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Democratic lawyers object to 'non-citizen' Florida ballot being thrown out

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 10 Nov 2018 19:46 UTC
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If there's one overriding lesson to be learned from the ballot-counting debacle in Broward and Palm Beach Counties, it's that, if you're trying to ensure an accurate vote count in Florida, then you're a racist.

That theme, which Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz learned this lesson the hard way when a liberal group employed the r-word in response to Gaetz's attempts to figure out exactly what is going on in Broward County.

And soon, trying to exclude votes cast by non-citizens could be construed as racist, because, in a shocking report culled directly from an unofficial transcript from the review of provisional ballots in Broward County, lawyers for Democratic candidates Andrew Gillum and Bill Nelson - who narrowly lost their bids for governor and senator, respectively - can be heard trying to stop a ballot cast by a non-citizen from being excluded from the official count. The ballot review was held earlier this week, before Florida's Secretary of State ordered the recount on Saturday.
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Briefcase

Florida judge orders voter records inspection, siding with Republican candidates as recount looms


RT
Sat, 10 Nov 2018 12:19 UTC
Bill Nelson and Rick Scott Senate race dispute
© Reuters / Karl KolczynskiWhile Scott looked to have won his Senate race by a secure margin on Tuesday night, late-counted ballots have cast doubt on his victory, leaving him within 0.25 percent of his opponent, Democrat Bill Nelson – which would trigger an automatic recount.
A Florida judge ruled the Broward County elections supervisor must allow inspection of voter records in response to a lawsuit from outgoing Governor Rick Scott, whose Senate victory is now in jeopardy thanks to late-counted votes.

Judge Carol-Lisa Phillip ruled that Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes must allow the records to be inspected before 7 pm local time on Friday and determined she had violated public records law by failing to release the information to Scott's attorneys.

Scott filed suit in Broward and Palm Beach counties on Thursday. The first lawsuit, which he filed jointly with the National Republican Senatorial Committee, alleges Snipes was "unwilling to disclose records revealing how many electors voted, how many ballots have been canvassed, and how many ballots remain to be canvassed."

At the same time, Scott ordered Florida law enforcement to investigate the elections offices in both counties, though he stopped short of alleging criminality or fraud in writing. Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesperson Gretl Plessinger told CNN that the agency is not "actively investigating anything related to the election."

Comment: RT reports that Broward County election supervisor Brenda Snipes has complied with the 7pm deadline to submit the requested voter information while Palm Beach County's Susan Busher has filed for a motion for an emergency hearing to extend the deadline. Chris Hartman, spokesman for the Scott campaign, has accused Busher of disrespecting the court and state law in general:
"Susan Buchar has consistently refused to follow state law and comply with legally required deadlines and regulations. Whether it's gross incompetence or intentional disregard for the rule of law is irrelevant at this point. Either way, it's embarrassing and unacceptable."


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2 + 2 = 4

SOTT Focus: Globalism Vs Nationalism in Trump's America

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Thu, 08 Nov 2018 14:00 UTC
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Billed as a 'referendum on Trump's presidency', the US Midterm Elections drew an unusually high number of Americans to the polls yesterday. The minor loss, from Trump's perspective, of majority Republican control of the lower House of Representatives, suggests, if anything, the opposite of what the media and establishment want you to believe it means.

An important clue to why the American media has declared permanent open season on this man transpired during a sometimes heated post-elections press conference at the White House yesterday. First, CNN's obnoxious Jim Acosta insisted on bringing up the patently absurd allegations of 'Russia collusion' and refused to shut up and sit down. Soon after, PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor joined her colleagues in asking Trump another loaded question, this time on the 'white nationalism' canard:

Alcindor: On the campaign trail you called yourself a nationalist. Some people saw that as emboldening white nationalists...

Trump: I don't know why you'd say this. It's such a racist question.

Alcindor: There are some people who say that now the Republican Party is seen as supporting white nationalists because of your rhetoric. What do you make of that?

