May the source be with you, but remember the KISS principle ;-)
Aftermath of US Presidential Elections of 2020
The question about 202 election can be viewed as the start of the constitutional crisis in the USA -- the next stage of
the crisis of legitimacy of neoliberal elite
The neoliberal experiment – lower taxes on the rich, deregulation of labor and product markets, financialization, and
globalization – has been a spectacular failure. Growth is lower than it was in the quarter-century after the second world war,
and most of it has accrued to the very top of the income scale. After decades of stagnant or even falling incomes for those below
them, neoliberalism must be pronounced dead and buried.
Vying to succeed it are at least three major political alternatives: far-right nationalism, centre-left reformism and the progressive
left (with the centre-right representing the neoliberal failure). And yet, with the exception of the progressive left, these alternatives
remain beholden to some form of the ideology that has (or should have) expired.
The centre-left, for example, represents neoliberalism with a human face. Its goal is to bring the policies of former US president
Bill Clinton and former British prime minister Tony Blair into the 21st century, making only slight revisions to the prevailing
modes of financialization and globalization. Meanwhile, the nationalist right disowns globalization, blaming migrants and foreigners
for all of today’s problems. Yet as Donald Trump’s presidency has shown, it is no less committed – at least in its American variant
– to tax cuts for the rich, deregulation and shrinking or eliminating social programmes.
Neoliberalism
must be pronounced dead and buried. Where next?
by Joseph Stiglitz
The Guardian
may 30, 2019
A house divided against itself cannot stand ~Abraham Lincoln
The lection of 2020 were less a referendum on neoliberal globalization then 1026 election. This happened mainly to COVD-19
epidemic and coursed by it recession. This combination of factors favored neoliberals to take back power from "national
neoliberals" like Trump (although he governed strictly as a typical republican president, kind of Bush III, betraying most of
his promises to his electorate)
But "COVID junta" which probably will come to power in 2021, if Trump legal maneuvers fail, faces litany of structural problems
which they in no way are ready or willing to solve. Add to this the fact, that expected by neoliberal democrats the "Blue wave" that will give them
not only both Presidency and the control of Senate and the House, simply did not happened. Despite all his blunders and
"pro-rich" tax cut Trump retained large part of his voting base and that helped Republicans to preserve their standing in
Senate and actually increase their block in House of representatives.
Looks like people were not exited about the idea of the restoration of neoliberal globalization and the return to the status quo which
existed before Trump. People still hate neoliberalism and neoliberal Dems, and it looks like they managed to create a situation
in which many people hate them more then Republicans. Which is not that surprising, if we think about neoliberal Dems as sellouts
to Wall Street interests and financial oligarchy.
Those election are no about Trump or Biden (both are dismal candidates, with Biden being an actual war criminal, who should never be on the ticket) , but about the course
the country should take to space from the crisis of neoliberalism which started in 2008.
Biden (who represent Clinton faction of Democratic
Party) proposed the return to the "status quo" (which deceptively marketed as the "return to normal") which existed before 2016. Which
is both impossible and dangerous idea, as you can't enter the same river twice.
But the most interesting part is that it look like neoliberal Dems tried to manipulate election in their favor resorting to
voting fraud and this way they caused a constitutional crisis in the USA, which might
have profound implications for the future of the country, independently of who will become the next President (and, in reality, Biden
domestic program and, especially, foreign policy program, do no differ much from Trump. In foreign policy both are neocons and Zionists;
in essence Biden is Trump-light or Trump with human face if you wish .) That's essentially de-legitimize COVID-19 junta and gives
Republican opportunity to block most of their legislative initiatives with the goal to capture the House in 2022.
The same is true, if Thump by the miracle will get the second term. He had spend all his political capital and his legitimacy
will be questioned even more forcefully than in 2016 when neoliberal MSM launched Russiagate hoax against him, supported by powerful factions
within major US intelligence agencies.
While 2020 election was less then 2016 referendum on neoliberalism and neoliberal globalization the issue of collapse of
neoliberal ideology remains and will affect the future of global governed from Washington neoliberal empire.
If we assume the Trump lost, this 2020 referendum went in favor of the neoliberal elite that supports neoliberal globalization
and as such the result of this election represent not normalization, but a counterrevolution.
So they managed to return from zombies state they entered in 2016. And not without help from intelligence agencies which created the
wave of Neo-McCarthyism and gaslighted the population of the country with "Russian threat" for four years.
And that happened despite the fact that we all now live in the period of collapse of neoliberalism and increase diverseness of the
society. Part of this string turn of event can be explained by Trump flaws and the fact that he betrayed his voters both in his domestic
policies and foreign policy.
In 2020 the market fundamentalism and neoliberal globalization both needs to go. They caused the slide of the standard of living
of lower 80% of the USA population. They actually prevent realization of democracy, replacing the notion "one person one vote" with
the notion "one dollar one vote" (money as free speech).
Neoliberals put economic growth above the value of having a healthy middle class, leading to century-high levels of inequality. It
emphasized individuals over communities and divided us by race, class, and culture. And because it preferred markets to democracy, it
looked away as the wealthiest people and corporations rigged the government to serve their own interests, even at the expense of everyone
else:
This is not an ordinary political moment. Everywhere around us, the old order is collapsing. The golden age of postwar economic
growth is over, replaced by a new Gilded Age of inequality and stagnation... People once united by common culture and information
are now fractured into social media echo chambers.
The [neo]liberal international order is cracking as nationalism grows in strength and global institutions decay. The United States’
role as a global superpower is challenged by the rising strength of China and a new era of Russian assertiveness.
Optimists hope that generational and demographic change will restore inexorable progress. Pessimists interpret the current moment
as the decline and fall of democracy.
.. we are currently in the midst of one of these epochal transitions. We live on the edge of a new era in politics — the
third since the Great Depression and World War II. The first era is probably best described as liberal.... from the 1940s through
the 1970s, a version of political liberalism provided the paradigm for politics. Charting a path between the state control of communists
and fascists and the laissez-faire market that dominated before the Great Depression, liberals adopted a form of regulated capitalism.
Government set the rules of the road for the economy, regulated finance, invested to create jobs and spark consumer demand, policed
the bad behavior of businesses, and provided a social safety net for Americans. Big institutions—big government, big corporations,
big labor—cooperated to balance the needs of stakeholders in society. In the United States, it was called New Deal Liberalism. In
Europe, social democracy. There were differences across countries, of course, but the general approach was similar. ...even the conservatives
of the time were liberal. Republican president Dwight Eisenhower championed the national highway system and warned of the military-industrial
complex. President Richard Nixon said, “I am now a Keynesian in economics.” His administration created the EPA and expanded Social
Security by indexing benefits to inflation.
...since the 1980s, we have lived in a second era — that of neoliberalism. In economic and social policy, neoliberalism’s
tenets are simple: deregulation, privatization, liberalization, and austerity. Under neoliberalism, individuals are on their
own and should be responsible for themselves. Instead of governments, corporations, and unions balancing the interests of all stakeholders,
the primary regulator of social interests should be the marketplace. Neoliberals opposed unions and unionization, they wanted to
pursue vouchers instead of public provision of services, and they sought to shrink the size and functioning of government, even if
it meant a less effective government. Markets worked like magic, and market logic would be applied to all aspects of life. Around
the world, the neoliberal era came with an aggressive emphasis on expanding democracy and human rights, even by military force. Expanding
trade and commerce came with little regard for who the winners and losers were—or what the political fallout might be. ...It was
President Bill Clinton who said that the "era of big government is over" and who celebrated the legislation deregulating Wall
Street.
...With the election of Donald Trump, the neoliberal era has reached its end. While in control of the House, Senate,
and presidency, Republicans neither repealed the Affordable Care Act nor privatized Social Security and Medicare. Their party is
increasingly fractured between Trumpist conservatives, who are far more nationalist, and the never-Trump old-line conservatives like
Bill Kristol or Jeb Bush. An increasing number of people recognize that neoliberalism’s solutions are unsuited to the challenges
of our time.
I would recommend to listen to the interview by John Anderson by Victor Davis
Hanson -- US Election 2020 - YouTube. While he is Trump supported
many of his point sound relevant to people who consider Trump a short-lived aberration, which sooner of later will be deposed by the
neoliberal establishment (aka the "deep state"). And before that was fully cooped by Republican establishment and pushed "tax cut for
the rich." For example, he pointed out that the primary role of pollsters is the suppression of votes.
PorkyPricklyPants, 2 days ago
Joe Biden’s political Career by year:
1973 Biden enters politics
1974
1975
1976
1977 Biden fights to keep schools segregated because "allowing blacks to integrate would create a racial jungle"
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983 Biden taxes SS
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988 Ran for president but had to end it after getting busted for plagiarism
1989
1990 C’mon man, almost there
1991
1992
1993 Biden taxes SS again
1994 Biden writes the stop and frisk law which is what African Americans blame for systemic racism today
1995
1996
1997 Almost, not yet because y’know the thing
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008 Calls Obama the first articulate and clean mainstream African American
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020 and now he’s ready to "FIX" the Country.
Imagine being so dumb that you think the guy in office for 4 years is the problem and the guy in office for 47 YEARS is
the solution
Jeff Olp 1 day ago
President Trump is exposing the lie and corruption of the whole thing. That is why the old guard are so upset. Opening up the
eyes of the people about the lie they live is part of the reason I voted Trump. They can not let the debt slaves wake up to the
truth or their power is destroyed.
Every government on earth are part of the lie and corruption. They keep us divided so they can pit us against each other. Cruelty
they created but blame on others so they can have their power hungry appetite fed.
Doug Sjogren 1 day ago
Since the days leading up to the election I've felt as if the air had left the room and I was slowly suffocating. I couldn't
believe the world I was seeing. The poles were lying, legacy media was lying, big tech was lying, the FBI was lying and I was
slowly dying inside. My hope was leaving for sure. T
he last hour listening to this man speak with such clarity, and intelligence has become a rush of fresh air into the room.
I again have hope for the future of this country because the left has made such a huge mistake in ignoring the middle class in
the election. They really thought that we couldn't see thru all of this bullshit. The people who stole this election from Trump
and the conservative Americans will have their day of reckoning.
They will lose the race because they have lost every shred of their credibility. It will start in two years when they loose
the House and in another two years when they loose the White House and the Republicans have a super majority with the House, the
Senate, and the Supreme Court. Thank you Donald Trump, for taking all of the rocks and arrows. You will never be forgotten for
pulling the drain stopper in the swamp.
Crisis of neoliberalism will not magically disappear in 2021. It might get worse due to effects of the COVID19 pandemics.
In foreign policy Biden was always a neocon warmonger, so members of his cabinet probably will not differ much from Trump. So the
Secretary of State might be less abrasive them Pompeo, but the policies stay the same: attempt to preserve and whoever possible to
expand
the global neoliberal empire governed from Washington.
But this will be a tough task. First of all Biden, has Chinagate waiting for him in the wings. Also relations with Russia are already
at such a low point that the step might be, God forbid, shooting. In other words he has very few degrees of freedom. Biden
was an important player in Russiagate hoax, so it is reasonable to expect that everything will be spoiled and toxic in this area
in his administration.
Another important negative factor is that Biden probably incorporates way too many female chickenhawks in his administration.
Suffering from "inferiority complex" those chickenhawks will probably be way too jingoistic, and will contribute to the adoption of
the most dangerous and counterproductive policies. For example, in Syria.
On domestic front the key USA problem -- mass unemployment will not subside. As Biden is Wall Street stooge he will do nothing
serious about it. Race relations, aggravating by BLM and antifa riots and destruction of monuments, will only get worse with "race-neutral"
white American probably moving to the right.
The measure taken against COVID-19 epidemic by COVID-19 junta probably will worsen that state of the economic in the USA
dramatically and increase unemployment to the levels of Great depression. Several important industries such as hospitality
industry, restaurants, health clubs, theaters and entertainment industry in in general, and airlines already took severe hits
and probably will not recover. Those hits will propagate down the food chain to cause additional shocks.
The fundamental
problems, he says, are a dark triad of social maladies: a bloated elite class, with too few elite jobs to go around; declining
living standards among the general population; and a government that can’t cover its financial positions.
...The problems are deep and structural—not the type that the tedious process of democratic change can fix in time to forestall
mayhem. Turchin likens America to a huge ship headed directly for an iceberg: ‘If you have a discussion among the crew about which
way to turn, you will not turn in time, and you hit the iceberg directly.’
The past 10 years or so have been discussion. That sickening
crunch you now hear—steel twisting, rivets popping—is the sound of the ship hitting the iceberg.
American political leaders display a widening disconnect from reality intended to mask their
complicity in the seizure of power by global corporations and billionaires.
Joe Biden's victory instantly obliterated the Democratic Party's longstanding charge that
Russia was hijacking and compromising U.S. elections. The Biden victory, the Democratic Party
leaders and their courtiers in the media now insist, is evidence that the democratic process is
strong and untainted, that the system works. The elections ratified the will of the people.
But imagine if Donald Trump had been reelected. Would the Democrats and pundits at The
New York Times , CNN and MSNBC pay homage to a fair electoral process? Or, having spent
four years trying to impugn the integrity of the 2016 presidential race, would they once again
haul out the blunt instrument of Russian interference to paint Trump as Vladimir Putin's
Manchurian candidate?
Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani are vulgar and buffoonish, but they play the same slimy
game as their Democratic opponents. The Republicans scapegoat the deep state, communists and
now, bizarrely, Venezuela; the Democrats scapegoat Russia. The widening disconnect from reality
by the ruling elite is intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by predatory
global corporations and billionaires.
... ... ...
Compare this to how Hillary Clinton, during the recent primary campaign, warned that the
Russians were "grooming" a female candidate, widely assumed to be Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, to run as
a third-party candidate to serve Russian interests.
Previously, Clinton called the 2016 Green Party candidate Jill Stein a "Russian asset." She
insisted, although Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his prosecutors found no evidence to
support her charge, that the Trump campaign worked closely in 2016 with Moscow and
WikiLeaks -- which she insists is a Russian front -- to defeat her. Hillary's staff put
together a "hit list" in the final days of her 2008 campaign, according to the book,
Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes,
listing those who were loyal to the Clintons those who were not. They used a scale of 1 to
7.
"Step back and think about it," Clinton wrote in her book, What Happened , about the
2016 election.
"The Russians hacked our election systems. They got inside. They tried to delete or alter
voter information. This should send a shiver down the spine of every American."
Never mind that both ruling parties are silent about the massive interference in our
elections by Israel, which uses its lobbying groups to lavishly fund political candidates in
both parties and flies members of Congress and their families to Israel for junkets at seaside
resorts. Israel's intrusion in our political process, including when Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress in 2015, without informing then President Barack Obama,
to attack the president's Iran nuclear deal, dwarfs that of any other country, including
Russia.
Fictional & Dangerous Narratives
The two warring factions within the ruling elite, which fight primarily over the spoils of
power while abjectly serving corporate interests, peddle alternative realities. If the deep
state and Venezuelan socialists or Russia intelligence operatives are pulling the strings no
one in power is accountable for the rage and alienation caused by the social inequality, the
unassailability of corporate power, the legalized bribery that defines our political process,
the endless wars, austerity and de-industrialization. The social breakdown is, instead, the
fault of shadowy phantom enemies manipulating groups such as Black Lives Matters or the Green
Party.
"The people who run this country have run out of workable myths with which to distract the
public, and in a moment of extreme crisis have chosen to stoke civil war and defame the rest of
us – black and white – rather than admit to a generation of corruption, betrayal,
and mismanagement," Matt Taibbi writes.
These fictional narratives are dangerous. They erode the credibility of democratic
institutions and electoral politics. They posit that news and facts are no longer true or
false. Information is accepted or discarded based on whether it hurts or promotes one faction
over another. While outlets such as Fox News have always existed as an arm of the Republican
Party, this partisanship has now infected nearly all news organizations, including publications
such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, along with the major tech
platforms that disseminate information and news. A fragmented public with no common narrative
believes whatever it wants to believe.
JOB DESCRIPTION: Vladimir Putin's Russia remains one of the biggest stories in the world.
It sends out hit squads armed with nerve agents against its enemies, most recently the
opposition leader Aleksei Navalny. It has its cyber agents sow chaos and disharmony in the
West to tarnish its democratic systems, while promoting its faux version of democracy. It has
deployed private military contractors around the globe to secretly spread its influence. At
home, its hospitals are filling up fast with Covid patients as its president hides out in his
villa. If that sounds like a place you want to cover, then we have good news: We will have an
opening for a new correspondent as Andy Higgins takes over as our next Eastern Europe Bureau
Chief early next year.
Of course, every charge leveled here against Russia regarding foreign interference can be
leveled in spades against the United States, both in the present and past, and even the implied
criticism of its pandemic response seems like a textbook case of projection. More to the point,
why should the Times even send someone to Moscow to report on what Russians think, feel
and how they view themselves and the world if they have already decided they are a cartoon
villain? Why have a Moscow bureau at all?
A parody response circulating on the internet imagined a parallel posting by Pravda
for a U.S. correspondent:
JOB DESCRIPTION: Donald Trump's America remains one of the biggest stories in the world.
It sends out its armies, its drones, and its agents around the world to kill its enemies. It
has its cyber agents sow chaos and disharmony, undermining and overthrowing regimes, while
promoting its faux version of democracy. It has deployed private military contractors around
the globe to secretly spread its influence. At home, its hospitals are filling up fast with
Covid patients as its president hides out on the golf course. If that sounds like a place you
want to cover, then we have good news. We will have an opening for a new correspondent.
... ... ...
The flagrant partisanship and discrediting of truth across the political spectrum are
swiftly fueling the rise of an authoritarian state. The credibility of democratic institutions
and electoral politics, already deeply corrupted by PACs, the electoral college, lobbyists, the
disenfranchisement of third-party candidates, gerrymandering and voter suppression, is being
eviscerated.
Silicon Valley billionaires, including Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and ex-Google CEO
Eric Schmidt, donated more than $100 million to a Democratic super PAC that created a torrent
of anti-Trump TV ads in the final weeks of the campaign to elect Biden. The heavy infusion of
corporate money to support Biden wasn't done to protect democracy. It was done because these
corporations and billionaires know a Biden administration will serve their interests.
... ... ...
More Targeting & Censorship Ahead
The election of Biden is also very bad news for journalists such as Matt Taibbi, Glen Ford,
Margaret Kimberley, Glenn Greenwald, Jeffrey St. Clair or Robert Scheer who refuse to be
courtiers to the ruling elites. Journalists who do not spew the approved narrative of the
right-wing, or, alternatively, the approved narrative of the Democratic Party, have a
credibility the ruling elite fears.
... ... ...
The censorship and manipulation of information was honed and perfected against
WikiLeaks . When WikiLeaks tries to release information, it is hit with botnets
or distributed denial of service attacks. Malware attacks WikiLeaks' domain and website.
The WikiLeaks site is routinely shut down or unable to serve its content to its
readers.
Attempts by WikiLeaks to hold press conferences see the audio distorted and the
visual images corrupted. Links to WikiLeaks events are delayed or cut. Algorithms block
the dissemination of WikiLeaks content. Hosting services, including Amazon, removed
WikiLeaks from its servers. Julian Assange, after releasing the Iraqi war logs, saw his
bank accounts and credit cards frozen. WikiLeaks' PayPal accounts were disabled to cut
off donations.
The Freedom of the Press Foundation in December 2017 closed down the anonymous funding
channel to WikiLeaks which was set up to protect the anonymity of donors. A
well-orchestrated smear campaign against Assange was amplified and given credibility by the
mass media and filmmakers such as Alex Gibney. Assange and WikiLeaks were first. We are
next.
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy told CNN during this campaign that Russian disinformation
efforts are "more problematic" than in 2016. He warned that "this time around, the Russians
have decided to cultivate U.S. citizens as assets. They are attempting to try to spread their
propaganda in the mainstream media."
This will be the official mantra of the Democratic Party, a vicious red-baiting campaign
without actual reds, especially as the country spirals out of control. The reason I have a show
on Russia-funded RT America is the same reason Vaclav Havel could only be heard on the
U.S.-funded Voice of America during the communist control of Czechoslovakia.
I did not choose to leave the mainstream media. I was pushed out. And once anyone is pushed
out, the ruling elite is relentless about discrediting the few platforms left willing to give
them, and the issues they raise, a hearing.
"If the problem is 'American citizens' being cultivated as 'assets' trying to put
'interference' in the mainstream media, the logical next step is to start asking Internet
platforms to shut down accounts belonging to any American journalist with the temerity to
report material leaked by foreigners (the wrong foreigners, of course – it will continue
to be okay to report things like the 'black ledger')," writes Taibbi , who has done some of the best reporting on
the emerging censorship.
"From Fox or the Daily Caller on the right , to left-leaning outlets
like Consortium [News] or the World Socialist Web Site, to writers like me even
– we're all now clearly in range of new speech restrictions, even if we stick to
long-ago-established factual standards."
Taibbi argues that the precedent for overt censorship took place when the major digital
platforms -- Facebook, Twitter, Google, Spotify, YouTube -- in a coordinated move blacklisted
the right-wing talk show host Alex Jones.
"Liberal America cheered," Taibbi told me when I interviewed him for my show, " On Contact ":
"They said 'Well this is a noxious figure. This is a great thing. Finally, someone's
taking action.' What they didn't realize is that we were trading an old system of speech
regulation for a new one without any public discussion. You and I were raised in a system
where you got punished for speech if you committed libel or slander or if there was imminent
incitement to lawless action, right? That was the standard that the Supreme Court set, but
that was done through litigation. There was an open process where you had a chance to rebut
charges. That is all gone now.
Now, basically there's a handful of these tech distribution platforms that control how
people get their media. They've been pressured by the Senate, which has called all of their
CEOs in, and basically ordered them, 'We need you to come up with a plan to prevent the
sowing of discord and spreading of misinformation.' This has finally come into fruition. You
see a major reputable news organization like the New York Post -- with a 200-year history --
locked out of its own Twitter account. The story [Hunter Biden's emails] has not been
disproven.
It's not disinformation or misinformation. It's been suppressed as it would be suppressed
in a Third World country. It's a remarkable historic moment. The danger is that we end up
with a one-party informational system. There's going to be approved dialogue and unapproved
dialogue that you can only get through certain fringe avenues. That's the problem. We let
these companies get this monopolistic share of the distribution system. Now they're
exercising that power."
In the Soviet Union the truth was passed, often hand to hand, in underground samizdat
documents, clandestine copies of news and literature banned by the state. The truth will
endure. It will be heard by those who seek it out. It will expose the mendacity of the
powerful, however hard it will be to obtain. Despotisms fear the truth. They know it is a
mortal threat. If we remain determined to live in truth, no matter the cost, we have a
chance.
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent
for 15 years for The New York Times , where he served as the Middle East bureau chief
and Balkan bureau chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning
News , The Christian Science Monitor and NPR. He is the host of the Emmy
Award-nominated RT America show "On Contact."
Republicans in Senate can raise Chinagate story to the level Russiagate quite easily, if they
want to. That would real tit-for-tat. But in reality many o them prefer Biden to Trump for
obvious reasons: Biden is more controllable and more predictable. Biden is a moderate republican
and staunch neoliberal in domestic policy and rabid neocon in foreign policy. If you thing that
his Secretary of State of Ste will be less obnoxious and jingoistic then Pompeo, you are missing
the point. Presidents change but the foreign policy stays the same.
A week after CN, Cable News Network reported that Donald Trump knows he lost but is holding
out to get back at the Democrats for undermining his legitimacy with Russiagate.
L ast Thursday, CNN posted an
article online that began:
"(CNN) -- President Donald Trump told an ally that he knows he lost, but that he is
delaying the
transition process and is aggressively trying to sow doubt about the election results in
order to get back at Democrats for questioning the legitimacy of his own election in 2016,
especially with the Russia investigation, a source familiar with the President's thinking
told CNN on Thursday."
The article went on to say that Trump's refusal so far to concede the election to Joe Biden
comes in part from his "perceived grievance that Hillary Clinton and former President Barack
Obama undermined his own presidency by saying Russia interfered in the 2016 election and could
have impacted the outcome, people around him have said."
... ... ..
Hillary Clinton laid the groundwork during the 2016 campaign to undermine Trump by
recklessly branding him a 'Putin puppet.'
That blossomed into four years of full-blown Russiagate, which was meant to question the
validity of Trump's election, undermine his legitimacy and hamper his ability to act as
president.
Now the Republicans are questioning the validity of Biden's election, undermining his
legitimacy and hampering his ability to act as president-elect, and later as president.
This is tit-for-tat for the Russiagate gambit."
Missing the Point
The reliably pro-Democratic CNN could not resist the opportunity to insult Trump, as if
sticking to the facts about his presidency isn't damning enough. And it threw a compliment
Clinton's way that misses the point.
The CNN story said:
"Trump continues to hold a grudge against those who he claims undercut his election by
pointing to Russian interference efforts, and he has suggested it is fair game to not
recognize Joe Biden as
the President-elect, even though Clinton conceded on election night in 2016 and the Trump
transition was able to begin immediately."
First off, it's journalistic malpractice to speak of "Russian interference efforts" as if
it's a flat fact, when the two core elements of Russiagate -- a conspiracy between Russia and
the Trump campaign and a Russian hack of Democratic servers -- have been debunked by none other
than Special Counsel Robert Mueller and CrowdStrike president Shawn Henry.
The latter's
sworn testimony to the House Intelligence Committee admitted to no evidence that anyone had
hacked the servers, and Mueller reported no evidence of such a conspiracy. In case you missed
it:
Frank Desantis , November 23, 2020 at 19:40
Joe right on. The cast of characters in the Obama and Hillary approved Deep State led 4
year campaign to delegitimize the Trump presidency is an unparalleled assault on the rule
of law and the Constitution itself.
I am not a Trump fan but loathe the successor, another lap dog of the Isrseli state and the
MIC. Pity this country.
Tom Kath , November 23, 2020 at 18:58
To question the validity of an election that has so far only been proclaimed by the MSM
controlled by one side, is surely what real journalism should do.
Count me among the 79%. I WILL NEVER BELIEVE that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential
election without MASSIVE CHEATING from Democrats and the Washington Swap - to INCLUDE a
select number of RINOs, Never-Trumpers and Lincoln Project Scuumm, whose main mission,
admittedly, was just to "get rid of Trump and then worry about Biden later"
. That is more or less a quote from Turncoat, Michael Steele.
Trump has got it right. Allow GSI to fund Biden transition team without conceding.
Americans deserve to know the election results are counted properly. Dominion voting
machines need to be audited. No signature authorization means no vote. Votes showing up
after deadlines not acceptable. Ensuring a fair and free vote is essential in America.
Given the mass of mail in votes due to covid America needs to follow the authenticity
guidelines more than ever. Not less.
Washington Democrats don't care what America knows, what America thinks - they care
about power and if stealing it is their only path then they will steal it and leave it to
you and me to prove it.
I do not understand why statistic sampling of address envelopes was not done in key states,
especially in Georgia and Pennsylvania, where there are signs of "other irregularities." This
will allow to establish the margin of error for mail-in ballots and this is important for Trump.
Percentage of dead people voting and out of state people voting can be easily established is the
sample is representative and large enough. And this does not cost much Republican Secretary of
State Brad Raffensperger can't be missing this so he acts as an enemy of honest and transparent
elections.
The Trump campaign Saturday filed for a second Georgia
election recount , saying the first failed to include signature matching and "other vital
safeguards."
... ... ...
Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp asked
Raffensperger last week to conduct an audit of signatures on ballot envelopes because of
accusations from the Trump campaign and others.
"It's important to note that this audit only looked at ballots, not the signatures of the
absentee applications or the signatures on the ballot envelopes," Kemp said. "It seems simple
enough to conduct a sample audit of signatures on the absentee ballot envelopes and compare
those to the signatures on applications and on file at the secretary of state's office."
There has to be a deeper forensic audit done," Loudermilk told Monday's " Stinchfield. "
"What the Secretary of State is saying is we've already verified the signatures and we've
separated the ballots from the envelopes. You still have to verify that people who are voting
are people that should be voting.
"Whether you can discount their ballot or not in the last election, we need to know, if it's
people who voted illegally, that they don't do it again in this runoff."
... ... ...
Regardless, the fraud needs to be rooted out of Georgia, Loudermilk told host Grant
Stinchfield.
"I believe there was fraud in this election," Loudermilk said. "People say, 'give us the
evidence.' Well, you have to investigate to get to the evidence. We have a lot of
circumstantial evidence. I mean, if you look in Georgia, Republicans won up and down the
ballot, except for the presidential and the Senate race.
"Tell me how that has happened – when we Republicans held the House and the Senate. We
made great gains in Georgia.
"A lot of interesting things will come out of this election, but we have to continue to
fight to make sure future elections are trustworthy, that they have integrity."
DERSHOWITZ: Well, let me give you my completely objective, not wishful thinking,
constitutional analysis.
They have two or three legal constitutional paths. For example, in Pennsylvania, they have
two very strong legal arguments, one, that the courts changed what the legislature did about
counting ballots after the end of Election Day.
That's a winning issue in the Supreme Court. I don't necessarily support it, but it's a
winning issue in the Supreme Court. And Justice Alito has already hinted that's a winning
issue.
They also have a winning issue on the Supreme Court on equal protection, that some counties
allowed flawed ballots to be cured, while others didn't. Bush vs. Gore suggests that an equal
protection argument can prevail.
The problem with that argument is, they don't have the numbers necessarily to support it. If
it's right that Biden is ahead by some 70,000 or 80,000 votes, they have to show enough
contested votes, under those two legal theories, to change the outcome.
The other legal theory they had, which is a potentially strong one, is that the computers,
either fraudulently or by glitches, changed hundreds of thousands of votes. There are enough
votes to make a difference, but I haven't seen the evidence to support that.
So, in one case, they don't have the numbers. In another case, they don't seem yet to have
the evidence. Maybe they do. I haven't seen it. But the legal theory is there to support them
if they have the numbers and they have the evidence.
PBS Newshour had a 'white hat hacker' named Harri Hursti inspect the system and he said
"they have set up a complicated system which is centralized; it doesn't seem to have any
safeguards."
They described the system as having a lot of moving parts, saying "it's an assortment of
laptops, iPads, magnetic cards, touch screens, printers and scanners."
PBS says the devices replaced touchscreens in 2019 which didn't created a paper ballot, but
one of the women responsible for bringing about this change isn't terribly happy with the new
system either. And election experts have found several troubling problems with the new system,
especially the Q.R. codes it creates for tabulation:
Alex Halderman looked closely at the Q.R. codes where the votes are encoded for the
scanner. "By analyzing the structure of the Q.R. codes, I have been able to learn that
there's nothing that stops an attacker from just duplicating one, and the duplicate would
count the same as the original barcode."
And in late September, another concern came to light. During testing, election workers
found half the names of the 21 candidates for Senate intermittently disappeared from screens
during the review phase. Dominion sent out a last-minute software patch.
Halderman caution: "I'm worried that the Georgia system is the technical equivalent to
the 737 MAX. They have just made a last-minute software change that might well have unintended
consequences and cause even more severe problems on Election Day."
Hirsti expressed concern that the system was being rushed out with the proper testing:
You never want to rush something which is mission-critical, and this is mission-critical,
into production without proper time for testing.
That's really one of the ways bad actors are finding the vulnerabilities to exploit is
looking for honest vulnerabilities and finding out if they can be weaponized, if they can be
exploited.
The actual segment goes on for 7 minutes and you can watch it below:
Face it, politicians in general are lazy, incompetent, power-hungry, greedy and worthless.
Very few actually care about the American people or want to work for us. They keep getting
re-elected over and over because of promises made and NOT kept. They get in a back room and
make deals to NOT do their jobs and draw straws on who will take the blame. When election
time rolls around again, the people continue to believe their propaganda and vote them in
again...and the cycle continues. Look at Biden, 47 years in public office. The man has NO
skills...he can't do anything else. Same for most politicians. Never vote for someone that
has not worked in the real world...and don't vote for lawyers (they always find the loophole
in every law and use it to keep themselves living a lifestyle we only dream about).
All of the Dominion Voting machines should be impounded; the States to be reimbursed and
each machine checked by the Federal Government to see if software is corrupted or
preprogramed to favor one party or the other. Then the Federal Government should order new
unbiased machines-all should be checked and be calibrated in time for the next election.
These should be stored under lock and key in a Federal Facility and guarded by Federal
Marshals during the voting. It should be a Federal Crime to impede the will of the peoples
vote. Next Subpoena Soros to testify in front of the Senate to explore his tactics and
recommend Federal Prosecution for any violation of Federal or State Law in the United
States.
Everything connected to the internet is hackable. Why don't we just go back to paper
ballots, photo ID and same day in person voting? I think it really is that simple.
I Georgia there are paper ballots, after choosing the candidates you want you review the
screen then push print. A paper ballot with the selections are on the paper with the QR code.
The ballot is then scanned into a machine where it is also collected in an internal box.
Voters are encouraged to make sure their selections shown on the paper are correct before
feeding the ballot into the machine. I voted in Georgia, but I did not know there were all of
the problems with the security of the machines.
The corrupt politician/attorney leading CISA (@CISAgov IT sec agency within DHS) is
Christopher Krebs (@CISAKrebs). He only has 3 years experience in IT sec, much of that on
non-IT related infrastructure security. He has no IT or IT sec background. His bachelor
degree is "environmental sciences" and then he earned a JD. The schmuck is a lawyer who
brownnosed his way into DHS 3 years ago and was handed IT/infrastructure security with zero
experience.
Now, he says:
- 2020 was most secure election ever
>> bogus, unprovable claim: secure in what sense? Based on what, % of voter fraud, how
would he know that for any previous, let alone current election.
- 2020 had highest voter turnout in since 1908, based on that alone, even if fraud % were
steady with previous cycles, this election would have the most fraudulent votes cast ever,
and as turnout goes up, fraud exploits do to.
- 2020 saw a huge % increase in mail-in and early votes, which are most subject to fraud; we
would expect a higher % of fraudulent/illegal votes based on that alone - there is no metric
upon which to base his claim
- he claimed there was no evidence of fraud
>> demonstrably untrue - the Texas SOS office recommended denial of Dominion software
precisely because it lacked safeguards and was unsecure. As per reports above, Georgia had
issues with software during primary. We also know of issue in Antrim County, Michigan. Krebs
is lying.
- he told voters with questions about irregularities to "turn to your trusted election
officials" - the same ones committing the irregularities...that's like asking the Nigerian
Prince email scammer if he's real, do you expect them to be honest?
Krebs should not only be fired, he should be barred from working for the federal
government ever again.
I've worked IT security for two decades. We wouldn't hire this joker to work frontline
helpdesk.
Dominion voting systems got an "upgrade" before the election. But the powers that be don't
care.
They won. They won because of it. Future historians will write about it, but by then, it
won't matter.
With a paper ballot, even if the machine screws up, and there is a recount, they recount
the ORIGINAL PAPER BALLOT, and do so by hand.
With electronic votes, if they screw up vote assignment, you can't tell. If they lose
votes, the counts don't match, but you've still lost the original vote. In both cases, it's
IMPOSSIBLE to do a proper recount.
PBS Newshour had a 'white hat hacker' named Harri Hursti inspect the system and he said "they
have set up a complicated system which is centralized; it doesn't seem to have any
safeguards."
Alex Halderman looked closely at the Q.R. codes where the votes are encoded for the scanner.
"By analyzing the structure of the Q.R. codes, I have been able to learn that there's nothing
that stops an attacker from just duplicating one, and the duplicate would count the same as the
original barcode."
Halderman caution: "I'm worried that the Georgia system is the technical equivalent to the
737 MAX. They have just made a last-minute software change that might well have unintended
consequences and cause even more severe problems on Election Day."
A Denver businessman said he has received death threats after exposing a Dominion Voting
Systems employee who boasted about being able to rig the 2020 election against President
Donald Trump, a report said.
In an
interview with the Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft on Sunday, Denver businessman Joe Oltmann
said he was able to infiltrate Antifa and during a Sept. 27 conversation with Antifa members
discovered "Eric from Dominion".
Oltmann told the Gateway Pundit that "Eric" was telling Antifa members they needed to
"keep up the pressure." When one of the caller's on a September group call asked, "Who's
Eric?" someone answered, "Eric, he's the Dominion guy."
As the conversation continued, Oltmann said someone asked: "What are we gonna do if
F*cking Trump wins?" Oltmann paraphrased how Eric (the Dominion guy) responded, "Don't worry
about the election, Trump's not gonna win. I made f*cking sure of that!"
Oltmann identified the "Dominion guy" as Eric Coomer. In 2010, Coomer joined Dominion as
vice president of U.S. engineering, the report said. According to his biography, Coomer
graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics.
Coomer was later promoted to voting systems officer of strategy and security at Dominion.
He has since been removed from the Dominion page of directors.
Oltmann said he was banned from Twitter after exposing Coomer.
Oltmann also told the Gateway Pundit that Coomer's profile is in fact being completely
"scrubbed from the Internet."
Full spectrum dominance theorists are dusted off and put in key positions in new
administration. Instead of punishment and jail terms Russiagaters got promotion.
Biden signals US return to full-on globalism and foreign meddling by picking interventionist
Anthony Blinken as secretary of state
Joe Biden has named Anthony Blinken – an
advocate for isolating Russia, cozying up to China and intervening in Syria – as
secretary of state, cementing a foreign policy built on military forays and multi-national
motivations.
Biden, the nominal president-elect, announced his selection of
Blinken along with other members of his foreign-policy and national-security team, which is
filled with such veteran Washington insiders as John Kerry, the new climate czar and formerly
secretary of state in the Obama-Biden administration.
Blinken, a long-time adviser to Biden and deputy secretary of state under President Barack
Obama, has been hailed by fellow Democrats and globalists, such as retired General Barry
McCaffrey, as an experienced bureaucrat with "global contacts and respect." Enrico
Letta, dean of the Paris School of International Affairs, called Biden's choice the "right
step to relaunch transatlantic ties."
He was even praised for a 2016 appearance on the Sesame Street children's television
program, where he explained to the show's 'Grover' character the benefits of accepting
refugees.
While some critics focused on how Blinken " got rich working for corporate
clients " during President Donald Trump's term in office, the new foreign-affairs chief's
neoconservative policy recommendations might be cause for greater concern. He advocated for the
Iraq War and the bombings of such countries as Libya and Yemen.
