For the most part you are right, regarding who makes up the Republican
Party. But out here in the back country there are a goodly number of
unemployed loggers and poorly paid "handymen" and odd jobbers who are
Trump supporters. The same fellows who blame the Spotted Owl for the
lack of logging jobs, are the same ones who hate "tree huggers" and
cast their lot with Donald Trump.
Environmentalists, Communists, Homosexuals and Coloreds are all tossed
into the same pot with the Arabs and the Jews. The boys sitting
around in the small town taverns don't discuss anything. They spit
tobacco and grope the girls and run off any Lilly Lards and Pansy's
who dare disagree with them. They are as much a product of our great
system as are the Donald Trumps.
I'm not saying that there are no decent folks out here, but the
countryside is crawling with those who have been cast off. And they
are really angry.
Carl Jarvis
On 2/4/20, miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't think that this happened because our leaders hobnobbed with
dictators. I think it happened because power corrupts. The Democratic Party
became frightened of having a President who might be too liberal in the
early 70's, and changed their convention rules. The plutocrats had been
organizing to undo the New Deal ever since it became law, and their plans
began bearing fruit in the 70's. And remember, they were all responding in
terror to the turn toward the left that so many young people made in the
60's as a result of the Vietnam War. The Christian Right began taking over
power in the base of the Republican Party and as more people of color gained>
political power, the white Southerners also gained a lot of influence in the
Republican Party. The Democratic Party became frightened when so many
Democrats voted for Reagan and it moved to the Right.
I think when you talk about the two parties, you have to differentiate
between the leadership of the Democratic Party and the base. The base is
diverse and includes poor and working class people, as well as wealthier,
and the ultra wealthy. It tends to be socially liberal. With the
Republicans, it's almost all white, some working class, lots of wealthy, and
extremely wealthy, and they're all socially conservative.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 7:10 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: [blind-democracy] Behind the app that delayed
Iowa’s voting results is a dark money operation funded by anti-Sanders
billionaires. Its top donor, Seth Klarman, is a Buttigieg backer who has
dumped money into pro-settler Israel lobby
One thing for certain, whatever happened was no accident.
Remember, the Democratic Party is the Left Head of a two-headed Monster.
The name of that monster is Establishment! And Establishment is pulling a
huge battle wagon called The American Empire.
If, in past elections, we had vague suspicions that our Great American
Election Process was showing signs of wear and tare, which we ignored and
hoped someone would make it right, now it can be no longer ignored or
excused. We have allowed our Leaders to hobnob with Evil and Violent
leaders of nations which have never known democracy, and we have watched our
leaders become as corrupted as the worst of the worst. Without a major
structural change, I doubt seriously that the USA can avoid becoming a
victim of a corrupt, Demagogue...a Donald Trump.
Carl Jarvis
On 2/4/20, miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Behind the app that delayed Iowa’s voting results is a dark money
operation funded by anti-Sanders billionaires. Its top donor, Seth
Klarman, is a Buttigieg backer who has dumped money into pro-settler
Israel lobby groups.
By Max Blumenthal
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.
The delay in the vote reporting denied a victory speech to Sen. Bernie
Sanders, the presumptive winner of the opening contest in the
Democratic presidential primary. Though not one exit poll indicated
that Buttigieg would have won, the South Bend, Indiana mayor took to
Twitter to confidently proclaim himself the victor.
Pete Buttigieg
✔
@PeteButtigieg
Iowa, you have shocked the nation.
By all indications, we are going on to New Hampshire victorious.
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The bizarre scenario was made possible by a mysterious voting app
whose origins had been kept secret by Democratic National Committee
officials. For hours, it was unclear who created the failed
technology, or how it wound up in the hands of Iowa party officials.
Though a dark money Democratic operation turned out to be the source
of the disastrous app, suspicion initially centered on former Hillary
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook and his Russiagate-related
elections integrity initiative.
Leveraging Russia hysteria into lucrative election opportunities While
Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Troy Price refused to say who was
behind the failed app, he told NPR that he “worked with the national
party’s cybersecurity team and Harvard University’s Defending Digital
Democracy project…” Price did not offer details on his collaboration
with the Harvard group, however.
The New York Times reported that this same outfit had teamed up with
Iowa Democrats to run a “drill of worst-case scenarios” and possible
foreign threats, but was also vague on details.
Robby Mook, the former campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s failed
2016 presidential campaign, was the co-founder of Defending Digital
Democracy.
His initiative arose out of the national freakout over Russian
meddling that he and his former boss helped stir when they blamed
their loss on Russian interference. Mook’s new outfit pledged to
“protect from hackers and propaganda attacks.”
He founded the organization with help from Matt Rhoades, a former
campaign manager for Republican Mitt Romney whose public relations
company was sued by a Silicon Valley investor after it branded him “an
agent of the Russian government” and “a friend of Russian President,
Vladimir Putin.” Rhoades’
firm had been contracted by a business rival to destroy the investor’s
reputation.
As outrage grew over the delay in Iowa caucus results, Mook publicly
denied any role in designing the notorious app.
Franklin Leonard
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@franklinleonard
· 16h
You know it’s bad when...
https://twitter.com/robbymook/status/1224555538790395904 …
Robby Mook
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@RobbyMook
Sorry, folks. I did NOT have anythjng to do with building the Iowa
caucus app. I dont know anything about it, had no role in it, and dont
own a company that makes mobile appa. Please contact @iowademocrats
with questions about it.
Franklin Leonard
✔
@franklinleonard
.@RobbyMook, you may not have built the app, but the @nytimes is
reporting that you were involved in stress testing it.
