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On the eve of this holiday 2008 I received my Time Warner bill for internet only usage. It seems they decided change my service to an upgrade without question or fanfare at a cost more than I expected to be paying from this utility.

I bought into the deal of getting the upgrade for $5 more a month free for 6 months then paid the extra for a few more months and the suddenly finding out on the phone with their customer service that the "campaign" had closed with no notice to the consumer and slamming me $15 more.

I had trouble sussing out (slang http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/suss_out) the different plans at the outset since I had been on dial-up forever in my protest at exorbitant corporate usury of utility clients. TV Cable, phone, internet, cell phone is all great but there has been no decrease in TV cable cost since competition has been introduced in the cable market. (BTW using rooftop antenna for TV is much cheaper, and I get HDTV!)

We have Working Assets Long Distance and Credit Card (now Credo) that makes donations to liberal causes and I was not about to let that drop for some bundle plan from some mega utility that donates to the...well you know.

After shopping around for some time we were able to keep the Credo account and get ISP cable somewhat reasonably and keeping our support for our causes.

The ironic thing is that the Ohio Consumers' Council would not touch my complaint nor would the Ohio Chamber Of Commerce (TV only?).

We have to fight our own battles.

Get an idea of the profits:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/31/AR2007013101948.html

Seems like Mr. Connell's Plane was headed from a typical Wash. DC small plane airport.

"FlightAware, a Web site that tracks flight plans, reported that the plane was coming from College Park, Md., departing at 3:31 p.m. and scheduled to arrive at Akron-Canton at 5:43 p.m."(Quoted From Ohio.com)

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As of April 2008 only 50 People can use this airport.

As explained in this video. I am sure they are 50 very special people since September 11, 2001 of the Bush Cabal including this ill fated flight of Mike Connell.

From newscaster and radio personality:

Sean M. Gilbow:
The Catholics have invaded

Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:29 pm (PST)
From Radio-Info:

Bernard Radio Executed an agreement Today to LMA WVKO to Saint
Gabreial Radio starting January 1, 2009. It included a Large
Downpayment for which gained the a Right To Purchase the station in
the future with LMA payments and Deposite to be credited toward the
Purchase price if the option is exercised in the first year of the LMA.

http://www.gregpalast.com/update-obama-slam-duncans-education/#more-2174
Greg describes Arne Duncan as a Bush Baby, living the "No Child Behind Left" doctrine to the max.

In Chicago, all the teachers were fired and replaced, yes, twice.

Does he hate unions? It seems the Republicans like him.
And yes, Duncan did play ball with Obama in Hyde Park.
It is a Palast nightmare come true and a story found on in reality.

I did not know that using the dictionary was discouraged, apparently it is (see more). Children are supposed to learn the definition of the word through it's placenment in the sentence.

I would think this is a good tool to try to understand but perhaps, as the commentor (commentator) suggests, one should consult a dictionary.   Read More »

Humboldt Transparency Project Reveals Diebold GEMS Bug
Posted by: "GuvWurld" blog@guvwurld.org guvwurld
Fri Dec 5, 2008 12:49 am (PST)
I had nothing to do with this so please don't congratulate me. This story
is breaking in our local media. See:

North Coast Journal
http://ncjournal.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/election-results-wrong/#comments

Eureka Times-Standard
http://www.times-standard.com/ci_11138905

And volunteers on the Transparency Project are speaking out. I'm told there
will soon be video of Humboldt Registrar of Voters Carolyn Crnich discussing
this. Meanwhile, one of the volunteers has blogged here:

http://democracycounts.blogspot.com/2008/12/we-scanned-more-ballots-than-wer
e-in.html

And another, whose comments I'm posting in full below, has written here:
http://hum.dreamhosters.com/etp/news/20081204.html

Commentary on Premier Election Systems' GEMS central tabulator not
counting 197 ballots in Humboldt County.

by Parke Bostrom
20081204

Disclaimer

My name is Parke Bostrom. I am a volunteer working on the Humboldt
County Election Transparency Project (ETP). (See
http://hum.dreamhosters.com/etp/ for more information on the ETP.) I
do not work   Read More »

December 13, 2008

Join progressives to celebrate the season and the dawn of a new political climate in our country. Presentation by Mercy for Animal's Freeman Wicklund: "Put the chicken before the egg: Why the proposed Hi-Q Egg farm should not be built in Union County" with a video showing. Art display by Malcolm J. Music, refreshments, and networking with socially conscious friends. Sponsored by the Free Press and Central Ohio Green Education Fund. 6:30pm-midnight.

