A Journal about Electoral Tyranny, the dullness of mobs, and diminishing returns.

Friday, August 17, 2007

Ice On Death Row

In honor of the Anti-MOVE Mumia Haterz Society™, here's the brand-neue Mumia Abu Jamal Viewer. Updated with 5 fresh vids, layered on top for easy consumption. Check the Pam Africa vids at the end of this 40+ episode playlist, where there's an update on Mumia's case as well.

Mum(ia)'s The Word

Sri Doktor Mumia Abu Jamal's words from death row come via
PrisonRadio.Org
and are video mixed by
Suryu, aKa ThierSpacer Ismael. /Props!


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Here's some climate research nibblettes in celebration of¡Polar Palooza 2007!



Seal Search

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You may want to check th' Passport Blog o' Knowledge out. Here's some more cold facts from the IceMen.




NPEO Field Report

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Monday, August 13, 2007

Media Gate


Manufacturing Consent


I know i bash Dr. Chomsky some; but that's just because i'm a political economist in grubby dungarees and he's a linguist deconstructing his way into tweed-clad anarchy. We're like clowns and mimes. His analysis of the dialectic between industry media and the citizenry of "democratic" nations is fairly spot-on, and his grip of modern history is solid.

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Monday, April 30, 2007

Capital Idea

A taciturn lecture offered as rejoinder in an ongoing dialogue i'm having with our BeltWay Insider. Our story thus far: i have posited that Capital runs the game, and that political movements are more wagging dog than they are bellwethers for change. Civil rights was proffered as an example of a popular movement that changed policy. I pointed out that the Civil War was fought to that end 100 years prior, and was rebuked by an intriguing rejoinder about the echoes of Abolitionism in the current abortion debate. We'll come back to that. Firstly:

So basically, you are refuting the notion that capital interests rule the policy making process from the top down. Now, this isn't just some hair-brained idea of mine, you know. This is, unfortunately, historical fact.

Let's consider the Abolitionists and the Civil War some more.

The Abolitionist movement (along with early versions of the Temperance and Suffrage movements) grew out of Quaker/Shaker and Baptist churches, and although they were vociferous they were in fact outlawed in the South and only given lip service in the North after the Dred Scott descision struck a chord with folks who otherwise didn't care.

Why did it strike a chord? Because it asserted property rights across state lines, a clear problem for states' rights no matter how you slice it.

This is why it was made an issue. Federalism was not quite codified, and all sorts of concessions were being handed to locality as far as right of way and self-determination were concerned. Although the Federal Government had carefully plotted out territories for slave and free states (indicating it's disregard for the issue) settlers had more than once "jumped claim" and lept upon the territory as if the bank wasn't due payment.

This is one of the real issues: homesteaders got an allotment for a stipend, no more, and the territories were already determined. But the settlers would change rules at whim, the ingrates, as if self-determination were the founding principle of the country. Add to this the Southern Aristocracy's marked difference of opinion on the matter of centrism/Federalism, and you have your issue. What drove the war ideologically was the need to resolve the power of the Federal Government as supreme, once and for all. What enabled it and caused the other shoe to drop was ENCLOSURE. Remember the Cotton Gin? This is a modification of the wool mill used in Britain. No big whoop, despite what you may have heard, and whitney went broke in the 1790's without it really doing much. It was one of the loci of Northern industrial concentration, a process very much like Britain's industrial "revolution." This process requires agrarian aristocracy to migrate off of the land, so the land can be repurposed both in utility and in titlage, allowing the leverage of parcel valuation as Capital. Capital Aristocracy is of course the successor; a class of gentry whose wealth is the dictate by which they rule, separate from the land and it's sullen marginless stasis. The Northern industrial elite already understood this, having direct capital ties to Europe, where the process had already spawned the Enclosures, with ensuing dislocation, famines, Dickensian factories, workhouses and mines and slums of the 17 - 1800's.

Capital does make up the issues. Where else would anyone get the idea that "feeding Africa" is something that can be done from the outside, or indeed that Africa is starving in the first place? Is it famine or enclosure killing people in Darfur? In Ethiopia we hear of famine and draught; yet the largest lake in Africa sits at it's heart, and this is a nation so old it dates to dynastic Egypt. It has irrigation; indeed it has quite a few resources, and is able to invade Somalia regularly. So why can't the ethnic herders get water? Is it perhaps because they can't pay for it?

Westerners are uninformed, naive somehow? I am here to tell you this is not true. We know exactly how evil we are, and we justify it by saying "better them than US" before "accidently" allowing warlords to usurp UNICEF monies. Those Suzuki jeeps don't ship themselves over there from NYC impound lots, it's strickly COD.

/ lecturette.

Extra credit: compare and contrast the states' rights issues involved Slavery vs Abolitionism against those of Pro-Choice vs Pro-Life. Explain how the logical outcome of this wlll be determined by Capital.

Goto Cryptome, now.
You won't be able to soon. That's a bad thing.


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Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Truth™







One-Handalone ClaPlayer

WTC 7 - Audit that, biotchesez!!!



