…but badass too!

Good morning!

This one’s for the girls.

The Badass Women of Darfur

Niemat Ahmadi is a quiet badass. She is a native of North Darfur, founder and president of Darfur Women Action Group and the director of Global Partnerships for United to End Genocide and has been a friend and colleague for many years. She is soft-spoken but passionate when it comes to her country and the atrocities that are still being committed there. She has seen things and her family and friends have and are experiencing things that no human being should ever encounter.

This weekend I am joining her in Washington, D.C. forDarfur Women Action Group’s symposium on “Women and Genocide in the 21st Century,” it is taking place this month in D.C. to draw the attention of the advocates and policy makers to the plight of the women of Darfur who have long suffered and to take with us on our journey of women empowerment by developing practical strategies for women. The symposium will also be bringing Sudanese diaspora leaders from various regions of Sudan to set strategies of how to bring about change in Sudan that will sustainably end the crisis in Sudan.

What do you know about the crisis in Darfur today? Here is what I know and am horrified by:

First off, it’s far from over and women continue to bear the brunt of the suffering. Today, after almost 10 years, the situation for women in Darfur remains tragic. The widespread systematic use of rape and sexual violence against women and girls is now spreading beyond Darfur into other regions of Sudan, including the capital city of Khartoum. There is also an increase in violence against female civil society leaders in Sudan. These women are continuously abused after raising their concerns about the Sudanese’s repressive laws that restrict women’s freedoms and allow impunity for security agents to abuse women.

Despite the outcry and the attention built around the Darfur genocide movement, little has been done to affect the situation on the ground. I am really wondering why and I feel that the international community owe the people of Darfur an answer.

It’s worth noting that Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan has already been indicted as a genocidal criminal. In 2004, the United States government declared the crises in Darfur as genocide and in 2009 the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued two arrest warrant against Al-Bashir for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. I am still wondering what other confirmation the world community and its leaders needs before they can take serious action and stop the ongoing genocide and hold the perpetrators accountable.

As expressed by my friend Niemat:

Imagine, your mother who is over 70 years old and is sadly caught up under the threat of fire with nowhere to turn, you are constantly getting news about a beloved relative just shot dead or a best friend who has been brutally raped with total impunity or sisters whose children are left to die because they have no access to and cannot afford medical treatment, you may never be able to imagine that. For those of us lucky enough to escape the genocide, you cannot believe how much pain we carry with us daily, with little hope for the situation to change. It’s devastating and it is indeed far from over.

As Niemat points out:

In spite of the suffering, Darfuri women are emerging throughout the grassroots as potential leaders; they serve as healers and keepers of their families and acting as spokespersons for their people in articulating the demands of their community. Further, they demonstrate a unique resilience and outstanding capacity to lead the potential to sustain their society. However, they are rarely recognized for these tremendous contributions, despite the enormous challenges that they face.

I know you join me with the belief that women should not be treated as victims but as equal partners in resolving the crisis. Hence, civilian protection, response to women’s emergency needs, education and economic empowerment of women, along with facilitating women’s access to justice and peace-making forums are of particular importance in combating violence and in achieving a sustainable end to the atrocities in Darfur and Sudan at large.

There is nothing more powerful in fighting genocide than empowering the affected communities. At its core, empowering women is of particular importance to help the Darfuri and the Sudanese people at large to stand for themselves, work together to end the crisis and to bring democracy to their homeland. That is what the Darfur Women Action Group is all about and that is why I will do whatever I can to support it. By asking questions, listening and using my voice to speak up for women and I call up on you to join me. Only with our collective effort can we end violence, protect the vulnerable and empower men and women to make our world a peaceful and just place to live.

Please visit http://DarfurWomenAction.org website to learn more, volunteer, or whatever it is you wish to participate in helping bring some peace to this situation. If you are in D.C, I invite you to sign up and join us at this event. [Darfur Women Symposium in D.C. Oct. 27th-28th.]

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Readers:  Anonz has done so much for the women in Darfur. We all do what matters to us most. If supporting and empowering women is something that matters to you, please get involved and do something. Thank you.

Zen Lill:  You are a voice in your group of girls and guys so I am happy to hear that!

Anonymous: Ooh I love when someone calls me a bitch, because that is exactly what I am….and that’s “badass bitch” to you.

Janet: The more extreme and shocking she is, the more money she makes – She’s in it for the money and she’s rolling in it, laughing all the way to the bank,  and my guess, while getting it good and not by a tiny dick white man.

