DAVE LINDORFF
Counterpunch
Thursday January 10, 2008
The news from the "Live Free or Die" state was bad. It was bad for peace and the anti-war movement (such as it is), and it was bad for progressives and progressive issues in general.
The two candidates who won, John McCain on the Republican side, and Hillary Clinton on the Democratic side, are both fervent supporters of the Iraq War and of American militarism. Clinton talks of permanent US bases in Iraq. McCain says the US will be in Iraq for a century. What could the voters in New Hampshire be thinking?
As for progressives and progressive issues, there are two problems. One is that Hillary Clinton is no progressive. Like her wayward husband Bill, she is a "triangulator" who will betray every item on the liberal Democratic agenda, in the unlikely event that she ends up in the White House. The whole Clintonian project has been to talk like a liberal while cutting deals with Republicans that destroy any prospects for progressive change. Healthcare reform? Keep it in the hands of the insurance industry. Crime? Build more prisons, keep the death penalty machine running, and make it harder for criminals to appeal their railroaded convictions. Abortion rights? Only if you have money and can pay for one yourself. Global warming? Tokenism and nuclear power. Jobs? Go back to school and retrain-we need free trade. International crisis? Bomb it.
Fortunately, there is little or no chance that Hillary Clinton will ever be president. She may succeed through massive spending of her corporate dowry of campaign bribes to win the nomination, but she will never manage to win over the necessary independents to beat whoever the Republicans manage to put up as their presidential candidate-probably John McCain or Mike Huckabee. That means we won't have to endure more progressive betrayal, but it does mean four, or even eight more years of a Republican White House.
Almost just as depressing is the fact that we are now going to have to endure almost two months, at least, of truly inane campaigning on the empty themes of "hope" and "change."
I thought we'd seen the nadir of empty campaign sloganeering when I heard Gen. Wesley Clark announce his candidacy for the presidency back in 2003 in what sounded for all the world like a parody of a stupid candidate speech: We need to "move this country forward, not back", "we're going to march forward," and "we're moving out."). But between Clinton and Obama, with their "change" and "hope" themes, we've reached an even greater depth of vacuity.
And yet the crowds cheer and the voters vote.
I actually heard one young voter tell a TV reporter that she had decided on her primary choice by going to an on-line site where she could select her positions on various issues, and be told which candidate best matched her preferences. On-line presidential candidate dating.
` The New Hampshire primary took place in unseasonable 65-degree heat, a reminder that there is a huge issue facing us, which the candidates aren't even talking about. There's also a brutal war on, but that, according to exit polls, wasn't on New Hampshire primary voters' minds either. Never mind that the $2 trillion already committed to that stupid and criminal conflict, and the trillions of dollars that is spent annually around the world on war and planning for war.
What was on their minds apparently was Hillary's probably carefully scripted tearful moment and John McCain's artfully manufactured and illusory image as a "straight talker." (Listen to McCain snuggling up to Bush at the 2004 GOP Convention and say "straight talker" with a straight face.)
A fellow from Vermont, Dennis Morrisseau, wrote me yesterday to suggest that we should rewrite the Constitution (why not? It's being ignored almost completely now anyhow) to make members of Congress, not elected, but rather drafted at random the way we choose juries. This sounds like a great idea to me. Juries are highly regarded for giving us good results and for exhibiting the wisdom of the common people. We could use some of that these days, and it's painfully obvious that a random selection of 435 average American citizens would be a damn sight better at running the country than the group we elect through our current process of corporate-funded campaigns. But I'd go Morrisseau one further. We should also choose our presidents by random lottery. Those who are selected for all of these federal offices should be paid handsomely, and then, at the end of one term, whether in Congress or in the White House, they should be sent back home, maybe with a small pension, or with unemployment compensation that could run for a few years to let them put their old lives back together.
For now, we're stuck with this dreadful election process, where the ability to raise corporate cash (private money, as Ron Paul has discovered, doesn't count) determines whether you get corporate media coverage, and where voters seem to think they're casting ballots for an American Idol winner, not someone to rule them and the country for the next four years.
Copyright © Infowars.net All rights reserved.
Printed from: http://infowars.net/articles/january2008/100108News.htm"
Yeah, or the damn thing was RIGGED!!