Candidate's comment to Popular Mechanics:
I think Canada did it to take our attentions away from their assumption of Bechtel's bid-list; and although i would like to believe that Pop Mechanics' armchair CSI is plausible as much as i would the standard Truther™ fable (that Dubya and his Illuminati freinds used alien C4), niether get my timeslice. I require hard lab forensics, and you both have missed the option for an actual inquiry by years.

All the evidence is gone.

So, only speculative sleuthing is left.

Start with motive.
I'd put Kaliph S Moha' as prime suspect at this point; he's the one with a stated threat AND a prior attempt. 9-11 would have been a successful life's work for him. However, his cabal wasn't particularly good at IT (International Terrorism), being moled out in the 90's; he's no Jackal.

Ideologues are the exception among criminal masterminds, though. Most are just greedy. Thus the next most likely suspect is a profile familiar in New York; an inspecific slumlord, one who has a partner who's into development and another in demolitions, maybe another in industrial scrap. Remember, the bullion in the basements was moved out too.
Next would be Haliburton, for real; even a 5th grader could see by the time tower 2 came down that we were going to war with Iraq, and that meant a cash payoff for our usual suspects in war profiteering.

I'm sure a couple more cabals could be reasonably suspected prior to adding our Sunni allies in Afganistan to the list of criminally motivated, and without a money trail i really don't see them motivated enough to spend as much as was required to train, inject and house the agents here who pulled it off.

First, follow the money. Who benifits? The benificiary or Bin Laden? How much cash is being/has been spread around as opposed to lump-sum dropped on particular companies involved in the properties affected?

I mean, IF you want to get at an answer. If you just want to bitch about a bitch's demand for a real investigation and give the rest of us no real meat from EITHER camp, do by all means keep playing the 9-11 Truth™ Game with the conspiracy crowd.

I know I sure love it. It's refreshing to have so many people in the country around me dance around the real issues and throw shit at each other.

No wonder we still have the electoral college embarassment...

/C_j's comment

Oh, do let's all jump on the lesbian for actually talking about a politically pertainant issue.


Gloria Stienem: GynaGatekeeper


W/E. I'm telling you, drop it. Time's wasting, and there's no aliens coming to give you more.


Simian Suffrage?


The Dems will put a woman or a black up. This will give you a Republican president in 2008, even if the popular vote disagrees. Congress will allow Dubya's agenda to play out, since that's what Congress does is facilitate the ruling cabal's agenda.

Unless you limit their terms.


Tro' Da Bums Out!





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Sunday, April 01, 2007

All Hail The New Flesh


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We assume that the mechanism driving evolution is competition, or rather the laisez faire clockwork of interactions known as natural selection. This hypothesis rests on the idea that some better-suited individuals of a given species are afforded more reproductive oportunities due to thier adaptations, which presumes a situation of scarcity. Scarcity would be neccesary in order to offer the less adapted naught but deprivation, rather than merely less food or water or shelter. Less would be subsistence level, not enough for removal from the gene pool.

See where i'm going with this?

I've mentioned the myth of scarcity before, and although i've tried to allude to it's importance in human affairs i haven't mentioned the fact that accepting it as a primae causae for competition severly disables most of the arguments for mechanisms of natural selection. We see natural selection at work only in areas of actual scarcity, like deserts or the ocean floor, volcanic areas and caves, the Arctic or the complex minute ecosystems of bookshelves. Here the environment is less than nurturing, and life has to adapt to survive. These are exceptions to the general rule of thumb here on Terra, which is an unusually temperate and hospitable world with over 3/4 of it's surface offering not only a living but an easy living for almost any life form. Thus, there is no scarcity of resources, no need to compete.

Yet most creatures do, or rather act as if they need to. This is almost universal.

Almost.

The obvious fact that a meme as complex as the myth of scarcity is part of the conscious processes of millions of different species, including plants, is too much for me to ask you to contemplate. So ignore that path.

Let's focus on what mechanism could possibly supplant natural selection as the mechanism for evolution now that it's debunked, which (like it or not) it is. No, not the grandmotherly compassion of Maha Deva Kali Maa (Jai jai!); full moon on April Fools notwithstanding i am assured that She wants no part in taking responsibility for the infinate permutations of specific petty greed that are involved. So what drives genetic change, other than sporadic mutations?

Choice.

D'oh. Choices, the obvious choice. It is will that drives individual ambition, which is spurred by species specific ambition. How would this affect the genome, you ask?

Regardezvous, si vous plait o non, the Calico Cat.

It has been observed, even in big cats, that when the biome niche of a given feline is threatened there will be produced a Calico, a female whose locii contain all possible attributes for the species. This mother-of-mothers will produce in turn cats of all stripes, literally.

See, other animals know about genetics too, and practice genetic engineering on a much more intimate level than we do. This explains the evolution of certain traits in the natural record that seem to spring up overnight, like sabre-toothing. This explains how the proto-pachydermata returned to the sea as cetacea, and how a scrawny chimp/bonobo with only one set of opposable thumbs became the bald ape typing this now.

Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, kinder, and i posit thus:

Own your self, own your future.

