific locations based on criteria indicative of fraud. Why We Can't Disclose Our Documents Yet Initially, we hoped to have everything public all the time. This resulted in butt-covering behaviour on the part of public officials, which hampered our investigations. Therefore, we adjusted our methods to keep critical investigations under wraps. That's just the way it has to be right now. Isn't It Too Late? We are dealing with well financed people who are trying to run out the clock. They probably will succeed in that. However, we probably will succeed in proving fraud. What we have going for us is this: - Public outrage: We read your letters and to hear your anguish on the phone. Do not let go of those emotions. Your job is to focus those emotions into stubborn, relentless, nonstop pressure to make sure that there will be consequences for any and all electoral fraud. - Law enforcement: There are still plenty of honest cops. Also, in our experience, different law enforcement agencies don't always get along, and where one fails us, another may not. - The courts. (somewhat.) Not all judges are unfriendly. They vote too. We can follow the example of tobacco industry lawsuits, launching many lawsuits, then sharing discovery and strategy until at last, we prevail. - The media (barely). Network TV has not yet been able to get its brain around the story of electoral betrayal in a 2-minute news byte. For the time being, you must be your own "network TV." Don't count on TV to spread the word. Instead count on America's spirit of self reliance. We will prevail. Be the media. - The Internet. Use it to share information at every level -- instant messaging, e-mailing, listservs, blogs, forums, Web sites, announcements, online media, online documents, film and video clips, audio clips, and any way that you can imagine to use it effectively. The Internet allows us to respond without boundaries, quickly, in unpredictable ways. - We have truth. BREAKING -- SATURDAY NOV 13 2004: Black Box Voting has launched a fraud audit into Florida. Three investigators (Bev Harris, Andy Stephenson, and Kathleen Wynne) are in Florida right now. We will initiate hand counts on selected counties that have not fully complied with our Nov. 2 Freedom of Information request by Monday (Diebold counties) or Tuesday (other counties). BREAKING -- SATURDAY NOV 13 2004: We have reports that both David Cobb (Green Party) and Michael Badnarik (Libertarian Party) will be filing for official recounts in Ohio. Black Box Voting is also launching a fraud audit in Ohio. Gotta be replaced: Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell. Please invoke the following name change on Blackwell immediately, as he is 2004's Katherine Harris. He should now be referred to at all times as "Katherine Blackwell." Please retain this moniker for any future runs for governor. How to be your own media. Spread the word. Latest Katherine Blackwell outrage: Failure to properly account for provisional ballots, and refusing to allow citizens to see the pollbooks. BREAKING -- SATURDAY NOV 13 2004: Black Box Voting is implementing fraud diagnostics on the state of New Mexico. Information we recently received is indicative of widespread vote manipulation. BREAKING -- SATURDAY NOV 13 2004: Black Box Voting is requesting legal assistance for a specific county in Georgia. Indications of corrupt voting processes, with possible criminal actions by local officials. BREAKING -- SATURDAY NOV 13 2004: Black Box Voting is launching a fraud investigation on Pima County Arizona. BREAKING -- SATURDAY NOV 13 2004: Black Box Voting is launching a fraud investigation on the state of Nevada. Pro bono legal help certified to practise in Nevada, needed immediately. Multiple irregularities. Need people to take affidavits from election workers, state-wide. BREAKING -- FRIDAY NOV 12 2004: Ralph Nader to audit Diebold machines in New Hampshire. According to Nader, the current situation with voting machines warrants investigation. Several elements make voting machines "probative" for investigation, according to Nader, a consumer affairs lawyer: proprietary ownership, secret code, vested interests, a high-value reward, and lack of any real consequences, or likelihood of getting caught, for vote manipulation. "We are told that shenanigans are just politics," said Nader at a press conference on Nov. 10. "Well, it's not politics. It's taking away people's votes." up! Duelling Lawyers, Election Officials Gnashing Teeth - a live account of the important work from the trenches of Bev Harris, Executive Director of Black Box Voting.org. (VOLUSIA COUNTY) - NOV 16, 2004 - VOTERGATE.TV FILM CREW CATCHING IT ALL… FRIDAY, Black Box Voting investigators Andy and Kathleen popped in to ask for some records. They were rebuffed by an elections official named Denise. Bev Harris called on the cell phone from investigations