Location: 1021 E. Broad St., side door, parking in rear
Phone:
Email: truth@freepress.org

http://www.mercyforanimals.org/

by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
December 9, 2008

The last US House seat has been filled by a Democratic County Commissioner in a vote count defined by the ghosts of 2004.

And the provisional ballot system installed by former Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell---now a candidate for chair of the Republican National Committee---continues to haunt the electoral process in the nation's premier swing state, a legacy underscored by a landmark election protection conference held just as this final House race was being decided.

Mary Jo Kilroy of Columbus will be the first Democrat to represent any part of Franklin County in Congress since 1982, and the first to represent her 15th Congressional District since the 1960s.

In 2006 Kilroy barely lost to incumbent Deb Pryce as thousands of contested provisional ballots went uncounted. Under then-Secretary Blackwell, voters in Democratic precincts were routinely challenged on minor details and forced to cast provisional ballots to allegedly be counted at a later time.

But thousands were merely pitched in the trash or otherwise negated. Some 16,000 provisionals   Read More »

http://www.usalone.com/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?pnum=914

The employer (Republic Windows And Doors http://www.montereyherald.com/ci_11161578?nclick_check=1&forced=true ) states that Bank America told them they cannot pay the workers their separation and vacation pay when Bank America received billions from the government of the people of the United States.

See 60 Minutes Footage/transcript w/head of Bank of America, Ken Lewis:

"The total was $125 billion of taxpayers' money. Bank of America, Lewis says, didn't need the money _ but got $25 billion anyway."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/19/60minutes/main4531244.shtml

So why are they holding back a few thousand for the employees who are about to lose their livelihood? And will the company owners walk away with the untold liquidation numbers and Bank America stalls the line of credit when they have these funds from OUR government?

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." Lincoln's First Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861.

by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
November 17, 2008

As the sun sets on Bush 2, it is clear that a very thin line of electoral protection preserved Barack Obama's victory in Ohio---and the nation.

And it's no accident the vote count battle for a Columbus-area Congressional seat still rages.   Read More »

http://www.freepress.org/columns.php?strFunc=display&strID=834&strYear=2004&strAuthor=3

This article contains much of the dark history of electronic voting. If you read and understand, you will know that the "conspiracy" has absolute dark roots in fact!
Especially this section: Incestuous Relationships

Published on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 by the Free Press, Columbus, Ohio
Diebold, Electronic Voting and the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
by Bob Fitrakis

The Governor of Ohio, Bob Taft, and other prominent state officials, commute to their downtown Columbus offices on Broad Street. This is the so-called "Golden Finger," the safe route through the majority black inner-city near east side. The Broad Street BP station, just east of downtown, is the place where affluent suburbanites from Bexley can stop, gas up, get their coffee and New York Times. Those in need of cash visit BP's Diebold manufactured CashSource+ ATM machine which provides a paper receipt of the transaction to all customers upon request.

   Read More »

The Steal You Won't See
by Greg Palast

for SuicideGirls.com, 11pm EST

The evil little ----- are doing it again.

Even as they drown in the anger of platoons of pissed-off voters, Republican operatives are swiping ballots with both hands.

Let's start in Georgia. It's here where the sick little vulture named Saxby Chambliss won the US Senate seat six years ago by calling his Democratic opponent, a guy who'd lost three limbs in Vietnam, a friend of Osama bin Laden.

There's no way in hell that Chambliss can slime his way back into the Senate in the face of over half a million newly registered voters (Black and young - 69% for Obama) without jacking them out of their votes. That's what the Republicans are up to. Right now. As we speak.

Over 50,000 the new voters in Georgia have been blocked from voting by using a nasty little new law, the Help America Vote Act signed by George Bush. (Bush is helping us vote - look out!)   Read More »

Can the grassroots Internet-based election protection movement win the White House?
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
November 3, 2008

Barack Obama is heading to Election Day with a razor thin 6 point lead in the popular polls in Ohio, according to the usually reliable Columbus Dispatch poll. This means that the Buckeye state could again decide who enters the White House in January, despite the fact that nationwide Obama's lead has been registered as high as 11-12 percent.

