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In a now familiar technique,the evidence for the grand conspiracy is a video thatà ‚¬ „ s been sliced & diced so much it looks like coleslaw.Breitbart released two 7-minute videos,deceptively edited and remixed snippets that are taken from more than 30 hours of classroom video-conference tapes.The videos cut away context & patch statements together from weeks apart to turn probing academic questions into semi-endorsements of violence.Watch Giljum seamlessly change shirts between sentences.This hoax factory operates on the premise that if you throw enough dirt, something will stick.Heà ‚¬ „ s tried the same tactics on NPR, Planned Parenthood,Senate Democrats,and the NAACP and Shirley Sherrod, an African-American Dept of Agriculture ex-employee.Steven Ashby of the University of IL said à ‚¬Å"Ità ‚¬ „ s no coincidence this attack comes in the wake of the biggest workersà ‚¬ „ upsurge in 30 years, in WI."
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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