Blinken is still arguing for a resurgence in Washington's
military intervention in Syria. He lamented in a May interview that the Obama-Biden
administration hadn't done enough to prevent a "horrific situation" in Syria, and he faulted
Trump for squandering what remaining leverage the US had on the Bashar Assad regime by pulling
troops out of the country.
"Our leverage is vastly even less than it was, but I think we do have points of leverage to
try to effectuate some more positive developments," Blinken said. For instance, US special
forces in northeast Syria are located near Syrian oil fields. "The Syrian government would
love to have dominion over those resources. We should not give that up for free."
Blinken also sees Biden strengthening NATO, isolating Russia politically and " confronting
Mr. [President Vladimir] Putin for his aggressions."
As for China, Blinken has said Washington needs to look for ways to cooperate with Beijing.
Reinvesting in international alliances that were weakened by Trump will help the Biden
administration deal with China "from a position of strength" as it pushes back against
the Chinese Communist Party's human-rights abuses, he said.
Throughout his campaign, Joe Biden railed against Donald Trump's 'America First' foreign
policy, claiming it weakened the United States and left the world in disarray. "Donald Trump's
brand of America First has too often led to America alone," Biden proclaimed.
He pledged to reverse this decline and recover the damage Trump did to America's reputation.
While Donald Trump called for making America Great Again, Biden seeks to Make the American
Empire Great Again .
Joe Biden: "Tonight, the whole world is watching America. And I believe at our best, America
is a beacon for the globe. We will lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power
of our example."
Among the president-elect's pledges is to end the so-called forever wars – the
decades-long imperial projects in Afghanistan and Iraq that began under the Bush
administration.
"It's long past time we end the forever wars which have cost us untold blood and treasure,"
Biden has said.
Yet Biden – a fervent supporter of those wars – will delegate that duty to the
most neoconservative elements of the Democratic Party and ideologues of permanent war .
Michele Flournoy and Tony Blinken sit atop Biden's thousands-strong foreign policy brain
trust and have played central roles in every U.S. war dating back to the Bill Clinton
administration.
During the Trump era, they've cashed in through WestExec Advisors – a corporate
consulting firm that has become home for Obama administration officials awaiting a return to
government.
Flournoy is Biden's leading pick for Secretary of Defense and Blinken is expected to be the
president's National Security Advisor.
Biden's foxes guard the henhouse
Since the 1990s, Flournoy and Blinken have steadily risen through the ranks of the
military-industrial complex, shuffling back and forth between the Pentagon and hawkish
think-tanks funded by the U.S. government, weapons companies, and oil giants.
Under Bill Clinton, Flournoy was the principal author of the 1996 Quadrinellial Defense
Review, the document that outlined the U.S. military's doctrine of permanent war – what
it called "full spectrum dominance."
Flournoy called for "unilateral use of military power" to ensure "uninhibited access to key
markets, energy supplies, and strategic resources."
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As Bush administration officials lied to the world about Saddam Hussein's supposed WMD's,
Flournoy remarked that "In some cases, preemptive strikes against an adversary's [weapons of
mass destruction] capabilities may be the best or only option we have to avert a catastrophic
attack against the United States."
Tony Blinken was a top advisor to then-Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Joe Biden,
who played a key role in shoring up support among the Democrat-controlled Senate for Bush's
illegal invasion of Iraq.
During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, Biden declared, "In my judgment, President Bush
is right to be concerned about Saddam Hussein's relentless pursuit of weapons of mass
destruction."
As Iraq was plunged into chaos and bloodshed, Flournoy was among the authors of a paper
titled "Progressive Internationalism" that called for a "smarter and better" style of permanent
war . The paper chastised the anti-war left and stated that "Democrats will maintain the
world's most capable and technologically advanced military, and we will not flinch from using
it to defend our interests anywhere in the world."
With Bush winning a second term, Flournoy advocated for more troop deployments from the
sidelines.
In 2005, Flournoy signed onto a letter
from the neoconservative think tank Project for a New American Century, asking Congress to
"increase substantially the size of the active duty Army and Marine Corps (by) at least 25,000
troops each year over the next several years."
In 2007, she leveraged her Pentagon experience and contacts to found what would become one
of the premier Washington think tanks advocating endless war across the globe: the Center for a
New American Security (CNAS). CNAS is funded by the U.S. government, arms
manufacturers, oil giants, Silicon Valley tech giants, billionaire-funded foundations, and big
banks.
Flournoy joined the Obama administration and was appointed as under secretary of defense for
policy, the position considered the "brains" of the Pentagon. She was keenly aware that the
public was wary of more quagmires. In the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, she crafted a new
concept of warfare that would expand the permanent war state while giving the appearance of a
drawdown.
Flournoy wrote that "unmanned systems hold great promise" – a reference to the CIA's
drone assassination program. This was the Obama-era military doctrine of hybrid war. It called
for the U.S. to be able to simultaneously wage war on numerous fronts through secret warfare,
clandestine weapons transfers to proxies, drone strikes, and cyber-attacks – all
buttressed with propaganda campaigns targeting the American public through the internet and
corporate news media.
Architects of America's Hybrid wars
Flournoy continued to champion the endless wars that began in the Bush-era and was a key
architect of Obama's disastrous troop surge in Afghanistan. As U.S. soldiers returned in body
bags and insurgent attacks and suicide bombings increased some 65% from 2009 and 2010, she
deceived the Senate Armed Services Committee, claiming that the U.S. was beginning to turn the
tide against the Taliban: "We are beginning to regain the initiative and the insurgency is
beginning to lose momentum."
Even with her lie that the U.S. and Afghan government were starting to beat the Taliban
back, Flournoy assured the senate that the U.S. would have to remain in Afghanistan long into
the future: "We are not leaving any time soon even though the nature and the complexion of the
commitment may change over time."
Ten years later – as the Afghan death toll passed 150,000 – Flournoy continued
to argue against a U.S. withdrawal: "I would certainly not advocate a US or NATO departure
short of a political settlement being in place."
That's the person Joe Biden has tasked with ending the forever war in Afghanistan. But in
Biden's own words, he'll "bring the vast majority of our troops home from Afghanistan" implying
some number of American troops will remain, and the forever war will be just that. Michele
Flournoy explained that even if a political settlement were reached, the U.S. would maintain a
presence.
Michele Flournoy: "If we are fortunate enough to see a political settlement reached, it
doesn't mean that the US role or the international community is over. Afghanistan without
outside investment is not a society that is going to survive and thrive. In no case are we
going to be able to wash our hands of Afghanistan and walk away nor should we want to. This is
something where we're going to have to continue to be engaged, just the form of engagement may
change."
In 2011, the Obama-era doctrine of smart and sophisticated warfare was unveiled in the NATO
regime-change war on Libya.
Moammar Gaddafi – the former adversary who sought warm relations with the U.S. and had
given up his nuclear weapons program – was deposed and sodomized with a bayonet.
Flournoy, Hillary Clinton's State Department, and corporate media were in lockstep as they
waged an elaborate propaganda campaign to deceive the U.S. public that Gadaffi's soldiers were
on a Viagra-fueled rape and murder spree that demanded a U.S. intervention.
Fox News: "Susan Rice reportedly told a security council meeting that Libyan troops are
being given viagra and are engaging in sexual violence."
MSNBC jumped on the propaganda bandwagon, claiming: "New reports emerge that the LIbyan
dictator gave soldiers viagra-type pills to rape women who are opposed to the government."
So did CNN.
As the Libyan ambassador to the US alleged "raping, killing, mass graves," ICC Chief
Prosecutor Manuel Ocampo claimed: "It's like a machete. Viagra is a tool of massive rapes."
All of this was based on a report
from Al Jazeera – the media outlet owned by the Qatari monarchy that was arming
extremist militias in Libya to overthrow the government.
Yet an investigation by the United Nations called the rape claims "hysteria." Amnesty
International and Human Rights Watch found no credible evidence of even a single rape.
Even after Libya was descended into strife and the deception of Gadaffi's forces committing
rape was debunked, Michele Flournoy stood by her support for the war: "I supported the
intervention in Libya on humanitarian grounds. I think we were right to do it."
Tony Blinken, then Obama's deputy national security advisor, also pushed for regime change
in Libya. He became Obama's point man on Syria, pushed to arm the so-called "moderate rebels"
that fought alongside al-Qaeda and ISIS, and designed the red line strategy to trigger a
full-on U.S. intervention. Syria, he told the public, wasn't anything like the other wars the
U.S. had waging for more than a decade.
Tony Blinken: "We are doing this in a very different way than in the past. We're not sending
in hundreds of thousands of American troops. We're not spending trillions of American dollars.
We're being smart about this. This is a sustainable way to get at the terrorists and it's also
a more effective way."
Blinken added: "This is not open-ended, this is not boots on the ground, this is not Iraq,
it's not Afghanistan, it's not even Libya. The more people understand that, the more they'll
understand the need for us to take this limited but effective action ."
Despite Blinken's promises that it would be a short affair, the war on Syria is now in its
ninth year. An estimated half a million people have been killed as a result and the country is
facing famine.
Largely thanks to the policy of using "wheat to apply pressure" – a recommendation of
Flournoy and Blinken's CNAS think tank.
When the Trump administration launched airstrikes on Syria based on mere accusations of a
chemical attack, Tony Blinken praised the bombing, claiming Assad had used the weapon of mass
destruction sarin. Yet there was no evidence for this claim, something even then-secretary of
Defense James Mattis admitted: "So I can not tell you that we had evidence even though we had a
lot of media and social media indicators that either chlorine or sarin were used ."
While jihadist mercenaries armed with U..S-supplied weapons took over large swaths of Syria,
Tony Blinken played a central role in a coup d'etat in Ukraine that saw a pro-Russia government
overthrown in a U.S.-orchestrated color revolution with neo-fascist elements agitating on the
ground.
At the time, he was ambivalent about sending lethal weapons to Ukraine, instead opting for
economic pressure.
Tony Blinken: "We're working, as I said, to make sure that there's a cost exacted of Russia
and indeed that it feels the pressure. That's what we're working on. And when it comes to
military assistance, we're looking at it. The facts are these: Even if assistance were to go to
Ukraine that would be very unlikely to change Russia's calculus or prevent an invasion."
Since then, fascist militias have been incorporated into Ukraine's armed forces. And Tony
Blinken urged Trump to send them deadly weapons – something Obama had declined to do.
But Trump obliged.
The Third Offset
While the U.S. fueled wars in Syria and Ukraine, the Pentagon announced a major shift called
the Third Offset strategy – a reference to the cold war era strategies the U.S. used to
maintain its military supremacy over the Soviet Union.
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The Third Offset strategy
shifted the focus from counterinsurgency and the war on terror to great power competition
against China and Russia. It called for a technological revolution in warfighting capabilities,
development of futuristic and autonomous weapons, swarms of undersea and airborne drones,
hypersonic weapons, cyber warfare, machine-enhanced soldiers, and artificial intelligence
making unimaginably complex battlefield decisions at speeds incomprehensible to the human mind.
All of this would be predicated on the Pentagon deepening its relationship with Silicon Valley
giants that it birthed decades before: Google and Facebook.
The author of the Third Offset, former undersecretary of defense Robert Work, is a partner
of Flournoy and Blinken's at WestExec Advisors. And Flournoy has been a leading proponent of
this dangerous new escalation .
She warned that the United States is losing its military technological advantage and
reversing that must be the Pentagon's priority. Without it, Flournoy warned that the U.S. might
not be able to defeat China in Asia: "That technological investment is still very important for
the United States to be able to offset what will be quantitative advantages and home theater
advantages for a country like China if we ever had to deal with a conflict in Asia, in their
backyard."
While Flournoy has called for ramping up U.S. military presence and exercises with allied
forces in the region, she went so far as to call for the U.S. to increase its destructive
capabilities so much that it could launch a blitzkrieg style-attack that would wipe out the
entire Chinese navy and all civilian merchant ships in the South China Sea . Not only a blatant
war crime but a direct attack on a nuclear power that would spell the third world war.
At the same time, Biden has announced he'll take an even more aggressive and confrontational
stance against Russia , a position Flournoy shares: "We need to invest to ensure that we
maintain the military edge that we will need in certain critical areas like cyber and
electronic warfare and precision strike, to again underwrite deterrence, to make sure Vladimir
Putin does not miscalculate and think that he can cross a border into Europe or cross a border
and threaten us militarily."
As for ending the forever wars, Tony Blinken says not so fast: "Large scale, open-ended
deployment of large standing US forces in conflict zones with no clear strategy should end and
will end under his watch . But we also need to distinguish between, for example, these endless
wars with the large scale open ended deployment of US forces with, for example, discreet,
small-scale sustainable operations, maybe led by special forces, to support local actors In
ending the endless wars I think we have to be careful to not paint with too broad a brush
stroke."
The end of forever wars?
So Biden will end the forever wars, but not really end them. Secret wars that the public
doesn't even know the U.S. is involved in – those are here to stay.
In fact, leaving teams of special forces in place throughout the Middle East is part and
parcel of the Pentagon's shift away from counterinsurgency and towards great power
competition.
The 2018 National Defense Strategy explains that, "Long-term strategic competitions with
China and Russia are the principal priorities" and the U.S. will "consolidate gains in Iraq and
Afghanistan while moving to a more resource-sustainable approach."
As for the catastrophic war on Yemen, Biden has said he'll end U.S. support; but in 2019,
Michele Flournoy argued against ending arms sales to Saudi Arabia .
Biden pledged he will rejoin the Iran deal as a starting point for new negotiations.
However, Trump's withdrawal from the deal discredited the Iranian reformists who seek
engagement with the west and empowered the principlists who see the JCPOA as a deal with the
devil.
In Latin America, Biden will revive the so-called anti-corruption campaigns that were used
as a cover to oust the popular social democrat Brazilian president Lula da Silva.
In Central America, Biden
has presided over a four billion dollar package to support corrupt right-wing governments
and neoliberal privatization projects, fueling destabilization and sending vulnerable masses
fleeing north to the United States.
Behind their rhetoric, Biden, Flournoy, and Blinken will seek nothing less than global
supremacy , escalating a new and even more dangerous arms race that risks the destruction of
humanity. That's what Joe Biden calls "decency" and "normalcy."
naughty.boy , 14 hours ago
deep state will bankrupt the USA with forever wars.
Distant_Star , 14 hours ago
Yes. As a bonus neither of these Deep State wretches has even seen a shot fired in anger.
They are too "important" to be at risk.
Former Vice President Joe Biden is reportedly set to announce this week that Tony Blinken,
who supported the idea of "Russia collusion," would be his Secretary of State.
President-elect Joe Biden intends to name his longtime adviser Antony Blinken as secretary
of State, according to three people familiar with the matter, setting out to assemble his
cabinet even before Donald Trump concedes defeat.
In addition, Jake Sullivan, formerly one of Hillary Clinton's closest aides, is likely to
be named Biden's national security adviser, according to two people familiar with the matter.
An announcement is expected Tuesday, the people said.
Blinken, who served as deputy secretary of state and deputy national security advisor under
President Barack Obama, has also been a New York Times
opinion writer and a "global affairs analyst" for CNN. In that capacity, he supported the
"Russia collusion" hoax.
As Breitbart News reported in 2017, Blinken
told CNN: "The president's ongoing collusion with Russia's plans is really striking,
intentional or not." He said that Russia had sown doubt about American elections and
institutions.
(Subsequently, an investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of any
collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.)
Blinken also
apologized earlier this year to left-wing anti-Israel radical Linda Sarsour, regarded by
many critics (
even on the left) as an antisemite, after the Biden campaign tried to distance itself from
her views.
He is also married to Evan Ryan, a former aide to then-First Lady Hillary Clinton. Ryan
worked for Clinton at a time when Clinton's chief of staff, Margaret Williams, acknowledged
accepting a campaign donation from entrepreneur Johnny Chien Chuen Chung.
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Democratic National Committee at the White House, in exchange for "VIP treatment for a
delegation of visiting Chinese businessmen," according to the
Los Angeles Times .
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Biden thinks he can save America and the world from four years of Donald Trump. Instead, Biden
will find himself in a foreign policy trap where his tough guy rhetoric compels him to finish
what Trump started.
If one listens to Joe Biden and his closest national security advisors, all it will take to
undo four years of Trump-era foreign policy is a few dozen strokes of the pen. According to the
plan, the presumptive president-elect will sign off on a series of executive orders which
reverse the course charted by Trump, returning America back to the path of greatness derived
from undisputed global leadership that had been the trademark of the Obama years, when Biden
reigned as vice president and Barack's right-hand man.
Rejoining the Paris Climate Accord, the Iran nuclear agreement and the World Health
Organization are all actions Biden can take as soon as he takes office. Reversing Trump's troop
withdrawal from Afghanistan and halting the redeployment of US forces from Germany are also
high on Biden's 'to do' list. However, simply reversing a decision made over the course of the
past four years does not reset the clock; for example, the world has moved on regarding climate
change, with nations like China taking the lead in promulgating plans for reaching a "carbon
zero" posture by 2060. Biden claims he can do this by 2050, but American domestic political
reality, shaped by an economy fine-tuned by Trump and inherently resistant to the kind of
economic change that would need to occur to make the Biden climate change plan viable, may have
something to say about that timetable.
The Iran deal
The Iran nuclear deal finds Biden trapped by his own hardline rhetoric, setting conditions
that are as unrealistic as they are unobtainable (for instance, requiring Iran to renegotiate
key aspects of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, as a pre-condition for
the US rejoining that pact). Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, recognizing the bad
position Biden's mouth has placed its owner in, has wisely noted that Iran can return to its
JCPOA commitments simply by Biden signing an executive order cancelling the Trump sanctions.
This is one executive order Biden likely will not sign, because it requires him to certify the
JCPOA as being good as written, something he has already articulated against.
One of the first decisions Biden will be compelled to make upon assuming the presidency is
how to proceed on the issue of US troops in Afghanistan. If the Trump reductions are completed
as planned by January 15 (a big 'if', given the proclivity of the US military to
lie to Trump about actual troop deployments), Biden will be pressured by the Pentagon to
immediately redeploy up to 5,000 troops in order to create the force structure the Pentagon
believes necessary to ensure stability while Afghanistan transitions to peace. This, of course,
would kill the peace plan the US has in place with the Taliban, setting the stage for even more
'forever war'.
Regime change and more war
Other regional issues jump out – the ongoing effort to oust Nicolas Maduro in
Venezuela, and the ongoing Saudi-led war in Yemen, to name two. Biden's anti-Maduro rhetoric is
every bit as strong as Trump's, meaning there is little chance of a policy re-direct on this
front. Likewise, if Trump fulfils threats to name the Houthi rebels in Yemen as a terrorist
organization, it will be difficult for Biden politically to reverse that decision, or else be
doing the bidding of Iran. Yemen will become another example of a 'forever war' living up to
its name.
Awkward in Europe
Another issue Biden will be called upon to deal with is the ongoing American redeployment of
troops out of Germany. Trump has committed to sending thousands of these redeployed troops to
Poland, a move Biden will have difficulty reversing. In the end, Biden will be pressured to not
only halt the withdrawal of US forces from Germany, but also find fresh troops to replace those
headed for Poland. But such a commitment must be measured in relation to the ongoing
controversy over the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline connecting Russia with Europe. Trump has put in
place sanctions designed to halt the pipeline from being completed; Biden is likewise opposed
to the pipeline reaching fruition. Getting Germany to commit to taking in US troops while
blatantly interfering with German economic sovereignty is a balancing act Biden may not be up
to carrying out.
Arms control deadlock
Likewise, Biden has indicated that he would be inclined to sign an extension to the
soon-to-expire New START Treaty. Russia has long insisted that future arms control agreements
must consider missile defense issues. The Trump administration has just tested a missile
interceptor integral to the Aegis Ashore anti-missile system deployed in Romania and Poland in
an anti-intercontinental ballistic missile configuration. The likelihood of Russia agreeing to
any new arms control measures without a commitment on the part of a Biden administration to
reduce and/or eliminate European-based missile defense systems is zero. So, too, is are the
odds of a Biden administration doing away with missile defense in Europe. The result is an
expensive arms race at a time when the US can afford it least.
Finally, Biden inherits a policy posture toward both Russia and China which is as hostile a
relationship as has existed since the Cold War. Russia's force posture in Europe is such that
NATO would need to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to be in a realistic position to take
on the Russian military in any conventional ground war in Europe. Moreover, it is unlikely
Europe will agree to either the formal endorsement of such an objective, or the economic
commitment needed to underwrite it. Complicating matters further is that China and Russia have
reacted to the aggressive policies of the US, which pre-dated the Trump era, by considering the
possibility of a formal alliance against what they term "western hegemony." Such an alliance
would complicate any effort on the part of a Biden administration to back up the
president-elect's pusillanimous rhetoric with actual muscle, since any conflict in Europe would
automatically trigger a Pacific response, and vice versa.
China's dominance
Regardless of anything else, perhaps the biggest challenge facing a Biden administration
will be in dealing with the consequences of Trump's decision to withdraw from the Obama-era
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an abortive free trade agreement designed to keep China out
while promoting American economic leadership. China, together with 14 other Asia-Pacific
nations, recently signed what amounts to the world's largest free trade agreement. The
signatories to this agreement, known as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP),
include the 10 countries comprising the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), along
with China, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, and Australia, and together account for around 30
percent of global GDP. The RCEP cements China's status as the dominant economic power in the
Asia-Pacific regions, and represents a stunning reversal of fortune for the US, whose
precipitous withdrawal from the TPP in 2017 paved the way for China's stunning diplomatic
coup.
The collapse of the TPP, when combined with the economic crisis brought on by the Covid-19
pandemic, made the RCEP attractive to nations who looked to trade with China as the only viable
means of rebuilding their stricken economies. The RCEP helps solidify the regional geopolitical
objectives of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative by opening the economies of the Asia-Pacific
region to Chinese-funded development projects. The diplomatic victory of China in bringing the
RCEP to fruition represents a stunning defeat for the US, which had been seeking regional
support in its ongoing trade war with China. Moreover, given the linkage between economic and
security issues, the fact that major regional allies such as Japan, South Korea, New Zealand
and Australia have so decisively joined their economies to China's undermines ongoing US
efforts to build a regional coalition designed to contain and eventually roll-back China's
presence in the South China Sea. While President-elect Joe Biden has reached out to Japan and
South Korea in an effort to reassure them of his administration's commitment to their security,
a future Biden administration is ill-positioned to counter the economic influence China has
locked itself into through the RCEP. From an economic perspective, the US 'pivot to Asia' has
been effectively halted, with the Asia-Pacific nations now firmly in China's court.
From Europe, to South America, the Middle East, Southwest Asia, and on to the Pacific,
President Joe Biden will be inheriting a world transformed by four years of Trump policies.
While Biden has indicated that he is inclined to reverse many, if not all, of the Trump foreign
policy "disasters" as soon as practical after assuming office, the reality is that he
will find his hands tied by the combined impact of his own aggressive rhetoric, which in many
instances paralleled the policies undertaken by Trump, or the fact that the geopolitical
situation that exists today does not permit a return to the foreign policy of yore.
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Demand Congress address Pentagon waste and excess.
When it comes to military spending, the United States' defense budget is astronomical. The
U.S. spends as much as the next seven countries combined on the military. The staggering amount
of money available has resulted in wasteful military spending.
Veterans didn't serve in the military to see our citizens hard earned tax dollars
frivolously wasted on more so-called "defense" spending. As military veterans from WWII to the
current era of conflicts, who have trained for, and in many cases, fought in U.S. wars, we know
that endless wars, failed weapons and the Pentagon's corporate handouts do nothing to make us
safe.
Veterans For Peace asks that we make good on the sacrifices we made and start reinvesting
our overinflated military budget on domestic needs, infrastructure repairs, social safety net
programs and an emphasis on diplomatic action that might keep us out of avoidable wars.
Military spending should be reduced by at least $200 billion annually, freeing up $2
trillion or more over the next decade for domestic and human needs priorities. With those
spending cuts, the Pentagon's budget would remain more than enough to keep America safe at a
level well above our nation's post-World War II historical average.
Hundreds of billions of dollars annually should be shifted away from the Pentagon and to
pressing needs from education to health care to averting catastrophic climate change.
Doing so will make our country safer and more just.
The economic destruction coming from a second wave of "covid" lock downs combined with the
civil unrest from all the lies the media will spin out of this contested election will usher
in the last 8 years that looks as though it will commence on or about the 20th anniversary of
9/11:
I've been wasting some time accompanying some serious (read: sane) American political
analysts, and they all seem to come to these same overall conclusions:
1) Trump's lawsuits to try to change the elections results will be unsuccessful
(because he lost both Arizona and Georgia, so even if he flips Pennsylvania and even
Michigan, the equation won't close in his favor). However, he lays the foundations for a
future, more talented and serious far-right leadership to rise in the near future in the USA.
Metaphorically, Trump is the Gaius Gracchus to the USA's (hypothesized) upcoming Julius
Caesar. Or, if you want to be ideological and more recent, the USA's Paul von Hindenburg for
the USA's upcoming Adolf Hitler;
2) Trump is still not the Messiah the American right-wing is waiting for. Most of his
followers are more like fans of a superstar than a mass political movement. All those
scenes of violence involving the BLM, Antifa and Trump supporters are actually still
marginal ; most of the conflict is still all talk and no bark. Trump is not "the guy" -
at least the 2020 version. Maybe he comes back on top in 2024; or it will be, most likely,
another leadership, more ideologically pure than the opportunistic Trump.
3) The American far-right's problem right now is that the ideologically suitable
successors to Trump are not in the ideal regions of the country, where a true national mass
movement can be built up. They are all from the Deep South. The leaderships from the
important regions of the country are not yet ideologically pure to be true successors of the
Trump-initialized movement. The Nazis had to import their ideal leadership from Austria to
the right place (Berlin and Bavaria) to make things work; this operation is harder to do in
the USA, where localism (identity with one's State of birth) is much stronger.
4) The Democratic Party is in tatters. They don't know what to do now that Biden is
President elect...
"Anybody that looks at the rest of this is going to see that something happened, but no
one is going to be able to figure it out. That's your objective, to make it so convoluted
that anyone can have a theory, but no one's got the facts."
-Jedburgh (that's Captain Jedburgh to you, Senator)
The Edge of Darkness, 2010
This is extremely serious business, obviously. I expect massive social unrest being
unleashed if it starts gaining legal traction/looks like the evidence is going to work.
There are allegations and then there are requirements to provide irrefutable evidence to a
state court that there is material fraud that would change the outcome of the election in the
state. My money is not on the Honey Badger to meet the state courts test. Who believes that
SCOTUS would be willing to buck the "realpolitik" of the situation and send the Democrat run
cities into riots unless there is incontrovertible evidence that a fraud overturned the
election results in many states? Why would they risk the media-driven hysteria that they are
a partisan court?
The Republican party is not gonna back Trump all the way through the media hysteria.
They've got what they wanted with a stronger position in the House and likely a majority in
the Senate after the GA senate runoffs. They'll get back to "old-fashioned" partisan status
quo horse-trading and prepare for the 2022 mid-terms. The oligarchy have been the big winner
and they'll continue to press their advantage.
Trump is on his own. His MAGA soldiers have shown no propensity to create the mayhem that
Antifa did. He'll have time to reflect on what may have been if he's unable to prevail in the
courts. Should he have hired the Swamp in his term to all the key positions? Should he have
used the powers of POTUS more aggressively with declassification? He still has a few weeks to
give the Swamp a big FU by pardoning Snowden and Assange. His Twitter platform may very well
be cancelled or throttled. How is he going to continue to suck up the media oxygen? The
Democrats, could very well get him all on the defense with prosecutions for tax violations. A
very interesting question is what happens to the 72 million people that voted for him? Will
they remain loyal for another run in 2024 or will another more competent & ruthless
candidate come along to capture their imagination?
The appeal, filed Sunday, came about 24 hours after District Court Judge Matthew Brann
issued a ruling that tossed out allegations included in the Trump campaign's legal complaint.
In his decision, Brann noted that attorneys failed to provide sufficient evidence supporting
their insistent claims that misconduct on the part of elections officials gave Joe Biden his projected
presidential win.
2 Charged With Voter Fraud, Allegedly Submitted 8,000 Fraudulent Registration
Applications BY JACK PHILLIPS November 17, 2020
Updated: November 18, 2020 Print
Two men were arrested and charged in Southern California on voter fraud charges after they
allegedly submitted thousands of fraudulent voter registration applications on behalf of
homeless people, said the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office on Tuesday.
Carlos Antonio De Bourbon Montenegro, 53, and Marcos Raul Arevalo, 34, were charged with one
count each of conspiracy to commit voter fraud, eight counts of voter fraud, four counts of
procuring and offering a false or forged instrument, and other charges, said the DA's office in
a news
release .
The office said Montenegro allegedly submitted more than "8,000 fraudulent voter
registration applications between July and October 2020." He's also accused of falsifying
names, signatures, and addresses on nomination papers "under penalty of perjury to run for
mayor in the city of Hawthorne."
Montenegro also faces another 10 counts of voter fraud, seven counts of procuring and
offering a false or forged instrument, two counts of perjury, and five misdemeanor counts of
interference with a prompt transfer of a completed affidavit, the office said.
If convicted, Montenegro can face as many as 15 years and eight months in prison, while
Arevalo could face seven years in prison, officials noted.
The FBI, District Attorney's office, the Los Angeles Public Integrity Division, and other
agencies are investigating the case.
Other details about the case are not clear. It's also not clear if their alleged voter fraud
scheme affected the presidential election in some way.
It's not clear if either Montenegro or Arevalo have lawyers.
According to local news outlet
The Daily Breeze in a report in August, Montenegro, who was running for mayor in Hawthorne,
had "turned in paperwork to run for mayor but failed to meet the required 20 signatures by
Hawthorne residents."
Over the past two weeks, since the Nov. 3 election, President Donald Trump's campaign and
other Republicans have raised questions about voter fraud and irregularities that may have
tipped the presidential race to Democratic candidate Joe Biden. The president's team has filed
several lawsuits in key states including Pennsylvania, Georgia, and other places, while citing
sworn statements made by hundreds of witnesses.
The Department of Homeland Security's cyber-security division, in a statement last week,
said the past election was the "most secure" in history. Meanwhile, secretaries of state have
disputed Trump's claims of fraud.
However, the chairman of the Federal Elections Commission (FEC), Trey Trainor
told Newsmax several days ago that he believes "that there is voter fraud taking place in
these places." Trainor, in a
tweet , said a recent claim from Trump lawyer Sidney Powell about his team being able to
overturn the election with their cases should be taken seriously.
TTG,
yes, the Georgian foxes recounted the hens and determined that none were missing, just like
they said the first time. Hardly what one would call a true audit.
TTG
Recounts are usually done by the same people who did the initial tallying.
How many of these people are going to admit that they submitted a bad count the first
time?
If elections were subject to serious audit, I'm pretty sure that most would be dirty or just
plain out of wack.
Look at the people counting the votes -low level political hacks and temps.
TTG - Guiliani in the press conference carefully explained why the Georgia vote counting
would most likely come up with the same results.
Georgia threw away the mail in envelopes with the voter's signature, so there was no way
to validate or recheck the authenticity of those mail-in ballots once the qualifying envelope
was tossed. Hence their potentially illegal now naked ballot got mixed up with the qualified
legal ballots. Therefore, the later count ---machine or by hand ----- would likely be exactly
the same.
The issue in Georgia went well beyond the Dominion software counting process - it was
their unverifiable intake process that was corrupted. Powell has claimed every possible level
of voter fraud was exercised in Georgia. Not just one. Above is just one example of sloppy at
best, corrupt at worst election process.
Counting every ballot just means the numbers add up, not that all the ballots were legal
cast, nor legally recieved. Just like counting fake money mixed in with real money.
Moving from fact into this recently presented speculation - was Georgia election fraud an
inside operation?
Georgia is a perfect state for Powell to start this legal process, since Georgia, along
with other former Jim Crow southern states, have been under federal Voting Rights Act
jurisdiction now for decades.
"Deep state" federal agents therefore would know every twist and turn, every screw to
tighten, every lock box to unlock in the entire Georgia election process - for those who are
now speculating this might have some sort of "CIA operation". The crowd with US blessings
that allegedly used to assassinate winning candidates they did not like.
Our county in Calif which uses Dominion software admitted only 40% of the signatures can
be validated by machine. The rest must be hand validated.
When you all the sudden have a massive number of "signed" mail in ballots to process, and
the original envelopes got tossed, how does anyone get to observer or double check the
mail-in ballots, once they have been severed from the signed envelope?
Known weaknesses like this can or will be exploited, so the burden falls on the election
department to prove fraud or even incompetent handling of ballots could never take place.
They cannot even claim any "mistakes" were in a reasonable margin of error.
There can never be a perfect election; but there are degrees of imperfect ones. This
potential voting corruption was off the charts since this was such a heavy mail-in vote this
year. When numbers of mail-in ballots, as in the past, do not rise to a material level then
one can claim "mistakes" would not have affected the outcome regardless.
There are those who always vote, those who never vote and those who may or may not vote.
Maximizing voter turnout in the third group is the holy grail of the electoral
official."
It is a holy grail of a leftist agitator. The US law recognizes a citizen's freedom not to vote as equal to the voting for
a candidate of his or her choosing. Some people do not vote because they do not care, some
because they do not know which candidate to choose, and some because they are angry at the
society. Abstractly speaking, reluctant voters are not helpful to democratic process, just like
reluctant jurors are not helpful for court proceedings. Practically, voter mobilization (from
the word 'mob' ) is a tactic of the Left. People who do not care, or lack knowledge, or
are angry, can be easily convinced to vote for the Left. Continue reading Dominion Voting
Systems Corp →
Dominion Voting Systems' Democracy Suite has features that allow for election results
manipulation. The back-end software has an elections results editor, called Results Tally
and Reporting ( RTR ). Its users are election officials. RTR is an equivalent of
Microsoft Excel, but for election results. The software allows its users to enter "election
results" from removable memory cards, local file system, and network. It allows you to merge
multiple election results files. It allows the users to manually edit election result files. It
allows users to reject election results files. In other words, it allows arbitrary change of
results.
RTR runs not on a voting machine, but on an ordinary Windows laptop, which can be connected
to the Internet, and even controlled remotely.
The voting software developers can easily insert code, changing numbers in favor of or
against one candidate. No hacking is necessary. The malicious code can be designed to pass
tests and to be triggered only at the time of a real election, automatically or manually. Both
case are possible even the the machine is disconnected from the internet and has no ordinary
I/O devices. The malicious code can be activated manually in real time by inserting a ballot or
another paper with a pre-defined QR or image code. An audit of the source code is necessary,
but not sufficient. Dominion software runs on Windows, and the malicious code can be hidden in
any part of the operating system. Malicious code can be hidden in the firmware, too.
If a state wants to take risks and to rely on testing and the source code audit, they should
be conducted with the participation of technically competent representatives of both parties.
If the system passes testing and auditing, the machine image must be securely stored. All
supplied machines must have exactly the same hardware and the software as the audited
system.
As far as I know, thorough tests and source code audits are conducted very rarely, if at
all. Further, the vendors are not required to use only the audited image, and are allowed to
update the software almost at will. That means that election commissions are forced to blindly
trust the vendors. Blind trust is always wrong and invites abuse. But even "trust but verify"
is applicable only to trustworthy vendors. Dominion Voting is the opposite of trustworthy.
The only real solution to the vulnerability of EVS is not to use them at all. Manual ballot
counting has no software vulnerabilities, and is much cheaper. Virginia appears to be the only
state that decided to use only manual ballots.
... ... ...
In August 2009 (corrected), the rough breakdown of the EVS market in the US was (per
Brad Friedman ):
Less than a year later, after the "antitrust" actions of Obama's DOJ, it became:
50% Dominion
40% ES&S (restricted in competing against Dominion)
10% Hart Intercivic
Thus, the DOJ's actions did the exact opposite of its words.
An elections system vendor should be non-partisan, in a demonstrable way. Dominion is not
just partisan, but hyper-partisan in favor of the Democrat party, or even its pocket
vendor.
Dominion has many more ties to the Democrat party and its prominent supporters in the US and
abroad, which are not covered in this article.
Software Development in Serbia
Dominion develops much of its software in Belgrade, Serbia. Russia is a close friend to
Serbia, if not its only one. If anybody sincerely thought that Putin wanted to hack American
elections, their first location of interest would be the offices of Dominion Voting in
Belgrade, rather than the Trump Tower in New York.
By the way, Serbian and Russian languages use the Cyrillic alphabet. Most letters have the
same Unicode encoding in Serbian and Russian (the Basic Multilingual Plane, range 0410-04FF ). If any election officials found Cyrillic
text on a Dominion voting machine in 2016, it was probably left by its developers in
Serbia.
Remarks
This is the Agreement between
Michigan & Dominion , including specs of many Dominion products (PDF, 161 pages). Wi-Fi
connection and even a dial up modem are offered as an option.
Some of the companies referenced here as foreign based or foreign originating re-registered
in the US.
Dominion Voting Systems Series Part I
Part II (this) Part
III
Just few thougts
Dominion develops much of its software in Belgrade, Serbia. Russia is a close friend to
Serbia
At the time when ten SW was developing, Serbia had long beenin the hands of Germany and the EU.
Which is the same as writing in the hands of Soros and his NGO. Written Serbian is more similar
to neighboring Greek than Russian, and this also applies to Cyrillic.
A previous head of Dominions software was one Eric Coomer. He is a member or avid
supporter of Antifa, depending on how you view the group.
The same Eric Coomer was previously a skinhead when he was at Berkeley, based on ok'd
message board posts.
Google Eric Coomer Skinhead and view some of what comes up online.
From skinhead to Antifa? He is now apparently nowhere to be found. Seems to me at least,
that there may be a chance he may be CIA and that this may have been a domestic op to get rid
of Trump.
Here's an analogy : imagine the blues and reds both agree that I am a notorious thief,
even if it's only a false narrative. Then they hire me as a security guard. That would be
willfully, knowingly hiring a criminal, which would be criminal, not because of the facts,
but because of the logic.
