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Yesterday, the #KeystonePipeline cracked and dumped 210,000 gallons of oil onto South Dakota prairie. Here’s the reason the pipeline burst... gregpalast.com/pig-burst-keys… #KeystoneXL #KeystoneSpill #NoKXL
The PIG (Pipeline Inspection Gauge) that is sent through the #KeystonePipeline to check for evidence of any weakness didn’t squeal a warning. Why not? Because, the PIG has been silenced — its software jacked and hacked gregpalast.com/pig-burst-keys… #KeystoneSpill
Note: We've obtained independent confirmation of this from not one, not two, but THREE software engineers who designed the PIG "warning" system gregpalast.com/pig-burst-keys… #KeystoneXL #KeystonePipeline #KeystoneSpill #NoKXL
Pipeline Inspection Gauge software is deliberately set to reduce the warning signals and thereby cut the costs of replacement and repair by billions of dollars on the #KeystoneXL and other pipelines! gregpalast.com/pig-burst-keys… #KeystonePipeline #KeystoneSpill #NoKXL
This week, Nebraska will decide on whether to approve an extension of the #KeystonePipeline which will carry the oil down to Texas. Oil to Texas?! Texas is drowning in oil. So why a dangerous pipeline to bring oil from Canada to Texas? The answer: Koch gregpalast.com/behind-keyston…
Federal law requires that the oil industry run a diagnostic robot PIG, a Pipeline Inspection Gauge, that will squeal when something is wrong. But PIGs are only as good as the software that analyzes their signals. And the software used by #BigOil has been compromised—deliberately.
Insiders told this reporter that the software was designed to fool the safety inspectors: "The software feeds them incorrect information about the state of their pipeline." gregpalast.com/pig-burst-keys… #KeystonePipeline #KeystoneSpill #NoKXL
Originally, our source thought that the flawed PIG software was an error—so he tried to fix it to meet the standards of the law. But the error was deliberately left in place "because the software would increase the liability that a pipeline operator would.. have to deal with."
With the PIG calibrated to the danger sensitivity required by law, oil and gas companies would have to dig up, inspect and replace pipe at a cost of millions per mile. That’s not what the oil companies wanted from the contractor that designed their PIG program. #KeystoneSpill
Big Oil's happy with a "smart PIG" that's real stupid, because the dumber the PIG, the less sensitive the software, the more they save. Sometimes, the industry quietly skips the "pigging" altogether. #KeystoneSpill #NoKXL gregpalast.com/pig-burst-keys…
Making the diagnostic software less sensitive is like pulling the battery out of a smoke alarm. God forbid you have a fire. But in the case of the PIG, it's not just dangerous, it's illegal. gregpalast.com/pig-burst-keys… #KeystoneSpill #NoKXL
...And the danger of a muzzled PIG goes beyond #KeystoneXL gregpalast.com/the-pig-in-the… #KeystoneSpill #NoKXL

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Oct 9, 2018
My lawyer had to threaten #Georgia Secretary of State #BrianKemp with a lawsuit to force him to turn over the names of over half a million voters whose citizenship rights he quietly extinguished. gregpalast.com/gops-brian-kem…
My database expert went through #BrianKemp's #Georgia Purge List name by name and found:

1 Thousands who supposedly left the state but remain in Georgia
2 Thousands who moved from one end of town to another
3 Someone who moved from one apartment to another in the same building
#GeorgiaPurgeList: 108,000 of the names were on #KrisKobach's notorious #InterstateCrosscheck list — and only 2,000 of these purged #Crosscheck voters have left the state! gregpalast.com/gops-brian-kem…

#VoterSuppression = #ElectionFraud
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Oct 9, 2018
There’s voter registration deadlines TODAY in 18 states:

AZ, AK, FL, GA, HI*, IL*, IN, KY, LA*, MI, MS, NV*, NM, OH, PA, TN, TX, UT*

If you haven’t checked your registration yet, do so NOW at vote.org

*For more on deadlines visit: nytimes.com/2018/10/06/us/…
Don’t assume you’re OK because you’ve not moved and have voted in the same place for years. States have been conducting deep purges, and many perfectly valid voter registrations have disappeared — often without notice. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
For example, in #Georgia in 2017, GOP Secretary of State #BrianKemp removed 591,000 voters from the rolls—that’s 1 in 10 registrations in a single year!

If you live in Georgia you can find out if you’ve been purged here:
gregpalast.com/georgia-voter-…

#VoterSuppression #ElectionFraud
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Oct 4, 2018
Rather than face me in court, #Georgia Secretary of State #BrianKemp coughed up the first and last names and addresses of every one of the 591,000 voters he purged from the rolls in 2017. Notably, however, he left out the voter’s middle names. How curious. gregpalast.com/why-i-am-suing…
#BrianKemp also refused — despite the requirements of transparency in the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 — to state in detail WHY he’s purged each of the monstrously large number of #Georgia voters. gregpalast.com/why-i-am-suing… #StopTheSteal
Therefore, I have come to Atlanta to join with co-plaintiffs from @RPCoalition, @NationalSCLC, @GAPeoplesAgenda & @NewGAProject to give #BrianKemp a final warning: Put these purged voters back before the election or see us in federal court. gregpalast.com/georgia-civil-… #StopTheSteal
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Oct 1, 2018
BREAKING: In response to my threat of a federal law suit, #Georgia Secretary of State #BrianKemp has coughed up the names and addresses of every one of the 591,000 voters he deleted from the rolls in 2017. gregpalast.com/have-you-been-… #Crosscheck #VoterSuppression #StopTheSteal
Have you been purged?

#Georgia voters, look up your name NOW:
gregpalast.com/georgia-voter-…

The October 9 deadline to re-register is almost here!!!

#Georgia #VoterSuppression #StopTheSteal
If you are on the #Georgia purge list, we want to know.

Search here: gregpalast.com/georgia-voter-…

And contact us here: info@gregpalast.com

#GeorgiaPurge
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Sep 23, 2018
#Florida study finds "mail ballots were 10 times more likely to be rejected than votes cast at early #voting sites or on #election day" and "ballots cast by youngest voters, blacks and Hispanics were much more likely to be rejected."

DON'T GO POSTAL!!!

miamiherald.com/news/politics-…
Around a third of Americans mail in their ballot — boy is that dangerous. There’s a million ways to not count your mail-in ballot. gregpalast.com/have-you-check…
DON'T GO POSTAL—OR I'LL BE TEMPTED TO GO POSTAL ON YOU!!!
#Florida #VoterSuppression #ElectionFraud #Election2018
STUDY: "Younger and racial and ethnic minority voters casting Vote By Mail ballots were at least twice as likely as older and white voters to have their VBM ballot rejected in the presidential elections of 2012 and 2016." aclufl.org/en/publication…
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Sep 17, 2018
We have a massive non-count of votes in America. Over one million ballots nationwide — in any election — are never counted. They are disqualified for cockamamie technical reasons. gregpalast.com/have-you-check…
I’m not talking about some guy with machines changing a vote from Democrat to Republican on a computer. I’m talking about if you mail in your ballot, they can challenge it and toss it. gregpalast.com/have-you-check… #VoterSuppression #ElectionFraud #StopTheSteal
People worry about getting their vote stolen by a machine, so they mail it in. But you just went double or nothing with your vote, because that makes it easier for them. The number one way #KrisKobach won the #KansasPrimary was by disqualifying ballots that were mailed in.
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