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69. can anyone confirm the manner and date of raymond lemme's death?

Editor's Note: We're waiting on approval to publish details from the police reports tomorrow. We've confirmed that he was found dead on July 1, 2003 at a Knights Inn, Room 132, Valdosta GA according to the police report. This end was actually one of the first things we sought to check to determine whether the source was credible in his other claims.

Checking SSDI sites (props to a poster on DU who found this info), you can come up with:

Raymond C. Lemme
Born: Feb 21 1947
Died: Jul 1 2003
Issued: Michigan
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I don't know what Issued: Michigan means though.

So, what was Tenet talking about, really? See http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1204/120104c1.htm.

"Efforts at physical security will not be enough, because the thinking enemy that we confront is going to school on our network vulnerabilities as well, and I think the two are inextricably linked," he said. "The number of known potential adversaries conducting research on information attacks is increasing rapidly and includes intelligence services, military organizations and nonstate entities."

According to Tenet "a loose collection of regional [terrorist] networks" now "thrive independently" worldwide by using telecommunications and the Internet to communicate with and learn from each other at almost no cost.

Telecommunications technology for government and business should have built-in protections, Tenet said, such as intrusion detection and protection systems, antivirus software, authentication and identify management services, and encryption.

"I know that these actions would be controversial in this age where we still think the Internet is a free and open society with no control or accountability," he added. "But, ultimately, the Wild West must give way to governance and control."

And here:

Former senior federal cyber security official F. Lynn McNulty told UPI there would have to be "some retreat from the Wild West" concept of the Internet as an ungoverned space.

"It has become such an integral part of people's lives," he argued, "that they will demand from policymakers and legislators the laws and regulations needed to protect it."

Tenet suggested that this
might not be enough. "New attacks have raised questions about the trustworthiness of the Internet and Internet protocol technologies," he said.

Tenet suggests a move to Internet 2, a project of universities and private industry geared at advancing the speed and security of the Internet as we know it. The project claims speeds at 300,000 times that of the current home Internet connection, allowing high-quality real-time video and audio over long distances.

Here is the source of that story. Here is a followup that debunks a lot of it.

Here is the source of that story. Here is a followup that debunks a lot of it.

Electronic voting, while a neat idea to speed up the vote counting process, seems to have run into a number of glitches (over 1100 nationwide) this November 2nd. In addition to seemingly random problems in Florida [1, 2], Ohio [1], and North Carolina [1], there are allegations of systematic fraud based on statistical comparison of exit polls to final results in precincts with audit trails and those without. It is also interesting that in Florida, the voting patterns do not match the voter registration patterns as they do nationwide. This has attracted the attention of numerous civil rights groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation that has filed at least two lawsuits since election day, and BlackboxVoting.org that has filed a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain computer logs and documents from 3000 counties and districts across the US. Equally disturbing is the fact that CNN has (since Nov 2) changed its exit polling results to reflect the actual results. This has attracted the attention of Congressmen John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, Jerrold Nadler of New York and Robert Wexler of Florida who have jointly requested that the GAO immediately investigate the efficacy of e-voting machines.

In case you are thinking that this is just sour grapes from Democrats who lost the election, think again. BlackboxVoting.org has been investigating e-voting fraud for years. Likewise, the CEO of Diebold, one of the e-voting machine manufacturers has been quoted as saying "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president." And if that's not conflict of interest enough for you, Republican Senator Chuck Hagel (now resigned) is an owner of the largest e-voting machine company ES&S.

Other numerous problems have been found with the machines from nearly every company in the past [1, 2, 3]. Avi Rubin, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University, has been investigating such machines on his own and has found a number of security issues. Swarthmore students stood up to Diebold in November of 2003 after discovering

"I lie... I dont tell the exit pollers who I voted for

But why is it only the places with electronic voting machines where the numbers are so skewed, and the places with paper polls look reasonable?

Do you only lie to the exit-pollers if you've voted electronically?

Ask and ye shall recieve.

Exit polls have been very reliable throughout history, until evoting came along.

In this case, the exit polls were wrong everywhere electronic voting was used. They were pretty accurate in places with paper voting and audit trails.

Furthermore, in every single case where the exit polls were wrong, the final results favored Bush. Statistically implausible, to say the least.

Check out these graphs.

If these are right, Kerry should've won the election easily, just like everyone was predicting because of the huge voter turnout (which has always been bad for the incumbent)

Unfortunately, this will never be proven conclusively, since there are no paper trails for a recount.

First, no, the exit polls do not suggest that. They perfectly mirror the results.
And for every published statistics, there is someone to tell you they are not real and everything is completely different.

Photo of Bush wearing false award found at Bush's father's Presidential Library

Also interesting: Photo of Bush wearing false award found at Bush's father's Presidential Library

Also interesting: Photo of Bush wearing false award found at Bush's father's Presidential Library

I posted on this Twenty-one days ago at Watching the Watchers, and it was completely ignored. Now, a month later, it gets attention. Bullshit.