Obama Warned Of Rigged Elections Back In 2008: “It Helps We Got Democrats In Charge Of Machines”

Submitted by Daniel Pickert via MRCTV.org,
At a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton on Thursday in Miami Gardens, Fla., President Obama condemned Donald Trump’s ‘rigged election’ claims, describing these remarks as ‘dangerous.’
‘When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people’s minds about the legitimacy of our election, that undermines our democracy,’ he said. ‘When you suggest rigging or fraud without a shred of evidence, when last night at the debate, Trump becomes the first major party nominee in American history to suggest that he will not concede despite losing…that is not a joking matter,’ Obama added.
Trump said at the third presidential debate that he would keep the United States ‘in suspense’ as to whether he would accept the election results. Later, at a campaign rally, he promised in a jesting manner that he would acceptthe results ‘if I win’ as the crowd roared.
But despite condemning Trump for suggesting an election can be rigged, here is a clip of then-candidate Barack Obama in 2008 warning about voter fraud and suggesting Republicans could try to sway the election in their favor.
A female audience member asked… “I would just like to know what you can do to reassure us that this election will not be rigged or stolen?” Obama replies…

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Oct 22, 2016.

Kremlin Slams Demands For Assad’s Ouster As ISIS Kills Hundreds Of “Human Shields” In Mosul

While the recently unveiled Iraqi assault on Mosul (with US support) continues, in what some have speculated is an election stunt meant to liberate Mosul just ahead of the November 8 vote and provide a boost for the Hillary campaign, while others see even more ulterior motives, namely to “grant” ISIS fighters free passage out of Iraq and into Syria to fight Assad, there may be some complications. According to press reports citing Iraqi intelligence sources, today the Islamic State rounded up and killed 284 men and boys as Iraqi-led coalition forces closed in on Mosul, the terror group’s last major stronghold in Iraq.
Those killed Thursday and Friday were used as human shields against attacks forcing ISIS out of southern parts of Mosul, the source said. ISIS dumped the corpses in a mass grave at the defunct College of Agriculture in northern Mosul, the intelligence source said. The victims, including children, were all shot, said the source, who asked for anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media. CNN could not independently confirm the killings.
Separately, according to Reuters, roughly 1,000 people had been treated for breathing problems linked to toxic gases from a sulphur plant which ISIS militants are suspected to have set on fire near the city of Mosul. No deaths were reported in connection with the incident, said the sources at the hospital in Qayyara, a town south of Mosul.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Oct 22, 2016.

SOPA False Flag? Alleged ‘Hack’ on Netflix, Twitter, Amazon – US ready to blame Russia

Yesterday, a wave of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks hit some of the top online companies websites including Amazon, Netflix, Twitter and Reddit. One cannot rule out the very real possibility that this a staged-managed event, especially when you consider The New York Times was listed among those affected. If recent US media and political themes are anything to go by, you can expect a cascading chorus of blame directed at Russia.
In this age of America’s new and improved trial by media format, you can expect a litany of unfounded accusations, along with the usual anti-Russia hyperbole and waving fingers at Washington’s new go-to scapegoat – Russian president Vladimir Putin.
The likelihood of Russia or any other country being involved in this heavily coordinated DDoS incident falls flat, when you consider that the US media has been floating the ‘blame Russia’ meme for months now, and even more conveniently during this 2016 US presidential election cycle, led by Vice President Joe Biden, and of course, the Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, all blaming the Kremlin for both the DNC Leaks and the Wikileaks email dump.

This post was published at 21st Century Wire on OCTOBER 22, 2016.

Here’s The 30 Seconds After The Last Debate That CNN Would Rather You Didn’t See

Despite CNN’s embarrassingly aberrant claims that Hillary Clinton dominated the final debate…
And continued and constant propaganda-peddling that the race is over because Trump’s sexual assauly allegations are “sucking all the air out of the room” compared to Hillary’s stream of WikiLeaks facts.
CNN made the mistaike of asking its focus group of real Americans who won the final debate… and instantly regretted it…

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Oct 22, 2016.

An Establishment in Panic

Pressed by moderator Chris Wallace as to whether he would accept defeat should Hillary Clinton win the election, Donald Trump replied, ‘I will tell you at the time. I’ll keep you in suspense.’ ‘That’s horrifying,’ said Clinton, setting off a chain reaction on the post-debate panels with talking heads falling all over one another in purple-faced anger, outrage, and disbelief.
‘Disqualifying!’ was the cry on Clinton cable.
‘Trump Won’t Say If He Will Accept Election Results,’ wailed the New York Times. ‘Trump Won’t Vow to Honor Results,’ ran the banner in the Washington Post.
But what do these chattering classes and establishment bulletin boards think the Donald is going to do if he falls short of 270 electoral votes?
Lead a Coxey’s Army on Washington and burn it down as British Gen. Robert Ross did in August 1814, while ‘Little Jemmy’ Madison fled on horseback out the Brookeville Road?
What explains the hysteria of the establishment?
In a word, fear.

This post was published at Lew Rockwell on October 22, 2016.

Russia-WikiLeaks Conspiracy Theory: ‘Clinton claim ridiculous, based on lazy US Twitter culture’

21st Century Wire says…
As 21WIRE reported earlier, since this past summer Washington and its media surrogates have been seeding the news cycle with the talking point that Russia was responsible for the DC Leaks and WikiLeaks document dumps, and that Russia is somehow trying to ‘hack’ the US elections.
Here’s what the Clinton campaign claimed:
Once again, Russian propaganda network RT shows collusion w/ @wikileaks by promoting new email dump before even WL does.
– Glen Caplin (@GlenCaplin1) October 17, 2016

This post was published at 21st Century Wire on OCTOBER 22, 2016.