in downstate Florida, and told Volusia County Elections Supervisor Deanie Lowe that Black Box Voting would be in to pick up our Nov. 2 Freedom of Information request, or would file for a hand recount. "No, Bev, please don't do that!" she exclaimed. But this is the way it has to be, folks. We didn't back down. MONDAY, Bev, Andy and Kathleen came in with a film crew and asked for the FOIA request. Deanie Lowe gave it to us with a smile, but I noticed that one item, the polling place tapes, were not copies of the real ones, but instead were new printouts, done on Nov. 15, and not signed by anyone. I asked to see the real ones, and they told us for "privacy" reasons we can't have copies of the signed ones. I insisted on at least viewing them (although refusing to give us copies of the signatures is not legally defensible, according to our attorney). They said the real ones were in the County Elections warehouse. It was quittin' time and we arranged to come back this morning to review them. Lana Hires, an employee who gained some notoriety in a Diebold memo (where she asked for an explanation of minus 16,022 votes for Gore, so she wouldn't have to stand there "looking dumb" when the auditor came in) was particularly unhappy about seeing us in the office. She vigorously shook her head when Deanie Lowe suggested we go to the warehouse. TUESDAY, Kathleen and I showed up at the warehouse at 8:15am. There was Lana Hires looking especially gruff, yet surprised. She ordered us out. Well, we couldn't see why because there she was, with a couple other people, handling the original poll tapes. You know, the ones with the signatures on them? We stepped out and they promptly shut the door behind us. There was a trash bag on the porch outside the door. I looked into it and what do you know, there were poll tapes in there! They came out and glared at us. We drove away a small bit, and then videotaped the license plates of the two vehicles marked 'City Council' member. Others came out to glare and soon all doors were slammed. So, we went and parked behind a bus to see what they would do next. They pulled out some large pylons, which blocked the door. I decided to go look at the garbage some more. Kathleen videotaped this. A man came out and I immediately wrote a public records request for the contents of the garbage bag, which also contained ballots - real ones, but not filled out. A brief tug of war occurred, tearing the garbage bag open. We then looked through it, as Pete looked on. He was quite friendly. We collected various poll tapes and other information and asked if they could copy it for us, for our public records request. "You won't be going anywhere," said Pete. "The deputy is on his way.” Yes, not one but two police cars came up and then two county elections officials, and we all stood around discussing the merits of my public records request. They finally let us go, about the time our film crew arrived, and we all trooped off to the elections office. There, the plot thickened. We began to compare the special printouts given to us with the signed polling tapes from election night. Lo and behold, some were missing. We also found some that didn't match. In fact, in one location, precinct 215, an African-American precinct, the votes were off by hundreds, in favour of George W. Bush and other Republicans. Hmm. Which was right? Our polling tape, specially printed on Nov. 15, without signatures, or theirs, printed on Nov. 2, with up to 8 signatures per tape? Well, then it became even more interesting. Lana Hires took it upon herself to box up some items from an office, which appeared to contain - you guessed it -- polling place tapes. She took them to the back of the building and disappeared. Then, voting integrity advocates from Volusia and Broward, decided now would be a good time to go through the trash at the elections office. Lo and behold, they found all kinds of memos and some polling place tapes, fresh from Volusia elections office. So, we compared these with the Nov. 2 signed ones and the "special' ones from Nov. 15 given to us, unsigned, and we found several of the MISSING poll tapes. There they were: In the garbage. So, Kathleen went to the car and got the polling place tapes we’d pulled from the warehouse garbage. My my my. There were not only discrepancies, but a polling place tape that was signed by six officials. This was a bit disturbing, since the employees there told us that bag was destined for the shredder. By now, a county lawyer had appeared on the scene, suddenly threatening to charge us extra for the time we took looking at the real stuff they’d withheld from us in our FOIA. Other lawyers appeared, phoned, people had meetings, Lana glowered at everyone, and someone shut the door of the office holding the GEMS server. Andy then went to get the GEMS server locked down. He also got the memory cards