ЯUSSIAИ Gov't Caught Red-handed Fixing Elections

Putin.png A shady company that claims to "fix" elections around the world has been linked to the ЯUSSIAИ government -- er, wait a minute. It's actually the British government.

For a little background on Cambridge Analytica (recently of Donald Trump election fame) and their shady dealings, here's an excerpt from a Channel 4 undercover report:

In an undercover investigation by Channel 4 News, the company’s [Cambridge Analytica] chief executive Alexander Nix said the British firm secretly campaigns in elections across the world. This includes operating through a web of shadowy front companies, or by using sub-contractors.

In one exchange, when asked about digging up material on political opponents, Mr Nix said they could “send some girls around to the candidate’s house”, adding that Ukrainian girls “are very beautiful, I find that works very well”.

In another he said: “We’ll offer a large amount of money to the candidate, to finance his campaign in exchange for land for instance, we’ll have the whole thing recorded, we’ll blank out the face of our guy and we post it on the Internet.”

Sounds nasty, right? Kind of Russianesque. But Cambridge Analytica is a British firm headed by a trio of British gents from the old boy's network that includes Eton: Alexander Nix, Mark Turnbull, and Dr. Alex Tayler. Also, just for fun, Steve Bannon of Donald Trump fame used to be a vice-president of the company.

Here's what Turnbull said about how they operate:

… we just put information into the bloodstream of the internet, and then, and then watch it grow, give it a little push every now and again… like a remote control. It has to happen without anyone thinking, ‘that’s propaganda’, because the moment you think ‘that’s propaganda’, the next question is, ‘who’s put that out?’.

As for the link to the British government, as you know, Theresa May is currently Prime Minister of Great Britain. She's a member of the Tory political party. The Tories began negotiations with Cambridge Analytica for campaign services in September 2016. According to a Daily Mail report in December 2016:

Theresa May wants to deploy an army of computerised ‘mind-readers’ to help her win the next Election, sources claim. Tory chiefs have been in talks with Cambridge Analytica, the polling data experts credited with playing a key role in Donald Trump’s presidential victory.

The British company, run by Old Etonian Alexander Nix, 40, uses computers to ‘mine’ huge amounts of data on voters – including Facebook likes, favourite foods, TV shows and even football clubs.

A party insider said: ‘The Tories have been in talks with these guys for about three months now and I understand they’re close to a deal.’

I suppose it's purely coincidental that Theresa May is creating a brouhaha over alleged ЯUSSIAИ nerve gassing of a former Russian double-agent just as the dirty facts about Cambridge Analytica are hitting the news. After all, she has nothing to hide, right? And really, Wag the Dog was just a movie, right?

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Amanda Matthews's picture

selling their wares to the guy that they thought was from Sri Lanka last night and I was absolutely appalled. The ‘services’ they were selling were actual criminal acts. Fraud, blackmail, and election rigging. Who knows how far they’d go to cover their asses? I’d be wondering if CA had any previous dealings with those dead Russian spies.

WTF are we going to do?

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I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

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@Amanda Matthews

What are we going to do, and can we even do anything? The disease is so embedded throughout the world that it's going to be really tough to eradicate. And there's nothing more dangerous than dead or dying empires like the UK and the US.

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Cambridge Analytica suspends CEO Alexander Nix after undercover recordings air

Cambridge Analytica, the embattled data analytics company best known for its work on President Donald Trump's campaign, has suspended its CEO, Alexander Nix, in the wake of undercover reports showing him discussing potential bribery and entrapment.

Nix's suspension is immediate, "pending a full, independent investigation," the firm said in a statement.

The statement was released moments before Channel 4 News in the UK was due to air another report in a series of exposes about the work of the company.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/03/20/politics/alexand...

Cambridge Analytica responds after CEO filmed discussing bribery and entrapment

The embattled data analytics company said in a statement on Monday that the report had been "edited and scripted to grossly misrepresent the nature of those conversations and how the company conducts its business."

Nix said in the statement that he had "entertained a series of ludicrous hypothetical scenarios" to avoid embarrassing a potential client. He said the company does not engage in entrapment or bribery.

Cambridge Analytica is best known for its work on President Donald Trump's campaign. It has come under scrutiny in recent days following reports that it harvested data from 50 million Facebook users in an attempt to influence American voters.

The United Kingdom's Information Commissioner's Office has opened an investigation, and the data protection authority said Monday that it was trying to obtain a warrant to search the offices of Cambridge Analytica.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/20/technology/cambridge-analytica-channel-4...

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

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The CEO of Cambridge Analytica mentions Israeli involvement explicitly, but Russia, not so much.

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

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They (CA) may not be Russians but hell, they're furriners and they broke the law. Now only Trumpites who collaborate with foreign entities are worthy of special prosecutors' special prosecutions. Mueller's gonna go after CA because it's one outfit that Hillary didn't use. The Steele crew doesn't matter. Because Medusa used them.

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