Start with your vote. It's a small step towards returning to the evolutionary process. Because unlike evolution, devolution really is driven by natural selection. The more evolved will not mix with the common herd, and will most probably be trampled underfoot.

219 years and you STILL don't have the vote, sucker.

Change the Electoral Genome.
Demand Direct Democracy NOW.

Common Sense.

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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Disappearings



A Hung'i Ghost Spooktacular:
Recent Dis-Re-Appearrerings
America: What's Going Down?

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Halifaxion Memorial
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TheirTube contact and Cj_08 alias BobForehead (aka yours truly) notices the absence of a long-time subscription, Halifaxion, thanks commentary on a vid posted fromorangefu. Halifaxion, aka belowgroundsurface, is/was a Truther Extreme; a devotee to the myth of 9-11 as he sees/saw it. This is most probably why i didn't note his passing, since i didn't even have a 9-11 playlist per-se until i created the above Memorial.

Contained in this irreverent but sincere memorial to a seemingly dissapeared prophile are a number of invective attacks by battim, who seems to have cool tattoos but whom supports Chomsky and so should also be ridiculed some.

{Just because Chomsky and i share the shellshocked side of the Palestinian situation doesn't mean he's not a gatekeeper. He sets the tone for US Leftism™, which he purposefully keeps in the intellectual sphere; his prescription is inaction and a suscription to Utne Reader. Both are wrong.}

When i was but a wee-rabble rouser i latched onto the fact that certain powerful circles of money and influence overlapped and daisychained a poisonous ring-around-the-rosey that spanned centuries and spawned death, inequality and injustice of the meanest varieties. By the time i was a university Junior i had given up the ease of nebulous conspiracies and found a common seed-germ for this System of syndicates within our Systems, the nexus with name.

Banking. In specific, Llyodd's of London and it's unnamable syndicate of silent partners. The Dutch West India Company and it's British counterpart are the most obvious transnationals of the former class. Note that both of these corporations outlive thier charters and are dissolved under Chapter 11-ish circumstances.

This is the way corporations have always been subsumed back into the fabrice of the aristocracy who hold controlling shares. Regardez vous Haliburton's recent dissolution of KBR.

The conspiracy is real; but it doesn't lie in an Illuminatti plot by aliens to turn us all into Verichipped solent green. Yes, there are times when the families who currently hold the ball(s) work in concert to devastation effect: The European Enclosure and more notably the creation of fascist regimes during interwar 20th century's socialist awakening. Enabling Franco and Hitler to stop workers from transforming Europe into the jewel Internacional was sick, petty, wasteful, shortsighted, dull and inhumane to the point of sociopathy. Personally i'd wager that Lenin had the backing of the Monarchist-Capitalists as well, since he hadn't read Marx well enough to know that a socialism needs a democratic footing in a fully industrialized economy. His Bolshevik bullshit has fucked socialists for a good 100 years by association. However, this latter add-on of mine has one tiny flaw.

It's not a matter of public record, unlike Britain and the United States' funnelling of cash to the proto-Reich to thwart trade-union socialism.

As soon as Hitler became an issue we can see where the global conspiracy looses it's giest, becoming a phantom of itself. Britain had to wait for the US aristocracy to want war bad enough to allow Pearl Harbor for us to STOP aiding and abbetting the Third Reich. We kept cranking those Krupverks Special Orders out of New Jersey full knowing they were sinking allied ships under Her Majesty's flag in the North Sea until we were actually served papers by the German Embassy.

Hell, Prescott Bush kept trading with Der Fuehrer until injunctions were served on the companies of his that were involved. War profitteers are fey to close up shop when a war is on; it's like being a chimneysweep who takes fall and winter off. Even a commie like me understands that.

So the unity of purpose that kept the Czar propped up longer than healthy kept pressing the "react" button like a junkie on a morphine drip, fomenting the sickest kind of nationalist ethnic zenophobia-as-political-agenda across Europe, schisming the lowest 2/3 of the population against itself in an effort to prevent a people's movement.

This is what the Atlantic Cabal does. This is what we're doing in the mid-east, the US and Britain, protecting Dutch and British investments in the area by attempting to keep the Ottoman Schism of Persia and the Arab Schism of themselves from unifying (again). We are in Iraq, the poorest country resource-wise per acre in the area, NOT to gain resources. Again, the conspiracy Doppler shifts itself into a ghost of a shadow; we see only war profiteers and thier money-men making good on this. The Bush family is once again aiding and abetting, but not in a profitable way. Former British holding Haliburton has used the past 6 years to complete it's metamorphosis into a full transnationalist, now free to settle where it's own cabal can enjoy fewer taxes. Shell oil has benifitted along with thier Dutch owners, and British Petroleum has managed to sink it's teeth into the Alaskan Reserve while we puzzled at losing control of two (2) major pipelines (Alaska and our Unical Miracle pipe from Uzbek to Turkey).

Follow the money and see how these sometimes collaborative cartels and cabals are NOT a unified Illuminati, even if they do all go to Ivy League schools to polish thier inhumanity off with law degrees. They were, at one point, all Masons, too. So's my dad. So's my uncle.

