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Chemtrails Over
America's Playgrounds
By Douglas Herman
1-17-8

The poisoning of America continues, almost on a daily basis, throughout the Southwest states of California , Nevada and Arizona . As you can see from the following photos, the systematic poisoning is prevalent and yet sadly unnoticed by the mainstream population.

From mid-October to mid-January we monitored the skies, from Lake Tahoe to Los Angeles , from Phoenix to Las Vegas . A USAF veteran and former NATO official from Norway , we are both longtime and confirmed skywatchers.





We began to notice a repeated pattern of parallel lines on the edges of weather fronts. A predicted low pressure forecast from the Weather Channel would almost always bring the sky poisoners out in legion. As you can see, the parallel plumes would spread within the warmer, moist air and create a "white out."

Just as prevalent were the grids. Perpendicular thin contrails that never disappeared but became a chemtrail fence over a once pristine blue sky. We witnessed various forms of chemtrails over Death Valley (tourists), Colorado River (tourists and retirees), Lake Tahoe (tourists and water supply), Las Vegas and Laughlin (tourists and booming retirement centers), and Phoenix (winter tourists and booming population center).

Often we wondered why nobody ever seemed to look up. Like the stupidest lab rats in history, most humans we saw seemed to neither know nor care they we were being tested and experimented upon, and slowly poisoned.




At Laughlin , Nevada , at 10 AM, I shot this photo of chemtrails over the casinos. The photos were taken in December and January. Stepping inside one casino I noticed nearly 100 poker players avidly staring at their cards. Outside I watched tourists come and go, oblivious to the sky. Laughlin and Bullhead City are major tourist and retirement areas.

Had anyone looked upwards, likely they would dismiss the massive plumes as contrails. Yet no large population centers exist directly east and west of Laughlin. At least none serviced every five minutes by a fleet of large jets. Neither does the FAA sanction any of the maneuvers we saw.




On more than one occasion we witnessed pilots approach each other on perpendicular courses, laying out their grids. Over Tonopah , Nevada , we watched them nearly intersect. We knew the planes flying high above the desert were far from the questioning eyes of air traffic controllers.

Of course, many of the chems we witnessed occurred far from any major flight patterns or metropolitan areas. Yet, we knew, the fast moving, upper elevation air currents, would take the mass of intersecting plumes over Las Vegas , Phoenix or greater LA.





We often debated the purpose behind the chemtrails. As a USAF veteran I knew of the Air Force claim: "We would own the weather by 2025." I argued that the long term, cyclical drying of the Southwest, similar to what probably occurred in the 13 and 14th century, was probably occurring now. Thus a continual gridwork of chem skies would slow down or reverse this trend. Otherwise why would the US government waste millions chemming the skies?

My NATO advisor theorized the chems were for population control-or worse. Rather than a benevolent attempt by the US government, she argued, the purpose of chemtrails is malevolent.





If a beneficial design was the purpose, wouldn't the US government admit to their efforts?

During our sky research, we received a letter from an California resident. She wrote: "My name is Patricia and I live in Hawthorne , CA which is just a few miles SE of LAX. I am wondering if you are still involved in protests regarding Chemtrails? I first learned of CTs around 9 months ago and notice them almost on a daily basis in the sky directly above my home (Google "Is LA Chemtrail Central?). I want to learn all I can about this, but I also want to try and do something about it! Last year, in July, I lost 2 close friends at age 48, and my nephew just dropped dead walking down the street at age 36. I don't know if the CT activity was heavy that week, but all died of some type of asphyxiation. My dad, who is otherwise a very healthy individual, has recently been told he has a spot on his lung (he never smoked) and is coughing a lot and is very short of breath. One morning, New Yrs Day or day after, I awoke with a real heaviness in my chest and my eyes were burning immediately...the CTs were heavily in the sky that entire week."

And this is occurring in just ONE Southwest city.

According to CNN, an average of 175,000 new cases of lung cancer are reported per year. In January and February of 2006 alone, 172,000 lung cancer cases were reported, which would indicate a whopping 1000% jump, perhaps a million new cases of lung cancer

Consider: You would be arrested if you sold drugs to kids in your local city park. As an average citizen, if you openly sold kids crack, coke or meth, you would be arrested, convicted and imprisoned for a very long time. But as a top government official, you can poison the sky with impunity, while denying that you or your minions are poisoning anyone.





Arizonans tell me they write repeatedly to their Senator John McCain, and Representative, Jon Kyl, who ignore their chemtrail pleas. But, according to US media reports (Google Jon Kyl and ISI, for September 11, 2001), both Kyl and McCain are part of the shadowy government underworld, the same sort of people conducting the chemtrail spraying, hardly the sort of people you would rely on for redress.

Lastly, my NATO cohort from Norway theorized that chems were a nefarious attempt, so far successful, to shorten the lives of all Americans. If the lives of 300,000,000 Americans-"Useless feeders," according to Henry Kissinger--were somehow shortened by say, 20 years each, imagine the HUGE savings to the beleaguered US social security system, not to mention the boon to big American pharmaceutical companies. Savings, to social security, not in billions or trillions of dollars, but in quadrillions of dollars. Profits to Big Pharma also measured in the trillions, if not quadrillions, of dollars.

So, when you stare at these chemtrail photos, called contrails by those too busy, too dumb, or just too uninformed to care, the rationale behind the spraying becomes a little bit clearer.

As I draw my deepest breath on a clear day, I know that those who perpetrated these high crimes against humanity will themselves slowly suffocate, chain-smoking pilots dying a lingering death, hooked up to oxygen and ignored by busy nurses while begging, pleading for AIR. Powerful old elites, the implementers of policy, people like Kissinger and Cheney, and the enablers, people like Kyl and McCain, allowers of unlawful chemical spraying (mass poisoning) against the American population, one day they too will be befuddled by dementia and Alzheimer's, minds destroyed, existing in darkness, waiting for death, fearing death, fearing a toxic legacy they know they deserve.

And, last of all, those millions of American citizens, too busy today with their seemingly important jobs and raising families, watching those same ambitions evaporate and their families sicken, as they themselves sicken, poisoned by substances and circumstances they chose to ignore for so long.

As I savor those deepest breaths, on a rare clear day in the desert, I know all this will come to pass, long before it is forced to come to an end.


Longtime skywatcher, Douglas Herman, wrote the ultimate true suspense novel, of political chicanery, called The Guns of Dallas. He lives in Bullhead City, Arizona.



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Foreclosures - The Untold Story
By Judith Moriarty
1-17-8

While we are being distracted with the theatrics of these long months of presidential canidates theatrics and hollow rehtoric, the grave issues in our nation (purposefully) are being ignored. The latest antics has Michigan (in ecomomic free fall) ignored by the party (Democratic) that once represented the working man. This because of rules (?) that punished Michigan for holding its primary too early. Now they are told they cannot send delegates to the National Convention. That's par for the course - why would the voice of the dispossessed be represented?





Jeffrey, age 49, lost his auto plant job in Aug. He has had to move in with his mother. Jeffrey says, "I lost everything I worked for all my life." John McCain's message was, "The jobs aren't coming back".