A couple of thoughts about the Venzuela gambit. Evidently Tucker Carson wanted Sydney to
tell him all about the "Dominion" vote flipping in a public interview. Which would have been
tantamount to giving away all the potential Republican case, and given the Democrats prior
knowledge of what to expect. A no-go. Mentioning "Venezuela-Cuba" could have the effect of
heading off a direct civil war if the US Dems and Repubs have a" common enemy" to blame. (Too
late for Russia, China too touchy, not many other major targets). Note that Venezuela has a
paper trail created at the same time as the electronic vote...
"They are very bad. If something goes wrong with one of them, you would basically never know, because you can't audit the
results. And things have gone wrong," John Oliver said. "In one local New Jersey election, a husband and wife were both running
for seats on their county's Democratic committee. The DRE machines said that they lost, but they were in the unusual position of
actually knowing that that was a mistake."
"In one local New Jersey election, a husband and wife were both running for seats on their county's Democratic committee," Oliver
continued. "The DRE machines said that they lost, but they were in the unusual position of actually knowing that that was a
mistake."
The talk show host then played a news clip of the couple -- Ernest and Cynthia Zirkle -- explaining what had happened.
"I knew 33 of the people that voted for us, and we lost 33 to 10, and I knew that that wasn't the case," said Cynthia Zirkle.
The results had been switched with those of their opponents.
"We started calling people that we thought we knew voted for us, because it was just a in this district of this township, and we
know everybody in this district," added Ernest Zirkle.
Oliver noted it was true that Cynthia Zirkle had "literally went around and got signed affidavits from people saying that they
had voted for her."
"The fact is, unless you happen to personally know everyone who votes for you on a paperless DRE machine, there is no way to know
the results," he said. "It's a pretty good case against them, which makes it, frankly, completely insane that New Jersey not only
still uses them, but plans to keep using them for the 2020 election."
"And it's not just New Jersey, in 2016, 20 percent of voters voted on paperless DREs, and an estimated 12 percent will use them
in 2020, meaning 16 million Americans, spread out across all these states, are set to be voting on machines that pretty much
everyone agrees are deeply, deeply flawed," Oliver continued. "And if they malfunction, there could be no way of knowing, which
is absolutely terrifying. What we have to do here is obvious, it's so obvious, in fact, even this guy understands it."
John Oliver then played a clip of President Donald Trump explaining why it is important to have a paper backup system with
regards to voting.
"He's right. That's it. He's just all the way, completely right," said Oliver.
Dominion Voting Systems -- which has faced scrutiny in the wake of the 2020 presidential election -- has an ImageCast X model,
which can be deployed as either a Ballot Marking Device (BMD) or a Direct Recording Electronic Device (DRE), according to
The
Verified Voting Foundation
.
While Oliver has made his case for why he believes DREs are dangerous, Verified Voting has also explained why it believes BMDs
can be as well.
In 2019, Verified Voting
clarified
its
position regarding the use BMDs in elections:
Verified Voting believes that voters should vote on paper ballots, but we recognize an important distinction between
hand-marked and machine-marked ballots. Hand-marked paper ballots are not subject to inaccuracies or manipulation from
software bugs or malicious code. In contrast, machine-marked paper ballots produced using BMDs might not accurately capture
voter intent if the software or ballot configuration is buggy or malicious.
Verified Voting specifically opposes the purchase and deployment of new voting systems in which all in-person voters in a
polling place are expected to use BMDs. The trustworthiness of an election conducted using BMDs depends critically on how many
voters actually verify their ballots, and how carefully they do it. All voters who vote on BMDs should be made aware of the
importance of carefully and conscientiously verifying their ballots before casting them, and should be actively encouraged to
do so. However, empirical research thus far shows that few voters using BMDs carefully verify their printed ballots. Moreover,
if voters do verify BMD-marked ballots and find what they believe are discrepancies, there is no reliable way to resolve
whether the voters made mistakes or the BMDs did. For these and other reasons (such as cost) Verified Voting recommends that
the use of BMDs be minimized.
Verified Voting appeared to have since wiped clean the section of its website clarifying its position on the usage of BMDs, but
an
Internet
archive
shows what was displayed on the page in August.
It is, indeed, completely insane to use electronic voting machines unless the whole idea is to be able
to commit massive voter fraud and steal an election.
Some of these machines can be set to throw a set number of --- say Trump votes -- into a certain
folder that can just be deleted making all of those votes disappear as if they never existed.
The first video below highlights the couple that John Oliver was talking about:
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A Hacker Shows Us How Easy It Is To Manipulate Voting Machines
[2:16]
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
On this next one, it shows how many voters are just trusting these machines with EVERYTHING and no
paper trail, basically saying to the computer, "Please mark my ballot the way I say and I trust you to
do so".
Dominion Voting Machines have the ability to mark a ballot [2:16]
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Electronic Voting Machine hacked by Computer Scientists (AcuVote-TS)
[5:21]
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
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All electronic software can be made to cheat with voter fraud, especially if that is the OBJECTIVE ALL
ALONG.
ComradeAdam
cageysea
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It would depend on the voting machine, a machine can be built that has no real vulnerabilities and no way to
change or input to voting data. And paper ballots are only as secure as the people that handle them and
count them. The biggest problem with voting machines is that they keep processes of the machine secret so no
one can trust what they are doing behind the scenes.
Personally, I think we need voter ID. Then the voting machines print out a paper ballot that you take from
the machine over to a ballot box, present your ID for a second time and drop the ballot in the box.
The ballots must match the machines totals and the voter rolls and all partisan observers must agree.
in India, you have all that PLUS you affix your thumbprint to the ballot with indelible ink. The ink
(apparently) is hard to wash off so that makes it harder for anyone to vote twice. A beautiful system.
Where I'm at, we had paper "Scantron" ballots and BMDs. Had a lot of older folk who did the BMD because
they didn't think they could fill in the bubbles.
What I thought was odd was that the BMDs we had were designed for blind people but there was no way for
blind people to verify their printout as it was just text, not braile.
Worst of all was that able-bodied younger people strideny thought that BMDs were electronic voting and
that it was "more secure", so they would become irate when they discovered that they spent 15 minutes
using a touch screen to print a ballot that they could've bubbled in 30 seconds by hand.
Closing the barn door after the horse is stolen. Why weren't Trump voters and Trump himself anticipating
just this sort of election theft before the election?
ohn Law
Gwynedd
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"It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes."
Yes. Did it slip out by accident? I've been critical, well more than critical, let's say completely
objecting to the use of electronic voting machines for years. As somebody who worked in the tech
industry, I realized that there is a belief in the minds of average people, that machines are
objective and impersonal and cannot lie or make mistakes. Have you ever challenged somebody when
there's an obvious data entry error and they rigidly stick by whatever the machine says versus what
you're trying to tell them actually was the situation? Belief in the machine is almost a belief in
an infallible oracle. Obviously data can be corrupted and falsified as anybody who has had their
accounts hacked should realize. So voting systems that rely on electronics without some form of
physical verification are subject to fraud, and any counting system that does not have oversight
and is completely hidden from view electronically or otherwise is also subject to fraud or to quote
Stalin, it's not who votes it's who counts the votes. Fraud in voting machines has been going on
for decades. Even the very old paper punch systems used in the 40s through 80s could be gotten
around by simply having certain precincts non-functional during the day and not tell the voters
their votes would not be counted. I experienced this frequently in Philadelphia when I lived in a
section of the city that did not like the mayor.
doormouse
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Trump's mistake was trusting the experience of insiders...
He should have hired nothing but loyal people with no professional political experience, and not
assumed those under the heels of the democrats weren't still beholden to them, (if not
compromised), even if they publicly seemed to be enemies...
They had been in bed together for a century... Especially the petroleum industry, and Wall
Street...
"Corrupted by wealth and power, your government is like a restaurant with only one dish. They've
got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side.
But no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in
the same Wall Street kitchen." - Huey Long
"The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican
leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear
down." - Huey Long
101010011000
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Why have machines at all? We have until Jan. 20 to seat new winners. What is the rush? Old fashioned
hand counting may take longer but it is more secure with proper oversight. We can wait a few days or
even weeks if it means honest elections. Networks will just not be calling winners before votes are
all tabulated and certified. It is not a horse race and shouldn't be treated as such. Hold your
tickets, please, we have a photo finish. We need voter ID and that number matched to each vote.
caperick
oldlady
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You're right. Any machine is corruptible. Hand counting with verified observers from both parties is totally
doable.
mrminwnc
oldlady
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people act like it's impossible to count 100 million+ votes, but it's not at all. it can be easily done precinct
by precinct, then all it takes is an adding machine. the old-fashioned kind, with the paper tape.
theresa
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Hay, Hay all you shift for brains!
"Federal Statute Law Title 52 USC 20511: Criminal penalties Text contains
those laws in effect on November 9, 2020
Title 52-VOTING AND ELECTIONS Subtitle
II-Voting Assistance and Election Administration CHAPTER 205-NATIONAL
VOTER REGISTRATION
Criminal penalties
A person, including an election official, who in any election for
Federal office-
(1) knowingly and willfully intimidates, threatens, or coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce,
any person for-
(A) registering to vote, or voting, or attempting to register or vote;
(B) urging or aiding any person to register to vote, to vote, or to attempt to register or vote; exercising any
right under this chapter; or
(C) exercising any right under this chapter; or
(2) knowingly and willfully deprives, defrauds, or attempts to
deprive or defraud the residents of a State of a fair and
impartially conducted election process, by-
(A) the procurement or submission of voter registration applications that are known by the person to be materially
false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the
laws of the State in which the election is held; or
(B) the procurement, casting, or tabulation of ballots that are known by the person to be materially false,
fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is held, shall be fined in accordance
with title 18 (which fines shall be paid into the general fund of the Treasury, miscellaneous receipts (pursuant
to section 3302 of title 31), notwithstanding any other law), or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both."
Thomas737
theresa
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SOROS, One of the owners of Dominion and SmartMatic too...
Any one of these articles should be good for "Evidence".
Democrat Senators Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar and Ron Wyden ALL
WARNED the USA about DOMINION being a Security Problem in the Elections!
Even the New York Times warned the US....
This is the DEFINITION of FOREIGN ELECTION INTERFERENCE that the
Democrats Complained about for the past 5 years!!!
Paper ballots. On Election Day. In person. Valid ID. If it's that important to people, they will find a way.
Limited exceptions (deployed military, etc). Otherwise, make it a PRIORITY.
Gary Eaker
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Our Voting Systems are antiquated and insecure.
Complete Makeover Desperately needed.
"Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own," senior Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and
Jenna Ellis said on Sunday in a joint statement. "She is also not a lawyer for the president
in his personal capacity."
Giuliani and Ellis gave no explanation for the statement. Trump last week named Powell, a
former federal prosecutor, among five well-known lawyers who would lead his legal team in
challenging the results of this month's presidential election.
Powell was among three featured speakers when the Trump legal team held a press conference
on Thursday to give an overview of its election-fraud cases in key states that the president
apparently lost to Democrat rival Joe Biden.
Powell focused largely on accusations that Dominion voting machines and Smartmatic election
software were fraudulently manipulated to award thousands of fake votes to Biden. Her
allegations went deeper, involving allies of the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez owning
Dominion and having ties to Democrat billionaire donor George Soros.
But by Thursday night, Powell's story was being challenged by a conservative media
superstar, Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who said she had brushed off multiple requests to
provide evidence of the Dominion-Smartmatic scheme for his show. She also was invited to be
interviewed on his show, but "when we kept pressing, she got angry and told us to stop
contacting her," Carlson said.
Powell responded by saying
she told Carlson not to contact her again because he was "very insulting, demanding and
rude." She also provided him with an affidavit and referred him to a witness who could help
him understand her statistical evidence. Carlson followed up the next night, saying he had
heard from Trump sources, including other members of the president's legal team, who said that
they hadn't seen Powell's evidence firsthand.
If Powell's allegations in the press conference seemed a little wild, her interview on
Saturday night with conservative news outlet Newsmax took the case to another level. She
accused Georgia's Republican governor, Brian Kemp, and the state's secretary of state, Brad
Raffensperger, of receiving financial benefits to help Biden win the state's 16 electoral
votes.
"Georgia's probably going to be the first state I'm gonna blow up," Powell said of
her planned fraud cases. "And Mr. Kemp and the secretary of state need to go with it because
they're in on the Dominion scam." She added that her Georgia lawsuit, which she hopes to
file this week, "will be biblical."
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pogohere 4 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 08:17 PM
Some teams are harder to play on than others. Look at the Flynn case. The US Dep. of Justice
surrendered to Powell et. al. and requested that its own case against Flynn be
dismissed following the disclosure by Powell's efforts that the DOJ was withholding
evidence-- a "Brady rule violation"-- of Flynn's innocence from the defense and the court.
Flynn's prestigious Wa DC law firm earlier had Flynn plead guilty. The judge is holding up
the dismissal of that case, against all precedent. Powell most likely isn't finished. Neither
is The Donald.
GoldMorgsCom 4 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 08:31 PM
Giuliani and Ellis intimidated and gearing down? Powell least nervous at the presentation.
Usually fraud by (voting)computers escapes the possibility of external proof. But a
peculiarity in the Michigan-elections enabled it. See on the site vashiva (Shiva) MIT PhD
Analysis of Michigan Votes Reveals Unfortunate Truth of U.S. Voting Systems. Its systematic
fraud, save screenshots. Steven J. Miller Ph.D. published his testimony, that about 50'000
mail-in ballots of republicans have disapeared in Pensylvenia and 50'000 absentee ballots
have been abused by others (in favor of Biden = +50000). It makes up about 150000 to the
disadvantage of Trump in PA. Bidens surplus was about 75000. About Michigan and Pensylvenia
it has been published that the number of fraud votes was sufficient for a fraud change of the
outcome in favor of "the democrats". The signals are that the same happened in the other
critical states . See also -- Trump lawyers allege 'MASSIVE' election fraud, point to sworn
statements & efforts to threaten and silence them (VIDEO)-- 19 Nov, 2020 20:30 (
rt-search, on top at the right ) In the first ten minutes it is explained how the "democrat"
bosses facilitated huge fraud with absentee ballots. In Pensylvenia 682'000 have been
accepted without proper checks and with destroying the evidence of fraud. It is a federal
offence not to store all election records (scans), even not collecting them, such as besiding
mail-in envelopes and not checking them before opening them.
JingsGeordie 4 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 08:18 PM
Disavows? That's twisting the information (edit - they've now changed it to 'distances') From
Gen. Flynn's twitter feed - ".@SidneyPowell1 has been suspended from Twitter for 12 hours.
She understands the WH press release & agrees with it. She is staying the course to prove
the massive deliberate election fraud that robbed #WeThePeople of our votes for President
Trump & other Republican candidates."
Thesheperd666 4 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 09:02 PM
Trump fired Sidney Powell ? That is a huge mistake and might coast him the presidency. Trumps
team looks weak now ! Sidney look more confident and much more calmer than Rudy Giuliani. I
really don't trust Rudy as much as Sidney, wondering if they are afraid of spoiling the
Republic party before the 12th amendment goes to the house for votes ? Either side your on
this makes Trumps team look bad, and are starting to make up stories. I think Trump did win
by a landslide and this years vote was stolen from the US citizens. Demarcates can breath a
little more easier now that Sidney is gone, she was the strongest one on the team. Trump
needs more Sidney Powell's not less, I don't trust Rudy nor do I think he has what it takes
to win. Trump needs better Lawyers, Rudy is just a celebrity lawyer that will keep his image
no matter what ! Trump needs tigers not mice !
anastasia265 3 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 09:27 PM
It's not true. She was never a part of that team and had her own funding site. Their strategy
was to keep the two matters separate
J_P_Franklin 4 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 08:49 PM
Majority of Republicans are and have conspired against Trump since 2016. America First
Trumpism is the opposite of Republican open borders/free trade treason.
GoldMorgsCom 4 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 09:03 PM
Peculiar is that the German chamber of commerce does not reveal any registration of the
Dominions, neither of Smartmatic neither of Scytl neither of Amazone. These have not
registrated or their registrations are being hidden on request. So who's prosecution by the
German state prosecutors is to be requested?
Gerald Newton 2 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 10:56 PM
Sidney Powell has not released her evidence yet but it is coming. She has an impressive
record and probably will crush much of the federal justice system. That is what she does.
Read her book, Licensed to Lie. It is about the way federal prosecutors lie to prosecute like
they did to Senator Stevens of Alaska.
Swanster6450 3 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 09:56 PM
I guess Sidney Powell is finding what happens to people from outside the political loop when
they seek to stick their nose in and point out a few inconsistencies. Chucked under a bus is
the usual outcome. Julian Assange is also finding out the same thing and, incidentally, so
too is Donald Trump. All shafted and all chucked under a bus for pointing out a few
inconsistencies.
RTreaderCaribb 3 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 09:56 PM
I have one question and one question only: why would Sydney Powell who seems to be very
bright and a good lawyer say something of which she would know will be exposed only in less
than 14 days to be totally untrue? This makes no sense at all. And so I think we all should
pray that this woman does not end up like Jeffrey Epstein. We should take our time. 14 days
are nothing in comparison to the endless work she has to put in . And if she cant show any
fact for her allegations then we can maybe say something went wrong with her. But right now
let this woman work. All this prejudgment in the public court is irritating to me. And if
Sidney Powell did the same then yes, she would be irritating to me too. And for Trump: If he
can prove voter fraud then he should go to the supreme court. If he cant then at some point
he must concede. I guess the latest is December 14th and until then he should just figure out
what it is. That is his legal right. And for the American people: if you were so stupid to
vote for Biden then please bear the consequences thereof because you will go down the tubes.
The man is not well in his head.
allan Kaplan 3 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 09:43 PM
Sidney Powell's stamina, her defiance and her antipathy is so real that those who have faced
injustice by the hands of the powerful know what it takes to get such bullies sweating. The
house of cards of the Democrat commies will come tumbling down once Powell gets to the podium
of naming names, dates, places, and their coconspirators et al. I love her tenacity,
determination, perseverance and her unflinching boldness that most of the dems are sweating
about! Thank you Ms. Powell for a great American tradition and go full speed... the
dissenting maverick you are!
GoldMorgsCom 3 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 09:27 PM
They are so scared that the president Trump will conduct the great cleansing, to start with
removing the authority on the dollar from the Federal Reserve to the usa federal state of the
people. They are already blocking the president Trump during four years to keep him from
that. They know they can now only keep the president Trump from the great cleansing by
removing him from office. They will do more than the high treason of the fraud against the
federal elections, to remove the president Trump from office. Eventually they will detonate a
smuggled-in nuclear bomb and allegate Russia or fire a missile with a nuclear bomb from an
unindentified submarine and allegate Russia. You believe the spread of Covid-19 this year was
a coincidense? If Russia is being attacked any more (with allegations) it is a good reason
for conducting the great cleansing in Russia. Those probably sly covered Khodorovski-types
who are pressing forward (exports of) GMM-injections "against Covid-19" are probably
backstabbing Russia; catastrophic future compensation claims on Russia and confiscation of
all export-incomes. This is a good reason for conducting the great cleansing out of Russia of
all Khodorovski-types. We hope that the reorganized government of Russia will cleanse out all
Khodorovski-types, no matter the president Trump will continue office and conduct the great
cleansing in the usa or not.
Marlin1091 12 minutes ago 23 Nov, 2020 01:06 AM
Google did and is helping biden. That is why I don't use google any more, I use Yandex and
for fackrok I use vk
@Brett
Redmayne-Titley nce William Plumer in 1820. (Novelist and Humphrey elector James Michener
wrote that he would have if necessary in 1968, as he much preferred Nixon to the House and
Wallace.)
Inasmuch as the US -- and every
state -- has a religious feast day like St Patrick's and St George's, it would be Dec 8.
Perfect date for a "Hail Mary"!
*Seven of the ten deviant votes cast in 2016 were counted, the other three replaced. State
law rules here.
BRT 207, agreed that the interview was less than cathartic, but Sidney has a tighrope to
walk. Her opponent is not the opposing campaign of Dem hacks. Her opponent is CIA. CIA
stuffed all those ballots. Unfortunately for Sidney, in US law and regulation, CIA crime is
secret. The perps are secret under the IIPA. The facts are secret under the operational files
exemption. The law is secret under COG procedures. Flynn explained the birds and bees to her.
Remember DIA is JFK's creation.
Now Sidney has to find a way to puke up evidence of CIA crime in court.
CIA ratfucked Chavez with their electoral malware, albeit ineffectually.
CIA put their Venezuelan proprietary through a couple of sheepdippings and turned it on
Trump. Just like they used it on Kerry. Just like they do whenever you vote for the wrong
guy. Honnête homme Hopsicker, offered a lifetime of hookers and blow to shut up, has
the most synoptic take:
This is transnational organized crime by CIA. Sidney has to call CIA agents under oath.
She has to protect them from DO's murderers. She has to explode everything you think about
your bullshit fake democracy. I don't know if she can do it but I hope she can.
A most interesting thread popped up on Twitter Sunday from a data scientist who wishes to
remain anonymous, regarding mail-in ballot data which strongly suggests fraud occurred in the
wee hours of election night, when several swing states inexplicably stopped reporting vote
counts while President Trump maintained a healthy lead over Joe Biden.
Using time series data 'scraped' from the New York Times website, the data - comparing
several states (swing and non-swing) - clearly illustrates what fraud does and does not look
like, and how several anomalies in swing states left 'fingerprints of fraud' as Biden pulled
ahead of President Trump.
This is based on their proprietary "Edison" data source which would ordinarily be impossible
to access for people outside the press. The CSV is available here ( updated). And the script
to generate it is here . I suggest
that everyone back up both of these files , bc this is an extremely important data source, and
we cant risk anyone taking it down.
What we are looking at will be time series analysis and you will see that it is extremely
difficult to create convincing synthetic times series data. By looking at the times series logs
of the ballot counting process for the entire country, we can very easily spot fraud.
One of the first things noticed while exploring the dataset is that there seems to be an
obvious pattern in the ratio of new #Biden ballots to new #Trump ballots.
As we can see on this log-log plot, for many of the counting progress updates, we see an
almost constant ratio of #Biden to #Trump. It's such a regular pattern that we can actually fit
a linear regression model to it with near-perfect accuracy, barring some outliers. How could
this be possible? Is this a telltale sign of fraud? Surprisingly, as it will be shown, the
answer is no! This is actually expected behavior. Also, we can use this weird pattern in the
ballot counting to spot fraud!
Here is the same pattern for Florida . We see this linear pattern again.
And again (Texas)
And again (South Dakota)
And again all over the country. What appears to be happening is that points on the straight
line are actually mail in votes . The reason they're so homogeneous across with respect to the
ratio of #Biden vs #Trump votes is that they get randomly shuffled in the mail like a deck of
cards. Since the ballots are randomly mixed together during transport, spanning areas occupied
by multiple voting demographics, we can expect the ratio of mail-in #Biden ballots to mail-in
#Trump ballots will remain relatively constant over time and across different reporting
updates.
Lets dig a little deeper into this :
Here is a plot of the same Florida voting data, but this time it's the ratio of #Biden to
#Trump ballots, versus time. What we see is that the initial ballot reportings are very noisy
and "random".
The initial reporting represents in-person voting. These vote reports have such large
variation bc in-person voting happens across different geographic areas that have different
political alignments. We can see this same pattern of noisy in-person voting, followed by
homogeneous mail-in reporting in almost all cases. What we see in almost all examples across
the country is that the ratio of mail-in Dem to Rep ballots is very consistent across time, but
with the notable drift from Dem to slightly more Rep.
This slight drift from D to R mail-ins occurs again and again, and is likely due to outlying
rural areas having more R votes. These outlying areas take longer to ship their ballots to the
polling centers.
Now we're getting into the really good stuff . When we see mail-in ballot counting where
there isn't relatively stable ratios of D and R ballots that slightly drift R, we have an
anomaly! Anomalies themselves are not necessarily fraud, but they can help us spot fraud more
easily.
Now let's look at some anomalies:
This is the Wisconsin vote counting history log. Again, on the Y axis we have the ratio of D
to R ballots in reporting batch, and on the X axis we have reporting time. Around 4am there,
there is a marked shift in the ratio of D to R mail-in ballots . Based on other posts in this
thread, this should not happen . This is an anomaly, and while anomalies are not always fraud,
often they may point to fraud.
By 4am the D to R ratio was all thrown out of whack. That is because these ballots were not
sampled from the real Wisconsin voter population, and they were not randomized in the mail
sorting system with the other ballots. They inherently have a different D to R signature than
the rest of the ballots quite possibly bc additional ballots were added to the batch, either
through backdating or ballot manufacturing or software tampering. This of this being kind of
analogous to carbon-14 dating, but for ballot batch authenticity.
Lets look at another anomaly (Pennsylvania):
Here is Pennsylvania's vote counting history. For the first part of the vote counting
process, we see the same pattern for mail-in ballots that we've seen in every other state in
the country, which is relatively stable D to R ratio that gradually drifts R as more ballots.
But then as counting continues, the D to R ratio in mail-in ballots inexplicably begin
"increasing" . Again, this should not happen , and it is observed almost nowhere else in the
country , because all of the ballots are randomly shuffled in the mail system and should be
homogeneous during counting. The only exceptions to this are other suspect states that also
have anomalies .
Again, this is evidence of ballot backdating, manufacturing of software tampering
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Lets look at another anomaly:
In Georgia we see pretty much the same story as Pennsylvania: increasing fractions of
mail-in D ballots over time even though it defies logic and we see this pattern no where else
in the country.
In Michigan , we see a combination of Wisconsin strangeness, together with the GA/PA
weirdness. We see both signs of contaminated ballot dumping, and ballot ratios drifting toward
dems when they should not be.
Virginia:
Now in fairness, VA is the only state out of the 50 that has anomalies but has not had
accusations of voter fraud, yet. I think this is the exception that proves the rule. Yet to
figure out what causes this anomalous shift, but here it is so no one accuses me of holding it
back.
Lets wrap this up: It appears Dems shot themselves in the foot bc making everyone do mail-in
ballots actually makes it easier to catch mail-in ballot fraud . Bc all of the ballots go
through the postal system, they get shuffled like a deck of cards, so we expect reported ballot
return to be extremely UNIFORM in terms of D vs R ratio, but to drift slightly towards R over
time bc some of those ballots travel farther. This pattern proves fraud and is a verifiable
timestamp of when each fraudulent action occurred .
The system is set up for failure in proving election fraud. Firstly, the security agencies
will not lift a finger unless there is "substantial evidence of voter fraud." This was as
true in the past as it is now.
There is no way that a candidate can discover all the election fraud in the short time
they have to do it, especially when there are obstacles in the fraud areas controlled by the
other side.
The courts are reluctant to do anything unless you have substantial evidence that rises to
the level of proof that would change an election. Cannot be based upon probabilities.
The overall concern of the government is for it not to appear illegitimate. This is a
public policy reason for turning a blind's eye, by the government, by the media, by anyone
who has the power to influence.
Voter Fraud and Election Fraud has been around a long time. Read Vote Scam, a book taken
out of the Library of Congress. I am sure that there have been more than several candidates
who have lost office because of it, but with the system in place, it's gonna be tough toogies
for the candidate who lost..
My gut feeling is that this election was stolen by old fashioned, street level, ballot
stuffing in 5 or 6 "inner city" (black) locations, including Philadelphia, Atlanta,
Milwaukee, Detroit, and two less black but equally corrupt locations in Maricopa County
(Phoenix) and Las Vegas.
I could be wrong, and I hope I am, but I think the Dominion corruption angle is going to
end up unprovable and will just be further grist for the "debunking" articles in the MSM
(liberal) media, along with the hoax about water marks on ballots.
"Occam's Razor" explanation:
At around the same time in all of these locations, with some adjustment for time zones,
the voting ground to a halt. In Atlanta, they even came up with a now confirmed as false
story about a pipe bursting. They sent the Republican poll watchers home, delivered the
necessary 90,000 to 150,000 ballots needed to change the result, punched the totals into the
machine, and that was it. Some Republicans actually caught them in the act, but they were
physically threatened and ignored by the partisan media. Detroit was the most egregious,
where they even saw boxes being delivered in the wee hours and they put up paper screens to
hide what they were doing. None of these witnesses can really "prove" anything, of
course.
I think Biden would have naturally closed the huge gap in PA just by virtue of the fact
that the precincts around Philly genuinely were counted last (plus the mail in ballots,
legitimate and fraudulent). This is why you see those weird, unprecedented spikes in Biden
totals in the early morning hours: The boxes containing fraudulent and/or harvested ballots
were dumped into the pot.
What enabled all of the above to really work was the "mail in" ballots.
And they're going to get away with all of this because it was predominantly blacks who
were doing this and the fact that the media is the de facto Ministry of Information for the
Democratic Party. In a country where blacks are permitted to loot, and in some areas get a
misdemeanor citation if the stuff they steal is worth less than $1,000, and in other cases
get away with murder when the victim is white, the media will simply not report this stuff.
"If a tree falls in the forest and it's not on CNN or in the New York Times, did that tree
really fall?"
Below is a comment from James Kunstler's blog (apologies if this breaks a rule):
"BOMBSHELL: The 2020 election took place under a Trump-declared "National Emergency" that
set an Election Day trap for the "unauthorized accessing of election and campaign
infrastructure"
Wow What a doozy . Could be the trap that folks have been commenting on, why Brennan seems
to be coming unglued, maybe why Esper was fired and replaced, why some Democrats seem to be
been freaking out even more lately
I have pasted 3 sections from the article:
[Hide MORE]
"This story begins with the little-known executive order signed into existence on September
12, 2018, by President Donald J. Trump. That order, available at Whitehouse.gov, is entitled,
"Executive Order on Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a
United States Election." In that executive order, which almost no one has covered since the
day it was signed, President Trump declares a national emergency. That emergency is still in
play to this day, and the 2020 election was conducted under this state of emergency, which is
a crucial point to understand what's coming next."
And,
"Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) says the US military just raided the server farm of Scytl in
Spain
Lest you think this is all speculation and rumor, we now get to the part where the rubber
meets the road. According to a video interview with Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) which aired
earlier today, the US military has just conducted a raid on the server farm of the
now-bankrupt Scytl company in Barcelona, Spain. The Gateway Pundit, which has been at the
forefront of much of the bombshell reporting of the election rigging conspiracy that took
place on November 3rd, reached out to its sources to confirm the military operations in
Europe, as related to gathering evidence of election theft. Here's what TGP just reported:
The US government, once they determined that this Dominion server was involved in switching
votes, then the intelligence community began a search for the server and discovered that the
server was in Germany. In order to get access to that server and have it available for use in
a legal manner they had to have the State Department work in tandem with the Department of
Justice. They had to request that the government of Germany cooperate in allowing this
seizure of this server. The appropriate documents required to affect that kind of seizure
were put in place, signed off on, and it appears there was also US military support in this
operation. The US military was not in the lead. But this helps explain why Esper was fired
and Miller and Kash Patel were put in place -- so that the military would not interfere with
the operation in any way. By getting ahold of the server they now are going to have the
direct evidence of when they were instructed to stop counting. They will also discover who
gave the direction to stop counting and who initiated the algorithm that started switching
votes. The CIA was completely excluded from this operation. Here's the interview with Rep.
Gohmert, now on Brighteon.com , just in
case YouTube tries to memory hole this video:"
Last, but not least:
"RECOUNTS no longer matter; the certification of votes is now irrelevant
The action plan to achieve all this is under way as you read this. Team Trump already has
the full transaction logs of Dominion Voting Systems election alterations, and with raids
taking place in Europe, more evidence of foreign interference is being secured. Importantly,
this enormous cache of vote fraud evidence will be more than sufficient for President Trump
to present this evidence to the American people, then declare an illegal insurrection attempt
against the United States of America while deploying US Marshals or military police to arrest
the treasonous actors in the United States who attempted to carry out this elaborate criminal
fraud. No wonder John Brennan appears to be crapping himself every time he appears on live
television. Once Trump's plan is fully activated, people like Brennan will need a lifetime
supply of Depends. Once all the evidence is compiled and presented, President Trump merely
needs to declare the entire election to be null and void as an artifact of a failed foreign
coup attempt against the United States, aided by treasonous operators inside the Democrat
party and certain dark corners of the intelligence community (CIA, FBI, etc.). As an
immutable legal principle, any party that engages in a social contract (such as an election)
and then cheats to try to unfairly "win" that contract, is disqualified by default. You
cannot win an election by stealing it. There is overwhelming legal precedent for this in
court decisions from both SCOTUS and Federal district courts. The recounts are irrelevant.
The "certification" of the fraudulent votes is just theater. None of that matters once the
overwhelming fraudulent nature of the entire operation is documented and revealed to
all."
Black Box Voting, Bev Harris, was in the forefront of that investigation, and alerted the
public to the dangers inherent these machines and the scumbags who run the companies that
make and program them. Harris's organization bills itself as nonpartisan.
And Jonathan Simon. Simon seemed like a very good guy, but he may be too partisan (high on
the Trump-Hate-o-Meter) to throw his intellect and experience into the current fight. I don't
know.
The wireless interface on these voting machines allows access by people sitting in
automobiles outside. I don't know if (some of) the machines are connected to the internet but
there is no "air gap" such as would prevent outside electronic access:
It's not a question of "mystery software" that can "hack voting machines." Try to keep
up.
Also, some counties in Michigan use Dominion but most of them do not I believe.
Only about half the state. Of the top fifteen counties, Wayne, Kent, Ingham, Saginaw, St
Clair, Jackson, and Berrien use Dominion. Oakland, Macomb, Genesee, Washtenaw, Ottawa,
Livingston and Muskegon use Hart InterCivic, and Kalamazoo uses ES&S.
@Skeptikal
ng all past Federal elections involving Dominion (and functionally identical) machines into
question. The claims might, if aggressively followed up, significantly thin Democratic
leadership. If the Democrats cannot quash this, it could be the end of the Democrats.
I have no particular objection to this, but the Democrats might (Who knows, ANTIFA might
cheer.). If the Democrats were frightened before, they're much more frightened now.
Frightened people act unpredictably. Unpredictable acts are particularly dangerous now
because the Democrats still control the cities and several states. Remember that the
Democrats, although visibly declining, are still immensely powerful. If a serious dispute
arises, try not to get stepped on by the combatants. If you have any way to support Trump,
this would be the time to support him.
As in his first two articles concerning the 2020 election, in this third article, Mr.
Titley utters false or questionable "facts" [ e.g. , misidentifies or fails to
account accurately the voting apparatus or vote-tabulation software that particular counties
or precincts used], and displays a deep, wide ignorance of pertinent law.
Mr. Titley's theme appears to misdirect attention to Dominion Voting Systems "voting
machines" themselves. Dominion Voting Systems "machines" are not designed to be
fraud-effecting devices. They were not devised to erase votes or create false
votes or ballots -- though some experts argue that Dominion "machines" bear program-glitches
that can cause tally-errors.
If (as seems to appear) massive fraud occurred with use of Dominion Voting Systems,"
either (a) individuals must have manually-manipulated or remotely-hacked the
Dominion "machines" or (b) vote-count-altering software -- e.g. ,
"Smartmatic" -- must have been loaded into, and operated upon, particular Dominion "machine"
systems.
According to Sidney Powell -- a previous Assistant United States Attorney and U.S. federal
district Appellate Section Chief and now a private practitioner -- the problem is software
named Smartmatic:
[S]oftware, dubbed Smartmatic, was designed for the sole purpose of shifting voting
results.
"It was a feature of the system that was designed with a back door, so that people could
watch in real time and calculate with an algorithm how many votes they needed to change to
make the results they wanted to create."
Mr. Titley says Sidney Powell is Trump's lead attorney. She is not such, but a simply a
Trump-legal-team member. Mr. Titley says Sidney Powell asserted:
"They need to investigate the likelihood that 3% of the vote total was changed in the
pre-election voting ballots that were collected digitally by using the Hammer program and
the software program called Scorecard. That would have amounted to a massive change in the
vote."
Sidney Powell has said also: (a) Evidence indicates that Smartmatic software was used not
only in Dominion Systems "machines", but also in electronic
voting/vote-tabulating "machines" other than Dominion; and (b) Smartmatic
software's election-fraud-effect requires human operation seeking to alter vote-outcomes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95WWSQFBVCo
Mr. Titley closes his article with this:
Criminal charges and indictments must be brought against one and all proved to be
involved in the attempt to circumvent the American election process.
That indictment: Treason.
Surely, much flagrant criminal conduct explains the egregious state of the 2020 election.
But "Treason" does not -- cannot :
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in
adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
U.S. Constitution Article III, section 3, clause 1
Per Article III, section 3, clause 1, one cannot commit "Treason" against the United
States unless either
(a) one wages war against the United States -- as by fighting for a foreign state attacking
or attempting to attack the United States or by joining an armed insurrection (against the
U.S. government) or
(b) one adheres to -- adopts a supportive association with -- a foreign power engaged in open
hostility against the United States AND renders ACTIVE aid or comfort to the troops or other
belligerency-agents ( e.g. , spies, saboteurs) of that foreign power.
The Article III, section 3, clause 1 term "enemies,"applies only to troops or other
belligerency-agents of a foreign power manifesting a state of open hostility against the
United States; the term's denotation does not include U.S. domestic rebels engaged in
insurrection against the U.S. government.
But if an insurrection's armed forces form a "body politic" (as did the Confederacy of the
U.S. civil war), then such armed force's members are "enemies" per Article III, section 3,
clause 1, since such belligerent body politic is effectively a "foreign" power. And if one
adheres to such belligerent body politic and renders aid or comfort to its troops or other
belligerency-agents, one commits "Treason." But such belligerent body politic is not an
"enemy" unless its belligerency manifests as war (armed violent
belligerence).
Article III, section 3, clause 1 applies only to disloyal acts committed during time of
war or armed insurrection and in pursuit or support of such war or armed insurrection
-- NOT to disloyal speech or anti-government conduct occurring in peacetime (rather than in
war or armed insurrection).
Despite Democrats and their individual and corporate supporters appear to have tainted,
criminally, this year's voting or other election processes, the Democrats and their
supporters have NOT levied war or armed insurrection against the United States or given aid
or comfort to the troops or other belligerency-agents of a foreign power. Hence, their likely
crimes cannot be "Treason."
