Peter Korman retweeted
Why Israel’s Electoral System is Virtually Fraud-Free
When people admire the Israeli electoral system and wonder how there is never a single claim of election fraud, they need to understand a few fundamental things:
* Israel is a democracy.
* Israel is not an apartheid state.
* The entire voting process is completely manual.
How the Process Works
First of all, there is no voter registration process - it is automatic for every Israeli citizen aged 18 and above. It does not matter whether you are Arab, Muslim, or Jewish; any citizen can vote (strictly limited to citizens, of course).
Second, you receive a notification slip in the mail specifying your name, the exact location and number of your designated polling station, and your serial number in that station's voter registry.
When you arrive, election officials verify your identity using an official government photo ID. No alternate or informal identification is permitted, and no one is allowed to "vouch" for another voter. If the photo on your ID is unclear, they may ask for a secondary ID, such as a driver's license.
Voting and Verification
Next, two officials locate your name in the physical registry assigned to that specific polling booth. Once they verify that your name, ID number, and serial number match their records, they hand you an official voting envelope that both of them have personally signed on the spot to ensure any non-official or tampered envelopes can be immediately detected.
In a completely manual fashion, they cross off your name with a ruler from the list of eligible voters. You then step behind a curtain, select the slip for the party or candidate you wish to vote for, place it inside the signed envelope, and step back out.
At that point, on a separate tracking log, they record that the voter assigned to your serial number has cast their ballot. You deposit your envelope into the ballot box, and your vote is done.
The Count
Once the polling station closes at 10:00 PM, the election committee - alongside representatives from multiple competing political parties -conducts a manual count of the votes for that specific booth.
Each official can physically verify that every envelope in the box bears the exact signatures they applied earlier that morning.
Only after this count is completed are the final numbers transmitted to the Central Elections Committee.
Up to this point, the process has been entirely manual, fully audited, and continuously monitored by individuals with competing interests who hold each other accountable.
Peter Korman retweeted
An Open Concern About Appearances: The Catholic Church and the Midterms
I am Catholic. I say the rosary. I go to Mass. Nothing in what follows is an accusation against the Church, the Pope, or any bishop. It is a concern about how things look from the outside, and how that appearance is landing with millions of Americans right now.
This administration created a Justice Department task force on anti-Christian bias, pardoned twenty-three pro-life prisoners, stood up a White House Faith Office and a Religious Liberty Commission, designated Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern over the killing of Christians, and cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood. For a Catholic writer, that record is not nothing. It is, on its face, one of the most tangible pro-life and pro-faith agendas in modern presidential history.
In January 2025, the same administration suspended the refugee and migrant service contracts that had funded the USCCB and Catholic Charities for decades. Over one hundred million dollars a year. More than ninety-five percent of some program budgets. By spring, staff were laid off. By summer, agencies were closing programs. The money did not come back.
Institutions that lose their largest funding stream tend to find their moral vocabulary sharpening in the same direction as their budgets. I am not saying that is what happened. I am saying that is what it looks like, and that appearance is not going unnoticed.
Fourteen months later, in April 2026, the public statements from the Vatican and from American bishops toward this administration grew noticeably louder and more pointed than anything seen during the first term. Catholics see it. Non-Catholics see it.
And when a bishop speaks out days before a national election against one party’s immigration positions—which are prudential disagreements open to debate—while remaining silent on the other’s platform positions that contradict settled Church teaching on life, on the body, on marriage, the imbalance is impossible to miss.
I am not suggesting the Church holds a grudge, or that its silence on one side was bought. I am saying that is the appearance, and appearances are what most Americans, Catholic and not, actually see. When the institution that spent a year without its largest funding stream then directs its public voice at one party near an election—the very party that delivered more concrete protections for Christian life and religious liberty than perhaps any administration in living memory—the appearance is not of a shepherd. It is of a stakeholder.
That is the embarrassment I cannot unsee.
-- Joseph Fosco
October 27, 2026
Peter Korman retweeted
The amount of money the Progressives have is just enormous.
