The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday – 1st May 2016

1. ‘New McCarthyism: Is London’s ‘anti-Semitic’ scandal a move against Jeremy Corbyn?’

   https://www.rt.com/op-edge/341478-new-mccarthyism-corbyn-antisemitism/

   …”The only people whose existence is under threat when it comes to this question is the Palestinians. In this regard, Israel’s Jewish character is not the issue, its apartheid character is. And a world in which apartheid is allowed to exist is not a world worth living in.

   Finally, on Ken Livingstone specifically, we are talking about a politician who has spent his entire life raising his voice against and fighting racism. In fact, it would be impossible to identify a politician in the UK who has done more to stand up for the rights of minorities. It is a record that has earned him the enmity of a significant section of the political class and right wing media establishment. To see him labeled anti-Semitic is an absolute travesty of justice, as is his resulting suspension from the Labour Party he has served so loyally and with great distinction over four decades.”

2. CAN OUR POLITICAL ELECTION PROCESS BE RIGGED?

   IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT ELECTRONIC MODEL IS USED IF IT IS THE BLACK BOX MODEL, OR ONLINE VOTING, OR A SIMPLE RECOUNT OF PAPER VOTES USING ELECRONIC RECOUNTING.

   ALL SYSTEMS ARE ABLE TO BE CORRUPTED AND RIGGED, USING A SOURCE CODE ALGORITHM PROCESS USUALLY CONTACTED TO A PRIVATE COMPANY WHO WILL NOT SUPPLY THE SOURCE CODE USED TO RECOUNT THE RESULTS FOR ACCURACY AFTER SUSPECTED ERRORS ARE RAISED.

   If used with a (source codes) (algorithm process) and that is where the manipulation occurs.

   The whole Election process is now totally manipulated now, even in NZ because our manual voting ballot paper vote is given a final “electronic” Tabulation counting format now, as we enquired during the Flag referendum that was confirmed.

   The final result is electronically counted!!!

   Remember that Bernie Sanders has strangely all of a sudden lost all 5 of the last primaries that we saw last week, as it was not expected by the pundits?

   NZ Electoral voting system currently. (subject to change beware)

   Here in NZ we may still carry on (as in the flag vote did) with paper ballots that are counted but afterwards the results are put into the “Electronic Counting process/tabulation” (usually a private Corporation managed) and they are recounted with a (source codes) (algorithm process) and that is where the manipulation occurs,

   OUR REQUEST SENT 3/4/16 UNDER THE (OFFICIAL INFORMATION ACT) – TO NZ ELECTORAL COMMISSION FOR IFORMATION SURROUNDING THE INSECURE VOTING MANIPULATION PROBLEM STILL HAS UNRESOLVED IN NZ SINCE 3RD OF APRIL 2016 NOT BEEN ANSWERED YET.

   We have to have universal, hand-counted paper ballots.

   And Bernie Sanders has endorsed that. We have to have automatic voter registration, where people can monitor the registration rolls

   From Wasserman interview below;

   (quote) “can be negated by an electronic vote flip late at night on election night, and there is no way to verify what’s happened.” (unquote)
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   Read where Wasserman tells Amy Goodman that any IT officials can come into a room late at night after the electronic counting was done and enter a change in algorithms using the “source code” THAT COURT’S HAVE RULED ARE PRIORITORY.

   QUOTE:
   “At midnight or whenever it is on election night, those two guys can go in there with an IT person and flip the outcome of an electronically counted vote within about 60 seconds.”

   So all this millions and millions of dollars, people out campaigning and so on, can be negated by an electronic vote flip late at night on election night, and there is no way to verify what’s happened.” (UNQUOTE)

   If we are blocked by “corporate commercial sensitivity” rules here in NZ from obtaining the “source code”/s used in the final “electronic counting” process after an election then according to this expert here confirms without a “source code” there is no way to carry out a full independent recount that could “Verify” every voter status accurately that may not be available to anyone to count the election results to verify it’s accuracy.

   Many Election expert’s “watchdogs” are calling for deep radical changes in all Election process’s. – and an immediate return to manual paper ballot voting to avoid the corruption now widespread in “electronic voting” due to; (Quote) “the courts have ruled that the source code on these electronic voting machines is proprietary. So, even the governments that buy or lease these machines have no access to a final verification process”

   READ THIS AND WE MUST ENSURE OUR NEXT ELECTION IS NOT SENT THIS WAY AGAIN.

   “Could the 2016 Election Be Stolen with Help from Electronic Voting Machines?”

