Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet
Cyber Security Expert: Hackers Planning To Steal Election For McCain
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Stephen Spoonamore warns in a new interview that electronic voting machines represent a national security threat and that hackers are already planning to steal the 2008 presidential election for John McCain.
Spoonamore is a GOP member and a lifelong Republican, having worked on election campaigns with Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg. He also has 20 years worth of experience in encrypted and networked communications systems for banks, TV, telecommunications, EMS, Military and other uses.
In an ten part You Tube interview, Spoonamore warns that hackers are planning to steal the election on behalf of the McCain camp and even predicts the margin of victory, that McCain will make a “shocking recovery” and win 51.2 percent of the vote with three electoral votes over Obama.
“This is a national security threat,” said Spoonamore, “it is very possible for a foreign government to begin manipulating that transmission of code just as they attempt to do fairly often with our financial data….we deal with it every day on the commercial side,” he added, noting that China, and not the American people, has a greater chance of choosing the next U.S. president.
Spoonamore also fingered Israel as another foreign government that was planning to attempt to hack the 2008 election.
“We don’t know who’s changing the vote now - these weird results are coming in all over,” said Spoonamore, adding that the danger of the vote being hacked by Israel, China or Russia is an even greater threat than partisan vote fraud on behalf of the Democrats and Republicans.
“You’ve built a vulnerable system and many people would want to exploit that vulnerability and not all of them have the best interests of our nation at heart,” he added.
In the interview, Spoonamore stresses how easy it is to hack an electronic voting machine and rig an election.
“If people think that a voting machine that calls in to a tabulator is any different than all those cash registers calling in to the central processor - it’s the same thing,” said Spoonamore. “If you put a man in the middle attack, a computer sitting in the middle that can change or capture or manipulate the information, it will do so,” he added.
“It’s valuable to be president….if you can steal it for a couple of million bucks why not,” said Spoonamore, adding that the last two presidential elections were stolen.
Spoonamore said that he had personally witnessed people attempting to hack election systems and since going public with his testimony had received threats not to talk about vote fraud because it would undermine American’s confidence in the voting process, to which Spoonamore responded that people should doubt their vote because “it’s being stolen”.
Spoonamore said that top Republican operatives had told him that election hacking was “just a different methodology” but they didn’t grasp the fact that if you build a hackable system, “there’s hundreds of sharks that want to hack it and you will not know who the final hacker was.”
Spoonamore said that the only way to prevent elections being stolen is a complete return to paper ballots, a “move back to what worked so well for 190 years,” and the elimination of electronic voting machines.
Watch a key clip below or watch the entire interview via this wmv link or via You Tube.
from rense.com
Winter Soldier
By Karl Schwarz
9-25-8
One of the problems Americans have is that most do not have a clue about American history, or the real history of any other place on Earth. That is a problem because if a people do not know their own history they are truly a lost culture, a lost society, a nation adrift without a clue who they are or where they are going.
I have said it many times: America is 300,000,000 million opinions and not a single cohesive plan in sight. I often think that America has the exact leadership it deserves. The electorate is just as guilty as the con artists in DC because Americans just keep electing and re-electing Mr. Shithead and Ms Shitforbrains over and over again. It is almost like Americans like to band together at the coffee roundtables and stitch-n-bitch sessions to discuss the folly of their decisions without admitting that they really screwed up big time.
Americans have an absolutely terminal disease of electing morons, liars and thieves...and then cannot understand what went wrong. Maybe they do understand their folly but are too proud to admit it.
As an historical example, who was Thomas Paine? Most Americans cannot answer that question and if asked for specific details they are really stumped. Thomas Paine was an Englishman who moved to America and within months found himself writing passionately about the Revolutionary War. He took one look at what America was and began to see what it could become. He may have been the fastest convert from being a Crown subject Englishman to an American, ever.
His first 'Crisis Paper' was issued on December 19, 1776 shortly after the Declaration of Independence and the start of the Revolutionary War. From the following statement in the introduction of that paper, the term 'Winter Soldier' was born.
"These are the times that try men's souls."
A Winter Soldier is the one who will stand on the front lines for their nation in the most dire and desperate of times. Unlike the cowards, the uneducated commentators, the arm chair quarterbacks, the Winter Soldiers will stand on the most desolate front lines one can imagine while others sit on their asses and do nothing but be spectators or commentators wasting the precious time of others.
Thomas Paine was not highly-educated like Thomas Jefferson. He was, in fact, a very common, not very well-educated man but he had the ability to write as he saw things... passionately. He could articulate in written word like few others of his time and convey it to the common people. The following was written during a bitter winter...
http://www.bookrags.com/research/the-crisis-by-thomas-paine-arrl-04/
Things to Remember While Reading an Excerpt from the Crisis:
Paine truly believed that America would form a superior system of government and that America could not be conquered. His conviction is clear in his encouraging words to the American people. Throughout The Crisis papers, Paine repeatedly attacked the fainthearted, the "summer soldiers" and "sunshine patriots."
More than any other Revolutionary-era writer, Paine expressed his ideas in language for the common people. He liked to portray the war for independence as a simple struggle between good and evil. Naturally, the colonists were on the good side.
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us that, the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to tax) but "to bind us in all cases whatsoever," and if being bound in that manner is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. (Paine, p. 55)
America is involved in a battle of good versus evil right now. Tragically, in this hour of our greatest need, there is no one running for president qualified to lead that charge. America, in the current form of our government, is now worse than the tyranny that prompted the Declaration of Independence and the war that resulted in America becoming a free nation.
There are few people on this Earth who truly know me. I prefer it that way because I found out long ago that few can be trusted...so I limit my closest associates to God, Jesus Christ, family and a very few who have proven to me that they are worthy of my trust.
Jeff Rense and I have never met face-to-face, but he and I know much about each other because we chose to share it over time. He knows that I have been a Winter Soldier most of my adult life in the sheerest meaning of the phrase. I know that he has, too, because trying to get the truth in front of what is basically a nation of clueless people is a difficult and thankless task.
I can tell you exactly what being a Winter Soldier is like, for I have endured more than most people can imagine, or endure. It is like being on the front lines in a huge battle, in a fox hole, and the lazy American electorate would rather watch than pass the ammunition to win the battle. I will never forget over 300,000 Americans begging me to run for President. Those Americans backed up their wishes with the grand total of $326 to back my candidacy. I got shredded while the lazy spectators watched. America is full of Sunshine Patriots and Summer Soldiers afraid to face the real battle or the real issues.
Every four years, major corporations and the Wealthy Elite fund $1 billion or more to wage the battle for the Oval Office...and Americans cannot seem to figure out why they never get the leadership they want. The bottom line is that Americans refuse to fund the war to deliver them from tyranny. Somewhere along the way we have forgotten that freedom is not free.
What was even more amazing for me was that my platform was exactly what the vast majority of Americans say they want. It addressed every issue that is killing America and did so with specific solutions. The whole experience proved to me just how cheap talk has become and how most people want their salvation for free.
Most Americans worry more about their ideology than the future of their nation. They refuse to fight for what matters and cannot grasp the painfully obvious reality that neither the DNC nor the RNC will put forth candidates who are truly FREE to lead this nation with honor and integrity.
No real leader can emerge in America because the masses, aided, led and abetted by the zionist media will 'vet' and submerge honest candidates to oblivion with lies, innuendo and profane bullshit. Sadly, most Americans have lost the will - and the intelligence - to fight to save their nation and their future. Even for the sake of their own children.
So, here is my rant today. America you are essentially a media-guided and constructed gaggle of idiots looking for a place to have an accident. Most of the world is quite content to let you have your train wreck and leave the rest of the planet alone. The world is moving on...and the quicksand for America is deep.
The DC and Wall Street fraud in this current 'bailout' is nothing less than paying off literal criminals for their monumental crimes against our very way of life. Brace yourselves because the fabled '$700 Billon' will grow to $5, $10 or $15 trillion fast enough to take your breath away and enslave you, your children and their children for life. Remember well America, both sides of the aisle brought this nightmare down on all of us. It was all an illusion...a con game from day one designed to do exactly what is being played out right now.
