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In reply to the discussion: A mathematician may have uncovered widespread election fraud, and Kansas is trying to silence her [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)83. Kick for Democracy. And a really great thread. And the Urosevich Bros.
Diebold, Electronic Voting and the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
by Bob Fitrakis
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In the early 1980s, brothers Bob and Todd Urosevich founded ES&s originator, Data Mark. The brothers Urosevich obtained financing from the far-Right Ahmanson family in 1984, which purchased a 68% ownership stake, according to the Omaha World Herald. After brothers William and Robert Ahmanson infused Data Mark with new capital, the name was changed to American Information Systems (AIS). California newspapers have long documented the Ahmanson familys ties to right-wing evangelical Christian and Republican circles.
In 2001, the Los Angeles Times reported, . . . primarily funded by evangelical Christians particularly the wealthy Ahmanson family of Irvine the institutes $1-million annual program has produced 25 books, a stream of conferences and more than 100 fellowships for doctoral and postdoctoral research. The chief philanthropists of the Discovery Institute, that pushes creationist science and education in California, are Howard and Roberta Ahmanson.
According to Group Watch, in the 1980s Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. was a member of the highly secretive far-Right Council for National Policy, an organization that included Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, Major General John K. Singlaub and other Iran-Contra scandal notables, as well as former Klan members like Richard Shoff. Ahmanson, heir to a savings and loan fortune, is little reported on in the mainstream U.S. press. But, English papers like The Independent are a bit more forthcoming on Ahmansons politics.
On the right, figures such as Richard Mellon Scaife and Howard Ahmanson have given hundreds of millions of dollars over several decades to political projects both high (setting up the Heritage Foundation think-tank, the driving engine of the Reagan presidency) and low (bankrolling investigations into President Clintons sexual indiscretions and the suicide of the White House insider Vincent Foster), wrote The Independent last November.
The Sunday Mail described an individual as, . . . a fundamentalist Christian more in the mould of U.S. multi-millionaire Howard Ahmanson, Jr., who uses his fortune to promote so-called traditional family values . . . by waving fortunes under their noses, Ahmanson has the ability to cajole candidates into backing his right-wing Christian agenda.
Ahmanson is also a chief contributor to the Chalcedon Institute that supports the Christian reconstruction movement. The movements philosophy advocates, among other things, mandating the death penalty for homosexuals and drunkards.
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http://freepress.org/article/diebold-electronic-voting-and-vast-right-wing-conspiracy
by Bob Fitrakis
EXCERPT...
In the early 1980s, brothers Bob and Todd Urosevich founded ES&s originator, Data Mark. The brothers Urosevich obtained financing from the far-Right Ahmanson family in 1984, which purchased a 68% ownership stake, according to the Omaha World Herald. After brothers William and Robert Ahmanson infused Data Mark with new capital, the name was changed to American Information Systems (AIS). California newspapers have long documented the Ahmanson familys ties to right-wing evangelical Christian and Republican circles.
In 2001, the Los Angeles Times reported, . . . primarily funded by evangelical Christians particularly the wealthy Ahmanson family of Irvine the institutes $1-million annual program has produced 25 books, a stream of conferences and more than 100 fellowships for doctoral and postdoctoral research. The chief philanthropists of the Discovery Institute, that pushes creationist science and education in California, are Howard and Roberta Ahmanson.
According to Group Watch, in the 1980s Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. was a member of the highly secretive far-Right Council for National Policy, an organization that included Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, Major General John K. Singlaub and other Iran-Contra scandal notables, as well as former Klan members like Richard Shoff. Ahmanson, heir to a savings and loan fortune, is little reported on in the mainstream U.S. press. But, English papers like The Independent are a bit more forthcoming on Ahmansons politics.
On the right, figures such as Richard Mellon Scaife and Howard Ahmanson have given hundreds of millions of dollars over several decades to political projects both high (setting up the Heritage Foundation think-tank, the driving engine of the Reagan presidency) and low (bankrolling investigations into President Clintons sexual indiscretions and the suicide of the White House insider Vincent Foster), wrote The Independent last November.
The Sunday Mail described an individual as, . . . a fundamentalist Christian more in the mould of U.S. multi-millionaire Howard Ahmanson, Jr., who uses his fortune to promote so-called traditional family values . . . by waving fortunes under their noses, Ahmanson has the ability to cajole candidates into backing his right-wing Christian agenda.
Ahmanson is also a chief contributor to the Chalcedon Institute that supports the Christian reconstruction movement. The movements philosophy advocates, among other things, mandating the death penalty for homosexuals and drunkards.
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http://freepress.org/article/diebold-electronic-voting-and-vast-right-wing-conspiracy
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