   February 23, 2016

   Democracy now.
   Amy Goodman. – US Election 2016.
   Interview with Election Expert watchdog investigator Harvey Wasserman.

   http://www.democracynow.org/2016/2/23/could_the_2016_election_be_stolen

   This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.

   AMY GOODMAN: We’re in Westerville, Ohio, just outside Columbus. We’re at Otterbein University, where I’ll be teaching some classes today, or, let’s say, talking with students. We’re at OTV, which is Otterbein Television. And, Harvey Wasserman, I wanted to talk to you now about voting machines—

   HARVEY WASSERMAN: Right.

   AMY GOODMAN: —and your concern over the years that electronic voting could be used to steal elections. Are you still concerned about this?

   HARVEY WASSERMAN: Well, electronic voting was used to steal the presidential election right here in Ohio in 2004. John Kerry was the rightful winner in 2004 over George W. Bush. The secretary of state at the time, J. Kenneth Blackwell, and the governor, Robert Taft, used their power of electronic vote count to flip the vote to George W. Bush from John Kerry.

   AMY GOODMAN: How do you know this?

   HARVEY WASSERMAN: We watched it—I grew up here, Amy. We watched it, totally, right up close and personal. We did the accounting. I work with a political scientist named Bob Fitrakis. We’re about to come out with another book, The Strip & Flip of the 2016 Selection. They are stripping the voter rolls—and Greg Palast, the great investigative reporter, is doing great on this—removing African Americans, Hispanics, people who might incline to vote progressive, and they—so that—in 2004, they stripped 300,000 people from the voter rolls here in the urban areas. Bush only won by less than 120 [thousand].

   And this year, about 80 percent of the vote nationally will be cast on electronic voting machines. There is no verifiability. In six key swing states—Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa and Arizona—you have Republican governors and Republican secretaries of state, and no method of verifying the electronic vote count.

   At midnight or whenever it is on election night, those two guys can go in there with an IT person and flip the outcome of an electronically counted vote within about 60 seconds. So all this millions and millions of dollars, people out campaigning and so on, can be negated by an electronic vote flip late at night on election night, and there is no way to verify what’s happened.

   AMY GOODMAN: They didn’t do this with President Obama in 2008.

   HARVEY WASSERMAN: They did. He had too many votes; he was too far out. They couldn’t—it would have taken them too many, to flip too many states. [inaudible] believe Obama won by well over 10 million votes. The last—the final vote count was in—official, was in 7 or 8 million.

   AMY GOODMAN: But what gives you this idea?

   HARVEY WASSERMAN: Because we’ve seen it happen. When you compare exit polls, which are generally accurate to within 1 percent, with the electronic outcome, there are huge variations. And we have documented many dozens of different things that they have done over the years to flip electronic votes.

   AMY GOODMAN: How does e-voting, electronic voting, work? And who controls the controls on it?

   HARVEY WASSERMAN: Well, that’s the key. The electronic voting machines are owned by private corporations, which are Republican in orientation, generally. And the courts have ruled that the source code on these electronic voting machines is proprietary. So, even the governments that buy or lease these machines have no access to a final verification process. Even Ronald Reagan said, “Trust, but verify.” And we know that the vote count was flipped in 2004. We know it was flipped in Volusia County in 2000.

   AMY GOODMAN: Where is Volusia County?

   HARVEY WASSERMAN: In Florida, when Al Gore basically was the rightful winner, and George W. Bush won the election. I mean, the only great—

   AMY GOODMAN: And they were electronic voting machines?

   HARVEY WASSERMAN: In Volusia County, they were, yes. In the southern part of Florida, they used butterfly ballots, as you’ll recall. The only good thing we can say about George W. Bush is the American people never actually elected him president. And we’re looking now at 2016, at an election that will be very easily flipped, in those six key swing states and elsewhere.

   AMY GOODMAN: What do you think is the answer?

   HARVEY WASSERMAN: We have to have universal, hand-counted paper ballots. And Bernie Sanders has endorsed that. We have to have automatic voter registration, where people can monitor the registration rolls, because people are being stripped from the registration rolls, mostly, of course, African-American and Hispanic. But this year, we’re not going to get that. And this year, it’s going to be very, very difficult, in a close election, to monitor exactly what happens, because these are black boxes. We have a wonderful actress named Bev Harris, who’s been working with Greg Palast and others, who has shown, in black box voting, that the public has no real access, no verification process for the electronic votes. And so we’re going through this huge charade here of a national campaign, primaries and then a general election, where hundreds of millions of dollars will be spent, and on election night, in 60 seconds, the actual outcome can be flipped electronically in key swing states with no verification whatsoever.

