Showing posts with label Elections. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Buying Elections - Using Facebook Data Mining Social Media Propaganda & Activist Groups

Cambridge Analytica - The Pin That Pricked Zuckerberg's Facebook Bubble and Deflated The American Economy

 

 

Political Activists in America have been trying to get money out of elections for decades.  Just like the changing Tax Code, the “players” will just adjust.  The same way George Soros keeps his Billions in off shore accounts to shelter it from the IRS, so it is with Campaign Financing, filter it through non-profits and Political Action Committees (PACs) and you can get millions of dollars flowing to your campaign.  These groups and organizations will also be used in your propaganda campaign to formulate a message to garner political support and to smear your opponent in an effort to bring you the win.  The linchpin to formulating an overall game plan is what is called Data Mining.  It’s not to say it’s never been used in decades past, but today it’s not door knockers or printed survey’s coming through snail mail, it’s Big Data!  Data obtained, many times, covertly, although online surveys may still play a part in it.  We are talking now about “likes, shares and comments” and such, most obtained by CIA’s brainchild Facebook.  This Data Mining was used to bring convictions in the Oregon Occupation and Bundy Ranch Trials in 2016 and 2017, so this is very real and a serious problem!  A recent article in British Media revealed how one corporation is being deployed in American elections and throughout the world using this same data and repackaging it and feeding it back through those same channels ie. social media to win elections.  The British Media station Channel 4 conducted an undercover investigation of Cambridge Analytica hired by Donald Trump for his election campaign and, it appears, is bursting the financial bubble of the US Economy and Mark Zuckerberg himself.  An insider reveals how they use groups, PACs, Social Media and cover their tracks by setting up phony groups/companies and self-destructing email in order to operate incognito and make “puppets” out of candidates and stifle congressional investigations.  Make no mistake.  Although Channel 4 calls Hillary Clinton to get her take on the tactics revealed by their report, she is no saint in this scenario.  She just got beat this time around and it’s “sour grapes”.  The left also employ these same tactics.  The report is as follows…

4 News - 20 Mar 2018 Exposed
An investigation by Channel 4 News has revealed how Cambridge Analytica claims it ran ‘all’ of President Trump’s digital campaign – and may have broken election law. As the report went on air, the firm announced it has suspended chief executive Alexander Nix, pending a full investigation.

"An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News has revealed how Cambridge Analytica claims it ran key parts of the presidential campaign for Donald Trump.

The British data company was secretly filmed discussing coordination between Trump’s campaign and outside groups – an activity which is potentially illegal.





Executives claimed they “ran all the digital campaign, the television campaign and our data informed all the strategy” for President Trump.

In the third part of a Channel 4 News investigation into Cambridge Analytica, bosses also talked about:  The full scale of their pivotal work in Trump’s election win How they avoid Congressional investigations into their foreign clients
- Setting up proxy organizations to feed untraceable messages onto social media
- Using a secret email system where messages self-destruct and leave no trace
- Cambridge Analytica’s involvement in the “Defeat Crooked Hilary” brand of attack ads

In a series of meetings filmed at London hotels over four months, between November 2017 and January 2018 an undercover reporter for Channel 4 News posed as a fixer for a wealthy client hoping to get candidates elected in Sri Lanka.




UPDATECambridge Analytica have announced they have suspended chief executive Alexander Nix pending a full investigation. They said: “In the view of the board Mr Nix’s recent comments secretly recorded by Channel 4 News do not represent the values or operations of the firm.”

We ran all the digital campaign

The company says their work with data and research allowed Mr Trump to win with a narrow margin of “40,000 votes” in three states providing victory in the electoral college system, despite losing the popular vote by more than 3 million votes.

The election was plagued by allegations of fake news and smears on social media, along with the alleged attempt by Russia to influence the outcome.

Mr Nix boasted about Cambridge Analytica’s work for Trump, saying: “We did all the research, all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting, we ran all the digital campaign, the television campaign and our data informed all the strategy.”

Separately, Mr Turnbull described how the company could create proxy organizations to discreetly feed negative material about opposition candidates on to the Internet and social media.

He said: “Sometimes you can use proxy organizations who are already there. You feed them. They are civil society organizations.. Charities or activist groups, and we use them – feed them the material and they do the work...

“We just put information into the bloodstream to the internet and then watch it grow, give it a little push every now and again over time to watch it take shape. And so this stuff infiltrates the online community and expands but with no branding – so it’s unattributed, untraceable.”





Cambridge Analytica’s senior executives were also filmed discussing a twin-track strategy to campaigning, putting out positive messages through the official Donald J Trump for President campaign, while negative material was pushed out through outside organizations.

