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shaping information are so interconnected that most public Election Systems & Software (ES&S), Diebold and Sequoia relations firms in the United States and Europe fall under the are the companies primarily involved in implementing the new umbrella of three huge corporations. The big three—WPP, electronic voting stations throughout the country. All three have Omnicom and Interpublic—have board members who also sit on strong ties to the Bush administration. the boards of the major media conglomerates, military The largest investors in ES&S, Diebold and Sequoia are contracting companies and government commissions, including government defence contractors Northrup Grumman, Lockheed having direct relationships in the executive and legislative Martin, Electronic Data Systems (EDS) and Accenture. Diebold branches of government.” hired Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC) The public relations company The Rendon Group is one of the of San Diego to develop the software security in its voting firms hired for the PR management of America's pre-emptive machines. wars. In the 1980s, The Rendon Group helped form American Many of the officials on SAIC's board (identified in our GDG sentiment regarding the ousting of President Manuel Noriega in data) are former members of either the Pentagon or the CIA; Panama.” In the 1990s, it shaped international support for the they include: Army General Wayne Downing, formerly on the first Gulf War and created the Iraqi National Congress from National Security Council; Bobby Ray Inman, former CIA image to marketing to the handpicking of Ahmed Chalabi.” director; Retired Admiral William Owens, former vice chairman Rendon and similar firms follow the of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Robert money, shaping public opinion to meet the Gates, another former director of the CIA.* needs of their clients. The conglomeration Black Box Voting has reported repeatedly and corporatisation of the PR industry, in that the voting machines used by over 30 service to the GDG, hinder public discourse million voters were easily hacked by and allow those with the most money to In late 2001 9 after an relatively unsophisticated programs and that dominate news and information in the US . . post-election audits of the computers would and increasingly in the world. eight-month review of not show evidence of tampering. The ease with which the American 175,000 Florida ballots Irregularities in the vote counts indicate that population accepted the invasion of Iraq . something beyond chance happened in was the outcome of a concerted effort never counted in 2004.°° involving “ government. rn the 2000 election, Conspiracy theories abound i America contractors, public relations firms and the . oe and are directly related to the lack 0 corporate media. These institutions are the the National Opinion investigative reporting by the corporate instigators and main beneficiaries of a Research Center men Corporate mee are prine’pally in permanent war on terror. A e entertainment business, therefore The importance of these confirmed that the public knows more about the 2004 connections lies in the fact that Al Gore actually murder case of California wife-killer powerful segments of the GDG have . Scott Peterson than possibilities of the money and resources to articulate won Florida and national voter fraud. should have been President. their propaganda repeatedly to the American people until those messages become self-evident truths and conventional wisdom. Global Dominance Group and 9/11 Foreknowledge A significant portion of the GDG had every opportunity to know in advance that the 9/11 attacks were imminent. Many countries warned the US of imminent terrorist attacks: Afghanistan, Argentina, Britain, Election Irregularities In the [northern] fall of 2001, after an eight-month review of 175,000 Florida ballots never counted in the 2000 election, the National Opinion Cayman Islands, Egypt, France, Research Center confirmed that Al Gore actually won Florida Germany, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Morocco and Russia. and should have been President. However, coverage of this Warnings from within the United States intelligence report was only a small blip in the corporate media, as a much community included communications intercepts regarding al- bigger story dominated the news after September 11, 2001.* Qaeda's specific plans. Some of the 9/11 pre-warnings include: The 2004 election was even more fraudulent. The official ¢ 1993: An expert panel commissioned by the Pentagon vote count in 2004 showed that George W. Bush won by three raised the concern that an airplane could be used to bomb million votes. But exit polls projected a victory margin of five national landmarks (Washington Post, 10/2/01). million votes for John Kerry. This eight-million-vote * 1996-2001: Federal authorities knew that suspected discrepancy is much greater than any possible margin of error. terrorists with ties to bin Laden received flight training at The overall margin of error should statistically have been under schools in the US and abroad. An Oklahoma City FBI agent one per cent. But the official result deviated from the poll sent a memo warning that "large numbers of Middle Eastern projections by more than five per cent—a statistical males" were getting flight training and could have been planning impossibility.™ terrorist attacks (CBS, May 30, 2002). One convicted terrorist Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International were the confessed that his planned role in a terror attack was to crash a two companies hired to do the polling for the Nation Election plane into CIA headquarters (Washington Post, September 23, Pool (a consortium of the nation's five major broadcasters and 2001). the Associated Press). They refused to release their polling data * December 1998: A Time magazine cover story entitled until after the inauguration. "The Hunt for Osama" reported that bin Laden might be In late 2001, after an eight-month review of 175,000 Florida ballots the 2000 election, the National Opinion Research Center Al Gore actually won Florida and President. NEXUS = 31 never counted in confirmed that should have been OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2006 www.nexusmagazine.com