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FLASHBACK: Lou Dobbs on CNN in 2006: Smartmatic Based in Venezuela Sold to Sequoia, Top Officials Still in Venezuela, Before Sale to Dominion
Gateway Pundit ^ | 11/22/2020 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 11/23/2020 7:01:05 AM PST by DFG

Here’s a blast from the past! Back in 2006 when the great Lou Dobbs was at CNN the former news channel ran a segment on Smartmatic voting machines.

According to this CNN report, Smartmatic was based in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela and was sold to Sequoia. But the top officials for Smartmatic were still in Venezuela. CNN was worried this could interfere with our democracy. Amazing!

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: dobbs; dominion; sequoia; smartmatic; venezuela

1 posted on 11/23/2020 7:01:05 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

Obama, Chavez, and Maduro (note the "soul-bro" handshake)

2 posted on 11/23/2020 7:05:34 AM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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3 posted on 11/23/2020 7:08:24 AM PST by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: DFG
2015...

The Links Between Black Lives Matter and Nicolas Maduro Revealed

PanAm Post ^ | June 23, 2020 | PanAm Post Staff

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"...while Black Lives Matter claim to oppose police abuse and racism around the world, the organization is simultaneously a great supporter of some of the world’s most brutal and repressive dictators. In particular, the founders of BLM have been staunch supporters and allies of the sanguinary Venezuela dictator Nicolas Maduro and of the Castro regime in Cuba.

In December 2015 Black Lives Matter sent a delegation, headed by the organization’s co-founder, Opal Tometi, to act as observers during the Venezuelan Parliamentary elections of that year. The Maduro regime did not allow accreditation for observers from the Organization of American States, the UN, or the EU. The only accredited observers where from regimes and organizations friendly to the “revolutionary cause.”

Later that same month Tometi penned an article where she espouses, word for word, the regime’s standard text for international propaganda.

“In these last 17 years, we have witnessed the Bolivarian Revolution champion participatory democracy and construct a fair, transparent election system recognized as among the best in the world ,” wrote Tometi about one of the world’s most corrupt voting systems in history.

Earlier in 2015 Maduro was given an award at the Afro-descenndants Summit” held in Harlem. Maduro was invited at the behest of the Black Lives Matter leadership. ..."

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2015...

Ivan Pentchoukov on Twitter:

Ivan Pentchoukov on Twitter:
[Venezuelan President] Nicolas Maduro with Opal Tometi (right), co-founder
of Black Lives Matter
, in Harlem, Manhattan, December 2015.

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Also in 2015...

Moscow defense minister inks deals with Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua for joint exercises

by Bill Gertz, February 20, 2015

Russia agreed to provide military training for three leftist regimes in Latin America and increase military visits and exercises following a visit last week to the region by Moscow's Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu, Pentagon officials said.

Shoygu met with defense and military leaders in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua and signed several agreements on warship visits and military training during the visit, which ran from Feb 11 to 14.

It is not clear whether any new arms deals were completed during the visit.

Defense officials said the Russian leader is seeking bases in the region for strategic bomber flights that Shoygu recently promised would include flights over the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. ..."

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2020...

Russia to boost Venezuela ties amid US pressure

February 8, 2020 - BBC

Russia has pledged to boost military and economic co-operation with Venezuela to help the South American nation deal with growing US pressure.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s comments came after his meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas.

Mr Lavrov said any attempts to remove Mr Maduro’s government by force were unacceptable.

The US accuses Mr Maduro of leading a corrupt and brutal regime. ...”

“Russia is a key ally of Venezuela, lending it billions of dollars and backing its oil industry and military.”
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You can include in this alliance, communist China, communist North Korea, and Iran.

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2015.....

Russia and North Korea declare 2015 a ‘year of friendship’

“The biggest cause for concern is the growing military alliance between Russia and North Korea, with the two regimes recently announcing plans to conduct a series of joint army, navy and air force exercises this year.”

—Julian Ryall, Tokyo - Mar 11, 2015 - The Telegraph


4 posted on 11/23/2020 7:11:55 AM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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To: DFG

Great article. Thanks for posting.


5 posted on 11/23/2020 7:32:37 AM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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To: ETL

Sidney Powell is onto something that is murky with a cesspool of corruption.

Dominion HQ operates out of a radical leftist building in Toronto with a George Soros company on the same floor.

https://www.rebelnews.com/dominion_voting_systems_shared_office_is_incubator_for_radical_left_wing_organizations

To say the least...The Optics are terrible.

I hope Sidney Powell does not give up and let this get buried. There is more here to discover.


6 posted on 11/23/2020 8:13:30 AM PST by Right2Rights (Ballots Wanted)
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To: Right2Rights

Thanks.
I think I might post that RebelNews article as a thread.
Either that, or the earlier one by them where they initially pointed out that Dominion Voting were in the same building and same floor as George Soros’ Tides Foundation, along with other various radical left organizations.

Brought to mind the building here in New York City which housed both the dangerously sick Workers World Party and the so-called “peace” group “Troops Out Now”. They even shared the same phone number! Lol!

Not sure if WWP is in that same building today, but they had been there for years. I think Ramsey Clark’s similarly sick/hardcore communist, group, “The International Action Center” was there too. Troops Out Now was formed during the Iraq War. ANSWER of course sprang from Workers World Party, as did another communist org that is still around today, “The Party for Socialism and Liberation”, or PSL.


7 posted on 11/23/2020 11:11:35 AM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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