Here’s Eric Holder talking about multiple wargames and tabletop exercises at his BigLaw firm (I never heard back from some commenter who piped up to say there are conservative BigLaw firms. Yes, they’re featured in a movie called “Searching for the Unicorn).
The exercises are so realistic he says, that they have network anchors break into the game with breaking news for the game participants to react to.
None of this comes cheap.
Conspirators' Coalition? Holder's Real-Time Roleplaying with Activists!
Vote like the country’s survival is at stake because it is.
The war game session included a group of activist groups and experts from civil society.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder discussed conducting war games or tabletop exercises to prepare for and combat potential election interference. These exercises involve strategizing against various scenarios, such as illegal ballot rejections, seizure of cast ballots, the deployment of the military, or misinformation campaigns.
Holder worked with Hillary Clinton to conduct a tabletop exercise at his law firm's office. The session included a group of activist groups and experts from civil society.
Holder has also engaged in similar exercises with members of Congress on Capitol Hill, specifically coordinating with Congressman Joe Morelli of New York, who was designated by Leader Hakeem Jeffries to lead these efforts.
To increase the realism of these war games, they incorporated roleplaying elements, such as individuals acting as news anchors and presenting unconfirmed reports on screen to test how the group would respond in real time.
Within their war games and tabletop exercises, participants considered the scenario of the President invoking the Insurrection Act to intervene in an electoral setting.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder noted that while this falls into the outer reaches of potential threats, they have thought about and prepared to litigate and figure out ways in which they can push back on such an action.
Holder further clarified that using such powers in peacetime during an election would be unprecedented, stating that really is using powers there that have never been used before in peacetime and with regard to an electoral setting.
Peter Korman retweeted
Eric Hoffer wrote this article about Israel almost 60 years go. It reads like it was written yesterday.
"The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.
Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it, Turkey threw out a million Greeks, and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese-and no one says a word about refugees. But in the case of Israel the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis.
Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace. Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.
Other nations when they are defeated survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed. Had Nasser triumphed last June he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews.
No commitment to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth the paper it is written on. There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when two Negroes are executed in Rhodesia. But when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one remonstrated with him.
The Swedes, who are ready to break of diplomatic relations with America because of what we do in Vietnam, did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews. They sent Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his troop trains to Norway.
The Jews are alone in the world. If Israel survives, it will be solely because of Jewish efforts. And Jewish resources. Yet at this moment Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally. We can rely more on Israel than Israel can rely on us. And one has only to imagine what would have happened last summer had the Arabs and their Russian backers won the war to realize how vital the survival of Israel is to America and the West in general.
I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish the holocaust will be upon us."
Peter Korman retweeted
This is the most antisemitic thing I have ever seen in America.
If Republicans ran this ad, the Jewish community no rt would erupt in spasms of indignance.
This is the Democratic Party that 70% of Jews believe in more than their own religion.
This is one of the most comical ads this election cycle. Yes, Americans are chatting at the grocery store about how they can’t buy groceries because their tax dollars “go to Israel” 🙄 😂 nevermind the fact that Israel has invested 100% of military aid in the U.S. economy since Oct 7, and has also purchased over $1 billion *additional* in arms, according to DoD. Federal military aid is also prohibited from being spent on anything other than U.S. arms, so the line about healthcare is even more comical. El Sayed and his Islamist fans like Cenk Uygur want and expect American voters to be so stupid they never check.
Not only is this ad insane, conspiratorial, and antisemitic — it is also flat out false. El Sayed isn’t for the people of Michigan, he isn’t even for America. He is for the Muslim Brotherhood.
Peter Korman retweeted
I've been cranking all day on this.
Some things are so important that they need to be explored in depth, and in real time.
The shocking revelations from Data Republican regarding the plot to overthrow our Constitution is such a thing and now is such a time.