The Market Is a Democrat

This is a syndicated repost courtesy of The Daily Reckoning. To view original, click here. Reposted with permission.
‘Trump is still very much alive!’ counters one reader after yesterday’s controversial reckoning. David Stockman gave Trump last rites after Wednesday night’s debate. And so doing, raised howls of protest from the Daily Reckoning faithful…
‘Stockman needs to come out of his ivory tower and feel the emotion of most all working Americans,’ bristles one reader.
Another reader blasts David for either ‘exclusively watching mainstream media for his news updates (and believes them) or supporting the elites, the establishment, staying in control and continuing their agenda to ruin America and usher in their New World Order.’

This post was published at Wall Street Examiner by Brian Maher ‘ October 21, 2016.

NSA Whistleblower: US Intelligence Worker Likely Behind DNC Leaks, Not Russia

Submitted by Alice Salles via TheAntiMedia.org,
During the third and last presidential debate between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, debate moderator Chris Wallace pulled a quote from a speech Clinton had given to Brazilian bankers, noting the information had been made available to the public via WikiLeaks.
Instead of answering the question, Clinton blamed the Russian government for the leaks, alleging ‘[t]he Russian government has engaged in espionage against Americans,’ hacking ‘American websites, American accounts of private people, of institutions … in an effort, as 17 of our intelligence agencies have confirmed, to influence our election.’
Following the claim, Clinton criticized Trump for saying ‘[Clinton] has no idea whether it’s Russia, China, or anybody else,’ repeating her assertion that 17 U. S. intelligence agencies had determined the Russian government had been behind the Democratic National Committee (DNC) hack.
Despite her claim, reality couldn’t be more different.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Oct 22, 2016.

A Realist’s View Of The US Presidential Contest

Submitted by Eric Zuesse via Strategic-Culture.org,
Because the viewpoint expressed here will be a controversial one not frequently expressed or encountered, links are provided in order to enable the reader quickly to access the documentation wherever a particular allegation might seem to be dubious on the basis of false assertions that any particular reader might have read elsewhere; but, otherwise, the links that are provided here are intended to be simply ignored, especially because so many of the allegations here are highly contentious and therefore require providing ready access to the documentation (and because no reader should waste his time to read documentation at a linked item that the reader already believes to be true):
The rape-allegations that have been raised recently against Donald Trump, turned the US Presidential contest so drastically, that a Hillary Clinton victory now appears to be all but certain. Morning Consult headlined on October 18th, ‘Donald Trump Has a Growing Problem With Men’, and reported: ‘Before the first debate, Trump led his Democratic counterpart, Hillary Clinton, by 8 points among men in a Morning Consult survey of likely voters. After the second debate and nine women making sexual assault allegations against Trump, those numbers have nearly flipped: Clinton now leads Trump among men by 6 points.’

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Oct 21, 2016.

WikiLeaks Tweets “Heavily Armed Police” Outside Ecuadorian Embassy; Says Assange Is Still Alive

As pressure from the Obama administration mounts on the Ecuadorian government and Assange to halt the flow of Hillary’s emails, Wikileaks just posted the following tweet revealing heavily armed “police” outside of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Oct 21, 2016.

Wikileaks Releases Part 15 Of The Podesta Files, Bringing Total To 26,095 Emails

With just over 2 weeks to go until the election, today Wikileaks finally crossed the halfway point of its ongoing Podesta files dump when it unveiled Part 15, which included some 1,095 emails bringing the total to 26,095 total emails, or more than half of the 50,000 email set for release.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Oct 22, 2016.

AMERICAN HACKER STRIKES BACK AT RUSSIA: ‘I’M NOT GONNA SIT AROUND WATCHING THESE F***ERS LAUGHING AT US.’

A vigilante hacker gained access to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs website on Friday and defaced it after Russian forces allegedly attacked American targets.
The hacker calls himself ‘The Jester’ and has left a very clear message across MID.ru, the Ministry’s website: Do not attack Americans.
‘Comrades! We interrupt regular scheduled Russian Foreign Affairs Website programming to bring you the following important message,’ wrote The Jester. ‘Knock it off. You may be able to push around nations around you, but this is America. Nobody is impressed.’

This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on OCTOBER 22, 2016.

Rigged Elections Are An American Tradition – Paul Craig Roberts

Do Americans have a memory? I sometimes wonder.
It is an obvious fact that the oligarchic One Percent have anointed Hillary, despite her myriad problems to be President of the US. There are reports that her staff are already moving into their White House offices. This much confidence before the vote does suggest that the skids have been greased.
The current cause celebre against Trump is his conditional statement that he might not accept the election results if they appear to have been rigged. The presstitutes immediately jumped on him for ‘discrediting American democracy’ and for ‘breaking American tradition of accepting the people’s will.’
What nonsense! Stolen elections are the American tradition. Elections are stolen at every level – state, local, and federal. Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley’s theft of the Chicago and, thereby, Illinois vote for John F. Kennedy is legendary. The Republican US Supreme Court’s theft of the 2000 presidential election from Al Gore by preventing the Florida vote recount is another legendary example. The discrepancies between exit polls and the vote count of the secretly programmed electronic voting machines that have no paper trails are also legendary.

This post was published at Paul Craig Roberts on October 21, 2016.