You misunderstand how scorecard works. It intercepts the data on the way to server and
changes it. The NSA has access to all internet traffic and most likely a back door that
allows them to defeat encryption. Recently, some hackers discovered a back door in RSA keys
which are used to encrypt internet traffic. It was patched but I'm sure there was either
another way in or a new one created. Since all data is transmitted to a known server they
would intercept all traffic to the server and modify it. TCP/IP is a protocol that has
nothing to do the originating operating system. By the way, although not necessary for
scorecard to work, many voting machines are connected to the internet. In a recent
independent audit the machines examined, which run Windows 10, were unpatched and open to
many know vulnerabilities. Windows 10 a virus in it's own right, connects to Microsoft
hundreds of times a day and transmits god knows what information. They also had unauthorized
software installed indicating that local users had administrative rights to the system.
Another little known fact is that modern Intel processors have their own cell modem. So even
without an internet connection it is still possible to hack into a computer. Since the
connection is low level, intrusion prevention software is unaware of the unauthorized
entry.
If anyone can provide any details as exactly when this took place, where and any detail as
to who the people are in this video please comment and I'll fill in the details.
@AReply s,
but not Trump's? Gore is every bit as much of a turd as Trump if not more so. The issue is
the same regardless of who is behind it. It is wrong and has to stop.
It will not stop until electronics are removed. Who says that you have to know who has won
the vote count before you go to bed? That is bullshit. More voting stations ensuring a voter
is entitled to vote with paper ballots and the results counted where cast with observers
signing off on the count will put a big screw into rigging. Elections ought not be instant
gratification. Democracy is supposed to require work.
Yes, I am aware American style democracy is the best money can buy, but returning to hand
counted paper is the first step of many, in re-claiming government.
Although the machines hacked are old, nevertheless this an amazing, stunning example of
incompetence or corruption of election officials all over the USA
According to Merriam-Webster
, a "secret police" is "a police organization that is run by a governm
e
nt
and that operates in a secret way to control the actions of people who oppose the government." Of course, in this day and age, it's
not easy to define "the government". We live in an oligarchical society. There are elected officials, including the President, who
stay in office for a fixed amount of time and have a certain amount of power to change the way that things are done. But on the
other hand, there are permanent institutions, both within the government itself and within society at large, that also wield
significant power and are responsible for safeguarding the interests of the oligarchy, should they be threatened by the policies of
the temporary, elected government.
There are various ways to describe this superstructure of oligarchic rule. One term which has become popular of late is "Deep
State." Because the term has been used by Donald Trump, it has been ridiculed in the press as a "conspiracy theory," an expression
which is often used to identify an "unauthorized narrative". A more technical term, favored by the British and the
neocons
,
is "Continuity of Government" (COG.) There has been plenty of
analysis
of
this concept, some well-founded, some highly speculative.
But a few things are self-evident here. One is that there is a huge number of career civil servants working in all branches of
government who don't leave their jobs at the end of a 4- or 8-year presidential term. They remain, offering their professional
experience, as well as their established political allegiances and ideological habits, to the incoming administration. Secondly,
these career professionals are connected in multiple ways to non-governmental institutions with which they have formed closed
working relationships, such as the media and the financial community, or the arms industry (the famed "
Military
Industrial Complex
.")
Agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) devote much of their efforts to
covert activity, and these agencies have at times clashed with elected officials. There have been allegations that these agencies
are more loyal to permanent oligarchic power centers than to any temporary occupant of the White House. There are even compelling
reasons to believe that these secretive agencies have been
deployed
against U.S. elected officials
and
even
presidents
.
Senator Frank Church
In the early 1970s there were troubling revelations about covert operations, including illegal spying on American citizens and
assassinations of dissident leaders such as
Fred
Hampton.
Growing public concern about these abuses led to the formation of the United States Senate Select Committee to Study
Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, better known as the Church Committee after its chairman, Democratic
Senator Frank Church of Idaho. Creation of the Committee was approved on January 27, 1975 by the U.S. Senate. It published an
extensive final report in April of 1976.
The Committee investigated the activities of the CIA and FBI, as well as the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Internal Revenue
Service (IRS). It investigated assassinations of foreign leaders, unauthorized surveillance of U.S. citizens, and other covert
operations. Efforts were made by political leaders, including President Gerald Ford, to keep these findings secret. These efforts
were only partially successful.
Some of the projects which were exposed by the Church Committee included:
COINTELPRO, the FBI program to infiltrate and disrupt dissident organizations, including the movement of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. as well as many other civil rights or anti-war organizations.
MK-ULTRA, the CIA program to develop mind control techniques including the use of psychedelic drugs such as LSD
Operation Mockingbird, the CIA program to manipulate the news media for propaganda purposes
Edward Snowden
Typically, the agencies under investigation would issue a
mea culpa
and
assure the public that these naughty activities had all been discontinued. However, new revelations over the past decades have
demonstrated that nothing could be further from the truth. Of particular interest is the case of
Edward
Snowden
, the NSA whistleblower who revealed the truly staggering extent of the unlawful surveillance being carried out on
American citizens.
Some things which were once done with utmost discretion, such as the infiltration of the news media by the CIA under Operation
Mockingbird, are now done completely out in the open without the public batting an eye. For example, former CIA Director
John
Brennan
and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who both lied under oath to the US Congress about illegal
activity by the CIA and NSA, now hold high-profile positions at MSNBC and CNN respectively.
It was
Russiagate
that
brought into sharp relief the depth and breadth of CIA/NSA/FBI involvement in the manipulation of domestic politics. It originated
in London, the great mecca of the neocons, with the preparation of the "Steele Dossier" by a "former" operative of MI6. For four
years in the U.S., Russiagate was propagated through regular leaks of anonymous "assessments" from members of the "intel community"
to their assets in the media, some of whom were themselves ostensibly retirees from the "intel community."
These leakers were dutifully characterized in the media as courageous, patriotic whistleblowers, unlike those individuals such as
Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning or Julian Assange who revealed material that was embarrassing to the neocons. The
condemnation
of those latter persons
by intel community appendage Congressman Adam Schiff, who had
his
own personal whistleblower
on tap for his impeachment effort, is also illuminating.
One organization which has earned the gratitude of the American public for shedding light on the malignant activities of the "intel
community" is group of genuine, high-profile whistleblowers that calls itself
Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
They have played an important role in
debunking
the
story that Russia "hacked" the DNC servers and furnished information on DNC misconduct to Wikileaks. A particularly insightful voice
is that of
Ray
McGovern
, who was a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990, and in the 1980s chaired National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the
President's Daily Brief.
But what has come out of the shadows and into full view during the past four years is a new sort of complex, where the covert
agencies, the media, and the corporations which now monopolize social media, join forces to create an unprecedented, "total
immersion" propaganda environment. Initially, the internet and social media appeared to be a "wild west" sort of venue where anyone
could say anything. Much of the population soon began to prefer this as a source for news over the corporate media, and the neocons
cried foul.
Facebook
hastened to accomodate them
, bringing in the vociferously neocon Atlantic Council and the mother of all Regime Change
organizations, the National Endowment for Democracy, as consultants in 2018 to help decide which voices should be silenced.
The FBI joined the fun,
seizing
over 100 internet domains
in late 2020 and claiming that they were operated by Iran. This included the site for the
American
Herald Tribune
, an alternative press organ with a substantial following. The FBI Special Agent in charge issued a statement,
saying that "Thanks to our ongoing collaboration with Google, Facebook, and Twitter, the FBI was able to disrupt this Iranian
propaganda campaign and we will continue to pursue any attempts by foreign actors to spread disinformation in our country."
However, it doesn't stop with propaganda and censorship. During the presidential election of 2020, there was an escalated
intervention by the secret police agencies into the electoral process. A few
courageous
individuals
spoke out against this.
When election day arrived, numerous vote-counting anomalies were reported
all
around the country
, partially obscured by deliberate disinformation, "fact-checking", and general hysteria. One particularly
noteworthy allegation was made by Sidney Powell, an attorney who has represented General Michael Flynn. She alleged that computer
programs called HAMMER and SCORECARD, which had been developed for the intelligence agencies for use in rigging elections in other
countries, had been used to benefit
Biden
in
the election. Former NSA senior analyst and member of VIPS, Kirk Wiebe, explained the use of these cyber-weapons, and reported that
the man who developed them, Dennis Montgomery, was prepared to testify to this effect:
Why would the covert agencies attack Trump, who supposedly is a hardline right-winger? Well, apparently he is not regarded as such
in establishment circles. One of the preeminent establishment megaphones,
The
Atlantic
, published
a
very revealing article
in which they compared Trump to Henry Wallace, who served as Vice President under FDR and went on to
found the Progressive Party. Wallace opposed the Cold War, and Trump's reluctance to embrace the Cold War 2.0 that began with the
neocon-sponsored 2014 coup in Ukraine appears to be what put him on the enemies list.
The many allegations of fraud in the 2020 election may be the subject of controversy, litigation, and even civil unrest for possibly
years to come. As Republicans so often do, Sidney Powell has damaged her credibility by
alleging
that the Venezuelan government and assorted communists
played a role in orchestrating vote fraud, a red herring on a par with
Democratic Party claims of Russian interference in the 2016 election. If the CIA and/or NSA did in fact use cyber-warfare techniques
to manipulate the outcome, they most certainly did not do so at the behest of Hugo Chavez. And if they did tamper with the vote
totals, they will have ample opportunity to wipe the evidence.
But at this point, can anyone argue that it is not urgent for the Congress to resume an investigation of misconduct by our secret
police agencies, and that this time they not be satisfied with polite assurances that the bad behavior will cease? Trump has many
warts, but there is a proper way to remove him from office, if that is what the electorate wants. A
color
revolution
, or any other form of coup run by secret police agencies, is odious.
Thanks for reading. If you find this material interesting, perhaps
you might contact Twitter and ask them why
my
account was suspended
on June 30 of this year. I would very
much like to find out the reason.
An eye-popping array of corporate consultants, war profiteers, and national security hawks
have been appointed by President-elect Joe Biden to agency review teams that will set the
agenda for his administration. A substantial percentage of them worked in the United States
government when Barack Obama was president.
The appointments should
provide a rude awakening to anyone who believed a Biden administration could be pressured to
move in a progressive direction, especially on foreign policy.
If the agency teams are any indication, Biden will be firmly insulated from any pressure to
depart from the neoliberal status quo, which the former vice president has pledged to restore.
Instead, he is likely to be pushed in an opposite direction, towards an interventionist foreign
policy dictated by elite Beltway interests and consumed by Cold War fever.
Robert Gates, who served as defense secretary for the Obama administration, paused for a
moment and said "I don't know" in an interview Sunday when asked if he thinks former VP Joe
Biden would be a good president.
CBS's "Face The Nation" host Margaret Brennan asked Gates if he stood by a statement from
his memoir that Biden has "been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national
security issue over the past four decades." Recommended
MARGARET BRENNAN: I was rereading your memoir before we sat down to talk and you said in your
memoir, Joe Biden is impossible not to like.
Quote: "He's a man of integrity, incapable of hiding what he really thinks, and one of
those rare people you know you could turn to for help in a personal crisis. Still, I think
he's been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the
past four decades."
Would he be an effective commander-in-chief?
ROBERT GATES: I-- I don't know. I don't know. I-- I think I stand by that statement. He
and I agreed on some key issues in the Obama administration. We disagreed significantly on
Afghanistan and some other issues. I think that the vice president had some issues with the
military. So how he would get along with the senior military, and what that relationship
would be, I just-- I think, it-- it would depend on the personalities at the time.
MARGARET BRENNAN: He's a peer of yours. Does that mean you're older?
ROBERT GATES: Yes.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You think he's right for this moment?
ROBERT GATES: I think I'm pretty busy and pretty active but I think-- I think having a
President who is somebody our age or older, in the case of Senator Sanders, is- I think it's
problematic. I think that you don't have the kind of energy that I think is required to be
President. I think-- I'm not sure you have the intellectual acuity that you might have had in
your sixties. So, I mean it's just a personal view. For me, the thought of taking on those
responsibilities at this point in my life would be pretty daunting.
American libs are just as fundamentally imperialist as the right, and their obsession with
IdenPol garbage is just a smokescreen to pretend that they aren't.
Philosopher Hannah Arendt once wrote about
the banality of evil , and there's never been a more banal bunch than the foreign policy
and security state crew Barak Obama surrounded himself with for eight years beside the possible
exception of
Bush's own Neocons .
Now after three years screaming about
"Russian collusion" it appears the Evil Empire is about to regain its lost ground,
championing new wars and more interventionist expansionism with a much greater role for the US
military in the world.
Let's name names.
Pentagon
For the defense chief post, the Washington Post has portrayed the banal face of Michele
Flournoy as the pick to
'restore stability' to the Pentagon , an entirely false assertion. Recall that Fluornoy
promotes unilateral global US military intervention, and advocated the destruction of Libya in
2011. By the
military-industrial revolving door , Flournoy enabled many Corporate weaponry contracts
amounting to tens of millions. Likewise Fluornoy is on the Booz-Hamilton board, where the swamp
cannot get any deeper. As if this wretched example of an agent-provocateur for war and
destruction were not bad enough, Biden is reportedly considering Lockheed-Martin banal kingpin
Jeh Johnson for the DoD position, too.
Lockheed director Johnson was employed by Rob Reiner and Atlantic editor arch-Neocon
David Frum to run
the Committee to Investigate
Russia which mysteriously blew up as soon as the Mueller Report was released. Jeh Johnson
has continued to warn of "Russian interference" in the US presidential election until now.
Biden's anointing as president-elect has ended that. As Homeland Security head, Johnson
authorized cages for holding immigrant children. He also supported the assassination of General
Suleimani, and has voiced support for US wars in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
State
From Libya to Syria, Yemen, Ukraine and beyond, the banality of evil is perhaps best
personified by Susan Rice – apparently Biden's premiere pick for Secretary. Rice was an
abject failure at the United Nations, but all seems forgiven, probably at the behest of Biden's
donors. After her failure at the UN, Obama kicked Rice upstairs to be his National Security
Advisor, a position that does not require Senate approval.
An obvious war hawk in the mold of the Democrat's donor class, a Rice appointment could
reinforce the liberal mantra that women can be just as good at interventionism as men, and
ensure full re-establishment of the Neoliberal agenda in Washington. John Kerry has been
flagged as a potential for State (again) too, but at age 77 and subsequent to the failure
of the
JCPOA Kerry is an unlikely pick.
Another potential pick among the banal Daughters of Darkness is Victoria Kagan-Nuland ,
architect of the 2014 debacle in Ukraine (among other things). Outed at State in an
embarrassing act of what she called impressive statecraft and other
embarrassing incidents, Nuland seems an unlikely choice. But Kagan-Nuland is as banal as banal
can be, and Biden may somehow wish to reinforce his solidarity with the JTF and his donor class, on
Israel.
National Security Advisor
Banality is certainly the mark of the beast here, in the form of Tony Blinken. Well in with
Michele Flournoy (above) Blinken typifies
the type of banality the Deep State engages in to promote its evil, with Blinken as successful
as any other Deep State actor. A major hawk on Russia and war hawk in general, Blinken is an
apologist for Israel . Blinken is a war hawk on Afghanistan and Syria too, and Blinken was
directly
involved in CIA operation Timber Sycamore . Oh, the banality.
Another model of banality is Leon CIA Panetta who so far claims that cruising the Monterey
peninsula is more fun that being in Washington. But we know that's false and Panetta would be a
logical pick. Besides being a hawk on everything, and laughing about the fact he has no idea
how many wars Obama's America was fighting – because he lost count – Panetta is
simply another sycophant for evil like Hannah Arendt portrayed in her study of Adolf
Eichmann.
CIA
Banal of the banal is of course Mike Morell. This incredibly vacuous excuse for a human
being has been hate-mongering for years. Beside his
blatant pandering support for another banal and brutal warmonger – Hillary Clinton
– Mike Morell is one Neoliberal who still maintains that Saddam Hussein actively
aided and abetted al Qaeda with regard to the 911 attacks. But Morell simply and ultimately
represents the banality of evil, just as Arendt depicted Adolf Eichmann, but in Morell's case
succinctly summarized here by
Ray McGovern .
United Nations
Outing the banality of the banal would be incomplete without mentioning Jen Psaki . Although a potential pick for
White House Communications Director, why not promote an accomplished liar to a venue where
accomplished lying really matters?
Conclusion
There is no indication that the United States as an entrenched warfare state will ever
change its course until forced to. Mr Trump was incapable of enforcing that change. Sidelined
by
Russiagate psychosis , as a Beltway Neophyte and his own worst enemy at times, that sank
Trump's agenda. The actions of Mr Trump now – to end the wars in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan
and Yemen -- should have been undertaken in earnest and without compromise years ago. Point
being that Mr Trump's new appointments to the Pentagon – and let's hope CIA – will
hopefully blunt the efficacy of Biden's bad actors going forward.
Regardless, characters the same or similar to the ones listed above will definitely infest
Washington's infernal Beltway cesspool once again via Joe
Biden make no mistake. And they will be meaner and nastier than ever before!
Guaranteed.
Creative_Destruct , 2 hours ago
And the same old swamp slime (Morell, et al) waits eagerly to burst back in through the
doors of power. New boss, same as the old(er) boss(es). Uuuuuuggh.
EndofTimes , 5 hours ago
Obama's 3rd Term. Swamp will grow like a tumor. These demons are shaking with excitement
to get into office and fulfill the desires of the founders of the UN. Kill off America and
establish a global government
truth or go home , 4 hours ago
Biden is 100% deep state puppet. He will say and do whatever they tell him to.
Dominion = Scytl = CIA = Deep State = Swamp
CIA threw the election. Trump team caught them.
Trump has already cut the CIA off at the knees. Getting ready to fill up Guantanamo
again...
Giant war going on inside the gov right now - Biden enjoying the limelight before he is
retired to his rocking chair.
CatInTheHat , 5 hours ago
NICE JOB Biden voters!!
You MORONS electing Obama 2.0 on STEROIDS is WHY we got a Trump in the first place
To Hell In A Handbasket , 4 hours ago
The USSA electorate are idiots, and divided idiots at that. You got Trump because the
electorate was desperate, and you got Biden because the other half was desperate. That adds
up to a desperate population. Your enemy is not voters from the other side of the Uniparty.
Please get off the GOP vs DEMOCRAT horse$h1t.
Bay of Pigs , 3 hours ago
Quite an impressive list of Neoliberal globalist ****bags.
SabOObas , 3 hours ago
The establishment demonizes Trump for 4 years.
The sheeple voted to put the guy with 40 years of corruption under his belt in office,
because the establishment said its good for you.
Jgault , 2 hours ago
It is always the small man, the inept man, the insecure man who has a need to demonstrate
to the world his bravado with reckless and senseless gestures.
Biden and his brothel of advisors he surrounds himself with have perhaps the worst track
record of international policy since Jimmy Carter, absolute proven failures and disasters in
Ukraine, Syria, Lybia, and Egypt. This is the group that laid the intellectual groundwork for
what would become the largest refugee crisis and humanitarian disaster in nearly 50
years.
Laughably, now the MSM is doing a complete 180 in their editorial view of troops in
Afghanistan and Syria...what a shock!
Lacking foresight, insecure, lacking ethical standards and being given the ability to
order troops, how could this possibly go wrong?
Trump was the first President in 30 years not to provoke any new millitary interventions,
yet the world criticized him for his style. Let's see how long it takes for the world to
start looking back to a more stable past.
ReadyForHillary , 3 hours ago
The Democrat party is the WAR party.
RumbleGuts , 4 hours ago
Another article that doesn't realize red and blue are the same team. Make no mistake, big
baby bonespurs is in deep with the deep state. Think epstein. ;-)
Someone Else , 2 hours ago
Mike Morell, the most evil man to ever draw a breath, as CIA Director?
A Biden Presidency can never be allowed to happen.
flawse , 2 hours ago
There will not be a Biden presidency. There is obviously some other plan.
DebbieDowner , 3 hours ago
This author's last paragraph fails to acknowledge that the CIA and FBI has not obeyed
Trump's (or any President's) orders in quite some time. Now is the time for someone to
finally make a change and it took such a massive plan to expose them all to drain the
swamp.
A federal lawsuit filed on Oct. 19 noted that Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg provided the funds to double the number of
polling places in Philadelphia and that he is also paying for judges to oversee ballot counting.
Votebook:
Turns out that Mark Zuckerberg has a heavy hand it what is transpiring in Philadelphia. / C-SPAN
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania, highlights how a grant for $10 million from the
Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) explicitly requires the City of Philadelphia open no fewer than 800 new polling
places – and failing to do so may require the City to forfeit the grant money. The funding from Zuckerberg also pays for
judges to oversee ballot counts and the outcome of disputes that arise regarding the eligibility of ballots in the election.
The plaintiffs in the case, the Pennsylvania Voters Alliance and several officeholders and candidates, previously filed a
complaint against Centre County, Delaware County, and the City of Philadelphia, and Secretary of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Kathy Boockvar.
"Municipal leaders have ceded their role as a local authority to CTCL with powers that rightfully belong to the people of
Pennsylvania through their representatives in Harrisburg by effectively inviting this partisan billionaire into the ballot
counting room," said Tom King, the legal counsel representing the plaintiffs in the case."
Washington Times reporter Rowan Scarborough noted: "They are still voting in Pennsylvania. Three days after Nov. 3. Dems tried
that in other states but judges said no. Continued voting after election day would be considered fraud by UN observers. News
reports said more ballots coming in. No post mark required. Or matching signature. UN observers would also consider that
evidence of fraud."
Phill Kline, Director of the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, which is supporting the litigation in Pennsylvania,
said: "We are fighting Mark Zuckerberg around the country where he is using CTCL, a nonprofit founded and managed by
Obama-affiliated operatives, to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to leftist strongholds in several battleground states
to determine the outcome of the election. This is a scheme engineered by partisan activists under the guise of COVID-related
support. The privatization of the election undermines the integrity of the election."
Political commentator Mark Steyn noted: "So swing-state elections are now a subsidiary of Facebook: Votebook. What could go
wrong?"
For those readers who may be unfamiliar with the term "Color Revolution", it refers to what has now become the standard technique
for promoting "regime change" in targeted nations.
The term may have its origins in the works of
Gene
Sharp
, who wrote some guidebooks on how to organize popular revolts using Madison Avenue-style marketing techniques. He
recommended to the sponsors that rather than confusing or boring the participants with too much political theory, they should
motivate their budding revolutionaries with pop culture, using catchy, content-free slogans, logos, and team colors.
Color R
e
volutions are expensive (
$5
billion in the case of Ukraine
) and are typically orchestrated by a public-private partnership comprised of government agencies
such as the State Department and MI6 and/or CIA, combined with private funding and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).
The most famous organization of this sort is the National Endowment For Democracy, a curious entity that is funded by the US
Government through USAID (as well as by donations from major
neocon
private
foundations), and has two sub-organizations that disseminate the funds to various Regime Change projects: the International
Republican Institute, affiliated with the Republican Party, and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs,
affiliated with the Democrats. Both organizations carry out the same activity, which underscores the fact that on matters of
subverting and bullying the rest of the world, there is a lot more bipartisanship in the US than people are inclined to think.
Another name associated with funding and orchestration is
George
Soros
, whose various tax-exempt organizations such as the Open Society Foundations invariably pump money into the latest Color
Revolutions, for reasons that are often more commercial than strictly political.
After the September 11 attacks in 2001, the
neocons
fanned
the flames of indignation and xenophobia, and were able to exploit them in order to assume a dominant role in most American
institutions, particularly the political parties and the media. Regime Change fever swept the foreign policy establishment, and
anyone who looked cross-eyed at a neocon became a target.
Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama embraced the neocon ethos and gave them virtual carte blanche to carry out Color
Revolutions around the world. The advent of social media, which fosters communication in the form of short, catchy slogans and
images that can be made to "go viral," was particularly conducive to Gene Sharp's formula of organizing the masses around
advertising copy and team colors. The Color Revolution techniques were used on a large scale in the former Soviet Union, such as in
the 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia or the 2005 Orange Revolution in Ukraine.
If the targeted populations can't be organized effectively to overthrow their leaders, there is always the fall back option of
arming mercenary groups to seize power by violence, or if that fails, out and out military aggression by the US or NATO. The most
reliable method seems to be a combination of non-violent and violent action, such as in the case of Ukraine's second Color
Revolution in 2014 (a coup which was comically dubbed the "Revolution of Dignity" by its neocon sponsors, who know that a successful
marketing campaign must never be understated.) A similar case was the 2019 protests in Hong Kong, where gang violence was deployed
in hopes of provoking a crackdown by the state which could then be exploited for propaganda purposes.
But it was inevitable that these techniques would eventually be used on the US itself. Donald Trump campaigned on a platform of
reducing US reliance on Regime Change wars and NATO "out-of-area deployments" as a centerpiece of foreign policy. This was
anathema
to the neocons.
Once in office, Trump vacillated, bringing prominent neocons into his cabinet and allowing them to launch
multiple Regime Change operations. However, Trump was not a doctrinaire neocon, and he angered them by advocating better relations
with North Korea, Russia and China. And for the neocons, anything short of total allegiance to their ideology is tantamount to
betrayal.
The standard methodology was put into play the moment Trump was inaugurated. The team color was pink, in the form of the pink "pussy
hats" (these ostensibly called attention to Trump's sexual vulgarity and libertine lifestyle, which lacked the charm of Bill
Clinton's.) The buzzword was #Resistance, which was intended to conjure up images of the struggle by nations which had been
conquered by Nazi aggression during World War II. Oddly enough, however, the aggressive moves by Trump against other nations were
not #Resisted. In fact, those were the only instances where he received hearty praise from the corporate media.
But it's not possible to mobilize a population with hats and hashtags alone. There had to be some minimal political content, and
herein lay the dilemma for the organizers of America's Color Revolution. There was widespread popular discontent with what has
become known as the "forever war" policy, as well as the neoliberal economics which have produced an unprecedented income disparity
between the 1% and the 99%, and this popular discontent was key in electing Trump. The neocons wanted discontent, but
not
on those issues
, since they had no intention of changing those policies.
Instead, they opted for a revival of the Cold War. Americans seem to have a particular susceptibility to jingoism, and the
demonization of the former communist powers, which had already begun in 2014 with the neocon-sponsored coup in Ukraine, was cranked
up to full volume in the corporate media, using all the imagery and sloganeering that had proved so effective during the 1950s.
This involved some spectacular feats of cognitive dissonance. Despite
Trump's
outbursts of bellicosity toward Russia
and other neocon targets, Trump was portrayed as being "soft," an appeaser, or an
outright enemy agent. The Democratic Party, which is considered to be the more liberal of the two parties and had in decades past
expressed some nominal opposition to military adventures in Vietnam and elsewhere,
swung
way to the right of the Republicans
in the jingoism derby.
The
secret
police agencies
and their pet journalists concocted what will be admired by historians as one of the most preposterous
conspiracy theories in recorded history, the tale of Russia manipulating the 2016 election with a computer hack which somehow
cannot
be detected by the NSA
, and
puppy
pages on Facebook
.
There was also a big focus on Trump's personality, which is admittedly none too winsome. This is consistent with the neocon "Hitler
of the Month Club" formula, where each new nemesis, from Manuel Noriega to Saddam Hussein to Muammar Gaddafi to Vladimir Putin, is
depicted as the most brutish, authoritarian dictator ever to walk the face of the planet.
They succeeded in impeaching Trump in December 2019, almost three years into his first term in office. They did not actually charge
Trump with an impeachable crime, but rather offered the rationale that he had allegedly used the power of his office in ways that
could benefit his re-election campaign (something that no other American president would ever dream of doing.) This was a far cry
from the much sexier, hoped-for rationale of "collusion" with the Bolshevik Foe, which had been shot down by the Mueller Report.
However, impeachment maven
Adam
Schiff
managed to insinuate that this Collusion was the real basis for impeachment, every time he saw a TV camera. We faced the
surreal spectacle of liberals begging John Bolton to testify, as the role of the neocons in orchestrating the #Resistance became
ever more explicit.
The impeachment passed the House on purely partisan lines, and Senate voted not to convict on purely partisan lines as well. There
has been much speculation that popular pushback to the whole spectacle may actually benefit Trump in this year's election. We shall
see.
Meanwhile, with the massively FUBAR Iowa caucuses of February 2020, questions were once again raised once again about the Democratic
nominating process. Bernie Sanders was emerging as a new threat to neocon dominance, this time from within the Democratic Party.
During the days leading up to Super Tuesday, there was a remarkable development. Every prominent neocon, from Bill Kristol to Max
Boot to David Frum to Susan Rice, acted with synchronized, military precision to endorse Joe Biden. Several neocon-friendly
Democratic presidential candidates abruptly withdrew from the race to endorse him as well. There was an immediate Pavlovian response
from cable news pundits and other putative journalists. Russiagate was dusted off and started up again, this time for use against
Sanders. On April 8, Sanders capitulated and withdrew from the race.
No one in their right mind believed that the confused and incoherent Biden could defeat the also incoherent, but clever and
confident Trump. But at this point, it was more important to the neocons that they keep control over at least one of the two
parties, and a decision was made that it were better to throw the election to Trump rather than to allow Sanders' brand of
left-populism to become ascendant in the Democratic Party.
But then the neocons saw a fresh opportunity, following the May 25 murder of African-American George Floyd by police in Minneapolis.
Protest demonstrations by the Black community intersected the anxieties of a population frightened and frustrated by the one-two
punch of economic collapse combined with public health isolation to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Violent groups from the
Antifa
milieiu,
predominately
white
and
possibly assets of the FBI's
COINTELPRO
progam,
initiated vandalism and looting. Neocons were salivating at the prospect of Maidan-style chaos.
The beleaguered Trump had already been showing signs of psychological fatigue, and there had been significant lapses in his already
questionable judgement. In addition to mishandling the public health measures and the economic crisis, he had capitulated once more
to the neocons and went on an anti-China tirade. Then, when the social unrest began in the wake of the George Floyd killing, all of
Trump's political flaws came into play.
The neocons triumphantly hit the airwaves and the digital arena. Their great oracle,
The
Atlantic
, published
an
article
that serendipitously confirms the central theme of the article you are presently reading. Neocon high priestess Susan
Rice
suggested
that the Russians were to blame
for the rioting. Trump's every misstep was amplified by neocon pundits. Suddenly the idea of
electing Biden was no longer so implausible, as long as he could be
kept
away from live microphones.
It's important to
bear
in mind that the neocons are not
in the least concerned with Trump's mishandling of COVID-19 pandemic or civil unrest. They
were delighted when he ranted against China. But when he advocated reducing U.S. troop deployments in Germany and Afghanistan, they
were livid. On June 26, the
New York Times
published
yet
another story
based on anonymous leaks from the "intelligence community". This one claimed that the Taliban needed some
incentives after being occupied by a foreign power after 20 years and was now accepting "bounties" from Russia in exchange for
fighting the US military. In mid-September, General Frank McKenzie, Commander of the U.S. Central Command, told NBC News that no
evidence had been found to support this claim. Neocons continued to speak of it as established fact.
Although the corporate press continued to depict Trump as a fanatical right-winger in coverage intended for the rubes, within the
citadels of neoconservatism he was regarded as something entirely different. On September 30, 2020, the
Atlantic
published
another revelatory article entitled "
What
a Second Trump Term Would Mean for the World
." Author Thomas Wright drops a few bombshells like this one, likening Trump to the
great Progressive leader Henry Wallace (who is regarded by neocons as a close relative of Satan):
Looking back on U.S. diplomatic history, one of the great counterfactuals is what would have happened if Franklin D. Roosevelt
had not replaced his vice president Henry Wallace with Harry Truman in 1944. Wallace was sympathetic to the Soviet Union and
became an ardent opponent of the Cold War. If he had become president when FDR died, in April 1945, the next half century could
have gone very differently -- likely no NATO, no Marshall Plan, no alliance with Japan, no overseas troop presence, and no
European Union.
The U.S. is now teetering on another historically important moment. With Trump, we would not only be deprived of our Truman. We
would be saddled with our Wallace -- a leader whose instincts and actions are diametrically opposed to what the moment requires.
The good news is that the neocons are not omnipotent. They are adept at conning the public and they have the full cooperation of the
corporate media, but the public is volatile and increasingly skeptical of the official "narratives." This is why the neocons are
growing more and more hysterical in their public proclamations about "conspiracy theories" and "disinformation." They are in fact
strongly in favor of conspiracy theories and disinformation, provided that it is their own conspiracy theories and not someone
else's.
Neocons are demanding
censorship
of social media
, to drive everyone into the arms of CNN and
The
Atlantic.
As the election approaches, these demands have become increasingly more vociferous, leading to a major controversy
with the decision by both Facebook and Twitter to censor the
New
York Post
coverage
of leaked email correspondence between Joe Biden's son and executives of the Ukrainian energy firm
Burisma (which employed him at a rather remarkable salary). The rationale offered by the two social media giants, that the sourcing
of the emails was unclear, did not impress media critics, who
pointed
out
that if that policy were applied in an even-handed fashion, Russiagate could never have happened.
As long as the option is open, follow alternative news sources online. I recommend the
Grayzone
and
Consortium
News
, both of which I have found to be quiet reliable. The neocons are frightened; they worry about what John Durham's
investigation, or the declassification of documents ordered by Trump, may reveal about their methods of manipulation. Frightened
people make tactical errors. We must keep our wits about us and find ways to turn those errors to our advantage.
Nota Bene: the author of this article was subsequently
suspended
from Twitter
without explanation. Contact @TwitterSupport
and ask them why.
The pieces are finally coming together, and they reveal a masterpiece of electoral larceny
involving Big Tech oligarchs, activists, and government officials who prioritize partisanship
over patriotism.
The 2020 election was stolen because leftists were able to exploit the coronavirus pandemic
to weaken, alter, and eliminate laws that were put in place over the course of decades to
preserve the integrity of the ballot box. But just as importantly, it was stolen because those
same leftists had a thoroughly-crafted plan, and because they were rigorous in its
implementation and ruthless in its execution.
... ... ...
Under the pretext of assisting election officials conduct "safe and secure" elections in the
age of COVID, Zuckerberg donated $400 million -- as much money as Congress appropriated for the
same general purpose -- to nonprofit organizations founded and run by left-wing activists. The
primary recipient was the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), which received the staggering
sum of $350 million. Prior to Zuckerberg's donations, CTCL's annual operating expenses averaged
less than $1 million per year. How was Zuckerberg even aware of such a small-potatoes
operation, and why did he entrust it with ⅞ of the money he was pouring into this
election cycle, despite the fact that it had no prior experience handling such a massive amount
of money?
Predictably, given the partisan background of its leading officers, CTCL proceeded to
distribute Zuckerberg's funds to left-leaning counties in battleground states.
... Zuckerberg and CTCL left nothing to chance, however, writing detailed conditions into
their grants that dictated exactly how elections were to be conducted, down to the number of
ballot drop boxes and polling places. The Constitution gives state lawmakers sole authority for
managing elections, but these grants put private interests firmly in control.
... Philadelphia County alone, for instance, projected that the $10 million grant it
received from CTCL would enable it to increase turnout by 25-30 percent -- translating to well
over 200,000 votes.
The left didn't put all of its eggs into the CTCL basket, though. High-ranking state
officials simultaneously took significant steps to weaken ballot security protocols, acting on
their own authority without permission or concurrence from the state legislatures that
enshrined those protections in the law.
In Wisconsin, Democrat Secretary of State Doug La Follette allowed voters to claim "
indefinite confinement " in order to avoid having to provide a photocopy of their ID when
requesting an absentee ballot. The exemption was intended for legitimate invalids, but COVID
offered a convenient excuse for circumventing the law, despite the fact that Wisconsin had no
pandemic-related lockdown rules that would have rendered anyone "indefinitely confined." The
impact was far-reaching. About 240,000 voters claimed the exemption in 2020, compared to just
70,000 in 2016.
In Michigan, Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson unilaterally voided the legal
requirement that voters provide a signature when requesting an absentee ballot, establishing an
online request form. She then took things a step further by announcing that she
would "allow civic groups and other organizations running voter registration drives to register
voters through the state's online registration website," granting partisan groups such as Rock
The Vote direct access to Michigan's voter rolls.
In Pennsylvania, election officials in heavily-Democratic counties that received CTCL
funding allowed flawed mail-in ballots to be "cured" -- that is, altered or replaced -- prior
to Election Day.
... This was particularly egregious when it came to ballot "curing," a process that actually
involves election workers filling out brand new ballots on behalf of voters whose ballots
purportedly could not be read by machine. This could have been due to something the voter
themselves did, such as spilling coffee on the ballot. It also could have been due to something
that election workers themselves did, such as crumpling ballots to prevent the machines from
receiving them, just as a vending machine rejects crumpled bills.
... These election workers, it should be noted, were paid directly by
CTCL's grants . These supposedly impartial arbiters of our electoral process are supposed
to work for the people, but they were on Zuckerberg's payroll.
Ken Blackwell, former Secretary of State of Ohio, is the Distinguished Fellow for Human
Rights and Constitutional Governance, at the Family Research Council. He served as United
States Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission from
1990-1993.
Anyone with functioning grey matter knows that this election was a fraud! The question
remains, are people going to just throw their hands in the air and say oh well or is this the
line in the sand that patriots are drawing and saying no more it's time to take a stand for
freedom and liberty! Stay tuned!
Millions of ballots aren't any good. That's the issue.
The remedy is the Electoral College via State legislatures . If the
Republicans won't keep Trump in the White House via the Electoral College than this is a
Republican coup against Trump.
We know it's a Republican coup because the Republicans who were supposed to lose like
Susan Collins all won easily. They rode Trump's coattails to victory, but the coat
lost.
That's not how that works. Anyone trying to explain that is part of the coup ag
Friday's briefing was the first since October 1, two days before President Donald Trump
tested positive for the virus. McEnany herself had a positive test on October 5, and wasn't
cleared for live appearances until October 16. Then came the hotly contested election that
mainstream media called for Democrat Joe Biden, though Trump has refused to concede, claiming
irregularities.
While the press conference lasted about as long as Thursday's event with Biden and his
running mate Kamala Harris in Delaware, the tone was completely different. McEnany tried to
keep to the topic of Covid-19, but nine out of thirteen questions she acknowledged on Friday
– not counting Brian Karem's heckling – were from reporters demanding to know why
Trump hasn't conceded yet and arguing he really, really should.