My father and namesake uncle are NOT two men to have in the same room at the same time. They are NOT a unified Brotherhood. My uncle was/is a few ranks below my dad, but his business inclinations allowed him to no doubt make better use of the network the Masons had to offer; he retired early, a millionaire.

My dad, whom i take after, is either dead or still working and living hand to mouth, working class style: because that is what we workers do.

Unless you've got a healthy coat of the Lazies like me, they'll work you to death, Mason or no. Why? Because it's money that is the main-god, the mantra, the whip that drives the future.

See, there IS no Lucifer
or YHWH or Allah
or Maha Devi Kali Maa (Jai Jai, i kid)
or Gray aliens or Mayan Ant-Serpent-Fairies
or what the fuck EVER you think it is
that They™ are in cohoots with
in order to gain control of your precious pink panties.
Turns out that the rich just do it for the money,
and that they already have your pink panties because
you're so busy being lazy
and blaming the Illuminati/Islamofascists/your parents
that you traded them away a long time ago.


You support Them™ with every purchase. You know this; why do you litterally buy into it?

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So there's that.

Then there's why i felt the need to get up-ons Against Conspiracies. Turn that gun on myse'f, half-cocked. Let's talk of disappearances, half-truths and outright lies; govenment projects and tripping over the outline on the doorstoop.

I've been dredging NASA/JPL for audio files again.


Facial Cues and Voice Synthesis


Granted, the space agencies have MASSIVE amounts of data to host on limited server space. So i don't expect all three hours of any given auroral event, or the complete Mars Mike hash. (the first Mars Mike was lost, second got funding whacked, so that's a bad example-i just like the project's name) However, when they pull files that are only 1 meg at most, i wonder. When it happens again and again, and certain types of data are pulled, i start digging.

Orbiter Gravity - Radio Saturn
 
 
New Moons for Saturn - Voyager Hits Termination Shock


One doesn't just do space silent, you know. NASA's Reverb Tank For Human Factors Research is modeled on an actual room. They don't neccesarily keep everything all tidy either, which yeilds some nifty treasure rooms.


Cassini Takes new Pics of Saturn's Hexagonal North Pole


The goal is to find all of the files involvingVoyager hitting the heliopause. The originally released one is gone; i have a copy if anyone wants to hear the Space Frogs.

BTW, i'm not sure what NASA and the EAU are hiding by dissapearing the files that they do, but i have a theory. It's not UFO's.

Alright, get serious. Show some damn respect for the only other sane activist in Amerikkkuh.

T'row Da Bumz Out!!!



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Monday, February 26, 2007

I'm Not Going Out With Iran, We're Just Freinds

I'm still awaiting footage of IRI's weekend space-shot, which evidently saw The Islamic Republic of Iran put a payload into orbit on it's own rocket. Russia had popped last year's satellite into orbit, and a mere turn around the sun later they've done it for themselves.


Mesbah:

A Satellite Named "Pool"


Give It Up For The Newest SpacePower Nation,
The Islamic Republic of Iran!

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I still voted with the majority 54.7% of Al Jazeera English pollers.

POLL:Should Iran face further sanctions over its nuclear programme?
Yes :
35.2 %
No :
54.7 %
I don't know :
10.1 %

Number of pollers:16529


This goes hand in hand with comments on the subject in the BBC. I imagine the British press will be a little more even-handed on issues of Middle Eastern concern for a while, since they're leaving Occupation: Enduring Our Operations along with my Danish cousins. I'm sure the aebleskivers will be missed.

Uruknet.info Knows That Foreign Policy Is Complicated.

Let's Just Not Talk About That Taxi Our Boys Shot Up, 'K?
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Joe's got some choice words as usual. Check it.


Cuppa Joe
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New Official Campaign Junkyard DJ.


Beatmatching Mash-Ups With Sue Teller
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Dunno how long i'll be able to keep myself from redoing this:

What Ever Happened To US?





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The Constitutionalists' Warroom


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Thursday, January 18, 2007

Electoral Procedure by State, Terminal.

No Legal Requirement - Electors in these States are not bound by State Law to cast their vote for a specific candidate:
PENNSYLVANIA - 21 Electoral Votes 
RHODE ISLAND - 4 Electoral Votes
SOUTH CAROLINA - 8 Electoral Votes
State Pledge / State Law -(Replacement and criminal sanctions for violation.) § 7-19-80