Trump: Why do I have among the highest poll numbers with African Americans? That's such a racist question. I love our country. You have nationalists, and you have globalists. I also love the world, and I don't mind helping the world, but we have to straighten out our country first. We have a lot of problems...
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Megaphone

Western mainstream media finally acknowledges reality of 'terrifying' Russian Avangard hypersonic weapons

Serafim Hanisch
The Duran
Sat, 10 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
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The website for Metro UK news ran a November 9th piece detailing the "terrifying" Russian Avangard program as a reality. The piece details some new information, saying that the Sarmat II (NATO codename "Satan") missile system is capable of launching up to 24 Avangard hypersonic glide weapons into orbit, from which they can carry out their missions:

Comment: Putin lays down the law to the Davos crowd at this year's Valdai conference
[W]hat Putin did at Valdai was to lay down the new rules of conduct in geopolitical affairs. He put the U.S. and European oligarchs I call The Davos Crowd on notice.

There is a limit to your provocations and attempts to undermine Russia. So don't cross that line.

The big quote from his talk is the one everyone is focusing on, and rightly so, Russia's policy about using nuclear weapons.

It's not that Putin's stance was any different than in the past. Russia will strike back at an aggressor under any circumstance where the future of Russia is at stake. It was his assurance that in doing so 1) it would be just and righteous "dying like martyrs" and 2) so swift and brutal the aggressors would "die like dogs" bereft of the chance to ask for salvation.

Those are strong words. They are the words of a meek man. And the word meek, as Jordan Peterson reminds us, describes someone who has weapons, knows how to use them and keeps them sheathed until they have no other option.


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Snakes in Suits

Comey had "sensitive" FBI emails on private Gmail account

Bongino Staff
Bongino.com
Sat, 10 Nov 2018 21:27 UTC
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At least seven messages on former FBI Director James Comey's private Gmail account were so sensitive that the Department of Justice declined to release them.

The New York Post exclusively obtained 156 of 1,200 pages of messages in which the former FBI director and his chief of staff James Rybicki discussed government business. DOJ refused to hand over seven of the messages because they "disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions." Another 363 pages were withheld because they contained privileged FBI communications or out of personal privacy concerns.

The messages-which span from 2013 to 2017, with many highly redacted-were obtained by the Post after conservative watchdog, Cause of Action Institute, filed a Freedom of Information lawsuit seeking Comey's work-related emails from his private account.

The emails-according to the Post-show that the former FBI director used his personal email throughout the Clinton email investigation.

"Using private email to conduct official government business endangers transparency and accountability, and that is why we sued the Department of Justice," Cause of Action Institute's CEO John Vecchione told the Post.

He continued, "We're deeply concerned that the FBI withheld numerous emails citing FOIA's law enforcement exemption. This runs counter to Comey's statements that his use of email was incidental and never involved any sensitive matters."
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Vader

Psychoanalysing NATO's confirmation bias problem

Patrick Armstrong
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sat, 10 Nov 2018 19:13 UTC
Jens Stoltenberg NATO
© Associated Press/Virginia MayoNATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a media conference after a meeting of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Nov. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo
Earlier parts of this intermittent series discussed NATO's projection and gaslighting.

Psychology Today defines confirmation bias as:
Once we have formed a view, we embrace information that confirms that view while ignoring, or rejecting, information that casts doubt on it. Confirmation bias suggests that we don't perceive circumstances objectively. We pick out those bits of data that make us feel good because they confirm our prejudices. Thus, we may become prisoners of our assumptions.
Or, closer to the topic of this essay:
"Of course there is going to be a bad reaction from Russia, and then [the NATO expanders] will say that we always told you that is how the Russians are - but this is just wrong."
This quotation is from an interview of George Kennan by Thomas Friedman published in the New York Times twenty years ago. He was speaking about what was then called "NATO expansion" (later changed to the more anodyne - and deceptive - phrase "NATO enlargement". (I as a civil servant in the Canadian Department of National Defence used to amuse myself by seeing if I could sneak the forbidden "expansion" - an altogether more honest word - into briefing notes for the Higher Ups. As I recall, I got away with it about half the time. A trivial pleasure in the evolving disaster.)
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Light Sabers

Art of the deal? Trump bashes Macron's idea of European army, Macron back peddles


RT
Sat, 10 Nov 2018 12:20 UTC
Trump and Macron holding hands
© Global Look Press / Chris Kleponis
US President Donald Trump has unloaded on his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, calling the French president's idea of a 'real European army,' independent from Washington, an insult.