Barky, you could not bribe me to vote for you. I have spent as much time as anyone looking into your background and you are, quite frankly, too damned lazy to be the President of the United States. You are all talk, no show and your vile arrogance is insufferable. Your cowardice is staggering. To me there is nothing worse than a lazy, pontificating, arrogant do-nothing chickenshit thinking he deserves the highest office of our nation. I cannot find a single thing you have accomplished in your life that qualifies you to be President of my nation, my homeland.
Biden, your "I AM a Zionist remark" and your putrid record stink so badly, I could not possibly, adequately, tell you with words what I really think except to say you are a traitor to America to the deepest level possible.
McCain, I have been least impressed with you for years. Your Vietnam service means nothing to me...if when the chips are down you are truly a Summer Soldier, a Sunshine Patriot. I had hopes for a while that your words and your selection of Sarah Palin meant that you truly wanted to change your own legacy and leave behind something worth remembering about you that is good.
Regrettably, the more I hear from you in this campaign, the more I am convinced you truly are Bush Lite, a mere continuation of the Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rove policies of death, corruption, genocide and war. You haven't a clue where Bush went wrong and you would continue doing the same. This is not what a vast majority of Americans want, so I am left to conclude you are helpless, powerless to seize the moment and do what Americans truly want and need done.
Iran is NO threat to the US. That entire agenda is a string of perpetual lies, rhetoric and propaganda that no true patriot would ever utter. A Winter Soldier would deal with it and resolve the situation. The Iranian oil, natural gas and uranium reserves belong to the Iranians, not Zionist Israel, the UK, the US and the City of London banksters. Anyone who would perpetuate the continuation of the lies regarding Iran is no patriot of America. He, or she, is a TRAITOR.
Both you and Sarah Palin now say that you 'would rather lose an election than lose a war in Iraq'. That says to me that you have been part of the lies that got us into the horrific genocide called the 'war' in Iraq. The entire world knows that Bush and Blair lied, so what part of that reality are you missing? What part of the lies can't you wrap your addled brain around?
Can you utter the words "Bridas Corporation"? They had the pipeline deal sewed up that the US breached with military force. That was the pipeline across Afghanistan to access the landlocked Caspian Basin oil and natural gas and bring it to the sea. Can you utter even two words to acknowledge that the US lied about Afghanistan, too?
Are you aware that actions are being taken to bring war crime charges against the US due to the 3,000+ Afghanis who were murdered in cold blood in November 2001? NO ONE has EVER invaded and conquered Afghanistan...and that is one reason the Taliban grow stronger by the day.
Watch this video, Johnny, and then dare to thump your 'war hero' chest about the justness or greatness of America. This atrocity was not done by American patriots, it was done by American murderers.
http://52.thelastoutpost.com/video-1/iraq/afghanmassacre
Did you even note that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recently admitted that there is NO WAY for the US to kill its way to a solution in Afghanistan? Did anyone in your campaign check into the BBC Hardtalk interview with former EU envoy to Afghanistan Francesc Vendrell? Peace has been achievable many times in Afghanistan and Bush keeps screwing that up to keep the fake Global War on Terror marketable to idiot brainwashed Americans.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7606030.stm
You claim you are going to put Russia in its place. Did you catch the BBC Hardtalk interview with Mikhiel 'the Tie Eating' Saakashvili? He slipped up and admitted that Georgia started that whole fiasco. So, what part of truth can't you grasp, Johnny? Your Russia-hating doggerel is no longer operative, necessary or remotely wise. Georgia attacked August 7, the day before the world was told. Russia counterattacked during the barrage that Georgia and others were laying down on South Ossetia in the early hours of August 8. Check it out. The truth is illuminating.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/7623150.stm
It appears that 72% of Americans are against the trillion dollar 'bailout' of the mostly Zionist criminals on Wall Street. If all you are going to do is support it and continue wrecking America with the BushCo plan, why not just let Bush have another term and finish our nation off for good? Do you truly want your name attached to that? Does your campaign somehow not understand that Wall Street fraud is directly connected to DC fraud? They are joined at the hip and you know it.
You claim that change is coming to DC, but I have yet to see anything that you intend to change. Looks and smells like a Bush instant replay to me...the same policies, perpetuation of the same mistakes, and worse...the same lies. Your rhetoric is starting to smell to me like another 4 to 8 years of failed Bush policies and digging America into a deeper grave.
I frankly wish Governor Palin was leading the RNC ticket and she had a better choice for VP.
Governor Palin, I admire your record in Alaska and I realize the value in America being energy independent. However, if you are just a continuation of the policies that got America into its current 'Titanic' mode, please go home and take care of your home state and your family. Americans need Winter Soldier leadership, not a Sunshine Patriot Zionist sock-puppet who supports a continuation of the endless Bush failures.
You are running as Vice President of the United States, not Zionist Israel. The more you come across as the VP of Israel, you are losing credibility by the minute. The speech you were going to give at the UN could not have been more off target and full of lies, misstatement of facts, misrepresentations of the truth.
Your rhetoric regarding Iran is wrong, ill-informed, a gross Zionist provocation, and irresponsible.
Did you catch that Ehud Olmert stated that "Greater Israel is dead?" That is what the Iranian president was referring to. I have seen the literal translation of what President Ahmadinejad said and he never said he wanted Israel nuked off the map. That claim is a lie from DC, Israel and Main Stream Media. As an Ecumenical Christian, it is not proper for you to perpetuate political lies. Think on that one.
Change your rhetoric, or get your facts straight, or go home.
You now have first hand experience in how the Main Stream Media edits out key parts, since they did just that to you to make you look the fool. They did it to you so should you be surprised that they did it to the President of Iran, too?
Watch this and really think hard because the last thing America needs is another war based on lies, an Unjust War based on lies. Bush has us in four wars based on lies, the Global War on Terror, Afghanistan, Iraq and now Georgia. Georgia started that one, along with the US, Israel and Ukraine. Check into it. Get the FACTS. And THEN speak to America on what is right and wrong. Almost every time you open your mouth, millions who had a flicker of hope for you, CRINGE.
As an Ecumenical Christian, I insist you do what is required or I will rebuke you, Ecumenical Christian to Ecumenical Christian. God does not endorse or condone Unjust Wars based on political lies and wanton greed. Think on that one, too, and you will see why the US is losing, has lost, in Afghanistan and Iraq.
This is from a recent article I did:
Even Mike Wallace and 60 Minutes have had a hand to play in misleading America on just about everything regarding Iran.
http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?swf=http%3A//s.ytimg.com/yt/swf/cps-vfl56220.swf&video_
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Actually, what President Ahmadinejad said is exactly what needs to happen regarding separate states for Israel and Palestine. They keep spreading the lie that he said he wanted Israel nuked off the map. He NEVER said that. What he was referring to was that the 'Greater Israel' POLITICAL plan was a failure (quote: 'must be erased from the pages of time.') just as Bush and his Global War on Terror is a complete failure.
If I do not see improvements soon, my next piece will address who to vote for other than any RNC or DNC candidate. Enough is truly enough. Oh, and getting 'briefed' by Henry the K is not going to help you win friends and influence people. Governor, that photo op did not do you any good. Trust me.
As Bush, Paulson, Bernanke and others from both sides of the aisle mouth off about how "we must restore confidence in the markets" note that they mention not one word that the real problem is Americans' position of no confidence in our government. The government in DC proves every hour of every day that it is unworthy of trust or confidence.
Americans are now the subjects of tyranny. People need to learn to vote on the basis of their freedom, liberty and what is best for America. Until they do, the USS Titanic is headed straight DOWN.
Karl
Winter Soldier
By Karl Schwarz
9-25-8
One of the problems Americans have is that most do not have a clue about American history, or the real history of any other place on Earth. That is a problem because if a people do not know their own history they are truly a lost culture, a lost society, a nation adrift without a clue who they are or where they are going.
I have said it many times: America is 300,000,000 million opinions and not a single cohesive plan in sight. I often think that America has the exact leadership it deserves. The electorate is just as guilty as the con artists in DC because Americans just keep electing and re-electing Mr. Shithead and Ms Shitforbrains over and over again. It is almost like Americans like to band together at the coffee roundtables and stitch-n-bitch sessions to discuss the folly of their decisions without admitting that they really screwed up big time.
