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Putin Prepares To Release Iowa Caucus Results
Unprecedented cybersecurity measures being taken to safeguard Iowa caucus results – Jan 29 2020
No one knows how many of Iowa’s 1,700 precinct leaders will opt to use a new smartphone app to report Democratic caucus results Monday night. But the security of that app will be the source of much scrutiny.
After reports of Russian hacking attempts in the 2016 presidential election, party leaders are taking unprecedented precautions to protect against cybersecurity breaches and the spread of disinformation on social media.
On Wednesday, Democratic Party officials in Iowa and Washington confirmed that the Democratic National Committee is deploying security staff to work with the state party to assist with any caucus problems.
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Democratic Party @DNC – 22:16 UTC · Feb 3, 2020
For three years, we’ve been preparing for the process that officially kicks off tonight in Iowa: the Democratic presidential primary. Today our chair, @TomPerez, reflects on the reforms we’ve made to make this the most transparent primary in our history: How We Prepared for 2020
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NPR Politics @nprpolitics - 5:33 UTC · Feb 4, 2020
"By all indications, we are going on to New Hampshire victorious," Pete Buttigieg said in a late-night speech.
0% of Iowa caucus results are in.
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Walker Bragman @WalkerBragman – 5:59 UTC · Feb 4, 2020
Not great optics here, folks:
– Dems paid company literally called Shadow to create caucus app
– Buttigieg campaign also paid Shadow, FEC records show
– Caucus app fails
– Buttigieg declares himself Iowa winner with no results
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Pro-Israel Buttigieg backer Seth Klarman is top funder of group behind Iowa’s disastrous voting app
At the time of publication, twelve hours after voting in the Democratic Party’s Iowa caucuses ended, the results have not been announced. The delay in reporting is the result of a failed app developed by a company appropriately named Shadow Inc.
This firm was staffed by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama campaign veterans and created by a Democratic dark money nonprofit backed by hedge fund billionaires including Seth Klarman. A prolific funder of pro-settler Israel lobby organizations, Klarman has also contributed directly to Pete Buttigieg’s campaign.
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The Sanders campaign published its internal count from some 40% of the precincts which they say are representative. Their unofficial result:
Sanders – 30%; Buttigieg – 25%; Warren – 21%; Biden – 12%; Klobucher – 11%; all others < 1%
What a clusterfuck.
IMO, as the Israeli App ( deep state ) has spoken, and, thus, you know now Sanders is not the option of the swamp, all the more cofirmed yesterday when at SST the usual Trumpsters Johnson and Lang started to bring in alleged past as “communist” and alleged youth times´ travel to the USSR about Sanders ( can anyone be more ridiculous to keep their considerale tax cut?…)
As if people could not change, and indeed, they change ( just see Podemos in Spain going in zero coma from anti-monarchist force to monarchist…), thus they do not have anything else than to recurr to past… pecadillos de juventud…
For those claiming for a “Third Party” option, I fear it is a bit late for that, you can not built the infrastucture neccesary to challenge two parties with decades of history in a huge country like the US in just 9 months. Podemos in Spain organized a popular movement based on a web platform where they crowdfunded for a van with which travel the country to meet and talk to the people, but Spain has around 1000Km most distance…
Thus this Third Party option only remains as a possibility for a next election process, not to mention that an infrastructure based on a web platfrom onl yreaches who it reaches, young and literate people, and as a workers movement you just can not loose the votes of deep USA, where people do not pay attention to IT…I do not know whether there exists people like these in the US, in Spain there are still a lot, mostly old retiree people who are precisely those who keep the ideals of the àst fights pof the left…Well, this happens in Spain and Europe, may be in the US could the other way around….Anyway a vivarium of votes to consider for any workers movement…I can not believe there is no a huge ammount of retirees in the US who do not get way lesser pensions than Pat Lang´s, or live in houses less than million dollars value, and thus do not beneffit from the only thing Trump has made right, cut taxes to the great rentiers/ the wealthy…
The only way to win this election would be, once unveiled the trick to rig it, for the voters of both, Gabbard and Sanders, unite and vote in mass for the one of them best positioned in this caucus of the hell…
With respect to caucus, although I am not very privy in the Us electoral system, seems a process where the two partisan system old guard apparatus asures it victory one way or the other, the other way is through funding by oligarchs. For an opportunity to have a future different from the dark one it paints fro a majority of workers in the US, at least these both lacras of the electoral process must dissapear, since widely demonstrated undermine democracy and the meaning of the Constitution…Not privy of your Constitution either, if this is enshrined in the Constitution by blood and fire, change the Constitution…by a workers active movement
Every time I have read a news about US elections on Sanders I have witnessed an army of young people craving for him almost the same passion or more ( since this is after all the US…) many young people show for Putin in Russia, this is very important, since it is the young who have the passion, the will and hope to fight the fascist cult like supra-state it has been unleashed onto you, more evident after the “presentation” of the so called “deal of the century”…Still, I very doubt that, as he says Pat Lang, it is only young students and teachers who support Sanders, but the huge Jew population in the US who got astonished and perplexed by the last charade of the “steal of the century” I am sure they will vote for Sanders too…if not at least out of self-preservation sense…Then it is all the IT community workers and activists who are not billionaires, the women´s movement, plus the sector of the US Army who are not generals or colonels or private contractors, fascists, or plain psychos, who enjoy the state of permanent war on behalf of Greater Israel or just profit from it, who all would vote for Gabbard…that would be a huge ammount of sane people who I fear it is a silent majority in the US who still have not had the change to get their representative in enough…is it not time to get him/her in the the WH…
For those arguing Sanders is too old, he is so old as he is Trump, with the advantage that the fact that after so many years he still keeps his leftist ideas intact is a rarity not seen anyhwere, not even in Europe ( if not for Corbyn, look who is trying to get rid of both…)…take advantage from that gift, since to his passion ( discounted for one holding leftist views in nowadays world..) he adds all his experience and knowledge in life and also the two partisan system aparatus and the stablishment, and you can not fight your opponent unless you get to know it well…
As they say the “ultra-fascists” in their manifestos, the people ALWAYS tend to the left and socialism, this is why they need to rig elections in the first place…History has demonstrated so, there could be a bunch of idiots, but not millions, and, remember, common sense is the more common of the senses….