Ryan: Smart man.

Have a great Saturday everyone!

Peace & Lots of Love

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Vote counting company tied to Romney

by Gerry Bello & Bob Fitrakis
September 27, 2012

Several Tanker trucks full of political ink have been spilled on Mitt Romney’s tenure as a vulture capitalist at Bain Capital. A more important story, however, is the fact that Bain alumni, now raising big money as Romney bundlers are also in the electronic voting machine business. This appears to be a repeat of the the infamous former CEO of Diebold Wally O’Dell, who raised money for Bush while his company supplied voting machines and election management software in the 2004 election.

In all 234 counties of Texas, the entire states of Hawaii and Oklahoma, half of Washington and Colorado, and certain counties in swing state Ohio, votes will be cast on eSlate and ePollbook machines made by Hart Intercivic. Hart Intercivic machines have famously failed in Tarrant County (Ft. Worth), adding 10,000 non-existent votes. The EVEREST study, commissioned by the Ohio secretary of state in 2007, found serious security flaws with Hart Intercivic products.

Looking beyond the well-documented Google choking laundry list of apparent fraud, failure and seeming corruption that is associated with Hart Intercivic, an ongoing Free Press investigation turned its attention to the key question of who owns the voting machine companies. The majority of the directors of Hart come from the private equity firm H.I.G. Capital. H.I.G. has been heavily invested in Hart Intercivic since July 2011, just in time for the current presidential election cycle. But who is H.I.G Capital?

Out of 49 partners and directors, 48 are men, and 47 are white. Eleven of these men, including H.I.G. Founder Tony Tamer, were formerly employed at Bain and Company, and two of those men, John P. Bolduc and Douglas Berman are Romney bundlers along with former Bain and H.I.G. manager Brian Shortsleeve.

Additionally, four of these men were formerly employed at Booz Allen Hamilton. Bush family friendly Carlyle group is an owner of Booz Allen which also made voting machines for the United States military. Booz Allen was also the key subcontractor for the controversial PioneerGroundbreaker program, an NSA data mining operation that gathered information on American citizens until it was shut down and replaced with even more invasive successor programs like MATRIX and Total Information Awareness.

H.I.G. Capital employees have given $338,000 to Mitt Romney’s campaign. That amounts to over $1500 per employee. Bain Capital, Mitt’s former company, by comparison, only gave him $268,000. H.I.G. is the 11th largest donor to the Romney Campaign. Clearly they are working really hard for their man. It appears that they will work even harder on election night. Although not boisterously promising to deliver states where their machines are to Romney as Wally O’Dell of Diebold did for Bush in 2004, they can alter hundreds of thousands of votes and swing the vote in the crucial swing state of Ohio.

Will Mitt’s cronies steal our democracy the way they stole our jobs? Time will tell, but they have certainly positioned themselves to do so if they choose.

In our first investigative article Who owns Scytl? George Soros isn’t in the voting machines, but the intelligence community is,

the Free Press revealed that Scytl, a Spanish-based company now contracted to count 25% of the U.S. presidential vote, has ties to Booz Allen. Scytl’s start up funding comes from three European Venture Capital Firms, Balderton Capital, Nauta Capital, and Spinnaker SCR. The director of Nauta’s American operations is Dominic Endicott, who went from Cluster Consulting to Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) where he oversaw wireless practice. He then rejoined his former colleagues from Cluster Consulting at Nauta. In his capacity as a Nauta partner Endicott also sits on the board of CarrierIQ.

Scytl has emerged as the most mysterious election counting company in this presidential election. Scytl claims to have a Scytl USA division located in Glen Allen, Virginia. The following is a photo of the Scytl USA national corporate offices at 6012 Glen Allen Drive. The land deed records show that the owner of the property at that address is Hugh Gallagher, now listed as the managing director of Scytl USA. The deed, which was prepared in Ohio by a relocation firm in 2002, pre-dates the creation of Scytl USA. A Scytl USA sales office is located in Baltimore, Maryland, and appears to be a Rent-an-Office, often referred to as a “virtual” office which has a shared secretary and serves as a mail drop.

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Readers: And we want this man Romney, this LSOS to be the CEO of our country? Never.

Social Butterfly: Nice to hear from you! The only learning that, in my opinion, needs to happen, is for women to learn not to put their lives and livelihood in the hands of men. Men are not going to learn or change, when it’s working for them…at least not in my time frame. NOW is the time for women to take control of their own lives and solidly come together in support of each other.

