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dewaldd Donating Member (185 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 09:14 AM
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Online Journal: Saudis, Enron money paid for US rigged election
We'll have to see it this gets substantiated...

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/112504Madsen/112504madsen.html

Special Report

Saudis, Enron money helped pay for US rigged election

By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer


November 25, 2004—According to informed sources in Washington and Houston, the Bush campaign spent some $29 million to pay polling place operatives around the country to rig the election for Bush. The operatives were posing as Homeland Security and FBI agents but were actually technicians familiar with Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S, Triad, Unilect, and Danaher Controls voting machines. These technicians reportedly hacked the systems to skew the results in favor of Bush.

The leak about the money and the rigged election apparently came from technicians who were promised to be paid a certain amount for their work but the Bush campaign interlocutors reneged and some of the technicians are revealing the nature of the vote rigging program.

There have been media reports from around the country concerning the locking down of precincts while votes were being tallied. In one unprecedented action in Warren County, Ohio, election officials locked down the facility where votes were being counted. The officials said this was in response to a Level 10 high-threat terrorist warning being issued by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI for Warren County. George Bush won 72 percent of the vote in Warren County, much larger than his percentage of victory statewide.

The money to rig the election in favor of Bush reportedly came from an entity called Five Star Trust, largely based in Houston but a worldwide entity that is directly tied to the Saudi Royal Family. Five Star Trust was termed "a well-protected vehicle" that has been used to support both Bush and Osama bin Laden in the US and around the world.

......read more (gets a bit rambling about connections) http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/112504Madsen/112504madsen.html
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 09:19 AM
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1. we need a smoking gun if it's gonna stick n/t
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 09:24 AM
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2. Smoking gun? These right-wingers could see their man pull the
trigger and they would bandy around him to protect him.

Did the National Guard get reprimanded when they shot Kent state students? No, in fact word is that Nixon made sure they wouldn't face responsibility.

Did Tom Delay face responsibility for behavior that warranted indictment? No, his right-wing butt-boys rallied around him for one iron-cast prayer meeting.

Why can't you all see why minorities in this country are fuming at the inequalities.
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blue sky at night Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 09:37 AM
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4. sad but true.......we are a minority
Liberal Democrats. you are so right, reselected could murder someone on National TV and they would deny it. BTW, kent state pretty much ruined my life, after that I was never the same, never the same still.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 10:48 AM
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9. You, the Vietnam vets who tried to show the mistakes of Vietnam
Robert Kennedy, John Kennedy, Martin Luther King. They are afraid of what you have to offer.

My father, who is an old Liberal is accepting that we lost this election. I could tell it in his voice this morning when we talked to wish each other a Happy Thanksgiving. I tried to tell him about Bev and all the other things that are happening, but where he eagerly awaited news, this morning, his tone appeared resigned. When he spoked he said, "The problem is that the Dems won't fight dirty" ... and thus, they can't keep up with the Republican's dirty tricks.

As some DUers pointed out, Kerry may not be the kind to play dirty, but at this day in age, any Dem who is not expecting to be broadsided by Republican dirty tricks is too naive to run for office.
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 10:49 AM
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10. Tom DeLay will probably be indicted that is why is fellow
repukes changed the house ethic rules so that he can keep his leadership role while facing the indictment.
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EMunster Donating Member (477 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 09:31 AM
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3. Author: Wayne Madsen
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-27-04 07:02 PM
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12. Hi EMunster!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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liquiduniverse Donating Member (61 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 09:42 AM
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5. Even if this story is true ...
what kind of evidence would there be to substantiate it? My guess is very little.
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Digit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 09:54 AM
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6. Dupe
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Blaze Diem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 10:16 AM
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8. Excellant Link But this story NEEDS to be given a Watchful Eye.
Maybe a "dupe" but please let this post also be availible for discussion.
Both are worth a space on the DU Boards.
Please keep this story alive.
The more viewable, the better for our America.

tks for the link.
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Blaze Diem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 10:08 AM
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7. Saudi Royal involvement in our Govt process comes as no suprise..
Edited on Thu Nov-25-04 10:10 AM by Blaze Diem
Bush's have been long time pals and when you couple the Saudi money with evil fascist minds of the Bush mofia family, world oil domination by the two is only a few maneuvers away from reality.

Here in DU we have known about the family ties and the destruction they bring to societies world wide, as well as their ultimate goal for some time.
From 9-11, BCCI bank, rigged elections and the Iraqi occupation is all part of the Saudi/Bush "means to an end".

This occupation of the White House, through the aid of Saudi money and manipulations by the Bush friends and family have been known by many, but it is great to finally begin to see it appearing in somewhat mainstream press...
We need to, once again, by use of our power and determination, send this out to all we can, immedialely.
K Olberman...etc.
THIS STORY NEEDS TO BE GIVEN FAST FEET AND WINGS!!

Its up to us. We've been successful at this sort of thing before, in a big way too.
Time to prepare the EMail lists again...

May God Bless The Poor Stupid Half of This Nation That Looks The Other Way.

Thanks
Blaze
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jamboi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-27-04 08:07 AM
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11. NEW STRATEGIZING THREAD FOR US TO COORDINATE ALL THIS WORK
NEW STRATEGIZING THREAD FOR US TO COORDINATE ALL THIS WORK

For those of us who want to help connect the dots in Madsen's hypotheses there is a new strategizing thread located below to follow up on all the good work that Eloriel and so many others are doing:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=201&topic_id=5684
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Tellurian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 03:46 PM
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13. kick~
nt
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