Cambridge Analytica’s chief data scientist Dr Tayler said: “As part of it, sometimes you have to separate it from the political campaign itself. So in America you know there are independent expenditure groups running behind the campaign... Super PACs. Political action committees.

Socampaigns are normally subject tlimits about how much money they can raise. Whereas outside groups can raise an unlimited amount. So the campaign will use their finite resources for things like persuasion and mobilization and then they leave the ‘air war’ they call it, like the negative attack ads to other affiliated groups.”




In a different meeting, Mr Turnbull described how the company created the “Defeat Crooked Hilary” brand of attack ads, that were funded by the Make America Number 1 super- PAC and watched more than 30 million times during the campaign.

Coordination between an official election campaign and any outside groups is illegal under US election law. Cambridge Analytica deny wrongdoing, insisting a strict firewall separated out their activity and that they were transparent about their work on political campaigns and PACs.

No paper trail

In one exchange Alexander Nix revealed the company used a secret self-destructing email system that leaves no trace. He said: “No-one knows we have it, and secondly we set our... emails with a self-destruct timer... So you send them and after they’ve been read, two hours later, they disappear. There’s no evidence, there’s no paper trail, there’s nothing.”

Mr Nix also belittled representatives on the House Intelligence Committee to whom he gave evidence in 2017. He claims Republican members asked just three questions. “After five minutes – done.”  “They’re politicians, they’re not technical. They don’t understand how it works,” he said.
Mr Nix further claimed that Democrats on the Committee are motivated by “sour grapes”.

He said: “They don’t understand because the candidate never, is never involved. He’s told what to do by the campaign team.”
“So the candidate is the puppet?,” the undercover reporter asked.  “Always,” replied Mr Nix.

He added that his firm could avoid any US investigation into its foreign clients. “I’m absolutely convinced that they have no jurisdiction...,” he said. “We’ll say none of your business.”

The meetings involved Mr Nix, along with Mark Turnbull, Managing Director Political Global, and Dr Alex Tayler, the company’s chief data scientist.

Very disturbing

Defeated presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has told Channel 4 News how she faced a “massive propaganda effort” during the election – and questioned if Cambridge Analytica helped the Russians in their alleged attempt to influence the election outcome.

In an exclusive interview filmed in October 2017 to promote her book, she said: “There was a new kind of campaign that was being run on the other side – that nobody had ever faced before. Because it wasn’t just all about me. It was about how to suppress voters who were inclined to vote for me.





“When you have a massive propaganda effort to prevent people from thinking straight, because they’re being flooded with false information and you have people who are searching.. trying to make sense of it. But every search engine, every site they go into is repeating these fabrications. Then yes It affected the thought processes of voters.”

The former candidate also questioned whether Cambridge Analytica were involved in the Russia’s alleged attempt to influence the election, calling the possibility “very disturbing”.
Cambridge Analytica strongly deny any involvement and say any such allegation is false.

Clinton said: “So you’ve got CA, you’ve got the Republican National Committee which of course has always done data collection and analysis and you’ve got the Russians. And the real question is how did the Russians know how to target their messages so precisely to undecided voters in Wisconsin or Michigan or Pennsylvania – that is really the nub of the question.
“So if they were getting advice from say Cambridge Analytica or someone else about OK here are the 12 voters in this town in Wisconsin – that’s whose Facebook pages you need to be on to send these messages that indeed would be very disturbing.”

Absurd’ allegations

Tonight, a Cambridge Analytica spokesman said: “CA has never claimed it won the election for President Trump. This is patently absurd. We are proud of the work we did on that campaign, and have spoken in many public forums about what we consider to be our contribution to the campaign.”

On campaign finance violations, the firm said: “Cambridge Analytica has been completely transparent about our simultaneous work on both political campaigns and political action committees (including publicly declaring our work on both with FEC filings). We have strict firewall practices to ensure no coordination between regulated groups, including the teams working on non-coordinated campaigns being physically separated, using different servers and being banned from communicating with each other.”

On Russia investigation: “As one of the companies that played a prominent role in the 2016 election campaign, Cambridge Analytica is committed to supporting and assisting the House Intelligence Committee investigation into Russian interference in the election in any way that we can. CA is not under investigation, and there is no suggestion of any wrongdoing by the company. They deny any involvement in the alleged Russian attempts and say such an allegation is entirely false.”

And on Proton Mail, Cambridge Analytica said: “It’s common practice to use encrypted communications. We take information security with the utmost seriousness, and for high profile clients using maintain stream email providers simply doesn’t provide a suitable level of security.” 

https://www.bitchute.com/video/T01VRgl5rGqW/
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https://www.bitchute.com/video/PsJ6ZfoMNkmE/
Whistleblower Reveals Data Grab Of 50 Million Facebook Profiles.


