Obama is a cloned egyptian demigod here to destroy the entire world for the reptilian aliens! I know this from all the clues the conspirators left around to inform everyone of exactly what their secret plan is, and if you don't agree with me you are part of the conspiracy!

The original article in this thread is written by Jonathan Alter. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR.) Proof: CFR's own website: click here for link (Surprised? Jason Voorhees, were you aware of this when you posted it?) If you really wanted to make a case of Republican-dominated voter suppression, you should use an article that actually discusses electronic vote-rigging, and it should be written by an author who is NOT a member of the Council on Foreign Relations or any other globalist secret society. Like this one, for example: click here for link

lol. so is brian williams and angelina jolie. for a "globalist secret society" they sure have a pretty huge public footprint. and oh yeah, the website: click here for link


but he is also secretly george costanza. shhhhhhhhhhhh!



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Jonathan Alter

Jonathan Alter (born October 6, 1957) is an American journalist and author who was a columnist and senior editor for Newsweek magazine from 1983 until 2011. He is currently a lead columnist for Bloomberg View, a new commentary website. He is also a contributing correspondent to NBC News, where since 1996 he has appeared on NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC. When the shows were on the air, he could often be heard on Imus in the Morning and The Al Franken Show on Air America Radio. He is the author of The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, a national bestseller published by Simon & Schuster in 2006, and Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People and Culture, a collection of twenty years' worth of his columns published by Borders Books. His 2010 book is The Promise: President Obama, Year One, published by Simon & Schuster, a behind-the-scenes look at Obama's eventful debut. The Promise was a New York Times Best Seller reaching #3 on the list at its peak.

Life and career

Alter is a Chicago native. He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1975 and Harvard University in 1979.

For a decade in the 1980s, Alter was Newsweek's media critic, where he was among the first in the mainstream media to break tradition and hold other news organizations accountable for their coverage, a precursor to the role later played by blogs. When Newsweek launched his wide-ranging column in 1991, it was the first time the magazine allowed regular political commentary in the magazine, other than on the back page.

Alter was a fierce critic of President George W. Bush, emphasizing what he considered Bush's lack of accountability and his position on embryonic stem cell research. Alter, a cancer survivor, has written about his own bout with lymphoma and experience with an autologous adult stem cell transplant. On NBC's Today Show, Alter was the correspondent for several stories about the effect of the Iraq War on returning veterans. 'The Defining Moment' surprised some critics with its analysis which concluded that the United States had come very close to dictatorship before Franklin D. Roosevelt became president, painting him as the savior of American democracy and capitalism. During an interview with 60 Minutes on November 14, 2008, then-President-elect Barack Obama said he had recently been reading The Defining Moment and hoped to apply some of Roosevelt's strategies that were outlined in the book into his own administration.

In April 2011, Alter left Newsweek.

He lives in New Jersey with his wife Emily Lazar, a producer of the Comedy Central show The Colbert Report, and their three children.

Texas tests 1965 voting rights law in court

By Drew Singer

WASHINGTON | Sun Jul 8, 2012 9:46pm EDT

(Reuters) - The Voting Rights Act - a cherished safeguard for minority voters since 1965 - has been under siege for two years and this week faces one of its toughest tests on an apparent path to the U.S. Supreme Court.

After a weeklong trial, Courtroom 8 in the U.S. federal courthouse was packed by 9 a.m. Friday for final arguments in the high-stakes case.

On Friday morning, Judge Robert L. Wilkins looked out across the packed courtroom at the lawyer for Texas and suggested that the state’s voter ID law would force some people to travel more than 100 miles to get the documents required for a photo identification.

John Hughes, the state’s attorney, said Texans in rural areas are used to driving long distances. “People who want to vote already have an ID or can easily get it,” he said.

The exchange highlighted the key dispute in a historic case that played out in final arguments Friday before a three-judge panel in U.S. District Court in Washington. The issue is whether the 2011 law violates the federal Voting Rights Act by making it harder for minorities to cast ballots.

The stakes go far beyond Texas. For the Obama administration, the Texas law and similar legislation passed in other states threaten to disenfranchise millions of Latino and African American voters. But for supporters of the legislation, the requirements are common-sense solutions to voter fraud.