On another note, I was privy to the hotel key card thing but I didn’t know about the magnet. Thanks to your mom for sharing. I HOPE you’re doing good!

Al: What a nice surprise to see you here. Yes, it has been awhile. I like what you wrote. Thanks for taking the time to share your perspective, and for supporting women. You have been missed. Say hello to Howie, if you see him. :)

Julie, Mindy, Sati, Lisa, Sanna: Yay!! Thank you and thanks to all the girls who will follow suit. Spread the word! Encourage all of the females in your life to do the same same. Like I said, NOW is the time! xoxo

Nathan: Oh so true. Thanks for your support of women.

Caroline: I was sorry to read your story. I HOPE your life has lots of wonderful possibilities.

Martha: Your cute analogy made me smile. I needed that this morning.

Craig: It is so easy for a man to like you to say that libs are painting it with a broad brush. Of course you as a repug man would say that.  That is the problem – things like that get said all of the time. But because it doesn’t affect you, a man, you see nothing wrong with his “stupid statement”. But is it “stupid statements” like this that need to be looked at because it can affect women big time.

It is your male arrogance that prevents you from seeing the harm because to you, this is just a “stupid statement”, like so many others have made.  These kind of “stupid statements” obviously mean nothing to you, but I can tell you they mean something to us women. I have said this before so let me say this again for those stupid men who don’t get it:

I am used to  the male arrogance, but I am not numbed by it it where it becomes “normal” even though it is “normal” behavior by men…it is not acceptable and never will be.  To get used to it means, we normalize it and that is never going to happen with me – that means we as women are giving up and giving in to it. That will never be. I am just sick of it. It is so prevalent in so many little hits  of dialogue…the nuance that can slip by in a sentence or two if one is not conscious of it being there.

Well let me tell you, women are womaning up and paying attention to those “stupid statements”. And no more are we going to put up with the “stupid statements” or the men who spout them.

Readers: That’s it for me today. Your turn. Blog me.

Peace & Love…

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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Good morning!

Unfortunately, I am not able to copy the video and add it here but please click here or click on the title to view it; it is a must see. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard does not hold anything back in her impassioned attack on opposition leader’s views of women. You go girl!

Julia Gillard speech prompts dictionary to change ‘misogyny’ definition

Australian prime minister’s impassioned attack on opposition leader’s views of women provokes debate over word’s meaning

Australian prime minister Julia Gillard accuses the opposition leader, Tony Abbott, of misogyny Link to this video

When Australian prime minister Julia Gillard launched a ferocious attack on the leader of the opposition for his repeated use of sexist language, she was feted by feminists the world over. But critics in Australiarounded on her for supposedly misusing the word misogyny and falsely accusing Tony Abbott of hating women.

Now, however, Gillard’s critics no longer have semantics on their side. In the wake of the row, the most authoritative dictionary in Australia has decided to update its definition of the word, ruling that a modern understanding of misogyny would indeed imply “entrenched prejudice against women” as well as, or instead of, pathological hatred of them. Sue Butler, editor of the Macquarie Dictionary, said that, on this occasion, it had failed to keep pace with linguistic evolution.

“Since the 1980s, misogyny has come to be used as a synonym for sexism, a synonym with bite, but nevertheless with the meaning of entrenched prejudice against women rather than pathological hatred,” she said in a statement.

While the Oxford English Dictionary reworded its definition a decade ago, staff at the Macquarie had been alerted to the issue only in the aftermath of Gillard’s extraordinary speech in parliament. “Perhaps as dictionary editors we should have noticed this before it was so rudely thrust in front of us as something that we’d overlooked,” Butler told the Associated Press.

Gillard – Australia’s first female leader – accused Abbott, head of the centre-right Liberal party, of repeated instances of sexism and misogyny, including his description of abortion as “the easy way out”, his apparent characterisation of Australian women as housewives doing the ironing, and appearances at political rallies in front of posters urging voters to “ditch the witch”.

She told MPs: “The leader of the opposition says that people who hold sexist views and who are misogynists are not appropriate for high office. Well, I hope the leader of the opposition has got a piece of paper and he’s writing out his resignation because if he wants to know what misogyny looks like in modern Australia, he doesn’t need a motion in the House of Representatives; he needs a mirror.”

Abbott had sparked the Labor prime minister’s fury by calling for the speaker of parliament, Peter Slipper, to be sacked over a series of sexist and vulgar texts he had sent to a former member of staff. Slipper has since resigned as speaker.