Weijia Jiang of CBS did ask about the virus, framing the 250,000 deaths as a White House
failure and accusing the administration of "mixed messaging" on masks and mitigation
that, by implication, cost lives. McEnany's response was to remind reporters of the estimates
that two million people would die, and defend her characterization of Democrat governors
threatening people with jail time for Thanksgiving gatherings as "Orwellian."
She deferred the questions about the electoral lawsuits and campaign strategy to the
campaign, pointing out that the White House is focused on battling the virus and "winding
down wars in Afghanistan and Iraq," and bringing up a forthcoming announcement about drug
pricing.
As Karem continued to shout from the back, McEnany declined to call on CNN's Kaitlan
Collins, saying "I don't call on activists."
She did take one last question, from OAN's Chanel Rion, to deliver a mini-lecture to
reporters as has been her habit. Noting that the FBI and the Department of Justice have been
entirely silent on the election, McEnany reminded the press corps that Trump was never given a
proper transition or recognition of legitimacy, but was instead spied on, investigated for
'Russiagate' and even impeached.
"There were no calls for unity, there were no calls for healing," she reminded the
press, before leaving the room to the shouts of frustrated reporters.
Count_Cash 43 minutes ago 20 Nov, 2020 03:25 PM
The liberal regime media are desperate to try to close off their fraud of an election, before
a conservative court gets involved and definitively determines their fraud and attempts to
cover it before the whole electorate!
StudsterUSA 1 hour ago 20 Nov, 2020 03:04 PM
After they lose the election, they scramble to pretend they are doing the
things that they had 4 years to do. Reminds me of a job I had 25 years ago, where I was in
the process of being fired. Towards the end, there was a charity drive and I decided to sign
up for a high amount taken directly out of my paycheck which was for the next 12 months. I
knew I was (probably) leaving soon, so I thought that was a sound little trick that might
help me.
Count_Cash StudsterUSA 31 minutes ago 20 Nov, 2020 03:38 PM
Your story reminds me how liberal propaganda media tries to mask a fraud with meaningless
narrative, only to reveal their own history of fraudulent tricks - but as they say - as dull
as a dem!
Marcaribe 35 minutes ago 20 Nov, 2020 03:34 PM
The biggest problem Trump is facing is that the courts refuse to hear the case. When Adam
Chiff produced the fake Russiagate conspiracy dossier by H Clinton every court was eager to
hear the case and ready to impeach Trump, but now since is Trump whose producing damming
evidence of massive voting fraud no court wants to hear it. This is how corrupt the whole
system is
Georgia vote recount found 'unacceptable' errors, Governor Brian Kemp said, urging his
secretary of state to conduct an audit of at least some mail-in ballots to ensure confidence in
the upcoming US Senate runoff elections.
Kemp spoke on Friday evening, after Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger certified Democrat
Joe Biden as winner of the state's 16 electoral votes in the November 3 election, following a
recount of the ballots. Both Kemp and Raffensperger are Republicans.
Acknowledging the "record number of absentee ballots" which he said was due to the
Covid-19 pandemic, Kemp said the audit revealed "significant errors" in a number of
counties across the state, including Floyd, Fayette, Douglas and Walton.
"It's quite honestly hard to believe that during the audit, thousands of uncounted
ballots were found weeks after a razor-thin outcome in a presidential election," Kemp
said.
O'Connor pushed her about her claims that computer software used in the election,
particularly Dominion Voting Systems, has been tainted, and he wondered how she would prove it.
For starters, Powell said that her legal team has pictures of votes being manipulated in
real-time.
"It is terrifying, and it is a huge national security issue," Powell said. "Why the
Department of Justice and FBI have not done something, Dominion is closing its offices and
moving. No doubt they're shredding documents. God only knows what else. More than 100 Dominion
people have wiped any connection with Dominion off the internet."
She also claims that they have testimony from witnesses opening military ballots and
trashing them if they were for Trump, and substitute ballots were put in for Biden.
"I'm essentially staking my personal and professional reputation on these allegations, and I
have no hesitation from what I've seen in doing so," she noted. "In fact, I think it would be
irresponsible if not criminal of me not to come forward with it."
She also says she would LOVE for Dominion to sue her over her allegations so she can conduct
civil discovery. Powell also reacted to Fox News host Tucker Carlson's criticism of her on his
program on Thursday night.
The Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
(CISA) issued a statement last week defending the integrity of the 2020 election. The problem,
however, is two of the main election software companies that have been called into question
– Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic – sit on CISA. And that information was
never disclosed, the
Epoch Times reported.
Below is the the joint statement put out by the Executive Committee of the Election
Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council (GCC) and the Election Infrastructure Sector
Coordinating Council (SCC):
"The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history. Right now, across the
country, election officials are reviewing and double checking the entire election process
prior to finalizing the result.
"When states have close elections, many will recount ballots. All of the states with close
results in the 2020 presidential race have paper records of each vote, allowing the ability
to go back and count each ballot if necessary. This is an added benefit for security and
resilience. This process allows for the identification and correction of any mistakes or
errors. There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or
was in any way compromised.
"Other security measures like pre-election testing, state certification of voting
equipment, and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission's (EAC) certification of voting
equipment help to build additional confidence in the voting systems used in 2020.
"While we know there are many unfounded claims and opportunities for misinformation about
the process of our elections, we can assure you we have the utmost confidence in the security
and integrity of our elections, and you should too. When you have questions, turn to
elections officials as trusted voices as they administer elections."
The two election software companies are members of the GCC's Sector Coordinating
Council:
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Arrikan, Inc./Chaves Consulting, Inc.
Associated Press (AP) Elections
BPro, Inc.
Clear Ballot Group
Crosscheck
DemTech Voting Solutions
Democracy Live
Democracy Works
DMF Associates
Dominion Voting Systems
Election Systems & Software (ES&S)
Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC)
Freeman, Craft, McGregor Group
Hart InterCivic
KNOWInk
Microsoft
Microvote General Corp.
NTS Data Services
PCC Technology Inc.
Pro V&V
Runbeck Election Services
SCYTL
SLI Compliance
Smartmatic
Tenex Software Solutions
The Canton Group
Unisyn Voting Solutions
Voatz
VOTEC
Votem
Voting Works
VR Systems
According to the Election Infrastructure Subsector Coordinating Council
Charter , the goal of the group is to "advance the physical security, cyber security, and
emergency preparedness of the nation's election infrastructure, in accordance with existing
U.S. law" and "serve as the primary liaison between the election subsector and federal,
state, and local agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), concerning
private election subsector security and emergency preparedness issues."
CISA's goal , on the
other hand, is to work "collaboratively with those on the front lines of elections -- state
and local governments, election officials, federal partners, and vendors -- to manage risks
to the Nation's election infrastructure
State and local election officials decide what voting software and programs to use and
CISA has no control over that.
Interestingly enough, I received an email tonight from Dominion about "setting the record
straight." They cited the above statement as reason to trust them but failed to disclose
their CISA connection.
Here's some of the bigger points made in their email:
Dominion Voting Systems categorically denies false assertions about vote switching and
software issues with our voting systems.
According to a
Joint Statement by the federal government agency that oversees U.S. election security,
the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity, & Infrastructure Security Agency
(CISA): "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes,
or was in any way compromised." The government & private sector councils that support
this mission called the 2020 election "
the most secure in American history ."
...
3) Dominion is a nonpartisan U.S. company
Dominion has no ownership relationships with the Pelosi family, Feinstein family,
Clinton Global Initiative, Smartmatic, Scytl, or any ties to Venezuela. Dominion works with
all U.S. political parties; our customer base and our government outreach practices reflect
this nonpartisan approach.
As reported by the
Associated Press , "Dominion made a one-time philanthropic commitment at a Clinton
Global Initiative meeting in 2014, but the Clinton Foundation has no stake or involvement
in Dominion's operations, the nonprofit has confirmed." The meeting included bipartisan
attendees focused on international democracy-building.
There have been no "raids" of Dominion servers by the U.S. military or otherwise, and
Dominion does not have servers in Germany.
...
7) Assertions of voter fraud conspiracies are 100% false
All U.S. voting systems must provide assurance that they work accurately and reliably as
intended under federal
U.S. EAC and state certification and testing requirements. Election safeguards -- from
testing and certification of voting systems, to canvassing and auditing -- prevent
malicious actors from tampering with vote counts and ensure that final vote tallies are
accurate. Read more from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency .
This isn't the first time Dominion's software has been called into question. Democrats
voiced concern over the software last December. The Denver Post
warned about their election security earlier this year. The Michigan GOP
said a software glitch caused 6,000 votes to flip from Trump to Biden, although the
Michigan Secretary of State
said that wasn't the case. It's
one of the reasons Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said the legal process needs to play out in the
courts.
Was Trump an isolationist? Not really, though it's easy to see how he got this reputation,
at first glance of his foreign policy.
He had an aggressive posture
against Cuba, Iran, and Venezuela, with his illegal sanctions policy against these countries.
He demonstrated total fealty to the Israeli project to
annihilate Palestine. His "trade war" against China is sold as a way to rebuild the U.S.
economy, but it is also about maintaining U.S. power; for what other purpose could instruments
such as the Millennium Challenge Corporation and América Crece be used when they have
been
designed to advantage U.S. companies around the world?
Trump certainly attacked the Western military alliance system, trying to force NATO members
to spend more on their military. But at the same time, Trump developed other military
alliances: one of these, first developed by George W. Bush in 2007, is the Quadrilateral
Security Dialogue, or Quad, which draws Australia, India, and Japan into a military alliance
against China. At the same time, Trump drove an agenda in Latin America -- through the
Lima Group (established in 2017) -- to create an alliance against Venezuela.
Why Biden Is Not a Multilateralist
The liberal media portrays Biden as a multilateralist -- but the evidence for this
speculation on the president-elect's foreign policy is problematic, to say the least.
Biden wants to rebuild the Western military alliance system that Trump has eroded. An
indication of Biden's enthusiasm was an early phone
call to French President Emmanuel Macron, to suggest that the United States is back as a
player in Europe. This is not an advance toward a multilateral world order, but rather a return
to the old alliance system where the United States (with its Canadian and European allies)
attempts to dominate the world system by the use of its military, diplomatic, and economic
power.
Further evidence offered for Biden's multilateralism is his commitment to return the United
States to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (or the Iran deal) and the 2016 Paris
Agreement.
Why does Biden wish to return the United States to its commitments toward Iran? Obama
entered this deal because the Europeans were desperate for a source of energy after the United
States and France destroyed access to Libyan oil in NATO's 2011 war and hurt access to
Russian natural gas because of the Ukraine conflict in
2014. Obama agreed to the Iran deal because the Europeans were desperate, not to line up with
the demands of international law; Biden will give the Europeans this gift, welcomed by the
Iranian people, in order to cement the Western alliance system. Meanwhile, Biden continues to
talk
about suffocating the Iranian people.
On climate, during the negotiations that resulted in the Paris deal during Obama's
presidency, the United States
watered down the text of the agreement, preventing a truly multilateral deal that would
have accepted Western responsibility for a century of fossil fuel use. Again, there is no major
commitment to save the planet in Biden's pledge to return to the Paris Agreement; the main
agenda is to strengthen and subordinate the European countries to the U.S.-led alliance
system.
Primacy Remains the U.S. Goal
The U.S. State Department's Policy Planning Staff wrote in the early years of the
Cold War, "To seek less than preponderant power would be to opt for defeat. Preponderant power
must be the object of U.S. policy." This desire for primacy remains the explicit U.S. policy.
Trump, in his four years as president, did not depart from this policy. Nor has Biden in his
five decades in public office. They might differ in their tone or in their strategy, but not in
the pursuit of this goal. Biden's adviser Charles Kupchan has written a new book called
Isolationism , which offers a clichéd view of U.S. foreign policy, and then
concludes, "[T]he United States must reclaim its exceptionalist mantle"; this means that the
United States must continue to seek primacy.
This goal of primacy has made it difficult for the U.S. elites to come to terms with the
fact of the slow attrition of U.S. power since the illegal war on Iraq (2003) and the credit
crisis (2007). Failure to acknowledge that the world will no longer tolerate one single
superpower has led the United States to impose a warlike situation against China. This
begins with Obama's "pivot" to Asia in 2015, and intensifies with Trump's "trade war."
Cold War on China Looms
Since 2015, not one U.S. Silicon Valley CEO has made a robust statement for comity between
the United States and China. Apple's Tim Cook held a
meeting with Trump in August 2019 merely to allow Apple to better compete with Samsung,
which was not hit by the U.S. tariffs. There was no broad statement about Trump's "trade war,"
with which Cook seemed quite pleased.
Silicon Valley firms know that on certain technological developments -- such as 5G,
robotics, GPS, and soon microchips -- Chinese firms have clearly produced next-generation
technologies, and in many cases have leapfrogged over their U.S. counterparts. Silicon Valley
companies are quite happy for the U.S. government to put the entire weight of the state against
Chinese firms. This includes using the security apparatus to accuse Huawei of being involved in
Chinese government espionage. It is a curiosity that none of the Silicon Valley firms worry
about privacy per se, because -- according to the Edward Snowden revelations -- the
National Security Agency uses the PRISM program to collect data freely from Silicon Valley
internet firms; but the U.S. uses the privacy and espionage arguments to try to hurt Chinese
tech firms and protect the intellectual property and market advantages of Silicon Valley. Since
this is the real cause of the trade war, there is every likelihood -- and Biden has said so --
that a Biden administration would continue to prosecute the trade war.
In 2013, the Chinese government set up the One Belt, One Road (now Belt and Road Initiative,
or BRI) to extend its commercial links across the world. The Obama administration responded in
2015 with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a platform to break China's commercial ties
along the Pacific Rim. Trump jettisoned the TPP and went for a more direct trade war. To
counter the trillions of dollars that China will mobilize for the BRI, the United States used
the Millennium Challenge Corporation (set up in 2004) and América Crece (2019) to funnel
billions of dollars to countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. All of this is a desperate
attempt to undermine China and maintain U.S. primacy.
The United States is not yet prepared to acknowledge the changed world situation. This will
take time. Short of that, it is important for people to speak up against an escalation of hostilities.
This article was produced by Globetrotter.
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business improprieties. Those are categories of "per se defamation" under the common law. No
special damages must be shown in such per se cases. Individual officers could bring defamation
claims and the company itself could bring a business disparagement action.
Businesses can be defamed like individuals if the false statement injures the business
character of the corporation or its prestige and standing in the industry. In Dun &
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that the business had filed for bankruptcy.
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There could be lawsuits in Colorado or the place of the alleged defamation. The lawsuit
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arguments.
The press conference was an explosion of potentially defamatory claims by individuals or
companies. The only clear defense is truth. The team insists that it can prove these
allegations. It may have to do so. Not only can the individual lawyers face such lawsuits but
the Trump campaign itself could be liable under the principle of respondeat superior, where an
employer is liable for the conduct of his employees when they are acting within the scope of
their employment. Ironically, the Latin term means "let the master speak." The President or his
campaign could be forced to speak in a defamation case if they have not spoken in the promised
court filings.
He had to send out a correction shortly thereafter, however, saying that the certification
process was still ongoing but would be completed later on Friday.
Raffensperger's announcement dropped hours after the Associated Press officially called
Georgia in Biden's favor, a move the Trump campaign slammed in a public statement from senior
legal adviser Jenna Ellis, who claimed the state recounted illegal ballots in their audit.
"This so-called hand recount went exactly as we expected because Georgia simply recounted
all of the illegal ballots that had been included in the total," she said.
President Trump has claimed he would have won in Georgia if not for voter fraud. Thousands
of new votes were found in the recount, but they did not sway the outcome in his favor. Trump
previously tweeted he did not have faith in Georgia's recount and slammed it as a
"joke."
Biden's victory in Georgia marks the first time a Democrat presidential candidate has won
the state since 1992.
Trump continues to refuse to concede the race to Biden, claiming voter fraud occurred in
multiple states, including Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
The president's lawyers, including Rudy Giuliani, presented their case for fraud during a
Thursday press conference, citing numerous allegations, including Republican poll watchers not
being allowed to properly observe counting, that Trump ballots were dumped, and thousands more
fraudulent ballots were counted.
Mickey Mic 1 hour ago 20 Nov, 2020 12:22 PM
If the elections were fair and nobody cheated, we should have both sides counting the votes,
as they live stream it on the internet so everyone in the world can observe the count in real
time. Monitors are rejected only to cover up the biggest criminal heist of votes in US
history as there is no other motivation to exclude the monitors from viewing the ballots. PS:
Receipts can take away most fraud by paper on electronically !
It's an interesting bit of history. When Black people gained the right to vote, a common
voter suppression tactic was to require questions be answered correctly to qualify. So a White
person would go to register and they would ask them a very simple question, like spelling their
own name for example, but when a Black person tried to vote they would be asked something
difficult like to exactly quote an amendment to the Constitution or the distance in kilometers
to the Sun.
Literacy is fairly subjective. If you ask me most native English speakers are actually
literate in their own language. They know the basics, but nothing more than that.
And yet they can vote. They can, they're permitted to vote, and obviously they do in great
numbers. Richard
Black , Ba Literature, Duke University (1974) Answered
July 9, 2018 · Author has 4K answers and 1.1M answer views
Most illiterate voters (dropouts) vote democrat. Those simply ignorant of science vote
republican. Other statistical likelihoods:
The US Election is still a burning issue almost two weeks after the people went to the
polls, and though the race has been called for Biden by every mainstream media outlet in the
world, the recounts are ongoing and irregularities manifest.
Trump's legal team, and many in the alternate media, are claiming the election was rigged.
With one voice the mainstream media – and the entire political establishment –
denounce these claims as "baseless", and scream there is "no evidence".
This is incorrect. There is plenty of evidence, both circumstantial and direct, which breaks
down into six basic categories:
Precedent – It has happened before. Motive –
Deep State/Military dislike of Trump's policies is widely known. Foreknowledge –
Establishment voices predicted this exact situation. Opportunity – The voting system is
highly susceptible to fraud. Voting Irregularities – Known software "glitches" &
irregularities in the reporting of the results. Cover-up – Dishonesty in the reporting of
the situation. 1. PRECEDENT
There is plenty of evidence that US elections have been rigged before.
Nobody is talking about it much, but US elections have been rigged before. Everyone is more
than familiar with the 2000 election, which was called for Al Gore before Florida flipped to
Bush and swung the election. The controversy over "hanging chads" and misplaced votes was all
people talked about for weeks.
One
noteworthy "error" with electronic voting machines, switched over 10000 votes from Gore to
an obscure third-party candidate.
After weeks of legal battles, Gore eventually conceded. Within a year the "attacks" of 9/11
had happened, and the US was at war in Afghanistan and planning six more wars within 3 years .
More recently, it was revealed the DNC had gone out of its way to hand
Hillary the presidential nomination over Sanders in 2016. Then in the 2020 primaries,
despite embarrassingly lopsided losses in the first few primaries, Biden's presidential
campaign had a "miraculous turnaround", thanks largely to irregularities in postal ballots in
Ohio , Wisconsin
and New
Jersey .
This is evidence of precedent.
2. MOTIVE
The US Deep State has clear and publicly known motives for wanting to remove Trump from
office.
It is no secret that many members of the US's political establishment oppose Trump and
Trump's policies. This includes neo-con warmongers and chiefs of the military
and intelligence agencies.
"The Resistance", billed as some voice of the progressive alternative, boasted
former members of George Bush's cabinet as members.
The most strident opposition to Trump was on foreign policy – most specifically in the
Middle East. Trump was committed to withdrawing from Syria, in direct opposition to the "Assad
Must Go" crowd at the Pentagon and State Dept.
Conversely, Biden has always been firmly in the establishment camp on Syria, and many
warmongers are already
predicting that Biden will want to
"restore some dignity" to the Syrian people.
The US Deep State has carried out coups all around the world, many of them bloody and
violent, in order to maintain Imperial ambitions and keep wars-for-profit going. They have
every motive to want to remove Trump and put Biden in his place.
This is evidence of motive.
3. FOREKNOWLEDGE
Establishment voices have been predicting, and planning for, this exact situation for
almost a year .
In January of this year – well before anyone could have predicted the effect the
"pandemic" would have on the world – legal scholars were
Wargaming the outcome of a disputed Presidential election based on postal ballots in
Pennsylvania.
In August a group naming themselves the
Transition Integrity Project published a document predicting a "disputed" election, that
the counting would take much longer than usual and that it would not be certain who was
President until January.
More generally, the outcome of the election was widely "predicted", with multiple press
outlets claiming there would be a "red mirage" and a "blue shift".
Meaning it would look like Trump would win, and then suddenly Biden would win at the last
minute.
This is evidence of foreknowledge.
4. OPPORTUNITY
There is plenty of evidence that the US voting system is open to potential corruption.
Voting machines, for example,
are owned and distributed by private companies . Many of which have political ties. An
article in the Guardian, of all places, went into great detail about this just last year, when
they were suggesting that Trump may have stolen the 2016 election.
Likewise, postal ballots are known to be susceptible to fraud. William Barr, the Attorney
General, summed it up in a television interview in September, and written reports
in 2007 and
earlier this year , have gone into great detail about historical cases of postal vote fraud
and possibilities of future occurrences.
This is evidence of opportunity.
5. VOTING IRREGULARITIES
There are plenty of irregularities in the results which suggest the possibility of something
strange going on.
The story of the election by the numbers doesn't really make logical sense. The turnout is
said to be 72%,
the highest in 120 years, and the first over 60% for over 50 years.
In the process Joe Biden, we are told, shattered Barack Obama's popular vote record by
almost 10 million votes.
Joe Biden?
This Joe Biden?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/hkP9s4ISlpI
got more votes than Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton?
Meanwhile Donald Trump increased his own popular vote by over 10 million, whilst increasing
his vote share in almost every ethnic demographic, as well as with women and
LGBT voters .
Making him the first incumbent president to increase his popular vote but still lose
in over a century, and the only one since all 50 states were part of the union.
Even if you believe that narrative is possible, there's more than enough evidence of voting
irregularities to warrant at least questioning the result and investigating further.
This error was only spotted because of the historically republican record of the county. In
a more hotly disputed seat, this error could potentially never have been picked up.
The software used in this county is used in 30 other states – including Wisconsin,
Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania, all of which were decided by less than 1% of the vote, and
any two of which could swing the election to Trump.
In fact Dominion, the company which supplied the questionable voting software, was
denied a
contract by the state of Texas in 2019 when judges found there were "concerns" about
"whether [it] is safe from fraudulent or unauthorized manipulation" .
A subsidiary of Dominion was kicked out of the Philippines for being too easy
to hack .
This video clip appears to show
CNN's coverage switching over 19,000 votes from Trump to Biden in Pennsylvania.
The graphed results of both Michigan and
Wisconsin
show decidedly odd jumps in Biden's vote.
The counting itself was also deeply suspect, with several states taking almost a week
to count the last few percent of the vote, whilst managing to count over 90% of the vote on the
first evening. In Wisconsin the National Guard were brought in to
"transcribe" damaged ballots , whilst in Pennsylvania they were allowed to count postal
votes with "no
clear post mark" , fairly obviously
To state there is "no evidence" of election rigging is a lie. There is plenty of evidence.
Every news outlet, channel and website is singing from the same hymn sheet on this – even
Fox News, so often Trump's supposed favourite channel.
Even before the election, as discussed above, all the mainstream media were running articles
defending mail-in ballots, and claiming that they are not historically weak to voter fraud.
This is totally
untrue , as anyone who cared to research the topic would tell you.
So, why are all the media telling the same lies? Why are people being denied a platform?
This is evidence of a cover-up.
*
Ask yourself:
If, in 2016, some voting software used in 30 states had flipped 5500 from
Hillary to Trump, and later been revealed to be financially tied to the Republican party, would
that have been "just a glitch", or evidence of cheating? If the Brexit referendum had swung
violently to Leave after dumps of suspect postal ballots were permitted into the count by a
judge who was a known Brexit supporter, would the media have kept quiet? If, in Russia, the
media denied a platform to the opposition to accuse Putin of voter fraud, would that be
"responsible media practice", or evidence of bias and censorship?
We don't know exactly what happened, or how the election was result was controlled, but as
of right now the specifics do not matter.
The point is there is plenty of evidence suggesting something happened, more than
enough to warrant asking rational questions and expecting reasonable answers.
Every time the media ignores the evidence, or censors those seeking it, they only display
further that there must be some fire behind all of this smoke.
John Ervin , Nov 18, 2020 3:57 AM
From the coda above: "The point is there is plenty of evidence suggesting something
happened, more than enough to warrant asking rational questions and expecting reasonable
answers."
Of course, but as Gore Vidal, no slouch as an historian and observer of the American
scene, said on WBAI at this time of year in 2004: "our elections which are pretty much rigged
from the get go."
I've spent thousands of hours on this American vote-rigging beat, and I will say straight
up that historically, whatever vote tampering the Democrats have done in a retail capacity,
the Republican Party owns many franchises on the wholesale end.
That's just a fact. I have too many thousands of now dusty pages on this to summarize, yet
I have even been invited by Bev Harris back in the day to guest interview some of the
principals, like Ion Sancho and Victoria Collier, though for now just two fun facts:
Sen. Chuck Hagel, hard core right wing Republican war hawk, is (or was) part OWNER of
ES&S voting company, (out of Omaha, Nebraska, a frequent investment stop for Ken Lay,
convict supervillain fraudster) which at one point has counted as much as 80% of the American
"vote" -- and Hagel greatly benefitted by a 60% (SIXTY!) vote swing (cf. polls) thru his
company's machines in his original race to unseat the incumbent Democrat.
The legendary Republcan huckster Wally O'Dell of Diebold in Ohio who "promised" the
election to W.
Bob Ney, of Ohio, in cahoots with all this, was the Republican head of HAVA, and resigned
a few years later in a thick fog of alcoholism and the Abramoff scandal and later confessed
it was the drink that made him do it, too late to undo the very decisive damage to our voting
process.
I could go on through literally hundreds of like scenarios, if not actually thousands
–seriously–almost all of them by Republican perps.
Or, 99+%, like our Covid survival data.
And suddenly that has all shifted to the polar opposite, like the Mayan Calendar was
purported to predict for the Earth's axis in 2012?
REALLY?
I can believe anything, as a chronic Conspiracy Realist, but seriously
Steve Rendall , Nov 18, 2020 12:02 AM
Gotta love the "Foreknowledge" section suggesting nefarious goings-on because people who
followed the news knew that in-person election day votes favoring the GOP would be counted
first, in most cases; and early and mail-in votes favoring Democrats would be counted later.
Malice aforethought!
Seriously, this is stupid.
Sophie - Admin1 , Nov 18, 2020 9:48 AM Reply to
Steve Rendall
Why would mail-in ballots be counted separately? And why would they necessarily favor
democrats? You seem to be making big assumptions and using them to breezily dismiss a lot of
actual data.
maxine , Nov 17, 2020 7:30 PM
The real rigging began way before the election when the Democratic National Committee
rigged the primaries both in 2016 and 2020, making sure that Bernie Sanders (who was ahead in
all the polls and whose goals matched those of the vast majority) lost .Instead they chose
warmongering, corporate Neo-Liberals, Hillary Clinton & Joe Biden who cared nothing about
the 99%.
I despise all these Neo-Liberal Democrats .I despise Donald Trump .But I get the feeling
that you would have preferred a 2nd Donald Trump term .Could that be because he's on the same
page as O-G regarding COVID? .Just wondering.
All that primary rigging stuff has been rendered suspect, and is almost surely
false-flagging, like the Russky 2016 "hacks" are bufoonishly lame and easy to refute. Even
guys at my gym who aren't even remotely afficionados saw how ridiculous the allegations were,
and Dave Emory has broadcast chapter and verse exposing all that and its nonsensicality.
But now it's a canard firmly entrenched for years to come.
Right here, In the USA?! What a surprise.
Sophie - Admin1 , Nov 18, 2020 9:53 AM Reply to
John Ervin
The DNC basically admitted rigging the primaries in 2016 for Hillary. The data is out
there.
Indeed. In the lawsuit against the DNC and Debbie Wasserman Schultz for rigging the 2016
Democratic primaries, DNC lawyers successfully argued that the Democratic Party is a
non-profit corporation. As such, and more to the point, its charter permits party officials
to secretly rig their internal selection processes (primaries) as they please– it's all
strictly legit.
The DNC position prevailed, thus establishing that in the US, political party officials
are perfectly entitled to craft secret plans to preserve their grip on power, and can engage
in as much jiggery-pokery as they please; the party has no legal obligation to play fair in
its internal procedures, much less disclose its self-serving scams and schemes to its loyal
constituency.
Although it's virtually superfluous to state this, moral and ethical considerations are
simply irrelevant and immaterial; business is business.
Paul Vonharnish , Nov 18, 2020 2:49 PM Reply to
maxine
Hello maxine: You are right. The Democratic National Committee has been rigging
elections for decades. "Democratic" voters refuse to wake up and notice the burnt coffee. The
electoral college has also become a rigged stage, and acts in gross conflict with the
original functions of the 8th Amendment.
Ask Tulsi Gabbard about effective DNC stone walling of her candidacy. Tulsi was the
only vocal anti-war candidate in the primaries. The CIA and military contractors won the
selection -- again
DNC PoliticalPrisoner 31
minutes ago Many wouldn't have believed there was election fraud except the media and Big
Tech keep insisting that there wasn't. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Fox News, CNN, and more giant
corporations keep screaming at us via notifications, messages, and broadcasts that there was no
election fraud. Now, we're starting to think maybe there is something fishy going on.
The US military establishment will breathe a sigh of relief at Joe Biden's victory in the
presidential election. Nearly 800 former high-ranking military and security
officials penned an open letter in support of the Democratic candidate during the campaign.
A who's who of former generals, ambassadors, admirals and senior national security advisers --
from former Secretary of State Madeline Albright to four-star admiral and Bush-era Deputy
Homeland Security Advisor Steve Abbot -- backed Biden as the best bet to revive US power. A
month earlier, 70 national security officials who served in Republican administrations threw
their weight behind Biden (the list soon grew to 130), arguing that, on foreign policy, Trump
"has
failed our country" .
Why was Biden the war criminals' candidate of choice? The foreign policy chaos and
controversy of the Trump years were a symptom of a global superpower in relative decline, with
no real strategy out of the quagmire.
The US empire is at a turning point. It is the world's undisputed superpower; its reach is
global, both militarily and economically . The US has been the world's largest economy since
1871, and its military has close to 800 installations in 80 countries around the world. But
today, it is facing a growing economic rival in China, and several lesser powers challenging
its ability to call the shots in every corner of the globe, most notably Iran and Russia.
The War on Terror, launched by the administration of George W. Bush , resulted in the
invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003. It killed more than a million people and
cost upwards of US$2.4 trillion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. For the people
of the Middle East, it was a massacre. For US empire, it was a disaster. The destabilisation of
Iraq led to the expansion of Iranian influence across the region, rather than the regime change
in Tehran the Pentagon dreamed of. The intervention in Iraq was meant to secure US dominance.
It instead exposed the weaknesses and limits of US power right at the moment when China's
dramatic economic expansion was beginning.
Tensions between the US and China have been increasing for years. Since its accession to the
World Trade Organization in 2001, China has built its economic power, its diplomatic power and
its military power, while the US became bogged down in endless wars and suffered economic
crisis and depression with the 2008 financial crisis.
Barack Obama's "pivot to Asia", with its plan to increase US naval forces in the
Asia-Pacific, was a signal that the US ruling class wanted to contain and encircle China.
Obama's then classified Air-Sea Battle doctrine was an effort to create an operational plan for
a possible military confrontation. Leaked cables made public by WikiLeaks reveal that Australia
was in lockstep with US imperial strategy. In conversation with Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton in 2009, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd confirmed Australia's willingness to "deploy force
if everything goes wrong". But Obama's strategy was too little too late for containment. China
became more aggressive in pressing claims in the South China Sea while beginning to close the
enormous gap in military capabilities with the United States, engaging in the most rapid
peacetime arms build-up in history.
Under Trump, these tensions further increased. Trump's confrontational rhetoric and trade
war were a sharp break from the decades-long US strategy of integrating China into the
international liberal order. Since the Republican administration of Richard Nixon -- who in
1972 became the first US president to visit Beijing -- the US ruling class thought it could
ensure global supremacy by incorporating China into the world system. For a while, it appeared
to work. China became the world's sweatshop and a key site of investment for US companies such
as Apple and General Motors. But the strategy could be mutually enriching for only so long.
Today, China is leveraging its meteoric growth to challenge the United States' leadership in
the Asia-Pacific.
Obama's signature containment strategy was the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP
would have been the largest free trade deal in history, lowering tariffs and other non-tariff
barriers to trade between eleven Pacific countries and the US. Its goal was to lock out China
and further integrate Pacific countries with the US economy. Obama's Defense Secretary Ashton
Carter said that the TPP was "as important as another aircraft carrier".
But just a few years later, Donald Trump tore up the TPP. The move was at odds with the
consensus among the US economic and military elite, but the new president had his own ideas
about how to contain China. Trump railed against the US trade deficit, accused Beijing of
currency manipulation and, as Obama did, of stealing technology from US companies. In the 2019
State of the Union address he said, "We are now making it clear to China that after years of
targeting our industries and stealing our intellectual property, the theft of American jobs and
wealth has come to an end".
By August this year, Trump had slapped tariffs on $550 billion of Chinese goods, with a
targeted campaign against tech giant Huawei, which had been tipped to overtake Apple in global
phone sales. While Republican and Democratic politicians have backed a hardline approach to
China, Trump's erratic protectionist approach to trade has alienated large sections of the
capitalist class otherwise happy with domestic tax cuts and deregulation. A Bloomberg Economics
report, released before the pandemic gripped the country, estimated that the escalating tariffs
on China would cost the US economy $316 billion by the end of this year.
More worryingly for the US establishment, Trump adopted a dismissive attitude towards US
allies, particularly the European Union. Trump prided himself on his ability to cut deals with
other nations that favoured the US. He signalled that the multilateral approach to trade was
over when he tore up the TPP, and followed that by applying tariffs on German cars, Canadian
steel and French luxury goods. For much of the US elite, these moves have simply created a void
that Beijing is attempting to fill with its own free trade deals and the $1 trillion Belt and
Road initiative, which aims to incorporate more than 138 countries into trade routes and
production chains centred on China.
The International Monetary Fund, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the UN and other
international institutions project US dominance by drawing allied nations behind US leadership.
Trump's presidency delegitimised or sidelined those institutions as he focused on an "America
first" posture. The military establishment believes that this has threatened, rather than
strengthened, US power -- although there is now an acknowledgement that those institutions
failed to keep China in check, something a Biden presidency will also grapple with.
The war criminals hope that Biden will restore political legitimacy to the office by
rehabilitating the liberal ideology that manufactures consent for American imperialism,
pitching US aggression as necessary to "make the world safe for democracy" and defending the
"rules-based liberal world order". Above all, the US establishment hopes that Biden will
restore relationships with US allies and construct a coalition of nations to confront China,
after a disastrous four years that called into question US global leadership. As the National
Security Leaders for Biden open letter bemoaned: "Our allies no longer trust or respect us, and
our enemies no longer fear us".
Biden has a proven record as a hawkish proponent of US empire. For decades, he served on the
Senate foreign relations committee. He was an early proponent of the expansion of NATO to
project US influence into the former eastern bloc after the fall of the USSR. He backed US
intervention in the Balkan war, supported the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, voted for the
war on Iraq in 2003 and, as vice president, backed the US intervention in Libya.
There is consensus within the US ruling class over the need to "get tough" with China. The
military establishment expects Biden to turn the screws. On the campaign trail, he accused
Trump of "getting played" by Chinese President Xi Jinping, whom he called a "thug". This is
consistent with Democratic Party practice in the Congress, which is to criticise Trump for not
being tough enough. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, for example, accused Trump of
"selling out" by cutting a trade deal with China. Schumer also spearheaded legislation to
implement bans on Huawei when Trump appeared to back down.
Since his first days in Congress, Biden has also made a name for himself as a staunch
supporter of the apartheid state of Israel. According to Israeli publication Haaretz ,
Biden is said to have a "real friendship" with Israel's far-right president, Benjamin
Netanyahu. He was vice president when the US signed a $38 billion military aid deal with
Netanyahu, which the State Department called the "single largest pledge of bilateral military
assistance in US history". So while Trump pushed pro-Israeli rhetoric far to the right,
abandoning any pretence of support for Palestinian statehood, Biden put his money where his
mouth is when it came to propping up Israeli apartheid in Palestine.
On Afghanistan, Biden may prove to be to the right of Trump. As vice president, he supported
an enduring US military presence in the country. Trump, by contrast, shocked the US military
when he announced on Twitter that he wants all troops out by Christmas. In contrast, Biden in
an interview with Stars and Stripes , a military newspaper, said he would maintain a
troop presence in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Anti-imperialists need to judge Biden by his blood-soaked record in Congress and by the
company he keeps. The bulk of the US military establishment has backed Biden precisely because
they think his multilateral approach will restore credibility to US interventions. It's for
this reason that Forbes magazine senior contributor Loren Thompson predicted last month:
"A Biden presidency would be more likely to use US military forces overseas than President
Trump has been".
Global capitalism is facing a profound crisis that is reshaping international relations and
putting pressure on the fault lines of existing conflicts. Open imperialist rivalry will be a
feature of the coming period, along with wars over regional disputes. There is no length to
which the US ruling class won't go to safeguard its position as global superpower. And Joe
Biden is the commander-in-chief. He is now the most dangerous man in the world.
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While probably "less aggressively nasty" than Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden is still a
"conventional politician," but it won't be easy for him to dismiss his party's progressive
wing, Larry Sanders told RT's Going Underground.
Brother to US Senator Bernie Sanders and the Green Party Spokesperson on Health and Social
Care (England & Wales), Larry Sanders told RT's Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi that
while Biden was not his "choice" for president, he prefers him over the current
incumbent, President Donald Trump.
... ... ...
As a fixture of the establishment, Biden will follow the interests of corporate money and
the military-industrial complex rather than anybody else's, Sanders noted.
"Biden is a conventional politician, he is beholden to big money, he is beholden to
defense industries,
joe_go 13 hours ago 19 Nov, 2020 07:03 AM
If no one in America went to vote the country would still look the way it looks today. The
big money and military industry would run the country the way it runs it when people vote and
think it matters.
