Smartmatic: 60 Self-reported, Self-selected elections since 2010 (local, province/state, national, EU Parliament) plus voter registration and voter authetication services; plus unspecified elections in four more countries (Colombia, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras) Note that Smartmatic machines are sometimes noted to be internet accessible. Source: Smartmatic website (11/15/2020): case studies and executive profiles (election involvement with no […]
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Drugs, Diamonds, Minerals, People: Smugging Through Open Borders Is the Life Blood of Rebellions
Here is a table (one of many) from an interesting retrospective dataset on how insurgencies are financed. The really successful insurgencies have a good economic base. This list is obviously incomplete but is a good sampling. The line between organzied crime and rebellion is also very thin. The closer a group is to the wealthy […]
Continue readingLibyan News: What Happens in Libya Stays in Europe
Libya has proven to be important. However fun it was to destroy a prosperous and peaceful society in North Africa, there have been real consequences for the foolish Europeans. One handy source of Libyan news I like, maybe weekly, is the free Libya-Business News: http://www.libya-businessnews.com/ Here is a selection of today’s Libya news: ===== Human […]
Continue readingNew South African President Wants To Seize Land From White Farmers Without Compensation
This article is not very good but it is better than silence. It fails to mention that thousands of murders of White farrmers and Blacks in Zimbabwe were murdered during the catastrophic “land reform” there, and it says at one point that a majority of land in South Africa is owned by Whites, and then […]
Continue readingNew York Times Sneers At Microaggressions
Microaggressions are the tiniest of racial slurs, so tiny that they are generally invisible to the casual or even hyper-sensitive observer, since they are also subjective. The New York Times, of course, rides the waves of microaggressions to find new racisms and racists every day, in every way, and especially in the daily race denunciations […]
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