Seized with indignation and pointing her finger across the despatch box, she retorted: “I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. And the government will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. Not now, not ever.”

In an attempt to defend himself, Abbott has claimed the attack was part of a government smear campaign. His supporters have also accused Gillard of hyperbole, citing the Macquarie Dictionary as proof that, when she claimed Abbott was a misogynist, she was saying he had a visceral hatred of the opposite sex.

Those figures have not welcomed the dictionary’s decision to expand its definition, and Butler said she had received letters accusing it of a political move. “It would seem more logical for the prime minister to refine her vocabulary than for the Macquarie Dictionary to keep changing its definitions every time a politician mangles the English language,” Fiona Nash, a senator in Abbott’s coalition, said.

Speaking to the Australian newspaper, the manager of opposition business, Christopher Pyne, also criticised the decision. “If Macquarie changes its definition of misogyny to something other than what it is, it undermines Macquarie Dictionary in its entirety,” he said. “The prime minister knew when she used the term misogyny that she was calling Tony Abbott a women hater and she should bear the burden of that vicious personal smear.”

Gillard’s impassioned speech endeared her to feminists throughout the world, with media in Britain, the US and elsewhere praising her for arguably the most outspoken attack on sexism in political life in history. In France, her attack was lauded as an impressive and “implacable tirade”, while the New Yorker said that, while her motivation may have been political, Gillard had started a discussion about “something much more important” in the process.

In Australia, however, her performance received rather more mixed reviews, with many concerned about what they saw as her attempt to defend Slipper. Much of the mainstream media wrote off Gillard’s speech as a disaster, with one commentator claiming she would “rue yet another bad call” and another decrying her “flawed” judgment, which, they said, had lost her credibility.

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Readers: Instead of the men supporting Gillard, they decided to just change the definition of the word, so men won’t feel so bad. This is just sickening. The men in Australia didn’t like being accused of hating women. Boo hoo.

So rather than doing something to protect women from men who hate them, they changed the definition to remove accusation of hate from the woman’s term “misogynist”.

Instead of getting real with their hate for women and changing their sick behavior and attitude toward women, let’s just change the word to suit their needs, giving them an excuse to continue being the sick men that they are.

Aussie girls: You are being screwed by these men – get off of your asses and protest – don’t let these men screw you by allowing them an excuse for them to continue to treat you this way. Now is the time to do something. And if any men in your country have any balls, they’ll be protesting right along side you. But what I can see from the video, these men don’t show any compassion for your girls – you girls might all be on your own, like many of us are in the world. Now is the time to come together in support, like all women across the world must do.

Gill: I liked your take on Romney’s view of women. No doubt if he could have some words in the dictionary changed he would.

Derek: Life is all about the small issues especially when it comes to women, because the small nuances against women happen daily, that for you it is just the “norm”…acceptable. Let me tell you it will never be acceptable even if it is the “norm”.

So of course, you a man, are like most men who can’t see the harm it does or the place it throws and keeps women in. So you make a big deal seem like it is small issue, just because it doesn’t directly affect you.

You are like the arab men. What does it matter to a woman if there is unemployment when if that woman gets a job she is certain not to get equal pay. The reason why you are focusing on the “big” issues is because you are probably a man who is out of a job and part of that unemployment rate you speak of. You are being affected. But were you helping women reach equality when you knew that you were making more money for doing the same same job when you had one?

In my opinion, YOU are the problem – people like you who vote, and will continue to vote for candidates who discriminate. We wouldn’t be in this situation if it weren’t for people like you who vote in candidates who are narcissistic and self-serving.

And from your last comment, you are no doubt for the party who put us in the disastrous economic environment in the first place. YOU, wannabee, need to wake up! YOU need to live in reality and start supporting the candidates that really care about women and the country. That is when good change will happen for everyone and not just the elite 1%.

Ruth, SM: The Romney’s are so gung-ho to send other peoples’ sons and daughters to war, but theirs have the protection behind the Mormon religion. As always, nice to see you here. Love and hugs to you et al.

I’m out the door now…Your turn, start flappin’ – blog me.

Peace out.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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michelle

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We have to re-elect Obama.

Good morning!

I get so thrilled when I see videos like these (Thanks to Rachel Maddow Show!), because when I hear about women who are planning on voting for Romney, I feel myself go insane. There is no logic to their thinking – But hey,  they obviously aren’t thinking – because any thinking woman would vote for Obama, a man who truly supports women.

