Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, Smartmatic’s Chairman, explains the advantages of using electronic voting in an election during an interview conducted by Mr. Wendell Theodore Lapin in the TV Show “Le Point”, Tele Metropole. July 7, 2015.

Electronic voting helps reduce human error. Technology will be a useful way of improving voter education and registration, to increase engagement and voter turnout. It’s also vitally important that everyone who is eligible to participate in elections can do so. And electronic voting is very good at making voting more accessible, meaning it’s easier for disable people to vote independently.

>>16208170

The southern Africa country of Zambia has over the last 10 years made itself into a world reference for the use of biometric election databases that are inclusive, robust and secure. Working with portable voter registration kits from Smartmatic, Zambian officials began in 2021 to biometrically validate voters using 10 fingerprints and facial recognition. The combination of tools allows Zambians to vote quickly and facilitates accurate, secure elections.

>>16208176

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Malloch_Brown

"… to know that those who have been here twice to Algiers with our ransom money have used it instead for trade, to make profit for themselves, and have stolen our liberty, for they never admitted that they could free anyone, or even that they were here to do so. Instead, they told us to petition our gracious master the King, in the name of God, for our freedom, and then they filled simple minded, poor fellows with fair words and went on their way, one with hides, another with chests of sugar, leaving behind them only the smoke of their lying words".

In 2019, mention of the Russian origin of Hurrem Sultan was removed from the visitor panel near her tomb at the Süleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul at the request of the Ukrainian Embassy in Turkey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrem_Sultan

also known as Roxelana (Ukrainian: Роксолана; lit. 'the Ruthenian one'), was the chief consort and wife of the Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. She became one of the most powerful and influential women in Ottoman history as well as a prominent and controversial figure during the era known as the Sultanate of Women.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_Women

>>16208220

>That would require a carpenter, whose work would never been seen at the end of the project.

>>16208282

>Suez [Zeus backwards] Canal

>>16208282

>11 pointed star as a pedestal

>>16208304

https://archive.org/details/ThomasKarlssonQabalahQliphothAndGoeticMagick/page/n26/mode/1up?view=theater

>>16208318

https://archive.org/details/ThomasKarlssonQabalahQliphothAndGoeticMagick/page/n33/mode/1up?view=theater

>>16208313

>Dave Chappelle's Hollywood Bowl performance Tuesday night someone rushed the stage and attacked the comedian, pulled out a gun.

>a man in the audience somehow got on stage and manhandled Dave, tackling him violently and slamming him on the hard stage.

>the attacker actually pointed the gun at Chapelle as he rushed him. it was a replica of a semi-automatic. It also had a knife attached.

>>16208351

Hurrem Sultan Roxelana was kidnaped from her native town of Rohatyn on her wedding day as she went to church. She was then known as Anastasia (Nastya) Lisowska. She was a daughter of the local Ukrainian Orthodox priest.

Her fiancé Stephan tried to protect her but was overcome by cruel invaders.

While Tatars pillaged, robbed, raped women and set fire to the town, elderly father Johan prayed in the church to the Virgin Mary, asking her to protect Nastya from misfortunes. Nastya herself was, meanwhile, dragged into Tatar's captivity…

"Already Nastya began to understand the curse, sometimes heard at the market during the verbal fights of women sellers: "Let you get married in the Wild Horde's field!…" She learned that there is happiness in misfortune since she was not threatened with such abuse because Tatar leaders apprised her as the more valuable catch and left her in peace meanwhile."

>>16208403

>"Let you get married in the Wild Horde's field!…"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Fields

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean%E2%80%93Nogai_slave_raids_in_Eastern_Europe

>>16208382

The Mongol invasions and conquests in the 13th century added a new force in the slave trade. The Mongols enslaved skilled individuals, women and children and marched them to Karakorum or Sarai, whence they were sold throughout Eurasia. Many of these slaves were shipped to the slave market in Novgorod.

Genoese and Venetians merchants in Crimea were involved in the slave trade with the Golden Horde. In 1441, Haci I Giray declared independence from the Golden Horde and established the Crimean Khanate. For a long time, until the early 18th century, the khanate maintained a massive[clarification needed] slave trade with the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East. In a process called the "harvesting of the steppe", they enslaved many Slavic peasants.