I'm not impressed with McCain (having never worked in the real world) advising the hundreds of thousands laid off (losing homes) to go back to college. He tells these hundreds of thousands from his removed affluence - "The jobs are never coming back". This shows you how detached those in Foggy Bottom are to the working man/woman. The arguments in SC - today say it's a race issue. Who loves Blacks more? Huckabee is still doing his hokum song fest (guitar) and promising a chicken in every pot (Tyson that is). His newest delusion is to change the constitution to line it up with Scripture. On and on it goes - while in the working man's world millions are losing their homes. There's an economic meltdown going on in the financial markets. The canidates say it needs studied. The REAL story has yet to be told to the American public. The ONE Question that should have been asked in these forever "Groundhog Day" debates has yet to be asked? These managed 'debates' (sniping contests) have yet to touch our domestic carnival of errors. You'd think we were electing a prom king or queen. Citizens are being treated like pet gerbils running round and round on a wheel of partronizing dribble and lies.

Both parties have been complicit over these past decades in the meltdown we're witnessing. People need to climb down off their elephants and donkeys. They need to discard their red - white - and boo attire and enter into the neutral zone. As long as people can be kept in the arena of elephant dung and donkey drippings they'll remain ignorant to the facts that will vitally affect their lives and their children.

REAL ESTATE: This problem began in the early 90s. This is when the Federal Reserve began lowering the costs of funds and banks encouraged people to borrow at low rates. Mortgage rates were lowered in 1991. This is when credit lines using home equity were created by your friendly banker. That was when people began going into debt up to their eyeballs using the inflationary increases in the value of their primary residence as a personal ATM machine! People forgot that the only true value in real property is the equity. Market estimates of home values can drop 50% in one day.






Why would the Federal Reserve do something so harmful to the national economy? When a bank makes a loan of $100,000, ninety per cent of that amount ( or, $90,000) creates new money out of thin air. This is called 'fractional - reserve' banking. It is a system used in most nations worldwide. Most nations have central banks - the Federal Reserve is a central bank. It is not a federal agency as most people have been led to believe. It is a cartel of privately owned bankers and other affluents - much like OPEC is owned by people in oil producing nations.

When Congress are over spending like mindless idiots, when the cost of war is approximately $245 million a day, one of the best ways to create money to pay these costs is to encourage American consumers to borrow. Every time you borrow - ninety percent of that amount creates new money from thin air. That money is injected into the economy. As long as we all borrow more and more and more money from banks more money is created.






No wonder borrowing was made so easy - it gave them the cash they needed for all that spending. Every good thing comes to an end. Expect an economic upheaval when Washington's cash cow quits giving milk.

"All of the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arises, not from the defects of the Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation" John Adams, Founding Father

Congressman Louis T. McFadden, (therefore knowledgeable) was a banker. He headed the Congressional Banking Committee for 11 years. He stated the following (in part) before Congress on June 10, 1932. "Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks. The Federal Board, has cheated the Government of the United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt. This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of the U.S.; has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the defects of the law under which it operates, through the maladministration of that law by the Federal Reserve Board, and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it."




The Depression was a severe crisis in banking history. Between 1930 and 1933 more than 9000 banks close their doors and investments decreased by 90%. Ninety per cent of small community banks failed. By 1933 the banking system was a wreck. Congressional hearings in early 1933 revealed gross irresponsibility on the part of major banks, which had used billions of dollars of depositor's funds to acquire stocks and bonds and had made unsound loans to inflate the prices of these securities. The Banking Act of 1933 (the Glass-Stegall Act), was passed by Congress in the face of vociferous opposition from the American banking community. This act prohibited commercial banks from using their own assets to invest in securities (such as stocks and bonds).

In his 'Economic History of the Great Depression', John Galbraith pointed out one of the causes: "The large scale corporate thimblerigging that was going on. This took a variety of forms, of which by far the most common was the organization of corporations to hold stock in yet other corporations, which in turn held stock in yet other corporations. During 1929 one investment house, Goldman Sachs and Company, organized and sold nearly a billion dollars' worth of securities in three interconnected investment trusts . All eventually depreciated virtually to nothing."
Progressive Historians - Nov 27, 2007, Ralph Brauer

In 1971, in Investment Company v. Camp, no less than the United States Supreme Court would write what stands as the most cogent summary for the Banking Act (Glass-Steagall). "Congress was concerned that commercial banks in general and member banks of the Federal Reserve System in particular had both aggravated and been damaged by stock market decline partly because of their direct and indirect involvement in the trading and ownership of speculative securities." Supreme Court No. 61 argued Dec 15-1970: http://supreme.justia.com/us/401/617/case.html

FAST FORWARD: The chief aim of the money men (assisted by both Republicans and Democrats) for decades was to roll back FDR's New Deal. Anti-government rhetoric ( distracting labeling) has hidden this from public view. The 'Banking Act' of the New Deal was a priority by vested interests in being repealed. The undoing of this Act took decades and approximately $200 million in lobbying funds to accomplish.

"Billionaire Sanford Weill made 'Citigroup' into the most powerful financial institutions since the House of Morgan a century ago. A major trophy of Sanford's is the pen Bill Clinton used to sign the REPEAL of FDR's Banking Act - a move which allowed Weill to create Citigroup. " Sanford Weill called President Clinton to break the deadlock after Senator Phil Gramm, chairman of the Banking Committee, warned Citigroup LOBBYIST Roger Levy that Weill has to get the White House moving on the bill or he would shut down the House-Senate Conference. A deal was announced at 2:45 a.m. Just days after the Clinton administration (including the Treasury Department) agrees to support the REPEAL, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, the former co-chairman of a major Wall Street investment bank, Goldman Sachs, raises eyebrows by accepting a top job at Citigroup as Weill's chief lieutenant. The previous year, Weill had called Rubin to give him advance notice of the upcoming merger announcement. When Weill told Rubin he had some important news, the secretary reportedly quipped, "You're buying the government." Progressive Historian






With the stroke of a pen, Bill Clinton ended the long saga of Republicans and Democrats, working in concert, for their puppet masters (the bankers) with his signing of the 'Financial Modernization Bill' (Nov 12, 1991). Clinton ended an era that stretched back to William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson and reached fruition with FDR and Harry Truman. As he signed his name, William Jefferson Clinton symbolically signed the death warrant of a level playing field that had guided the Democratic Party. Clinton (both parties) knew better than FDR and our Supreme Court. Nov 12-1999, President Clinton stated, " Glass- Stegal (FDR Banking Bill) is no longer appropriate for our economy. This was good for the industrial age. The (1999) Financial Modernization Bill is the key to rising paycheck and great security for ordinary Americans". Tell this to Michigan - NH - California - Georgia etc. The public was distracted from one of the most important pieces of legislation in this nation's history being signed by Bill Clinton, with round the clock coverage, of the Monica debacle. Seeing how Clinton came out of this shameful episode lauded as heroic - super stud - and a multi-millionaire, why one one would almost think that the whole sordid affair was contrived? Most especially with Lieberman acting as the holier than thou apologist ! Missed was Clinton's reason for the undoing of FDR's landmark bill Press release: http://Treas.gov/press/releases/ls241.htm

What does this repeal mean? The hedge fund industry and subprime mortgage market is out of control. The New York Times in a June 2007 profile of Goldman Sachs: "While Wall Street still mints money advising companies on mergers and taking them public, real money - staggering money - is made trading and investing capital through a global array of mind bending products and strategies unimaginable a decade ago."

Goldman Sachs head Lloyd Blankfein paints the perfect picture of what has happened: "We've come full circle, because this is exactly what the Rothschild's or J.P. Morgan the banker were doing in their heyday. What caused an aberration was the Glass-Steagall Act (FDRs - Banking Act)." Blankfein, like his cohorts in corporate greed, sees the New Deal as an aberration and longs for a return to the Gilded Age.






