The Internet Research Agency troll farm focused much of its attention on black audiences, creating "an expansive cross-platform media mirage targeting the Black community, which shared and cross-promoted authentic Black media to create an immersive influence ecosystem," per the New Knowledge report. The group’s cultivation of sometimes-unsuspecting on-the-ground collaborators was "substantially more pronounced on Black-targeted accounts."
It engaged in voter suppression. New Knowledge said that "the suppression narratives were targeted almost exclusively at the Black community on Instagram and Facebook" in the lead-up to the 2016 election. The IRA simultaneously targeted right-leaning audiences with content raising fears of voter fraud.
The Internet Research Agency troll farm focused much of its attention on black audiences, creating "an expansive cross-platform media mirage targeting the Black community, which shared and cross-promoted authentic Black media to create an immersive influence ecosystem," per the New Knowledge report. The group’s cultivation of sometimes-unsuspecting on-the-ground collaborators was "substantially more pronounced on Black-targeted accounts."
It engaged in voter suppression. New Knowledge said that "the suppression narratives were targeted almost exclusively at the Black community on Instagram and Facebook" in the lead-up to the 2016 election. The IRA simultaneously targeted right-leaning audiences with content raising fears of voter fraud.
It seems to me that Russia is even more racist, classist, and misogynistic than the US!!
NDPP wrote:
Especially if you believe nutty drivel like this. Good to see NR's favourite go-to Russophrenic Looney Louise Mensch back in the sticky thick of all this dreck too. Just keep digging that hole ever deeper Russiagaters. Soon you'll have buried yourselves completely. This is going to be fun. Can't wait to see Black Agenda Report rip you all a new one over this latest load...
"Steele assembled an anti-Trump 'dossier' of opposition research investigative firm Fusion GPS, which was in turn hired by DNC law firm Perkins Coie LLP. The document used a 'senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure', and 'a former top level intelligence officer still active in the Kremlin,' according to Vanity Fair. In other words, Hillary Clinton - through Steele and other intermediaries - was working with Russians against Donald Trump.
The dossier Steele produced was used as the basis for an FBI FISA surveillance warrant application to spy on members of the Trump campaign. Notably, the agency never told the FISA court that the dossier their application hinged on was paid for by the DNC and Hillary's campaign..."
Aaron Mate Provides Much Needed Fact & Sense on Russia-Gate
The 'collusion' illusion. "It's been obvious from the beginning that the reason we're supposed to talk about Russia is these neo-liberal Democrats who lost to one of the worst presidential candidates in history, a reality-TV show host, needed an excuse. And so we're supposed to believe that these facebook ads nobody saw somehow influenced people..."
"..The ruling class and the corporate media are frustrated that their claims have had little impact on popular consciousness, and very few people really believe Russia is responsible for social discontent in the United States. The claim, moreover, that Russian Twitter and Facebook posts are responsible for social discontent in the United States - the most unequal country in the world - is beyond ludicrous."
"The outlandish 'Russian interference' narrative just took a turn from the banal to blatantly disrespectful. This morning, the NYT decided to stop insulting our intelligence and instead chose to insult decency. This yellow press drivel is nothing more than propaganda that could have been written by George Wallace.
I chose to withold my support not because Russians conditioned me to think that way but because I refused to support a war mongering sociopath otherwise known as John McCain in pantsuits. I've followed Hillary Clinton's career long enough to know she is a corporate courtesan who can't get enough of destabilizing nations and enriching herself by trading access for cash. Furthermore, eight years of Obama catering to Wall St and embracing George Bush's war first policies was enough for me to tap out..."
That is true, but he was trying to help Israel by persuading the Russians to vote against a Security Council resolution, in conversations with Russian ambassador Kislyak. The question that immediately arises is "Why should the national security advisor to the president-elect have such major influence over Russian decisions?" Probably because the conversations also included promises to comply with Russian agenda items, such as getting rid of the Magnitsky law.
