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Men vid den tiden berodde det låga valdeltagandet nog på att USA låg i krig med bl.a. både Tyskland och Japan...
- Frågan blir förstås om årets låga amerikanska siffror beror på att USA numera krigar på halvfart i 7-8 exotiska länder, samt fullskaliga krig mot både droger och terror?
- Eller har kanske en del amerikaner börjat inse att den politiska klassen arbetar åt banker, oligarker och militärindustrin..?
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2014 Election Saw Lowest Voter Participation Rate in 72 Years
All Gov 2014-11-11
Last week’s election was largely decided by one of the smallest turnouts of eligible voters in modern U.S. history, which gave more weight to conservatives who were energized to vote.
Only 37% of those eligible to vote did on November 4, according to the Associated Press.
That was the lowest mark since 1942, when only 34% went to the polls. In 2010, the last midterm election, 41% of eligible voters cast ballots.
The low turnout 72 years ago was understandable: the nation was at war with Germany and Japan. The dearth of voters this time was an indication of how unmotivated Democrats were to go out and support their party, despite frantic efforts by the party to convince them otherwise.
Republicans trounced Democrats in state after state where there were tough fights for U.S. Senate seats. They even scored unexpected victories in “blue” states where incumbent Democrats weren’t supposed to be in danger, winning governors’ mansions in Maryland and Massachusetts.
The AP’s Steve Peoples and Jennifer Agiesta wrote that the GOP victories “may have as much to do with the dynamics of a low-turnout midterm election as widespread dissatisfaction with President Barack Obama’s leadership.”
“This year’s electorate was largely older, whiter and more male than is often the case in presidential years. Republican pollsters knew the GOP would benefit from a smaller and less diverse electorate, but didn’t predict the extent to which some Democratic allies would stay home on Election Day,” Peoples and Agiesta reported.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
To Learn More:
GOP Seizes on Anger, Demographics for Success (by Steve Peoples and Jennifer Agiesta, Associated Press)
National General Election VEP Turnout Rates, 1789-Present (United States Elections Project)
Report Shows Voter ID Laws Cut Participation in 2012 Election in Kansas and Tennessee (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)
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SR 2014-11-16 https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=83&artikel=6019704
*SR/PRAVDA Rapporterade givetvis inte så gärna om det låga valdeltagandet...
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David Icke: Genom att rösta i dagens fullkomligt riggade politiska höger-vänster-teater så ger man ett korrupt och krigshetsande system en trovärdighet det inte förtjänar...
*SR/PRAVDA Rapporterade givetvis inte så gärna om det låga valdeltagandet...
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Message to the Voting Cattle - Larken Rose
David Icke: - Din röst ger nuvarande korrupta och riggade politiska system trovärdighet
Lägsta valdeltagandet på 72 år i USA:s "midterm election" och ett meddelande till valboskapen
'Journalism is printing what someone else does NOT want printed: - Everything else is public relations.'
-Sentencing UK hackers to life in prison is measure against whistleblowers – activists-
SvaraRaderaInternet users who ‘threaten’ national security, by causing economic or environmental damage, could face a life sentence under new government plans to crack down on internet crime. Campaigners say the move will target whistleblowers.
The government proposal claims the laws are needed to deal with “catastrophic” cyber-attacks that “result in loss of life, serious illness and injury, or serious damage to national security, or a significant risk thereof.”
Proposals would update the existing Computer Misuse Act 1990, and would give judges the power to hand down harsher penalties on hackers. The laws would also incorporate internet users spying on the activities of UK businesses.
“Serious and organized crime blights lives and causes misery across the UK. It is a threat to our national security and costs hard-working taxpayers at least £24bn a year,” a Home Office spokesperson said.
“Through this bill we will ensure that in the event of such a serious attack those responsible would face the justice they deserve.”[...]
http://rt.com/uk/198668-uk-cyber-security-prison/
Revealed: FBI attempted to drive MLK to suicide
SvaraRaderaNovember 13, 2014
The publication this week of a 1964 letter sent by the FBI to Martin Luther King in which he’s urged to commit suicide reveals never-before-seen details about the government’s campaign to sabotage the civil rights leader.
On Tuesday, Beverly Gage wrote for the New York Times about the history of the letter which, until then, had been largely shrouded in secrecy, as have other clandestine FBI operations that sought to discredit alleged opponents of the United States government under the helm of then director J Edgar Hoover through a covert campaign of disinformation, blackmail and harassment.
“When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received this letter, nearly 50 years ago, he quietly informed friends that someone wanted him to kill himself — and he thought he knew who that someone was.
Despite its half-baked prose, self-conscious amateurism and other attempts at misdirection, King was certain the letter had come from the FBI. Its infamous director, J. Edgar Hoover, made no secret of his desire to see King discredited. A little more than a decade later, the Senate’s Church Committee on intelligence overreach confirmed King’s suspicion,” Gage wrote.[...]
http://rt.com/usa/205323-mlk-letter-uncensored-suicide/