Americans have an absolutely terminal disease of electing morons, liars and thieves...and then cannot understand what went wrong. Maybe they do understand their folly but are too proud to admit it.
As an historical example, who was Thomas Paine? Most Americans cannot answer that question and if asked for specific details they are really stumped. Thomas Paine was an Englishman who moved to America and within months found himself writing passionately about the Revolutionary War. He took one look at what America was and began to see what it could become. He may have been the fastest convert from being a Crown subject Englishman to an American, ever.
His first 'Crisis Paper' was issued on December 19, 1776 shortly after the Declaration of Independence and the start of the Revolutionary War. From the following statement in the introduction of that paper, the term 'Winter Soldier' was born.
"These are the times that try men's souls."
A Winter Soldier is the one who will stand on the front lines for their nation in the most dire and desperate of times. Unlike the cowards, the uneducated commentators, the arm chair quarterbacks, the Winter Soldiers will stand on the most desolate front lines one can imagine while others sit on their asses and do nothing but be spectators or commentators wasting the precious time of others.
Thomas Paine was not highly-educated like Thomas Jefferson. He was, in fact, a very common, not very well-educated man but he had the ability to write as he saw things... passionately. He could articulate in written word like few others of his time and convey it to the common people. The following was written during a bitter winter...
http://www.bookrags.com/research/the-crisis-by-thomas-paine-arrl-04/
Things to Remember While Reading an Excerpt from the Crisis:
Paine truly believed that America would form a superior system of government and that America could not be conquered. His conviction is clear in his encouraging words to the American people. Throughout The Crisis papers, Paine repeatedly attacked the fainthearted, the "summer soldiers" and "sunshine patriots."
More than any other Revolutionary-era writer, Paine expressed his ideas in language for the common people. He liked to portray the war for independence as a simple struggle between good and evil. Naturally, the colonists were on the good side.
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us that, the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to tax) but "to bind us in all cases whatsoever," and if being bound in that manner is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. (Paine, p. 55)
America is involved in a battle of good versus evil right now. Tragically, in this hour of our greatest need, there is no one running for president qualified to lead that charge. America, in the current form of our government, is now worse than the tyranny that prompted the Declaration of Independence and the war that resulted in America becoming a free nation.
There are few people on this Earth who truly know me. I prefer it that way because I found out long ago that few can be trusted...so I limit my closest associates to God, Jesus Christ, family and a very few who have proven to me that they are worthy of my trust.
Jeff Rense and I have never met face-to-face, but he and I know much about each other because we chose to share it over time. He knows that I have been a Winter Soldier most of my adult life in the sheerest meaning of the phrase. I know that he has, too, because trying to get the truth in front of what is basically a nation of clueless people is a difficult and thankless task.
I can tell you exactly what being a Winter Soldier is like, for I have endured more than most people can imagine, or endure. It is like being on the front lines in a huge battle, in a fox hole, and the lazy American electorate would rather watch than pass the ammunition to win the battle. I will never forget over 300,000 Americans begging me to run for President. Those Americans backed up their wishes with the grand total of $326 to back my candidacy. I got shredded while the lazy spectators watched. America is full of Sunshine Patriots and Summer Soldiers afraid to face the real battle or the real issues.
Every four years, major corporations and the Wealthy Elite fund $1 billion or more to wage the battle for the Oval Office...and Americans cannot seem to figure out why they never get the leadership they want. The bottom line is that Americans refuse to fund the war to deliver them from tyranny. Somewhere along the way we have forgotten that freedom is not free.
What was even more amazing for me was that my platform was exactly what the vast majority of Americans say they want. It addressed every issue that is killing America and did so with specific solutions. The whole experience proved to me just how cheap talk has become and how most people want their salvation for free.
Most Americans worry more about their ideology than the future of their nation. They refuse to fight for what matters and cannot grasp the painfully obvious reality that neither the DNC nor the RNC will put forth candidates who are truly FREE to lead this nation with honor and integrity.
No real leader can emerge in America because the masses, aided, led and abetted by the zionist media will 'vet' and submerge honest candidates to oblivion with lies, innuendo and profane bullshit. Sadly, most Americans have lost the will - and the intelligence - to fight to save their nation and their future. Even for the sake of their own children.
So, here is my rant today. America you are essentially a media-guided and constructed gaggle of idiots looking for a place to have an accident. Most of the world is quite content to let you have your train wreck and leave the rest of the planet alone. The world is moving on...and the quicksand for America is deep.
The DC and Wall Street fraud in this current 'bailout' is nothing less than paying off literal criminals for their monumental crimes against our very way of life. Brace yourselves because the fabled '$700 Billon' will grow to $5, $10 or $15 trillion fast enough to take your breath away and enslave you, your children and their children for life. Remember well America, both sides of the aisle brought this nightmare down on all of us. It was all an illusion...a con game from day one designed to do exactly what is being played out right now.
Barky, you could not bribe me to vote for you. I have spent as much time as anyone looking into your background and you are, quite frankly, too damned lazy to be the President of the United States. You are all talk, no show and your vile arrogance is insufferable. Your cowardice is staggering. To me there is nothing worse than a lazy, pontificating, arrogant do-nothing chickenshit thinking he deserves the highest office of our nation. I cannot find a single thing you have accomplished in your life that qualifies you to be President of my nation, my homeland.
Biden, your "I AM a Zionist remark" and your putrid record stink so badly, I could not possibly, adequately, tell you with words what I really think except to say you are a traitor to America to the deepest level possible.
McCain, I have been least impressed with you for years. Your Vietnam service means nothing to me...if when the chips are down you are truly a Summer Soldier, a Sunshine Patriot. I had hopes for a while that your words and your selection of Sarah Palin meant that you truly wanted to change your own legacy and leave behind something worth remembering about you that is good.
Regrettably, the more I hear from you in this campaign, the more I am convinced you truly are Bush Lite, a mere continuation of the Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rove policies of death, corruption, genocide and war. You haven't a clue where Bush went wrong and you would continue doing the same. This is not what a vast majority of Americans want, so I am left to conclude you are helpless, powerless to seize the moment and do what Americans truly want and need done.
Iran is NO threat to the US. That entire agenda is a string of perpetual lies, rhetoric and propaganda that no true patriot would ever utter. A Winter Soldier would deal with it and resolve the situation. The Iranian oil, natural gas and uranium reserves belong to the Iranians, not Zionist Israel, the UK, the US and the City of London banksters. Anyone who would perpetuate the continuation of the lies regarding Iran is no patriot of America. He, or she, is a TRAITOR.
Both you and Sarah Palin now say that you 'would rather lose an election than lose a war in Iraq'. That says to me that you have been part of the lies that got us into the horrific genocide called the 'war' in Iraq. The entire world knows that Bush and Blair lied, so what part of that reality are you missing? What part of the lies can't you wrap your addled brain around?
Can you utter the words "Bridas Corporation"? They had the pipeline deal sewed up that the US breached with military force. That was the pipeline across Afghanistan to access the landlocked Caspian Basin oil and natural gas and bring it to the sea. Can you utter even two words to acknowledge that the US lied about Afghanistan, too?
Are you aware that actions are being taken to bring war crime charges against the US due to the 3,000+ Afghanis who were murdered in cold blood in November 2001? NO ONE has EVER invaded and conquered Afghanistan...and that is one reason the Taliban grow stronger by the day.