See: Proof of Vote Fraud in New Hampshire
More Proof Of Vote Fraud in New Hampshire
New Hampshire Did Not Cout Ron Paul Votes
WhatReallyHappened on New Hampshire
More On Vote Fraud in New Hampshire
Nevertheless (and unsurprisingly):
"Media Struggles To Whitewash Clinton Vote Fraud Suspicions; Professor offers new excuse - claims Hillary overturned a 13 point deficit because her name was higher on the ballot"
by Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, January 10, 2008
The media has gone into overdrive trying to whitewash Hillary Clinton's inexplicable defeat of Barack Obama in the New Hampshire primary and sideline questions about vote fraud, with the latest excuse being that Clinton's name appeared above Obama's on the ballot paper.
In reality, Clinton's reversal of a 10-13 point pre-polling deficit to Obama is highly suspicious and smacks of vote fraud, especially considering the fact that the New York Senator gained a crucial 7% swing thanks to provably vulnerable Diebold electronic voting machines.
In addition, the head polling clerk of the town of Sutton was forced to admit that they completely failed to count 31 votes for Republican candidate Ron Paul, initially reporting his final tally as zero.
The only mention in the establishment press of potential vote fraud in relation to the Clinton/Obama discrepancy fraud came on CNN at around 5:06am the morning after the primary."All the pollsters are unlikely to have made the same mistake so what could have happened? Something must have happened," remarks CNN's political analyst Bill Schneider.
Hillary's show of staged emotion is cited as a potential reason for the change, but at the time it happened almost all pundits were in uniform agreement that Clinton tearing up only harmed her chances because it made her appear weak. Some even likened it to the infamous Dean scream, which mothballed Howard Dean's success in 2004.
Another excuse is that voters experienced a sudden bout of involuntary racism when they entered the polling booth and refused to vote for Obama, a black man. On the face of it this is patently absurd. New Hampshire isn't South Carolina or Mississippi, it's an urbane part of the country which includes a huge swathe of Independents - not normally noted for their racist sentiment. In addition, Obama swept Iowa which is packed full of evangelical phony Christians and other groups more closely associated with racist sentiment.
Schneider reluctantly moves on to the third and only plausible explanation - vote fraud.
But now the establishment have dreamed up a new excuse to stop people asking questions about the whole fiasco - Hillary Clinton won because her name was higher up on the ballot paper!
"Without a doubt, a big source of the discrepancy between the pre-election surveys and the election outcome in New Hampshire is the order of candidates' names on the ballot and in the surveys," says Stanford University professor Jon Krosnick. "Our analysis of all recent primaries in New Hampshire showed that there was always a big primacy effect -- big name, big-vote-getting candidates got 3 percent or more votes more when listed first on the ballot than when listed last."
Research does show that this has a minor impact of increasing a candidate's numbers, but only by a maximum average of about 2% - Hillary had to overturn a mammoth deficit of 10-13% (Zogby had Obama leading her 42/29 per cent before the primary.
However, with Barack Obama showing little interest in contesting the decision, it appears that no proper investigation of what happened will take place and Hillary will roll into Michigan safe in the knowledge that, as the anointed Neo-Con establishment candidate, she has the full support of crooked Diebold voting machines in her bid to steal the nomination even though a growing number of Democrats are rejecting her pro-war, big government underpinnings."Then WHY SO MUCH ATTENTION on "polls," MSM shit-spewers?
Pffffffttttt!!!!
I am so disheartened that America has no peaceful redress to this fascist state we now live in.
Good-bye, America.
"Is this Fraud?? (watch video, numbers don't add up)
"Greenville Vote Discrepancy SAME as Sutton"
"We have caught Sutton red-handed. However, there are other other tonwships that have been reporting 0 votes, including Greenville, as sourced here:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/county/#val=NHREP9
Moreover, when Sutton had been found out, they quickly added 31 votes, and cited ‘human error.’ What is their excuse for this source, now showing Greenville at 25 votes:
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=news0807
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a pattern. Let’s get this info out ASAP."
But...
"Will Ron Paul Authorize An Audit Of The New Hampshire Primary?"
"By: DevvyJanuary 10, 2008
© 2008 - NewsWithViews.com
While the political pundits chatter on about the shocking "upset" in the New Hampshire primary between Marxist Hillary Clinton and 'No Change' Barack Obama, there is a storm brewing regarding the vote count for Congressman Ron Paul.