In this first video we have girls of all ages explaining why Romney is a threat to our rights, our health, and our equality. What girl doesn’t see that he would be a no good president, who could care less about what is so important to us girls?

Produced by WeApproveThisMessage, a group of independent Americans who have volunteered their time to help bring our country together.

This second video is of Rosie Perez from Actually.org giving her two on “Mitt”. Ya got to love this girl. I don’t want to say much more – just watch the video.

Actually… is a partnership between American Bridge and JCER. Schlep Labs is a project of JCER. Actually… was produced by Amy Rubin at Barnacle Studios
http://blog.barnacle.is

And this last one is a string of stars spreading the word. What are they spreading?  Watch the video. :)

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Readers: Well…what are you waiting for? Sign it. Then blog me.

Obama  /Romney tonight! Can’t wait to see it !

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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michelle

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You can bet they will give it their best try.

Good morning!

Since Robert,RT was kind enough to send me his list of writes, and post one of them here yesterday, and since Dallas raised the question,  this write seemed like the most natural one to follow.

Will the GOP steal America’s 2012 election?

by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
September 6, 2012

The Republican Party could steal the 2012 US Presidential election with relative ease.

Six basic factors make this year’s theft a possibility:

1. The power of corporate money, now vastly enhanced by the US Supreme Court’s Citizens’ United decisions;

2. The Electoral College, which narrows the number of votes needed to be moved to swing a presidential election;

3. The systematic disenfranchisement of—according to the Brennan Center—ten million or more citizens, most of whom would otherwise be likely to vote Democratic. More than a million voters have also been purged from the rolls in Ohio, almost 20% of the total vote count in 2008;

4. The accelerating use of electronic voting machines, which make election theft a relatively simple task for those who control them, including their owners and operators, who are predominantly Republican;

5. The GOP control of nine of the governorships in the dozen swing states that will decide the outcome of the 2012 campaign; and,

6. The likelihood that the core of the activist “election protection” community that turned out in droves to monitor the vote for Barack Obama in 2008 has not been energized by his presidency and is thus unlikely to work for him again in 2012.

Winning a fair and reliable electoral system can be achieved only with a massive grassroots upheaval.

The power of money is now enshrined by the infamous Citizens United decision.  In at least 90% of our Congressional races and at least 80% of our US Senate races, the candidate who spends the most money wins.

From the presidency to the local level, our elections—and thus control of our government—are dominated by cash.

For more than a century, the ability of corporations and the super-rich to buy in directly has been legally constrained.  But the concentration of media ownership in the hands of ever-fewer corporations has vastly enhanced their power.

Already in 2012, the tsunami of dollars pouring in from corporations and super-rich individuals has soared to entirely new levels.  Even the floodgates opened by Citizens United can’t handle the flow.  With its June decision denying Montana’s attempt to keep some spending restrictions in tact, the John Roberts US Supreme Court has inaugurated an era in which virtually unrestrained “pay-to-play” money will re-define the electoral process.  Republicans in the US Senate have also blocked attempts to require that these campaign “donations” be made public.

It’s not hard to guess where this leads.  The June, 2012, recall election in Wisconsin saw at least 8 times as much money being spent on protecting Republican governor Scott Walker as was spent to oust him.

Barack Obama has spent much of his presidency courting corporate interests.  But he will be out-raised by the corporate/super-rich 1% backing Mitt Romney.  A handful of high-profile billionaires will spend “whatever it takes” to put the GOP back into the White House.  Just a dozen of them have already provided more than 70% of Romney’s early campaign budget.

Most of this corporate money is being used to persuade voters to oust Obama, which they may well decide to do.  But US history shows that some of it can also restrict the ability of Americans to vote.  It can then “bend” the vote count in ways the public may not want.

Our nation’s history shows that given the same chance, the Democrats would gladly do the same to the Republicans.  And it’s happened many times, especially in the Jim Crow south.

But in 2012, it will be primarily Republicans using gargantuan sums of corporate money to take control of the government from Democrats, and democracy be damned.

We are not writing this in support of Barack Obama or the Democratic Party.  We are mystified by their unwillingness to fight for meaningful electoral reform.  Both Al Gore and John Kerry were legitimately elected president, but neither was willing to fight for meaningful reform, or even to discuss it. When we broke many of the major stories on the theft of Ohio 2004, it was the Democrats who most fiercely attacked us.

We’re continually asked why the Democrats have been willing since 2000 to sit back and let the GOP get away with this.  Frankly, we have no answer.