We are facing a color revolution. This article explains how color revolutions have worked overseas in the past at the hands of the CIA and USAID, and how those now ex-USAID employees, now ensconced in well-funded NGOs, are currently using the same tactics against our own nation.
It's a long article, almost 2,500 words.
If you care about this, please read. It's a very complex set of concepts, and takes more than a few words to explain adequately.
Thanks.
Peter Korman retweeted
Until Jack Smith Goes To Prison, His Dragnet Will Keep Punishing Conservative Orgs And Donors
thefederalist.com/2026/10/20…
Peter Korman retweeted
Some of these people need to update their SF 86 form.
"Have you EVER been a member of an organization dedicated to the use of violence or force to overthrow the United States Government, and which engaged in activities to that end with an awareness of the organization's dedication to that end or with the specific intent to further such activities?"
Peter Korman retweeted
🚨🚨THE DEMOCRACY FILES, PART 1: THE PLAN 🚨
I am working on gathering all the documents.
Now, here's something to understand about the "democracy" and protest ecosystem: almost nobody knows the 'grand plan' so to speak. They simply agree to play a role.
For example, 99% of people breaking stuff on the streets believe they're doing it out of an organic uprising. They don't see that the police have been ordered to stand down. They don't see that legal services have already been arranged for them. They don't see that foundations are paying for their bonds.
Similarly here, governors aren't participating in a pact to destroy the Constitution. Governors simply have agreed to push back on the Insurrection Act. The effect is the same: the governors end up playing a role in a grander plan.
I call this "shared epistemology" in my book Unelected. Motivations differ, people rarely agree to the big evil supervillain framing, but incentives all converge in the same end goal.
No Kings might not agree to explicitly tear down the Constitution, but they nonetheless work with DSA and will turn out millions of people if the right phone call is put in.
Here is one articulation of the plan - and crucially, since then, they have put many NGOs in their places to execute their proper role at all levels when the time is right.
Many more coming.
Peter Korman retweeted
Most of the state has no idea the importance of agriculture, the threats our farmers face, and the incredible frontline force @TylerHarperGA is for our economy, our food supply, and those great Americans doing the growing. Re-elect Tyler! #gapol
For the last four years, I’ve built relationships across the aisle and in communities around the state to do the job Georgians entrusted me with to the best of my ability. And I have delivered.
That’s why leaders from both parties are supporting my campaign.
I’d be honored to earn your vote this November.
Peter Korman retweeted
Abdul is special.
He was the only American candidate whose victory was celebrated by the Muslim Brotherhood. The only candidate for whom they issued a statement.
I can’t imagine why the Muslim Brotherhood is so invested in this race.
Peter Korman retweeted
Low Taxes.
Good Schools.
Safe Neighborhoods.
A Georgia where my four kids can build a great life.
As your next Lt. Governor, that's what I will work for every single day.
Peter Korman retweeted
I don’t know what happened in this particular incident, but I can tell you there are core cybersecurity principles that dramatically reduce risk:
- Make sure all your OT systems are off of internet facing connections.
- Change default passwords to be both 1) complex and 2) unique to each system.
-Monitor for unusual digital activity and
- Put incident response plans in place and practice them.
Be brilliant at the basics.
BREAKING: 🇫🇷 A major cyberattack has hit supermarket refrigeration systems across France, reportedly causing fresh and frozen food to spoil after hackers remotely manipulated temperature controls.
According to BFMTV, the attack began overnight from Sunday into Monday, targeting older versions of refrigeration-control software supplied by Danish company Danfoss.
The attackers allegedly exploited the systems’ defrosting function, forcing refrigeration equipment to heat continuously instead of keeping products cold. Temperatures were reportedly set as high as 50°C, destroying entire stocks of food within hours.
Several major supermarket chains have been affected, including Intermarché, Super U and E.Leclerc. Metro stores and independent businesses, including butcher shops also have been impacted.
Around 150 Intermarché stores are reportedly affected, according to industry sources cited by BFMTV. The full number of affected locations remains unclear.