"Delay in Flynn sentencing is bad news for us all. It gives the Russiagate Racket an extra 3 months to speculate about Flynn's role in a Trump-Russia conspiracy when the case is mostly about Turkey and turns up zero on collusion - except for w/Israel, but we can't talk about that..."
"On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Colleen Rowley, a former FBI agent who in 2002 was named Time Magazine person of the year, and Dan Kovalik, a human rights and labor lawyer.
"A federal judge in Washington today delayed the highly anticpated sentencing of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn for lying to the FBI as part of the Mueller investigation related to lobbying he conducted as behalf of the degree to which Flynn cooperated in the Mueller probe, but Judge Emmett Sullivan's incendiary comments during the heavy led to the sentencing being delayed..."
"Russiagate hysteria is an international conspiracy with British spooks spreading lies on three continents. Now Black Americans are slandered as 'dupes' of Moscow.
The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and MSNBC hasn't covered this story. They repeat what Robert Mueller says about crooked and amateurish Trump allies who cheat on taxes or pay off porn stars. They repeated flimsy evidence of Russian collusion while America's allies in the UK cheat their own citizens of their rights. It is miraculous when the people are able to find out anything they need to know. These miracles occur when WikiLeaks or Anonymous steal secrets the powerful want to keep hidden. That is why the leakers and the hackers deserve support from anyone who wants to live in a truly democratic society..."
"Hailed by Congress and the media as defenders of democracy, high tech Russiagate hustlers Jonathan Morgan and Ryan Fox have been exposed for waging 'an elaborate false flag operation' to swing the 2017 Alabama senate race."
For those still open to questioning the media/state Gish Gallop* of "evidence".
A good critique in The Nation, much of it revealed previously, of the "Russia stole my election" BS as brought to you by the same warmongering state/media frauds that gave us, non-stop, Sadaam's WMD's.
New Studies Show Pundits Are Wrong About Russian Social-Media Involvement in US Politics Far from being a sophisticated propaganda campaign, it was small, amateurish, and mostly unrelated to the 2016 election.
[*"Gish Gallop is a technique, named after the creationist Duane Gish who employed it, whereby someone argues a cause by hurling as many different half-truths and no-truths into a very short space of time so that their opponent cannot hope to combat each point in real time."]
"On the 2nd anniversary of the 'assessment' blaming Russia for 'collusion' with Trump, there is still no evidence other than showing the media 'colluded' with the spooks, says Ray McGovern."
President Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter and instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other administration officials, current and former U.S. officials said.
President Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter and instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other administration officials, current and former U.S. officials said.
President Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter and instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other administration officials, current and former U.S. officials said.
Former U.S. officials said that Trump’s behavior is at odds with the known practices of previous presidents, who have relied on senior aides to witness meetings and take comprehensive notes then shared with other officials and departments.
But, I'm sure it's all just Deep State plotting against the one, true American patriot. After all, this doesn't look at all like the behaviour of a guilty person.
"...Among Russiagate's devout faithful, the report was treated as an earth-shattering revelation that reinforced their core dogma - i.e., that Donald Trump is a Kremlin agent installed in the White House by Vladimir Putin to destroy democracy.
Unfortunately, even the Times begrudgingly admitted - albeit buried in the ninth paragraph - that 'no evidence has emerged publicly that Mr Trump was secretly in contact or took direction from Russian government officials..."
"As we yell 'Treason' & speculate over whether Putin issued orders or manipulated Trump during their meeting, this detail seems important: Tillerson 'was present for the entirety' of it. Maybe the now fired ex-Sec of State is in on the 'treason'."
Apparently Trump didn't mind getting overheard by Tillerson, the former CEO of ExxonMobil whose 20 years of business experience in Russia included a fruitful partnership with Igor Sechin (an old KGB colleague of Putin's) and the giant Rosneft firm, and getting decorated in 2013 by Putin with the Order of Friendship.
"This is repulsive, homophobic gutter trash from the Chairman of the Democratic Coalition - of the kind that has historically been used for the most nefarious smears. But it's done with the right political ideology so it's fine."