SECTION 7-19-70. Election of presidential electors; certificates of appointment.
Unless otherwise provided, the election of presidential electors shall be conducted and the returns made in the manner prescribed by this chapter for the election of state officers.
The names of candidates for electors of President and Vice President nominated by any political party recognized in this State under Section 7-9-10 or by a valid petition shall be filed with the Secretary of State but shall not be printed on the ballot. In place of their names, in accordance with the provisions of Section 7-13-320, there shall be printed on the ballot the names of the candidates for President and Vice President of each political party recognized in this State and the names of any petition candidates for President and Vice President. A vote for the candidates named on the ballot shall be a vote for the electors of the party by which those candidates were nominated or the electors of petition candidates whose names have been filed with the Secretary of State.
Upon receipt of the certified determination of the Board of State Canvassers and delivered to him in accordance with Section 7-17-300, the Secretary of State, under his hand and the seal of his office, as required by Section 7-17-310, shall certify to the Governor the names of the persons elected to the office of elector for President and Vice President of the United States as stated in the certified determination, who shall be deemed appointed as electors.
It shall be the duty of the Governor, as soon as practicable after the conclusion of the appointment of the electors pursuant to the laws of the State providing for the election and appointment of the electors, to communicate by registered mail under the seal of the State to the Administrator of General Services a certificate of appointment of the electors, setting forth the names of the electors and the canvass or other ascertainment under the laws of this State of the number of votes given or cast for each person for whose appointment any and all votes have been given or cast. It shall also thereupon be the duty of the Governor to deliver to the electors of the State, on or before the day on which they are required by law to meet, six duplicate originals of the same certificate under the seal of the State. If there shall have been any final determination in the manner provided for by law of a controversy or contest concerning the appointment of all or any of the electors, it shall be the duty of the Governor, as soon as practicable after the determination, to communicate under the seal of the State to the Administrator of General Services a certificate of such determination.
SECTION 7-19-80. Candidate for elector shall declare for which candidates he will vote; elector shall vote for candidates for whom he declared.
Each candidate for presidential and vice-presidential elector shall declare which candidate for president and vice-president he will vote for if elected. Those elected shall vote for the president and vice-president candidates for whom they declared. Any person selected to fill a vacancy in the electoral college shall vote for the candidates the elector whose place he is taking had declared for. The declaration shall be made to the Secretary of State on such form as he may require not later than sixty days prior to the general election for electors. No candidate for president and vice-president elector shall have his name placed on the ballot who fails to make such declaration by the prescribed time. Any elector who votes contrary to the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of violating the election laws of this State and upon conviction shall be punished according to law. Any registered elector shall have the right to institute proper action to require compliance with the provisions of this section. The Attorney General shall institute criminal action for any violation of the provision of this section. Provided, the executive committee of the party from which an elector of the electoral college was elected may relieve the elector from the obligation to vote for a specific candidate when, in its judgment, circumstances shall have arisen which, in the opinion of the committee, it would not be in the best interest of the State for the elector to cast his ballot for such a candidate.
SECTION 7-19-90. Meeting of electors; organization; balloting and certification of results.
The electors for President and Vice President shall convene at the capitol, in the office of the Secretary of State, at eleven in the forenoon, on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December next following their appointment, and shall proceed to effect a permanent organization by the election of a president and secretary from their own body. The electors shall next proceed to fill by ballot and by plurality of votes all vacancies in the electoral college occasioned by the death, refusal to serve, or neglect to attend, of any elector. The electors shall then and there vote by ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves.
The electors shall make and sign six certificates of all the votes given by them for President and Vice President, each of which certificates shall contain two distinct lists, one of the votes for President and the other for Vice President, and shall annex to each of the certificates one of the lists of the electors which shall have been furnished to them by the Secretary of State by direction of the Governor. The electors shall seal up separately the certificates and lists of the electors so made by them, and certify upon each that the list of all the votes of the State given for President, and of all of the votes given for Vice President are contained therein.
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No Legal Requirement - Electors in these States are not bound by State Law to cast their vote for a specific candidate:
SOUTH DAKOTA - 3 Electoral Votes 
TENNESSEE - 11 Electoral Votes 
TEXAS - 34 Electoral Votes 
UTAH - 5 Electoral Votes

VERMONT - 3 Electoral Votes
State Law - title 17, § 2732

TITLE 17
Elections
CHAPTER 57. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

§ 2721. Nomination of presidential electors
In presidential election years, presidential electors for major political parties shall be nominated at the party platform convention held pursuant to this title. Electors for all other presidential candidates shall be nominated pursuant to subchapter 3 of chapter 49 of this title. (Added 1979, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. May 6, 1980.)
§ 2722. Certification of nominees for electors
After adjournment of the platform convention of a major political party, the chairman and secretary of the convention shall promptly execute a sworn statement certifying the names, towns of residence, and correct mailing addresses of the persons nominated by the convention to serve as electors, and shall promptly file the statement with the secretary of state, along with the written consent of each person to be a nominee for elector. (Added 1979, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. May 6, 1980.)
§ 2731. Certificates of election
When the canvassing board provided for in section 2592 of this title meets, it shall issue its certificates of election, with respect to the presidential election, to the electors nominated by the party whose candidate for president has received the greatest number of votes. (Added 1979, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. May 6, 1980.)
§ 2732. Meeting of electors
The electors shall meet at the state house on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December next following their election, to vote for president and vice-president of the United States, agreeably to the laws of the United States. If there is a vacancy in the electoral college on that day, occasioned by death, refusal to act, neglect to attend, failure of a person elected to qualify, or for other cause, the other electors present shall at once fill such vacancy viva voce and by a plurality of votes. When all the electors appear or a vacancy therein is filled, the electors shall perform the duties required of them by the constitution and laws of the United States. If a vacancy occurs and is filled as aforesaid, the electors shall attach to the certificate of their votes a statement showing how such a vacancy occurred and their action thereon. The electors must vote for the candidates for president and vice-president who received the greatest number of votes at the general election. (Added 1979, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. May 6, 1980.)