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Update-
April 3, 2019 Bloomberg:
"UpGuard, a cybersecurity firm, found troves of user information hiding in plain sight, inadvertently posted publicly on Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing servers. The discovery shows that a year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal exposed how unsecure and widely disseminated Facebook users’ information is online, companies that control that information at every step still haven’t done enough to seal up private data.

"In one instance, Mexico City-based digital platform Cultura Colectiva, openly stored 540 million records on Facebook users, including identification numbers, comments, reactions and account names. The records were accessible and downloadable for anyone who could find them online.

"Another database for a long-defunct app called At the Pool listed names, passwords and email addresses for 22,000 people".

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John Huntsman Jr. Connection revealed in the recent Documentary by Millie Weaver.  Watch it by clicking the photo below.

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Links -

https://www.channel4.com/news/exposed-undercover-secrets-of-donald-trump-data-firm-cambridge-analytica
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/102420747/facebook-shares-plunge-amid-cambridge-analytica-data-fallout
http://www.djtrumpnetwork.com/2017/08/19/trump-thanks-bannon-helping-defeat-crooked-hillary/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/T01VRgl5rGqW/ 
http://www.businessinsider.com/deletefacebook-facebook-cambridge-analytica-fiasco-twitter-2018-3/ 
https://www.bitchute.com/video/PsJ6ZfoMNkmE/ 
https://www.bitchute.com/video/52vqEjViyWjx/ 
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-03/millions-of-facebook-records-found-on-amazon-cloud-servers 
https://www.bitchute.com/video/skuyBgD9DUSY/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/8CrtzZtOuk3L/

Monday, November 3, 2014

Securing Utah's Vote


Is Purple the New Red?

Although many throughout the nation see Utah as one of the most conservative states, thereby suggesting that Utahans "get out to vote", that may have been true, it is no longer.  In fact, Utah previously ranked number one in voter turn out, but statistics show, as of July 2014, we rank at the bottom, Minnesota ranking in the top spot now!

Like once Whole Milk, fortified with Vitamin D, we've been diluted to 1% or Skim by an influx of progressive liberals from back east and California among other places.  Many Conservative Utahans have become frustrated, and with political representatives like Orrin Hatch, once one of the most conservative legislators, has become a progressive liberal, currently earning only a "D" in conservative circles.


As we are only days away from a Primary Election, and memories linger of the last election in which many were stunned by a republican loss to secure the Presidency, it is important to dissect not only "get out the vote" strategy but, what methods should Utah use and how to "SECURE" those votes.

There has been a push nationally in the last 6 years to broaden the scope of methods in which we vote and relax the criterion of "who" should vote.  Utah is no different.  In fact, this year the Utah GOP and SLCoGOP are, for some reason, making a "big push" for Vote By Mail.  This is being telegraphed by others too, as evidenced in several newspaper articles, and championed by Salt Lake County's current County Clerk, Sherrie Swensen.  Swensen was even quoted by a local news paper as saying, "I know some people like to go to their neighborhood polling place on Election Day, so it will take some time for them to get over that."  Now, when Constitutional Conservatives, original Tea Party members like me (before the term was "coined", I HAD to resort to writing Washington when Bush 43 was President and Ted Kennedy was asked by him to write the Education Bill and Orrin Hatch Championed the Prescription Drug Bill.), hear a plan like this your instincts SCREAM "Voter Fraud!"  Swensen and other progressives don't limit themselves to vote by mail, but are also advocating for online voting, a version of vote by mail on steroids!  In a day and age where identity theft is prevalent, Edward Snowden is in exile as he tries to "blow the whistle" on governments diabolical effort to spy on , not only foreign entities but on every US Citizen as evidenced in the building of the biggest computer server ever built for the that purpose, that popped up overnight in Bluffdale Utah of all places, not to mention a group of Defense Department Officials like William Binney, who developed programs of code breaking.  And, let's not forget people like Catherine Englebrecht and Becky Garrettson ,two of many individuals and groups who sought to educate and advocate for voter turnout and securing the vote, were TARGETED by the IRS, a taxing authority for the US Government!  How does anyone in their right mind advocate for such voting methods as those that will put our liberty at risk?  Like progressives always do, they will "fly the banner of FREEDOM and trumpet their belief that the "right to vote" is to restricted and that the poor and infirm are inconvenienced or "disenfranchised" by our current methods and for the skeptics, "won't you enjoy voting online so you don't have to stand in one?"  All the while concocting their diabolical efforts to water down conservative beat back of the progressive agenda.  Don't get me wrong, RINO's are also keen on these methods, but they are only progressives in the end as documented in Utah's Count My Vote "debacle" last legislative session, a progressive effort by prominent Utahan's and their money in an effort to rise to power locally and nationally.


