Emily Jones
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Category: Law
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Stealing the Election: Behind our Backs and in front of our faces
It is tempting to think that authoritarian governments come to power through sudden and dramatic coups, but often they do not. Instead, they come to power through a creeping co-opting of authority. This is the preferred method, the most successful method of taking control. A sudden, dramatic take-over of a society provokes resistance. Sliding the… Read.
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Stealing the 2020 election. I hope I’m wrong.
American exceptionalism, Authoritarianism, Books on Politics, Brian Kemp, Capitalism, CNN, Democracy, Democratic Party, Economy, Government, Law, Law and Justic, media, MSNBC, Political crimes, Republican Party, Rule of Law, The right, Trump, Voting Machines, Voting rights, White Collar, Corporate and Political CrimeSaturday 12 September 2020 It has become obvious to me that the Republican Party is stealing the 2020 election. They are stealing it behind our backs and they are stealing it in front of our faces. All you have to do to come to this conclusion is spend some time researching targeted voter sabotage as… Read.
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Compromised: by Peter Strzok
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STEALING ELECTIONS: THE HISTORY
If you have not started following Jennifer Cohn on Twitter, you should. She is essential if you want to understand what is likely to happen in the 2020 election with election security. Among the things you should note for today are: Even when the GOP allows Hand Marked Paper Ballots, they are careful to ensure… Read.
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Latin America, the “Democratic” Party and Never-Trumpsters
There are three important stories in the news within the past week relating to Latin America. First, the Trump administration has appointed Elliott Abrams U.S. Special Representative for Iran. For those of us who have been interested in Latin America for decades, Elliott Abrams is a criminal who is widely despised. He should be in… Read.
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Saturday Morning Articles
SATURDAY MORNING ARTICLE RUN DOWN USAID plans for coup in Nicaragua https://thegrayzone.com/2020/08/04/usaid-document-nicaragua-coup/ Biden is putting us in bed with the likes of Anna Navarro https://thegrayzone.com/2020/03/01/contras-cnn-ana-navarro-lobbying-corruption/ Trump puts Criminal Elliott Abrams Representative in Iran https://news.yahoo.com/u-iran-envoy-brian-hook-173327817.html Victims in Epstein Case Get Second Attempt https://news.yahoo.com/epstein-victims-second-chance-justice-181228243.html Don MaGahn https://www.newsweek.com/other-donald-behind-donald-trump-457514 Read.
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Elliott Abrams Should be in Prison. A New Low for the Trump Administration. The Criminal Mind
This is a good summary of some of the reasons Elliott Abrams should be in prison: Common Dreams, August 6, 2020 Abrams’ resume includes: In the 1980s, he defended the infamous Guatemalan General Efraín Ríos Montt, whose violent crackdown on the indigenous Ixil Mayan people of Guatemala was so brutal that it was classified as… Read.
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Ring of Fire Podcast: Sam Seder – Barr Hearings and Democratic Party Platform
Turn off the corporate media and listen to a really good podcast on Ring of Fire with Sam Seder as he talks about the Barr hearing and interviews John Nichols. Podcast Read.
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Federal Judiciary Abandons Voting Rights
Article from Slate on Federal Judiciary and Voting Rights Read.
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Epstein and MSNBC
Cornell Belcher, former Obama pollster and part of the corporate Democratic elite, tells progressives to “Shut the hell up and grow up.” Silence your criticisms of Biden, Belcher chides, and “fall in line.” Make no mistake, that is their attitude to all progressives. Obama and his administration purposefully squelched progressive participation in his administration. Obama… Read.
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Glynn County, Georgia: Site of the Aubery Killings
Michael Browning, Glynn County Commission It was in Glynn County, Georgia that three men stalked and killed Ahmaud Arbery. One of the men documented the killing on video. But, when police from the Glynn County Police Department arrived at the scene of the murder, they made no arrests. One of the three men, Gregory… Read.
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Notes from “Hiding in Plain Sight” by Sarah Kenzior
The Bellwether of American Decline “…the facts make you wish they were fiction, but that is all the more reason we need to hear them.” Greitens, governor of Missouri “Whereas once mere publicity about his scandals would have prompted resignation, Greitens proved that hanging on to executive power to dodge or manipulate prosecution remains a… Read.
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Glynn County Commissioners: Update, Job for Indicted Police Chief
The Brunswick News is reporting this morning that the Glynn County Commissioners (the county where Ahmaud Arbery was killed) “deferred” to create a job for the Police Chief who has been indicted. Just let this sink in. The Glynn County Commissioners were creating a job out of reserve county funds (at a time of a… Read.
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Job Being Created for Arbery Police Chief, Glynn County Georgia
Ahmaud Arbery was killed in Glynn County, Georgia about a mile from my house. The man in charge of the police department at the time, John Powell, was indicted the same month after a series of scandals involving the Glynn County Police Department. The County Commissioners are meeting today, June 25, 2020 and are likely… Read.
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What Happened to the Democratic Party
For those of you interested in why some of us are so reluctant to jump on the Joe Biden bandwagon, please take the time to listen to this podcast. http://pitchforkeconomics.com/episode/how-neoliberalism-captured-democrats-with-james-kwak/ Read.
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