From : Catherine Austin Fitts

This weekend, mega defense contractor United Technologies (hotlink to http://www.utc.com/index.htm ) announced an offer (hotlink to http://www.utc.com/press/releases/2008-03-02.htm ) for Diebold (hotlink to prior links on the blog that mention Diebold and the Diebold entry at wikipeda) at a 66% premium to the current stock market price.

Leading this effort is the board of directors of United Technologies:

(Link to/put up list of pictures and bios from attached proxy.)

United Technologies board includes Jamie Gorelick, partner at WilmerHale, who was the former Deputy Attorney General from the Clinton Administration who played such a significant role in promoting prison privatization http://www.dunwalke.com/10_Clinton_Administration.htm ) and is a former member of the 911 Commission. Gorelick is a large contributor to Hillary Clinton http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_poli ... relick.php (http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donations/Jamie_Gorelick.php) . Her firm, WilmerHale is one of the largest backers of Clinton's campaign for President (link to blog post that lists top contributors for remaining primary candidates). Gorelick's name is often mentioned as a likely Attorney General in a Hillary Clinton Administration. In its February 2008 Proxy (hotlink to attached), United Technologies
described its lead investor as follows:

In a filing made with the SEC, State Street Bank & Trust Company, acting in various fiduciary capacities, reported that it held as of December 31, 2007 sole voting power with respect to 37,348,324 shares of UTC Common Stock, shared voting power with respect to 65,761,775 shares of UTC Common Stock, and shared dispositive power with respect to 103,110,099 shares of UTC Common Stock. State Street Bank & Trust Company serves as Trustee for UTC’s Employee Savings Plan and disclaims beneficial ownership of the reported shares.

Hence, it is hard to determine who exactly will control a significant % of the voting machines in during the upcoming Presidential election. Question is, what does an outstanding offer this weekend (putting a 66% premium over the market stock price in the pockets of the people who control Diebold (LINK TO THE DIEBOLD SITE) have to do with Tuesdays vote counting in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont?

Why I didn't sue United Technologies when I was nearly electrocuted! I was sick of all the litigation in society and it was 1985, it really and truly was gross negligence (they had the back of the machine covered by the time I came back from the hospital to pick up my stuff and car 4 hours later). I'm lucky to be alive with little permanent damage (though the past couple years I've taken to tingling all over my body, can't find a cause!). Its not the money I may have gained, its just the thought of being just a little tiny bit of a pain in the ass to that huge asshole of a corporation that had taken over the plant I worked for! Of course it caused a bit of a pain in my own ass as the two exit holes were on my left cheek (my ass literally saved my ass as I grounded on the conveyer belt behind me), and I got 2500 dollars for the loss of the pad of my right index finger (still trying to think of the crimes I can do with no fingerprint on one finger!) and theres supposedly a scar running through my body, but now with twenty twenty hindsight I think of all the people I could have helped and the stink I could have made...

Anyway nearly all my relatives live in Ohio, and had to deal with voting on those diebold machines...though my one cousin didn't vote as she had to wait way too long to use one of two machines in her democratic and racially mixed precinct, so now I think again, just kinda wish I'd sued...

Gotta give you credit auto, you're normally out front on the conspiracy angle, and hell you might even be right about this one. And considering this is the internet, being out front on conspiracies is a minor miracle.

Or else I'm 'out of touch' lol

Gotta give you credit auto, you're normally out front on the conspiracy angle, and hell you might even be right about this one. And considering this is the internet, being out front on conspiracies is a minor miracle.

Or else I'm 'out of touch' lol

Well thank you Kid. I'm now positively through the looking glass.

Check out my web page http://electionfraudnews.com - the Diebold article, by the author of the above, is priceless.

Can you imagine the desperation of some acquisition notice right before the primaries- AT 66% ABOVE MARKET VALUE (which is to day, nothing).

Strange daze!

