They must have spent 1000+ hours on this. It includes legal, statistical and forensic analysis.
They define 'fraud' as act by a person to intentionally vote illegally and by this definition there was little fraud.
However, they define 'unlawful' vote as an act by a person that contradicts statute and by this definition there was a lot of it.
Especially egregious was the absentee voting which by law is only allowed to people who are truly incapacitated, not who just don't feel like voting at the polls. There was probably over 100k like this (Biden's margin was about 20k). Not fraud because the people voting were eligible to vote.
Several bills have been passed by the Wisc legislature to fix these problems but the Gov (Dem) has vetoed them.
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So 100k voters did not follow the law, but would have been otherwise eligible.
So legally, their votes did not count. But there was no 'fraud'.
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their votes were counted because of emergency opinion of the att general. The opinion was issued in, I think, late summer 2020. Republicans didn't challenge until Nov 2020.
had they been required to vote in person many, probably most would have voted in person
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I think the report was 100k may have been dead voters.
[TIME] On a cold morning in November, the family of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, made the trip out to visit him at Penal Colony No. 2. The drive from Moscow took about two hours, though parts of it felt like traveling back in time. Coming off the highway from Russia’s high-tech capital, the roads became rutted. Apartment blocks gave way to wooden huts, and old ladies appeared near the roadside in heavy coats, selling vegetables from their gardens.
At the prison gates, Navalny’s wife and parents carried a few bags of groceries into a waiting room, where an ancient telephone allowed them to announce their visit to the guards. Before long, the inmate was led out to meet them. He looked skinny, his head shorn, a broad smile framed by a prison-issue hat. Ten months had passed since Navalny’s incarceration, and more than a year since he was nearly poisoned to death with a chemical weapon. Its effects on his nervous system no longer showed; his hands had stopped trembling. "He looked good," his wife Yulia Navalnaya later told me. "Unchanged."
It had been Navalny’s decision to be there. Not in this specific prison, with its silent guards and its windows papered over to create the feeling, Navalny says, of living inside a shoebox. But he did make a choice to return to Russia, fully aware of what the state would likely do to him. From his temporary exile, he decided almost exactly a year ago to submit to the custody of the regime that stood accused of trying to murder him. The poison had failed to kill Navalny. It hadn’t even really changed him.
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For decades we've talked about how scary a madman with nukes would be. Usually it's over the top rhetoric aimed at GOP Presidents but seriously, I would be scared of Biden if I were Putin.
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swksvolff, are you going to start 1? I haven''t been able to do my pouty face in awhile.
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Time specializes in comedy masquerading as news. Putin wants a bigger Russia. The man he fears is the one who would get in the way - Trump. In Syria, for the first time since Wilson sent the Polar Bears into Russia a century ago, Trump took out hundreds of Russian ground troops.
Trump understands the logic of nuclear deterrence. No nuclear power will launch a first strike against another nuclear power in response to conventional attack. The logic is simple - it might lose tens of millions, at worst, in a conventional war. A nuclear exchange means a hundred million dead and, in Russia's case, the annexation of Russia by China. The promise of American air support for Ukraine, much as the Russians provided it for North Korea in 1950, would seriously complicate Putin's plans.
[TIME] When I was a journalist for The Times (London) in Moscow in December 1992, I saw a print-out of a speech by the then Russian foreign minister, Andrei Kozyrev, warning that if the West continued to attack vital Russian interests and ignore Russian protests, there would one day be a dangerous backlash. A British journalist had scrawled on it a note to an American colleague, "Here are more of Kozyrev’s ravings."
Andrei Kozyrev was the most liberal and pro-Western foreign minister Russia has ever had. As he stated in his speech, his anxiety about Western behavior was rooted in fear that the resulting backlash would destroy liberalism in Russia and Russian co-operation with the West. He was proved right as we see today. Yet when he expressed this fear, in entirely moderate and rational terms, he was instinctively dismissed by western observers as virtually insane.
The point about this history is that the existing crisis with Russia has origins that go far beyond Putin. Russia has a foreign and security blob, just as does the United States, with a set of semi-permanent beliefs about Russian vital interests rooted in national history and culture, which are shared by large parts of the population. These include the exclusion of hostile military alliances from Russia’s neighborhood and the protection of the political position and cultural rights of Russian minorities.
The Yeltsin government protested strongly against the start of NATO expansion in the 1990s and Russia accustomed itself without too much trouble to NATO membership for the former Soviet satellites in Central Europe. But from the very beginning of NATO expansion in the mid-1990s, Russian officials and commentators—including liberal reformists—warned that an offer of NATO membership to Georgia and Ukraine would bring confrontation with the West and an acute danger of war. These warnings were echoed by George Kennan, the original architect of the strategy to contain the USSR and the State Department’s greatest ever Russia expert, as well as by Henry Kissinger and other leading American statesmen.