Curiously, Vermont's electoral law goes on too long for me to swallow that last binding edict. The top ten list is now a top 15, maybe.

Let's push on.

VIRGINIA - 13 Electoral Votes
State Law - (Virginia statute may be advisory - "Shall be expected" to vote for nominees.)§ 24.1-162

24.2-202. Electors for President and Vice President.
The qualified voters of the Commonwealth shall choose the Commonwealth's electors for President and Vice President of the United States at the general election in November 1996, and every fourth year the
The qualified voters of the Commonwealth shall choose the Commonwealth's electors for President and Vice President of the United States at the general election in November 1996, and every fourth year thereafter. Each voter shall vote for a number of electors which equals the whole number of senators and representatives to which the Commonwealth at that time is entitled in the Congress of the United States.

§ 24.2-203. Convening of electors; filling vacancies; how electors required to vote.
The electors shall convene at the capitol building in the capital city of the Commonwealth at 12:00 noon on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December following their election. Those electors present shall immediately fill, by ballot and by a plurality of votes, any vacancy due to death, failure or inability to attend, refusal to act, or other cause. When all electors are present, or the vacancies have been filled, they shall proceed to perform the duties required of such electors by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
Electors selected by the state convention of any political party as defined in § 24.2-101 shall be required to vote for the nominees of the national convention to which the state convention elects delegates. Electors named in any petition of qualified voters as provided in § 24.2-543 shall be required to vote for the persons named for President and for Vice President in the petition.

An Even more specious set of instructions for electors and voters wishing to get counted. I like the indy party/petition coalition provision, though.
No Legal Requirement - Electors in these States are not bound by State Law to cast their vote for a specific candidate:
WEST VIRGINIA - 5 Electoral Votes

Here's where i was pushing: the last of the official "not bound" list, states in which electoral practice is admittedly unfettered by a requirement of democratic resonance.

Let's bring 'em out again folks!

ARIZONA - 10 Electoral Votes 
ARKANSAS - 6 Electoral Votes 
DELAWARE - 3 Electoral Votes 
GEORGIA - 15 Electoral Votes 
IDAHO - 4 Electoral Votes 
ILLINOIS - 21 Electoral Votes 
INDIANA - 11 Electoral Votes 
IOWA - 7 Electoral Votes 
KANSAS - 6 Electoral Votes 
KENTUCKY - 8 Electoral Votes 
LOUISIANA - 9 Electoral Votes 
MINNESOTA - 10 Electoral VotesMISSOURI - 11 Electoral Votes 
NEW HAMPSHIRE - 4 Electoral Votes 
NEW JERSEY - 15 Electoral Votes 
NEW YORK - 31 Electoral Votes 
NORTH DAKOTA - 3 Electoral Votes 
PENNSYLVANIA - 21 Electoral Votes 
RHODE ISLAND - 4 Electoral Votes 
SOUTH DAKOTA - 3 Electoral Votes 
TENNESSEE - 11 Electoral Votes 
TEXAS - 34 Electoral Votes 
UTAH - 5 Electoral Votes 
WEST VIRGINIA - 5 Electoral Votes
Total Votes Up For Grab:

257

Majority Needed to Elect:

270




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WASHINGTON - 11 Electoral Votes
Party Pledge / State Law -($1000 fine.)§§ 29.71.020, 29.71.040, Supp.
RCW 29A.56.320
Nomination -- Pledge by electors -- What names on ballots -- How counted.
In the year in which a presidential election is held, each major political party and each minor political party or independent candidate convention held under chapter 29A.20 RCW that nominates candidates for president and vice president of the United States shall nominate presidential electors for this state. The party or convention shall file with the secretary of state a certificate signed by the presiding officer of the convention at which the presidential electors were chosen, listing the names and addresses of the presidential electors. Each presidential elector shall execute and file with the secretary of state a pledge that, as an elector, he or she will vote for the candidates nominated by that party. The names of presidential electors shall not appear on the ballots. The votes cast for candidates for president and vice president of each political party shall be counted for the candidates for presidential electors of that political party.

[2003 c 111 § 1425. Prior: 1990 c 59 § 69; 1977 ex.s. c 238 § 1; 1965 c 9 §29.71.020 ; prior: 1935 c 20 § 1; RRS § 5138-1. Formerly RCW 29.71.020.]
Standard name switching Party pledge substitute hitter.
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WISCONSIN - 10 Electoral Votes
State Law -§ 7.75
7.75      
7.75Presidential electors meeting.

7.75(1)      
(1) The electors for president and vice president shall meet at the state capitol following the presidential election at 12:00 noon the first Monday after the 2nd Wednesday in December. If there is a vacancy in the office of an elector due to death, refusal to act, failure to attend or other cause, the electors present shall immediately proceed to fill by ballot, by a plurality of votes, the electoral college vacancy. When all electors are present, or the vacancies filled, they shall perform their required duties under the constitution and laws of the United States.