Why I didn't sue United Technologies when I was nearly electrocuted! I was sick of all the litigation in society and it was 1985, it really and truly was gross negligence (they had the back of the machine covered by the time I came back from the hospital to pick up my stuff and car 4 hours later). I'm lucky to be alive with little permanent damage (though the past couple years I've taken to tingling all over my body, can't find a cause!). Its not the money I may have gained, its just the thought of being just a little tiny bit of a pain in the ass to that huge asshole of a corporation that had taken over the plant I worked for! Of course it caused a bit of a pain in my own ass as the two exit holes were on my left cheek (my ass literally saved my ass as I grounded on the conveyer belt behind me), and I got 2500 dollars for the loss of the pad of my right index finger (still trying to think of the crimes I can do with no fingerprint on one finger!) and theres supposedly a scar running through my body, but now with twenty twenty hindsight I think of all the people I could have helped and the stink I could have made...

Anyway nearly all my relatives live in Ohio, and had to deal with voting on those diebold machines...though my one cousin didn't vote as she had to wait way too long to use one of two machines in her democratic and racially mixed precinct, so now I think again, just kinda wish I'd sued...

I wish you had too! You deserve the damn money. Diebold was voted by Fortune Magazine as Worst High Tech company of 2003 (or 2002). What a recommendation!

So whats the buzz auto? Big Clinton cheating or what? I recall having a sandwich once called the Big Clinton, which in retrospect. is a little nauseating.

http://www.sentienttimes.com/05/dec_jan ... ns_win.htm (http://www.sentienttimes.com/05/dec_jan_05/corporations_win.htm)

A young professional couple from San Diego stated the weekend before the election, “we don’t think voting will make any difference so why bother?” Over 80 million eligible voters joined them by refusing to participate in the most recent election. While having been a voter for 35 years, I can’t fault them for their logic. November 2 gave us a choice between war and more war, corporate globalization and more corporate globalization; the continuation of gifting billions of dollars to Israel, the Patriot Act and an expanded Patriot Act; a police state and a seriously growing police state, media monopoly and even bigger media monopolies; and wealth inequality or an even greater wealth divide. With the only alternative to these issues being minor candidates without a snowball’s chance, for many voting seemed meaningless.

The issues where a choice was offered, abortion, Social Security, and medical care, were so under-covered by the corporate media that most voters still don’t understand the differences. Voting ended up being a faith-based decision embedded on visceral reactions to individuals instead of key societal issues.

The real winners November 2 are the military industrial complex, who will continue to feed at the 500 billion-dollar military trough and the corporate media, whose coffers were filled with billions of dollars for campaign ads.

And can we be sure we actually had a fair election among those who did vote? Election Systems & Software (ES&S), Diebold, and Sequoia are the companies primarily involved in implementing the new voting stations throughout the country. All three have strong ties to the Bush Administration. The largest investors in ES&S, Sequoia, and Diebold are government defense contractors Northrup-Grumman, Lockheed-Martin, Electronic Data Systems (EDS) and Accenture. Diebold hired Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of San Diego to develop the software security in their voting machines. A majority of officials on SAIC’s board are former members of either the Pentagon or the CIA including:
• Army Gen. Wayne Downing, formerly on the National Security Council.
• Bobby Ray Inman; former CIA Director .
• Retired Adm. William Owens, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
• Robert Gates, another former director of the CIA.

So we have a CIA/military private firm that programmed the security in the voting machines for companies owned by some of the largest military contracts in the country. No wonder the Co-founder of the Citizens Alliance for Secure Elections, Susan Truitt said November 3: “Seven counties in Ohio have electronic voting machines and none of them have paper trails. That alone raises issues of accuracy and integrity as to how we can verify the count. A recount without a paper trail is meaningless; you just get a regurgitation of the data. Last year, Blackwell tried to get the entire state to buy new machines without a paper trail. The exit polls, virtually the only check we have against tampering with a vote without a paper trail, had shown Kerry with a lead ... A poll worker told me this morning that there were no tapes of the results posted on some machines; on other machines the posted count was zero, which obviously shouldn’t be the case.”

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http://www.sentienttimes.com/05/dec_jan_05/corporations_win.htm

A young professional couple from San Diego stated the weekend before the election, “we don’t think voting will make any difference so why bother?” Over 80 million eligible voters joined them by refusing to participate in the most recent election. While having been a voter for 35 years, I can’t fault them for their logic. November 2 gave us a choice between war and more war, corporate globalization and more corporate globalization; the continuation of gifting billions of dollars to Israel, the Patriot Act and an expanded Patriot Act; a police state and a seriously growing police state, media monopoly and even bigger media monopolies; and wealth inequality or an even greater wealth divide. With the only alternative to these issues being minor candidates without a snowball’s chance, for many voting seemed meaningless.

