2000 Mules: D’Souza’s Film About Ballot Harvesting in 2020 Election

2000 Mules

Directed by Dinesh D’Souza (2021)[1]

Film Review

This is a fascinating documentary. Unlike other documentaries about the 2020 election (focusing mainly on statistical irregularities), its main focus is an investigation into smartphone geotracking data identifying individuals who visited  multiple privately funded absentee ballot drop boxes prior to election day. True the Vote spent $2 million to buy this publicly available cellphone data.

According to True the Vote, 300,000 apps collect geotracking data on smartphone users and sell it to advertisers and intelligence and law enforcement agencies.[2] The voter intelligence specialist they hired found 242 so-called “mules” who (according to their cellphone GPS data) visited more than 10 drop boxes in a single day. True the Vote identified a total of 242 individuals who deposited ballots in an average of 24 drop boxes over two weeks.

True the Vote believes this behavior was part of a ballot harvesting scheme aimed at swinging the vote to Biden in important swing states. According to a second investigator specializing in ballot harvesting, a ballot harvester collects absentee ballots in a number of ways. These include visiting college dorms and nursing homes receiving large numbers of unclaimed ballots, targeting Hispanic communities where elderly voters are pressured to hand over their absentee ballots and researching voter rolls for dead voters or those who haven’t voted in 10 years.

One aspect that wasn’t totally clear was how the mules defeated the signature verification requirement in Arizona, which was one of the swing states investigated. Arizona is one of 27 states verifying the signature on the ballot envelop with drivers licenses and other state records. In these states, entering the bar code on the ballot envelope calls up the voter’s name, driver’s license and voter registration). See How States Verify Absentee Ballots

According to whistleblowers, various non-profit agencies paid mules $10 per ballot for each of the 3-10 ballots they delivered to each drop box. It’s illegal in 23 states to submit an absentee ballot for anyone other than a family member. According to D’Souza, it’s illegal in all 50 states to pay someone to submit an absentee ballot on behalf of a third person.

True the Vote also collected four million minutes of drop box video surveillance (through official information requests) to match their geotracking data with images of mules stuffing ballots into drop boxes.

For me the main weaknesses of the film were

1. failing to clarify how the mules circumvented the signature verification requirements in Arizona,
2. failing to highlight that vote fraud is a bipartisan problem, by referencing the extensive research into computer voting machine fraud during the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections (see How Rigged Voting Machines are Stealing Our Elections),[3]
3. suggesting (without clear evidence) that numerous 501 (c) 3 organizations (funded by Mark Zuckerberg, George Soros, Warren Buffet and VISA) violated IRS regulations by providing funding to pay ballot mules (while it’s well-documented these groups funded drop boxes and voter registration campaigns, neither, in itself is illegal), and
4. failing to explore the likelihood of US intelligence involvement in this ballot harvesting scheme, especially given Zuckerberg’s and Soros’s longstanding links to the CIA, as well geotracking data identifying several of the ballot mules as engaging in criminal violence during ANTIFA and Black Lives Matters protests.[4]

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[1] In 2018, Trump pardoned D’Souza who had pleaded guilty to 2014 campaign finance law violations.

[2] I was astonished to learn that all the January 6 protestors the FBI arrested were already being geotracked, which was how the FBI identified them so quickly. The CDC also purchased this geotracking data to track millions of Americans during the pandemic (see Senators Johnson Demands CDC Explain Why It Tracked Movements of Americans During the Pandemic)

[3] By minimizing Republican vote rigging, D’Souza effectively pigeonholes this issue as a “conservative” issue, when it should be of major concern to all Americans across the political spectrum.

[4] Many of whom were later identified as government infiltrators and provocateurs.

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Richard Heinberg: How Fast Can We Transition to Renewable Energy?

Our Renewable Future

Richard Heinberg (2016)

In this 2016 presentation, Richard Heinberg talks about his new book (with David Fridley) Our Renewable Future. Both the book and talk focus mainly on the ease with which renewable energy can replace fossil fuels in our current industrial economy. He argues the transition is essential, not only to reduce the impact of catastrophic climate change and ocean acidification, but to address growing global economic and political instability (ie resource wars in the Middle East over dwindling oil and natural gas reserves).

• Electric power generation – coal and gas-fired power plants are fairly easy to replace with wind and/or solar generation. However Heinberg also argues that homes need to be made more efficient (in terms of heating and cooling) to reduce peak load demand. Renewable technologies are not good at ramping up at short notice. We have had the technical know-how for decades to produce buildings requiring 1/20th of the energy we presently use to heat them. Up until now, we have lacked the political will to change local building codes accordingly.
• Personal transportation – Heinberg argues that electric cars aren’t a panacea. Because they are so energy intensive to produce, only fairly wealthy people will be able to afford them. He feels there needs to be more focus on increasing public transport and adapting our communities to facilitate active transport, such as walking and cycling.
• Mass transit – he strongly advocates increased use of rail, by far the most efficient form of transit for both people and freight. For transcontinental travel, high speed trains are much more energy efficient than air travel and are easily electrified.
• Shipping – ocean freighters are already quite energy efficient compared to air transport. Using kite sails to propel them can reduce their energy consumption by 60%
• Food production – at present we expend 12 fossil fuel calories for every calorie of food produce. In additions to our chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides (all derived from fossil fuels), we also use fossil fuels in food processing and packaging, to run farm machinery and to transport food halfway around the world. The transition in food production has already begun, with strong organic and buy local movements worldwide. Heinberg also supports the growing movement to use sustainable agriculture to sequester carbon ((carbon farming, aka the 4 per 1,000 initiative – see The Soil Solution to Climate Change).
• Construction – most of our commercial buildings are made of concrete and steel, which both require intensive fossil fuel input in production. Here he recommends a transition to recycled and more natural building materials and a conscious effort to design buildings to human scale. The splurge in high rise construction of the 20^th century was only possible due to a glut of cheap fossil fuel.
• Manufacturing – most manufacturing has already been electrified.
• Consumer electronics – Heinberg argues we need to make Smartphones more easily upgradable – enabling each of us to purchase one per lifetime. The pressure to replace Smartphones every year is deliberate “planned obsolescence” to increase profits.
• Plastics, paint, synthetics – natural ingredients (hemp can be used for all three) tends to be cheaper, more durable and less harmful to the environment.