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Scary election reports from Black Box Voting 5

Scary election reports from Black Box Voting

I just finished reading Bev Harris’ book Black Box Voting: Ballot-tampering in the 21st Century — which you can read for free on the web: for example, here’s chapter 1.  It lists numerous examples...

Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant, Part III 0

Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant, Part III

Common Dreams is reporting that the berm around Fort Calhoun nuclear plant has breached. The story continues to be spun, suppressed, and misreported. I agree with many of the commenters who think this particular...

Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant, Part II 0

Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant, Part II

It’s hard to sort the information on the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant Story, but for context, here are a couple of items to consider: KETV 7 in Omaha ran a story on March 31,...

Lip-service investments in higher ed 0

Lip-service investments in higher ed

Two weeks ago, Gov. Chris Gregoire convened a press conference with corporate leaders from Microsoft and Boeing. They were celebrating a breakthrough in higher education. It was a breakthrough, all right — like 60,000...

Back again: Kucinich to speak at NWroots, July 9th 0

Back again: Kucinich to speak at NWroots, July 9th

I can’t keep track of all the appearances by Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich in Washington State this year. It’s been more than a few. There will be another on July 9th, when he speaks...

Free Press, Nuclear Industry, Courage and More 0

Free Press, Nuclear Industry, Courage and More

The Nation is picking up a story about a nuclear plant problem in Nebraska from news sources in Russia and Pakistan. The story is that flood waters have created a problem for the plant...