Formulated at a time of racial turmoil, the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965 with a 77-19 in the U.S. Senate and 333-85 in the House of Representatives. The votes transcended party lines to protect black voters of all political ideals.

Ever since, it has served as the U.S. government's chief check on the fairness of election rules imposed by local governments.

While it passed with bipartisan support more than 45 years ago, a shift in political preferences along racial lines has turned the landmark piece of civil rights era legislation into a highly charged political issue.

In the 1960s, Democrats held a monopoly of voters in the Southern states. But since then, most white Southern voters have shifted allegiances to the Republican Party, while black and Hispanic voters moved further toward the left.

That shift did not fully manifest itself until congressional redistricting last year, Nathaniel Persily, a professor at Columbia Law School, wrote in a to-be-released article in the Stanford Law & Policy Review. There have been more challenges to the Voting Rights Act in the past two years than in the previous 45 years combined. Among those challenges have been a redistricting case in Alabama and Florida's purging of voter lists of non-citizens earlier this year.

"We're seeing people who previously supported the act and what it stood for are now bringing challenges to it," said Ryan Haygood, director of the Political Participation Group at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

THIS WEEK'S TRIAL

In March, the Obama administration blocked a Texas law passed in 2011 requiring voters to present photo identification at the polls, saying it was unfair to minority voters. Texas sued the U.S. government, saying its measures were fair and the Justice Department had political motives in going after the law.

"I think it's a different Department of Justice than in the past," said Patricia Harless, a Republican who sponsored the voter ID law in the Texas House of Representatives.

Harless said the Texas law was very similar to Georgia's, which the Justice Department did not block. Indiana also has a law requiring voters to have a photo ID and that will be a factor in the court's consideration of the Texas law.

Because of the lawsuit, the U.S. district court in Washington, D.C., will host the first trial challenging the government's power to block a voter ID law since the Democratic Obama administration took office.

Under the blocked Texas measure, voters would be required to show photo identification such as a driver's license or passport in order to cut down on voter fraud.

Existing Texas law says voters have to show a voter registration card - which does not have a photo - or an acceptable alternative, such as a driver's license or a utility bill.

Texas says the new measure will prevent voter fraud. Testimony in committee hearings showed cases of dead people casting ballots for Obama, but estimates on the breadth of voter fraud differ dramatically.

The Justice Department counters that Hispanic voters are up to twice as likely to lack the required form of identification as their Caucasian counterparts. For them, getting a photo ID could be a headache.

Haygood represents a group of black students who want to vote in Texas but were born in other states. The new law allows handgun licenses to serve as voter identification but not student IDs.

Some of the students do not have birth certificates, and under the new law, must contact their home counties and pay for one if they want to vote, Haygood said.

Two of the three judges on the panel were appointed by Democratic presidents so it might seem unlikely the court would overturn the Obama administration.

The Texas voter ID dispute is one of dozens of challenges to the Voting Rights Act aimed not just at defending voting changes but also at getting the Supreme Court to strike down the law for good, Persily said.

The Supreme Court last considered the Voting Rights Act in 2009 in upholding Indiana law but narrowly tailored its judgment to delay ruling on the constitutionality of the entire law.

The new wave of disputes that emerged from the 2011 redistricting cycle likely will force the court to take more definitive action as soon as this spring.

The Voting Rights Act places the burden on Texas to prove that the laws do not leave minority voters in a more difficult position to vote than they were in before the new law.

AN IMPOSSIBLE POSITION

Today, party lines in the South often mirror racial lines, Persily said. Southern whites tend to support Republicans and most minorities favor Democrats.

Record minority turnouts in the 2008 presidential election have helped to make the issue a partisan one.

"Actions and interpretations that previously would not have raised partisan eyebrows are now seen as outrages," Persily wrote.

Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act allows the federal government to block voting rules changes in certain Southern states with a particularly heavy history of racial repression.