Regular readers of my column know I have been on the vote fraud issue since 1993. It is real and has dominated our elections since the late '60s. While the corporate media flunkies have been diligent in their efforts to marginalize and crush Dr. Paul's run for the White House the past several months, his support has swelled and along with it, the necessary cash to run a viable campaign. [See this excellent DVD on vote fraud "Hacking Democracy"]
Those of us who have followed the events taking place in this country the past couple of decades are fully cognizant of how the shadow government operates behind the curtain and feeds the peasants (you and me) what they want the people to know and make sure via technology, that enough of their kind are "elected" to higher offices and stay in office. Over the past eight years, I have watched the anger and activism over vote fraud continue to grow as more and more Americans have finally come to the realization that the ballot box no longer belongs to we the people.
This presidential election, and I say this after being in the trenches full time for 18 long years, this is our last hope of putting a true man of the U.S. Constitution and freedom in the White House. These primaries are critical because the delegates to the Republican National Convention this summer which will pick the GOP candidate are being pledged during this process. That's why every single vote counts and it's our right to have every vote counted.
Iowa was a dismal affair with Dr. Paul allegedly coming in fifth place with 10%. As I wrote in my last column, in several counties in Iowa, Dr. Paul pulled in 35%, 14%, 15%, 21% and several with 12% of the vote. Of course, that didn't make the "news" on any cable or "mainstream" network. I didn't believe the final count because I know better. The machines are in control and the powerful elites who rule our lives intend to install their new puppet in the White House regardless of what we the people want.
While I don't follow vote fraud activist, Jim Condit, a friend sent me a link to a piece written by Condit regarding the efforts in Iowa to get an open vote, how they were kicked in the teeth by the GOP heavies and the problems they encountered. What he describes is what I encountered in 1996 when I ran (GOP) for Congress: the local and state machine cared nothing for the truth, only how many backsides they could kiss in their quest to climb the political ladder to power. Believe me, I experienced and watched it first hand. After that primary I walked from the GOP because I could no longer support a party that cared nothing for this country or the truth, only whose boots they could spit and shine making them feel important in their magniloquent little worlds.
I found these comments particularly disturbing in Condit's recounting of events: "3. Right after the hour radio show, -- so many irate Iowans called the Iowa GOP headquarters demanding to know why they were using the discredited Diebold machines, that the Iowa GOP made an appeal to the Ron Paul paid staff in Iowa to send out an email asking Ron Paul supporters to quit calling GOP headquarters! The email, sent out by RP paid staff member, Jeff Frazee, to Ron Paul supporters was nasty; it told them to “Stop it”, regarding any more calls to the political thugs at Iowa GOP Headquarters. He also said that the RP paid staff was doing everything they could to insure a fair count, which was a blatant falsehood, as they did nothing but support the Iowa GOP in their unconscionable, secret count of the votes (behind police guard)." (Regarding the Diebold Machines, please see my last column because it contains links to many items on the corrupt Diebold machines.)
Next we have the fiasco two days ago in New Hampshire. The first incident was a report that two family members had voted in Sutton, New Hampshire, but the returns showed 0 votes cast for Dr. Paul. This 0 vote count was displayed on prominent sites like politico.com. On January 9, 2008, the day following the farce out in New Hampshire, Bev Harris, of BlackBoxVoting.org, called the county clerk's office in Sutton and, oops, the vote count for Ron Paul was 31:
Update January 9 am PST: Town of Sutton Confirms Ron Paul Totals were 31, not zero. "I just got off the phone with Jennifer Call, Town Clerk for Sutton. She confirmed that the Ron Paul totals in Sutton were actually 31, and said that they were "left off the tally sheet" and it was human error. This is not an acceptable answer, especially because one of the most common forms of fraud in a hand count system is to alter or omit results on the reporting sheet. Hand count is lovely, transparent. They then fill out another reconciliation sheet, often in front of witnesses, and it looks fine. Then they provide a summary or media sheet with the incorrect results."
Bev Harris is amazing and the input below from her is just the beginning of unraveling the fraud in New Hampshire: "One noticeable thing on the 59 screen shots I grabbed between 10:45 pm NH time and midnight NH time, is that the ones that had late results (not submitted as of 4 hours after poll closing) -- well, you'd expect them to be hand count locations, right? Nope. Mostly Diebold locations. That's a major red flag to me. How the heck can you not push "print" for four hours??? It normally takes only 30 minutes to wrap things up and print the poll tape when the polls close.
