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Sounder » Tue Sep 06, 2016 7:56 pm wrote:Or it will be just as George Soros has stated that Trump will win the popular vote but that the electoral college (will do the responsible thing and) will vote for Mrs. Clinton.
So that Tim Kaine can work that Jesuit magic.
Which seems quite simpatico with the Soros style. Ouch.
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The establishment has expressed a desire to "protect the election process as if it were critical infrastructure" which would of course necessitate total control over it and Hillary is currently helping with her "Russian Hacker" routine.
FBI Says Voting Machines Cannot Be Trusted
Aug 29, 2016
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has found breaches in Illinois and Arizona’s voter registration databases and is urging states to increase computer security ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election, according to a U.S. official familiar with the probe.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Monday that investigators were also seeking evidence of whether other states may have been targeted.
The FBI warning in an Aug. 18 flash alert from the agency’s Cyber Division did not identify the intruders or the two states targeted.
Reuters obtained a copy of the document after Yahoo News first reported the story Monday.
Accessing information in a voter database, much of which is publicly accessible, does not necessarily suggest an effort to manipulate the votes themselves. When registering, voters typically provide their names, home addresses, driver’s license or identification numbers, and party affiliations.
Read more: FBI Says Voting Machines Cannot Be Trusted
http://rinf.com/alt-news/latest-news/fb ... e-trusted/
World News | Tue Aug 23, 2016 5:06am BST
OSCE rights group requests 500 international observers to monitor U.S. presidential vote
By Julia Harte | WASHINGTON
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe aims to send 500 international observers to observe November's U.S. presidential election, a tenfold increase from the number the group deployed in 2012.
A coalition of more than 200 U.S. civil rights groups urged the OSCE in a letter released on Tuesday to provide even more than the 500 observers the OSCE requested based on an assessment it conducted in May. The actual observers will be dispatched by the international security and rights organization's 57 participating states.
The letter from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights said the OSCE's role was "even more critical" in light of the U.S. Justice Department's July announcement, first reported by Reuters, that it would deploy election observers to far fewer polling sites this year than in previous elections.
Civil rights advocates say voters are more likely to face racial bias at the polls in November than they have in 50 years, because of voting laws that several states passed after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the landmark anti-discrimination 1965 Voting Rights Act three years ago.
Supporters of the laws say they are necessary to combat voter fraud.
Earlier this month, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made his own plea for election observers before an audience in Pennsylvania and said the only way he could lose the state would be if "in certain sections of the state they cheat."
Wade Henderson, president and chief executive of the Leadership Conference, told Reuters that international observers could not fill the void left by Justice Department-deployed observers, who numbered 840 in 2004, the last election for which the department provided numbers for federal observers.
"We profess to bring democracy to various parts of the world where we monitor elections, but then our own country is embarrassed by its failure to ensure adequate elections here at home," said Henderson.
OSCE spokesman Thomas Rymer said the number of observers the group hoped to deploy to the United States was fixed at 500 but that the Leadership Conference letter would factor into the group's decision about where to send the observers.
The letter urged the OSCE to focus its resources on eight states in which it said "enhanced voter intimidation efforts" were likely, including Pennsylvania and North Carolina, where the Nov. 8 contest between Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton is expected to be close.
(Reporting by Julia Harte; Editing by Peter Cooney)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-el ... KKCN10Y08Z
Barack Obama cancels meeting after Philippines president calls him 'son of a whore'
Barack Obama has cancelled a meeting with the president of the Philippines after Rodrigo Duterte appeared to call him a “son of a whore”.
The move followed a warning from Duterte to the US president to keep off the subject of extrajudicial killings in his country’s brutal drug war when they were due to meet on Tuesday at a regional summit in Laos. Duterte told a press conference that Obama “must be respectful”.
The firebrand president was answering a reporter’s question about how he intended to explain the extrajudicial killings to Obama, before boarding a plane to Laos for the Association of South-east Asian Nations summit.
“You must be respectful. Do not just throw away questions and statements. Son of a whore, I will curse you in that forum,” Duterte was quoted by as saying by Agence-France Presse. “We will be wallowing in the mud like pigs if you do that to me.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... -son-whore
The Trump University Corruption Story Just Got Worse For Pam Bondi (And Donald Trump)
Posted at 9:30 am on September 7, 2016 by Sara Gonzales
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As if the pay-for-play allegations against Donald Trump weren’t bad enough, the evidence of his participation in government corruption deepens.
It turns out not only did Trump donate $25,000 to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s political committee before she inexplicably decided not to pursue charges against Trump University, he also held a posh fundraiser for Bondi at the infamous Mar-a-Lago estate.
The Huffington Post reported on Wednesday that although Trump did not financially contribute to Bondi at his fundraiser, he hosted the event at the steep price of $3,000 per person and allowed the event to take place at Mar-a-Lago at the small price of $4,855.65- practically for free. Keep in mind, this is the same estate Trump has charged his own campaign $140,000 to rent.
Here is what we now know:
Pam Bondi personally solicited donations from Donald Trump after her office intimated they might join the New York Attorney General in opening a fraud investigation against Trump University
Trump contributed $25,000 to Pam Bondi’s political committee in September 2013
Bondi then decided not to investigate the numerous fraud complaints against Trump University
In March of 2014, Trump then hosted a high-dollar fundraiser for Bondi’s reelection campaign at Mar-a-Lago
http://www.redstate.com/saragonzales/20 ... ndi-trump/
Sounder » Tue Sep 06, 2016 7:56 pm wrote:Or it will be just as George Soros has stated that Trump will win the popular vote but that the electoral college (will do the responsible thing and) will vote for Mrs. Clinton.