Watch this video, Johnny, and then dare to thump your 'war hero' chest about the justness or greatness of America. This atrocity was not done by American patriots, it was done by American murderers.
http://52.thelastoutpost.com/video-1/iraq/afghanmassacre
Did you even note that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recently admitted that there is NO WAY for the US to kill its way to a solution in Afghanistan? Did anyone in your campaign check into the BBC Hardtalk interview with former EU envoy to Afghanistan Francesc Vendrell? Peace has been achievable many times in Afghanistan and Bush keeps screwing that up to keep the fake Global War on Terror marketable to idiot brainwashed Americans.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7606030.stm
You claim you are going to put Russia in its place. Did you catch the BBC Hardtalk interview with Mikhiel 'the Tie Eating' Saakashvili? He slipped up and admitted that Georgia started that whole fiasco. So, what part of truth can't you grasp, Johnny? Your Russia-hating doggerel is no longer operative, necessary or remotely wise. Georgia attacked August 7, the day before the world was told. Russia counterattacked during the barrage that Georgia and others were laying down on South Ossetia in the early hours of August 8. Check it out. The truth is illuminating.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/7623150.stm
It appears that 72% of Americans are against the trillion dollar 'bailout' of the mostly Zionist criminals on Wall Street. If all you are going to do is support it and continue wrecking America with the BushCo plan, why not just let Bush have another term and finish our nation off for good? Do you truly want your name attached to that? Does your campaign somehow not understand that Wall Street fraud is directly connected to DC fraud? They are joined at the hip and you know it.
You claim that change is coming to DC, but I have yet to see anything that you intend to change. Looks and smells like a Bush instant replay to me...the same policies, perpetuation of the same mistakes, and worse...the same lies. Your rhetoric is starting to smell to me like another 4 to 8 years of failed Bush policies and digging America into a deeper grave.
I frankly wish Governor Palin was leading the RNC ticket and she had a better choice for VP.
Governor Palin, I admire your record in Alaska and I realize the value in America being energy independent. However, if you are just a continuation of the policies that got America into its current 'Titanic' mode, please go home and take care of your home state and your family. Americans need Winter Soldier leadership, not a Sunshine Patriot Zionist sock-puppet who supports a continuation of the endless Bush failures.
You are running as Vice President of the United States, not Zionist Israel. The more you come across as the VP of Israel, you are losing credibility by the minute. The speech you were going to give at the UN could not have been more off target and full of lies, misstatement of facts, misrepresentations of the truth.
Your rhetoric regarding Iran is wrong, ill-informed, a gross Zionist provocation, and irresponsible.
Did you catch that Ehud Olmert stated that "Greater Israel is dead?" That is what the Iranian president was referring to. I have seen the literal translation of what President Ahmadinejad said and he never said he wanted Israel nuked off the map. That claim is a lie from DC, Israel and Main Stream Media. As an Ecumenical Christian, it is not proper for you to perpetuate political lies. Think on that one.
Change your rhetoric, or get your facts straight, or go home.
You now have first hand experience in how the Main Stream Media edits out key parts, since they did just that to you to make you look the fool. They did it to you so should you be surprised that they did it to the President of Iran, too?
Watch this and really think hard because the last thing America needs is another war based on lies, an Unjust War based on lies. Bush has us in four wars based on lies, the Global War on Terror, Afghanistan, Iraq and now Georgia. Georgia started that one, along with the US, Israel and Ukraine. Check into it. Get the FACTS. And THEN speak to America on what is right and wrong. Almost every time you open your mouth, millions who had a flicker of hope for you, CRINGE.
As an Ecumenical Christian, I insist you do what is required or I will rebuke you, Ecumenical Christian to Ecumenical Christian. God does not endorse or condone Unjust Wars based on political lies and wanton greed. Think on that one, too, and you will see why the US is losing, has lost, in Afghanistan and Iraq.
This is from a recent article I did:
Even Mike Wallace and 60 Minutes have had a hand to play in misleading America on just about everything regarding Iran.
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Actually, what President Ahmadinejad said is exactly what needs to happen regarding separate states for Israel and Palestine. They keep spreading the lie that he said he wanted Israel nuked off the map. He NEVER said that. What he was referring to was that the 'Greater Israel' POLITICAL plan was a failure (quote: 'must be erased from the pages of time.') just as Bush and his Global War on Terror is a complete failure.
If I do not see improvements soon, my next piece will address who to vote for other than any RNC or DNC candidate. Enough is truly enough. Oh, and getting 'briefed' by Henry the K is not going to help you win friends and influence people. Governor, that photo op did not do you any good. Trust me.
As Bush, Paulson, Bernanke and others from both sides of the aisle mouth off about how "we must restore confidence in the markets" note that they mention not one word that the real problem is Americans' position of no confidence in our government. The government in DC proves every hour of every day that it is unworthy of trust or confidence.
Americans are now the subjects of tyranny. People need to learn to vote on the basis of their freedom, liberty and what is best for America. Until they do, the USS Titanic is headed straight DOWN.
Karl
Votes are being stolen, now, by hundreds of thousands-- and the Democrats aren't doing anything about it: RFK, Jr.
RFK, Jr.: There are about 30 scams the Republicans are deliberately using, particularly in the swing states to get Democratic voters off the rolls. These scams originate in the so-called Help America Vote Act, which was passed after the Florida debacle in the year 2000. It was originally suggested by Democrats and Republicans, but it was passed by a Republican Congress with a Republican senate and a Republican president. And instead of reforming what happened in Florida it basically institutionalized all the problems that happened in Florida. And institutionalized a series of impediments that make it very difficult for Democrats to register, for Democrats to vote and then for Democrats to have their votes counted.
One of these requirements under HAVA is called 'the perfect match,' and what that does is little known but it is devastating. A quarter of the voters in Colorado have just been removed from the rolls because of this-- just this one scam. And what it does is, they use a computer system to compare your registration application to all other government records in the state. So they'll look at your Social Security records, your Motor Vehicle records, and any time you've had any interaction with the government, and if there is any information on your voter registration that is different than the information on another government record that they find, they remove you from the voting rolls.
For example, if I registered as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and yet my motor vehicle license said Robert Frances Kennedy Jr., I'd be removed from the rolls. If your initial is different, if you leave an initial out, if you leave a "Jr." out, if you leave a hyphen out in your name. And what they've done is a study in New York that said 80% of the errors are errors by state clerks taking down this information. And particularly immigrant communities, people tend to vote Democratic, people have namesŠspell Muhammad with an "o" instead of a "u" read
RFK, Jr.: There are about 30 scams the Republicans are deliberately using, particularly in the swing states to get Democratic voters off the rolls. These scams originate in the so-called Help America Vote Act, which was passed after the Florida debacle in the year 2000. It was originally suggested by Democrats and Republicans, but it was passed by a Republican Congress with a Republican senate and a Republican president. And instead of reforming what happened in Florida it basically institutionalized all the problems that happened in Florida. And institutionalized a series of impediments that make it very difficult for Democrats to register, for Democrats to vote and then for Democrats to have their votes counted.
One of these requirements under HAVA is called 'the perfect match,' and what that does is little known but it is devastating. A quarter of the voters in Colorado have just been removed from the rolls because of this-- just this one scam. And what it does is, they use a computer system to compare your registration application to all other government records in the state. So they'll look at your Social Security records, your Motor Vehicle records, and any time you've had any interaction with the government, and if there is any information on your voter registration that is different than the information on another government record that they find, they remove you from the voting rolls.
For example, if I registered as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and yet my motor vehicle license said Robert Frances Kennedy Jr., I'd be removed from the rolls. If your initial is different, if you leave an initial out, if you leave a "Jr." out, if you leave a hyphen out in your name. And what they've done is a study in New York that said 80% of the errors are errors by state clerks taking down this information. And particularly immigrant communities, people tend to vote Democratic, people have namesŠspell Muhammad with an "o" instead of a "u" read
from BROTHER JONATHAN GAZETTE
DAILY DIGEST FRIDAY AUGUST 29, 2008
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."
-- William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting, 1981)
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SCOOPING THE NATIONAL NEWS MEDIA
Flipping the Democratic National Convention 2008
A number of national blogs in the last several days have made the claim that BroJon was wrong. The Democratic convention did not select Hillary on Wednesday – but in fact they did but in a slick secretive way, which I also predicted. I warned the readers not to believe what they see on Wednesday and Thursday – only look at the result on Friday. It's now after Friday. So what just happened?