Spirgily_Klump 20 hours ago 19 Nov, 2020 12:46 AM
Do you know after Biden was out of the VP office the Chinese communist party had donated $70
million to one of his foundations at the University of Pennsylvania from which Joe drew a
salary of over $900,000 per year? With his benefiting from the hundreds of millions his
family took in from foreign powers and persons how can he gain the security clearance
necessary for the presidency? The president needs the highest clearance. Even an applicant to
the CIA get polygraphed.
shadow1369 Spirgily_Klump 9 hours ago 19 Nov, 2020 11:00 AM
Just one of many skeletons jangling in Bidet's closet, they will be used by his controllers
to keep him on track.
Iwanasay 19 hours ago 19 Nov, 2020 01:22 AM
It doesn't matter who is in power, America's destiny has been chosen by other behind the
scene faces
RedDragon 15 hours ago 19 Nov, 2020 05:27 AM
All USA presidents are beholden to big money entities, inclusive incoming Biden presidency.
Trump is beholden to the Jewish money powers etc..
Anyone who will not generate a bit of effort to get to the polls in timely fashion probably should not vote anyway.
The same imbeciles who camp out in front of a store overnight waiting for Black Friday sales or spend three days on line waiting
to buy concert tickets, are often the ones who claim that getting to the voting booth is too great an inconvenience.
We ought to have accommodations for seriously disabled citizens and for citizens who are outside the country ie. our people in
military service.
Citing witness
affidavits, Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell argued that voter fraud was rampant in several
Democrat strongholds and that President Donald Trump, not Joe Biden, won the election if illegal
votes are thrown out.
"I know crimes, I can smell them. But I don't have to smell this – I can prove it
to you 18 different ways," Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor before he served as mayor
of New York City, told reporters on Thursday.
What I'm describing to you is massive fraud.
He spoke of 682,770 mail-in ballots that witnesses swear were not properly inspected in
Pennsylvania. There was also a worker in Detroit, Michigan who reported rampant illegal
behavior – including backdating of mail-in ballots – in a sworn affidavit, he
said.
Last but not least, some votes were allegedly processed multiple times, and there were
precincts that recorded anywhere from 150 percent to 350 percent of voter turnout, which is
"clear circumstantial evidence" of fraud, according to Giuliani.
The precinct discrepancy was cited by Republican election officials in Wayne County,
Michigan in their refusal to certify the results – only to have them change their mind on
Wednesday, and then again on Thursday, saying they were coerced into certification by threats
against them and their families.
In multiple places where Trump led on election night but Biden surged ahead thanks to
mail-in ballots counted later, Republican observers were not allowed to be present when the
envelopes were opened, thereby making it impossible to verify their validity, Giuliani argued.
In Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Democrats who sent in flawed ballots were given a chance to
"cure" them, but Republicans were not, he added.
In Wisconsin, he said the campaign found some 100,000 absentee ballots that weren't actually
requested in Democrat-heavy Madison and Milwaukee, which would be against state law.
Sidney Powell, best known for representing Trump's former aide General Michael Flynn,
claimed that Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic software were involved in deleting Trump
votes and "injecting" votes for Biden, alleging that they processed votes in Germany and
Spain and that they were linked to Venezuela, Cuba and China.
Trump campaign legal aide Jenna Ellis told reporters that the elections in the several
disputed counties were "irredeemably compromised," and that this will be demonstrated in
the court of law – not the court of public opinion, where she said the members of the
press would all be stricken from the jury as too biased.
The campaign's goal wasn't to overturn the election as such, but to ensure that the US had
free and fair elections going forward, Ellis argued. If fraud succeeds, "no election will be
secure from here on out."
Ellis wasn't the only one to clash with reporters. Giuliani said the conference's purpose
was to "get around the Iron Curtain of censorship" in both mainstream and social media,
accusing the press of failing to accurately cover the lawsuits and the allegations and outright
lying about them.
Pushing back on a question that claimed multiple lawsuits have been dismissed, he said the
campaign actually had only three right now, and had just dropped the one in Michigan because
they got relief they sought.
As for the lawyers "dropping like flies," as one reporter put it, that was because
they and their families were receiving death threats, Giuliani said.
"We're headed to a very bad place," the former mayor of New York City warned, noting
that the "vicious press" has intimidated witnesses as well as lawyers, and that the
"censorship by Big Tech and Big Media is almost as bad" as the alleged election
fraud.
Democrats have insisted there was no "widespread" fraud and that Trump's legal team
had no evidence of any. While Trump has refused to concede, the mainstream media have called
the election for Biden. Any claim that disagrees with that has been labeled by social media
platforms as "disputed."
United_States_of_Fraud 3 hours ago 19 Nov, 2020 05:12 PM
So wonderful - US of Fraud is coming apart now at all seams. Great that Trump did not win
outright on election night, or all of this fraud would have been concealed until the next
election. But now, the whole world will have to take notice.
During the presser, Giuliani also said there is a pattern in the voting data that suggests
"a plan from a centralized place" to commit voter fraud in Democrat-run cities. Giuliani also
said the Trump campaign will likely bring a lawsuit to Arizona.
They also said they have testimony from an insider who they say unearthed provable fraud
regarding voting machines and software used in multiple states.
They describe a process of vote switching as well as "trashing" Trump votes through a simple
drag and click process.
Additionally, they say this election involved a manipulation of the ballot count in a
foreign country.
"This is a massive, coordinated, well-funded effort to deprive we the people of the United
States of our fundamental right under the U.S. Constitution to preserve this Constitution
republic we all cherish."
- Sidney Powell
And they describe multiple incidents where the number of votes cast far exceeded the
population of the public in that county, including children.
Democrats deny there is any evidence of "widespread fraud." They and the news media have
broadly called the election for Joe Biden and urged President Trump to concede.
Surprise, surprise, not everyone was buying what Giuliani and Powell were selling.
"You are watching the last gasp of this legal effort by the president," Wendy Weiser,
director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, told
ABC News .
"This has been a flailing legal effort that hasn't raised any real issues from the get-go.
We all knew how this movie would end. If I was writing the screenplay I would end it
here."
Below you can watch the entire news conference and hear the claims of evidence to make up
your own mind as to what you think about it.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/buQCdCSDWQQ
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As we detailed ahead of the press briefing, with many questioning where this going next,
though J
PM's Michael Cembalest admits there is still a chance , President Trump's legal team is
holding a press briefing to outline their strategy.
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In one post in a stream of tweets, Trump said the legal team will give an "important news
conference today" and that they will explain their plans for a "very clear and viable path to
victory".
"Pieces are very nicely falling into place," the president tweeted.
By one count, Trump campaign legal efforts to overturn election results or force recounts
have been successful just once and suffered 26 defeats... so for the 70 million-plus Trump
voters, we hope that Giuliani has a trick or two up his sleeve.
Whether Trump wins or loses, the Dominion grift of American elections is OVER!
All because they overplayed their hand when they had to stop the count and recalibrate the
machines to overcome Trumps massive lead. If this election had been close we would have never
known...
jim942 , 2 hours ago
The cat is definitely out of the bag on Dominion.
JimmyJones , 50 minutes ago
That was a refreshing press conference, everyone should watch it in it's entirety. I think
Rudy G, has them by the "balls" Sidney Powells work on the Dominion side is huge with the
inside whistle blower. The Dems are toast, be prepared for the Dems to unleash ANtifa and try
to burn down the world once it hits the supreme court.
truth or go home , 40 minutes ago
Folks,
It is not enough to know that Dominion is bad and the next election will be fair. They
will whitewash right over that company and it will appear again with another name before you
can ever think about it.
I said it two weeks ago, and I will say it again now. This is not a won or lost election.
This was a Coup. It is time for Trump to declare marshal law, send the military in and take
this thing back, assuming he knows for a fact that they won in a landslide - which is pretty
obvious now.
This is not going to end well in a legal battle - the other side obviously has zero
respect for what is legal or fair - they don't care - they will pay off whoever or do
whatever they have to to get their way.
The hill is right here, right now. Send the military into the media offices and shut them
down, until a new staff can be arranged who will give a fair account of news.
Takeover Twitter, Facebook and Google - throw out the owners and the leaders, and install
a group of folks who will abide by the law.
Take control of the CIA, the FBI and the Justice department, plus the CDC and the NIH,
which have all participated in this Coup.
Then - set up a new, free and fair election, and allow Joe to win on his own merits. No
cheating on any side. An election by the people.
GreatUncle , 26 minutes ago
@JimmyJones
I liked the bit when Powell confirmed the German raid ... WTF!!! It was true.
HungryPorkChop , 1 hour ago
I think we can say the cat is out of the bag for ANY computerized voting machine. They
will never be viewed the same again.
I'm still bewildered why everyone which votes is not given a 12 digit code they can visit
a secure website that will show the results. They enter in their 12 digit code and it pulls
up who they voted for.. Credit card companies have had this ability for 30+ years. All major
retailers use this system worldwide on a daily basis 24 hrs non-stop. Not sure why the
election process cannot use 30 year old technology to help validate and make sure votes were
counted and counted correctly. Something smells...
Mr. Bones , 1 hour ago
Anonymity
A voter couldn't be compelled to view a certain way. Granted, that all goes out the window
with ballot harvesting or mail-ins so...
GreatUncle , 20 minutes ago
Fails mate ... they give you a 12 digit code so you can see your vote right?
AI will tell you what you want to know but run another set of books with the name of who
the AI cast the vote for.
It is too the point ... any computerised electronic system is open to fraud that only
voting in person at the box with a legitimate ID prevents.
Even then it is who the vote is finally applied too ... in this case we have found a
machines can fraudulently apply votes a lot faster than a human.
jim942 , 2 hours ago
Trump is not a quitter. The fight will go on.
Herdee , 2 hours ago
If you think that it makes any difference who sits in the Chair as the stooge master and
puppet then I've got a bridge to sell you. It's all propaganda for the dumbed down sheeple
American population. Welcome to The New World Order.
Dangertime , 2 hours ago
By that blackpill logic we will never win.
eatapeach , 2 hours ago
Herdee is right. The circus is scripted. They are both AIPAC/MIC candidates and they both
do as their masters dictate.
gmrpeabody , 1 hour ago
Just because you would rather rollover doesn't mean everyone else wants to...
Another Comment , 1 hour ago
No one is saying that. But you have to make sure you're fighting the right battle. Watch
what the magician is doing, not showing.
Omnibrad , 56 minutes ago
The American people have already rolled over for decades now. Wake up. The same people own
the D party and the R party, and Trump is no exception. They own the schools. They own the
press. They own the civil institutions. They own TV. They own Google and other big corps.
They own the public square and censor you. And what have you done during these decades
besides roll over?
"It may be inferred again that the present movement for women's rights will certainly
prevail from the history of its only opponent, Northern conservatism. This [Northern
conservatism] is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs
to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable
amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted
novelty of yesterday is today one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now
conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced
upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then
adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it
moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always
advances near its leader. This pretended salt hath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it
be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It is worthless because it is the
conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing
serious for the sake of the truth, and has no idea of being guilty of the folly of martyrdom.
It always when about to enter a protest very blandly informs the wild beast whose path it
essays to stop, that its "bark is worse than its bite," and that it only means to save its
manners by enacting its decent role of resistance: The only practical purpose which it now
subserves in American politics is to give enough exercise to Radicalism to keep it "in wind,"
and to prevent its becoming pursy and lazy, from having nothing to whip."
-Robert Lewis Dabney
aiinvestor , 1 hour ago
Infrequent voters in precincts with high turnout. State says they voted early/abs, but
told us they did not cast a ballot:
State/Counts/% of Sample (who answered the question)
AZ / 21 / 0.94%
GA / 24 / 0.85%
MI / 18 / 2.80%
NV / 25 / 2.22%
PA / 22 / 0.70%
WI / 23 / 0.66%
Yep, that is what I can't figure out. It shows they are guilty because they are doing
everything they can to hide it. Refusing repug poll watchers, refusing recounts, refusing
absentee ballot signature matches, etc. and the list goes on and on. What ever happened to
"it's the seriousness of the charge" that demorats said over and over when justifying all
THEIR investigations even though they know they had NO EVIDENCE? In this case, there is REAL
EVIDENCE of fraud that is being shown that has affected THOUSANDS of ballots, and the charge
is this is just the tip of the iceberg. The potential for HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS or even
millions of fraud ballots not only can change the election, but will change the demorat party
forever. This is why they are fighting this. This is their Pickett's Charge.
ronin12 , 1 hour ago
Just the stuff Rudy is talking about in Philly and Detroit is INSANE.
It's crazy how corrupt these people are.
Shut. It. Down. , 59 minutes ago
Christopher Wray is too busy looking under rocks for non-existent "white supremacists" to
be bothered with the theft of a presidential election.
Feel it Reel it , 1 hour ago
Biden/Harris barley ran a Campaign knowing full fell the voter fraud scam was
in......Biden/Harris were just going through the motions to give the Illusion of a legitimate
campaign when in fact it was a massive fraud......
Hoax Fatigue , 15 minutes ago
Yes. This is why they did the absolute minimum amount of campaigning. Zero sense of
urgency against a guy drawing gigantic crowds because they deluded themselves into believing
the fix was in.
Barnacles , 59 minutes ago
Holy wow. Sydney confirmed the Germany server was picked up by someone! Don't know if it's
the good or bad guys.
Totally_Disillusioned , 23 minutes ago
Don't overlook Rudy's response to CNN using lack of FBI investigating in smearing Trump's
campaign lawsuits...
"Where are you FBI? I don't know where the FBI has been for the last four years. our
country has had its ballots counted, calculated and manipulated in a foreign country with a
company controlled by friends of an enemy of the United States. What do we have to do to get
the FBI to wake up? Maybe we need a new agency to protect us."
Perhaps a prescient statement of changes to come.
spyware-free , 1 hour ago
haha...Rudy doxxing Coomer now.
Pack your sh1t Eric. you're on the patriot radar now.
GreatUncle , 6 minutes ago
Yep ... bragged he was number one kingpin at Dominion on this.
I so like technology nowhere you can hide in this world too escape this.
Here is his deal ... give up your handler or get 100 years inside like on the movies no
parole.
Then lets see how fast they kill him.
But then let the state execute him to get the dead mans handle of data of everything.
Nowhere too go but a coffin.
herbivore , 13 minutes ago
This was a powerful presentation that Giuliani and his legal team put on. As one of them
stated, it was an overview of what they would present to a jury, not an evidentiary
presentation. If they have the evidence that proves their charges, they win before a jury,
but if they have to rely on a corrupt-to-the-core judiciary, they probably lose.
Nature_Boy_Wooooo , 46 minutes ago
So basically they used Nate Silver's crappy projections as a confidence interval for how
many votes they assumed Trump would get. They then set the coefficient to adjust a certain
amount of votes to Biden to move him slightly ahead of Trump without drawing attention to the
fraud.
At 3 a.m. the number of Trump votes moved way outside of their projected confidence
interval because Nate Silver's model sucks. At this point the 'educated' Democrats were
soundly asleep and the stupid Democrats had to make adjustments to the vote adjustment
coefficient..... that is when everything went wrong.
Nature_Boy_Wooooo , 30 minutes ago
It's most likely some type of linear regression machine learning algorithm that they were
using.
They trained the model either on past data or fabricated data based on Nate Silver's
crappy projections. The model was over fit with Nate Silver's crappy projections so in their
simulations their model made good predictions and was able to adjust the votes to slowly move
Biden into the lead.
But over fit models perform poorly on outliers. Trump was a big outlier and over performed
Nate Silver's crappy projections.
Teamtc321 , 34 minutes ago
BOOM: Election Fraud Expert Russ Ramsland Files Affidavit Showing 'PHYSICAL IMPOSSIBILITY'
of Election Results in Michigan
DNC PoliticalPrisoner 31
minutes ago Many wouldn't have believed there was election fraud except the media and Big
Tech keep insisting that there wasn't. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Fox News, CNN, and more giant
corporations keep screaming at us via notifications, messages, and broadcasts that there was no
election fraud. Now, we're starting to think maybe there is something fishy going on.
In a stunning development out of Wayne County, Michigan - two GOP members of the Board of
Canvassers have rescinded their certifications of the Nov. 3 vote, claiming they were bullied
into
approving the election results in the state's most populous county, which includes Detroit
and surrounding areas.
yerfej , 58 minutes ago
I don't see how Biden could receive any votes as no one would be stupid enough to vote for
a corrupt dementia addled bag man insider? Or are people on the left so desperate that they
can't see through the con?
Ancient Handicapper , 43 minutes ago
yerfej, People agree with your description of Biden, perhaps, but TRUMP IS WORSE! That's
why they voted for Mr. Biden. (Thank goodness!)
An elite-led 'Great Reset' post-Covid? No, what we need first is to get rid of the
globalist approach that got us into this mess Norman Lewis
is a writer, speaker and consultant on innovation and technology, was most recently a
Director at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where he set up and led their crowdsourced innovation
service. Follow him on Twitter @Norm_Lewis 18 Nov, 2020 16:24 Get short URL The WEF's vision for the future isn't a conspiracy,
but a disingenuous, dishonest manifesto from an unelected ruling class. The virus has
vindicated the national state and the need for ordinary people to be part of the solutions.
This week, the " Great
Reset " has been trending on social media. For those not obsessed with such forums, the
"Great Reset' is the title of a manifesto for worldwide social change in the post-Covid world,
written by Klaus Schwab, the founder and director of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
The "Great Reset" is an important manifesto. It articulates a vision of how the global elite
see the future, and in particular, how they are seizing the opportunity presented by the
Covid-19 pandemic – a world that will, apparently, "never" return to normal – to
remake society in their image. It's an idea that's been seized on by 'progressive' politicians
and leaders everywhere, from Canada's Justin Trudeau to
Britain's
Prince Charles .
On the surface, this might appear reasonable. After all, the challenges of the post-Covid
world are certainly going to be huge. The economic fallout of the global lockdown, never mind
the social consequences of mass unemployment and global poverty, will be unprecedented in world
history.
However, the "Great Reset" is sophistry and dishonesty on an unprecedented level. Who is
responsible, it may be asked, for creating yesterday's problematic 'normal' to which we will
supposedly never return?
Of course, these difficulties have nothing to do with the billionaires, political leaders,
captains of industry and top regulators who swan around Davos each year, pontificating over
oysters and champagne about the world's problems, from which they benefit most.
And the idea of a 'reset' is at best disingenuous. This implies that the global economy and
society was basically functioning OK before Covid-19. That it simply requires a reboot, like
switching a computer off and on again.
This glosses over the reality, which is this: that the world economy and global society were
in a sickly state before Covid-19, and now, being even more dependent on unprecedented state
bailouts, which will take generations to repay, are in a still more parlous state. 'Reset'
seriously underestimates the scale of the economic wreckage we face, the overhaul required, and
the real barriers to the future.
The "Great Reset" vision from the WEF, presented as eight projections for 2030 , reveals how
disconnected these people are from reality.
Its tone is that of the hectoring schoolmaster who knows what's best for the children, and
tolerates no dissent. This is not a dialogue but a lecture we need to accept without question.
Here they are:
1. 'You'll own nothing and be happy'
We'll rent everything we'll need, and it will be delivered by drone. Does this mean we won't
even own our ability to sell our labour? If we're renting this and everything else, who are we
renting it from? Presumably from those who own everything, who doubtless will be much happier
than we will be. And drone deliveries by 2030? It will take longer than that to get regulatory
permission agreed, given how risk averse both industry and governments have become.
2.
The US won't be the only world's leading power
A handful of countries will dominate. This is a nice way of avoiding the obvious point that
in a bipolar or multipolar world – the USA vs China vs the EU vs Russia – global
decision-making is going to be even more elusive and tricky, not less. In the post-Covid world,
autarkical tendencies, not cooperation, pose a threat to any notions of harmonious global
governance, let alone coordination. That's a point I'll return to below.
3. We won't die
waiting for an organ donor
Transplants will be a thing of the past. New organs will be printed instead. This is a
lovely notion and would be very welcome. But there's the pesky problem of a health system that
can hardly cope with seasonal flu and has had to be protected from treating ill people by
shutting down the entire economy. Solving this in 10 years will require the printing of more
money (which we haven't got), never mind organs.
4. We'll eat less meat
Meat will become an occasional treat, not a staple, and we'll eat less of it because it's
good for the environment and our health. This is like the 'choice' offered by state
telecommunications monopolies: you can have any phone you like as long as it's black. Goodbye,
freedom of choice.
5. A billion people will be displaced by climate change
In 10 years, we're going to have to do a better job at welcoming and integrating refugees.
Do they mean we should be as welcoming as the EU, with its "Fortress Europe" approach? Or
successive American governments' benevolent border wall with Mexico? Perhaps they're referring
to the Prince of Wales opening up Buckingham Palace to refugees?
6. Polluters will have
to pay to emit CO2
The introduction of a global price on carbon with the aim of making fossil fuels history is
the holy grail being held out here. Given the parlous state of all state coffers as a result of
Covid-19, and the crisis of innovation, this idea is perhaps the most fanciful of all.
7.
You could be preparing to go to Mars
Scientists will have worked out how to keep us healthy in space, which will herald the start
of a journey to find alien life. It might be a good idea to start by trying to keep us healthy
on earth, especially dealing with all the post-Covid deaths, not from the virus, but from
postponed treatments and operations. This is sheer fantasy.
8. Western values will have
been tested to breaking point
The checks and balances that underpin our democracies must not be forgotten. By this, they
are surely not referring to the attempt to overthrow the Brexit vote or Trump's election in
2016 by an elite who didn't like these outcomes? They're not suggesting that global unelected
bodies such as the United Nations or the World Health Organization should take precedence over
national democracies, even over decisions as important as climate change? Do they want checks
and balances on national governments, which should accede to the 'truths' of unelected experts
and technocrats, rather than relying on their own citizens to make decisions? Perish the
thought.
This "Great Reset" is not that great after all. Nor is it offering anything new or, indeed,
realisable. Instead, it's a rehashing of a globalist project that seeks to use the Covid crisis
to prioritise the concerns and fantasies of the elite, aiming to cement their positions of
wealth and power and usher in a new era of top-down diktat.
The key point of unreality in all this is that the pandemic has repudiated the globalist
assumptions underpinning this new utopia (or, rather, dystopia). Covid has vindicated the
validity of the national state. Only nation states have had the authority to impose lockdowns
and then provide – or, in some countries, try to provide – emergency financial aid
to compensate businesses and families for the impact of the lockdown.
Contrary to the views of the WEF, everything has not changed as a result of Covid. The
changes that have happened have merely accelerated and crystallised earlier tendencies. The
true state of affairs is clearer – namely, that the world is still in a state (both
literally and figuratively), and that precaution and risk aversion and a sense of vulnerability
still dominate the elite's cultural zeitgeist.
Albert Einstein once quipped that "No problem can be solved from the same level of
consciousness that created it". The 'build back better' notion at the heart of the "Great
Reset" – indeed, all government visions today – is a doomed project for this
reason.
It is attempting to sidestep the most important lesson of the pandemic: that the future is
much more dependent on the public's willingness to embrace disruptive change than on any
concrete transformation programme.
We are part of the solution, not the object of elite largesse. We want to own the agenda,
both now and in the future. Anything less will not make us happy, even as we order our
groceries online, let alone print out a new heart or two.
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CouncilofLight 9 hours ago 18 Nov, 2020 01:19 PM
Mr. Schwab and all the politicians helping him to implement this "Not so Great for the masses
reset" plan should be tried for crime against humanity. How about that for starters?
Chelsea Yorkshire CouncilofLight 3 hours ago 18 Nov, 2020 08:16 PM
Be sure to do the same with one of Schwab's co-founder: Bill Gates, The Eugenics Killer.
Altruistic019 4 hours ago 18 Nov, 2020 06:23 PM
Davos listens to monsters like Klaus Schwab because they offer the promise of yet more money
to the obscenely rich and more control over the dispossessed masses. We are all consumers to
them. We are all to be exploited, to be tricked by technology into believing we are in
utopia, to be part of the gig economy, where owners of companies take no responsibility for
their worker's rights or needs. Companies like Uber, AirBnB, Deliveroo, Just Eat, make vast
profits because no-one is actually an employee - they are all self employed. Huge
corporations like Amazon, Google, Disney etc. pay derisory amounts of tax. Meetings like
Davos and Bilderberg should be classified as crimes against humanity.
MOS6502 9 hours ago 18 Nov, 2020 01:21 PM
By elites you mean bankers and finance people? The least innovative people on the planet.
People who innovated and created some great music or art made life better. Banksters want to
change rules so everybody has to give them money even though they produce nothing. Most
entitled crooks.
omyomy MOS6502 7 hours ago 18 Nov, 2020 04:12 PM
Oh they produce, money from money . Its a hard job when governments give YOU the right to
loan your paper to them as money then collect interest on that paper. Then they have the
Bolas to brag they are so intelligent that no one can do what we do. A private business that
has a monopoly on currency. You will never see anti trust laws applied to them ever.
Beware savvy, sophisticate liberals bearing gifts of evasive and ethically empty prose.
Having, for my sins, spent a few weeks reading just about everything on offer from what
unrepentant neocon zealot – and born-again Washington Post columnist – Max
Boot
dubbed Joe Biden's foreign policy "A-Team," I can vouch for the new transition team's
vapidity and verisimilitude. Put another way, Boot's favored Biden Posse – the Iran
nuke channeling , P4
(Tony Blinken, Avril Haines, Jake Sullivan, and Nicholas Burns) +1 (Michèle Flournoy)
– have a rare gift for typing tons but saying little.
Worse still, what they do let slip drips with subtext of status quo-hawkishness
– Biden's shadow team of five ground hogs spotting their shadows and predicting four
more years of warfare winter. Moreover, these aren't just any Washington lowland creatures
– they're being groomed
, respectively, for national security adviser, director of national intelligence, a
senior
diplomatic role,
possible secretary of state, and probable secretary of defense.
Only you're not supposed to look under the lid of Biden's national security transition
team, because, well uh, Trump was worse, and there's, like, lots of ladies in the lineup. No
really, "serious" people are saying that . With straight faces. And clear consciences.
With no consequences. What a world!
This column's immediate genesis, though, was Glenn Greenwald 's vicious and vital
responsive -evisceration of
MSNBC contributor – and self-described "thriver on chaos"
– Mieke Eoyang's recent nonsense Newspeak tweet . Here's her attempt
to silence through shaming – and signaling by buzzword:
If the Chinese decide to really mess with the Biden administration, I'd imagine they would
do something like build a road or even a pipeline in Afghanistan, even though it is
completely unnecessary, simply to force the US to stay longer. Doesn't seem like their style,
though.
In regards to Russia, same as most of the last 100 years, really. If anything big happens
at all, it would be Putin retiring. In that case, CNN will have wild fantasies about Boris
Yeltsin 2.0, while in reality Russian oligarchs may have some kind of trial moment to figure
out whether his successor can continue to enforce a balance or not, which is a big question.
Team Biden brings nothing to the table in that situation other than talking sh#t and creating
confusion. The EU on the other hand could, but it's looking less and less likely. Especially
as they will likely be immersed in a post covid political crisis and renewed challenge from
right wing parties.
Last but not least, look for Biden to be nominated for Nobel Peace Prize before lunch on
his first day in.
here will be much pressure from the liberal hawks to finish the war they had launched
against Syria by again intensifying it. Trump had ended the CIA's Jihadi supply program.
The Biden team may well reintroduce such a scheme.
Susan Rice has criticized Trump's Doha deal with the Taliban. Under a Biden
administration U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan are therefore likely to again increase.
One possible change may come in the U.S. support for the Saudi war on Yemen. The
Democrats dislike Mohammad bin Salman and may try to use the Yemen issue to push him out of
his Crown Prince position.
Biden and his team have supported the coup attempt in Venezuela. They only criticized it
for not being done right and will probably come up with their own bloody 'solution'.
After four years of Russiagate nonsense, which Susan Rice had helped to launch, it is
impossible to again 'reset' the relations with Russia. Biden could immediately agree to
renew the New START treaty which limits strategic nuclear weapons but it is more likely
that he will want to add, like with Iran's nuclear deal, certain 'amendments' which will be
hard to negotiate. Under Biden the Ukraine may be pushed into another war against its
eastern citizens. Belarus will remain on the 'regime change' target list.
China would heave a big sigh of relief if Biden picks Rice as his secretary of state.
Beijing knows her well, as she had a hands-on role in remoulding the relationship from
engagement to selective competition, which could well be the post-Trump China policies.
For the Indian audience, which is obsessive about Biden's China policy, I would
recommend the following YouTube on Rice's oral history where she narrates her experience
as NSA on how the US and China could effectively coordinate despite their strategic
rivalry and how China actually helped America battle Ebola.
Interestingly, the recording was made in April this year amidst the "Wuhan virus"
pandemic in the US and Trump's trade and tech war with China. Simply put, Rice
highlighted a productive relationship with Beijing while probably sharing the more
Sino-skeptic sentiment of many of America's foreign policy experts and lawmakers.
All together the Biden/Harris regime will be a continuation of the Obama regime. It's
foreign policies will have awful consequences for a lot of people on this planet.
Domestically Biden/Harris will revive all the bad feelings that led to the election of
Donald Trump. The demographics of the election
show no sign of a permanent majority for Democrats.
It is therefore highly probable that Trump, or a more competent and thereby more
dangerous populist republican, will again win in
2024 .
Obama-Biden 3.0 as Pepe Escobar put it with an added twist
I do not agree with the assumption that the new administration (either Biden or Trump)
will start more wars, as you call them. I posit that Trump would have had his war if it
were possible but we are in a MAD phase of a civilization war and Biden will be just as
neutered as Trump.
We are not going back to Obama 3.0. That ship sank when Russia stymied Obama empire in
Syria. We are in a brave new world that is unfolding before our eyes....the future is all
around us but just not evenly distributed.
The Atlantic council this morning ("The way forward for transatlantic sanctions") is
already discussing new sanctions the Biden Administration will bring in against Russia over
the failed revolution in Belarus and the Navalny fraud. I'm amazed at how
self-congratulating these fools are, they truly are blind both to the problems the US is
facing and how the US is creating new international crisis that will destroy the
nation.
I can not understand why you insist here that Trump ended jihadist´s support in
Syria, when it was these past days that we knew by US envoy there, Jeffries, that the
troops not only were not decreased, by augmented.
Anyway, I guess we can conclude that if not directly, jihadists support continues
through Turkey, as we have witnessed in the past conflict in the Caucasus.
An article in Foreign Policy from a Bush era neo-con tells you what to expect:
Russia under Putin poses an existential threat to the United States and other countries of
the West, Russia's neighbors, and his own people. Biden seems to understand that, not least
because he has been the target of Russian interference in the 2020 election, including a
disinformation campaign tied to Russia that was designed to smear him and his son Hunter.
Earlier this year, Biden wrote, "To counter Russian aggression, we must keep [NATO's]
military capabilities sharp while also expanding its capacity to take on nontraditional
threats, such as weaponized corruption, disinformation, and cybertheft." He continued: "We
must impose real costs on Russia for its violations of international norms and stand with
Russian civil society, which has bravely stood up time and again against President Vladimir
Putin's kleptocratic authoritarian system." In an interview with CBS News' 60 Minutes
before the election, Biden said he considered Russia "the biggest threat to America right
now in terms of breaking up our security and our alliances."
These instincts are sound, and Biden likely will appoint officials who think the same
way he does when it comes to Putin's Russia.
The more articles and postings that I see that bemoan the Deep State restoration (horror!)
and return of business-as-usual (horror!), the more I think that we are being set up for an
eventual Trump win.
Recent history tells us that Republican Presidents do BIG WARS (invoking Republican's
claim to patriotism and a strong military) and Democratic Presidents do small, covert
wars.
Why else would Trump fight an EMPIRE-FIRST establishment that he largely agrees with (as
demonstrated by his actions while President)?
Mr Wabbit - as I've written before (here and elsewhere): there is NO really existing
difference between the which colored face(s) hang out in the WH (or in Congress) because they
all belong to the same political stratum and, essentially, hold exactly the same positions,
worldviews, attitudes, perspectives. All (aside from a tiny handful on occasion) support the
MICIMATT, are intrinsically part and parcel of it. All get to fatten their bank accounts, get
to revolve twixt this post and that in the MIC/TT/MA. At base most if not all (Blue/Red, it
matters not at all) work for/along with/are part of the corporate-capitalist-imperialist
plutocratic ruling elite.
Thus the warmaking will NOT stop without serious and continuous effort on the part of a
large part of this country's population - and that isn't likely to happen: lots of folks earn
their nice livelihoods in the MICIMATT industry; and most - overwhelmingly most - of the US
population do not give a fuck what this country does to any other around the world, so long
as a) doesn't affect them; b) their pension plans benefit; c) they can go back to sleep. How
many even know where Syria, Libya, Iran, Ukraine ARE????
And they do not care - except when there is the occasional blowback - which is viewed as
(what else?) terrorism, not simply retaliation. The real terrorism being projected, inflicted
by guess which nations?
Kevin Gosztole on Grayzone; Patrick Lawrence on Consortium News; Danny Sjursen on Anti-war
- all pieces give one despair, sheer and utter despair at the so-called electoral "choices"
we had and the reality of the continuation of the imperial war machine, run by the utterly,
completely grotesque, barbaric usuals (whatever their bloody sex, skin hue).
While lecturing the world over "international norms", the deliberate obliviousness over
the astonishing rolling humanitarian disasters initiated by the USA is beyond disturbing.
Watch out for Eliot A Cohen and what Phil Geraldi coined as "Kaganate of Nulandia" ilks in
that FP Team. In Obama's first year we had Dennis Ross at the WH and Jeffrey Feltman at
Turtle Bay whilst the R2P women were at Foggy Bottom : we got the Arab Spring followed by the
demise of Ghaddafi and the havoc in Syria.
Who will Susan Rice put in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs to give the middle finger to
Abu Mazen?
While The Dem party is strongly anti-Russia, connected at it is to the Atlantic Council
and NATO, the probable next SecDef Flourney is throwing down the gauntlet on China.
...from TaiwanNews:
Flourney assessed that China is starting to believe it can achieve a quick strike that
would disable all U.S. defenses in the region, paving the way for an invasion of Taiwan.
"China's theory of victory increasingly relies on 'system destruction warfare' -- crippling
an adversary at the outset of conflict, by deploying sophisticated electronic warfare,
counterspace, and cyber-capabilities," wrote Flourney.
To boost deterrence capabilities, Flourney asserts that the U.S. must modernize and
strengthen its forces in the region to raise the cost of "Beijing's calculus." Such is the
buildup that Flourney is advocating, that it would enable the U.S. military to "credibly
threaten to sink all of China's military vessels, submarines, and merchant ships in the
South China Sea within 72 hours" . . here
This is quite a change from the current administration, which has followed the Taiwan
Relations Act in stressing that the break-away province is responsible for its own defense,
with no mention of US support. In fact the US does not have a mutual defense treaty with this
Chinese province. Normally these treaties only include countries of course, and while Taiwan
claims to be a country of course it isn't.
On the question of war, it's no secret that Biden is likely to prove more hawkish than
Trump, though Biden himself is a diplomatic man. However the world has changed since the days
of Obama. The Middle East has ground to a stalemate, and there are no objectives to achieve
by putting in more troops or air-strikes. Trump just tried and failed to bomb Iran. The
military advice to Biden won't be different.
With regard to the "pivot to Asia", I doubt that the Chinese are much afraid of a US
attack.
...Abstracting the factor of a new party naturally being inclined to reinitialize all the
wars abandoned or paralyzed by the previous party at a first glance...
1) Venezuela: I would bet Biden should have learned from Trump's mistake, but fact on the
field is the Southern Caribbean nation is a too appetizing target for him to to revisit it
and do a real invasion with Colombia through the land as an auxiliary;
2) South China Sea/Taiwan: Susan Rice's little story is touching, but the Western-backed
Asian MSM (SCMP, Asia Times etc.) is already preparing the psychological/ideological field
for a hot war between China and the USA there, which means they were already briefed by
Biden's team it will happen;
3) Afghanistan: at the heart of Central Asia (Heartland) + CIA opium = a matchstick will
rule over the Cocytus before the USA abandon its occupation of that country;
4) Yemen: the war pays for itself as the Saudis are recycling USDs into American weapons,
so I think inertia will prevail. When the Saudis say it's over, it's over;
5) Syria: game's over for the Americans there. The Russians imposed a no-fly zone to
NATO/USA. Most they can do is to prop up Turkey (which they don't like right now) to fund
terrorists in Idlib to try to drain the Russian coffers a little bit more but the Kremlin can
push the nuclear button anytime if it really comes to that point (if ever);
6) Belarus: it was more a German affair than an American affair. Doesn't apply;
7) Ukraine: unfinished business will probably lead to another ramping up over the Dnieper,
but the Donbassians have the geographical advantage and will never lose their territory as
long as they have full-fledged support from Russia;
8) Russia: the problem here is the USA is in a position it has to choose - Russia or the
European Peninsula? Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has already stated Germany's unconditional
loyalty to the USA is directly linked to the continuation of NATO. If NATO's gone, then the
European Peninsula may become a second Southeast Asia.
If ... Tom Cotton is the Republican nominee, a Dem Presidential victory in 2024 will make
Biden's 2020 landslide look like the small mound of sand sliding into the bottom half of an
hourglass.
Citibank's foreign policy Team would be much more accurate wouldn't it ?
That's like saying Obomber or Bush had their own foreign and economic policy.
The only reason DC puts on this shit show is to protect the owners from
accountability.
No matter who the "president" is there will be more war, sanctions, and coup attempts
because that's what the money/power cult needs to obtain more power and control.
These assholes successfully perpetrated a coup of the US government, why would they worry
about which flunky gets (s)elected ??
"Hillary Clinton at the UN? Whether or not Biden appoints her, things are getting very
brazen and very bitter, very fast."
Lawrence opines:
"Let us now send this conscienceless liar to the UN to make sure the world knows we're all
for international cooperation so long as all others submit to our dictates and don't get in
our way when we invade other countries, foment coups or otherwise breach international
law.
"I confess to longstanding animosity toward the odious Clinton. In truth she is merely the
apotheosis of what we've known for some time about the incoming regime's character.