locked down and secured, much to the dismay of Lana. They were scattered around unsecured in any way before that. We then all agreed to convene tomorrow morning, to further audit, discuss the hand count that Black Box Voting will require of Volusia County, and of course, it is time to talk about contesting the election in Volusia. Bev Harris / Executive Director / BlackBoxVoting.org www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2704906 UP! GOLD: Gleaming at a 16-Year High Capitalising on the current woes of the US dollar, the yellow metal did what it usually does when the dollar suffers: act as a perfect safe haven for investment capital. It rose to a 16-year high today, breaching the $440 per ounce mark. Back in February 2002 it sat at the $290 level. Since then, it’s taken off, consolidated its position, weakened, and now appears primed for a further upward move. That’s according to the buzz around the watercooler anyway. As investors flock towards gold assets, traders believe the $440 level could merely be setting the stage for $450 if the dollar continues to struggle. Now, when I say “investors,” I mean serious ones. That’s not necessarily because the gold market demands only serious investors, but has more to do with the fact that buying the stuff isn’t easy! I mean, who wants to fork over $440 for just one ounce of gold? Even some big institutions and mutual funds have difficulty buying gold, so unless you have the means to buy it, transport it, insure it, and store it, the gold market can be tough to crack. But prepare for that to change. A new gold ETF (exchange-traded fund) is to start trading on the NYSEand soon. The World Gold Council and the new fund’s Boston-based marketing partners, State Street, have introduced the new StreetTRACKS Gold Trust. And word has it that the fund could hit the market as soon as this week. Talk about good timing! As if that isn’t enough for you, Barclays Global Investors is also set to hit the gold market with an ETF of its own the iShares COMEX Gold Trust, set for launch on the American Stock Exchange. Martin Denholm, Bull Market’s Dynamic Market Report. UP! Bush Ship
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By Ebola-Toxic Next-Generation The rats that are leaving the sinking ship will be replaced by worse vermin - toxic, horrific, vile plagues upon the nation. The ship that is sinking is our shining democracy that is, or was, of, by and for the people. It is no longer a shining example for the rest of the world it’s a rogue, pirate lawless regime that the world will continue to grow to hate and fear. These are sad times, but it’s best if we face the reality. Let's hope the minority democrats in congress do all they can to protect the coming rape and torture of America. http://www.opednews.com/kall_111504_bush_rats.htm UP! Fallujah Dr. Allawi said, “No-one’s dead!” You can’t go inside For we want to hide. It's only world law And that's a quaint bore A city of 300 thou So, really how do they know those citizens chose to go? 300 hundred thou Where are they now? “Let them eat cake!” “and let them escape!” It's state terror sadly not an error. tim j gluckman. up! Be Observant About The 'Murder' Of Margaret Hassan by Slasher McNurty 1. 2. 3. 4. Now, if she'd actually been kept in Fallujah and killed there along with her captors when the US flattened the town, ask yourself who would stage a killing to divert attention? Certainly they wouldn’t want her death publicly on their hands [remember: 1 white woman = 10,000 Iraqi women and children] and would do anything to make it look like the 'terrorists' had murdered her. Yet all the little media airbrains take the feed like goldfish gasping for food. No need to be subtle to fool them, just give 'em a script and they're off and running with it. Watch this one, I sense it might develop. That's why her husband appealed for her body, muslims are hot on proper treatment of the body and burial within a few hours of death ... IF it is as it’s told to us, her body will be found somewhere, with a bullet in the head. It's easy enough to dump a body in Iraq and even these pesky Muslims would respect her husband’s wishes and the teaching of the Holy Qur'an. If it doesn't turn up, the Americans have it, or have disposed of it like they disposed of a lot of bodies from Fallujah before they allowed anyone else in, including the Red Crescent. It was obvious they were having a clean-up. Wonder where the mass grave is. NOTE: A 'woman's body' has been 'flown out of Iraq' for forensic tests to find out if it is Margaret Hassan. Will they try to slide it into the general chaos so media luvvies don't notice too much and assume the kidnappers dumped her in Fallujah? Will there be a bullet in the head? I hope Duncan Campbell is paying attention to this one. / Slasher. a l l g o o
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