7.75(2)      
(2) The presidential electors, when convened, shall vote by ballot for that person for president and that person for vice president who are, respectively, the candidates of the political party which nominated them under s. 8.18, the candidates whose names appeared on the nomination papers filed under s. 8.20, or the candidate or candidates who filed their names under s. 8.185 (2), except that at least one of the persons for whom the electors vote may not be an inhabitant of this state. A presidential elector is not required to vote for a candidate who is deceased at the time of the meeting.
 
Wisco' almost gets it right(ish), but at the last minute appears to forget how to decide which electors get to vote. We'll look into this one more.

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WYOMING - 3 Electoral Votes
State Law - §§ 22-19-106; 22-19-108

CHAPTER 19
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS

2219101.  When elected; number.

At a general election for president and vicepresident of the United States, electors for president and vicepresident of the United States shall be elected equal in number to senators and representatives in congress allotted to the state of Wyoming.

2219102.  Nomination.

(a)  In a general election year, the state convention of a political party nominating candidates for president and vice-president of the United States shall nominate the party's candidates for presidential electors and file certificates of nomination for these candidates with the secretary of state not later than thirty (30) days following termination of the state convention.

(b)  Independent candidates for president shall file the candidate’s nominees for presidential electors not less than seventy (70) days prior to the general election. The nominees shall be qualified electors.

2219103.  Crediting of votes.

The number of votes received by presidential and vice-presidential candidates is the number of votes credited to their electors.

2219104.  Certificate of election; directive.

Immediately upon filing of the certificate of the state canvassing board stating the result of the election, the governor shall issue a certificate of election to candidates elected to the office of presidential elector. The certificate shall direct the elector to attend a meeting with the governor in the office of the secretary of state at 12:00 noon on the Monday following the second Wednesday in December of presidential election years.

2219105.  Vacancy in nomination.

A vacancy in nomination for the office of presidential elector occurring before the general election shall be filled by the state central committee of the political party whose vacancy is to be filled or by an independent candidate's remaining electors, by certifying the name of the person filling the vacancy to the secretary of state.

2219106.  Certified electors to meet; vacancies.

Certified electors shall convene in the office of the secretary of state at 12:00 noon on the Monday following the second Wednesday in December of presidential election years. A vacancy in the office of elector for any cause including nonattendance shall be filled and certified by a majority of electors present.

2219107.  College of electors; duties.

When all electors are present and vacancies filled they shall constitute the college of electors of the state of Wyoming and shall perform duties as required by the constitution and laws of the United States.

2219108.  How electors to vote.

All Wyoming electors shall vote for the candidates for the office of president and vicepresident receiving the highest number of votes in the Wyoming general election.

2219109.  Compensation and mileage.

An elector shall receive fifty dollars ($50.00) compensation and mileage at the present rate for state employees.


Wyoming made me D/L a file and OPEN WORD. That's fascism for ya.
Their State's electoral procedure is an All-For-One though, and electors have to vote with the herd.


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Thursday, December 21, 2006

Virgin Dragons and Electoral Wish Fulfillment

What happens to a vote deferred?



Does it become a phantom tally, like a Diebold'd cheksum?




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Or does it add it's weight to the sum of injustices we heap upon ourselves, lending more gravitas to the singularity of void politic, exerting it's finality towards the inevitable perfection of Our constitutional union wither They™ want it or not?




Can it parthenogenesise like a Komodo Dragon?




'Coz that would handle the whole sitch', natch'.

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Friday, December 08, 2006

MOVE Tip: Try "Mumia Abu Jamal" as a Metatag for Christmas

Time for Sri Jamal, Ltd., PhD-at-Life! Shouts-out to MOVE Watcher peeps, hope to see more 411 in any comments you are encouraged to make. I wasn't in Philly that year, or any year. I've read all manner of "Hangin's too good fer him" commentary on the specifics of the case against Mumia in the killing of Officer Faulkner. I've explained my bottom line before but i'll say it some more:

There's science in the man's words, and i've seen this culture of ours kill good cops to frame and hang white men for the application of this particular science. MOVE was/is a religious group, which makes them as prone to being nutters as any church group, but probably shouldn't have gotten their neighborhood bombed. Cops shouldn't bomb, soldiers shouldn't do policework. This makes me niether pro-MOVE or an advocate of immediate full pardon for Jamal. Hey, i don't even approve of restitution policies, and don't get me started on the Emmancipation Desecration. I just think the guy needs a retrial if a confessional witness has (as was the story) surfaced. Know also that i don't nessesarily believe in the confessional witness as a phenomina manifest outside of courtroom drama, and that none of this changes the fact that Mumia Abu Jamal cuts into the anthropography of 21st century America with poetic science.

The science is called oligonomics by a few, labor relations by others, Marxism by some, and lies by those who hold power. So let's forget what we know we think about his biographic murkiness and focus on the words in the following video essays. Then we can rethink knowing, i think. You know?


