Friday, September 2, 2011

Mike McCabe and Barbara With 09/03 by The Sara Schulz Show | Blog Talk Radio

Mike McCabe and Barbara With 09/03 by The Sara Schulz Show | Blog Talk Radio
Here is a link to my show this week. I have several changes coming up to the show and one HUGE announcement. If you want to know what it is...got to listen tomorrow morning and find out!

Will be on from 10:30am-12pm tomorrow September 3rd. Live call in number is: 310-742-1896 and toll free at 877-497-1797.

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I will first be talking with Wisconsin activist Barbara With about her new book Steal this Book Not my Vote. We will also be discussing her last book Guerilla Sep 03

Ohio GOP takes further steps (that we can see) to steal next year’s election


Ohio GOP takes further steps (that we can see) to steal next year’s election (2 items)

"Husted challenges mailing of absentee ballots to voters by county
Conservation effort will protect 2,400 acres for a price tag of $7.3M.
By Ken McCall, Staff Writer2:26 AM Thursday, September 1, 2011

Ohio’s largest county voted this week to defy Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted on his directive prohibiting county boards of elections from mailing out absentee ballot applications to all registered voters.

But Husted, a Republican and former Kettering resident, said Wednesday in a meeting at the Dayton Daily News that Cuyahoga County doesn’t have the legal right to ignore his directive."
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More Controversy on Wisconsin's Highest Court | Center for Media and Democracy

More Controversy on Wisconsin's Highest Court | Center for Media and Democracy

World of Class Warfare - The Poor's Free Ride Is Over - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 08/18/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central

World of Class Warfare - The Poor's Free Ride Is Over - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 08/18/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central

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According to conservatives, a marginal tax increase on the rich is class warfare on the wrong side.

Daily Kos: EPA regulations save far more money than they cost

Daily Kos: EPA regulations save far more money than they cost
Doesn't this sound familiar, at this point? In an effort to cut tens of billions, we lose hundreds of billions?
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Though costs have always been highlighted by industry -- and many policymakers -- the fact is that public benefits associated with environmental regulations consistently outweigh the costs. For example, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently released its thirteenth annual Rep...

Firing Rick Scott

Firing Rick Scott
Our Firing Rick Scott facebook page is almost to 10,000 likes! If you haven't liked it, go over there and do it. And, make sure to share this link with your friends/family http://www.facebook.com/firingrickscott
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Jim Hansen: Call to President Obama - YouTube

Jim Hansen: Call to President Obama - YouTube
League of Conservation Voters and 3 other friends350.org
Shit Scott Walker Is Doing To My State
Tar Sands Action
shared a link.
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Jim Hansen, NASA's leading climatologist, addresses Tar Sands protesters shortly before his arrest.

  • Please watch Jim Hansen's inspiring call to action. More than 1,000 dedicated activists, including Dr. Hansen, have been arrested in front of the White House protesting the Keystone XL pipeline.
  • Beautiful video of NASA's lead climatologist, Dr. James Hansen, at the Tar Sands Action. Over 1,000 people have now been arrested at the White House to stop the Keystone XL pipeline and protect our future!


September 1, 1941 - A Word About Labor Day From FDR. | Newstalgia

September 1, 1941 - A Word About Labor Day From FDR. | Newstalgia
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Happy Labor Day everyone. Here is a clip worth discussing.
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September 1, 1941 - FDR gives his annual Labor Day address.

One Wisconsin Now

One Wisconsin Now
When jolly jurist Mike Gableman spoke to investigators, he recounted an incident with Ann Walsh Bradley saying that it was a month after he took office. Now he's saying, "Whoops, it was a year later." http://tinyurl.com/3qthna7 We say bullroar. What say you?
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Was there pressure or improper communications prior to the four conservative justices upholding the Republican-controlled legislature’s violation of the open meetings law in the passage of Walker’s attack on 175,000 Wisconsin workers?

VIDEO: August congressional recess protests top 400 | Blog | Rebuild the Dream

VIDEO: August congressional recess protests top 400 | Blog | Rebuild the Dream
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"Regardless of the national media near-blackout, local news stations responded to what was happening in the own cities and towns, and we can at least take heart that on average, far more people watch their local news broadcasts over national network or cable news.