Most people who watched the convention live, or who even just read about the convention in the newspapers, thought they saw Hillary give a stem-winder speech on Tuesday evening and released her block of votes to Obama and praising Obama as the next President. Don't you believe it. That was simply step one in flipping the convention. Then on Wednesday morning, Obama was convinced to go along with a floor roll-call vote with two names on the ballot list, Clinton and Obama. I thought “Oh boy, here we go, watch this convention magic trick.” And what happened was a trick. Half way through the roll-call vote Hillary, as head of the New York delegation, moved to stop the roll-call and nominate Obama by Acclamation. That was the trick.
Instantly, all the news media flashed on their screens “Democrat Convention elects Obama by Acclamation.” But that was NOT true. The democratic vote was not even tallied, counted nor recorded. Instead Obama was elected by a trick of the rules by a combination run by Hillary Rodham and Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, and head of the California convention Delegation. This was an election scam. It was a scam with which I was familiar, since I was an expert at that scam. It was based on that same expertise that I was selected by the California JayCees to be a delegate to the huge 1969 JayCee national convention in Phoenix.
Let me explain how that scam works.
In 1968, I lived in Milpitas, California. It was a very small city just north of San Jose. It was so small that the center of town was the single gas station, next to the railroad tracks. Most people then did not even know how to pronounce Milpitas. I became the Chairman of something called the “Milpitas Community Improvement Committee.” It was a group of 18 members representing home owners associations around the city, a real “grass-roots” group.
The city had a real problem. Going back to the 1800's the Western Pacific Railroad had been granted Federal easements for tracks and a large plot of land for maintenance or sale. A typical 1800's railroad deal. In Milpitas, the Western Pacific plot of land was a ten mile square in the center of town. It was empty, just dead grass and mesquite since WP had rules that only industries which shipped by rail could purchase and build in there. There was one business. It was the Ford Plant. All the Ford Mustangs in the US were built at the Milpitas Ford Plant and then sent by Western Pacific to dealerships all around the nation.
All good for Ford, but that left Milpitas with a single source of revenue, which was insufficient to build roads, schools, and all the things you need to be a city. Since it was a small city, and since I had just built my house in Milpitas with my own bare hands, and was a member of Milpitas Toastmasters, the Milpitas JayCees, the YMCA Y-Indian Guides with my son, and a member of the Community Improvement Committee, I personally knew all the City Councilmen, The city fathers. I also was a friend of the head of the local school district and publisher of the local news paper, the Milpitas Post.
What I heard from all of them was that Milpitas had a problem. Somehow we needed to get Western Pacific to change their rules about who can buy and develop land inside that big empty donut hole in the center of the city. But how can a city force a railroad to change their rules? Nobody had a clue. But I did. And since it was a sneaky and devious ploy and probably illegal I said nothing to nobody. I just went ahead and did it myself.
It started with my friend Mort Levine, publisher of the Milpitas Post, a weekly local paper to allow me to write a series of articles explaining the problem – all designed to inflame and anger the Milpitas citizens against Western Pacific, for driving down house values, forcing Milpitas to discontinue street sweeping and stop building new schools, and many other financial difficulties. All problems which I had heard for years at my Community Improvement Committee meetings. I knew how to get people angry. The railroad didn't know what was about to hit them. I set a date for a citywide meeting to discuss the need for Milpitas to pass laws to force Western Pacific to change their rules. (That was the illegal part since cities can't just pass laws to force a citizen or corporation to change their rules – but I just didn't mention that, I let the readers believe that cities had that power. That's why nobody including city fathers, city attorneys and others had no clue how to solve the problem since they knew it couldn't be done “legally”)
At the meeting, nearly 400 angry citizens filled the chambers of the Community Improvement Committee to overflowing. Actually we met in the same chambers as
the City Council, I sat in the Mayor's chair, but we met the day before the council meeting. Knowing that something momentous was about to happen even the city councilmen attended my meeting. I had their support, they just wondered if I could pull it off. The normal rules of orderly conduct for small meetings, PTA meetings, state legislatures, and even the Congress of the United States, including political conventions are called Roberts Rules of Order. I knew those rules backwards and forwards. I knew how to use them and abuse them, however I wished. That was my “expertise.”
I started off by announcing that the topic of discussion was the future growth of the city. I opened the floor to discussion and let a few members on the committee and numerous citizens from the floor make comments. After about 25 minutes I said in a loud voice. “Do I hear a motion?” By prior arrangement with my committee, one of my committee members raised her hand and said, “I move that the Milpitas City Council, to improve the conditions in the city, equires Western Pacific Railroad to allow businesses which ship my truck, and not just railroad. to build within the center of the city, and so increase tax revenue to the city.”
There was a low rumble of hushed comments after the motion was read. After a pause of 6.35 seconds I shouted, “Do I hear a second to the motion?” By prior arrangement, none of my committee members ever said anything. It seemed that the motion was about to die for lack of a second. Since all those 400 angry people, who had read my articles in the newspaper, were not members of the committee they didn't think they could second any motions. I had planned on that. They all remained silent and just looked at each other, worried that the motion was about to die. There was just stunned silence for 4.72 seconds, then I shouted, “All those in favor of the motion, signify by saying Aye.”
There was a sudden loud roar of “Aye” that echoed from one end of Silicon Valley to the other. It seemed to get louder by the second as more of the 400 wanted to be sure that the railroad heard their vote. I had just stepped over the rules. I did not wait for someone to second the motion, instead I just plowed ahead as if the motion had come into existence by being seconded. And two, I had called for a “verbal” vote, when the call for a verbal vote sually requires another vote to accept a verbal vote instead of a show of ands, counting ballots. or a roll call vote to pass a motion.
For people not familiar with Roberts Rules of Order, they didn't know that I had just broken the rules – smashed the rules would be a more apt description. As the loud shouts of “aye” died down I shouted “All those opposed to the growth of the city of Milpitas signify by saying No.” About 0.125 seconds after that, the raft of 3-piece- suited rail road lawyers in the back of the room figured out that I was talking to them, and before any lawyer could inhale to say “No” -- I shouted “The Ayes appear to have carried the motion. There being no opposition, The motion is carried unanimously and will be reported to the City Council tomorrow as a unanimous vote by the grass root citizens of Milpitas.”
By pre-arrangement with with my committee, I packed up my briefcase and we all walked out of the council chamber, followed by the 400 who had already seen the show they came for. I turned out the lights, leaving those pin-stripped lawyers at the back of the room muttering among themselves, “Lordy Lordy What the hell just happened?”
The results of my CIC meeting were reported the next day on the front page of the Milpitas Post, with a glowing description by my friend and publisher Mort Levine. Mort saw the event live but he never saw that I had manufactured and manipulated that event. I broke Roberts Rules of Order. I never allowed the motion to die without a second, I never called for a real “show of hands vote”, I never allowed the opposition to speak. The railroad never realized that they had just been gob-smacked by my gavel running rough-shod over the rules. Several years later the City awarded me a special gavel with a metal plaque reading “MARSHALL SMITH, CIC CHAIRMAN, 72-73.”
And that's how sleepy little Milpitas in 1968 turned from a town of 17,000 with one gas station and a high school into a vibrant metropolis of more than 150 thousand, three high schools, a massive regional shopping center with two freeways passing through it in 2008 – and all financed by Western Pacific Railroad, who actually believed that the citizens of Milpitas had changed the rules in 1968. Now most Californians know how to pronounce “Milpitas” and they often ask “Is Milpitas the real capitol of Silicon Valley?” I know how all that came about and now so do you.
I don't remember ever teaching that dirty trick using Robert's Rules of Order to Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But she used it accurately and almost verbatim just as I had done. It started with Hillary's motion to end the roll call vote in the middle of the vote and nominate Obama by Democratic Convention Acclamation. Then Nancy called for a second to the motion, but there was none. So Nancy called instantly for a voice vote, just as I did. The “yea” vote shook the convention floor, but when Pelosi did the next obvious thing, “Those not in favor of suspending the rules and nominating Obama by acclamation, indicate your choice by saying NO” the response was SILENCE.
So Pelosi instantly declared “A majority of delegates have carried the motion, and Obama is nominated by Acclamation.” It was all a political trick. How did Pelosi know that there would be zero “No” votes? It was a trick created right in front of everyone, the public, live TV cameras, and millions of TV viewers all across the nation. I saw it myself and then knew that Pelosi had created the illusion, just as I did in Milpitas in 1968. It wasn't the democratic convention which had nominated Obama by acclamation – It was Nancy Pelosi and Nancy alone.