The financial damage is already significant. In Haguenau, Alsace, an Intermarché store reportedly lost its entire frozen-food stock, worth approximately €50,000. A nearby Super U allegedly had to discard both fresh and frozen products, with losses estimated at €220,000. An E.Leclerc store in the same town was also affected, although its losses had not yet been calculated.
The combined losses reported at the Intermarché and Super U stores in Haguenau alone amount to around €270,000. Nationwide damage could reach several million euros.
Intermarché reportedly confirmed the incident in an internal communication, warning that several stores had suffered losses of frozen products. Coopérative U also acknowledged the attack and established crisis teams to assist affected stores and coordinate with refrigeration specialists.
Technical investigations are ongoing, and the full extent of the damage has yet to be established.
Authorities and companies are still working to determine the full circumstances of the attack. The identity of the perpetrators has not been confirmed.
Peter Korman retweeted
NEW: DECLASSIFIED FBI Probe "PLASMIC ECHO"
- Appears to use FBI investigative tool known as a "Pen Register" to target phone calls of then campaign manager @SusieWiles47
- Allegedly tracked nearly two dozen defense attorneys, five journalists, @FLOTUS, political advisers including @FBIDirectorKash
- Administration official characterizes as "intrusive tactics" by special counsel Jack Smith team
- Probe laid groundwork for classified records case against President Trump
Pen Register Trap and Trace or PRTT
- Surveillance tool collects non-content routing data
- Phone numbers dialed or received
- Call times and duration
Two Scenarios
- Used for criminal and national security investigations
- lower standard than probable-cause warrant
Potential Violations
- First (Freedom of Speech) and Fourth Amendments (unreasonable search and seizure)
NOTE: Former Senior FBI agent says it looks like a classic FBI "tickle the wire" operation.
After FBI agents contact Wiles, the bureau tracks phone calls to identify who she immediately contacts
"On 10 April 2023, FBI WFO (Washington Field Office) reviewed WILES's telephonic activity to determine contacts of interest on the date of her FBI interview."
Declassified records via @WhiteHouse transparency task force
Peter Korman retweeted
NEW RECORDS: Monitoring @SusieWiles47 Phone
- Newly declassified federal court applications for 2023 "Pen Register Trap and Trace"
- Target: Then campaign manager Susie Wiles's communications during Trump classified records probe
- No mention by Special Counsel Jack Smith that monitoring included Trump defense lawyers
- 'the Subject Phone Number was used to communicate with subjects and witnesses shortly before and/or after they spoke with the Government...'
- Instead, application states a PAC 'funds salaries and/or pays legal bills of several subjects and witnesses in connection with the ongoing investigation....'
Pen Register Trap and Trace or PRTT
- Surveillance tool that collects non-content data
- Phone numbers dialed and received
- Call times and duration
FALSE NARRATIVE: Real time collection of phone data via pen register is NOT as intrusive as obtaining contents of the calls themselves
Court Application Details Broad Data Collection
- The pen-trap will "record, decode, and/or capture dialing, routing, addressing, and signaling information associated with each communication to or from the Subject Phone Number
- Including the date, time, and duration of the communication, and the following, without geographic limit
- IP addresses associated with the cell phone device or devices used to send or receive electronic communications;
- Any unique identifiers associated with the cell phone device or devices used to make and receive calls with the Subject Phone Number
- IP addresses of any websites or other servers to which the cell phone device or devices is/are connected;
- And source and destination telephone numbers and email addresses.
NOTE: Additional records declassified via @WhiteHouse transparency task force reveal Jack Smith team used same investigative tactic to allegedly track nearly two dozen defense attorneys, five journalists, @FLOTUS, Barron Trump, political advisers including
@FBIDirectorKash
Court applications made for Pen Register made AFTER President Trump announced he would run in 2024.
FBI Pen Register Records For Susie Wiles 👇
Peter Korman retweeted
HEARTS & MINDS: Why is Israel is losing the PR battle?