   AMY GOODMAN: If there are electronic voting machines everywhere, which there are now, right?

   HARVEY WASSERMAN: Pretty much, yes.

   AMY GOODMAN: How do you think they can be protected, people can be sure that their vote is counted, that they cast, even using electronic voting machines?

   HARVEY WASSERMAN: They can’t be. You cannot verify an electronic voting machine. They are privately owned by private corporations, and the proprietary software prevents the public from getting access to the actual vote count. We’re going into a national election, and not just the presidency, but Senate seats, House seats. We believe three Senate seats in 2014 were stolen—in North Carolina, Colorado and Alaska—that the Republicans do not have a legitimate 54-seat, or whatever it is, majority in the Senate. And this will happen again. It’s not just the presidency. And we’ve been—we have written seven books about this, Bob Fitrakis and I, from our experience here in Ohio in 2004. And again, we have a Republican governor, Republican secretary of state, no verifiability on the electronic vote count. It will be arbitrary, when push comes to shove, on—midnight, 1:00 on election night—what the outcome will be.

   AMY GOODMAN: Why do you think just Republicans would do it?

   HARVEY WASSERMAN: Oh, no, Democrats definitely do it. I have—we have strong questions about Rahm Emanuel being re-elected in Chicago, for example. We have no doubt that Scott Walker stole his re-election in Wisconsin.

   AMY GOODMAN: Based on what?

   HARVEY WASSERMAN: Based on the miraculous discovery of several thousand votes in a so-called glitched computer voting machine that gave him a victory where it was clearly a defeat. You know, this is stuff that’s been going on a long time. These methods were perfected more or less overseas by the CIA and other covert and overt operations. They came back. It started in 1988 with George H.W. Bush using electronic voting machines in New Hampshire to beat Bob Dole in the 1988 primary. And we have seen since then the use of electronic voting machines all across the country to flip elections after they have stripped the voter rolls. And, you know—

   AMY GOODMAN: When you say “stripping the voter rolls,” you mean?

   HARVEY WASSERMAN: Yes, well, Greg Palast has reported on this. In Florida 2000, 90,000 mostly black and Hispanic voters were stripped out of the voter rolls before the election, in a vote count that was won by 600 votes. And in Ohio 2004, 300,000 voters in primarily urban areas were stripped off the voter rolls. People showed up to vote in the same precinct—as did I, by the way—they were—I was denied my absentee ballot, and we had a federal lawsuit on this, which we won and went nowhere after that.

   But the reality is that we are voting in black boxes and that the governors and secretaries of state of these key swing states—but wherever you have a governor and secretary of state from the same party, be they Democrat or Republican, they have the power, under the electronic voting system, to flip the outcome of an election, with no verifiability, because the courts have ruled that these privately owned voting machines have proprietary software. It’s a nightmare. And it’s not democracy. I mean, Bernie Sanders has shown that the election—that the campaign finance is rigged, that the economy is rigged. Why wouldn’t they take the very small next step to rig the electronic voting machines?

   AMY GOODMAN: Well, we’re going to leave it there for right now, Harvey Wasserman, independent journalist, longtime anti-nuclear activist. His recent article for the WorldBeyondWar.org is “Why the Deafening Silence on Cutting the Military Budget?” His upcoming book is called The Strip & Flip Selection of 2016: Five Jim Crows & Electronic Election Theft.

   This is Democracy Now! We’re broadcasting from Ohio. When we come back, we’re going to look at private prisons here. Stay with us.

   http://www.democracynow.org/2016/2/23/could_the_2016_election_be_stolen

   • +100 …integrity of the voting system is absolutely critical in a democratic election….ALL New Zealand political parties should be concerned and involved in ensuring this!

3. They should all be tried: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and America’s overlooked war crimes
   What the CIA did to Abu Zubaydah was barbarous. That his torturers have gone unpunished is an American tragedy

   http://www.salon.com/2016/04/30/they_deserved_to_be_tried_george_w_bush_dick_cheney_and_americas_overlooked_war_crime_partner/

   • +100 SAVENZ…and it is disturbing that Trump seems to be endorsing torture in certain circumstances

     USA needs to be called to account for torture before the International World Court and the United nations

     … the use of private contractors should be banned … accountability for torture must directly attributable to the country/government that is responsible for employment of torturers

     http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-center-for-constitutional-rights/abu-ghraib-torture-surviv_b_4227182.html

4. Look at the mad eyes she is a killer and he shows it with his eyes so beware.

   • ?..CLEANGREEN…I think there is something not working with the Daily Blog….seems like the Standard is also under attack

     • ok …more comments have come through …so makes more sense

   • Yes Chooky, It is weird here what happened!!