It’s strange that the national news whiffed on this story. After all, congressional approval ratings are at their worst in history – a meager 12% approve of the job Congress is doing, and it’s no secret why congressional poll numbers are sagging. Congress has turned away from jumpstarting the economy and toward negotiating just how much to cut from essential programs like Medicare and Social Security. Meanwhile, the anemic recovery of the past year has completely stalled, adding a net zero new jobs in August, and the unemployment remains stuck above 9%. The national news media has picked up on all of these individual facts, but they seem to have missed the wider narrative of voters actually pushing back on the ground against their representatives in Congress." Complete Post

VIDEO: August congressional recess protests top 400 | Blog | Rebuild the Dream

VIDEO: August congressional recess protests top 400 | Blog | Rebuild the Dream
Amazing what folks around the country are doing! In Houston, they even held a funeral march for jobs outside a congressional office.
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Voters across America have capped an unbelievably active month of August with a grand total of over 400 protests at congressional events. From a protest outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office in Louisville, Kentucky, to a funeral march in suburban Houston, Texas to mark the death of...

Welcome the Legislature back to the Capitol! (2)

Welcome the Legislature back to the Capitol!
Please spread the word.
Location: Wisconsin State Capitol- State Street Steps

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Billing Information - PayPal
Darcy has set up a paypal account for "Wisconsin Counts" the new umbrella organization for this group and for WCEP among others. This is to help cover the costs for Fighting Bob Fest (both rentals, shipping for machines, T-shirt printing, etc.) Please consider donating today. Thank you ♥
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Citizen Dave: Don't blame unions for Madison's budget challenges - Isthmus | The Daily Page

Citizen Dave: Don't blame unions for Madison's budget challenges - Isthmus | The Daily Page

‎"What problems we face lie solely with Governor Walker and his slash and burn policies when it comes to state aids. Nonetheless, this budget can be balanced without laying off cops and firefighters or significantly reducing other city services, and without unwisely raiding the city's long-term savings account. A progressive government can get this done."
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There's a line being pushed in the last few weeks that somehow the city of Madison's budget challenges are the fault of its municipal employee unions. Labor Day weekend is a good time to nip this one in the bud.

Grassroots People to Recall Gov. Walker

Grassroots People to Recall Gov. Walker


Here is the Signature Collector Sign Up event for members of this group and other supporters to SIGN UP to collect signatures to Recall Walker starting in Nov. Please click "attend", then invite FB friends whom you believe want to recall Walker, and also share on your FB page! Thanks so much!
Location: On-line

@katiecouric: Inside Job - YouTube

@katiecouric: Inside Job - YouTube

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Katie Couric interviews Charles Ferguson, writer and director of "Inside Job," a new documentary that explores the origins of the 2008 financial meltdown.

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Wisconsin Wire: New Break in Election Integrity Revealed, Protesters Demand Explanation | Addicting Info

Wisconsin Wire: New Break in Election Integrity Revealed, Protesters Demand Explanation | Addicting Info

Regarding the newest scandal...election software used in Waukesha county....“Mike Huebsch is the Secretary of the DOA. He is also former GOP leader and ALEC leader. It doesn’t take a PhD to see the conflict of interest in allowing any department run by such a highly partisan official anywhere near our election systems or software,”
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It was just Saturday, I sat at a table downtown with a group of people who were attending the Democracy Convention with me. We got to talking about election integrity and little did I know we would unfold a bombshell.

The GOP War on Voting | Rolling Stone Politics

The GOP War on Voting | Rolling Stone Politics

By Ari Berman
August 30, 2011 7:40 PM ET
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A voter casts his ballot during the primary elections in Virginia
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"As the nation gears up for the 2012 presidential election, Republican officials have launched an unprecedented, centrally coordinated campaign to suppress the elements of the Democratic vote that elected Barack Obama in 2008. Just as Dixiecrats once used poll taxes and literacy tests to bar black Southerners from voting, a new crop of GOP governors and state legislators has passed a series of seemingly disconnected measures that could prevent millions of students, minorities, immigrants, ex-convicts and the elderly from casting ballots. "What has happened this year is the most significant setback to voting rights in this country in a century," says Judith Browne-Dianis, who monitors barriers to voting as co-director of the Advancement Project, a civil rights organization based in Washington, D.C.