But for us, the more important reality is that this electoral corruption dooms the ballot as an instrument of real democracy.  A system this badly broken means a bi-partisan oligarchy can always deny third and other grassroots parties the use of elections to challenge the status quo, in this case one increasingly defined by war, bigotry, injustice, moneyed privilege and ecological suicide.

Thus it’s been a century since the last significant electoral challenges to the Democrat-Republican corporate domination of the political system.

That challenge was staged by the People’s (Populist) and then Socialist Parties.  In rapid succession they rallied huge grassroots followings demanding core changes to the corporate domination of American politics.  The 30-year upheaval they represented laid the groundwork for major changes.  But it failed to crack the corporate domination of our political system.

The Populists were shattered in 1896 with a combination of co-option by William Jennings Bryan’s Democratic Party and election theft engineered by Mark Hanna’s Republicans.  (Republican strategist Karl Rove, a serious student of the 1896 election, considers Mark Hanna to be one of his great heroes).

The Socialists were co-opted and divided in 1916 by the Democrat Woodrow Wilson, who then crushed them in the most violent wave of physical repression ever imposed by a US President on a mass movement that derived from the heart of America’s working public.

No third party has since risen up with enough real political clout to threaten corporate power through the electoral system.  As long as our ballot box is corrupted and unaccountable, none will.

That one party could steal an election from the other means our democracy, if it could still be called that, is essentially in shambles.

Would the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, the Chamber of Commerce and their related billionaires spend tens of millions of dollars to win the White House but stop short of spending the relatively small amount it would take to flip the vote?

In the larger view, the ability of either (or both) corporate parties to do this means no grassroots party will be allowed to force meaningful change in America—at least not through the ballot box.

But we are citizens of a nation born with the bottom-up overthrow of the planet’s then-most powerful king.  As believers in grassroots democracy, we know that the survival instinct is ultimately more powerful than the profit motive.  When it comes to the basics, we have no doubt the power of the people will ultimately prevail.

For those working on the 2012 election, and for democracy in general, that will mean an extraordinary commitment to protecting the registered status of millions of Americans, getting them to the polls, guaranteeing their right to vote once there, and making sure there is an accurate vote count—electronic and otherwise—once those votes are cast.

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Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman are authors of WILL THE GOP STEAL AMERICA’S 2012 ELECTION?, their fifth book on election protection, an e-book at www.harveywasserman.ning.com and freepress.org/store.php#a2012.

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Readers: Thoughts? Blog me. This will be the first of many so stay tuned.

Social Butterfly: Thanks for the heads-up and for blogging the missing link :). I corrected the write last night before I saw your 2nd post.  So Readers, if you haven’t signed it yet, feel free to sign it now. Thanks. Also as I stated to all my readers last night: FYI: The main heading is almost always a link to the original article should you want to go to the original source.

Robert, RT:  Thank you for the list! I perused it and yes it is stunning, and a wealth of information – these articles will be very illuminating to all who read. Thank you, again.

With respect to Obama, I completely agree with you. Obama is a very fair-minded man, which is a characteristic that I appreciate and hold in high regard. But in these circumstances, he needs to think like the GOP think and take ruthless actions against them. If it means investigation and prosecution, he must do it.

Vivien, Sarah: Thanks for the heads-up and helpful advice.

Readers: With respect to comments from Vivien and Sarah, there are many people who hang out in front of grocery stores etc., who claim to register you to vote, but have been hired by repubs to throw away your registration form. Please be careful and either take it to your countys’ official voter registration office or after registration do what was suggested and check on-line.

Another way to ensure that you are registered and that your form was in fact not thrown away is to mark the box that allows you to vote by mail, early. If you check that box you should receive your voting form in the mail within a week. If you don’t get it, then call and make sure that it was indeed turned in. Besides checking online this is another step that won’t leave you left wondering, only to be upset on election day when you are not registered to vote. Then it will be too late.

I am not sure about other states but the last day to register to vote is 15 days before election day, which put the last day as October 22nd. My suggestion is that if you have any question as to whether you are registered or not is to get on it now and check. You can check the status of your voter registration on California by clicking here.

If you want to register to vote online in California, click here. It is very quick and easy. However, if you do so , the site requests permission to contact the DMV for a copy of your signature. Some might not like having their signature on file – I didn’t. What I do suggest is that you visit the website, locate the registration office in your county, fill out the form there and turn it in.

If anyone else has any suggestions please do speak up. Thanks.

peace out. 

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