The dirty trick was to produce zero “NO” votes. How was that trick done? Normally a floor roll call vote in alphabetical order takes about an hour and a half to two hours, especially with all the fluff and flowery state promos from the head of the delegations just before they announce to the chair the results of each state delegate vote count. Early in the roll call vote, the state of California, delegation head, Nancy Pelosi. gave her flowery state promo speech but just before she announced the state count results to the chairwoman, a man stepped up to the microphone and announced “California Passes.” This caused instant confusion and consternation on the convention floor “Can a state just do that?”
Several of the talking-head pundits on CNN and FOX pointed out that most smaller states with 18 to 35 electoral votes might split their vote based on which candidate was ahead at the time. California with a massive 440 delegates could make it look like Hillary was ahead and make many small states toss all their votes for Hillary. By having California “Pass” the running delegate total shown on the bottom of the TV screen was rising up 15 at a time for Obama, and 3 at a time for Hillary. About that time Obama had around 1000 votes while Hillary had 240 votes. If California had reported its votes at the beginning of the alphabet, most of the smaller states might have skewed the vote totals. The magic trick occurred in the middle of the alphabet, the letter “N” for Nebraska and then New York.
Wednesday afternoon, the convention came to a hushed silence as Hillary took the microphone. Would she announce the actual delegate votes from the New York Democratic Primary elections, or toss all the state votes for Obama as she said Tuesday morning. It was neither. She made the now famous motion to suddenly end the roll call vote and nominate Obama by cclamation. Then she tossed the next part of the magic trick to the temporary roll call vote chairwoman, Nancy Pelosi. I already explained how Pelosi made veryone believe something had just happened when it hadn't. It was the same trick as me convincing Western Pacific and the public into believing that their rules had just been changed.
So what happened to all the “NO” votes? In the previous three days the Hillary supporters, carrying white signs with blue/black “Hillary” script with a red angled underline dash, appeared all over the convention floor. They were all over TV anytime the cameras focused on Hillary. But just before the floor roll call vote began, I noted that the floor seemed quite empty. Many people were missing. What was missing were the hundreds of delegates wearing white tee shirts with the “Hillary” logo on the front. Were they all rounded up by convention police? No – worse than that – they all voluntarily left the convention floor. How? Someone in the pro-Hillary group had called a secret caucus meeting in a back room to plan for what to do if Obama actually won the roll call vote.
Thus for an hour and a half the Hillary supporters were not on the convention floor during the long dull roll call vote. Boy, were they all surprised when they got back to the floor and found their votes had all been canceled, Obama had been nominated by acclamation, and they never got a chance to yell loudly enmasse “NO” to Nancy Pelosi. The actual vote tally when Hillary ended the roll call was only 1500 for Obama, much less than the 2700 needed for nomination. That's how that trick was done live and on TV and in front of everybody. Sounds like the Soviet Union to me. But American politics has been done that way for over 100 years. The trick here was to unify the convention by a vote of acclamation for Obama then several days later when the dust settles and Obama turns out to be not qualified to run for President, the Democrats will quickly find a replacement – Hillary. That's called Flipping the Convention.
Thus the vote to nominate Hillary by acclamation actually occurred last Wednesday – exactly as I had predicted and the vote for Obama will soon be flipped to the obverse. Thus all you bloggers who wrote to tell me my prediction was wrong. Need to listen more carefully when I said don't believe what you see on Wednesday, wait until Thursday or Friday or after. Then compare the reality of the results with my predictions. I knew something would happen on Wednesday which would result in the election of Hillary Clinton. I have known it for 35 years, it's even in my book Black Gold Hot Gold.
I am not a magician nor prognosticator. I could not predict what would happen on Wednesday. I only knew the day and the long-term results, Hillary's election. I was not surprised to find it was Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday who would pull the Troika Trick to control the convention. One of the reasons why I want to publish my “Russian Letters” is that I discovered proof that there are three Troika Lieutenants in California: Senator Diane Feinstein, Senator Barbara Boxer and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. I was not surprised that Pelosi used my Western Pacific railroad ploy. I can usually discover most Troika Tricks, since I found and used them all decades ago.
That's why I put the Troika truism at the top of every page "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." Right On, Mr. Troika...
DAILY DIGEST FRIDAY AUGUST 29, 2008
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."
-- William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting, 1981)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
SCOOPING THE NATIONAL NEWS MEDIA
Flipping the Democratic National Convention 2008
A number of national blogs in the last several days have made the claim that BroJon was wrong. The Democratic convention did not select Hillary on Wednesday – but in fact they did but in a slick secretive way, which I also predicted. I warned the readers not to believe what they see on Wednesday and Thursday – only look at the result on Friday. It's now after Friday. So what just happened?
Most people who watched the convention live, or who even just read about the convention in the newspapers, thought they saw Hillary give a stem-winder speech on Tuesday evening and released her block of votes to Obama and praising Obama as the next President. Don't you believe it. That was simply step one in flipping the convention. Then on Wednesday morning, Obama was convinced to go along with a floor roll-call vote with two names on the ballot list, Clinton and Obama. I thought “Oh boy, here we go, watch this convention magic trick.” And what happened was a trick. Half way through the roll-call vote Hillary, as head of the New York delegation, moved to stop the roll-call and nominate Obama by Acclamation. That was the trick.
Instantly, all the news media flashed on their screens “Democrat Convention elects Obama by Acclamation.” But that was NOT true. The democratic vote was not even tallied, counted nor recorded. Instead Obama was elected by a trick of the rules by a combination run by Hillary Rodham and Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, and head of the California convention Delegation. This was an election scam. It was a scam with which I was familiar, since I was an expert at that scam. It was based on that same expertise that I was selected by the California JayCees to be a delegate to the huge 1969 JayCee national convention in Phoenix.
Let me explain how that scam works.
In 1968, I lived in Milpitas, California. It was a very small city just north of San Jose. It was so small that the center of town was the single gas station, next to the railroad tracks. Most people then did not even know how to pronounce Milpitas. I became the Chairman of something called the “Milpitas Community Improvement Committee.” It was a group of 18 members representing home owners associations around the city, a real “grass-roots” group.
The city had a real problem. Going back to the 1800's the Western Pacific Railroad had been granted Federal easements for tracks and a large plot of land for maintenance or sale. A typical 1800's railroad deal. In Milpitas, the Western Pacific plot of land was a ten mile square in the center of town. It was empty, just dead grass and mesquite since WP had rules that only industries which shipped by rail could purchase and build in there. There was one business. It was the Ford Plant. All the Ford Mustangs in the US were built at the Milpitas Ford Plant and then sent by Western Pacific to dealerships all around the nation.
All good for Ford, but that left Milpitas with a single source of revenue, which was insufficient to build roads, schools, and all the things you need to be a city. Since it was a small city, and since I had just built my house in Milpitas with my own bare hands, and was a member of Milpitas Toastmasters, the Milpitas JayCees, the YMCA Y-Indian Guides with my son, and a member of the Community Improvement Committee, I personally knew all the City Councilmen, The city fathers. I also was a friend of the head of the local school district and publisher of the local news paper, the Milpitas Post.
What I heard from all of them was that Milpitas had a problem. Somehow we needed to get Western Pacific to change their rules about who can buy and develop land inside that big empty donut hole in the center of the city. But how can a city force a railroad to change their rules? Nobody had a clue. But I did. And since it was a sneaky and devious ploy and probably illegal I said nothing to nobody. I just went ahead and did it myself.