Posted by: Sasha | Feb 4 2020 19:25 utc | 119
All that is happening in the western countries was predicted by Oswald Spengler in “Der Untergang der Abendlandes” (The Decline of the West, 1918) where he describe the organic dynamic of (all) the civilizations (including our “Faustian” civilizaion). As an author pointed out.
Spengler asserts that democracy is simply the political weapon of money, and the media are the means through which money operates a democratic political system. The thorough penetration of money’s power throughout a society is yet another marker of the shift from Culture to Civilization (las phase of a High Culture).
Democracy and plutocracy are equivalent in Spengler’s argument. He said: “The tragic comedy of the “world-improvers” and “freedom-teachers” is that they are simply assisting money to be more effective. The principles of equality, natural rights, universal suffrage, and freedom of the press are all disguises for class war (the bourgeois against the aristocracy)”.
Freedom, to Spengler, is a negative concept, simply entailing the repudiation of any tradition. In reality, freedom of the press requires money, and entails ownership, thus serving money at the end. Suffrage involves electioneering, in which the donations rule the day. The ideologies espoused by candidates, whether Socialism or Liberalism, are set in motion by, and ultimately serve, only money. “Free” press does not spread free opinion—it generates opinion, Spengler maintains.
Spengler admits that in his era (1918) money has already won, in the form of democracy. But in destroying the old elements of the Culture, it prepares the way for the rise of a new and overpowering figure: the Caesar. Before such a leader, money collapses, and in the Imperial Age the politics of money fades away.
Spengler’s analysis of democratic systems argues that even the use of one’s own constitutional rights requires money, and that voting can only really work as designed in the absence of organized leadership working on the election process. As soon as the election process becomes organized by political leaders, to the extent that money allows, the vote ceases to be truly significant. It is no more than a recorded opinion of the masses on the organizations of government over which they possess no positive influence whatsoever.
Spengler notes that the greater the concentration of wealth in individuals, the more the fight for political power revolves around questions of money. One cannot even call this corruption or degeneracy, because this is in fact the necessary end of mature democratic systems.
On the subject of the press, Spengler is equally contemptuous. He said “Instead of conversations between men, the press and the “electrical news-service” keep the waking-consciousness of whole people and continents under a deafening drum-fire of theses, catchwords, standpoints, scenes, feelings, day by day and year by year.” Through the media, money is turned into force—the more spent, the more intense its influence.
For the press to function, universal education is necessary. Along with schooling comes a demand for the shepherding of the masses, as an object of party politics. Those that originally believed education to be solely for the enlightenment of each individual prepared the way for the power of the press, and eventually for the rise of the Caesar. There is no longer a need for leaders to impose military service, because the press will stir the public into a frenzy, clamor for weapons, and force their leaders into a conflict.
I like the next paragraph, of “The Decline of the West”, about the period of the triumph of Money over Blood:
“Through the economic history of every Culture there runs a desperate conflict waged by the soil-rooted tradition of a race, by its soul, against the Spirit of Money. The peasant-wars of the beginning of a Late period (in the Classical, 700-500; in the Western, 1450-1650; in the Egyptian, end of Old Kingdom) are the first reaction of the Blood against the Money that is stretching forth its hand from the waxing cities over the soil. […] Money aims at mobilizing all things. World-economy is the actualized economy of values that are completely detached in thought from the land, and made fluid.
The Classical money-thinking, from Hannibal’s day, transformed whole cities into coin and whole populations into slaves and thereby converted both into money that could be brought from everywhere to Rome, and used outwards from Rome as a power.
The Faustian money-thinking “opens up” whole continents, the water-power of gigantic river-basins, the muscular power of the peoples of broad regions, the coal measures, the virgin forests, the Laws of Nature, and transforms them all into financial energy, which is laid out in one way or in another– in the shape of press, or elections, or budgets, or armies– for the realization of masters’ plans. Ever new values are abstracted from whatever world-stock is still, from the business point of view, unclaimed, “the slumbering spirits of gold,” as John Gabriel Borkman says; and what the things themselves are, apart from this, is of no economic significance at all.”
Cheers
David
Posted by: DFC | Feb 4 2020 22:00 utc | 162
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