     There seemed to be some crossover that happened there!!!

     That comment of wild eyes should have gone to the below Caption Competition Blog;

     https://thedailyblog.co.nz/category/most-recent-blogs/

     This was with Crusher Collins pointing a gun with a wild look on her face and her instructors.

     So what happened there I am not sure?

     Unless you are right that we have been hacked and manipulated here also?

5. From Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement

   A Message for May Day ~ What is Anarchism?

   I want to tell you about Anarchism.

   I want to tell you what Anarchism is, because I think it is well you should know it. Also because so little is known about it, and what is known is generally hearsay and mostly false.

   I want to tell you about it, because I believe that Anarchism is the finest and biggest thing man has ever thought of; the only thing that can give you liberty and well-being, and bring peace and joy to the world.

   I want to tell you about it in such plain and simple language that there will be no misunderstanding it. Big words and high sounding phrases serve only to confuse. Straight thinking means plain speaking.

   But before I tell you what Anarchism is, I want to tell you what it is not.

   That is necessary because so much falsehood has been spread about Anarchism. Even intelligent persons often have entirely wrong notions about it. Some people talk about Anarchism without knowing a thing about it. And some lie about Anarchism, because they don’t want you to know the truth about it.

   Anarchism has many enemies; they won’t tell you the truth about it. Why Anarchism has enemies and who they are, you will see later, in the course of this story. Just now I can tell you that neither your political boss nor your employer, neither the capitalist nor the policeman will speak to you honestly about Anarchism. Most of them know nothing about it, and all of them hate it. Their newspapers and publications – the capitalistic press- are also against it.

   Even most Socialists and Bolsheviks misrepresent Anarchism. True, the majority of them don’t know any better. But those who do know better also often lie about Anarchism and speak of it as ‘disorder and chaos’. You can see for yourself how dishonest they are in this: the greatest teachers of Socialism – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – had taught that Anarchism would come from Socialism. They said that we must first have Socialism, but that after Socialism there will be Anarchism, and that it would be a freer and more beautiful condition of society to live in than Socialism. Yet the Socialists, who swear by Marx and Engels, insist on calling Anarchism ‘chaos and disorder’, which shows you how ignorant or dishonest they are.

   The Bolsheviks do the same, although their greatest teacher, Lenin, had said that Anarchism would follow Bolshevism, and that then it will be better and freer to live.

   Therefore I must tell you, first of all, what Anarchism is not.

   It is not bombs, disorder, or chaos.

   It is not robbery and murder.

   It is not a war of each against all.

   It is not a return to barbarism or to the wild state of man.

   Anarchism is the very opposite of all that.

   Anarchism means that you should be free; that no one should enslave you, boss you, rob you, or impose upon you.

   It means that you should be free to do the things you want to do; and that you should not be compelled to do what you don’t want to do.

   It means that you should have a chance to choose the kind of a life you want to live, and live it without anybody interfering.

   It means that the next fellow should have the same freedom as you, that every one should have the same rights and liberties.

   It means that all men are brothers, and that they should live like brothers, in peace and harmony.

   That is to say, that there should be no war, no violence used by one set of men against another, no monopoly and no poverty, no oppression, no taking advantage of your fellow-man.

   In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and sensible life.

   From What is Anarchism? – Alexander Berkman

   http://www.awsm.nz/2016/05/01/a-message-for-may-day-what-is-anarchism/

   • Chooky,

     A lot of weird stuff going on now as the CIA are clearing the ground for Mr Johnkey doddle dandy to come home and face the music again!!!!

     Key! the world is a small place you cant hide and we will find you where ever you are.

     More people out there are learning to hate you for what you have done selling us out here.

6. Isn’t it so peaceful without that horrible Keyster being away hiding overseas for two weeks eh!~

   Hope he takes more permanent time away behind bars preferably.

   9 days till the Panama papers NZ names come out so he may need a more permanent time away then.

7. Good to see the removal of the comment voting system, great idea. TDB will no longer feed the trolls. If people don’t agree with a comment they can always post a re-buttal. The fact that the trolls even bother with their down votes on this site is probably a compliment when you think about it. As they say “When you’re on the right track, expect an attack”.

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