"We are living in an age when Western propaganda has become truly intense, even surreal. Many in Canada and elsewhere in the West do believe in fairy-tales. It is not because the West 'doesn't know', but because it does everything it can in order not to know. Or if it knows or suspects, it makes sure to act as if it is ignorant..."
“Gates has answered questions specifically about Psy Group, an Israeli firm that ex-employees say drew up social media manipulation plans to help the Trump campaign…
President Donald Trump directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter.
"The Special Counsel team called a BuzzFeed report claiming Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen lied to Congress on his boss's order 'not accurate..."
"The Special Counsel team called a BuzzFeed report claiming Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen lied to Congress on his boss's order 'not accurate..."
It seems to me that Russia is even more racist, classist, and misogynistic than the US!!
Don't Laugh - It's Giving Putin What He Wants
https://t.co/VR3mGrXjYB
"The BBC has published an article titled 'How Putin's Russia turned humour into a weapon."
Russians also targeted Mueller:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/russian-disinformation-teams-targeted-robert-s-mueller-iii-says-report-prepared-for-senate/2018/12/17/0e0047f6-0230-11e9-8186-4ec26a485713_story.html?utm_term=.7e4e37cb1049
Fake news, as Jimmy Dore will soon prove beyond any doubt.
Christopher Steele Admits He Was Hired To Help [Crooked] Hillary Challenge 2016 Election
https://t.co/riy0dNIM5o
"Steele assembled an anti-Trump 'dossier' of opposition research investigative firm Fusion GPS, which was in turn hired by DNC law firm Perkins Coie LLP. The document used a 'senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure', and 'a former top level intelligence officer still active in the Kremlin,' according to Vanity Fair. In other words, Hillary Clinton - through Steele and other intermediaries - was working with Russians against Donald Trump.
The dossier Steele produced was used as the basis for an FBI FISA surveillance warrant application to spy on members of the Trump campaign. Notably, the agency never told the FISA court that the dossier their application hinged on was paid for by the DNC and Hillary's campaign..."
Aaron Mate Provides Much Needed Fact & Sense on Russia-Gate
https://youtu.be/2HBA3Zm3dGM
The 'collusion' illusion. "It's been obvious from the beginning that the reason we're supposed to talk about Russia is these neo-liberal Democrats who lost to one of the worst presidential candidates in history, a reality-TV show host, needed an excuse. And so we're supposed to believe that these facebook ads nobody saw somehow influenced people..."
Crooked Hillary? I didn’t know the stable genius posted here.
Flynn admits that he knowingly lied to the FBI about his Russian contacts, Judge postpones sentencing despit Mueller’s leniency recommendation.
https://mobile.twitter.com/mkraju/status/1075065185000452097
Further to #102:
Bigoted Paternalism Behind 'Russia Targeted African Americans' NY Times Article
https://ghionjournal.com/bigoted-paternalism/
"The outlandish 'Russian interference' narrative just took a turn from the banal to blatantly disrespectful. This morning, the NYT decided to stop insulting our intelligence and instead chose to insult decency. This yellow press drivel is nothing more than propaganda that could have been written by George Wallace.
I chose to withold my support not because Russians conditioned me to think that way but because I refused to support a war mongering sociopath otherwise known as John McCain in pantsuits. I've followed Hillary Clinton's career long enough to know she is a corporate courtesan who can't get enough of destabilizing nations and enriching herself by trading access for cash. Furthermore, eight years of Obama catering to Wall St and embracing George Bush's war first policies was enough for me to tap out..."
LOL. So reporting on a paternalistic effort by Russia is paternalism?
"Reminder because msm will downplay it: Michael Flynn was convicted for lying about Trump's efforts to help ISRAEL, not Russia."
https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/1075065150884012033
That is true, but he was trying to help Israel by persuading the Russians to vote against a Security Council resolution, in conversations with Russian ambassador Kislyak. The question that immediately arises is "Why should the national security advisor to the president-elect have such major influence over Russian decisions?" Probably because the conversations also included promises to comply with Russian agenda items, such as getting rid of the Magnitsky law.