No matter how aggressively the Justice Department invokes that section, at least one side of today's political spectrum will be unhappy. Enforce it often and face Republican accusations of overreaching into the states' sovereignty; Enforce it rarely and face Democratic accusations of shirking minority protections; Enforce it selectively and, ironically, face accusations of playing politics.

"The Voting Rights Act wasn't designed to be enmeshed in partisan politics," Persily told Reuters, "And that's what is happening now."

Texas has a history of voter discrimination, so the law signed last year by its Republican governor, Rick Perry, had to be cleared by the Justice Department. The department blocked the law, saying it would disproportionately affect Latino voters. Texas sued the department, leading to the week-long trial that ended Friday.

Much of the debate over the law has focused on the issue of exactly who would be affected by it. The burden is on Texas to convince the panel that the voter ID law is not discriminatory, and on Friday, Hughes, the state’s attorney, argued that there is no evidence, statistical or otherwise, that it is.

That argument, however, was received skeptically by one of the jurists, David S. Tatel, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

“The record tells us there is a subset of registered voters who lack ID,” said Tatel, who was appointed in 1994 by President Bill Clinton. “We have to think about the economic burden and the fact that minorities are disproportionately poor.”

Tatel added that the record showed that minorities in Texas are more likely than whites not to have cars and to live up to 120 miles away from the closest place to get voter ID documents.

Under the Texas law, the minimum cost to obtain a voter ID for a state resident without a copy of his birth certificate would be $22, according to the Justice Department. While the “election identification certificate” needed to vote is free, the state legislature voted down a proposal to allow people to get the documents needed for the voter ID for free.

Pennsylvania voter ID law case draws to a close

By Leigh Ann Caldwell

Campaign 2012

(CBS News) Closing arguments got underway Thursday in a lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania's new photo voter identification law. The outcome could determine if voters are required to present a photo ID at the voting booth on Election Day in November.

After Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett signed the measure into law in March, voter advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP, quickly challenged it. They said the law will deter elderly and minority voters, who are less likely to have photo identification, from voting. These groups tend to vote Democratic. Proponents say the law will prevent voter fraud.

The week-long case included testimony from Lorraine Minnite, a Rutgers University expert on voter fraud, who said such fraud was "exceedingly rare."

"I'm just not persuaded in the absence of evidence it exists," she said.

Before the trial began, the Pennsylvania Secretary of State said that more than 758,000 people, or 9 percent of Pennsylvania voters, lack a driver's license or state-issued ID. Matt Barreto, a political scientist from the University of Washington, testified that his analysis reveals that 1.3 million eligible Pennsylvania voters lack such ID.

Secretary of State Carol Aichele admitted during her testimony that she didn't really know exactly how the law worked or how many voters would be impacted.

Kurt Myers, deputy secretary of the Pennsylvania Transportation Department, said the agency has not increased staff or supplies to accommodate additional people seeking an ID. He also said many people are unable to complete the process because the lack the proper documents, according to a synopsis of his testimony provided to CBS News by the Advancement Project, one of the plaintiffs in the case.

"The information is just not getting out quick enough" to inform voters of the new requirements, John Jordon, director of civic engagement for the NAACP, said during the hearing. He said sufficient voter education was impossible before November.

Pennsylvania is one of ten states to adopt a photo ID law in the past year. Six such laws are being challenged in the courts or by the Justice Department. The Justice Department blocked Texas and South Carolina's laws but the states are challenging the federal government's actions in court. Separate from this court case, The Justice Department opened an investigation into Pennsylvania's law but has not yet ruled.

Critics of the lack of proven voter fraud in Pennsylvania pointed to statements by members of the Republican-led legislature to argue the law is tied to election-year politics.

Pa. Rep. Mike Turzai, House Majority Leader, said at one point that the law "is going to allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania."

A recent Quinnipiac/CBS News/New York Times poll shows Romney behind by 11 points in Pennsylvania.

Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson, who is hearing the case in Pennsylvania state court, hopes to have a decision before mid-August.

and in Ohio











Ohio law expands early voting for Republicans, cuts it for Democrats

by Joy-Ann Reid | August 10, 2012

Ohio has made voting harder for Democrats, and easier for Republicans.

Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted has intervened in county-by-county voting rules to break ties in county boards of elections, siding with Republicans who want to limit voting in large urban centers like Cleveland — which are heavily populated by Democrats — to work hours, while county boards in Republican-leaning areas voted to allow expanded early voting hours that will make casting a ballot easier.

Starting October 1st, voters in Democrat-leaning urban centers including Cleveland, Columbus, Akron and Toledo will now only be allowed to vote between 8 am and 5 pm on weekdays, when the majority of people are at work. The board of elections in these counties, which are split evenly between Democrats and Republicans, was gridlocked over a Democratic effort to expand hours. The Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted stepped in to deny expanded hours in these counties. But Republican-heavy counties have actually expanded early voting hours on nights and weekends, when most people have time to go to the polls.

Besides historically favoring Democrats, these urban centers comprise Ohio’s most populous and diverse counties. 28 percent of Cuyahoga County is African American, as is 20 percent of Franklin County. President Obama won the African American vote by 95 points in Ohio.

“Pro-Second Amendment? The Castle Doctrine, it’s done. First pro-life legislation – abortion facility regulations – in 22 years, done. Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done."

-Mike Tuzari PA House Majority Leader

They seem to not care and actually publicly embrace voter suppression

edit: i should have read the thread first as its already mentioned but whatever

President of Diebold talks about delivering a swing state for Bush... This ass says their voter ID law will deliver the state to Romney.

Nah... no one is trying to keep people from voting based on whom they will vote for.

This time, Lucy won't yank the football away, she'll finally let me kick it, said Charlie Brown.
Aaaaaaaaauggggh.....As he lay splat on the ground, she once again offered him psychiatric help for 5 cents.

This time, our vote will matter, it will finally make a difference, said the sheeple.
Aaaaaaaaauggggh.....As they watched their lives continued to worsen, their hopes dashed, their homes foreclosed, and their freedom lost, the campaign sponsor corporations once again offered them psychiatric drugs to cope with depression.

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy Assassination
Today is November 22, 2011. Exactly 48 years ago, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas in Dealay Plaza. Dealay Plaza was named after George Bannerman Dealay, an early publisher of the Dallas Morning News.

The assassination occurred on November 22, 1963.
November 22, 1963 = 11/11+11/20-11

DALLAS = SLLAAD = SLAYED
DALLAS = ALLAHS Death

George Bannerman Dealy – a G and B word.

Dealey Plaza aerial photo below, showing the Freemasonic triangular shape of the plaza, with the Main Street running exactly through the centre, creating a mirrored duality form. The red line shows the presidential parade route. Note also, the location where the Zapruder film was shot. The Dealay Plaza includes an obelisk (phallic symbol) with an eternal flame on top, the same flame that rests on the grave of John Kennedy’s grave. The eternal flame is the symbol used by secret societies, to represent the light, liberty and freedom. Which all sounds decent, but in reality, is a symbol of manipulation, deceit, and lies. This eternal flame is used by secret societies, and is the flame of the Olympic movement, the flame of the Statue of Liberty, and the flame that rests over the Pont d’Lama Tunnel in Paris, where Princess Diana was also sacrificed. This is the way of secret societies, and in particular, the Freemasons. The eternal flame marks the sacrifice. For this reason, the Statue of Liberty stands at the entrance to the USA in New York harbour.

Dealay Plaza – 33 degrees N / 105 degrees W.
33 = the number of degrees in the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry coinciding with 9 on the 3rd clockface.
105 = coincides with 9 on the 9th clockface, suggesting the FALL along with the number 33.

The phrase “The Lone Gunman” originated, or became popularized with the Kennedy assassination, as the Warren Commission placed all blame on Lee Harvey Oswald as the only shooter.

The “Lone Gunmen” is also associated with the spin-off from the X-Files show, where the first episode of the “Lone Gunmen” was about airplanes hitting the World Trade Center buildings in New York.

The Lone Gunmen phrase links to the Kennedy assassination, the World Trade Center attack, and now, to the Skull and Bones Secret Society at Yale in New Haven Connecticut. The Skull and Boners have a secret number that’s part of their logo along with the Skull and Bones symbol. That number is 322.