Level playing field? Notice how flat it was before the REPEAL of FDR's Banking Act. Those subprime loans amount to nothing more than an organized ripoff of millions of Americans with the steepness of the graph illustrates how far the playing field has titled. Robert Kutter (Stanford University) testified before Barney Frank's Committee on Banking and Financial Services in Oct 2007 " Since repeal of Glass Stegall (FDR Banking Act) in 1999, after more than a decade of de facto inroads, super banks have been able to re-enact the same kinds of structual conflicts of interest that were endemic in the 1920s - tending to speculators, packaging and securitizing credits and then selling them off, wholesale or retail, and extracting fees at every step along the way. And, much of this paper is even more opaque to bank examiners than its counterparts were in the 1920s. Much of it isn't paper at all, and the whole process is supercharged and automated formulas."





To the Victor goes the spoils - burp! It's lonely at the top, but you eat better!

2008 - Citigroup. The repeal (Clinton's Financial Modernization Bill) of FDR's Banking Act - was responsible for the creation of Citigroup as an all-purpose financial supermarket and too - big- to fail banking marvel..(much like the unsinkable Titanic?). Investment bankers lobbied for thirty years to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial banking from its investment house cousins. Wall Street hated the law but failed year after year to win repeal. The problem was always the Democrats (since Republicans were supporters).

In enters a reincarnation of our old carnival snake oil salesman. Bill Clinton delivered his 'New Democrat Party' with a lot of the usual scripted rhetoric. Meaningless made up words. The combination of insurance, investment banking, and old-line commercial banks, have multiplied the conflicts of interest within banks, despite so-called 'firewalls'. Much like Enron, placing some deals in off-balance sheet entries did not insulate Citigroup from losses in its swollen subprime housing lending. The bank (Citigroup) has so far written off something like $15 billion and there's more to come. Ah - but meantime we're going to see these presidential canidates argue over who loves Blacks the most - or the miracle of Hillary's tears ! It's interesting that in the Neveda debates (Nov 15), when Hillary was asked about Citigroup and the subprime debacle she responded, that that she was concerned over these huge pools of money, and that Congress and the Federal Reserve need to ask questions. She went on to remark on how mortgages (subprime and conventional) were being bundled and sold to foreign investors. THE 64,000 QUESTION (yet to be addressed in these debates) was not asked: 'Senator Clinton, its a known fact, that Citigroup would not exist, except for President Clinton's repeal of FDR's 'Banking Act'. Would you (other canidates) not agree with the 1971 Supreme Court ruling, Goldman Sachs, and testimony by economists, that we have re-enacted the same conflicts of interest that were in place before the Great Depression and thus are doing the very same things that the Rothschild's and J.P Morgan were guilty of?' This is the question that has yet to be asked in any of these 'debates' (Republican or Democrat). The media and canidates blame the victims or wander off into some escoteric meaningless gibberish.






"Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men. They have no vision and where there is no vision the people perish". FDR First Inaugural Address






Rest assured we'll hear the same sorry blame game - with each party (both complicit in this debacle) them) blaming the other. Hillary is worried about repairing the image of America. Nobody is asking these candidates about the disasterous REPEAL of the Banking Act of 1933, which is leaving millions (not them) foreclosed on and losing jobs, investments, and pensions etc! When people are losing their jobs, homes, and children's futures; like their grandparents or great grandparents of old, they don't give a damn about 'image'. They are focused on having a roof over their heads and food to eat. The attention to the export of jobs in the U.S. did not develop until white - collar jobs began to evaporate along with manufacturing jobs with no replacement jobs. A U.S. company can hire a software developer in India for $6.00 an hour according to the McKinsey Global Institute. A data - entry clerk earns $2.00 an hour in India.





The presidential - canidates (Jan 15-2008) report that we're spending $10 billion a month on war. Ten billion a month, as multitudes lose their homes over medical costs (hospitalization) and job losses that bankrupt them. A $600 per day hospital fee soon brings a family to ruination. The working man doesn't have the smörgåsbord of medical coverage (tax payer subsidized) that those in elected office have secured for themselves (prescriptions covered - dental - eyeglasses). Note they promise that someday the citizens may have affordable health care. Meantime those promising affordable health care, if elected, are receiving bundles of campaign money from the insurance companies & pharmaceuticals. These (lobbyists) are the people that wrote the bills that made the cost of prescriptions prohibitive, and excused them from liabilities, should a vaccine kill you or render your child brain damaged! Whose interests do you think these canidates will be serving? Today we see the promises of the last election serving OIL interests to the tune of obscene billions in profits. Not mentioned these past few days, is the recent $4,100 raise (Jan - 2008) that Congress gave itself. The Supreme Court and Dick Cheney also got raises. The President's salary stays at $400,000. Nancy Pelosi will now be making $217,000. This for working Tue through Thur (not counting the numerous recesses). These salaries are for an approximate 151 days. The excuse offered, is how much they work when they go home. I've yet to see this - except for some convenient photo-op. The ordinary guy misses work and he's fired. As for paid vacations - those are a rarity.






During the Great Depression (not taught in schools) millions lost their farms and homes (due to bankers greed). It's hard to imagine (maybe not with Clinton's repeal of Banking Act ?) what it felt like to walk through the door of their bank and learn that the dollars that had earned had vanished. Every day spent working and saving had been for nothing. The people believed (they were right) that the bankers had stolen their lives. To stave off Banks selling farms at public auction - farmers from the area would gather at the farm up for sale. They would start bids at 15 cents which rarely got above a $1.00. Outsiders were kept from attending. If someone made a serious bid, a burly man would put a hand on his shoulder and say, "That bid's a little high ain't it?" These were known as Penny Auctions.









Fast forward to 2008. The repeal of FDR's Banking Act in 1999, with the promise of "increased wages and security for workers" sees auctions such as the one above (California) taking place from coast to coast. These folks (speculators) are benefiting from the hardships of others. The Penny Auction to help one's neighbor against the greed of banks and lenders, has been replaced with the thought of getting a 'real deal'.






2008 - The promise of Bill Clinton (repeal of Banking Act) of rising wages and security for Americans is being realized with millions of layoffs and foreclosures. Not reported on the major news stations were the 10,000 + people showing up to apply for a job at Wal-Mart in Atlanta Georgia. Besides homeowners - renters are being put out in the cold with landlords being foreclosed on. "Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play". FDR





Detroit (no debates held here) has been in a free fall for the past seven years. Hundreds of thousands in Michigan are without work. The drop out rate in schools is 70%. With foreclosures the highest in the nation (there's great competition) funds needed for local programs, schools, etc, are unavailable. No tax revenue. Per usual, you'll hear the victims being blamed, not disreputable bankers. If only they hadn't asked for a living wage (to keep up with inflation). If only they (auto workers) would work for Third World wages they wouldn't be out of work. Meantime the CEOs (corporate) of these echoing plants make 400X that of the ordinary worker. Their pensions aren't stolen. The golden parachutes they receive are in the multi - millions (even if they have brought their company to ruination). Hotels, office buildings, and thousands of homes are boarded up in Detroit. Meantime hundreds of thousands are homeless or forgotten in noxious formaldehyde FEMA trailers. Go figure?