Any comment?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/us/politics/iowa-caucuses-hacking-s
ecurity.html
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Hours later, journalist Lee Fang reported that a previously unknown
tech outfit called Shadow Inc. had contracted with the Iowa Democratic
Party to create the failed technology. The firm was comprised of
former staffers for Obama, Clinton and the tech industry, and had been
paid for “software rights” by the Buttigieg campaign.
FEC filings show the Iowa Democratic party and Buttigieg campaign paid
Shadow Inc.
An Israel lobby moneyman’s path to Mayor Pete’s wine cave Shadow Inc.
was launched by a major Democratic dark money nonprofit called
Acronym, which also gave birth to a $7.7 million Super PAC known as
Pacronym.
According to Sludge, Pacronym’s largest donor is Seth Klarman. A
billionaire hedge funder, Klarman also happens to be a top donor to
Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar.
Though he has attracted some attention for his role in the campaign,
Klarman’s prolific funding of the pro-settler Israel lobby and
Islamophobic initiatives has gone almost entirely unmentioned.
Seth Klarman is the founder of the Boston-based Baupost Group hedge
fund and a longtime donor to corporate Republican candidates. After
Donald Trump called for forgiving Puerto Rico’s debt, Klarman – the
owner of $911 million of the island’s bonds – flipped and began funding
Trump’s opponents.
The billionaire’s crusade against Trump ultimately led him to Mayor
Pete’s wine cave.
By the end of 2019, Klarman had donated $5600 to Buttigieg and pumped
money into the campaigns of Amy Klobuchar, Cory Booker and Kamala Harris
as well.
The billionaire’s support centrist candidates appears to be not only
by his own financial interests, but by his deep and abiding
ideological commitment to Israel and its expansionist project.
As I reported for Mondoweiss, Klarman has been a top funder for major
Israel lobby outfits, including those that support the expansion of
illegal settlements and Islamophobic initiatives.
Klarman was the principal funder of The Israel Project, the recently
disbanded Israeli government-linked propaganda organization that
lobbied against the Iran nuclear deal and backed the Israeli settlement
enterprise.
Klarman has heaped hundreds of thousands of dollars on the Middle East
Media Research Institute (MEMRI) and the American Jewish Committee.
And he funded The David Project, which was established to suppress
Palestine solidarity organizing on campuses across the US and battled
to block the establishment of a Muslim community center in Boston.
Through his support for the Friends of Ir David Inc, Klarman directly
involved himself in the Israeli settlement enterprise, assisting the
US-based tax exempt arm of the organization that oversaw a wave of
Palestinian expulsions in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of
Silwan.
Other pro-Israel groups reaping the benefits of Klarman’s generosity
include Birthright Israel, the AIPAC-founded Washington Institute for
Near East Policy, and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
(FDD), a neoconservative think tank that helped devise Trump’s “maximum
pressure”
campaign of economic warfare on Iran.
Klarman is the owner of the Times of Israel, an Israeli media outlet
that once published a call for Palestinian genocide. (The op-ed was
ultimately removed following public backlash).
In recent weeks, Buttigieg has sought to distinguish himself from
Sanders on the issue of Israel-Palestine. During a testy exchange this
January with a self-proclaimed Jewish supporter of Palestinian human
rights, the South Bend mayor backtracked on a previous pledge to
withhold military aid to Israel if it annexed parts of the West Bank.
IfNotNow🔥
@IfNotNowOrg
NEW: The day after Trump unveiled his plan green-lighting Israeli
annexation and Netanyahu’s announcement of a cabinet vote on
annexation this Tuesday, @PeteButtigieg backtracked on his repeated
promise that the "U.S. will not foot the bill for annexation."
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Another recipient of Klarman’s funding, Amy Klobuchar, has taken a
strongly pro-Israel line, vowing to support Trump’s relocation of the
US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Back home in the US, Klarman has contributed heavily to funding the
CIA Memorial Foundation. He is listed alongside former CIA Director
George Tenet as a top individual contributor to the group.
As The Grayzone reported, Klarman’s support for Buttigieg has been
complimented by a surprisingly long roster of former high-ranking CIA
officials, regime-change architects, and global financiers.
Battling Bernie with hedge fund money and sexism claims Like Klarman,
Donald Sussman is a hedge funder who has channeled his fortune into
Pacronym. He has given $1 million to the Super PAC and was also top
donor to Clinton in 2016.
Sussman’s Paloma Partners operates through a series of offshore shell
companies, and received tens of millions of dollars in the 2009
federal bailout of the banking industry.
His daughter, Democratic operative Emily Tisch Sussman, declared on
MSNBC in September that “if you still support Sanders over Warren,
it’s kind of showing your sexism.”
Ibrahim
@ibrahimpols
MSNBC pundit says if you support Bernie Sanders over Elizabeth Warren
it’s “showing your sexism.”
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As Democratic elites like the Sussmans braced for a Bernie Sanders
triumph in Iowa, a mysterious piece of technology spun out by a group
they supported delayed the vote results, preventing Sanders from
delivering a victory speech. And the politician many of them
supported, Pete Buttigieg, exploited the moment to declare himself the
winner. In such a strange scenario, the conspiracy theories write
themselves.
Max Blumenthal
Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of
several books, including best-selling Republican Gomorrah, Goliath,
The Fifty One Day War, and The Management of Savagery. He has produced
print articles for an array of publications, many video reports, and
several documentaries, including Killing Gaza. Blumenthal founded The
Grayzone in 2015 to shine a journalistic light on America’s state of
perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions.