Just to highlight the extent that hypnotic suggestion, and subliminal manipulation plays within this 3D Trance State that we’re experiencing as this thing called life, the Zapruder video of the Kennedy assassination, in its original form, before the government altered portions of the video, shows Kennedy being shot in the neck initially, then shot again at frame 311, a shot strikes the president in the head, and BY FRAME 322, the president slumps and is mortally wounded.

President Kennedy is a symbol type of the Lion King, or LINCOLN, the Sphinx, and Obama.
Kennedy was riding in a LINCOLN CONTINENT-al, suggesting the sacrifice of the continent.
Riding just in front of the president, was governor John Connally who was also wounded.
JOHN CONNALLY = ION LYAN-COLN = EYE LIN-COLN = I LION KING.

On November 22, 2011, (the date of this writing), JOHNNY CALVIN BREWER (another J and B name), was honoured 48 years after the ‘fact’, for showing the police where Lee Harvey Oswald was hiding in the back of a movie theatre. Patriot Johnny was 22 YEARS OLD at the time (nothing symbolic with that number), and is now 70 years old (again, nothing symbolic about the number 70 … ). However, the middle name:

CALVIN = CAL(ifornia) VIN, suggests WINE, or VAV, Hebrew for WATER with a value of 6, or SICKS. It was the dear lord Jesus / Zeus, who supposedly turned the Water into Wine / Whine.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy – JFK = 10+6+11 = 27 = 3x3x3 the CUBE or CROSS of Sacrifice.
Dallas Texas is a symbolic SWASTIKA = TIKSWAAS = TEXAS.
The Swastika is a cross sun symbol, and Texas is also adjacent to the 4 Corner Cross states, symbolizing the sacrifice of the SUN / SON.

It’s well known that the British Royal family are Freemasons to the core. They pick and choose dates as they’re ‘inspired’ to do according to their deep trance inducement within their secret ritualistic nature. For this reason Queen Elizabeth II was married on November 20, 1947, or 16 years before the assassination of the Lion King Kennedy.

November 20, 1947 = 11/20/19-47 = 11+20+19+47 = 97 = 16 the Lion King.
November 20, 2011 – Queen Elizabeth has been married 64 years = 8×8, or 8+8 = 16, the Lion King.
November 20, 1945 – also corresponds the good German/English Queen Elizabeth to the Nuremberg War Crimes trials which took place at the Palace of Nuremberg, 66 YEARS AGO to date. More Hitler connections.
November 20, 1962 – one year before Kennedy was assassinated, the CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS ENDS. This was 49 years ago, or 7×7, relating to the coordinates of Washington DC and the Washington Stone of Judgment, Perfection and Completion.

I like Bryan Kemila's work. I understand full well that you are posting it sarcastically, but there is a wealth of knowledge there. Like it or not, the elite bloodlines do have a very advanced knowledge of numerology, the Tarot, sacred geometry and symbolism, they have used it throughout history to influence world events in a way not perceived or understood by very many others outside their circles until quite recently.

i like his paintings of nude broads too.

Originally posted by: Dwarn

I like Bryan Kemila's work. I understand full well that you are posting it sarcastically, but there is a wealth of knowledge there. Like it or not, the elite bloodlines do have a very advanced knowledge of numerology, the Tarot, sacred geometry and symbolism, they have used it throughout history to influence world events in a way not perceived or understood by very many others outside their circles until quite recently.

Oh, so they basically have magical powers. No wonder you believe in magical drugs.

Tell me.. what is the point of all these coincidences of numerology, etc...? What do they actually, physically do?

“There’s no doubt that what the Republican-led legislature in Florida and Governor Scott are trying to do is make sure the Republican Party has an advantage in this upcoming election by reducing early voting and putting roadblocks up for potential voters, Latinos, African-Americans to register and then to exercise their right to vote. There’s no doubt. I was in the room. It’s part of the strategy.”

-Former Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer

Its all to keep those nasty poor and brown people from committing voter fraud by pretending they are actually citizens with as much right to vote as those nice, clean rich white people.