McCain has told those out of work - "The jobs are never coming back". John, whose wife's trust, recently purchased them a $5 million exclusive condo in Phoenix, hasn't got a clue of the suffering and fear of these folks. His advice, "Go back to school and get that college degree - get some job retraining". John, busy trying to catch the brass ring, neglected to tell folks that President Bush has cut funding for job re-training by one billion dollars (amongst many other domestic programs). Bush Budget - AFL-CIO, Mike Hall. Thankfully for John, after divorcing his first wife, when his salary was a mere $45,000, he married an heiress. No job retraining for him. What John is oblivious to, is the fact that thousands of college graduates (with several degrees) are looking for work. Duh - like Wall Street. How one secures a college degree living in a shelter -tent - car or FEMA trailer, miles from nowhere (in cornfields) beats me?

"Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay-
Except the dream that's almost dead today."

"Sure, call me any ugly name you choose-
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
AMERICA!" --Langston Hughes (Great Depression)

jdthmoriarty@yahoo.com



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Greenspan Reportedly
Bribes & Aids Bush In
Various Matters - Part 4
By Sherman H. Skolnick
3-2-00

More about WHY and HOW Foster was Murdered and the Reputed Role of Redspan/Bush. [Note: we decided to call this Part Four instead of Part Three, Section 2].


The suppressed report of the retired intelligence agents showed that Vincent W. Foster, Jr., was a high-ranking official of the super-secret National Security Agency, NSA. There was no actual title for him. In effect, however, Foster was the Chief of Bank spying, operating jointly with Alan Greenspan, the bank dictator who is like a Soviet Commissar, hence, called by us Alan REDSPAN.

As bank spy chief, Foster did this for some twelve years, purportedly as an attorney/strategist for the apparent NSA proprietary, Systematics, headquartered originally in Arkansas. His team included his reputed "lover", Hillary Rodham Clinton. She certainly was clever and knew how to pose as one thing and be another. Her late father reportedly was a mob "laundry man", washing illicit funds. A CIA "darling" from an early age, Hillary went on to become by 1990 Board Chairman of a reputed CIA proprietary conduit, New World Foundation, financing apparent CIA-paid agents-provocateurs to discredit indigenous dissident movements. Publicly, some thought she was a flaming liberal. Yet, she was for GOP 1964 presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.

Foster's pal Hillary was in a position to understand criminality. Her family came apparently from the Scranton, Pennsylvania area. Law enforcement personnel there contend her family was reportedly linked to the Gambino crime family, New York and Chicago and had mobster-linked cronies on the Chicago exchanges.

William Rockefeller Clinton, on the other hand, was tied to the Chicago mobsters and their traditional mobster vacation site, Hot Springs, Arkansas, where his reputed mother was a mob "party girl".[Documents of the alleged "Bill Clinton" and his early years have been more or less destroyed. Visit our website for more details: http://www.skolnicksreport.com.] In its simplest form, the Bill/Hillary couple was/is a CIA-mobster marriage of convenience.


Of the trio, reportedly with Systematics, Foster was the traveler and super-courier. He did a lot of the "leg work", worldwide. After his demise, requests under the Freedom of Information Act, FOIA, caused disclosure of some 700 pages of documents as to him/Systematics/NSA. Many of the records, however, were heavily blanked out, called in FOIA parlance "redacted". While traveling, Foster had a more private mission. Hillary had long apparently confided in him that some day she was going to have to divorce Bill. So, among other things, like a typical unhappily married wife, Hillary wanted to know where her husband parked the money. [Our court reform group has a number of members who have been in divorce court. Finding their spouse's money is a key matter for them.]


Foster found one of Bill's coded accounts in Switzerland: Ten million dollars, apparently part of his cut from the CIA-dope trafficking through southern states jointly with Ollie North and George Herbert Walker Bush. Account code name included "Chelsea Jefferson", the daughter's first name and Bill's alleged middle name. Hillary reportedly told Foster that if and when the marital battle begins, to put a "brick" on the Swiss and other of Bill's secret coded accounts, EVEN THOUGH THE ELDER BUSH IS INVOLVED, through a beneficial interest, and EVEN THOUGH THE WIRE AND OTHER TRANSFERS WERE ARRANGED BY ALAN GREENSPAN. One of the accounts is listed as bank account #18, on the hand-written list of a senior U.S. Treasury Official, Office of Internal Affairs. [See Part Two of this series, and attached documents.] Some of Bill's coded accounts were actually an overlap with the Elder Bush and Caspar Weinberger. After Bush lost the 1992 election, he pardoned Weinberger from being prosecuted by Independent Counsel Walsh to keep this concealed. These accounts were arranged by former secret police chief Bush, Bill's CIA mentor.

So, in an expected marital battle, Foster was pledged to aid pal Hillary, even if it meant wrecking and exposing her estranged husband's cronies, the Elder Bush and Greenspan and Weinberger. A dangerous confluence of events, howsoever it were to occur.


The Internal Affairs Office of the U.S. Treasury was reportedly well aware of this criminality overlap. Could the American Republic survive a current President and former President jointly prosecuted for high crimes and treason, an event caused by a new top official in the White House named Foster? Realists thought, probably not.


A series of horrendous events led up to the death of Foster, in July, 1993. About a week earlier was the downfall of the American CIA plot to topple Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein, by a CIA-paid-for coup by Iraqi military intelligence officers. A watered down story of what happened did not appear in the American monopoly press until on and after November 1, 1993. A top White House official reportedly called off the coup which was to have assassinated Saddam. Aborting the cabal was President Clinton himself and/or jointly with former President Bush. The Elder Bush, as we have written about exclusively based on a unpublicized Chicago federal court proceedings, had been for the decade, 1980 to 1990, the private business partner of Saddam in oil kick-backs and extortions as to the weak oil sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf.

Bush/Clinton had to stop the assassination of Saddam. Why? Saddam's half-brother in Geneva, Switzerland, who also had the documents of the Bush/Clinton/Greenspan/Weinberger criminality and treason and their Swiss coded accounts, promised documents would be released requiring the treason prosecution of Bush IF BUSH AND HIS CRONIES ARRANGED THE MURDER OF SADDAM. To avoid such event, Saddam's half-brother himself was assassinated. But the documents were conveyed to an independent-minded commentator.

Investigating this whole situation of Clinton/Bush/Greenspan/Weinberger was former CIA Director Admiral Stansfield Turner. The Admiral was checking into the Elder Bush and his family and their reputed cocaine bank money laundry wizard Giorgio Pelossi. [Visit our website for related item.] Turner was traveling with the head of the Costa Rica secret police as well as an eight-person team from Secret Police of Spain. Their airplane was sabotaged and crashed, seriously injuring the Admiral and killing his wife, and most of the secret police onboard who were checking the Spain links to the George Bush family reputed dirty business aided by Redspan and the bank secret wire transfers. This occurred not so long before the posting of this story.

So, just before the murder of Foster, the Iraqi plotters were tricked into trusting Bush/Clinton/Greenspan. By this duplicity, Saddam found out and had the plotters assassinated.

The day before the murder of Foster, the Director of the FBI, William Sessions, was sacked by Clinton. What was the reason planted in the monopoly press? That Sessions had misused his position by taking his wife along, at unauthorized government expense, on official FBI airplane flights. Sessions had in place an elite team, he believed were above reproach, investigating the high-level treasonous criminality of Bush/Clinton/Greenspan/Weinberger and related culprits. The way Sessions was unceremoniously removed was a tip-off. Sessions should have known he was sailing into shark-invested waters.