>>16208444

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_and_the_American_Revolution#Russian_Diplomacy_during_the_War

Peter the Great had succeeded in gaining a toehold in the south, on the edge of the Black Sea, in the Azov campaigns. Catherine completed the conquest of the south, making Russia the dominant power in south-eastern Europe after the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774. Russia inflicted some of the heaviest defeats ever suffered by the Ottoman Empire, including the Battle of Chesma (5–7 July 1770) and the Battle of Kagul (21 July 1770). In 1769, a last major Crimean–Nogai slave raid, which ravaged the Russian held territories in Ukraine, saw the capture of up to 20,000 slaves.

The Russian victories procured access to the Black Sea and allowed Catherine's government to incorporate present-day southern Ukraine, where the Russians founded the new cities of Odessa, Nikolayev, Yekaterinoslav (literally: "the Glory of Catherine"; the future Dnipro), and Kherson. The Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, signed 10 July 1774, gave the Russians territories at Azov, Kerch, Yenikale, Kinburn, and the small strip of Black Sea coast between the rivers Dnieper and Bug. The treaty also removed restrictions on Russian naval or commercial traffic in the Azov Sea, granted to Russia the position of protector of Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire, and made the Crimea a protectorate of Russia. Russia's State Council in 1770 announced a policy in favour of eventual Crimean independence. Catherine named Sahin Girey, a Crimean Tatar leader, to head the Crimean state and maintain friendly relations with Russia. His period of rule proved disappointing after repeated effort to prop up his regime through military force and monetary aid. Finally Catherine annexed the Crimea in 1783. The palace of the Crimean Khanate passed into the hands of the Russians. In 1787, Catherine conducted a triumphal procession in the Crimea, which helped provoke the next Russo-Turkish War.

The Ottomans restarted hostilities in the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–92. This war was another catastrophe for the Ottomans, ending with the Treaty of Jassy (1792), which legitimised the Russian claim to the Crimea and granted the Yedisan region to Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feodosia#Kaffa_(Genoese_colony)

The main slave market was at Caffa which after 1475 belonged to the Ottoman Empire. The town had artillery and a strong garrison of Janissaries. Besides Caffa, slaves were sold in Karasubazar, Tuzleri, Bakhchysarai and Khazleve. Slave dealers came from various backgrounds: Turks, Arabs, Greeks, Armenians and others. For the right to trade they paid tax to the Crimean Khan and Turkish Pasha. In Caffa there were sometimes as many as 30,000 slaves, mostly from Muscovy and the southeastern lands of the Commonwealth. Habsburg diplomat and the ambassador of the Holy Roman Empire to Muscovy, Sigismund von Herberstein, wrote that "old and infirmed men, who will not fetch much at a sale, are given up to the Tatar youths, either to be stoned, or to be thrown into the sea, or to be killed by any sort of death they might please."

According to Ukrainian-Canadian historian Orest Subtelny, "from 1450 to 1586, eighty-six raids were recorded, and from 1600 to 1647, seventy. Although estimates of the number of captives taken in a single raid reached as high as 30,000, the average figure was closer to 3000…In Podilia alone, about one-third of all the villages were devastated or abandoned between 1578 and 1583."

Michalo Lituanus described Caffa as "an insatiable and lawless abyss, drinking our blood." Besides the bad food, water, clothing and shelter, they were subjected to exhausting labor and abuse. According to Litvin "the stronger slaves were castrated, others had their noses and ears slit and were branded on the forehead or cheek. By day they were tormented with forced labor and at night kept in dungeons." Muslim, Armenians, Jews, and Greek traders all purchased Slavic slaves in Caffa.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130605131551/http://www.econ.hit-u.ac.jp/~areastd/mediterranean/mw/pdf/18/10.pdf

The Crimean Tatars and their Russian-Captive Slaves

>Habsburg diplomat and the ambassador of the Holy Roman Empire to Muscovy, Sigismund von Herberstein, wrote that "old and infirmed men, who will not fetch much at a sale, are given up to the Tatar youths, either to be stoned, or to be thrown into the sea, or to be killed by any sort of death they might please."

>>16208515

>"the stronger slaves were castrated, others had their noses and ears slit and were branded on the forehead or cheek. By day they were tormented with forced labor and at night kept in dungeons."