Republicans have long tried to drive Democratic voters away from the polls. "I don't want everybody to vote," the influential conservative activist Paul Weyrich told a gathering of evangelical leaders in 1980. "As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down." But since the 2010 election, thanks to a conservative advocacy group founded by Weyrich, the GOP's effort to disrupt voting rights has been more widespread and effective than ever. In a systematic campaign orchestrated by the American Legislative Exchange Council – and funded in part by David and Charles Koch, the billionaire brothers who bankrolled the Tea Party – 38 states introduced legislation this year designed to impede voters at every step of the electoral process."

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WI Citizens for Election Protection

WI Citizens for Election Protection

Here is Jim Soper response to me about Germany and electronic voting machines, Nicole Desautels Schulte and Victoria Collier From: Jim Soper
Subject: Re: New message from Sheila Parks
To: Message Email Reply
Cc: Shiela Ruth Parks

Shiela

This page is the official translation of the German court press release
http://www.countedascast.com/world/germancourt090303pressrelease.php
You can read it and draw your own conclusions from it

Here is paragraph 121. The translations of key words are mine.
but you can check them, for example, here: http://dict.leo.org/ende?lang=en

A Stimmzettel is a "ballot". Kontrolle means "check".
The paragraph winds up listing the kinds of devices that coule be used,
including VVPATS, and ballot scannors.

121: Der Gesetzgeber (legislature) ist nicht gehindert (not hinderd/barred ), bei den Wahlen (for elections) elektronische Wahlgeräte (electronic voting machines) einzusetzen, wenn die verfassungsrechtlich gebotene Möglichkeit einer zuverlässigen Richtigkeits kontrolle gesichert ist. Denkbar sind insbesondere Wahlgeräte, in denen die Stimmen neben der elektronischen Speicherung anderweitig erfasst werden. Dies ist beispielsweise (as an example) bei (with) elektronischen Wahlgeräten (Voting Machines) möglich (possible), die zusätzlich zur elektronischen Erfassung der Stimme ein für den jeweiligen Wähler sichtbares Papierprotokoll (voter-visible paper protocol, ie, a VVPAT ) der abgegebenen Stimme ausdrucken, das vor der endgültigen Stimmabgabe kontrolliert werden kann und anschließend (afterwards) zur Ermöglichung der Nachprüfung (reexamination) gesammelt wird. Eine von der elektronischen Stimmerfassung unabhängige Kontrolle bleibt auch (also) beim Einsatz von Systemen möglich, bei denen die Wähler einen Stimmzettel kennzeichnen und die getroffene Wahlentscheidung gleichzeitig (etwa mit einem „digitalen Wahlstiftââ€Å“ ...) oder nachträglich (z.B. durch einen Stimmzettel-Scanner; ...) elektronisch erfasst wird, um diese am Ende des Wahltages elektronisch auszuwerten."

I can come up with a mor thorough translation if needed.
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What follows in an annotated version of the official press release concerning the German Constitutional Court's decision of March 3, 2009 concerning voting machines. The original text is at : http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/en/press/bvg09-019en.html
· · · · 5 hours ago

    • Nicole Desautels Schulte
      Wow, Sheila! Fabulous. Thank you!

      I really like this part: "The use of voting machines which electronically record the voters’ votes and electronically ascertain the election result only meets the constitutional requirements if the essential... steps of the voting and of the ascertainment of the result can be examined reliably and without any specialist knowledge of the subject. While in a conventional election with ballot papers, manipulations or acts of electoral fraud are, under the framework conditions of the applicable provisions, at any rate only possible with considerable effort and with a very high risk of detection, which has a preventive effect, programming errors in the software or deliberate electoral fraud committed by manipulating the software of electronic voting machines can be recognised only with difficulty. The very wide-reaching effect of possible errors of the voting machines or of deliberate electoral fraud make special precautions necessary in order to safeguard the principle of the public nature of elections.

      The voters themselves must be able to understand without detailed knowledge of computer technology whether their votes cast are recorded in an unadulterated manner as the basis of vote counting, or at any rate as the basis of a later recount. If the election result is determined through computer-controlled processing of the votes stored in an electronic memory, it is not sufficient if merely the result of the calculation process carried out in the voting machine can be taken note of by means of a summarising printout or an electronic display."

The Republican War on (Certain Kinds Of) Voting | Mother Jones

The Republican War on (Certain Kinds Of) Voting | Mother JonesWalker