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Bush Sr should have pushed for a neutral alliance of all the ex-soviet block. Create a buffer between the paranoid Russians and the soft West Europeans.
Could have encouraged them to be quality UN peacekeepers with no/few international baggage issues.
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[KP] Just for fixing. The war in South Ossetia in 2008 began on the opening day of the Beijing Olympics - on the night of August 8th.
Today there is a feeling that the world is again on the verge of war. And on February 4, the Olympics begin again in the capital of China.
Deja vu?
Then, after all, all the power of Western propaganda also convinced that big clubfoot Russia attacked small proud Georgia. So, we spoiled the holiday of sports.
For a whole year, the EU special commission found out who unleashed the conflict in South Ossetia. The answer was unequivocal - Mikheil Saakashvili gave the order to fire "Grads" on the sleeping Tskhinval.
And Russia has already responded. And she answered, according to the EU Commission, "disproportionately tough."
That is, Moscow is still to blame, but at least it is not the aggressor.
And in February 2014, the Olympics were already spoiled by Russia. Against the backdrop of the Games in Sochi, the main topic was the news from the Kiev Maidan. Which again, we did not organize. On the contrary, they even tried to help Yanukovych overcome the crisis.
But it all ended in a massacre under the coordination of the US Embassy and the coming to power of Russophobes. Russia's answer is the departure of Crimea from all this national tent.
It is easy to imagine that this time too, Vladimir Zelensky, with a kick from Washington, will arrange a "war" in the Donbass. Well, the Olympics. Putin will fly to Beijing. How not to seize the moment?
Then it is worth reminding Zelensky that the enforcement of peace in Georgia in 2008 ended not only with the recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but also with the restoration of their territories within Soviet borders.
The DPR and LPR today occupy only a "stump" - 1/3 of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Mariupol, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Severodonetsk remained under the control of Kiev. Donbass is waiting for Ukraine to return these lands and cities.
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[REGNUM] The provisional government transferred the former monarch and his family from Tsarskoe Selo to Tobolsk, in May 1918 the Council of People's Commissars moved them to Yekaterinburg. Nikolai was afraid of this - he knew that the capital of the Urals was a workers' city and that the workers did not like it.
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The Japanese troops released from the Malaysian victory were rushed to the Philippines to finish off the Americans who were holding out on Bataan. The original Japanese forces had been ground down by the American resistance and didn't have the resources left to do the job.
More than 100 Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... fighters armed with heavy machine guns and vehicles rigged with explosives attacked the gates of Gweiran Prison in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh. The goal of the attack on Thursday was to free the inmates and to raise the morale of ISIS fighters and sympathizers in Syria and in Iraq.
This attack has turned into the fiercest battle between ISIS and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in years, and it involved sleeper cells, suicide holy warriors and riots inside the prison. According to Omar Abu-Layla, an executive director of the DeirEzzor24 research and analysis organization and a former Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... front man, the attack by ISIS cells and the riot within the prison were carefully planned and organized, and the time was chosen based on the weather conditions. In addition, some of the fighters disguised themselves by wearing SDF uniforms.
Gweiran Prison, the largest of about a dozen facilities run by the US-supported Syrian-Kurdish forces, holds a few thousand inmates, among them top ISIS commanders and other holy warrior figures. The fighting there continued for more than three days, with the Kurdish SDF forces fighting supported by US-led coalition Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on ISIS-held positions in Hasakeh. According to a tweet by SDF front man Farhad Shami, 17 Kurdish fighters were killed and 23 were maimed, along with dozens of ISIS fighters. It is unclear how many prison inmates were able to escape. Footage of a few dozen recaptured prisoners showed men dressed in prison uniforms under civilian clothes. ISIS flags and uniforms were discovered in the area where the battles between the ISIS button men and SDF fighters took place.
ISIS operatives grabbed credit for the Gweiran Prison break through its media outlet, Amaq, and announced that it was able to free 800 inmates. An SDF front man rejected this claim, saying that it was impossible for 800 people to leave the area without being seen and followed by SDF fighters. ISIS also took responsibility for an ambush on an Iraqi military post near Baghdad on Friday. Eleven Iraqi soldiers were killed in this incident. Since the attacks, Iraq has tightened security measures on its border with neighboring Syria and President Barham Salih tweeted, "The attempts to revive terrorism in the region cannot be underestimated."
Experts are now wondering whether the battle at the Gweiran Prison is an indication that the dangerous terrorist group, that was able to capture large swaths of land in Syria and Iraq in 2014, is in the process of rehabilitating and will soon pose a serious threat to both countries again.