Several weeks before the death of Foster, German counter-intelligence in Frankfurt were actively surveilling three Israelis apparently residing only temporarily in their venue. This team were reportedly academic types actually, properly called "professors" in Israel. They had no known criminal or other negative background. But the German secret police through long reliable sources came to understand that this trio were actually a one-time contract "hit" team, not directly under the auspices of the State of Israel or The Mossad. In plain language, paid, private, contract killers, exclusively for this mission.

Through their American affiliates, the German spooks traced the team later to the District of Columbia. The Germans were informed that their bird-dogging of the "hit" team would lead to tremendous U.S.-German intellience agency friction. That is, they were told to lay off.

[Also reportedly a part of German Counter-Intelligence from Frankfort, was Andreas Strassmeir. He reportedly infiltrated one of the several teams involved in the multiple bombings of April 19, 1995, of a Federal office building in Oklahoma City. Among other things, he was reportedly aware that the Elder Bush, upon the conclusion of the Persian Gulf War, quietly brought some five thousand Iraqi military intelligence officers and their families to reside in the U.S., many became residents of Oklahoma City. Through German-U.S. co-operation, arranged by the Elder Bush, Strassmeir was kept out of the hands of the FBI as part of the FBI cover-up. Prior to the trial of the so-called "lone bomber", Timothy McVeigh, his attorney filed a Petition for Mandamus, to try to require the McVeigh murder trial judge in Denver (where the case was removed to) to put into the public court record certain documents. The extra-ordinary Petition, filed with the federal appeals court, was not mentioned, if at all, in the monopoly press. The Petition referred to documents, some in the secret record and some in the public court record, showing that Iraq was behind the Oklahoma city terrorism, operating through U.S. dissidents as surrogates not knowing for whom they are doing it. Saddam Hussein, Bush's former private business partner, got his revenge on the U.S., and Clinton/Bush covered it up because of the treasonous links to themselves.]

Related facts: Little known, when it comes to security of the President and other high-level U.S. and foreign visiting dignataries, the U.S. Secret Service has been known for decades to rely on so-called "retired" or elder statesmen of the crime syndicate. So, when a President was to come through Chicago or stop there, the advance team of the Secret Service consults with local, trusted mobsters. Was there some lone nut weirdo would-be assassin going to endanger the President, they inquire. The elder mobsters and their own intelligence network always accommodated the Secret Service with pertinent answers and data. True in the past, true now.


Further, when the Secret Service works on a particularly difficult project, they set up what nowadays is called a "focus group", but made up of university criminology professors, "retired" mobsters, and other highly well-informed types. So, after the death of Foster, the Secret Service set up several "focus groups" to consider what had happened. And some of the "focus group" participants later informed us. Those details were corroborated by the suppressed report of the retired intelligence agents referred to in this series. The several sources thus confirmed details included:


===That the Israeli one-time "hit" team was known to be in the vicinity of the District of Columbia at the time of the murder of Foster.


===They they confronted Foster that fateful day in July, 1993. They dealt with Foster the same way the Gestapo team did when they came to the home of General Edwin Rommel, during World War 2. Rommel knew. Foster knew. They had to go with "them". The Gestapo taking Rommel from his family, went with him nearby. They told Rommel they knew he was part of the cabal plotting to overthrow Hitler and thereby committing treason against the German state, during the War. They handed Rommel a weapon, stating he can either shoot himself as they walk away, or if not, when they come right back, they will have to do the job. Either way, he was told, your family will be spared problems and it will be announced as a natural death or a suicide caused by bad health. And that Rommel would remain an honored General in the public mind.

Similarly, Foster was told that they knew what he had done. That he cannot be allowed to endanger the then new President, Clinton, and former President Bush, and Greenspan, and Weinberger, and the future of the U.S. central government. At the behest of Bush/Weinberger, Israel was owed a favor. Israel was the trans-shipment point for weapons from the U.S. to Iran from the start of the Iran-Iraq war, 1980. That Israeli intelligence had documented proof and pictures, proving Bush arranged the delay of the release of the U.S. hostages held by Iran, in return for the U.S. weapons shipments. The delay designed to show President Carter, running for re-election, as a wimp, unable to get back the hostages. The treasonous deal, done in a Paris suburb, October, 1980, called the "October Surprise", put in the Reagan/Bush ticket. The hostages were released just at the moment Reagan/Bush were inaugurated, January, 1981. And the Israeli government had proof of President Clinton's complicity later in the cover up of treason of his crony, the Elder Bush.

Foster was confronted with his role jointly with Hillary Clinton in American LaFarge, the U.S. unit of a French firm in which the Elder Bush reportedly has a large financial interest. Hillary had been a director of the firm which reportedly supplied the ingredients for poison gas to Israel's sworn enemy, Iraq.

Foster was suicided near the White House. His body was transported to Fort Marcy Park, Virginia, a Civil War memorial site. Finding the body there would enable Israel and others to possibly set off an international scandal. In that, right across the road, about 650 feet away from the park, was the residence mansion of the Saudi Ambassador. Questions could be raised. Was the Ambassador complicit in the death of Foster? Did those in the residence hear the shots? And so on.

Of course, the White House knew the truth. The super-secret National Reconnaissance Office, in charge of satellites, satellite spy and imaging, had images showing the body being moved to Virginia. The White House and that location in Virginia are under total 24 hour surveillance. Fort Marcy Park is not far from the CIA headquarters. Every blade of grass is under satellite imagery. A key operative of the NRO, who knew about all this, Daniel Potter, was murdered in March, 1998, and covered up as an unsolved crime.


Other details discussed with the "focus" groups and corroborated in the suppressed report of the retired intelligence agents:


===Foster's body was prepared for cover-up burial by a reputed CIA-contract mortuary, doing work for the "Defense Department" as a cover.


===The prosecutor in the District of Columbia, under the real circumstances of the death of Foster in the Capitol, certainly knew that his office had jurisdiction to investigate the murder of Foster, the highest ranking U.S. government official to be murdered since the assassination of President Kennedy. The prosecutor's office had more than 500 clear pictures, showing various aspects of the body and related matters. Some pictures showed Foster was finished off with a small caliber gun shot to the back of his neck, directly contradicting any story of supposed "suicide". Three days after that prosecutor's office began their inquiry, several purported "government agents", heavily armed, showed up but did not show credentials, if any. They quickly carted away most anything and everything in the prosecutor's office that could have contained Foster pictures, documents, and data. This event was never reported in the monopoly press. The pictures were referred to, however, in the suppressed report, and discussed during the sessions of the Secret Service "focus" groups.

Several years later, the Washington Post ran the barest mention of some of the details of the "hit" team. One story was by then Washington Post reporter Michael Isikoff. To pander to his CIA-media bosses at the Post, he wrote a story designed to heckle all items contradicting the Foster "suicide" story as mere conspiracy theories, starting one article very briefly mentioning me. [The Washington Post was exposed in a book, the first edition which was suppressed. "Katherine the Great" about Katherine Graham, supposed owner of the Post and her CIA links, by Deborah Davis.] Isikoff went to work for the sister publication, Newsweek. Isikoff reportedly is an asset of The Mossad. Some contend his meddling and complicity resulted in the murder of White House intern Mary Caitrin Mahoney, who was murdered by an intelligence agency team in a Starbucks Coffee Shop right in the District of Columbia, July, 1997, and now falsely blamed onto a "lone nut". Mahoney knew of Clinton giving U.S. financial, industrial, and military secrets reportedly to the head of the Red Chinese Secret Police, Wang Jun, who is also a private law client of alleged "Independent" Counsel Kenneth W. Starr.