The issues where a choice was offered, abortion, Social Security, and medical care, were so under-covered by the corporate media that most voters still don’t understand the differences. Voting ended up being a faith-based decision embedded on visceral reactions to individuals instead of key societal issues.

The real winners November 2 are the military industrial complex, who will continue to feed at the 500 billion-dollar military trough and the corporate media, whose coffers were filled with billions of dollars for campaign ads.

And can we be sure we actually had a fair election among those who did vote? Election Systems & Software (ES&S), Diebold, and Sequoia are the companies primarily involved in implementing the new voting stations throughout the country. All three have strong ties to the Bush Administration. The largest investors in ES&S, Sequoia, and Diebold are government defense contractors Northrup-Grumman, Lockheed-Martin, Electronic Data Systems (EDS) and Accenture. Diebold hired Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of San Diego to develop the software security in their voting machines. A majority of officials on SAIC’s board are former members of either the Pentagon or the CIA including:
• Army Gen. Wayne Downing, formerly on the National Security Council.
• Bobby Ray Inman; former CIA Director .
• Retired Adm. William Owens, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
• Robert Gates, another former director of the CIA.

So we have a CIA/military private firm that programmed the security in the voting machines for companies owned by some of the largest military contracts in the country. No wonder the Co-founder of the Citizens Alliance for Secure Elections, Susan Truitt said November 3: “Seven counties in Ohio have electronic voting machines and none of them have paper trails. That alone raises issues of accuracy and integrity as to how we can verify the count. A recount without a paper trail is meaningless; you just get a regurgitation of the data. Last year, Blackwell tried to get the entire state to buy new machines without a paper trail. The exit polls, virtually the only check we have against tampering with a vote without a paper trail, had shown Kerry with a lead ... A poll worker told me this morning that there were no tapes of the results posted on some machines; on other machines the posted count was zero, which obviously shouldn’t be the case.”

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Hey, you're on my "buddy list;)" I'm very interested in that block of voters. I think they've got the right critique. In fact, I think they'll soon be a very angry and active segment of the society. How can you argue with "why bother voting, they're all a bunch of crooks." But I do and I vote. Nevertheless, I don't deny their argument and position.

The question is, how to "turn" the argument they've already correctly deduced into a "sale" for a systematic understanding of actions necessary to fight back.

I'm really tired of paying the huge sums each month for health insurance simply because I'm self employed. There are tens of millions out there like me. Fine the cross over between those people and the "why bother" people and you've got some serious potential.

Thanks for the article. I'll use it!

So whats the buzz auto? Big Clinton cheating or what? I recall having a sandwich once called the Big Clinton, which in retrospect. is a little nauseating.

This is an interesting collection of viewpoints, particularly the piece by Katherine Austin Fitts on the Diebold acquisition. Thompsons article is comprehensive and excellent also. http://electionfraudnews.com (front page)


The buzz, unattributed of course - "audacious" - "bolder than Florida 2000" - "give me a fucking break" -
"I feel like taking a shower!" I'm most sympathetic to the last comment.

That's preliminary. I'm going to look at things and see of I can counter logic and the evidence before I make any rash statements other than the voting system sucks; it's a disgrace and a mockery of any type of real governance; and where the hell do our "rulers" get off letting defense contractors buy voting machine companies.

But have faith. The exit polls were used to call elections minutes after the polls closed;)

See my thread "Big City Vote Counting"

So, how is this to be interpreted? Ya got what might be described as a major Republican asset "switching sides", or is the defense establishment "switching sides" or are they bailing in expectation of trouble down the road and the Clinton camp so desperate for a redux that they'll grab the hot potato?

Don't know nothin' about the technical aspects but could they put the fix in so soon after acquisition to affect yesterdays dog&pony show?

I wish you had too! You deserve the damn money. Diebold was voted by Fortune Magazine as Worst High Tech company of 2003 (or 2002). What a recommendation!

Not sure how "deserving" I am, but if I had it now I would be able to help more!

Wasn't it the CEO of Diebold who promised Bush the 2004 election?

http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2007/02/20/GR2007022000447.jpg

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00447.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2007/02/20/GR2007022000447.html)