Revenge of the Spies: Flynn Case...
https://on.rt.com/9kre
"Delay in Flynn sentencing is bad news for us all. It gives the Russiagate Racket an extra 3 months to speculate about Flynn's role in a Trump-Russia conspiracy when the case is mostly about Turkey and turns up zero on collusion - except for w/Israel, but we can't talk about that..."
Mike Flynn's Explosive Sentencing Hearing (podcast)
https://sptnkne.ws/krUZ
"On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Colleen Rowley, a former FBI agent who in 2002 was named Time Magazine person of the year, and Dan Kovalik, a human rights and labor lawyer.
"A federal judge in Washington today delayed the highly anticpated sentencing of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn for lying to the FBI as part of the Mueller investigation related to lobbying he conducted as behalf of the degree to which Flynn cooperated in the Mueller probe, but Judge Emmett Sullivan's incendiary comments during the heavy led to the sentencing being delayed..."
The Jimmy Dore Show
https://youtu.be/6dfNkaozUs
"Russia controls Americans' minds says NYT."
Freedom Rider, UK & US PSYOP Collusion
https://www.blackagendareport.com/freedom-rider-uk-and-us-psyop-collusion
"Russiagate hysteria is an international conspiracy with British spooks spreading lies on three continents. Now Black Americans are slandered as 'dupes' of Moscow.
The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and MSNBC hasn't covered this story. They repeat what Robert Mueller says about crooked and amateurish Trump allies who cheat on taxes or pay off porn stars. They repeated flimsy evidence of Russian collusion while America's allies in the UK cheat their own citizens of their rights. It is miraculous when the people are able to find out anything they need to know. These miracles occur when WikiLeaks or Anonymous steal secrets the powerful want to keep hidden. That is why the leakers and the hackers deserve support from anyone who wants to live in a truly democratic society..."
Do Russiagate Promoters Prefer Impeaching Trump to Avoiding War with Russia? (and vid)
https://www.thenation.com/article/do-russiagate-promoters-prefer-impeach...
"The year 2018 in the history of the Cold War."
So it can only be one or the other?
Yes, this is a prime example of a false dichotomy.
Inside the Integrity Initiative (and vid)
https://twitter.com/afshinrattansi/status/1077864712509911041
"Watch 'Inside the Integrity Initiative, the UK govt's information war on the public w/David Miller, to combat Russian 'disinformation'..."
Senate Report on Russian Interference Was Written by Disinformation Warriors Behind Alabama False Flag Operation
https://t.co/atbhDJAW5g
"Hailed by Congress and the media as defenders of democracy, high tech Russiagate hustlers Jonathan Morgan and Ryan Fox have been exposed for waging 'an elaborate false flag operation' to swing the 2017 Alabama senate race."
For those still open to questioning the media/state Gish Gallop* of "evidence".
A good critique in The Nation, much of it revealed previously, of the "Russia stole my election" BS as brought to you by the same warmongering state/media frauds that gave us, non-stop, Sadaam's WMD's.
https://www.thenation.com/article/russiagate-elections-interference/
[*"Gish Gallop is a technique, named after the creationist Duane Gish who employed it, whereby someone argues a cause by hurling as many different half-truths and no-truths into a very short space of time so that their opponent cannot hope to combat each point in real time."]
https://goo.gl/images/EdWzFK
Jimmy Dore Interview
https://youtu.be/Qancv7bG4MY
RussiaGate hysteria...
A Look Back At Clapper's 2017 'Assessment' on Russia-Gate
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/01/07/a-look-back-at-clappers-jan-2017-a...
"On the 2nd anniversary of the 'assessment' blaming Russia for 'collusion' with Trump, there is still no evidence other than showing the media 'colluded' with the spooks, says Ray McGovern."
The Jimmy Dore Show
https://youtu.be/jvaeQhrs7Po
"Revealed: US spy operation manipulating social media."
Romney Niece’s Tweet-Bashing of Uncle Mitt Was ‘Dictated’ by RNC, Says Michael Steele
https://observer.com/2019/01/michael-steele-ronna-mcdaniel-anti-romney-t...