Another story about me in the Washington Post was on the front page, July 4, 1995. That early morning I received two calls. First caller, identified himself as a U.S. correspondent for the Israel newspaper, Ma'ariv. "Mr. Skolnick, your story is going to cause the head of The Mossad to be assassinated. You are a Jew. How can you do such a thing?", he blurted out. He did not want to hear that nobody from the Post had interviewed me in respect to the story that day. I did not finger the chief of The Mossad. I offered to FAX him some details. He hung up.


The Second caller that morning, identified himself as the U.S. correspondent of "Israel National Radio". He started right off condemning me, the minute I answered the phone: "Mr.Skolnick, you are a bad Jew. Stop these terrible stories!" he screamed at me. Without hollaring back, I tried to explain what I knew. I suggested, "You in the Israel press, should grill your man Isikoff for putting matters upside down and now you condemn me for it as if I own the Washington Post." The caller did not seem interested in my explanations.

So, in sum, these are the ones who had an interest to either have Foster murdered, or cover it up when they found out it happened. One way or another, Foster had to be silenced about his foreign bank accounts which overlapped those of the Elder Bush/Caspar Weinberger, and were reportedly arranged by secret bank wire transfers directly arranged and approved by Alan Greenspan, head of the super-secret PRIVATE bank, called the Federal Reserve:


(1) WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER CLINTON

(2) HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON

(3) GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH

(4) CASPAR WEINBERGER

(5) ALAN GREENSPAN or as we prefer to call him ALAN REDSPAN

Refer to the documents attached to the Part One and Part Two of this story, and particularly the Swiss bank account, Geneva.



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Vote Secrecy - Why We
Can't Vote Them Out
By Mac Sperry
1-17-8
First, You Get A Vote
A Real Vote

You've heard it before. They just nonchalantly say: "Well, why don't you just vote the bastards out?" But they don't understand, as you are about to, that the reason you can't vote the bastards out, is because you probably have never actually voted the bastards in.

The following trilogy of articles presents new evidence that the apparatus to steal the U.S. citizen vote not only exists, but has been with us since at least the 1880's. Part 1 deals with its key element, the introduction of vote secrecy in the mid 1800s. Vote secrecy still remains in place and operative today, over 130 years later.

Wanna' Know A Secret?

The Vote Hasn't Always Been, "Secret"!

Prior to the secret vote and for the better part of the first 100 years, voting in the U.S. was conducted viva voce, or by "voice vote". The rolls were called, voters stepped forward and anyone within hearing distance could, in parallel with the registrar, witness and notate an individuals vote. The results were rightfully considered irrefutable and beyond dispute.

Then, before the Civil War, some states began to experiment with various kinds of "ballots", that brought with them confidentiality at the expense of witness based verification. Later during the 1880s, the confidential vote formally morphed into the "secret ballot", a ballot of enhanced secrecy which is sometimes called the "Australian ballot" where it first appeared. The secret ballot is still with us today. I claim and will provide compelling evidence, that it was the subtle, though lethal effect of confidentiality (secrecy), that has been the primary enabling characteristic of vote fraud over the last 130 years.

Vote Secrecy Doesn't Eliminate Vote Fraud

It Enables It

Vote secrecy has been so pervasively sold to the public, that the average person can't even consider how inane it really is. Vote secrecy is very much like the shell game in which the "sucker" can't see the pea, because it is covered by an opaque shell. If the shells were made of clear glass so that the pea could be seen, the game would be impossible and the sucker couldn't be fooled. Vote fraud through vote secrecy operates in the same manner.

At the core of this Orwellian head trick, is that the one term, "vote secrecy", confusedly identifies two issues: voter secrecy and vote secrecy. This causes the confused voter to demand "the sanctity of the secret vote", while all that's actually required is, "the sanctity of the secret voter "

Voter Secrecy, Yes ­ Vote Secrecy, No

Of course the voters identity should be kept secret, but why their vote? As an example, I am going to show you the actual votes for President in the 2004 election of ten of my neighbors. They have warned me that they will all sue me if I violate their "right" to vote secrecy, but I'm foolish and am going to do it anyway. Their votes are: Bush, Kerry, Bush, Kerry, Kerry, Bush, Bush, Kerry, Kerry, Bush. Now, which one belongs to neighbor 1, neighbor 2....... neighbor 9, neighbor 10, Do you get it? The votes can't be linked to the voter because the voters name is secret, not their vote.

Consider that you and everyone else openly broadcasts sensitive personal information to everyone within visual distance. Information that is directly linked to your SSN, your address, your phone number and virtually every piece of private information about you. Yet nobody complains or even cares about it. I'm talking about the license plate on your automobile, an identifier that can be traced to you personally, but no one cares because it is an anonymous identifier that can only be accessed by authorities.

Why should you care if someone else sees your vote, if they can't tell it's you that cast it. The importance of this is that the ability to see your vote "as cast", enables you to verify that the vote you cast is the vote that got counted, something that would halt vote fraud in its tracks. The process is sometimes called E2E for end-to-end verification and is virtually identical to bankings time honored receipt/statement audit system. It is also at the heart of the proposed "solution" to our problems in Pt. 3.



To Catch A Thief - Use A Spreadsheet!



The Mentality of a Thief

If you consider the thinking of a person rigging an election, their foremost thought would obviously be, to accomplish their task with as little chance of detection as possible. The initial number of votes they would have to swing to the other side would ideally be, only as few as absolutely necessary. Too many and the other side might be alerted. Thus, it is reasonable to assume that the hallmark of vote fraud would be the close election.

In preparation for the eBook: Desiderata of the Citizen Vote - which can be purchased at www.howtorescueamerica.bravehost.com - I obtained the popular vote figures for all Presidential elections from the most recent back to 1824. My source was the archives of the U.S. governments official newspaper, The Federal Register found at: http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/ scores.html . Using the spreadsheet program Excel, I then determined the difference in spread between the two front runners in each election and calculated the average. That average is 11.01% .

In the entire history of Presidential elections, only six times have the popular vote margins of the two front runners come to within 1%. They were the 1880, 1884, 1888, 1960, 1968 and 2000 elections.

We know the 2000 election was the subject of tampering because we saw it on TV. The 1960 election was also because FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had wiretap evidence proving it. That evidence was later forwarded to the new Attorney General Robert Kennedy, with whom it languished and died.

The 1968 election was also a probable victim of vote fraud, as asserted by investigative journalists/brothers James and Phillip Collier (now deceased), in their widely banned book: Votescam: The Stealing of America. They claimed that during the time after the Kennedy assassination, a shadow government was controlling media, elections and even exit polls. The numbers would seem to support that claim.

As to the 1880s, the 1880, 1884 and 1888 elections were all within 1%. Specifically, the 1880 election was within .02%, the 1884 election .26% and the 1888 election .83%.

The odds that an election would be within these narrow margins are:

1880 election 11.01% divided by .02%, or 550.5 to 1

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1884 election 11.01% divided by .26%, or 42.3 to 1

1888 election 11.01% divided by .83%, or 13.3 to 1

The odds that these three narrow elections could have occurred sequentially are: 550.5 X 42.3 X 13.3 = 309706 to 1. That's almost a third of a million to 1, that these three elections of narrow margin could occur in a row. To lend context to that figure, consider that the "casual association" (odds) between cigarette smoking and lung cancer is only 4.2 to 1.

