Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
5 Times Democrats Tried To Work With The Russians To Swing Elections
The Left has been screaming for Donald Trump Jr.'s head after it became known that he met with a Russian government attorney with the intent of obtaining opposition research on Hillary Clinton. While this was wrong (but not illegal), the Democrats aren't really in a position to lecture about Russia collusion since their party has a history of attempting to work with the Russians to swing elections.
Here are five times Democrats attempted to work with Russia to influence elections.
1. Former Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) twice reached out to the Soviet Union for election help. According to Michael Reagan, Sen. John Tunney (D-CA), at the behest of his friend Ted Kennedy, lobbied the Soviet Union "to sabotage [Jimmy] Carter's foreign policy efforts," as this was during Kennedy's primary challenge against Carter in 1980.
"One 1980 document stated that Kennedy offered to condemn President Carter’s policy toward the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in exchange for KGB help," wrote Reagan. "News accounts of that period prove that Kennedy did, in fact, openly criticize Carter's Afghanistan policy."
Additionally, in 1983 Kennedy reached out to the Soviet Union in an attempt to undermine Ronald Reagan's foreign policy and weaken his re-election prospects in 1984, even going as far as offering to set up television interviews in America in order to make the Soviets come across as more "peaceful."
2. In 2012, Barack Obama said to Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president at the time: "After my election I have more flexibility." This now infamous quote was from a hot mic; Obama was telling Medvedev that at that time he just needed Vladimir Putin, who had won Russia's presidential election earlier that month, "to give me space" on Russia-related issues until after his election. Medvedev told Obama, "I will transmit this information to Vladimir, and I stand with you."
During one of the 2012 presidential debates, Obama snarkily said to Mitt Romney, "The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War's been over for 20 years." Obama won re-election, and Putin proceeded to take advantage of Obama's "flexibility" with his invasion of the Crimea and calling the shots in Syria.
3. Jimmy Carter tried to work with the Soviets during the 1980 election to improve his chances against Ronald Reagan. Michael Reagan also noted in his column that Carter, through his political ally Armand Hammer, lobbied for the Soviet Union to let "Jewish 'refuseniks' emigrate to Israel" to strengthen Carter's standing in important states, but the Soviets rebuffed Carter.
Interestingly, Reagan biographer Craig Shirley wrote in one of his books that during the 1976 election the Soviet Union "had made overtures to the Carter campaign," even going as far as suggesting "that they could possibly pursue policies that could affect the outcome of the election so as to favor Carter."
4. Bill Clinton pledged to support Russian President Boris Yeltsin in 1996 if Yeltsin agreed "to clear up 'negative' issues." The Washington Times unearthed a confidential memo in 1996 that revealed the following:
President Clinton, in a private meeting at the recent anti-terrorism summit, promised Boris Yeltsin he would back the Russian president's re-election bid with "positive" U.S. policies toward Russia.In exchange, Mr. Clinton asked for Mr. Yeltsin's help in clearing up "negative" issues such as the poultry dispute between the two countries, according to a classified State Department record of the meeting obtained by The Washington Times.Mr. Clinton told Mr. Yeltsin that "this is a big issue, especially since about 40 percent of U.S. poultry is produced in Arkansas. An effort should be made to keep such things from getting out of hand," the memo said.
Bill Gertz, who reported on the memo and is now an editor for the Washington Free Beacon and a columnist for The Washington Times, explained that the memo "exposed the Bill Clinton style of leadership—going to bat for his political donors and other vested interests in his home state of Arkansas."
5. When Tip O'Neill was Speaker of the House, he wanted the Soviets on the Democrats' side during the 1984 election. According to Michael Reagan, O'Neill told the Soviet Union's ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Dobrynin, "that it was in everyone’s best interests if the Soviets would help the Democrats keep 'that demagogue Reagan' from being re-elected."
"O'Neill warned Dobrynin that the 'primitive instincts' of this 'dangerous man' would plunge the world into war," wrote Reagan.
Each of these examples, with the possible exception of the Clinton-Yeltsin one, were easily worse than Trump Jr. agreeing to a meeting with a Russian government lawyer for dirt on Hillary Clinton. Again, this does not excuse Trump Jr's sleazy behavior, but it does show that the Democrats are more than happy to do the same thing when it helps their side.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/18519/5-times-democrats-tried-work-russians-swing-aaron-bandler#
Saturday, June 24, 2017
UK Parliament Hit by Cyberattack?
The British Parliament is under a "sustained and determined" cyberattack which began Friday, a source told HuffPost UK. The attack was aimed at the email accounts of members of Parliament and their staff, and has resulted in security staff shutting off remote access and mobile phone access to the email system.