"Biden's army of foreign-policy transition advisers -- 2,000 in number -- is chock-a-block
with warmongers, Russophobes, Sinophobes, Iranophobes, exceptionalists, puppets of apartheid
Israel, humanitarian interventionists, and others promising nothing but trouble. We've known
this for some time."
Lawrence did some great digging to complement the work done by other investigators. The
following is excellent:
"The Democratic 2020 platform published on the eve of Biden's nomination last summer,
intended to bring Bernie Sanders' supporters on board, included these commitments on the
foreign-policy side:
•"Bringing our forever wars to a responsible end."
•"Rationalizing the defense budget."
•Ending covert "regime change" operations in favor of "more effective and less costly
diplomatic, intelligence, and law enforcement tools."
•"Right-sizing our counterterrorism footprint."
•Scaling back U.S. involvement in Afghanistan in favor of "a durable and inclusive
political settlement" with a residual role for special operations forces.
"Didn't President Donald Trump attempt to achieve various of these objectives? Didn't
hawks in his administration and at the Pentagon vigorously and illegally subvert these
attempts? Didn't the mainstream press cheer on these subversions while lambasting Trump daily
for jeopardizing "national security" as he tried (however inconsistently) to bring troops
home, settle up in Afghanistan, negotiate with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and other
such things?...
"Those who expected the Biden regime to give Americans a thoughtful, informed,
post-exceptionalist foreign policy -- and I am not among these people -- are in for too many
disappointments to list over the next four years. Let us consider a few of the more
consequential."
Lawrence goes on to detail why there'll be no peace in Eurasia and no reduction in the
Imperial Budget. I agree 100% with his summation:
"One principle will guide the Biden regime's foreign policies. Biden is a man of empire
and those around him empire's lieutenants. This will determine all of what is to come."
Realistically that means the Outlaw US Empire will continue to drown as it spins around
and slowly descends down the toilet bowl. Nowhere in anyone's analysis of this issue is there
any mention of the fact that great domestic strength and vitality are a prerequisite for any
attempt at Imperial Dominance, and nowhere in Bidenland is there any policy proposal to
rehabilitate that fact. Sure, all sorts of hawks will populate the Pentagon and continue at
the State Dept, but they might as well be doves since the Empire's industrial base can no
longer support an aggressive Imperial Policy. Then there's the Human Capital that's in just
as dire a condition as the Industrial Plant. Biden in many respects faces the same set of
problems Trump was confronted with and allowed to fester/worsen. Plus, half the nation is
dead-set against him and his regime, perhaps even more so than with Trump since there'll be
no constant BigLie Media smearing.
The gap between the Outlaw US Empire and those nations it's chosen to demonize as
competitors and worse continues to grow daily. The RCEP is only one manifestation. A second
is the continuance of BRICS, which just held a Summit. If Biden launches an attack against
Iran, he'll suffer a massive defeat for the same reasons as Trump. Same with North Korea.
Same as with the South China Sea. Same as with Taiwan. Same as with Syria. And I'd say the
last bullet within the Color Revolution gun available for use in Eurasia was recently fired
to no effect. Latin America is rebounding again. In almost every respect, the Outlaw US
Empire is weaker now than in 2017 when Trump took over. IMO, Biden's #1, most important and
difficult job will be domestic since his donors will insist they be allowed to continue to
eat away at the vitals that are the fundamental basis of support for the Empire--Following in
the footsteps of Rome.
Russia will be the main target of the new US regime, expect to see the russian underbelly
in flames in the Caucasus, in Central Asia and of course in Ukraine and Syria.
The russian regimen change project will be at full speed, economically, politically,
domestic and external insurgencies, all in order to bleed to death the Bear that they see as
a cultural, military, industrial and natural resources rival that has to be fully destroyed
and reduced to smithereens, divided in corrupt satrapies much smaller and easy dominate
"à la ukrainien" or georgian, to extract, on the cheap, all their natural resources
with nice fees for the Biden family or many others american plutocrats. Win-win
situation.
One of the pieces to "bleed the beast" project was the Pashinyan sororite hiper-corrupt
regime, who sell large amounts of weapons to the jihadis in Syria to kill russians and
syrians soldiers, this was the last straw for the russkies with them:
So the DoD just announced that Trump is drawing down troops in Afghanistan and Iraq to
2500 for each by January 15th 2020, and there are about 5,000 private military contractors in
each which will probably increase to compensate. Easy call for Trump.
Yes, I saw McConnel plead to be able to stay and "finish" Afghanistan. Such a tired show
now. The same ol' tune, spoken a thousand times on that senate floor.
But to your point, not all Republicans are non-interventionists. There are many, many
RINOs amongst them who actually loathed the idea of Trump as POTUS in 2015, so much so that
it took the groundswell of support for DJT that these RINOs relented and hopped aboard the
Trump-train.
Now that he has lost, they want to revert back to their prior and favored position as
controlled opposition to the Dem establishment. It will at first be subtle, with feigned
support for outgoing POTUS, but gradually, they will cease mentioning him at all.
It remains to be seen whether the constituents in these RINOs' districts will not see
through the subterfuge.
As I have mentioned before, I think they will come for the RINOs if they disembark the
Trump-train. They are sowing wind.
As we move forward resistance to American hegemony becomes stronger, more broad and a more
viable counterbalance to the western hegemony on world affairs. This is while US and her
allies have and are becoming weaker and therefore more unbalanced. Political and economic
unbalance as seen during the pandemic is much more difficult and costly for developed
nations as would be for the third world.
As has been seen in past few years this shifting power balance will naturally make the losing
power, more reactionary and more violent to preserve and restore her power, both domestically
and externally.
As this giant corpse start decaying her parasites start chowing more and demanding more to
save themselves, which makes this dying giant even more unpredictable, and perhaps more
reactionary and violent regardless who's the president and in power, Trump or Biden has not
and will not make any change difference for the Deep state policies.
Fortunately this is, and has been, the trajectory we are on for some time now, and IMO this
is unstoppable, no matter who and how much propaganda is leveled inside and outside of
west.
Biden has said that he will re-instate the nuclear agreement with Iran but with
'amendments'.
Wishful thinking by Biden and his faction, if he get into white house at all. The greatest
obstacle for any US president to get back to JCPOA is the general disqualification of US
governments to be part of any international agreement.
Obama signed, Trump teared in pieces, Biden signing again (are we in a Kindergarten?), who is
going to guarantee that the next republican president (in 4 years?) doesn't tear it in pieces
again or even the to-be president Kemala Harris (in 2 years?) doesn't trigger the snap back
as a friendly pay back gesture to the Zionist Apartheid regime for getting the job as
president?
Although Rouhani government has sent strong signals that they are ready for a new round of
negotiation, with less then 9 months to the next elections in Iran, almost no chance that the
next winner come from technocrat camp, theocracy not ready to support technocratic efforts
for new negotiations and finally wide popular resistance to continue the JCPOA even in the
current format. It would be more then a wounder to encounter JCPOA 2.0
What occupies the fantasies of the populace does matter to the oligarchs who run the show.
If it didn't matter to the elites they would not spend so much time and energy trying to
shape those fantasies...
The elites are going to support the politicians that are most accomplished and adept at
bolstering the fantasy of the two party system and American democrazy. There is no doubt that
Donald Trump is the salesman of the year for the smoke the elites are blowing up your ass.
There is no other politician that could get 150 million americans sucked into the
fantasy.
And what that means is they will do whatever they can to make sure trump gets another four
more years.
Can't say I disagree with much of this when taken at face value, but I'd appreciate some
backing to this assertion, for which it's quite uncharacteristic of b not to provide right up
front.....if true.
Biden and his team have supported the coup attempt in Venezuela. They only criticized it
for not being done right and will probably come up with their own bloody 'solution'.
I should note, and most MoA readers will agree, that it's nearly impossible to find any
Western media organization - including erstwhile progressive outlets - who don't agree with
the alleged status quo that Maduro is a "dictator" and "has to go."
So what WOULD a Biden administration do differently? All's I can find of substance is that
they'd use sanctions in a more precise manner, not the blunt force instrument that Trump has
applied - and - that they would grant temporary protected status to Venezuelans wishing to
flee (I'd bet there's a good mix of the Mestizo and Moreno poor, as well as the trust fund
descendants of the colonial elite) to the United States whereas Trump refused or dragged his
feet to the point that it didn't matter.
I think, then, that the decisions made will be less to do with Biden being a bad man
(which, like Trump, he is), but instead all grounded in the accepted "reality" that "Maduro
must go" and there must be a "peaceful democratic transition" (back to right-wing colonialist
descendants from whom (some of) their stolen land and oil leases were stolen back under
Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution. This falsehood has been cemented as truth and reality
across both sides of the U.S. political spectrum as well as that of the UK, Canada and
France: Maduro = Commie Dictator and Brutal Humanitarian Abuser. There is absolutely ZERO way
that Joe Biden would go against it in any meaningful way. He'll just do it a little less
roughly and mean spiritedly as Trump and Bush before him had done (no coups and fewer
sanctions under Obama).
This is a good article on the
intricacies of the politics of food (and resources - a good history lesson all the way
around and recommended - written in June of 2018 and looking back not only on the Chavez
years, but the colonial history that preceded him. I think it's required reading for anyone
who wants to get into a debate or discussion (here or elsewhere) about Chavez and Maduro.
Trump is war monger lite compared to Biden that is war monger/criminal heavy. Greater
chaos is coming inside and outside the US while liberals go back to sleep comfortable that
another Obama like admin is in charge.
My prediction: in the next four years it will be near impossible to paper over the
objective collapse of the US Empire of Insanity.
Biden's campaign said he "was among the first Democratic foreign policy voices to
recognize Juan Guaidó as Venezuela's legitimate leader and to call for Maduro to
resign."
Even socialist Sanders, who refused to call Maduro a "dictator", is anti-Maduro:
Sanders called Maduro a "vicicious tyrant" and said there should be "international and
regional cooperation for free elections in Venezuela so that the people of that country can
make -- can create their own future."
there's plenty of countries in the world where the US will continue and/or try to regime
change legitimate governments.
some of these were already started by Mr. Hope and Change, and will continue or be ramped
up by Mr. Sleepy/Rice/Flournoy - like Ukraine, a perfect pretext to irritate Russia with. And
poor Venezuela, which both current and past administrations have attempted to strangle to
death
Some of these came to fruition under Pompeo/Haspel/Trump like Armenia (2018); and some
like Belarus have survived, so far.
some where successfully changed under Trump, like Brazil.
some were temporarily regime changed, like Bolivia (2019), but are now back in the hands
of the real Socialists and indigenous peoples.
some were successfully carried out under Obama, like in Honduras and Paraguay.
The chinese finally learned and took action in Hong Kong which is now essentially out of
the regime change column. Iran will never be regime changed either, nor Syria.
And some like Lebanon are still in play.
I expect economic sanctions/warfare to be increasingly used by this incoming democratic
administration as much as the outgoing republican.
The way for all this nefarious and despicable activity by the US and the West to end
is....??
Trump just didn't have the same amount of low hanging fruit that Obama did . . .like
Ukraine and Syria
low hanging fruit: a thing or person that can be won, obtained, or persuaded with little
effort.
Let's be clear that Obama's "fruit" turned out to be rotten apples (losses in Ukraine*
& Syria**), plus Mr Hope & Change foolishly sent 70,000 more troops to Afghanistan,
destroyed one of the leading countries in Africa (Libya) for no reason, threatened Iran every
fortnight with his "all options on the table" BS then did an 'agreement' with Iran that was
easily overturned,. .the list goes on.
*NATO wanted Russia's only warm-water port in Crimea, and didn't get it.
**Russia stepped in to prevent US-supported regime change
All of the linear and conventional predictions about the next administration's foreign
policy will be proven wrong, because they neglect the near-fatal deterioration of the US
economy and its social fabric in the last 4 years. In short, any return to the pre-Trump
status quo is simply impossible. That ship sailed forever.
What is pretty much guaranteed, however, is significant and irreversible ratcheting up of
economic tension between America and the rest of the world. The approach may undergo some
finessing, but substance will not only remain but acquire additional urgency. The US is in
desperate need of reducing its current account deficit, and that can't be accomplished
without more threats, more brinkmanship, and more unilateral impositions. You can say goodbye
to any prospect of international harmony, it won't happen. Sure, Democrats may attempt
softening of rhetoric at first, but it will be proven counterproductive and abandoned rather
quickly.
The only reason the Deep State brought Biden back to political life, is because he is one of
the few remaining old Cold Warriors capable of achieving normalization of relations with
Russia. It's of overarching importance at this point, as without it nothing really works for
America and all possible geopolitical equations simply fall apart right away. It's also
pretty clear that because Biden's mental and physical condition is in rapid decline, such
normalization will be proceeding at breakneck speed. Expect Biden-Putin summit in first 6
months of the inauguration, ostensibly to sign new Start Treaty or prolong the old one. After
that, "the dialogue" will kick into overdrive.
All in all, modeling next 4 years of US foreign policy based on op-ed articles in American
MSM is just silly. These are written not to enlighten but to obfuscate. Expect secret
entreaties to Moscow literally within hours of January 20, 2021.
There may be some small cookies thrown Russia's way, but that country as a serious threat
must remain. The 500,000 person US ground force, modernly equipped, depends upon it. There is
no other justification, only a "dangerous" Russia.
Look at Zionist-imperialist bitch Susan Rice berating the UN General Assembly for its
overwhelming vote in 2012 on according Palestine non-member observer status:
Just as the US must have enemies, because there's so much money in it, it must also (for
the same reason) continue to have Israel calling the signals in the Middle East.
By "low hanging fruit" (or poisoned apples), what I meant was from the PR angle.
Situations in those places - by the CIA's making or not - were being reported in the West in
such a manner so that they were more easily than usual sold as "humanitarian interventions"
to "help democracy flourish" and the like. Whereas Bush had his 9/11 and fake WMD threats
from Saddam, Obama had the "organic" "grassroots" uprisings in Ukraine, Syria, Libya, Tunisia
and other places which would be used as excuses to go in and steal gold, wreck nations who
were a threat to the Franco or American post-colonial control structures, and otherwise
instill chaos, which is one major goal of EVERY U.S. intervention - especially in the ME.
But yeah, what was done to Libya, Syria and the Ukraine is unforgiveable. I'm just saying
that TPTB when Trump was in office didn't have the easy, made-for-humanitarian intervention
news stories to excuse the next round of destruction. That's one reason they had to try so
hard with Iran - going as far as designating their military and its leaders as terrorists and
all that shit so they could bomb Soleimani while he was on a diplomatic mission. Can't have
an outbreak of peace, now, can we? That is, unless it's a carefully scripted PR version of
"peace" such as what we saw recently with the gulf monarchies and Israel.
Gonna have to say target numero uno has got to be Syria. Finishing off Syria, and chasing
the Russians home will be the lynchpin to the rest of Biden's Middle East Policy. Once Syria
is collapsed into chaos and ethnic cleansing, Lebanon/Hezbollah become much easier to deal
with. Iran becomes further isolated and it's ability to project power seriously reduced. The
whole point of JCPOA IMO was a delaying tactic, keeping Iran on the back burner while Iranian
Proxies and Regional Influence are mopped up.
I expect the Mighty Media Wurlitzer of Pro-War Propaganda will soon begin spinning up and
focusing on the brutality inflicted on the moderate head-choppers by the Assad
Regime...another chemical weapons attack anyone?
The Russian presence in Syria is actually quite precarious, despite their military gains
they don't project power very efficiently beyond their borders. The Biden Regime will
therefore turn up the heat, possibly with a No-Fly Zone over both Idlib and Southern Syria/Al
Tanf in conjunction with a well armed proxy offensive backed by air-support. DNC Dems/Deep
State/NeoCon believe Russia to be bluffing and will either back down or be rolled over in
short order.
Strange IMO.
Most everyone here is talking like it will be business as usual on foreign policy.
I am not so sure. I think that Covid19 has pricked the phony bubble created after the 08/09
collapse. I know the stock market is right back and everything looks fine but I think there
is deep rot beneath.
Couple that with a lot of draws in their latest endeavours and I doubt that the machine can
keep operating with such confidence/arrogance.
Do you also remember how the 2000 presidential campaign played out? Gore was characterized
by the MSM, straight up, as an "interventionist" while Bush - eager to distance his own
foreign policy from the Balkan wars and Clinton/Gore tried to walk a fine line between
isolationism (of which he was accused) and non-interventionism.
During the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush announced that he would pursue a
"distinctly American internationalism" in foreign policy (Bush i999a), largely in contrast
to the liberal internationalism of the Clinton administration. He initially sought to have
a foreign policy that placed greater emphasis on American national interests than on global
interests.
(look up George W. Bush and "classical realism")
So what do Trump and Bush II have in common? How about Trump and Obama? I'll tell you: The
preceding administration of the opposite political party had a history of military
interventions that were quite unpopular with the public, which was looking for a change. And
guess what Obama said when he first stepped into office. That's right - he'd pursue a
retrenchment based foreign policy dedicated to fighting existing terror threats in places and
places near where the previous administration had already placed American troops - AND to
wrap up the already existing wars. From the Atlantic's retrospective:
It wasn't supposed to be this way. Although Obama never presented himself as a pacifist
candidate, his 2007-2008 presidential campaign was predicated in part on the promise to end
the war in Iraq and properly prosecute the war in Afghanistan. In March 2008, he declared
of Iraq, "When I am commander in chief, I will set a new goal on day one: I will end this
war." Later that year, he listed his first two priorities for making America safer as
"ending the war in Iraq responsibly" and "finishing the fight against al-Qaeda and the
Taliban." The president also promised a foreign policy that relied more on diplomacy and
less on military might in his first inaugural address, telling his audience that "our power
grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the
force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint." Well before the
tumult of the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Obama famously offered to extend a hand to
those willing to unclench their fist. (there are links embedded there)
Here's what Brookings has to say:
I do not mean to overstate. Obama's presidency will not go down as a hugely positive
watershed period in American foreign policy. He ran for election in 2007 and 2008 promising
to mend the West's breach with the Islamic world, repair the nation's image abroad, reset
relations with Russia, move toward a world free of nuclear weapons, avoid "stupid wars"
while winning the "right war," combat climate change, and do all of this with a
post-partisan style of leadership that brought Americans themselves together in the
process.[1] He ran for reelection in 2012 with the additional pledges of ending the
nation's wars and completing the decimation of al Qaeda. Six years into his presidency,
almost none of these lofty aspirations has been achieved.[2] There has not been, and likely
will not be, any durable Obama doctrine of particular positive note. The recent progress
toward a nuclear deal with Iran, while preferable to any alternative if it actually
happens, is probably too limited in duration and overall effect to count as a historic
breakthrough (even if Obama shares a second Nobel Prize as a result).
And before you start to think that Trump said much different, here's a blurb from your own
article:
"We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we
shouldn't be involved with," Trump said. "Instead, our focus must be on defeating terrorism
and destroying ISIS, and we will."
Hence, there hasn't been a President for the last 50 years that has campaigned on, or
entered office with a PUBLIC plan to engage in foreign regime change activities. But nearly
every one of them, especially since Ronald Reagan, have had "excuses" crop up for
"humanitarian interventions" and that includes Bush II and Obama. The so-called Arab Spring
began in earnest in mid- to late 2010 and Syria and Libya were in mid to late 2011 during
their peak, at which point the U.S. and France got involved under the auspices of
"humanitarian intervention."
So more than 3 years into his first term, Obama still hadn't "started any new wars." Three
years is an incredibly short period of time when looking at history, even the history of the
United States. Trump's only been in office for about 3 years and 9 months. Nothing like the
Arab Spring has happened so far while he's been there. That is indisputable. What is also
indisputable is that Trump DID try to spark a war by assassinating General Soleimani. Whether
there was any plan AT THE TIME to end up invading Iran (a total fool's errand as you know
well), I doubt, but the goal of that assassination was to prevent an organic, non-U.S.
brokered peace between Iran and Saudi Arabia, which at the very least was a threat to Trump's
precious arms sales, but also very much in line with his Zionist friendly Israel policy. At
worst, who knows, but you can't make an unchallenged assumption that Trump and his advisors
had fully thought through all possible Iranian retaliation options and concluded that there
was no way the assassination would cause Iran to do something so bad that a new war was
justified regardless of the cost. Sorry, but you just can't.
Yeah, yeah, Trump hasn't started any "new wars" but his rhetoric and public facing stated
foreign policy goals were virtually the same as Obama's. Trump just didn't get any 9/11s,
Eastern European or Middle East uprisings that would have been sufficient for him or ANY
previous president to attempt to justify "humanitarian interventions" abroad. As I've said
for a while, if he had a second term, there would have been a new war - even if it was the
"deep state" and CIA who created the astroturf casus belli.
...Trump has also unleashed a mass proto fascist movement, which is based amongst the
lowest scum of the working class, various billionaire factions, and the white suburban middle
class and small business owners.
These genies will not go back into their bottles. Neoliberal hegemony is shattered.
All of this is the result of the 1% sucking the blood of the working class for the past
four decades. 2008 was the spark. Covid was the explosion.
I see this every damn day in the US, even in a wealthy liberal city. The social fabric has
largely fallen apart. Living in the US is daily suffering, dashed hopes, sadness, and rage.
It is awful.
Biden won't have any room for major wars abroad. He might try to rebuild liberal alliances
but he won't have any capacity to overthrow Asad or Maduro or to reverse the objective trends
of global capitalism. How can he reboot US primacy if China and Asia account for 90 percent
of world economic growth?
Covid has revealed the US as a paper tiger with little institutional capacity to manage
itself or the world. It is in fact a threat to the world.
Biden and his neoliberal coterie will act like arrogant pricks. They are arrogant pricks.
But we can laugh at them. They have a limited shelf life.
Well of course it will be awful. There has never been an administration in American
history that hasn't been awful on foreign policy. We've always been an empire.
Biden will find a world different than the one he remembers from four years ago. The
blustering incompetence of the Trump administration was the world's cue to move on. And the
empire now has a lot of issues in the home territory that need immediate and drastic
attention.
Few empires survive long after being forced to turn inward after a long period of
expansion. We're beyond things that can papered better with a glorious little war.
Biden likely takes power with a collapsed health care sector and a real economy of misery
for most. He'll have a federal government riddled wholly unqualified ideologues in a country
that went ahead and delegitimized it's own elections for one man's vanity. Where half the
country doesn't believe in the virus that crushed the health care system and wrecked the
economy. It will all be terrible because the US has reached the historical point where
terrible describes all the options.
"... There is some pushback in Washington to Israeli dominance, but not much. Recent senior Pentagon appointee Colonel Douglas Macgregor famously has pointed out that many American politicians get "very, very rich" through their support of Israel even though it means the United States being dragged into new wars. ..."
That Israel would blatantly and openly interfere in the deliberations of Congress raises
some serious questions which the mainstream media predictably is not addressing. Jewish power
in America is for real and it is something that some Jews
are not shy about discussing among themselves. Jewish power is unique in terms of how it
functions. If you're an American (
or British ) politician, you very quickly are made to appreciate that Israel owns you and
nearly all of your colleagues. Indeed, the process begins in the U.S. even before your election
when the little man from AIPAC shows up with the check list that he wants you to sign off on.
If you behave per instructions your career path will be smooth, and you will benefit from your
understanding that everything happening in Washington that is remotely connected to the
interests of the state of Israel is to be determined by the Jewish state alone, not by the U.S.
Congress or White House.
And, here is the tricky part, even while you are energetically kowtowing to Netanyahu, you
must strenuously deny that there is Jewish power at work if anyone ever asks you about it. You
behave in that fashion because you know that your pleasant life will be destroyed, painfully,
if you fail to deny the existence of an Israel Lobby or the Jewish power that supports it.
It is a bold assertion, but there is plenty of evidence to support how that power is exerted
and what the consequences are. Senators William Fulbright and Chuck Percy and Congressmen Paul
Findlay, Pete McCloskey and Cynthia McKinney have all experienced the wrath of the Lobby and
voted out of office. Currently Reverend Raphael Warnock, who is running against Georgia
Loeffler for a senate seat in Georgia demonstrates exactly how candidates are convinced to
stand on their heads by the Israel Lobby. Warnock was a strong supporter of Palestinian rights
and a critic of Israeli brutality.
He said as recently as 2018 that the Israelis were shooting civilians and condemned the
military occupation and settlement construction on the Palestinian West Bank, which he compared
to apartheid South Africa. Now that he is running for the Senate, he is saying that he is
opposed to the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement due to what he calls the
movement's "anti-Semitic overtones." He also supports continued military assistance for Israel
and believes that Iran is in pursuit of a nuclear weapon, both of which are critical issues
being promoted by the Zionist lobby.
There is some pushback in Washington to Israeli dominance, but not much. Recent senior
Pentagon appointee Colonel Douglas Macgregor
famously has pointed out that many American politicians get "very, very rich" through their
support of Israel even though it means the United States being dragged into new wars. Just
how Israel gains control of the U.S. political process is illustrated by the devastating
insider tale of how the Obama Administration's feeble attempts to do the right thing in the
Middle East were derailed by American Jews in Congress, the media, party donors and from inside
the White House itself. The story is of particularly interest as the Biden Administration will
no doubt suffer the same fate if it seeks to reject or challenge Israel's ability to manipulate
and virtually control key aspects of U.S. foreign policy.
The account of Barack Obama's struggle with Israel and the Israeli Lobby comes from a
recently published memoir written by a former foreign policy adviser Ben Rhodes. It is
entitled
The World As It Is , and it is extremely candid about how Jewish power was able to
limit the foreign policy options of a popular sitting president. Rhodes recounts, for example,
how Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel once nicknamed him "Hamas" after he dared to speak up for
Palestinian human rights, angrily shouting at him "Hamas over here is going to make it
impossible for my kid to have his fucking bar mitzvah in Israel."
Rhodes cites numerous instances where Obama was forced to back down when confronted by
Israel and its supporters in the U.S. as well as within the Democratic Party. On several
occasions, Netanyahu lecture the U.S. president as if he were an errant schoolboy. And Obama
just had to take it. Rhodes sums up the situation as follows: "In Washington, where support for
Israel is an imperative for members of Congress, there was a natural deference to the views of
the Israeli government on issues related to Iran, and Netanyahu was unfailingly
confrontational, casting himself as an Israeli Churchill . AIPAC and other organizations exist
to make sure that the views of the Israeli government are effectively disseminated and opposing
views discredited in Washington, and this dynamic was a permanent part of the landscape of the
Obama presidency."
And, returning to the persistent denial of Jewish power even existing when it is running
full speed and relentlessly, Rhodes notes the essential dishonesty of the Israel Lobby as it
operates in Washington: "Even to acknowledge the fact that AIPAC was spending tens of millions
to defeat the Iran deal [JCPOA] was anti-Semitic. To observe that the same people who supported
the war in Iraq also opposed the Iran deal was similarly off limits. It was an offensive way
for people to avoid accountability for their own positions."
Many Americans long to live in a country that is at peace with the world and respectful of
the sovereignty of foreign nations. Alas, as long as Israeli interests driven by overwhelming
Jewish power in the United States continue to corrupt our institutions that just will not be
possible. It is time for all Americans, including Jews, to accept that Israel is a foreign
country that must make its own decisions and thereby suffer the consequences. The United States
does not exist to bail Israel out or to provide cover for its bad behavior. The so-called
"special relationship" must end and the U.S. must deal with the Israelis as they would with any
other country based on America's own self-interests. Those interests definitely do not include
funding the Israeli war machine, assassinating foreign leaders, or attacking a non-threatening
Iran while continuing an illegal occupation of Syria.
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest,
a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a
more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is https://councilforthenationalinterest.org,
address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email isinform@cnionline.org .
Threat inflation is like Apple pie among Washington swamp national security parasites
Notable quotes:
"... The US security state, with its huge military forces and techno-industrial base, and no diplomatic need nor capability, REQUIRES (fake) "security threats" in order to exist. ..."
"... Those appointed "threats" are currently, probably not changing soon, in some order of "threat-size" . . . ..."
Applying any logic to the "threats" against the US "national security" AKA world hegemony
becomes much simpler with recognizing two simple facts:
1. The US security state, with its huge military forces and techno-industrial base, and no
diplomatic need nor capability, REQUIRES (fake) "security threats" in order to exist.
2. Those appointed "threats" are currently, probably not changing soon, in some order of
"threat-size" . . .
China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Venezuela, & African
"terrorists" -- did I miss anyone?
" The maintenance of Americans' constitutional rights should not depend on the good
graces and sketchy ethics of a handful of well-connected corporations who have stonewalled
Congress, lied to Congress, and have questionable judgment when it comes to security
"
-Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore)
Barely two weeks ago allegations that the 2020 US Presidential election had been rigged on
behalf of DNC presidential spawn Joe Biden were met with almost universal scepticism. This past
week may have changed that.
In the
article of Monday, Nov 9 the author examined the problems with the mail-in ballot totals in
the five key swing states and the legal and legislative challenges to them including re-counts
and the SCOTUS intervention of the PA Supreme Court.
The subject of alleged DNC election fraud has now shifted to an examination of the machines
that count each ballot and render the results. The voter is supposed to believe that Joe Biden
defeated Trump and at the same time lost seats in the US House and state legislatures. This is
possible but highly improbable.
Today, Nov 17, in preparation for a multi-state legal challenge to results created by these
voting machines, lead Trump attorney and former Assistant US Attorney Sidney Powell, said:
"They need to investigate the likelihood that 3% of the vote total was changed in the
pre-election voting ballots that were collected digitally by using the Hammer program and the
software program called Scorecard. That would have amounted to a massive change in the
vote."
Here, begins that examination. As shown, there is reason for concern.
Numbers don't lie. Mounting evidence to date suggests that voting machines do, particularly
the ones sold by Dominion Voting Systems Inc. As the third part of this chronology begins it
has now become obvious that Trump's campaign operatives expected election fraud. They have
since very quickly brought legal challenges to bear in AZ, GA, MI, PA, WI, and NV. However,
most of this news first circled around only the mail-in ballots.
From Trump's perspective, as of this writing, 87,804 (WI-20,540; GA-14,045; PA- 53,219) are
needed to flip the election. MI is the toughest and shows Biden up by a reported 146,123
votes.
Interestingly, regarding the numbers in each state- and AZ- the Dominion voting machine's
results are in dispute in all. Whereas, the proceedings regarding the mail-in ballots
may provide a switch of perhaps thousands of votes, issues with the Dominion machines,
if proven, could be in the 100's of Thousands. Or More.
This past week, evidence is surfacing.
Before 2020:Warning Signs
Days before the 2020 election important news was buried. On September 30 a report in the
Philadelphia Inquirerdetailed that"a laptop and several memory
sticks" used to program Dominion voting machines in Philadelphia had mysteriously
vanished.
But concerns about Dominion had begun far earlier.
The U.S. Constitution leaves election management up to state and local officials, so voting
systems and protocols vary across thousands of jurisdictions. Partly for this reason, a 2019
investigation was launched by senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ron
Wyden (D-Ore.), and other Democratic lawmakers into the three largest suppliers of US digital
voting machines, Dominion Voting Systems, Election Systems & Software, and Hart InterCivic.
Together they hold over 92% of all US distribution of voting machines.
"(W)e have concerns about the spread and effect of private equity investment including the
election technology industry -- an integral part of our nation's democratic process These
problems threaten the integrity of our elections and demonstrate the importance of election
systems that are strong, durable, and not vulnerable to attack."
The Committee revealed that the Dominion machines were vulnerable to internal and internet
hacking. Because all these machines interface their ballot totals via wireless digital modem
external interference is all too possible. Further concerns were
provided by NBC news in very early 2020.
In the State of
Texas , well before the 2020 election Dominion Voting Systems and their proprietary
"Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5 " was rejected three times. From the summary:
"The reports identified multiple hardware and software issues that preclude the Office of
the Texas Secretary of State from determining that the Democracy Suite 5.5-A system satisfies
each of the voting-system requirements Specifically, [if] the system is suitable for its
intended purpose; operates efficiently and accurately; and is safe from fraudulent or
unauthorized manipulation."
Previously, Federal regulation attempts on voting machines in 2018 were fruitless since this
was opposed by some state election officials and the White House on the grounds that it would
impose on states' rights.
A prudent measure that had some bipartisan support ( S. 2593 in the 115th Congress )
ended up going nowhere. Introduced by Sen. James Lankford
(R-Okla.) this bill would have required voting machines to produce a printout to let election
officials confirm electronic votes. Lankford and Wyden had said that they intended to
reintroduce paper-trail bills. They did not.
The Penn Wharton Public Policy Initiative published
a report that explored their attempts to look into Dominion and other voting companies:
"Part of the challenge is that it is difficult to compile even basic facts about it. The
industry earns an estimated $300 million in revenue annually is dominated by three firms [and
is] limiting the amount of information available in the public domain about their operations
and financial performance."
Nonetheless, Republicans and Democrats agreed in a 2018 omnibus bill ( Public Law 115-141 ) to
divide among the states $380 million for voting system upgrades. Georgia's legislature also
approved a plan to spend as much as $150 million on equipment that cybersecurity researchers
say is still
hackable . Most of that equipment was supplied by Dominion.
According to Business Insider , Georgia "became the only state in the country last year
to overhaul its entire election system, paying Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems $106
million for new voting machines, printers and scanners."
The NY Times reported that some Democrats in the Georgia Legislature opposed
purchasing the Dominion system and there is "some evidence that heavy lobbying and sales
tactics have played a role in their adoption in Georgia and elsewhere."
In hotly contested Georgia, during 2019's test run a
now-deleted Atlanta Journal Constitution article detailed "a glitch" that surfaced
when six counties tested the Dominion system. The problem occurred in at least four of the six
counties where the
new voting system was being
tested before being used statewide during the March 24 presidential primary. The problems
weren't rectified by primary date, which was moved to June due to the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the New York
Times :
"Georgia's statewide primary elections on Tuesday were overwhelmed by a full-scale
meltdown of new voting systems Scores of new state-ordered voting machines were reported to
be missing or malfunctioning, and hours-long lines materialized at polling places across
Georgia. Some people gave up and left before casting a ballot Predominantly black areas
experienced some of the worst problems.
Who is Dominion?
Dominion Voting Systems is a company from Toronto, Canada , that has headquarters in Denver, Colorado, and is
one of the three major firms providing voting machines in U.S. elections. The others are
Election Systems & Software, and Hart InterCivic with ES&C in the top spot and Dominion
at number two.
A
2014 form filed with the State of California says Dominion was founded in 2003 in Canada
and in 2009 moved to the U.S. Its principal officers were listed as John Poulos, CEO; Ian
MacVicar, CFO; and James Hoover, vice president of product line management. Dominion Voting Systems , claims to work with 1300
voting jurisdictions including nine of the 20 largest counties in the nation.
Dominion produced the software used in MI , GA and all the remaining states in question.
Like many corporations, Dominion purchased influence in congress. Bloomberg reported in
April of last year that Dominion hired lobbying firm, Brownstein Farber Hyatt & Schreck.
House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi's former chief of staff, Nadeam Elshami, is one of the lobbyists
for that firm.
At the state level, Dominion employs eight registered lobbyists in GA alone. They include
Lewis Abit Massey ,
a former Democratic Georgia Secretary of State, and Jared Thomas, former chief of staff for
Republican Governor Brian Kemp.
ES&S also has its own lobbying effort recently adding Peck Madigan Jones to the
lobbying firm Vectre Corp. ES&S paid Vectre $80,000 during the last three months of
2018 alone. According to the Washington Post, Dominion also reported donating in between
$25,001-$50,000 to the Clinton Foundation. Why the Clinton Foundation?
Locations of US
voting machines: Dominion is shown in Orange; ES&S in Blue. (Source: Penn Warton)
The news site, Truthout, reported that Dominion "was recently acquired by New York-based hedge
fund Staple Street Capital." An executive board member of Staple Street Capital, William Earl Kennard , is a
former ambassador to the EU who was appointed to that
position by Barack Obama. In 2018,
Dominion publicly announced it had been acquired by its management team and Staple Street
Capital.
Interestingly, on November 6, Deadline reported that
Kennard was named to the board of WarnerMedia parent company to AT&T, which owns CNN .
Long ago, Dominion earned $44 million in 2012. It listed its addresses for manufacturing and
development as Toronto; Belgrade, Serbia; Denver; Plano, Texas; and Baldwin Park, California. A
2020 filing lists their registered agent as
Cogency Global in Florida. Its directors were listed as Hootan Yaghoobzadeh of Staple Street
Capital, Stephen Owens , also
of Staple Street, and Benjamin Humphreys. Yaghoobzadeh and Owens both have past ties to the
Carlyle Group investment firm. In 2015, Carlyle was the world's largest private equity
firm.
" Glitches."
Beyond the reports of problems with the mail-in ballots, in the aftermath of the election
two weeks ago, the independent reports of voting machine irregularities have in combination
developed serious concerns about Dominion and their software that they feature as "Democracy
Suite 5.5." All of these problems favored Biden, never Trump.
First, on Tuesday, in the wee hours of the morning Dominion machines
erroneously gave Democratic candidate Joe Biden a 3,000 plus vote advantage in Antrim
County, MI. After a manual recount of the votes, officials posted updated results showing
President Trump won the county with 9,783 votes making up 56.46% of ballots cast. Joe Biden
earned 7,289 votes or 42.07%. CNN "went blue" for Biden before the error was
discovered.
With the machine results being utterly mathematically disconnected to the hand-count tally
Antrim County officials have blamed the county's election software saying totals counted did
not match tabulator tapes.
In Oakland County, Michigan, according to the Royal Oak Tribune another glitch in a
completely different ballot counting system, Hart Intercivic, switched over 1,200 Republican
votes to Democrat. The switch initially caused County Commissioner Adam Kochenderfer to lose.
Once the glitch was found, and the votes were properly attributed, Kochenderfer went from
losing by 100 votes to winning by over 1,100. Hart uses its proprietary system called Verity.
Eleven Michigan counties use Hart's systems
Back in GA, voters were unable to cast machine ballots for a couple of hours in Morgan and
Spalding counties after the electronic devices crashed, state officials said. In response to
the delays, Superior Court Judge W. Fletcher Sams extended voting until 11 p.m.
The companies "uploaded something last night, which is not normal, and it caused a
glitch," said Marcia Ridley, elections supervisor at Spalding County Board of Elections.