The odds these narrow elections could have sequentially occurred, coupled with their occurrence shortly after the introduction of the confidential vote and during the introduction of the secret ballot, would have to lead any person of reason to the obvious conclusion; it was at this point orchestrated, grand scale election fraud began in the United States and that vote secrecy played the major role in its occurrence.

Think something like that couldn't have happened? That I'm stretching things, just to make a point? Think again, because it did happen, just 4 years earlier in the election of 1876, with the documented theft of the electoral vote.



Meet "Devil Dan" Sickles

History would record his being a one-legged Union General of little note and "disreputable", former U.S. Ambassador. He lost his leg at Gettysburg and found himself in Washington D.C. the night of the 1876 election. On returning late from the theater, he decided to drop in on the vote counting and noticed that though the Democrat Samuel Tilden was far ahead of Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote, there were still three states that had not reported in; South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida. All three states were solidly Tilden in popular vote, but all three states were also controlled by "bosses" who were all solidly Republican. Together the three possessed the three electoral votes needed for a Hayes win.

Smelling ill-gotten victory, Sickles attempted to confer with the Chairman of the Republican National Committee, one Zachariah Chandler, who had retired in defeat to his hotel room around 6PM. There he proceeded to assuage his loss in collaboration with a bottle of whiskey, to the extent that Sickles best efforts could not rouse him from his drunken stupor.

Sickles then made his way to the telegraph office where, on his own volition (and in Chandlers name), sent the following telegram to the three state bosses: "With your state sure for Hayes, he is elected. Hold your state" - 'Hold your state' was politico-speak of the time for "cheat", "cook the numbers", numbers that could not have been cooked had they been in the open and not secret.

Within a few hours South Carolina wired back that it had gone for Hayes and additionally requested with implied urgency, that Washington should send "more troops". By the next day, with a little help from friends in high places, both Louisiana and Florida were in the Hayes column giving him one more electoral vote than Tilden. What I've just related is historically documented, had quite an aftermath and was the subject of Congressional investigation. See: Steal This Vote by: Andrew Gumbel - ISBN 1-56025-676-1.

The point here is that the mechanism of vote fraud, "vote secrecy" not only existed, but was actually used just prior to the three sequentially "impossible" elections of 1880-1888. Certainly subsequent vote fraud of the 1880s and beyond, was modeled on the 1876 machinations of General "Devil Dan" Sickles, which could have only occurred within the context of vote secrecy.

The people of the time certainly knew, as voter turnouts began to drop precipitously immediately after the 1892 election, the first election where all states voted under the secret ballot. Turnout immediately dropped from over 80% since the late 1820s to 50% by 1920. It has remained low ever since. Yes, the people knew, but with later generations and an ever silent media, vote fraud was eventually relegated to myth and the talk of "wackos".

With the election of 1876, we now have four elections in a row that we can demonstrate were victims of fraud, all enabled by vote secrecy. In the 131 years since the election of 1876, nothing has changed in regard to vote secrecy. It is still with us just as much today as it was then. And now, the election law called HAVA for Help America Vote Act, actually requires a "secret vote". The very thing that enables vote fraud, is now a codified legal requirement.

"Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny": Robert A. Heinlein

Without the vote we become slaves, not metaphorically, but actually.

Alternate Verification - A New Tactic

A case was made in Part 1, that the introduction of the confidential/secret vote in the middle of the 18th century, brought with it the ability to conduct invisible, virtually undetectable vote fraud. It appears reasonable that vote fraud is not only still possible, but almost certainly occurs and with regularity.

Solving the problem might best begin by identifying the characteristics of an ideal solution: It would be powerful, peaceful, doable by ordinary citizens without permission or license of government and it would be inexpensive in terms of time and money. Such a solution has recently surfaced. It is an audit system called Vva.

The Voter verified audit

Vva would be conducted by ordinary citizens who would gather together in ad hoc fashion, for the single purpose of irrefutably verifying the integrity of the vote. It would not require permission or license of government, since it is an independent check of that government. As such it would be independent of the Registrar of Voters. Checking the veracity of the vote should not be the exclusive domain of government, as government checking its own vote count constitutes an obvious conflict of interest.

Who Can Best Be Trusted?

Vva's titanic power stems from its affirmative response to the one big question no vote security system in use today can satisfactorily answer: "Who can best be trusted to incorruptibly verify the vote?" Vva's resounding answer is; "the voters themselves".

In this particular case, it must be assumed that if a voter wanted to somehow alter (tamper with) their own vote, they would choose their "alteration" in the voting booth rather than later. If in the process of tampering they make a "different" choice for whatever reason, they aren't tampering, they're voting. That is, in the voting booth all a voter can do is either vote or not vote, both of which are acceptable, no matter who they vote for. This makes the voter them self a virtually incorruptible verifier of their own vote.

Consider who verifies your own personal checking account. The bank president? A friend? Your bookkeeper? No, you do. Why? Because there is no one with a greater interest in the correct management of your affairs than yourself. It is the same with your vote. It is quite simply in your singular best interest, to ensure that the vote you cast is the vote that actually gets counted.

An Overview

Vva is conducted using a multi-copy business type form, copies of which are later separated and used for verification. In the voting booth, as the vote is made, it is copied from the previously filled out form to the registrars ballot and is effectively witnessed by the voter them self. The form, which is retained by the voter, thus becomes a documented receipt of the transaction.

After voting, the form is dropped off with the group conducting the Vva. Later, the voter verifies their uniquely numbered copy (called the "receipt"), by comparing it to a copy of the original (called the "statement") which is placed on the Internet by the Vva group. If anything changes, the voter will see it when comparing their receipt to the statement on verification.

This "end-to-end" verification makes Vva almost irrefutable and is what gives Vva its teeth. As long as a voter votes and checks their vote (provision is made to ensure they do), there is little chance of error and virtually no chance of fraud. Note: By nature Vva is ambivalent in that it cannot be manipulated "for" or "against" any candidate or measure.

Vva is also entirely anonymous. In order to conduct a Vva it isn't necessary to know the voters name, only that they did indeed vote. Anonymity is thus "built in" to Vva.

A Vva - The Authenticated Vva

Notice the words " almost irrefutable" a couple of paragraphs back. The Vva described in the last few paragraphs is only "verified" by one person, the voter. It is the most basic form of Vva and while simple, it is quite formidable when compared to the systems fielded election day by virtually all U.S. Registrars.

If a Vva were to ever get to court, expect a full court press on the part of opposition attorneys. They will almost certainly attack even the slightest anomaly. If they have nothing else, expect them to blow the least little molehill up to the size of mountains.

One such thing that may be challenged is the voter them self. Did the voter possibly lie? Were they mistaken? Did they forget? Did they change their mind? Could they have altered their own vote to purposely skew and discredit the Vva's results? These and other questions could be used to sway a judge, a judge that may require very little in the way of 'sway'.

The ideal would be another person in the voting booth with the voter. A person who could verify, witness and authenticate the selections of the voter. In California a voter may bring another person into the booth to assist them. I assume this is allowed in other states as well and if it isn't, then it should be. After all, it's your vote. If those who steal it are possibly seeing it, then why shouldn't a verifier of known good character be allowed in, with your permission, to prevent that theft. The authenticator would thus authenticate and corroborate (with the voter) each individual vote, eliminating any question as to the veracity of each, individual verified vote.

