Last Chance to Save the Peter B. Collins Show by Tuesday 9am PT

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Tuesday March 17, 2009 · 12:03 AM PDT

2009/03/17 · 00:03

The great Peter B. Collins progressive talk radio show has only been able to get on about 9 stations via self syndication. Unprofitable, the show is going off the air on Friday unless, according to today's show, there is by 9am Tuesday a significant response to peter@peterbcollins.com pledging a voluntary monthly subscription fee (suggested $10, anything gratefully accepted), or of course some major donors or advertisers emerging.

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http://www.peterbcollins.com/... /
http://wedonotconsent.blogspot.com/...
http://www.bradblog.com/...

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Friday October 24, 2008 · 5:38 PM PDT

2008/10/24 · 17:38

Mark Crispin Miller, David Swanson, Lynn Landes and Peter B. Collins are among the early signers of an open letter to their media industry colleagues calling for truth-telling about election conditions: Federal election results are unprovable and the media should be calling for hand counting paper ballots to be able document the now-secret counting process and thus create credibility for the reported results.

Full letter and list of signers after the jump.

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Thursday September 25, 2008 · 12:29 AM PDT

2008/09/25 · 00:29

Paperless electronic voting +
Corporate vote counting guarded as proprietary secrets +
Nonsensical results such as negative vote totals =

"Election" results are UNPROVABLE.

Tell the media not to report as fact what can't even be proven and what hasn't been independently verified. The media should be the greatest advocates of hand counting paper ballots because this method of counting allows media greatest access to observing and documenting the process, affording their reporting the greatest credibility. Transparent coverage of a transparent counting process would create a basis for confidence in the reported results where none currently exists.

Listen to this .mp3:
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How To Forecast Labor, Cost and Time For Hand-Counting Paper Ballots

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Monday August 13, 2007 · 11:31 AM PDT

2007/08/13 · 11:31

Originally blogged at:
http://wedonotconsent.blogspot.com/...

By Dave Berman
8/12/07

At the risk of being immodest, what I'm about to describe has the potential to greatly advance the hand-counted paper ballot (HCPB) movement in every community. Credit where it is due, let me first say that last November the Voter Confidence Committee (VCC) began working on the recently published Report On Election Conditions in Humboldt County, California. In the course of researching this report, I came in contact with Nancy Tobi of Democracy For New Hampshire (DNH). She is an amazing resource and an effective advocate for HCPB.

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Tuesday July 03, 2007 · 12:10 AM PDT

2007/07/03 · 00:10

Originally blogged at We Do Not Consent:
http://wedonotconsent.blogspot.com/...

Reflections on Independence, Volume 5
By Dave Berman

July 4, 2007 - This is the fifth installment in my annual Reflections on Independence series. My mind is liable to seize when considering how far down the slippery slope we've slid since the first of these essays. Yet it is heartening to look back five years to my first call for impeachment and revolution, and to realize how many millions more have spoken out similarly since then.

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Thursday June 28, 2007 · 11:45 PM PDT

2007/06/28 · 23:45

Blogged at We Do Not Consent:
http://wedonotconsent.blogspot.com/...

I won't say it is the only reason I have so few blog posts in the past eight months, but the Report on Election Conditions in Humboldt County (.pdf) just released by the Voter Confidence Committee is something significant I have to show for that period of time.

The press release below says it (almost) all. The image below it is something I've had in my head for more than two years. I could never find anyone willing to do the graphic design work. What I always imagined as a flier or poster is now a powerful diagram that simplifies several pages of text in the report. Regardless of what else happens, I hope this image is picked up and used around the country wherever people are organizing on behalf of hand-counted paper ballots. Huge thanks to HSU student John Carter for helping breath life into this vision.

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Wednesday June 13, 2007 · 10:17 PM PDT

2007/06/13 · 22:17

According to Aryay Kalaki of the Voter Confidence Committee of Humboldt County, long-time County Election Manager Lindsey McWilliams has left his position as of Monday and will soon take a similar position in Solano County, California. I won't say I'm celebrating but I have been calling for McWilliams to resign for a long time. What I will say is that this is an opportunity. Aryay also reported that Registrar of Voters Carolyn Crnich seems a bit stressed over having to fill not one but four vacancies in her elections department. Are there qualified members of the Election Integrity Community who I should encourage the County to recruit?

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If Venezuelans Have a Dictator, What Have We Here?

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Tuesday February 06, 2007 · 11:38 PM PST

2007/02/06 · 23:38

This is a letter to the editor of the Eureka Reporter that I wrote last Thursday night. It was published today, Tuesday Feb. 6, 2007. This letter is in response to this editorial:

http://www.eurekareporter.com/...

The letter can be found here:

http://www.eurekareporter.com/...

Failure to seek accountability has left citizens confused
by Dave Berman, Eureka, 2/6/2007

Glenn Franco Simmons recently described Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as a dictator, tyrant, strongman and authoritarian. If Simmons can support this by citing stacked courts and monopolized rule, what should we conclude about Supreme Court Justices Alito and Roberts, six years of a rubber-stamping one-party legislative branch and only one veto but more than 1,000 signing statements?

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Tuesday October 24, 2006 · 4:07 AM PDT

2006/10/24 · 04:07

Originally posted at:
http://wedonotconsent.blogspot.com/...
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
By Dave Berman

This post was inspired by attention given at Democratic Underground and elsewhere to Lou Dobbs's election integrity coverage on CNN.

Many of us know that the next "election," as with the last few, will not produce unanimous agreement about the results. Despite their political dominance, the regime in power has forfeited all of its credibility and can never again be convincing - of anything. So they don't try to have a believable election, instead drawing more power to themselves by dividing the public opinion over who really won. Read More

The Delacroy Parable, aka Man of the Year movie review

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Saturday October 21, 2006 · 1:34 PM PDT

2006/10/21 · 13:34

Saturday, October 21, 2006
The Delacroy Parable
By Dave Berman

I don't see a lot of movies in the theater. But when I heard that Robin Williams was starring in Man of the Year, a film about a comedian who runs for President and "wins" only on the strength of dubious election machines, I knew this would be worth it.