In the push for VBM (vote by mail) in particular, many proponents advocate touting "increase voter participation", looking past the FACTS that it only increased voter participation initially.  As Utah's Governor's Office assembled a committee to research if the governor's office should champion an effort with the Utah legislature sponsoring a bill.  The facts indicate the voter participation spiked only the first year of VBM do to advertising and advocacy efforts by States and Municipalities that this was the method that would be used, in some cases exclusively!  Every election after that the participation rate declined.  Although there is some evidence that VBM is somewhat effective in municipal elections exclusively, it still begs the question, "how secure it it?"  The governor's committee of experts surveys indicate that 83% -87% of Utah's prefer choice in voting methods currently offered such as, early voting, vote by mail/absentee voting with the standard precinct polling method.  These numbers should not be taken lightly!  I think you'll find the VBM report to the Governors Interim Committee (VBM info. starts at the 7:54 min. mark),very enlightening as the facts are laid out, along with some concerns about how to SECURE the vote and the inherent cost that will inevitable follow, while advocates progress toward broadening the methods for casting a ballot.  In the audio you'll hear Wanda Amann, challenger to current county clerk Sherrie Swensen present some questions to the governor's committee.  I have personally talked to Amann about SLCoGOP's deliberate push for VBM this primary election and my concern for the opportunity this presents for voter fraud, and she indicated to me she had the same concerns.  Since our initial conversation she has had a chance to personally experience the ballot process in the county clerks office and has witnessed several processes that "set off the alarms."  Amann said there are problems like ballot security, backlog of clearing the voter rolls, (this may be someone who is no longer residing in our state or county but more importantly deceased individuals that could be removed promptly, as any government agency may have access to death records through a current data base).  She also has serious concerns about ID and signature verification, among others.  Amann has assured me she is committed to SECURING THE VOTE for Utah and in Salt Lake County in particular.  I think we need a change.  As the last few years have shown a significant downturn in Utah voter participation.  I have also received mailings from Swenson's office advocating, (but it feels like a shove), towards VBM.  I've been concerned about this for many years, and now, I have an opportunity to stop it!


As I take to the polls this election cycle, I reserve my right to complain, and that I'll do in my wrap up.  I'm not an advocate for many and multiple methods to vote, outside of what we are currently doing.  I advocate to SECURE the Vote!  I am in favor of Voter ID Laws.  I think people should visit their precinct to cast their ballot whenever possible, and when it's not, we have options of VBM/Absentee Ballot, although that vote could be more secure.  In an age of illegals up the wazoo and people voting multiple times and votes being cast by the dead, circumstances demand it!  And anyone who wants to secure our Republic should insist on it too!  Although I still have concerns about the manufacturer's and programmers of the voting machines, it rivals the "hanging chad", both can be used to steal an election.  It is surprising to me that as so many others like me fight to secure our election process there are many who advocate to the extreme opposite!  Our own US Citizens telling us that ANYONE who resides in our country should have a say in our political process, no questions (or ID) asked!  Yet- every other country, and their are a lot of them, do not allow foreigners these same opportunities in their country.  Just look at Mexico law for starters!  I'm no body's puppet!  And no matter what UT GOP or SLCoGOP says, I stand as a barrier between their efforts to increase the opportunity for voter fraud in our elections, and I'll fight the establishment like Englebrecht, Garrettson, Binney and others are doing to educate others on the potential for voter fraud, and how to combat it!  If we want to remain FREE, we MUST do it!  Our posterity demand it!

Where Voter Registration Matters!

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In conclusion.  All said and done, I don't like the idea of this "top down" effort by Utah's Governor, Committee and Legislature in making law concerning our election process.  The citizenry must cast their vote if it wants to change it's voting process.  Any changes MUST be taken directly to the people!  Not like the Count My Vote conspiracy.  The Ruling Class Elite's took that out of the public hands touting "compromise", like playing mediator between the Hatfield's and McCoy's!  We have a republic, if we can keep it!

Count My Vote SB54.  The Constitution Party action in Law Suit over Count My Vote/SB54.




Keep My Vote takes up the fight against SB54/Count My Vote to the 10th Circuit Court Of Appeals for Supreme Court Hearing.




The more things change, the more they stay the same.



Hacking Democracy


To see other voter fraud videos click here.

 

Every Utahan needs to read this one before they go to the polls this election cycle Mitt Romney Rigging Elections.

 

The People are taking action in America's courts, watch this video.

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