"My method was grabbing the municipalities left to right, right to left, starting at the south end of the state and working up. I only got about three rows up. Anyone who has additional time slice information documenting late reporters I'd like to see it. Late reporters from the first 59 locations I grabbed":
Brentwood - Diebold location - had the Dem results, but no Republican results as of 11:53 pm (polls closed at 7)
Chesterfield - Hand count location - no results as of 11:00 pm
Derry - Diebold location - no results in as of 11:42 pm
Fremont - Diebold location - no results in as of 11:48 pm
Greenfield - Hand count location - no results in as of 11:52 pm
Hampton - Diebold location - results in on time, but I flagged this because every Dem candidate had a result divisible by 5 and for Republicans, Huckabee 217, McCain 1217, Romney 1217, it just looked weird. So much for my statistical capabilities.
Hollis - Diebold location - results not in as of 11:54 pm
New Ipswich - Diebold location - results not in as of 10:52 pm
Newton - Diebold location - results not in as of 10:58 pm
Pelham - Diebold location - results not in as of 10:56 pm
Temple - Hand count location - results not in as of 11:26 pm
Winchester - Diebold location - results not in as of 10:46 pm
McCain was declared the winner by several networks 17 MINUTES after the polls closed. Same thing I wrote about in my last column. With a few precincts "reporting" or "projected," it's all over - even before the bulk of ballots are "counted" by the machines. What a farce.
If you will go to this link on BlackBoxVoting.org and scroll down a ways, you'll see a chart comparing Towns with Paper Ballots and Towns with Diebold Machines. The results are stunning for the Clinton/Obama race. I also recommend you book mark and read over the weekend: '99 Ways to Steal Elections: The Story of John Fund and Ron Paul' by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster, where she writes:
"The book, “Stealing Elections,” was written as cover for plans already in motion. When did those Diebold Machines have their software installed? Who wrote it? We really need a time line here. When his book hit the market John was disappointed that it did not get more of the same kind of treatment that routinely is accorded to Ann Coulter's vitriolic offerings. But he was supposed to have finished it several years before, so what could he expect? Disinformation tools have deadlines.
"Diebold Machines, purged lists, a book that positions election fraud as committed primarily by Democrats; When you put the means for stealing in place in advance it is no accident. This corporate strategy, intended to cement the control of their markets so that America becomes one big company town, is theft on a scale that boggles the mind. The means for stealing elections have multiplied over the years. No new technology is left unplumbed for its possibilities for ensuring the corporations their continued stream of income. John and his cadre of pundits and media personalities, for instance Sean Hannity, simulate popular opinion. Their think tanks, like Cato, are to persuade us to accept their ideas. They are paid a lot, so they must know, right?"
Here's the bottom line for me. There is no question in my mind and heart that Congressman Ron Paul is the only true statesman in Washington, D.C., in my lifetime and the only man who can take on what will be happening by the end of this year on the economy, endless wars and other issues. Last week I read the most superb, concise explanation on Ron Paul and his candidacy. Thomas J. DiLorenzo's words rang with such sweet truth, I read it twice: The Jefferson of Our Times. This isn't just another ho-hum, rah-rah election and we cannot treat it as such.
The question is this: Had these voters not stepped forward and put their complaint on a Ron Paul blog site, would the county clerk have corrected the "error" and Dr. Paul's real vote numbers entered as official results? Does her excuse ring true? Not to those of us who have been into the vote fraud issue for so long. How many more missing votes are there for Ron Paul?
This whole process is a travesty. Ron Paul is moving on to the next primaries, but what about the mess left behind? He simply can't afford not to get those delegate votes. One thing people aren't paying enough attention to is that each of these primary "events" gets the candidate convention delegates. Go to this news item which gives the delegate count. Ron Paul has zero. If he doesn't start racking up those convention delegates, forget the White House. He can't do that if the vote is being stolen because those delegates hinge on the vote. Rasmussen had Dr. Paul at 14% for New Hampshire. FAUX had him at 8% all day and the machines made sure it stayed that way to the final "count." The chatter all over electronic and print media the day following the primary: all these polling orgs have egg on their faces! It's called eating their own when it's expedient - place the blame away from the true culprit. The bull, the cape and the matador.
I don't know who is advising Dr. Paul or if he's even being told what's going on. There is no shame in a candidate paying for a hand recount. The shame is doing nothing about it and moving on as if everything is okay. It's not. Look at all these dedicated Americans fighting for every vote for Ron Paul. Is his campaign simply going to blow off this fight for his votes? In four days it's Michigan, the same thing happens and his campaign just says, oh well, off to the next state?