Abu-Layla believes that, despite the many countries that claimed victory over and the eradication of ISIS, the organization is still strong In Syria and has many sleeper cells placed in the country. "We also must remember that Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... is working to push ISIS to the American-controlled region," Abu-Layla told The Media Line.
According to the SDF front man, in addition to Syrian citizens there also were some foreign nationals among the killed ISIS attackers. Thousands of foreign nationals, including women and kiddies, are held in SDF-controlled prison facilities, and Abu-Layla believes that this situation is a recipe for disaster.
"The issue of ISIS prisoners remains tough and difficult to contain. Also, the Kurdish administration relies on it as a political card to attain global support and establish an international court, which is a tactic that has not always been useful for the administration," he said.
Although the global coalition has provided the SDF with logistics and helicopters to guard the prisons, the shaky structure of the prisons still does not allow for the secure control of such a huge number of dangerous prisoners, he says. According to the expert, five attempted riots and prison breaks occurred during 2021. The current attack on Gweiran Prison was the worst, however.
"Six attempts in less than a year raise the question of the extent of the seriousness of the coalition and SDF to secure the prison well," Abu-Layla said.
"ISIS is a complicated body, serving many masters. It also serves as an excuse for many, such as the Syrian regime that used this card to justify its other actions," according to Assad Hanna, a former White Helmet activist, and currently an international affairs fellow at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
In addition, Hanna told The Media Line, "the local authorities in northeast Syria like PYD (the Kurdish left-wing Democratic Union Party) and SDF accuse all of their Arabic opposition of being ISIS. The reality is that the SDF is not capable of holding them (ISIS prisoners) there for a long time, and the countries where they were citizens should deal with them at a professional level. Holding them in that prison under an annual budget which may get cut at any time (meaning that the guards will no longer be there) is not going to work."
Prof. Uzi Rabi, director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies based in Tel Aviv, says that behind the headlines of the more recent ISIS-Kurdish festivities there are also long-term ethnic tensions between the Kurds and the Arabs in northeastern Syria.
"Many of the inmates are ISIS fighters. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... there are also many family members of Arab tribes who were arrested on suspicion of being ISIS sympathizers or anti-Kurdish elements. Also, ISIS cells maintain friendly cross-border ties with many Arab tribes in Syria and Iraq who share an anti-Kurdish agenda. The tension is enormous, and ISIS is gaining power. The situation is far from being similar to the pre-2016-2017 period, and still there any many places where it gets ammunition, intelligence and support. It seems to be enough to turn ISIS into an undeniable fact on the ground," Rabi told The Media Line.
Rabi believes that the situation in Iraq is actually worse than in Syria due to the existence of "Saddam soldiers" — Arab Sunni elements who enjoyed being in power during the Saddam Hussein-era and who are ready to fight against Shia rule in Iraq at any cost, along with ISIS or with anyone else.
Dr. Kamal Sido, a Middle East consultant at the international Society for Threatened Peoples headquartered in Germany, believes that in the absence of firm American support of the Kurds, there might be an increase in the number of Arab tribes in northeastern Syria that will support ISIS.
"They are looking at the stronger actor and trying to make the right choice. If the Americans will continue supporting the Kurds firmly, the Arabs will try to mend ties with the Kurds. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... if they will see a weak and undefined position, they might choose ISIS. I still hope that the Americans will support the Kurds in their fight against ISIS," Sido told The Media Line.
Rabi adds that since the annihilation of the self-proclaimed ISIS caliphate, the group has resorted to a different strategy, waging a guerilla war against the SDF, Syrian and Iraqi military forces, rather than trying to recapture lost territory. He warns, however, that given the weakness of Syria and Iraq, the "ISIS-stan" — ISIS is the Arabic name for ISIS — is thriving in the border area of both countries.
Abu-Layla warns of repeated prison breaks if foreign countries do not repatriate their citizens who fought with ISIS and the maintenance of the prisons does not improve. Many foreign leaders celebrated victory over ISIS a few years ago; however, as often happens, the destructive ideology is still alive, and in volatile northeastern Syria as well as the Sunni provinces of Iraq there is no absence of those who are willing to carry again the black flags of this deadly organization.
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[TIME] On a cold morning in November, the family of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, made the trip out to visit him at Penal Colony No. 2. The drive from Moscow took about two hours, though parts of it felt like traveling back in time. Coming off the highway from Russia’s high-tech capital, the roads became rutted. Apartment blocks gave way to wooden huts, and old ladies appeared near the roadside in heavy coats, selling vegetables from their gardens.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