A few politicians have confirmed the attack and lack of remote access on Twitter:
he attack comes just a month after the NHS system was hit by a cyberattack.There's something wrong with Parliamentary emails so if you did email me, can you send to ian.c.austin@outlook.com instead plse?— Ian Austin (@IanAustinMP) June 24, 2017
Apologies. https://t.co/nDQHSVyCCB
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Russian Hackers Attacked U.S. Voting Software Firm Just Before November Election: Report? Hang on here, this report not right,Obama’s bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election Administration (PCEA), which offered a stern warning about the “widespread wearing out of voting machines purchased a decade ago
The looming crisis in America’s voting technology was first brought to national attention last year by President Obama’s bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election Administration (PCEA), which offered a stern warning about the “widespread wearing out of voting machines purchased a decade ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/americas-voting-technology-crisis/405262/
So let take a look back over the 16 year's that we have voting machine, stating right after 2000 Elections Bush V Gore , i start in 2004 and move on to 2008 then on to 2012 and end in 2016, what this show is that we had problem with voting machine over the last 14 year's , proving it's not the Russian's that are the problem in 2016,,but i do have a question for liberal's " Read this question as many time as you like , to get what i am asking, you will caught on , so long story short , this blog , show it not the voting technology,
Here the question: Liberal's in 2008 how did the Russian interference in the 2009 presidential election, when you voted for Obama over Hillary? ask this question three time, that ask Liberal's why did you vote for Obama over Hillary? , ask it as three time's , then answer it, you liberal's voted for Obama over Hillary , Obama had a better political message, then Hillary, so that mean's Trump had a a better political message, then Hillary,, that it political message, so flip the narrative. make it all about 2008 Obama Vs Hillary,
September 3, 2009 Diebold unloads voting machine albatross
The ATM maker says it expects to lose up to $55 million as a result of the sale of its voting machine subsidiary.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/03/news/companies/Diebold_voting_machine/
In the weeks leading up to last year’s presidential election, Russian military intelligence launched a cyberattack on a U.S. voting systems manufacturer, according to a classified National Security Agency report obtained by The Intercept.
Europe Rejects Digital Voting Machines
http://www.newsweek.com/europe-rejects-digital-voting-machines-80085
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/2012/1107/Voting-machine-glitches-How-bad-was-it-on-Election-Day-around-the-country, we go to 2000 bush v gore In the 2000 election, especially in the disputed recounts in Florida, there were issues concerning the ambiguities and uncertainties that arose from punch-card ballots, such as the hanging chads (incompletely punched holes). In 2004, the punch-card ballots were still widely used in some states.[32] For example, most Ohio voters used punch-card ballots,[33] and more than 90,000 ballots cast in Ohio were treated as not including a vote for President; this "undervote" could arise because the voter chose not to cast a vote or because of a malfunction of the punch-card system
on let move on to 2004 1. Theories that the Bush administration rigged the 2004 election are widespread on the Internet, with Robert Kennedy Jr.
among the most notable figures to promote this view. Elements of the
conspiracy include purging Democratic voters from the rolls, engineering
long lines at Democratic precincts, and even deliberately rigging
computerized vote machines to take votes from Kerry and give them to
Bush. Theories mostly focus on the state of Ohio, which would have won
Kerry the presidency had he cobbled together 120,000 additional votes.
But the supposed evidence of Bush’s theft is full of holes,
and rigorous investigations of the evidence have found no evidence of
systematic fraud, relegating these theories firmly in the realm of the
conspiratorial. Evidently, though, it’s a conspiracy the Secretary of
State at least partially buys into.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/15/john-kerry-thinks-bush-rigged-the-2004-election/
2.let look look at 2008 on September 28, 2009 A
paper receipt of a simulated voting record drops from an electronic
voting machine during a voting machine operation training session for
poll workers held at the Somerset County Administration building in
Somerville.
On Nov. 3, hundreds of thousands of New Jersey voters
will slip behind the voting-booth curtains and secretly decide which
man they want to be governor for the next four years. They’ll tap the
screen on the electronic voting machine and wait for the lighted "X."
They’ll cast their vote and go on their way, content that they have
exercised their most basic democratic right.http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2009/09/electronic_voting_machines_vot.html
3.San Diego, CA, August 10, 2009 -- Computer scientists demonstrated that criminals could hack an electronic voting machine and steal votes using a malicious programming approach that had not been invented when the voting machine was designed. The team of scientists from University of California, San Diego, the University of Michigan, and Princeton University employed “return-oriented programming” to force a Sequoia AVC Advantage electronic voting machine to turn against itself and steal votes.
4 on let talk a look at 2012 .US election 2012: voting machine 'changes vote for Barack Obama to Mitt Romney'
An electronic voting machine was taken out of service on Tuesday after being captured on video changing a vote for President Barack Obama into one for Mitt Romney.
Voting-machine glitches: How bad was it on Election Day around the country?
Long lines were created at polling places around the country because
of a broad spectrum of voting-machine glitches on Election Day.
In at least one case, a viral YouTube video purported to show a Pennsylvania machine "flipping" a vote cast for President Obama into a vote for Mitt Romney.
Vote flipping occurs when an e-voting touch-screen machine is not properly calibrated, so that a vote for Romney or Obama is flipped to the other candidate. While the Pennsylvania glitch was reported and the machine reportedly taken out of service and quickly recalibrated, other flipping was reported by news media accounts in Nevada, Texas, North Carolina, and Ohio.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/2012/1107/Voting-machine-glitches-How-bad-was-it-on-Election-Day-around-the-country
Sunday, May 7, 2017
Trump signs order protecting freedom for opponents of abortion, gay ‘marriage’
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on religious liberty this morning. The order, titled "Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty," allows churches to speak about politics from the pulpit while keeping their tax-exempt status and it provides regulatory relief for ordinary Americans who don't subscribe to gender ideology or believe in same-sex "marriage.”