Exclusive: Mueller Is Holding Top Secret Intelligence That Will Sink the Trump Presidency
https://observer.com/2019/01/robert-mueller-top-secret-intelligence-will...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/jan/10/trump-us-mexico-bor...
"The essence of Russiagate - over and over and over and over and over...."
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1083332728194510848
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/us/politics/fbi-trump-russia-inquiry.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
The Manafort Revelation is NOT a Smoking Gun
https://t.co/R8hrkTBPSn
"Proponents of the Trump-Russia collusion theory wildly overstate their case again..."
The gentleman doth protests too much, methinks.
Trump goes to great lengths to have discussions with Putin secret.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-has-concealed-details-of-his-face-to-face-encounters-with-putin-from-senior-officials-in-administration/2019/01/12/65f6686c-1434-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html?utm_term=.123701032e99
Trump 'Serves' Putin?
https://twitter.com/OffGuardian0/status/1084097609332113408
"Literal insanity."
Literal insanity? Or rationale behavior?
I'm sure Jimmy Dore has an explanation.
More from the same WaPo article:
But, I'm sure it's all just Deep State plotting against the one, true American patriot. After all, this doesn't look at all like the behaviour of a guilty person.
Twitter Erupts After NYT Reveals FBI Probe into Trump-Russia Links That Lead...Nowhere
https://on.rt.com/9m6w
"...Among Russiagate's devout faithful, the report was treated as an earth-shattering revelation that reinforced their core dogma - i.e., that Donald Trump is a Kremlin agent installed in the White House by Vladimir Putin to destroy democracy.
Unfortunately, even the Times begrudgingly admitted - albeit buried in the ninth paragraph - that 'no evidence has emerged publicly that Mr Trump was secretly in contact or took direction from Russian government officials..."
"As we yell 'Treason' & speculate over whether Putin issued orders or manipulated Trump during their meeting, this detail seems important: Tillerson 'was present for the entirety' of it. Maybe the now fired ex-Sec of State is in on the 'treason'."
https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1084256591791247360
As Yastreblyansky points out:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/13/trump-russia-collusio...
In Western Media Publishing Fake News About Russia Is A Good Career Move...With No Consequences
https://on.rt.com/9lxc
The Democratic Coalition Smears Lindsey Graham over 'Some Pretty Serious Kink'
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1084555045650210817
"This is repulsive, homophobic gutter trash from the Chairman of the Democratic Coalition - of the kind that has historically been used for the most nefarious smears. But it's done with the right political ideology so it's fine."
"WaPo finally comes clean that there's nothing to the Russia Facebook meddling narrative and their readers lose their minds."
https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1084227044286689281
The Dossier Network:
https://twitter.com/Nellie_Ohr/status/1084655614049939456
"The actors, the entities and relationships."
Western Public 'Does Not Know' or 'Does Not Wish To Know?'
https://journal-neo.org/2018/11/27/western-public-does-not-know-or-does-...
"We are living in an age when Western propaganda has become truly intense, even surreal. Many in Canada and elsewhere in the West do believe in fairy-tales. It is not because the West 'doesn't know', but because it does everything it can in order not to know. Or if it knows or suspects, it makes sure to act as if it is ignorant..."
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/579811/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rick-gates-tells-mueller-about-trump-teams-dealings-with-israeli-intelligence-firm?ref=home
The Jimmy Dore Show
https://youtu.be/V_0e558BpHk
"Another bogus RussiaGate story by NY Times."
Doesn't matter. The same chumps will bite the same hook again and again.
The Jimmy Dore Show
https://youtu.be/vLkIlZizLdc
"Mueller will NOT charge collusion says ABC News."
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/trump-russia-cohen-moscow-tower-mueller-investigation
Twitter Pillories BuzzFeed After Mueller Team Dismisses 'Bombshell' on Cohen & Trump
https://on.rt.com/9ml0
"The Special Counsel team called a BuzzFeed report claiming Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen lied to Congress on his boss's order 'not accurate..."
Yawn...another nothingburger.
So believe Mueller or not?
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