Trump launched a broadside at Macron via his preferred medium of conducting foreign policy - Twitter.

"President Macron of France has just suggested that Europe build its own military in order to protect itself from the US, China and Russia. Very insulting, but perhaps Europe should first pay its fair share of NATO, which the U.S. subsidizes greatly!" the US president tweeted on Friday evening.

Comment: Was this another one of Trump's tactics to get Macron and Europe back in line? Right after the spat, it's all being called a misunderstanding:
Europe should be "strong" and shoulder a larger share of the NATO defense burden, Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron agreed when they met after the US president slammed the French leader's idea of a "real European army."

"We want a strong Europe, it's very important to us, and whichever way we can do it, the best and more efficient would be something we both want," Trump told journalists as he met Macron at the Elysee Palace ahead of commemorative events marking the centenary of the end of WWI.


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Gingerbread

Bromance over? Trump remains frigid to Macron's caress at Paris visit


RT
Sat, 10 Nov 2018 16:39 UTC
Macron Trump Paris bromance
© Ruptly
French President Macron did his best to show through body language that his bromance with Donald Trump was still alive. But the US leader, who came to Paris after calling Macron's EU army plan "insulting" didn't seem interested.

Emmanuel Macron smiled, winkled and hugged Trump as the two met at the Elysee Palace in the French capital on Saturday. He then awkwardly patted the US president on the knee, touching it several times as the two leaders posed for photographers.

But Trump seemed bored and unwilling to respond to the passion displayed by the French leader, with whom he used to be best mates not so long ago.
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Eye 2

Peace process? US-Led coalition strikes kill 26 civilians in eastern Syria


Sputnik
Fri, 09 Nov 2018 22:30 UTC
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© AP Photo / Hassan Ammar
US-led coalition air strikes against remaining pockets of Daesh terrorists in the eastern town of Hajin near the Iraqi border claimed the lives of at least 26 local civilians, including 14 children, AFP reported Friday, citing a UK-based watchdog, the Syrian Observatory for Human rights.


Comment: Propaganda spin cycle: 'Syrian Observatory for Human Rights' is funded by US and UK governments


According to multiple Syrian media reports, toxic white phosphorus munitions had been used by the group in its attacks on the city.

Last week, the Russian Defense Ministry said that the indiscriminate air strikes of the US-led coalition have led to the deaths of more than 120 civilians in the east of Syria over the past month. The ministry also said that the US-led coalition was using prohibited munitions in its strikes.

Comment: US war crimes in Syria continue even while other countries are working toward a peace process: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: World in Chaos: Anti-Russia Hysteria, Israel Murders Palestinians, US Leaving Syria?

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Bad Guys

Thierry Meyssan: Chaos, control and the Middle East peace process

Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 12:00 UTC
syria peace
Although several peace projects are currently circulating in the chanceries, Thierry Meyssan points out their inadequacy for this sort of war. According to him, those who begin with an amputated analysis of the conflict, yet still believe they are doing the right thing, will not only fail to resolve the problem, but will pave the way for a new war. It is imperative to treat the ideological question as a priority.

Syria should soon be experiencing the end of armed hostilities on the whole of its territory, with the exception of the areas occupied by Turkey and the United States. The international Press is now focused on the return of the refugees, the reconstruction of the areas of devastation, and preventing the return of European jihadists.

But these questions are secondary compared with two others.

The day after 11 September 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld named Admiral Arthur K. Cebrowski as the Director of DOD Office of Force Transformation. He immediately began to teach his doctrine, first of all to the general staff of the Pentagon, then in the various military academies. He remains the principal strategic reference in the United States, even after the election of Donald Trump.

Comment: See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: West Discovers Saudi Arabia Has Human Rights Issues & The Real Reason People Hate Trump

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