Will the GOP Election Theft Machine Do It Again in 2008?

Will the GOP Election Theft Machine Do It Again in 2008? By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

The Free Press, ( copied from truthout.org )

With record low approval ratings for the Bush/Cheney regime and the albatross of an unpopular war hanging from the GOP's neck, do you think that a Democratic presidential candidate will win the White House, get us out of Iraq, and end our long national nightmare?

Think again - the mighty election theft machine Karl Rove used to steal the US presidency in 2000 and 2004 may be under attack, but it is still in place for the upcoming 2008 election.

With his usual devious mastery, Rove has seized upon the national outrage sparked by his electoral larceny and used it as smokescreen while he makes the American electoral system even MORE unfair, and even EASIER to rig. Thus the administration has fired federal attorneys when they would not participate in a nationwide campaign to deny minorities and the poor their access to the polls. It has spent millions of taxpayer dollars to install electronic voting machines that can be "flipped" with a few keystrokes. And under the guise of "reforming" our busted electoral system, it is setting us up for another presidential theft in 2008.

Thus it should come as no surprise that our exclusive investigations into the firings of eight federal prosecutors who refused to execute Rove’s plans for massive disenfranchisement of Democratic voters reveal a pattern of illegalities and fraud aimed at reducing the number of minority, poor and young voters at the core of Democratic support. In the wake of major news breaks, two felony convictions have come from the rigging of the illegal Ohio 2004 vote count and recount that gave George W. Bush a second illegitimate term. Stunning new admissions from county election boards that illegally destroyed voter records will almost certainly lead to new convictions. And the multi-million-dollar electronic voting machine scam that made possible the biggest electoral frauds in US history is under massive new attack, with key states moving to scrap the machines altogether in a desperate attempt to restore American democracy - but with the job far from done.

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LoveFest video from Opel float

From our friend Paul who rode along on the opel float,

Check it....

and a great Metrowize one from the whole event - feel the love! (Depending on your computer and connection, you might want to pause video to let it download the whole video or it will pause a few times to catch up....)

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November 12, 2007 03:39 PM, by Syd Gris

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Opel V Call to Arms Video!

A special message from V in dark times, shown at midnight at the Opel 5 year Anniversary party. Please spread this link and let the message go viral!!

Production by On the Fly Films .
Words by Syd Gris
Voice work by Isaac Rodriguez

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November 12, 2007 12:54 PM, by Syd Gris

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Brain Scans Reveal Why Meditation Works

Brain Scans Reveal Why Meditation Works By: Melinda Wenner

If you name your emotions, you can tame them, according to new research that suggests why meditation works.

Brain scans show that putting negative emotions into words calms the brain's emotion center. That could explain meditation’s purported emotional benefits, because people who meditate often label their negative emotions in an effort to “let them go.”

Psychologists have long believed that people who talk about their feelings have more control over them, but they don't know why it works.

UCLA psychologist Matthew Lieberman and his colleagues hooked 30 people up to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machines, which scan the brain to reveal which parts are active and inactive at any given moment.

They asked the subjects to look at pictures of male or female faces making emotional expressions. Below some of the photos was a choice of words describing the emotion—such as “angry” or “fearful”—or two possible names for the people in the pictures, one male name and one female name.

When presented with these choices, the subjects were asked to pick the most appropriate emotion or gender-appropriate name to fit the face they saw.

When the participants chose labels for the negative emotions, activity in the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex region—an area associated with thinking in words about emotional experiences—became more active, whereas activity in the amygdala, a brain region involved in emotional processing, was calmed.

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November 11, 2007 01:05 PM, by Syd Gris

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Shine Your Love : A Special Benefit event for Architecture for Humanity

Opel & In Deep presents Shine Your Love : A Special Benefit event for Architecture for Humanity

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November 10, 2007 01:40 PM, by Syd Gris

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