It started with my friend Mort Levine, publisher of the Milpitas Post, a weekly local paper to allow me to write a series of articles explaining the problem – all designed to inflame and anger the Milpitas citizens against Western Pacific, for driving down house values, forcing Milpitas to discontinue street sweeping and stop building new schools, and many other financial difficulties. All problems which I had heard for years at my Community Improvement Committee meetings. I knew how to get people angry. The railroad didn't know what was about to hit them. I set a date for a citywide meeting to discuss the need for Milpitas to pass laws to force Western Pacific to change their rules. (That was the illegal part since cities can't just pass laws to force a citizen or corporation to change their rules – but I just didn't mention that, I let the readers believe that cities had that power. That's why nobody including city fathers, city attorneys and others had no clue how to solve the problem since they knew it couldn't be done “legally”)
At the meeting, nearly 400 angry citizens filled the chambers of the Community Improvement Committee to overflowing. Actually we met in the same chambers as
the City Council, I sat in the Mayor's chair, but we met the day before the council meeting. Knowing that something momentous was about to happen even the city councilmen attended my meeting. I had their support, they just wondered if I could pull it off. The normal rules of orderly conduct for small meetings, PTA meetings, state legislatures, and even the Congress of the United States, including political conventions are called Roberts Rules of Order. I knew those rules backwards and forwards. I knew how to use them and abuse them, however I wished. That was my “expertise.”
I started off by announcing that the topic of discussion was the future growth of the city. I opened the floor to discussion and let a few members on the committee and numerous citizens from the floor make comments. After about 25 minutes I said in a loud voice. “Do I hear a motion?” By prior arrangement with my committee, one of my committee members raised her hand and said, “I move that the Milpitas City Council, to improve the conditions in the city, equires Western Pacific Railroad to allow businesses which ship my truck, and not just railroad. to build within the center of the city, and so increase tax revenue to the city.”
There was a low rumble of hushed comments after the motion was read. After a pause of 6.35 seconds I shouted, “Do I hear a second to the motion?” By prior arrangement, none of my committee members ever said anything. It seemed that the motion was about to die for lack of a second. Since all those 400 angry people, who had read my articles in the newspaper, were not members of the committee they didn't think they could second any motions. I had planned on that. They all remained silent and just looked at each other, worried that the motion was about to die. There was just stunned silence for 4.72 seconds, then I shouted, “All those in favor of the motion, signify by saying Aye.”
There was a sudden loud roar of “Aye” that echoed from one end of Silicon Valley to the other. It seemed to get louder by the second as more of the 400 wanted to be sure that the railroad heard their vote. I had just stepped over the rules. I did not wait for someone to second the motion, instead I just plowed ahead as if the motion had come into existence by being seconded. And two, I had called for a “verbal” vote, when the call for a verbal vote sually requires another vote to accept a verbal vote instead of a show of ands, counting ballots. or a roll call vote to pass a motion.
For people not familiar with Roberts Rules of Order, they didn't know that I had just broken the rules – smashed the rules would be a more apt description. As the loud shouts of “aye” died down I shouted “All those opposed to the growth of the city of Milpitas signify by saying No.” About 0.125 seconds after that, the raft of 3-piece- suited rail road lawyers in the back of the room figured out that I was talking to them, and before any lawyer could inhale to say “No” -- I shouted “The Ayes appear to have carried the motion. There being no opposition, The motion is carried unanimously and will be reported to the City Council tomorrow as a unanimous vote by the grass root citizens of Milpitas.”
By pre-arrangement with with my committee, I packed up my briefcase and we all walked out of the council chamber, followed by the 400 who had already seen the show they came for. I turned out the lights, leaving those pin-stripped lawyers at the back of the room muttering among themselves, “Lordy Lordy What the hell just happened?”
The results of my CIC meeting were reported the next day on the front page of the Milpitas Post, with a glowing description by my friend and publisher Mort Levine. Mort saw the event live but he never saw that I had manufactured and manipulated that event. I broke Roberts Rules of Order. I never allowed the motion to die without a second, I never called for a real “show of hands vote”, I never allowed the opposition to speak. The railroad never realized that they had just been gob-smacked by my gavel running rough-shod over the rules. Several years later the City awarded me a special gavel with a metal plaque reading “MARSHALL SMITH, CIC CHAIRMAN, 72-73.”
And that's how sleepy little Milpitas in 1968 turned from a town of 17,000 with one gas station and a high school into a vibrant metropolis of more than 150 thousand, three high schools, a massive regional shopping center with two freeways passing through it in 2008 – and all financed by Western Pacific Railroad, who actually believed that the citizens of Milpitas had changed the rules in 1968. Now most Californians know how to pronounce “Milpitas” and they often ask “Is Milpitas the real capitol of Silicon Valley?” I know how all that came about and now so do you.
I don't remember ever teaching that dirty trick using Robert's Rules of Order to Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But she used it accurately and almost verbatim just as I had done. It started with Hillary's motion to end the roll call vote in the middle of the vote and nominate Obama by Democratic Convention Acclamation. Then Nancy called for a second to the motion, but there was none. So Nancy called instantly for a voice vote, just as I did. The “yea” vote shook the convention floor, but when Pelosi did the next obvious thing, “Those not in favor of suspending the rules and nominating Obama by acclamation, indicate your choice by saying NO” the response was SILENCE.
So Pelosi instantly declared “A majority of delegates have carried the motion, and Obama is nominated by Acclamation.” It was all a political trick. How did Pelosi know that there would be zero “No” votes? It was a trick created right in front of everyone, the public, live TV cameras, and millions of TV viewers all across the nation. I saw it myself and then knew that Pelosi had created the illusion, just as I did in Milpitas in 1968. It wasn't the democratic convention which had nominated Obama by acclamation – It was Nancy Pelosi and Nancy alone.
The dirty trick was to produce zero “NO” votes. How was that trick done? Normally a floor roll call vote in alphabetical order takes about an hour and a half to two hours, especially with all the fluff and flowery state promos from the head of the delegations just before they announce to the chair the results of each state delegate vote count. Early in the roll call vote, the state of California, delegation head, Nancy Pelosi. gave her flowery state promo speech but just before she announced the state count results to the chairwoman, a man stepped up to the microphone and announced “California Passes.” This caused instant confusion and consternation on the convention floor “Can a state just do that?”
Several of the talking-head pundits on CNN and FOX pointed out that most smaller states with 18 to 35 electoral votes might split their vote based on which candidate was ahead at the time. California with a massive 440 delegates could make it look like Hillary was ahead and make many small states toss all their votes for Hillary. By having California “Pass” the running delegate total shown on the bottom of the TV screen was rising up 15 at a time for Obama, and 3 at a time for Hillary. About that time Obama had around 1000 votes while Hillary had 240 votes. If California had reported its votes at the beginning of the alphabet, most of the smaller states might have skewed the vote totals. The magic trick occurred in the middle of the alphabet, the letter “N” for Nebraska and then New York.
Wednesday afternoon, the convention came to a hushed silence as Hillary took the microphone. Would she announce the actual delegate votes from the New York Democratic Primary elections, or toss all the state votes for Obama as she said Tuesday morning. It was neither. She made the now famous motion to suddenly end the roll call vote and nominate Obama by cclamation. Then she tossed the next part of the magic trick to the temporary roll call vote chairwoman, Nancy Pelosi. I already explained how Pelosi made veryone believe something had just happened when it hadn't. It was the same trick as me convincing Western Pacific and the public into believing that their rules had just been changed.
So what happened to all the “NO” votes? In the previous three days the Hillary supporters, carrying white signs with blue/black “Hillary” script with a red angled underline dash, appeared all over the convention floor. They were all over TV anytime the cameras focused on Hillary. But just before the floor roll call vote began, I noted that the floor seemed quite empty. Many people were missing. What was missing were the hundreds of delegates wearing white tee shirts with the “Hillary” logo on the front. Were they all rounded up by convention police? No – worse than that – they all voluntarily left the convention floor. How? Someone in the pro-Hillary group had called a secret caucus meeting in a back room to plan for what to do if Obama actually won the roll call vote.
Thus for an hour and a half the Hillary supporters were not on the convention floor during the long dull roll call vote. Boy, were they all surprised when they got back to the floor and found their votes had all been canceled, Obama had been nominated by acclamation, and they never got a chance to yell loudly enmasse “NO” to Nancy Pelosi. The actual vote tally when Hillary ended the roll call was only 1500 for Obama, much less than the 2700 needed for nomination. That's how that trick was done live and on TV and in front of everybody. Sounds like the Soviet Union to me. But American politics has been done that way for over 100 years. The trick here was to unify the convention by a vote of acclamation for Obama then several days later when the dust settles and Obama turns out to be not qualified to run for President, the Democrats will quickly find a replacement – Hillary. That's called Flipping the Convention.