I just uploaded a PDF of the battle plan by Palestinian political leader Mustafa Barghouti and other global leaders for today's "global day of action" against Israel.
It's at the end of my latest at @FoxNews Digital, investigating the global protest industry. You don't want to miss it if you care about this war for hearts and minds.
READ here: foxnews.com/world/inside-glo…
PLAYBOOK EXPOSED: A Fox News Digital investigation reveals a London-based alliance orchestrated today's wave of anti-Israel protests across the globe — distributing pre-written slogans, disruption tactics and media strategies to 179 organizations in hundreds of cities before a single demonstrator hit the streets.
The "Global Alliance for Palestine" directed participating groups to "shut down city squares," "encircle government buildings" and "blockade complicit corporate hubs" as part of what organizers called a campaign to "turn public outrage into collective leverage." The coalition's international steering committee includes former British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, pro-communist former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams.
The campaign's own documents instruct organizers to use language that is "disciplined, credible, urgent and impossible to ignore" — while presenting deeply contested accusations of "genocide" as undisputed legal fact. Their stated demands call for ending "the occupation" without specifying whether that means Gaza, the West Bank or the entire State of Israel "from the river to the sea."
Peter Korman retweeted
True story about @FoxNews and @CBSNews
In network newsrooms, they typically had other networks playing on television monitors in the newsroom. That was a way they kind of kept track of what the others were doing.
As 24 hour cable news was invented, we began adding them to the repertoire. CNN, MSNBC, CNBC could be seen on monitors in the newsroom and individual reporters' offices.
Then, along came FOX.
I had just begun assignment at the CBS News Washington DC bureau and was interested in the new network. I quickly noticed that FOX had interesting news items sometimes day before the rest of us would pick them up!
It seemed to me that we and the other networks weren't monitoring FOX News in real time the way we were obsessively watching other news outlets.
Since nobody else seemed to be doing it, I put FOX News on my monitor in my office.
Newsrooms are funny because there is a lot of group think and you'd think it would be the opposite.
I'm pretty sure I got pegged negatively by some colleagues because I had FOX News on my monitor.
The fact is, I was being a responsible news monitor. Nobody else was. I would go into the newsroom and point out stories they had that were good. I would point out examples where we and others would pick up the same story days later.
Meantime, FOX News took off audience-wise.
One day Les Moonves, who was president and CEO of CBS Television, came to the Washington Bureau. This may be the only time I remember meeting with him there. He called a newsroom meeting in the conference room.
Les saw something was happening with the FOX News phenomenon. He posed a question to the room regarding the expanding, exploding Fox audience.
"Is FOX News touching upon something we should be paying attention to or is it just pandering to conservatives?"
I know what I thought. FOX News was touching something important. Until then, the news had widely been produced for a largely, though not exclusively, liberal audience. If we began diversifying our range and voices, we could pluck into that audience-- and heaven knows we needed audience!
I didn't speak up at the meeting. I was the new kid on the block and nobody really wanted to hear what I had to say, in my opinion.
Other correspondents and producer did speak up in one unified voice. "They're just pandering to conservatives." "Nothing to pay attention to."
I think we all missed an opportunity way back then to recognize we were too often talking past half of America, or a least a sizable chunk.
All news outlets have our strengths and flaws, but FOX News resulted in making us examine ourselves and, at times, reluctantly cover stories and issues that we tried to ignore.
Congratulations to Fox News for 30 years of work!
Peter Korman retweeted
The stakes at issue with the Barfare against me, @JeffClarkUS, and others, explained in graphics. directorblue.substack.com/p/….
Peter Korman retweeted
This should never have happened.
The revelations about out of control Jack Smith just keep coming.
We have lawyer-client confidentiality in the United States. But apparently Jack Smith doesn’t think so.
(I think I’m going to perpetually use this as my Jack Smith photo as it tells the story of his political bias without extra words.)
Breaking: Jack Smith team tracked Trump defense lawyers’ calls by monitoring his chief of staff 's phone justthenews.com/government/w…