Right now the polls are showing Congressman Paul at a pathetic 4% for South Carolina. That state is considered a crucial one, yet South Carolina is going to use voting machines banned in other states! (see here) There will be NO delegates for Dr. Paul if this happens because the machines will keep the vote count below 10%. Take ten minutes to watch this test of a vote counting machine where 6 no votes and 2 yes votes are fed into it. The demonstrator confidently hits the button to get the vote tally. The results: 7 yes and 1 no. The demonstrator is shocked. Not me. This is what's happening to our elections and Ron Paul is the number one target in the presidential race on the GOP side.
If this continues into "Super Tuesday," Feb. 5th, it will be all over for Ron Paul. If there isn't some accountability at this stage, we're going to see more of the same. Same old game I've watched for 14 long years when I became aware of fraud fraud. As hard as this quiet, decent and honorable man has worked during his candidacy and for all the dedicated supporters of his, how can you simply over look what's going on and not challenge it? What message does that send to supporters? How can a candidate expect his ground troops to get out there and fight for every vote for him, if the candidate won't even make the effort to verify every vote has been counted fairly when there is evidence of vote tampering? It's not money for a hand recount because we have opened our wallets big time. There are things that simply must take priority.
I've encouraged Ron Paul supporters to continue contacting his NH Campaign HQ and ask them if there is going to be any audit of a dozen or so precincts. So far, several have gotten no where with claims by the staff that they don't know anything about what's going on with the vote count! This bothers me to no end. There has to be a fight for honest votes by the candidate, otherwise hope dwindles and so will the cash. So will the hope. Nobody had any wild and unrealistic expectations Dr. Paul would win New Hampshire, but his massive number of wins in straw polls simply doesn't jive with the alleged vote Tuesday night.
Will Ron Paul authorize an audit of a cross section of precincts or let this fraud stand?
Important links:
1 - The cat that controls New Hampshire election programming
2 - NH Primary: Pre-Election Polls Wildly Different Than Results Announced for Clinton/Obama
3- Questions raised over Romney's Wyoming win 'Results don't jibe with statewide delegate selection'
4 - A Closer Look At The Count
Devvy Kidd authored the booklets, Why A Bankrupt America and Blind Loyalty; 2 million copies sold. Devvy appears on radio shows all over the country, ran for Congress and is a highly sought after public speaker. Devvy belongs to no organization.
She left the Republican Party in 1996 and has been an independent voter ever since. Devvy isn't left, right or in the middle; she is a constitutionalist who believes in the supreme law of the land, not some political party. Her web site (www.devvy.com) contains a tremendous amount of information, solutions and a vast Reading Room.
Devvy's website: www.devvy.com"
"Another stroke of good luck for Ron Paul?"
I just saw another avenue for the globalist elite to siphon off votes from whoever they wish.
"Ron Paul headquarters attracting supporters from both parties"
I don't believe in elections -- or anything -- in AmeriKa anymore.
Here is your 2008 Republican nominee, readers -- just who the globalists and MSM want!
"Is Giuliani Betting on a Terror Attack to Get Him Nominated?
9/11 Blogger
Thursday January 10, 2008
I was reading Giuliani's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on 1/9, where he lays out his plans to turn America into a fascist, warmongering, police-state, and I began to wonder if he knows something we don't. His campaign is based entirely on the notion that America is not safe and must continue to attack Muslim nations. But this angle is not working for him. His numbers in Iowa and New Hampshire were laughable.
Yet he carries on with this failing technique with remarkable determination, as the mainstream media continues to prop him up and ignore antiwar candidates like Ron Paul. Watch his latest propaganda video called "Ready". His foreign policy team is like a virtual Who's Who of Neoconservative false-flagites: Norman Podhoretz, Daniel Pipes, David Frum, etc.
Clearly, these well-connected individuals are not going to sit around while their candidate falters. I know Giuliani's plan is to win the delegate-rich state of Florida, where's he been spending all his time campaigning (and probably arranging voter fraud). Just today, some mysterious bomb threat caused him to delay a speech. I wouldn't be surprised if he called it in himself.
Could this be a sign of what is to come? Giuliani could be waiting for a false-flag attack in this country, or a crisis in the Persian Gulf, to get him nominated. I can already hear pundits like Chris Matthews applauding him for being the "tough candidate" after America suffers another attack or a major confrontation with Iran, like the one that almost occurred this week (and was probably fabricated).
In the WSJ piece, Giuliani claims his creation of the Office of Emergency Management in 1996 allowed New York to "withstand" 9/11. What a sick joke this man is. Let's just pray he continues his losing streak.
Copyright © Infowars.net All rights reserved.
Printed from: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/100108Giuliani.htm"
May God help us all, readers.