In a country with truly fair elections, a reliable vote count, and no electoral college, such a lead should be commanding.

But in the America of 2008, it will be enough only if tens of thousands of grassroots election protection activists, rallied primarily through the independent internet, can protect voter registrations, guarantee the ability to vote at the polling stations, and somehow procure an accurate, un-tampered with vote count.   Read More »

BOE Stark County, Ohio, Call for Your Voting Location, You May Have To Vote Provisionally

From highly reliable sources:

Stark County is listing people who call for the location of their voting place are put on a list to be made to vote provisionally when they arrive at thier polls.

The employees at the BOE call it "Fail-Safe".

This was confirmed several times by the source at the BOE in Stark County.

This is outright voter suppression and is a felony.
I hope anyone involved in this would cease and desist and the residents of Stark county DEMAND a regular paper ballot.

I trully hope this is prosecuted and that other BOEs
and counties through out the country do not participate in this and other suppression tactics.

by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
October 30, 2008

Obama supporters are exuding a potentially fatal air of confidence and expectation. Intoxicated by favorable polls and a gusher of campaign spending, many are, in John McCain's phrase, "measuring the drapes in the White House."

It is a classic error, made lethal by the Democratic Party's on-going unwillingness to face the realities of electronic election theft.

In fact, the twin towers of pre-election disenfranchisement and rigged electronic vote counts make an Obama victory at best an even call, no matter how far ahead he may seem in the polls.

As reported by Bradblog, Greg Palast, Robert F. Kennedy, Mark C. Miller and others, the Republicans are waging all-out war to purge hundreds of thousands of Democrats from the voter rolls. The now-familiar attacks on ACORN are a smokescreen to cover highly effective state-by-state assaults on computerized registration lists. These lists are often privatized and run by Republican-connected companies like Triad in Ohio.   Read More »

From highly reliable sources:

Stark County is listing people who call for the location of their voting place are put on a list to be made to vote provisionally when they arrive at thier polls.

The employees at the BOE call it "Fail-Safe".

This was confirmed several times by the source at the BOE in Stark County.

This is outright voter suppression and is a felony.
I hope anyone involved in this would cease and desist and the residents of Stark county DEMAND a regular paper ballot.

I trully hope this is prosecuted and that other BOEs
and counties through out the country do not participate in this and other suppression tactics.

30 Florida counties won't follow state's voter ID suggestion

28 Oct 2008
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/744267.html
Florida's Broward and Miami-Dade counties have announced that they will buck the state's recommendations for handling voters flagged by the controversial Florida Voter Verification Law on election day, streamlining the process to require less paperwork from challenged voters. The state's final unverified list, released Monday, leaves the voting status of more than 12,000 newly registered voters in limbo unless they can clear up identification mismatches in driver's license and Social Security databases.If the Supreme Court Denie

12th District Debate

October 23, 2008, 8:00pm
WOSU@COSI
Free

WOSU's Mike Thompson will moderate the debate between David Robinson and Pat Tiberi the 12th District seat.

Go here to register

WOSU 820 AM and WOSU TV will air live coverage of Ohio's 12th Congressional District debates at WOSU@COSI, to be moderated by WOSU's Mike Thompson.

The 12th Congressional District debate between David Robinson and Pat Tiberi will air at 8 p.m. Thursday (10/23).

Tehe event is sponsored by WOSU Public Media and the Columbus Metropolitan Club.

http://www.wosu.org/election/#Events

Gook examines McCain's partnering with leading white supremacist Richard Quinn, as well as McCain's endorsement of hate group lecturer George Wallace, Jr. for lieutenant governor, both actions fitting with his support for the Confederate flag as an official state symbol.

Gook: John McCain's Racism and Why It Matters

Dr. Bob had an interview with Mr. Tang on WVKO 1580 AM Thursday, October 16, 2008.

Dr. Fitrakis has a show, "Fight Back" Monday through Friday 5-6 P.M. on WVKO 1580 AM.


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