An All Mumia Channel
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Whether he's a killer or not, his words make some of the dots line up into descriptive strokes, each an aid in rattlecanning the portrait of Who We Are i'm trying to paint on the boxcar of the American Experience. I want you to see yourself, Citizen. Know that you are better than what this mirrors back, and together we can step into a New You&tyrade;, a more democratic and sensible Western Empire.




So you wanna watch
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but not from Gitmo?
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Below is a repost of a bulletin whose originator(s) have (has) been removed to confound the very stars. Whoa, look at Arcturus! It's all, "Confound you!"

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**Please forward**

Dear friends:

On Saturday, December 9th, Mumia Abu-Jamal will have been in prison for 25 years. With his case now in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Mumia has reached one of the final stages in his quarter century long legal process. Hearings are expected within a few months in Philadelphia, and although the courts surprised everyone by agreeing to hear key arguments for a new trial, they have regularly applied different standards to Mumia, a political prisoner, barring even legal arguments similar to those that have overturned the sentences of other unjustly convicted death row inmates.

At some point this could change, though, and it might be about to happen. The courts have opened up the best possibility for a new trial in a long time. And on the political front, the case is heating up red hot. The U.S. House of Representatives just passed a resolution condemning the French city of St. Denis, a suburb just north of Paris, for naming a street after Mumia. "Rue Mumia Abu-Jamal" leads along Human Rights Square to Nelson Mandela Stadium, reportedly the largest sports stadium in Europe, and French officials have refused to rename the street. The Philadelphia media is now running a string of negative stories which fit squarely with their tradition of “unfair and unbalanced” reporting on Mumia's case, some of which I’ve pasted below. In Germany, a new book on his case has been published, while here in Philly the Fraternal Order of Police, the DA’s office and powerful people are working overtime to make sure that Mumia’s appeal fails, and his death sentence reinstated.

We must not let that happen!

So I’m writing to urge you to come out and Join Ward Churchill and others to support Mumia this Saturday in Philadelphia, if you are near this city. We’ll be gathering at 12 noon at City Hall. We’ll then march to the Friends Center at 1501 Cherry Street. Bring a friend, and let’s get busy. For info. call 215-476-8812 or visit www.freemumia.com

Below is a short list of articles and web resources I’ve compiled. A legal update follows.

Much respect to Linn Washington, Hans Bennett and Dave Lindorff for their fair reporting!

Teishan Latner

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Associated Press on U.S. House resolution to end street naming:

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/16182750.htm

Philadelphia Inquirer:

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/16149513.htm

Linn Washington writes for Counter Punch on Mumia:

http://www.counterpunch.org/washington12012006.html

Dave Lindorff, author of Killing Time, writes on the appeal:

Hans Bennett's article series:

www.insubordination.blogspot.com

http://www.thiscantbehappening.net

Interview with Peter J. Wirs (Chairman of Philadelphia's 59th Republican Ward Executive Committee) and Robert R. Bryan, (Attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal):

http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/11/80118.html

Interview with Michael Schiffmann, German author of a new book on Mumia’s case:

http://hbjournalist1.googlepages.com/schiff

Current action updates:

www.freemumia.com

Archive of Mumia’s radio essays:

www.prisonradio.org

Legal Update on Mumia Abu-Jamal:

Dear Friends:

Two weeks ago the District Attorney of Philadelphia filed a brief in reply
to our most recent brief filed on behalf of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Even though
this was to be the last of the briefs before oral argument, we felt
obligated to respond due to the complexity of the issues and the
government's factual misrepresentations. Attached is the Response of
Appellee and Appellant, Mumia Abu-Jamal, to Sur-Reply Brief, submitted
this week to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit,
Philadelphia.

This case is of enormous consequence. It concerns the political
repression of an outspoken journalist known globally as the "Voice of the
Voiceless," the right to a fair trial, and the struggle against the death
penalty. The authorities want to kill my client in order to silence his
voice and pen. We must not let that occur. Racism and politics are
threads that have run through this case since his arrest on December 9,
1981, and continue today.

Each of the issues under consideration by the federal court are of great
constitutional significance. They include:
a.. The prosecutor's exclusion of African Americans from sitting on the
jury.
b.. The bias and racism of the trial judge, Albert F. Sabo, who stated
that he was going to "help'em fry the nigger."
c.. The prosecutor's "appeal after appeal" argument that essentially
called upon the jurors to disregard the right to the presumption of
innocence and reasonable doubt, and err on the side of guilt.
d.. The judge's unfair and skewed jury instructions and verdict form
that resulted in the death penalty, since jurors were precluded from
considering any mitigating evidence unless they all agreed on the
existence of a particular special circumstance.
We will be presenting oral argument before a three-judge panel in the U.S.
Court of Appeals. Even though no date has been set, this will likely occur
within the next few months.


My purpose remains to win this life-and-death struggle, gain a new and
fair trial, and see my client walk out of jail a free person. However, as
I have warned, Mr. Abu-Jamal remains in great danger.

Thank you for your concern in this campaign for justice.

With best wishes,

Robert
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Robert R. Bryan
Law Offices of Robert R. Bryan
2088 Union Street, Suite 4
San Francisco, California 94123

Lead counsel for Mumia Abu-Jamal

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