However, religious liberty advocates say it does not go nearly far enough.
The Order was signed in the White House Rose Garden on the National Day of Prayer.
"Today my administration is leading by example as we take historic steps to protect religious liberty in the United States of America," said President Trump during his speech.
"We will not allow people of faith to be targeted, bullied, or silenced anymore. And we will never ever stand for religious discrimination. Never ever," he said.
Read executive order "Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty" here.
During his speech, the president called up to the stage the Little Sisters of the Poor who were forced under the Obama administration HHS Mandate to pay for contraceptives for their employees.
The President said that “for too long the federal government has used the power of the state as a weapon against people of faith, bullying and even punishing Americans for following their religious beliefs.”
“That is why I am signing today an Executive Order to defend the freedom of religion and speech in America, the freedoms that we've wanted the freedoms that you have fought for for so long,” he added.
“No American should be forced to choose between the dictates of the federal government and the tenants of their faith,” he said.
Trump called it an "eternal truth" that "freedom is not a gift from government; freedom is a gift from God."
During a September 2015 campaign speech at the Iowa Faith and Family Coalition, Donald Trump said the “first priority of my administration will be to preserve and protect our religious liberty.”
Trump’s promise was largely in reaction to the sufferings of Christians across America who were persecuted under the Obama administration’s push for the homosexual agenda.
Under Obama’s mandate, Christian bakers, wedding photographers, florists, counselors, healthcare workers, bed-and-breakfast owners and many others have been fined or lost their jobs for refusing to compromise their Christian beliefs on marriage and sexuality when asked to do so by homosexual activists.
During his Sept. 9, 2016 speech at the Value Voters Summit, Trump promised to “protect and defend” religious liberty.
“So let me say this right up front: [In] a Trump administration, our Christian heritage will be cherished, protected, defended, like you’ve never seen before. Believe me. I believe it. And you believe it. And you know it. You know it. And that includes religious liberty – remember, remember,” he said.
A briefing of the Executive Order sent out by the White House earlier this week calls it a “policy” of the Trump administration to “protect and vigorously promote religious liberty.”
The briefing states that the Order will direct the IRS to “exercise maximum enforcement discretion to alleviate the burden of the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits religious leaders from speaking about politics and candidates from the pulpit.”
It also states that it will provide “regulatory relief for religious objectors to Obamacare’s burdensome preventive services mandate, a position supported by the Supreme Court decision in Hobby Lobby.”
But religious liberty advocates say the Executive Order does not go far enough and leaves Trump’s campaign promises “unfulfilled.”
Ryan T. Anderson of The Heritage Foundation called it “woefully inadequate.”
Yep. White House emailed this document around last night as well. If the EO ends up being this, it'll be woefully inadequate.twitter.com/JenniferJJacob…
Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor echoed this.
“During his campaign, President Trump stated that the first priority of his administration would be to preserve and protect religious liberty,” he said in a press release.
“The current outline of the Religious Liberty Executive Order released by White House officials recalls those campaign promises but leaves them unfulfilled,” he added.
Baylor said the Order offers “no specific relief” for Christians in America who are daily threatened to have their businesses closed for holding a religious point of view on marriage that differs from that of the federal government.
He also said the Order’s direction of the IRS to exercise discretion to alleviate the burden of the Johnson Amendment is inadequate.
“Americans cannot rely on the discretion of IRS agents, some of whom have abused that discretion for years to silence pastors and intrude into America’s pulpits,” he said.
“Nor does the outline do anything to prevent a future, hostile administration from wielding its power to penalize any church who dares exercise its constitutionally protected freedoms in a manner that displeases those in authority. A legislative problem like the Johnson Amendment demands a legislative solution like the Free Speech Fairness Act,” he added.
Baylor called on Trump to fulfill his promise on religious liberty, saying he should “protect the Little Sisters of the Poor, a host of Christian colleges, and others from having to choose between violating their consciences and paying crippling fines to the IRS.”
“A pledge to ‘provide regulatory relief’ is disappointingly vague, especially given the long existence of an obvious means of solving the problem: crafting an exemption that protects all those who sincerely object on religious and moral grounds so that they can continue to serve their communities and the most vulnerable among them,” he said.
“We strongly encourage the president to see his campaign promise through to completion and to ensure that all Americans — no matter where they live or what their occupation is — enjoy the freedom to peacefully live and work consistent with their convictions without fear of government punishment,” he added.
While Trump has come through on many of his pro-life campaign promises, protecting religious freedom and the pro-family cause has been less of a priority for his administration so far. The Trump administration is paradoxically still defending the contraceptive mandate. He has appointed a number of LGBT advocates to influential positions and extended Obama’s executive order forcing federal contractors to have "transgender-inclusive" nondiscrimination policies as a condition of doing business with the federal government.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-trump-signs-order-protecting-freedom-for-opponents-of-abortion-gay
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