This type of Vva is the A Vva, or Authenticated Voter verified audit. It is important to understand its vital components and their significance. First, the A Vva is considered to be irrefutable, because it covers all contingencies with human authenticated verification. In an A Vva the authenticator would also later check through the Internet all votes they verified the previous day. This way end-to-end verification of each vote is provided by two human witnesses, the voter and the authenticator, who were actually present at the precise moment and place the vote was cast.

Note: If an A Vva cannot be used for any reason, the ordinary Vva is still available and quite powerful.

Second, Vva's data source isn't taken from the vote. Just the opposite, the data source of the vote, is taken from Vva. You see, Vva is the "original" form upon which the voter imprints their choices. What the registrar gets is only copied from that original. Therefore, Vva's data source is created previous to the time and place the vote is actually made. Any one tampering with the vote on the registrars side is only acting "after the fact" so far as time and place is concerned, making it inherently impossible to alter Vva's data, before that data is sampled and run through another separate and entirely independent system.

These two features are something no vote count of any Registrar of Voters in the United States can presently provide, thus throwing their vote count into serious question should a discrepancy arise. Currently the Registrars final vote tally is accepted without question because though clearly problematic, it is more robust than any other alternative (primarily because there is no other alternative). Vva will change that. In a court of law, Vva must be considered the more robust system and thus trump any discrepancy.



This article has been drawn from a new eBook by M. J. Sperry entitled: Desiderata of the Citizen Vote - See: www.howtorescueamerica.bravehost.com

Email: voterverifiedaudit@gmail.com

The book details Vva and presents Jefferson, the protocol for conducting a Vva, as well as other innovative solutions to world and national problems.

©M. J. Sperry 12/20/07 - All rights to this work are released to the public domain, but only if reprinted in its entirety, including disclaimer.



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INFLATION IS BECOMING A
WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON
And it is getting worse as the U.S. and
European economies slip into recession
by Monty Guild
Guild Investment Management, Inc.
January 15, 2008

Thus far, the developed world is not thinking with an inflationary psychology, but such a psychology is gripping the developing world.

As Hamlet said "...there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." With inflation this is especially the case. Inflation can be moderated or exacerbated by the psychology of consumers. An example of inflationary psychology is that when prices are expected to rise, people buy and hoard. They tend to buy more raw goods, finished goods as well as fixed assets like gold and other commodities, and if interest rates and prices are low they buy real estate.

It is partially the fear of this inflationary psychology that encourages politicians and political functionaries to fudge the numbers on inflation, change the accounting for the cost of living, and to hide, minimize or divert attention from the advent of inflation using an impressive panoply of creative deception.

There is a general dishonesty displayed by government statistical functionaries pretty much world wide, in presenting the statistics regarding inflation and economic growth. The first is usually understated and the second often overstated.

INFLATION HIGH AND RISING = GOLD HIGH AND RISING

Clearly, the consumers in Russia, China, India, and many other countries are reacting to the bad inflation numbers that have been published in their countries in recent months, weeks, and days. They are seeking to protect themselves, and they are doing so by buying gold and other commodities.

AN EXAMPLE

Just last week, the Shanghai Gold Futures Exchange opened for business. Gold opened at the equivalent of about $997 an ounce. At the time of this writing, gold is trading for about $943 per ounce on the Shanghai Gold Futures Exchange versus about $895 per ounce on other world exchanges.

Why would gold sell for 5% more in Shanghai than elsewhere in the world? It is because the Chinese are worried about inflation, and thus far the amount of gold imported into China to fill the need does not meet the demand. So gold will flow from the rest of the world into China, which will push world prices up and Chinese prices down until they meet. It is our belief they will meet above $920 per ounce soon and above $1500 per ounce in the next couple of years.

THE RECESSION IS NOT SLOWING GOLD DEMAND

The fact that a recession is looming in the developed world would in normal times divert investors' attention from purchasing gold. The logic is that recessions lead to lower demand and lower prices for goods and services, so gold is not demanded. But today is no ordinary recession. Today, we have stagflation brewing. Wise investors who see this prospect on the horizon are protecting against inflation while expecting stagnating economic growth.

SOME RECENT NEWS ITEMS

Russian inflation was 11.9% in 2007.

Ukraine's inflation was the highest in seven years.

China's inflation is accelerating, causing some political unrest due to higher gasoline diesel and food prices.

The Chinese government institutes price freezes on key goods including fertilizer, food energy and etc.

Inflation in Latin America ranged from 3.3% to the high teens in 2007.

The Chinese agree to let their currency rise faster than in 2007 to combat inflation.

We see headlines like these appearing all over the world. Eventually, they get into the people's awareness and change behaviors, which can cause more dislocations, and finally a big breakout in inflation world-wide.

Thus far, the U.S. and some other markets have started the new year on a declining note. However, if you have been in food, gold, or foreign currencies the news has been good.

We expect this year to be much like the first week. It maybe difficult for some parts of the world economy, but not difficult for those who are well positioned to benefit from the inflation, weak dollar, and poor U.S. economic activity that will make headlines this year.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO LIKE TO THINK ABOUT THE MONEY SUPPLY AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO LIQUIDITY, PRODUCTIVITY AND INFLATION...

Here are some scary money supply growth numbers for you for 2007:

Brazil M3 +17.0%
Canada M3 +12.9%
China M2 +18.5%
Euro zone M3 +12.3%
Hong Kong M3 +31.5%
India M3 +21.5%
U.S. M3 +15.8%

In our opinion, the commodity macro cycle is all about population of the world and its growth. In 2005, the world population was about 6.5 billion people, and it has been growing slightly more than 75 million people per annum since 2000, or about 1.2% per year.

If we assume that 1.2% more people are added net to world population each year, it is easy to see that the demand for raw materials will continue to rise at a substantial rate. Add to this the fact that about 50 million more individuals per year join the global developing economies and begin to make enough money to demand more goods, more services, and a richer diet. Using these figures, it is easy to see demand for grains and industrial commodities rising at 2-3 % per year. This is huge growth since the global production of energy, grains, and raw materials has not typically grown more than about 1% a year, if at all.

PRICES WILL RISE

As we all know if demand rises and supply is relatively flat, price is the mechanism by which goods are rationed. Prices must rise...and rise they will.

Many argue that prices have already risen, so price increases must be over. In our opinion, prices can fall for a few weeks, or even months in some cases, but long-term price decreases are looking extremely unlikely, especially if you believe the money supply growth figures mentioned above. In our opinion and in the opinion of many economists rapidly expanding liquidity leads to more price inflation.

FEAR AND LOATHING IN GLOBAL MARKETS

Stocks that are not connected to the commodity cycle could be hurt.

People fear that the Fed will not lower rates fast enough due to the fact that the Fed knows it will eventually have to raise rates in order to slow down the rise in commodity prices. The Fed may be slow in lowering rates, but they will undoubtedly be slow raising rates later when they try to slow price inflation. This should give inflation plenty of time to take root.

Every behavior the central banks and the governments themselves are currently undertaking is inflationary longer term. For example, with bailouts of companies [Northern Rock], the injections of capital by sovereign wealth funds and other investors, and lowering interest rates to spur lending and growth. These, plus the growth of the money supply worldwide is sowing the seeds of inflation.

Further, the growth of world population and the rising standard of living of the existing population both argue persuasively for higher commodity prices over the long term.

OUR STRATEGY

We will continue to keep our eye on the global landscape and find areas that we think offer investment profit potential. We are long gold, energy, food, and related companies. We have very small positions in one or two fast growing countries and will add to these positions on market weakness, not today, but in coming weeks and months.



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