Thus the vote to nominate Hillary by acclamation actually occurred last Wednesday – exactly as I had predicted and the vote for Obama will soon be flipped to the obverse. Thus all you bloggers who wrote to tell me my prediction was wrong. Need to listen more carefully when I said don't believe what you see on Wednesday, wait until Thursday or Friday or after. Then compare the reality of the results with my predictions. I knew something would happen on Wednesday which would result in the election of Hillary Clinton. I have known it for 35 years, it's even in my book Black Gold Hot Gold.
I am not a magician nor prognosticator. I could not predict what would happen on Wednesday. I only knew the day and the long-term results, Hillary's election. I was not surprised to find it was Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday who would pull the Troika Trick to control the convention. One of the reasons why I want to publish my “Russian Letters” is that I discovered proof that there are three Troika Lieutenants in California: Senator Diane Feinstein, Senator Barbara Boxer and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. I was not surprised that Pelosi used my Western Pacific railroad ploy. I can usually discover most Troika Tricks, since I found and used them all decades ago.
That's why I put the Troika truism at the top of every page "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." Right On, Mr. Troika...
from Information Clearing House
It's Time for Real Change
How the Democrats Helped Bush Hijack the Country
By Cynthia McKinney
28/08/08 "ICH" -- - Our country has been hijacked and the Democrats have proven themselves to have been in on the plan. When it came to the Constitution, the Democratic leadership showed us that aiding and abetting illegal spying on us was more important to them than protecting our civil liberties.
When it came to war and occupation, the Democratic leadership showed us that financing an illegal and immoral war, based on lies, was more important to them than the people's desire for peace.
And when the people, hurting from the financial mismanagement of this country, called for accountability for the crimes that have been committed against the people here, against the global community, against nature, itself, the Democratic leadership took impeachment off the table!
Grassroots Democratic Party activists want a livable wage! A "Medicare-for-all" type of health care system, repeal of the Bush tax cuts that have ushered in the greatest income inequality in this country since the Great Depression. But the Democratic Party has shown itself to be incapable of providing even a semblance of the values even of its own activists.
The Democratic Party's national leadership didn't even mention Hurricanes Katrina and Rita survivors in their Congressional agenda for the first 100 days. read
It's Time for Real Change
How the Democrats Helped Bush Hijack the Country
By Cynthia McKinney
28/08/08 "ICH" -- - Our country has been hijacked and the Democrats have proven themselves to have been in on the plan. When it came to the Constitution, the Democratic leadership showed us that aiding and abetting illegal spying on us was more important to them than protecting our civil liberties.
When it came to war and occupation, the Democratic leadership showed us that financing an illegal and immoral war, based on lies, was more important to them than the people's desire for peace.
And when the people, hurting from the financial mismanagement of this country, called for accountability for the crimes that have been committed against the people here, against the global community, against nature, itself, the Democratic leadership took impeachment off the table!
Grassroots Democratic Party activists want a livable wage! A "Medicare-for-all" type of health care system, repeal of the Bush tax cuts that have ushered in the greatest income inequality in this country since the Great Depression. But the Democratic Party has shown itself to be incapable of providing even a semblance of the values even of its own activists.
The Democratic Party's national leadership didn't even mention Hurricanes Katrina and Rita survivors in their Congressional agenda for the first 100 days. read
From ino.com
Company acknowledges Ohio voting machine error
6 hours ago
(AP:COLUMBUS, Ohio) The maker of the most widely used touch-screen voting machine in Ohio has acknowledged the machines have a programming error that led to votes being dropped in the March primary.
Premier Election Solutions Inc. notified Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner (BROO'-nur) in a letter this week.
The company said the programming error led to votes being dropped in at least 11 of the 44 counties that used the company's machines in the March election. The company previously argued that the problems were caused by antivirus software complications.
The number of votes involved was not immediately available. State officials said the dropped votes were discovered by election workers.
The same machines will be used in the November election. But Brunner spokesman Kevin Kidder says the state is drafting a plan to cross-check vote totals with paper trails.
Premier Election Solutions is a unit of Diebold Inc.
Company acknowledges Ohio voting machine error
6 hours ago
(AP:COLUMBUS, Ohio) The maker of the most widely used touch-screen voting machine in Ohio has acknowledged the machines have a programming error that led to votes being dropped in the March primary.
Premier Election Solutions Inc. notified Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner (BROO'-nur) in a letter this week.
The company said the programming error led to votes being dropped in at least 11 of the 44 counties that used the company's machines in the March election. The company previously argued that the problems were caused by antivirus software complications.
The number of votes involved was not immediately available. State officials said the dropped votes were discovered by election workers.
The same machines will be used in the November election. But Brunner spokesman Kevin Kidder says the state is drafting a plan to cross-check vote totals with paper trails.
Premier Election Solutions is a unit of Diebold Inc.
Report: E-Voting companies being charged with counting votes
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Thursday August 21, 2008
Although many states have rejected electronic voting machines because of their vulnerability to errors and outright fraud, a third of the nation will still be using them this fall.
What's worse, notes CNN's Lou Dobbs, "a new report says election officials often are outsourcing their responsibilities to the very companies that make the e-voting machines, even trusting those companies to count the votes."
That report (pdf) was issued by voting rights group VotersUnite.Org, whose founder Ellen Theisen told CNN, "Elections should be accountable to the people and run by public officials who are selected by the people. ... When that's handed over to private vendors, these public elections are no longer public."
The problem is particularly serious when voting machine companies also tabulate the votes, because the companies own both the equipment and the propriety software which runs it and election officials have no way of double-checking their tally.
The VotersUnite report concludes, "The depth of the current dependence is shocking, but even more shocking is the fact that our elections are dependent on vendors whose records reveal their unethical and even unlawful behavior, as well as their incompetence."
Oklahoma is one state which owns its own voting system and wasn't tempted by the offer of federal funds in 2002 to switch over to a proprietary system. "There was really nothing on the market we would buy then," Michael Clingman of the Oklahoma State Election Board told CNN, "and there's still nothing we would want to buy today."
"Oklahoma is a real piece of America!" Dobbs commented approvingly. "They're telling these silly son-of-a-guns to go stick it -- and they're honoring a commitment to the public."
Dobbs promised to post a list of every state or county that is outsourcing the vote on his Web site.
This video is from CNN's Lout Dobbs Tonight, broadcast August 20, 2008.
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Thursday August 21, 2008
Although many states have rejected electronic voting machines because of their vulnerability to errors and outright fraud, a third of the nation will still be using them this fall.
What's worse, notes CNN's Lou Dobbs, "a new report says election officials often are outsourcing their responsibilities to the very companies that make the e-voting machines, even trusting those companies to count the votes."
That report (pdf) was issued by voting rights group VotersUnite.Org, whose founder Ellen Theisen told CNN, "Elections should be accountable to the people and run by public officials who are selected by the people. ... When that's handed over to private vendors, these public elections are no longer public."
The problem is particularly serious when voting machine companies also tabulate the votes, because the companies own both the equipment and the propriety software which runs it and election officials have no way of double-checking their tally.
The VotersUnite report concludes, "The depth of the current dependence is shocking, but even more shocking is the fact that our elections are dependent on vendors whose records reveal their unethical and even unlawful behavior, as well as their incompetence."
Oklahoma is one state which owns its own voting system and wasn't tempted by the offer of federal funds in 2002 to switch over to a proprietary system. "There was really nothing on the market we would buy then," Michael Clingman of the Oklahoma State Election Board told CNN, "and there's still nothing we would want to buy today."
"Oklahoma is a real piece of America!" Dobbs commented approvingly. "They're telling these silly son-of-a-guns to go stick it -- and they're honoring a commitment to the public."
Dobbs promised to post a list of every state or county that is outsourcing the vote on his Web site.
This video is from CNN's Lout Dobbs Tonight, broadcast August 20, 2008.
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