Ridley said that a representative from Dominion called her after poll workers began having
problems with the equipment Tuesday morning and said the problem was due to an upload to the
machines by one of their technicians overnight. Said Ridley,
"That is something that they don't ever do. I've never seen them update anything the day
before the election."
There is a reason for Ridley's observation. By GA law the machines are supposed to be
certified for accurate use by the state before the election day. How was this possible with
Dominion uploading data unknown during that night?
This matter may be far from over in GA. Trump has already filed for an injunction, per state
statute, which cites, "These vote tabulator failures are a mechanical malfunction that,
under MCL 168.831-168.839, requires a "special election" in the precincts affected." The
keyword here is precincts. Plural.
In Oakland County Michigan, Dominion machine errors resulted in a Democrat being wrongly
declared the winner of a commissioner's race by 104 votes – only to have their seat flip
back to the rightful Republican candidate after the error was caught.
More importantly, Wisconsin reports came in that showed that the vote totals for Rock County
appeared to be switched between President Trump and Joe Biden. 9,516 votes were eliminated from
President Trump and moved to Joe Biden. If this one report is proved true, then the 19,032-vote
shift would nearly wipe-out, of its own, Biden's reported 20,540 vote lead in Wisconsin and his
electoral votes.
Pennsylvania and its twenty electoral votes are also hotly in contention. Dominion machines
are being used in Armstrong, Carbon, Clarion, Crawford, Dauphin, Delaware, Erie, Fayette,
Fulton, Luzerne, Montgomery, Pike, Warren, York counties.
State Sen. Kristin Phillips-Hill, R-York, says she started getting calls shortly after the
polls opened Tuesday morning that the machines were jamming and causing delays.
Phillips also highlighted another problem. "If that ballot is rejected, for example, if
they over-voted for county commissioner, and that ballot is rejected, then that person has no
way of knowing that their vote has been invalidated. That's not acceptable," she said.
Due to Dominion machine delays, PA election officials admitted that if ballots could not be
immediately scanned by the machines, those ballots were instead stored so they could be counted
later in "emergency holding boxes will be scanned at the polling places."
Those "stored" ballots were not always scanned. The Pennsylvania GOP had to
bring a lawsuit to ensure that all York County ballots were counted. These had been placed
in suitcases quickly purchased by Dominion and none were scanned.
AZ is also reporting problems. Boasts Dominion's website: "Arizona: "Serving 2.2 million
Maricopa County voters with Democracy Suite 5.5 "
Yep. Maricopa County. The contested county where this week, Arizona GOP Chair Rae Chorenky
was been forced to resign after failing to sign the required Certificate of Accuracy for the
Dominion voting machines.
Concerns Mount.
The key difficulty in examining potential election fraud by Dominion and possibly their
counterparts is in going beyond isolated incidents and establishing a systemic fraud. One
safety mechanism Dominion and other providers tout is that while voters might make their
choices on a touchscreen machine, a paper ballot with a bar code is printed out where the voter
can confirm their choices before inputting the paper ballot into a machine. Here's the problem,
according to a US News story :
"[The machines] register votes in bar codes that the human eye cannot decipher. That's a
problem, researchers say: Voters could end up with printouts that accurately spell out the
names of the candidates they picked, but, because of a hack, the bar codes do not reflect
those choices. Because the bar codes are what's tabulated, voters would never know that their
ballots benefited another candidate."
These bar codes are vitally important to the subject of election fraud. They are also of
great interest to Ray Lutz of California based Citizen's Oversight.
For those unfamiliar with Lutz and Citizen's, his organization has garnered great
respect across the state for, among other examples, championing the successful closure of the
San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station (SONGS) and next the exposure of demonstrative election
fraud in the 2016 California primary that tipped the scales for Hillary Clinton rather than
Bernie Sanders. Lutz is no stranger to using the courts effectively for the public good.
To this end, Lutz just a month before the election announced the launch of Citizen's new
ballot checking software called AuditEngine . In reply to an inquiry for data,
Lutz said,
"We are still gathering information at this time. We may have a lawsuit in NC to get poll
tapes data. Also, we will be seriously looking at PA."
In a press release this week Lutz forewarned:
"Ballot images can thwart changes to paper ballots, magically losing or finding new
ballots in the recount. Citizens' Oversight today sent a request to keep the images By
preserving the ballot images, we can make sure the paper ballots recounted in Georgia match
ballot images that were made on election night, and are not modified by any unscrupulous
campaign operatives."
As Citizen's takes a closer look at GA and possibly PA while others examine the swing
states, the likely hood of this showing a massive shift towards Trump in every state is a
difficult proposition. However, in the era of the citizen investigator, the work of one
anonymous source is picking up traction, so much so that many alternative media sources are
quoting it, as is the Trump campaign.
The methodology of this investigation is thorough but needs corroboration by experts.
However, the person releasing this analysis obtained the same data as was
captured by the New York Times on election night from Edison Research. It is the same data
that was used for election coverage by ABC News, CBS News, CNN and NBC News. The report
provides a careful and plausible methodology and a state-by-state list of votes switched from
Trump to Biden and of votes simply erased by
Dominion machines. His results show discrepancies- some very large- in every state and
particularly in GA and PA where, if proven, those states would flip for Trump.
Following the Dots Down the Rabbit Hole?
For the reader who cares to look beyond "Plausible Deniability" and connect the dots
of possibility, days before the election of Nov 3 Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney (Ret.) cast his own
suspicions that were in keeping with the charges levelled today by Sidney Powell.
McInerney stated he was warned in 2018 by Admiral James Aloysius "Ace" Lyons Jr., just
before his death, that a plot to fix the 2020 election was in the works. Lyons served as
Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet from 1985 to 1987. He also wrote a column about Seth Rich
being the one who leaked the 2016 DNC email tranche that blew HRC out of the water and which
The Washington Times deleted.
McInerney, although previously discredited for his backing of the 2002 Iraq "weapons of
mass destruction" claims, thus described the two US/ CIA covert operations called
"Hammer" and "Scorecard." Both were designed for the CIA in the aftermath of
9/11.
The author has verified the existence of both programs.
" The Hammer" is a counter-intelligence surveillance program used to spy on
activities carried out through protected networks (like voting machines) without detection.
"Scorecard" is a vote-manipulation application that changes votes during data transfer.
Adding credence to the allegations of both men is a previous report by Alan Jones and Mary
Fanning of the American Report that was published on March 17, 2017 . The claims in that report
mirror those of Lyons and McInerney and refer to the information provided by the man who
designed both Hammer and Scorecard, Dennis Montgomery, who has turned whistleblower.
Montgomery states that Hammer and Scorecard were designed by him under the supervision of
the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper and then CIA director John Brennan.
In a subsequent article, The American Report connects the dots from Brennan and Clapper to
Christopher Krebs, currently the head of the DHS's Cyber Security and Infrastructure Agency
(CISA). It should be noticed that it is Krebs who has in recent days been the DHS point man for
denying any and all allegations of election fraud as an MSM spokesperson on the matter.
[Breaking News: Moments ago, Trump fired Christopher Krebs effective immediately]
John Brennan, James Clapper and Krebs are all DNC disciples and have been vociferous in
their public disdain for Trump over the past four years. With this and the week's
aforementioned national news in mind, next came the news yesterday, that Sidney Powell
considered the reports about Hammer and Scorecard credible, saying on Fox News, that,
" it explains a lot of what we're seeing All of those districts need to be checked for the
software glitch that would change the vote for Michigan dramatically. The same thing is
happening in other states. We've had hundreds of thousands of ballots appear for solely Mr
Biden which is statistically impossible as a matter of mathematics. It can all be documented
it is being put in files that we will file in federal court."
As if this all were not enough to create bi-partisan concern for the 2020 election, just
moments ago it was revealed that a memory card was found during the audit in Fayette county GA
with 2,755 votes, most of them for Trump. The news comes one day after
2,600 uncounted ballots were found on another memory card in Floyd County, GA – which
were also mostly cast for President Trump.
The new margin total statewide in GA is now a 12,929 lead for Biden.
Observers might notice that there does not appear to be any sense of panic by the Trump
campaign, nor their lawyers and that all have so far moved methodically via the courts and in
announcing the steady stream of reported violations.
Certainly, Trump has lost in some court proceedings so far, but the big cases, such as the
SCOTUS intervention with the rulings of the lower PA Supreme Court are still in play as are the
states final vote certification, the results of which preclude further legal action.
[Breaking News: Officials in Wayne County, Michigan – home to the city of
Detroit, have refused to certify the results of the Nov. 3 election.]
As suggested in the first article in this series, "Trump's (64Day) Election
End Game" Trump continues to play the long game at least until the Jan 6 meeting of the
Electoral College in Wash. DC. Since the time of that article, the subject of the Electoral
College has been examined across the nation's news media and transformed from skepticism to
probability.
What should become most important, if these many allegations come together as substantial
truth, is that the issue of 2020 Election fraud must become a bi-partisan issue and
quickly.
As was suggested in the previous article, "Of
Color Revolutions, Foreign and Domestic," the advent of America's own color revolution
may be at hand and become the most significant threat to America since the civil war. To view
this only as an indictment of one party allows those loyal to that party to ignore
consideration of facts. This will only split the country further.
To prevent a US color revolution, the one the Dems are already calling, "Purple,"
there must be a bi-partisan investigation by both sides of the aisle that transcends party
loyalty to that of the priority of saving the country. Not Joe Biden. Not Donald Trump.
Criminal charges and indictments must be brought against one and all proved to be involved in
the attempt to circumvent the American election process.
That indictment: Treason.
About the Author: Brett Redmayne-Titley has authored and published over 180
in-depth articles over the past twelve years. Many have been translated and republished
worldwide. He can be reached at: live-on-scene ((at)) gmx.com. Prior articles can be viewed at
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Dominion Voting Systems has denied several times to media outlets that its software and
devices are not secure or that they were used to switch votes.
"Dominion Voting Systems categorically denies false assertions about vote switching issues
with our voting systems," the company said in a statement . "Vote deletion/switching assertions
are completely false."
"No credible reports or evidence of any software issues exist," the company stated, adding,
"Human errors related to reporting tabulated results have arisen in a few counties, including
some using Dominion equipment, but appropriate procedural actions were made by the county to
address these errors were made prior to the canvass process."
A national coalition that includes the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Association of State Election Directors
said there is a lack of evidence supporting the claim that voting software deleted or switched
votes in the election.
"There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in
any way compromised," a
joint statement from the coalition said, and called the 2020 election "the most secure in
American history."
Dominion Voting Systems
is a member of CISA's Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council, one of two
entities that authored the statement put out by CISA.
Trainor, in earlier remarks to Newsmax, said he believes locations where poll watchers were
not allowed "meaningful access" to observe vote tabulation could be involved in voter
fraud.
"I do believe that there is voter fraud taking place in these places," Trainor
told the outlet . "Otherwise they would allow the observers to go in."
The official referred to a case in Pennsylvania, where a court ordered them to allow the
Trump campaign to have poll observers watch from six feet away, but the order was defied.
"They have not been allowed that meaningful access," Trainor said, adding that if the law
was broken in this regard, the election was "illegitimate."
Citing five anonymous sources "familiar with the discussions" in the camp of Joe
Biden, the media-anointed president-elect, NBC
reported on Tuesday that he doesn't want his presidency to be "consumed by
investigations" of Trump.
"Biden has raised concerns that investigations would further divide a country he is
trying to unite and risk making every day of his presidency about Trump," according to the
anonymous officials.
The Democrats just spent four years investigating Trump for phantom 'Russian collusion,' had
the FBI spy on his campaign using the fabricated 'Steele
Dossier,' and even impeached him over a phone call to Ukraine that mentioned something Biden
publicly boasted about doing. If you believe they are going to drop this vindictive streak for
the sake of "unity" now, you sound like someone who might be interested in helping a
humble Nigerian prince share his wealth. So what gives?
Parallel to the "news" story – signed by the second presidential debate
moderator Kristen Welker, by the way – NBC also ran a "hot take" think piece by a
Democrat lawyer Michael Conway, making the exact same argument. Biden should pardon Trump,
Conway argued, for the sake of peace and unity.
Keep in mind that Trump has not conceded the election and is trying to dispute the results
in several states through litigation, while the mainstream media insist Biden won and social
media platforms are suppressing any suggestions otherwise as "disputed" or
"misinformation." Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Trump supporters rallied across
America last weekend in what they called a 'Million MAGA March' to protest the "stolen"
election.
The admission that some 73+ million Trump voters might get angry if Biden goes after him is
buried midway through Conway's argument, between reminders that state and local prosecutors can
still prosecute Trump and that a pardon would mean an admission of guilt. Go back to the piece
co-authored by Welker and sure enough, the same exact reasoning is there as well – all
the way at the end and attributed to Biden himself.
Of course, there's a stick behind the implied carrot, as one of the unnamed NBC sources made
sure to note that the Biden DOJ will "look into" the actions of Trump officials between
now and the inauguration should they not capitulate.
"While they're not looking for broad criminal indictments, they do want to make sure that
people don't think there are no ramifications for any of their actions between now and the new
presidency," the person supposedly told NBC.
Judging by the vitriol that Conway's proposal was met with online, it's not difficult to
guess that the Democrat base is vehemently opposed to any notion of clemency for Trump or his
supporters. However, if there is one thing we've learned about the Democrats during this
election cycle is that they always fall in line and do what they're told. Recall the
frightening speed with which the entire field of primary candidates bent the knee this spring,
once the party decided Biden would be the nominee.
As for what the purported mercy towards Trump and his supporters might look like, however,
the Republicans would be wise to heed the words of Biden's former boss. A day before the dual
NBC stories, former President Barack Obama opened his interview with his Atlantic sycophant
Jeffrey Goldberg by admiring Genghis Khan's policy of "mercy" for the conquered.
"If you open the gates, we'll just kill you quickly and take your women and enslave your
children, but we won't slaughter them. But if you hold out, then we'll slowly boil you in oil
and peel off your skin," Obama quoted to Golberg, in what the Atlantic editor interpreted
as an indirect comment on the Trump presidency.
"In any case, Obama has more respect for Genghis Khan than he has for Donald Trump,"
Goldberg opined.
Could it be because for all of his tweets supposedly "directing" DOJ to prosecute
political opponents, Trump never actually did? Quick, how many Obama-Biden administration
people went to jail, or even suffered any sort of consequences, for manufacturing the
'Russiagate' scandal, spying on Trump's campaign using the fabricated 'Steele Dossier' or
doctoring evidence to railroad his aides?
If you answered none, you'd be wrong – but only technically. The sole person
sentenced, a FBI lawyer who altered
evidence to clear the way for the FISA warrant to spy on Trump's campaign, pleaded guilty to a
lesser charge and faces lesser punishment than any of the Trump aides caught up in Robert
Mueller's witch hunt. The others made millions from book deals or got cushy cable pundit
jobs.
There's a lesson in there somewhere, but only for people willing to learn.
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"Thank you for writing this crucial analysis and having the audacity to state the truth:
"Race-based campaigns serve both corporate parties."
"As a young communist, I'm staring at these hoards of 'progressive/woke' identitarians on
social media who are outraged that millions of working class whites in rural America didn't
vote for Joe Biden, who is selling the status quo, corporate diversity and woke capitalism. Why
would working class whites vote for Biden who offers absolutely no bold policies to improve
their material lives or conditions ?
"It sounds kind of like wondering why they didn't just go to their local Barnes and Noble to
purchase a copy of 'How to be an anti-racist' before the election. Millions of those people
might well have voted for a Bernie Sanders instead of Trump."
"Terrific piece. As you point out, throughout his circa five decades of 'public service,'
Joe Biden (aka 'Credit card Joe') has been a dependable representative of the State, carrying
water for the Pentagon, Military contractors, insurance companies, large banks and Wall St.
Biden's fealty to the lords of corporate capital were handsomely rewarded; the Biden/Harris
campaign received the majority of Wall St. campaign donations, including Michael Bloomberg's
$100 million pledge as well as support from prominent members of the military and intelligence
agencies. No doubt, this reflects the anxiety the ruling elite feel about Trump's inept,
incompetent handling of COVID-19 crisis and his erratic positions on foreign policy- exhibit A
being his exit from the JCPOA and the humiliating vote at the UNSC on Iran last September,
where the US was completely isolated.
"This election was held at a time when large cracks are appearing in American Capitalism. In
2008 the US experienced the largest financial crash since the Great Depression- a direct
consequence of decades of neoliberal economic policies- multiple tax cuts for the wealthy,
financial deregulation, attacks on the poor & labor, job outsourcing, spending astronomical
amounts of taxpayer money bailing out Wall Street and subsidizing the Pentagon and war. Since
that time, none of the structural problems giving rise to this crisis were resolved and
returned with a vengeance from the Coronavirus pandemic. Indeed, the US faces the largest
economic crisis since the Great Depression, with high unemployment and millions of American
families faced with financial ruin, eviction from their homes, food insecurity and loss of
medical insurance. In contrast, Congress has been very generous with Wall St and American
billionaires. To put this in perspective, the FED has pumped circa $10 trillion of
taxpayer-backed funds to Wall St for share buybacks and to purchase toxic corporate debt and
mortgage-backed securities. As a result, the net worth of the nation's billionaires has
increased circa $500 billion since April."
Confronting the Democratic Party remains essential to any serious progressive movement.
Avoiding falling into their strategy requires ideological clarity on the part of the Left.
Jahan Choudhryis Comments Editor for Black Agenda Report. He is an organizer with
the Saturday Free School based in Philadelphia, PA.
And unless the courts intervene - up to and including the US Supreme Court - the clock is
running out on Trump's ability to claim victory in light of alleged fraud, as several states
move to certify their results.
While Georgia is set to certify its election results on Friday, Nevada, Michigan and
Pennsylvania are expected to follow next week. Arizona, meanwhile, has until Nov. 30, and
Wisconsin until Dec. 1, according to
Bloomberg .
States make their election results official through a certification after what's known as
a canvass to account for every ballot cast and to confirm that every valid vote was counted,
according to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Procedures and deadlines for certifying
votes vary by state.
Certified totals can change if a state allows recounts after certification, which Georgia,
Michigan and Nevada do , or if there is a challenge to the election. But certification
amounts to a declaration of a winner , and the winning candidate will assume office unless a
court intervenes, said Michael Morley, an assistant law professor at Florida State University
who's worked on election emergencies and post-election litigation. -
Bloomberg
"This is going to be a series of dominoes that fall sort of ineluctably toward the
conclusion that we already know is true, which is that Biden is the winner of these states and
is the president-elect," said NYU law professor, Richard Pildes, adding: "This will be the
formal legal step that cements that."
As JPMorgan's
Michael Cembalest notes , however, the US Supreme Court could hear appeals on state
challenges , "such as late-arriving absentee ballots in PA (too few to change the outcome);
complaints on transparency of vote counting (judicial relief could entail recounting certain
counties); illegal acceptance of certain votes (votes in question too small to change the
results); and complaints that the voting process suffered from pervasive irregularity and fraud
(most of these claims have been rejected by lower courts over the last 2 weeks)."
Cembalest concludes that " a LOT of very unorthodox things have to happen for Trump to be
re-elected, " adding that "Based on the uncertified vote results, Trump would have to reverse
or impede results in three states to prevent Biden from reaching 270 electoral votes. "
In Pennsylvania , the Trump campaign continues to seek to block the certification of the
results in the state over alleged unfair voting practices in which Democratic-leaning areas
were given greater opportunities to correct mistakes on their ballots. A federal suit seeks to
challenge over 680,000 mail-in ballots which were counted without proper oversight from GOP
poll watchers - who say they weren't allowed within 20 feet of election counters.
Trump's campaign has also accused election officials of violating a judge's order to allow
meaningful access to watchers - at minimum six feet - as long as they adhered to measures
implemented to reduce the spread of covid-19.
Another challenge seeks to disqualify ballots received after election day - which would
affect an estimated 10,000 votes, or not enough to overcome Biden's more than 70,000 vote lead
over President Trump.
In Michigan , where Biden is ahead by approximately 150,000 votes, the Trump campaign is
seeking to block certification of results in Wayne County - where the Board of Canvassers just
overcame a major controversy in which two Republican members of the four-person body
refused to certify the results of the election , only to reverse course three hours later
and bend the knee.
State elections officials will meet on November 23 to confirm the final election
results.
Nevada - also projected to go to Biden by a margin of more than 30,000 votes - has been
served with a lawsuit as well, asking that Trump be named the winner or that the results be
void with no winner declared and certified. Trump's team claims that "fraud and abuse renders
the purported results of the Nevada election illegitimate," and alleges that 15,000 people
living out of state illegally voted.
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In Georgia , a lawsuit was filed in Chatham County alleging ballot processing issues, while
GOP party Chairman David Shafer tweeted that observers saw a woman "mix over 50 ballots into
the stack of uncounted absentee ballots." The lawsuit was dismissed on November 5.
And in Arizona , the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit on November 7 claiming that legal votes
were rejected based on poll watcher affidavits claiming that they had issues with voting
machines.
Any Secretary of State who certifies this fraud does so at their own peril. They will be
prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
This election was a sting operation and these people walked right into it.
Wait and see.
IridiumRebel , 1 hour ago
Hope you're right
SolidGold , 1 hour ago
He is right.
IntercoursetheEU , 1 hour ago
"fullest extent of the law" - no such thing, thanks to Barr. Not even a parking
ticket.
Ajax-1 , 37 minutes ago
After waiting out the clock, Special Prosecutor Durham proclaimed last week that he
doesn't want to criminally indict anyone. This is just more proof that we are living in a
post constitutional banana republic with a a 2 tier justice system.
QABubba , 35 minutes ago
Why is it so hard to believe that Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary in 2016, but
won the Electoral College, and yet in 2020 lost both the Electoral College and the popular
vote? He lost the popular vote both times. The only difference was the Electoral
College.
Bring the Gold , 16 minutes ago
The numbers simply don't make sense. They imply Sleepy Pedo Joe Biden is VASTLY more
popular with Black voters than Barack Obama, specifically 150% more popular in Milwaukee as
in 150% more black people voted for Super Predator Joe than for Barack Obama an actual
black man. The way in which Biden under-performed HRC in every major city...except four,
Atlanta, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Detroit is beyond suspect.
Then there is no Biden coat tail effect. In fact 100x more voters who voted for Biden
didn't' vote for the CRITICAL Senate races in Georgia whereas Republicans voted for their
senators with a tiny amount only voting for Trump and no one else. Also, in MI and WI,
there were ballots counted by Dominion that were straight Red ballots, but voted for Sleepy
Joe in enormous numbers. Trump got over 9 million more votes than in 2016 and somehow
Sleepy Joe got 13 million more votes than Barack Obama (easily the most popular President
since Reagan, especially with his base). None of that makes sense. Also anyone with a lick
of sense has known the voting machines are there to steal elections since 2004. Last point,
how is it that ALL of the various errors, glitches, mistakes, missed vote piles, missing
flashdrives that were found (or still missing in PA) ALL helped Biden? If it were true
human error it should be split about 50/50, but all the reports are going one way.
If you don't see the Fraud, you're simply refusing to look.
J S Bach , 58 minutes ago
Johny, I have a friend like you who denies that there is ANY fraud taking place with the
2020 election. Okay, that's a brick wall for any kind of honest discussion of facts and
ideas. But, I ask that you please give us your HONEST answer to this question...
If the roles, data, video proof, sworn affidavits, etc... were reversed, what would your
reaction be?
In other words... If hundreds of thousands of votes magically appeared for Trump hours
after polls were illegally shut down... if Dominion software "glitches" accidentally
occurred ONLY favoring Trump over Biden... if Republican vote counters brazenly denied
access to Democrat poll watchers while truckloads of ballots were being dumped through
their back doors... if Republican-run states then hurriedly pushed for certification of all
of these disingenuous and highly questionable ballots... if EVERY mainstream media outlet
(including CNN) called Trump's ultimate victory despite all of these illegal
shenanigans...
Would you sit back and accept the result or would you scream from the rooftops for
justice?
Please give us an honest and mature response without name-calling.
Sincerely, J. S. Bach
Reconciled , 33 minutes ago
Robert Steele expects 100 Resignations from Congress as Sidney Powell goes after
BigTech:
The economic destruction coming from a second wave of "covid" lock downs combined with
the civil unrest from all the lies the media will spin out of this contested election will
usher in the last 8 years that looks as though it will commence on or about the 20th
anniversary of 9/11:
The article acts as if Dominion isn't on the table. Or Trump's 2018 executive order
regarding foreign interference in US elections. Dominion is a Canadian company, and
tabulations were made in Germany (and Spain I believe).
This first tranche of vetting the Deep State began with Esper, as he could have
obstructed the investigation into HAMMER and SCORE (already blocked by Youtube on the
annals, and I am blocked from embedding videos altogether there, or adding sidebar
links).
Yes, Sydney Powell has the big guns, but Trump needs to dig a little deeper before
making THE FINAL MOVE.
Teamtc321 , 1 hour ago
Pennsylvania : Switched : 220,883 Lost Votes : 941,248
New Jersey : Switched : 80,242 Lost Votes : 20
Florida : Switched : 21,422 Lost Votes : 456
Michigan : Switched : 20,213 Lost Votes : 21,882
New York : Switched : 18,124 Lost Votes : 623,213
Georgia : Switched : 17,407 Lost Votes : 33,574
Ohio : Switched : 14,965 Lost Votes : 5,102
Virginia : Switched : 12,163 Lost Votes : 789,023
California : Switched : 7,701 Lost Votes : 10,989
Arizona : Switched : 4,492 Lost Votes : 0
Minnesota : Switched : 2,766 Lost Votes : 195,650
Tennessee : Switched : 2,330 Lost Votes : 0
Louisiana : Switched : 2,322 Lost Votes : 0
Illinois : Switched : 2,166 Lost Votes : 54,730
Wisconsin : Switched : 2,078 Lost Votes : 3,408
Colorado : Switched : 1,809 Lost Votes : 0
Utah : Switched : 1,627 Lost Votes : 0
New Hampshire : Switched : 973 Lost Votes : 116
Iowa : Switched : 938 Lost Votes : 477
New Mexico : Switched : 268 Lost Votes : 4,610
Missouri : Switched 0 : Lost Votes : 20,730
Nevada : Switched : 0 Lost Votes : 0
Alaska : Switched : 0 Lost Votes : 0
Washington : Switched : 0 Lost Votes : 0
Hawaii : Switched : 0 Lost Votes : 0
Kansas and Texas use Premier Election Solutions, owned by Dominion Voting Systems.
Texas : Switched : 14,954 Lost Votes : 30,557
Kansas : Switched : 1,674 Lost Votes : 2,154
Election Systems & Software :
Nebraska : Switched : 30,086 Lost Votes : 50
Kentucky : Switched : 8,129 Lost Votes : 23,849
Arkansas : Switched : 3,664 Lost Votes : 20,748
South Carolina : Switched : 2,779 Lost Votes : 2,119
Montana : Switched : 2,330 Lost Votes : 1,276
South Dakota : Switched : 1,347 Lost Votes : 1
North Dakota : Switched : 234 Lost Votes : 681
Maryland : Switched : 203 Lost Votes : 0
North Carolina : Switched : 0 Lost Votes : 15
District of Columbia : Switched : 0 Lost Votes : 0
DOMINION DELETED 2.7 MILLION TRUMP VOTES NATIONWIDE. DATA ANALYSIS FINDS 221,000
PENNSYLVANIA VOTES SWITCHED FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP TO BIDEN
Dominion election machines are highly suspect along with the huge deluge of mail-in
ballots - this is NOT a typical election by any means... fasten your seatbelt, this is
gonna be a bumpy ride...
SybilDefense , 1 hour ago
Why weren't any honest regular people chosen to count the votes?
I applied 3x to work the polls and never received a reply, yet on election day at my
poll all I heard was how understaffed they were. When I mentioned this, one of the selected
she/hers (obvious LBGTQ member) said PA had created a new paid position to find
"volunteers". I can only assume my GOP registration prompted me from being appointed. Who
are these unprecedented voter HR administrators, how did they get selected, and what
criteria did they use to select volunteers? I can see the ad now...
O nly cheaters, activists, weirdos and never Trumper need apply. Must be willing to
sacrifice your soul for the resistance. For further info, contact Brenda Snipes or John
Podesta, head of Voter Security.
From every video I've seen on both MSM and alt-media including workers at my own urban
district N of Philly it appears that only BLM activists, Antifa types and other assorted
queer looking people applied for the volunteer gig. Its blatantly obvious, your can see the
"I'm with Her" oozing from every poll worker. Hell, some even wore Biden shirts to work
whereas I am forbidden from wearing a Red hat when I vote. WTF!
NotAGenius , 55 minutes ago
He will be an illegitimate president for more than 1/2 of the country. First time for me
I don't believe that voting matters as it was all planned and controlled by the democrats
instead. Since I don't count anymore, I'm inclined to put them in that same position or 6'
under, whichever comes first. So this will lead to extreme violence because many of those
cheated Trump voters and supporters just plain aren't going to accept this vote theft,
period. Ya know what:
" Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag,
and begin slitting throats." – H.L. Mencken
Teamtc321 , 1 hour ago
Lin Wood Files Emergency Motion for Injunctive Relief Against Georgia Secretary of
State
Last night attorney Lin Wood filed an Emergency Motion for Injunctive Relief against the
Georgia Secretary of State.
The great Lin Wood filed an emergency motion for Injunctive Relief against the Georgia
Secretary of State. Wood tweeted this out this morning:
Good morning.
Last night, I filed an Emergency Motion for Injunctive Relief against GA Secretary of
State.
Relief sought includes an order prohibiting certification which includes defective
absentee ballots & requiring that a hand recount be performed. https://t.co/rHOU0buzro
Bottom****ingline is we have Demshelvic activist counting our votes. Not allowing
Patriots in the room to watch. Then Venezuelan designed software fixing the tabulation.
Watch the Pallets Full of Ballots to get the update on how The Atlantic Council is
behind all of this. Some of the beginning is the Sidney Powell interviews, but move past
them and get to the next clip to see how the Atlantic Council is the "Fact Checker" running
the policies of Facebook and Twitter, etc.
Aquamaster , 1 hour ago
I liked Gov. Kemp. Not anymore. He is getting his revenge against Trump for calling him
out early in the pandemic. Tough to win when there is massive voter fraud, and then fraud
on the recounts.
Trump just has no government entity of any kind on his side. They picked the States to
screw him wisely.
Look for the Dems to now steal the Georgia runoff and then all future elections. We
truely are Venezuela North now.
BugMan , 1 hour ago
Karamo saw that there was no effective review of signatures on those ballots at the
counting boards. She describes seeing ballots that should have been spoiled , instead
counted for Biden, with poll workers saying "I think that should go to the Democrat." Her
challenges to bad ballots were IGNORED .
DaBard51 , 1 hour ago
" Arizona , the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit on November 7 claiming that legal votes
were rejected based on poll watcher affidavits claiming that they had issues with voting
machines.
Shameful, it is, that such news must arrive from overseas sources.
SurfingUSA , 34 minutes ago
Gateway Pundit's "drop and roll" video shows how in WI, MI, VA, GA & PA, the
middle-of-the-night vote drops were followed by PERFECT, impossible-IRL fake vote counting
giving for ex. 50% to Biden & 49% to Trump post-vote drop.
Under the guise of supposedly nonprofit, nonpartisan get-out-the-vote campaigns, Native
American voter advocacy groups in Nevada handed out gift cards, electronics, clothing , and
other items to voters in tribal areas, in many cases documenting the exchange of ballots
for "prizes" on their own Facebook pages, sometimes even while wearing official Joe Biden
campaign gear.
Simply put, this is illegal . Offering voters anything of value in exchange for their
vote is a
violation of federal election law , and in some cases punishable by up to two years in
prison and as much as $10,000
in fines . That includes raffles, free food, free T-shirts, and so on.
The Huffington Post lauded Abrams's work driving
up turnout among minorities.
"Experts say Black voter turnout in Georgia during the 2020 election likely broke records,"
read captions of a three-minute video, only for the unnamed "experts" to be shown completely
off.
According to a subsequent analysis
of updated voter data from The New York Times Tuesday, the black share of Georgia's electorate
fell to its lowest level since 2006.
The race in Georgia, the Times explained, was decided primarily by demographic changes in
the suburban ring surrounding Atlanta, where Biden outperformed former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton among wealthy and well-educated suburbanites.
... "My heart is full," Abrams wrote as Biden took the lead the week of election day.
The mass mailing of unsolicited ballots is of course a recipe for fraud, even more so in a
state where the voter rolls contain tens of thousands of people who haven't voted or updated
their records in more than a decade. This is how you get dead people voting, as we
reported here at The Federalist and as Tucker Carlson
noted last week .
But there's another, less sensational but perhaps more consequential election scandal in
Nevada that hasn't yet made headlines, even though it's been hiding in plain sight for weeks
now. Under the guise of supposedly nonprofit, nonpartisan get-out-the-vote campaigns, Native
American voter advocacy groups in Nevada handed out gift cards, electronics, clothing, and
other items to voters in tribal areas, in many cases documenting the exchange of ballots for
"prizes" on their own Facebook pages, sometimes even while wearing official Joe Biden campaign
gear.
Simply put, this is illegal. Offering voters anything of value in exchange for their
vote is a violation of
federal election law , and in some cases punishable by up to two years in prison and as
much as $10,000
in fines . That includes raffles, free food, free T-shirts, and so on.
... ... ...
There are about 60,000 eligible Native American voters in Nevada who make up about 3 percent
of the state's total voting population. That's almost twice the current margin of Biden's
current lead over President Trump in Nevada. So the Native American vote really does matter, it
could even be decisive. It therefore matters how many Native American votes were influenced by
an illegal cash-for-votes scheme, especially if funding for it came from American taxpayers via
the NCAI.
It also matters because this didn't just happen in Nevada. Organizers there might have been
more obvious about what they were doing, but there's evidence that similar efforts, including
gift card and electronics giveaways, were undertaken in Native communities in
South Dakota ,
Arizona ,
Wisconsin ,
Washington ,
Michigan ,
Idaho , Minnesota , and Texas .
All of this coordinated illegal activity, clearly designed to churn out votes for Biden and
Democrats in tribal areas all across the country, is completely out in the open. You don't need
special access or some secret source to find out about it. You just have be curious, look
around, and report it.
Unfortunately, mainstream media outlets are not curious and refuse to report on any of this
stuff. What's described above is an egregious and totally transparent vote-buying scheme in
Nevada that was likely undertaken on a similar scale across nearly a dozen other states, but
you won't read about it in The New York Times, or hear about it on CNN.
That's not because the story is unimportant, but because, for the media establishment, it's
inconvenient. No wonder these groups didn't try to hide what they were doing.
Hold on there, Aquamaster. What about this televised shot of votes disappearing from the
Trump Count and being added to the Biden count in Pennsylvania?
Pennsylvania Dominion transfers 20,000 votes from Trump to Biden on live TV.
A recount monitor in
Georgia discovered a
9,626- vote error in the
hand recount in DeKalb County, according to the chairman of the Georgia Republican Party.
"One of our monitors discovered a 9,626-vote error in the DeKalb County hand count . One
batch was labeled 10,707 for Biden and 13 for Trump -- an improbable margin even by DeKalb
standards. The actual count for the batch was 1,081 for Biden and 13 for Trump ," David Shafer
wrote on Twitter on Nov. 18.
" Had this counting error not been discovered, Biden would have gained enough votes from
this one batch alone to cancel out Trump's gains from Fayette, Floyd, and Walton ," Shafer
added, referring to the three Peach State counties which discovered memory cards with uncounted
votes on Monday and Tuesday.
Shafer said that two official counters signed off on the miscounted batch. GOP attorneys
turned over an affidavit ( pdf ) on the
incident to the Georgia secretary of state and requested an investigation.
" We were limited to one monitor for every 10 counting tables and we were kept some distance
from the tables. There is no telling what we missed under these unreasonable restrictions,"
Shafer said.
Fayette, Floyd, and Walton counties discovered uncounted votes on Monday and Tuesday with
each batch favoring President Donald Trump. The discovered votes cut former Vice President Joe
Biden's lead in the state by more than 1,400 votes.
Georgia's deadline to complete the recount is at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday. The state is
scheduled to vote on whether to certify the results of the 2020 election on Friday.
The recount in progress was initiated by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger based
on a new law that calls for an audit of one race after each election. The Trump campaign has
challenged the recount process, asserting that it is meaningless unless it includes an audit of
the voters' signatures .
The office of the secretary of state did not respond to a request for comment.
Georgia officials are probing the handling of the presidential election in the state's
largest county. Officials are seeing "managerial sloppiness" and "chain of custody" issues in
Fulton County, which has a population of about a million and includes Atlanta, Gabriel Sterling
with the secretary of state's office told reporters on Tuesday.
Raffensperger said Tuesday that an audit of voting machines was completed with no signs of
foul play. Voting systems testing company Pro V&V conducted the audit and "found no
evidence of the machines being tampered."
The Trump campaign has alleged that voting machines and software by Dominion Voting Systems
switched votes from Trump to Biden . Dominion denied the allegations.
The "Secretary of State Project " was an American non-profit, progressive 527
political action committee focused on electing reform-minded progressive Secretaries of State
in battleground states, who typically oversee the election process. The Project was funded by
George Soros and members of the Democracy Alliance.
In 2008, Democrat House Organ Politico
ran a story about the Obama campaign, calling the Secretaries of State the "Democrat
firewall."
In anticipation of a photo-finish presidential election, Democrats have built an
administrative firewall designed to protect their electoral interests in five of the most
important battleground states .
The bulwark consists of control of secretary of state offices in five key states -- Iowa,
Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico and Ohio -- where the difference between victory and defeat in
the 2004 presidential election was no more than 120,000 votes in any one of them.
With a Democrat now in charge of the offices, which oversee and administer their state's
elections , the party is better positioned than in the previous elections to advance
traditional Democratic interests -- such as increasing voter registration and boosting turnout
-- rather than Republican priorities such as stamping out voter fraud.
Perhaps more important, in those five states Democrats are now in a more advantageous
position when it comes to the interpretation and administration of election law -- a
development that could benefit Barack Obama if any of those states are closely contested on
Election Day.
The effort began in 2006 when a group of liberal California activ
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