So that Tim Kaine can work that Jesuit magic.
Which seems quite simpatico with the Soros style. Ouch.
seemslikeadream » Wed Sep 07, 2016 3:12 pm wrote:Trump calls for higher defense spending after months of isolationist talk
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html
QUESTION: Mr. Trump, over the past 15 years, a lot of U.S. troops have bled and died securing towns and provinces from Iraq to Afghanistan, only to have insurgent groups like ISIS spring back the moment we leave. Now, you’ve claimed to have a secret plan to defeat ISIS. But you’re hardly the first politician to promise a quick victory and a speedy homecoming. So assuming we do defeat ISIS, what next? What is your plan for the region to ensure that a group like them doesn’t just come back?
TRUMP: Sure. I mean, part of the problem that we’ve had is we go in, we defeat somebody, and then we don’t know what we’re doing after that. We lose it, like as an example, you look at Iraq, what happened, how badly that was handled. And then when President Obama took over, likewise, it was a disaster. It was actually somewhat stable. I don’t think could ever be very stable to where we should have never gone into in the first place.
But he came in. He said when we go out — and he took everybody out. And really, ISIS was formed. This was a terrible decision. And frankly, we never even got a shot. And if you really look at the aftermath of Iraq, Iran is going to be taking over Iraq. They’ve been doing it. And it’s not a pretty picture.
The — and I think you know — because you’ve been watching me I think for a long time — I’ve always said, shouldn’t be there, but if we’re going to get out, take the oil. If we would have taken the oil, you wouldn’t have ISIS, because ISIS formed with the power and the wealth of that oil.
LAUER: How were we going to take the oil? How were we going to do that?
TRUMP: Just we would leave a certain group behind and you would take various sections where they have the oil. They have — people don’t know this about Iraq, but they have among the largest oil reserves in the world, in the entire world.
And we’re the only ones, we go in, we spend $3 trillion, we lose thousands and thousands of lives, and then, Matt, what happens is, we get nothing. You know, it used to be to the victor belong the spoils. Now, there was no victor there, believe me. There was no victor. But I always said: Take the oil.
One of the benefits we would have had if we took the oil is ISIS would not have been able to take oil and use that oil…
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
Company Led by Donald Trump’s Energy Aide Says Its Oil Will Flow Through Dakota Access Pipeline
by STEVE HORN
Continental Resources — the company founded and led by CEO Harold Hamm, energy adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and potential U.S. Secretary of Energy under a Trump presidency — has announced to investors that oil it obtains via hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) from North Dakota’s Bakken Shale basin is destined for transport through the hotly-contested Dakota Access pipeline.
The company’s 37-page September 2016 Investor Update presentation walks investors in the publicly-traded company through various capital expenditure and profit-margin earning scenarios. It also features five slides on the Bakken Shale, with the fifth one named “CLR Bakken Differentials Decreasing Through Increased Pipeline Capacity” honing in on Dakota Access, ETCOP and how the interconnected lines relate to Continental’s marketing plans going forward.
In a section of that slide titled, “Bakken Takeaway Capacity” a bar graph points out that the opening of Dakota Access would allow more barrels of Continental’s Bakken fracked oil to flow through pipelines.
Dakota Access is slated to carry the fracked Bakken oil across South Dakota, Iowa and into Patoka, Illinois. From there, it will connect to the company’s Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipeline (ETCOP) line, which terminates in Nederland, Texas at the Sunoco Logistics-owned refinery.
From Keystone XL to Dakota Access
Previously, Harold Hamm was as an outspoken supporter of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, deploying the lobbying group he founded named the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance to advocate for KXL and a Bakken on-ramp which would connect to it. Once he realized the northern leg was doomed politically, Hamm began singing a different tune on Keystone.
“We’re supporting other pipelines out there, we’re not waiting on Keystone. Nobody is,” Hamm, also an energy adviser to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, told Politico in November 2014. “That thing … needed action on it six years ago. I just think it’s too late and we need to move on.”
One of those ‘other pipelines’ Hamm appears to have taken an interest in is Dakota Access (DAPL). Although to date, neither Hamm nor Trump have commented publicly on the DAPL project. Continental Resources told DeSmog that it does not comment on pipeline shipping contracts.
As The Intercept’s Lee Fang pointed out in a recent article, some oil from Dakota Access could feed export markets, despite Energy Transfer’s claims in a presentation that it will feature “100% Domestic produced crude” that “supports 100% domestic consumption.”
Hamm’s Domestic Energy Producers Alliance, as revealed in a December 2015 DeSmog investigation, led the successful public relations and lobbying campaign charge for lifting the crude oil export ban.
The battle over the fate of Dakota Access has pitted Native American Tribes, environmentalists and libertarian private property rights supporters against Energy Transfer Partners and state- and federal-level agencies which have permitted the project.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe awaits a decision by a Judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in its lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, set for September 9.
“Hamm is an oil profiteer exploiting the health of the water, farmland, and communities in the Dakotas and all downstream,” Angie Carter of the Women, Food and Agriculture Network — one of the over 30 groups comprising the Iowa-based Bakken Pipeline Resistance Coalition — told DeSmog. “In Iowa, we’ve called upon both Trump and Clinton to speak out against the pipeline.”
Like Trump, Clinton has yet to comment on the pipeline.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/08/ ... -pipeline/
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