Stalin referred to Western leftists "for tactical reasons as progressive" because their "reactions, aspirations and activities happen to be 'objectively' favorable to the interests of the USSR. These last must be encouraged and utilized for Soviet purposes."
George Kennan, 1946
Here's the link to Kennan's original "Long Telegram" of 1946 that contains the above quotes and a whole lot more. For those of you who have studied it - please study it again. digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/11617…
Kennan: In Stalin's view, "'Democratic-progressive' elements abroad are to be utilized to maximum to bring pressure to bear on capitalist governments along lines agreeable to Soviet interests."
The political history of modern "progressives" shows their roots backing Stalin.
Kennan explained in one paragraph why Communist Parties were so deadly to free countries.
Two generations later, many of those party networks have come under Chinese Communist Party domination or control.
Imagine if President Franklin Roosevelt had brought George Kennan - and not Soviet spies Harry Hopkins, Harry Dexter White, Alger Hiss, and friends - into his inner circle to set the agenda for meetings with Stalin at Tehran and Yalta.
These networks can survive for generations. Al Gore's father made his fortune through Soviet agent Armand Hammer, Secretary of State Blinken's stepfather was Hammer's lawyer, Valerie Jarrett's father and father-in-law had business relationships with Soviet agent Alfred Stern.
Kennan foresaw how Stalin's long-term cultivation of generations of people would lead to Western societies attacking themselves.
He fairly predicted the rise of BLM & other destructive movements. (BLM's roots are in 1960s radicalism sponsored by Soviet proxies Cuba & E. Germany)
In 1946, Kennan explained what the Communists would do to us. How much of that is unfolding now?
Kennan effectively foresaw the current softening up of NATO, which took place on-and-off for decades, to turn ourselves against one another and the alliance.
This is one of the reasons I differ from many of my friends who have become rejectionists against the alliance.
Though not a Communist, Putin is more of a Homo Sovieticus than a post-Soviet Russian, a creature of the KGB. Kennan wrote this paragraph before Putin was born. He could not have foreseen it, but his words also apply to Communist China.
It's easy to see, from Kennan's words about Stalin's regime, why Xi Jinping and his CCP want us to be demoralized, divided, depressed, and weak.
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🧵In 2005, the bipartisan Commission on Election Reform, co-chaired by Jimmy Carter and James A. Baker III, expressed concerns about electronic voting systems.
2) Carter-Baker report, pp. 25-27: Voting machines lack transparency.
“Voting machines must … be transparent. They must allow for recounts and for audits, and thereby giver voters confidence in the accuracy of the vote tallies.”
“The accessibility and accuracy of DREs [direct recording electronic machines], however, are offset by a lack of transparency, which has raised concerns about security and verifiability. In most of the DREs used in 2004, voters could not check that their ballot was recorded correctly. Some DREs had no capacity for an independent recount.”
3) Carter-Baker report, p. 27 says there are no standards of transparency for voting machines (and, by implication, software):
"The standards for voting systems ... should assure ... transparency in all voting machines. Because these standards usually guide the decisions of voting machine manufacturers, the manufacturers should be encouraged to build machines in the future that are both accessible and transparent ….”
In a 62-page ruling, a federal magistrate judge agrees with @dominionvoting and sacks attorney Stefanie Lambert from defending @PatrickByrne from Dominion.
Case 1:21-cv-02131-CJN-MAU.
The judge is with the squeaky-clean US District Court for the District of Columbia.
What is in the emails being produced in discovery that Dominion wants to keep secret?
@dominionvoting @PatrickByrne Download the 62-page PDF of the court decision siding with Dominion to sack Patrick Byrne's attorney, Stefanie Lambert.
I have posted this on my Academia account in the public interest so that people may download it for free. I am not party to this case. academia.edu/122888005/DOMI…
What is in those Dominion emails that is so damning that the company is pulling out all the stops to prevent their disclosure?
Could it have to do with @Smartmatic? Could it be related to election fraud? Did someone at Dominion commit a crime? What do you have to say, @dominionvoting?
🧵 Breaking: @Smartmatic President and COO Roger Piñate has surrendered to US authorities in Miami to face federal grand jury charges of international corruption and bribery.
@smartmatic The @Smartmatic co-founder and executive put up $8.5 million in bail, but did not enter a plea of guilt or innocence, according to the Nuevo Herald, because he says he doesn't have a "permanent attorney."
@smartmatic Second @Smartmatic executive charged in the same international corruption and bribery crime: Jorge Miguel Vásquez, vice president of development.
He pled not guilty to international corruption and money laundering charges and was freed on $1 million bail.
🧵 Let's crowdsource some answers to these five questions, one at a time. I welcome @Smartmatic CEO @antoniomugica to help us out, for transparency's sake:
1) Did the Venezuelan engineers of the Delaware-incorporated Smartmatic, including Mugica and Roger Piñate, create the software to help Hugo Chavez cheat his way out of the 2004 recall referendum? (1/5)
@smartmatic @antoniomugica 2) The following year, in 2005, did Smartmatic buy Sequoia (which controlled 22 percent of the US electoral market) and if so, where did it get the cash? (2/5)
@smartmatic @antoniomugica 3) Was Sequoia, with its Smartmatic software developed for Hugo Chavez, sold to Dominion in or about 2010 and involved with the Philippine elections that year?
President of Smartmatic is among four indicted today by federal grand jury for bribery and fraud related to electronic voting systems.
DOJ names Roger Alejandro Piñate Martinez in the news release, but does not identify him as president of Smartmatic. justice.gov/opa/pr/four-me…
Smartmatic says its Presdident Piñate "played a critical role in planning and executing the world’s largest election using optical scanners (in the Philippines) and in Smartmatic winning the largest election contract in US history (in Los Angeles)." smartmatic.com/us/team-member…
Smartmatic President Piñate, indicted today for bribery and fraud, "co-founded Smartmatic with two partners. In the 20 years since he has been responsible for carrying out successful projects in the USA, Latin America, Europe and Asia," the company says. smartmatic.com/us/team-member…