cramsessionSlovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote
Recently, there were municipal elections in France, and there was Israeli interference there as well [0] (the article is pay-walled and in French but it's written in the title at least).
[0]: https://www.lecanardenchaine.fr/politique/53391-la-campagne-...
"Black Cube" - wonder what they're going for there. Maybe "Sinister Obelisk" was taken.
They wanted everyone to know they are the bad guys, just like Black Rock.
It works, to be honest - I would never let Beige Rock manage my money.
It's Saturn worship. Judaism is Saturn worship (all Abrahamic religions incorporate some worship of Saturn) - thus the obsession with black cubes, the number six, etc... There is no Star of David in the Bible - only the star of Remphan (a Saturnian deity). The god El is commonly associated with Saturn and commonly referred to as Saturn El. Saturn is the planet of limitations, constraints, agriculture, grain, the color black, etc... Thus the black cube is very fitting. If you look around hard enough, you'll find the symbolism everywhere.
Isn't Islam the one with the Black Cube?
Judaism also has important black cubes in the form of tefillin worn by adult male jews during one of their daily prayers on weekdays.
Yes, the kabba is also a nod to Saturn (which is why I said all Abrahamic religions incorporate some Saturn worship into them), and the people walking around the kabba make the rings of Saturn (if you employ some time-lapse photography of them walking around, it's quite obvious). Saturn has a hexagonal shaped storm on its north pole (and the all-seeing eye on its south pole). If you collapse a cube into two dimensions, you get a hexagon.
Ok, maybe put the hat back on. At least the abrahamic religions hardly knew about the hexagonally shaped storm.
> The god El is commonly associated with Saturn and commonly referred to as Saturn El.
This is demonstrably false; see Liber 777 cols. I, II, V, and VII.
Saturn is assigned key scale 3 (col I) and is associated with the Name of God "Tetragrammaton Elohim," while "El" is traditionally reserved for the fourth sephira, representing Jupiter.
Black is indeed the Queen scale color associated to Saturn, though just as commonly attributed to Earth, as the final receptacle of all the other "colors" of creation (see key scales 3 and 10 in cols XV, XVI, XVIII).
Yes, I am an occultist.
https://ia802906.us.archive.org/22/items/Liber777Revised/Lib...
Just more cultural appropriation. Black Cube, Blackrock, Blackstone... And not a black person in sight. Someone even took Blackstreet which was already ours. /s
It seems to me that interfering in a foreign election should be understood to be grounds for war.
Yes, and the EU, due to this fragmentation, seems to be a fertile playground for all this unacceptable interference by foreign powers.
That’s true but that fragmentation is also what limits the propagation of fractures. You can see it like sandboxing.
A deal with foreign intelligence is a dead with the devil that comes with a lifetime of subservience. And subservience to foreign powers is a greater evil than yo usual internal corruption. At least the locally corrupt in a democracy have some interest in things going somewhat well in their country. The foreign actors only care about theirs.
> interfering in a foreign election should be understood to be grounds for war
Requires a rigorous definition of interference.
The allegations here—trying to catch politicians on tape being sleazy and then releasing them-doesn’t seem to rise to the level of calling for a kinetic response.
Russia and China are definitely interfering in the US (to spread discord, ex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_interference_in_the_20...), so should the US formally declare war against them?
What I do think is that nations should 1) interfere back, and 2) make their citizens more resilient to foreign propaganda. And I specifically don't mean building a firewall. In fact do the opposite: if a firewalled nation is leaking out propaganda, ensure firewall-breaking tools leak in.
So it sounds like these guys posed as investors, schmoozed politicians, and got them on tape agreeing to do corrupt stuff. The recordings were then released to influence voters.
The thing about this is, the response to it will depend on who the politicians were. For example, if it was the "far right" politicians caught on tape, there wouldn't be the same furore about election interference. The recordings may of course be edited to be misleading.
I thought we were all told a few years ago that it wasn't possible to rig an election, at least not to any degree that would change the outcome. A lot of people were called crazy or worse for believing it might be possible.
Conflict of interests. We were told these things by the very same people who have an interest to rigging an election :-)
at some point, this problem boils down to something like trusting trust and I think that the answer might be similar to how stage0 in compilers work in that smaller stages which can be easily audited combine/compile together to form larger stages. (Not sure if this allegory fits at the moment but I do feel like decentralization can definitely help in these cases which is my point but these same people who told that it wasn't possible aren't looking for/actively hindering any prospects of decentralization due to once again, conflict of interests)
> lot of people were called crazy or worse for believing it might be possible
Sorry, when were questions about Slovenia’s voting system considered crazy?