some Loudon Wainwright III political humor to prepare myself for what's to come
from President Trump, Religious Right, Putin, Netanyahu and Alex "Zoolander" Jones.
"In Russia, farms of online trolls systematically harass democratic voices and spread false information on the Internet and on social media" Eric Schmidt CEO, Alphabet (Google)
The above is far from confined to only Russia's local internet...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/17/how-pro-trump-twitter-bots-spread-fake-
news.html?via=desktop&source=twitter...Gideon Resnick
The Paranoid Style As Weaponized Disinformation:
"In fact, the idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little
contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with
profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more
or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant."...The Paranoid Style in American Politics”, historian Richard Hofstadter, 1964
http://www.cjr.org/analysis/breitbart-media-trump-harvard-study.php
From the above Columbia Journalism Review March 3, 2017:
"What we find in our data is a network of mutually-reinforcing hyper-partisan sites that
revive what Richard Hofstadter called “the paranoid style in American politics,” combining decontextualized truths, repeated falsehoods, and leaps of logic to create a fundamentally misleading view of the world."
"“Fake news,” which implies made of whole cloth by politically disinterested parties
out to make a buck of Facebook advertising dollars, rather than propaganda and disinformation, is not an adequate term. By repetition, variation, and circulation
through many associated sites, the network of sites make their claims familiar to
readers, and this fluency with the core narrative gives credence to the incredible" ...benkler-faris-roberts-and-zuckerman, Columbia Journalism Review
contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with
profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more
or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant."...The Paranoid Style in American Politics”, historian Richard Hofstadter, 1964
http://www.cjr.org/analysis/breitbart-media-trump-harvard-study.php
From the above Columbia Journalism Review March 3, 2017:
"What we find in our data is a network of mutually-reinforcing hyper-partisan sites that
revive what Richard Hofstadter called “the paranoid style in American politics,” combining decontextualized truths, repeated falsehoods, and leaps of logic to create a fundamentally misleading view of the world."
"“Fake news,” which implies made of whole cloth by politically disinterested parties
out to make a buck of Facebook advertising dollars, rather than propaganda and disinformation, is not an adequate term. By repetition, variation, and circulation
through many associated sites, the network of sites make their claims familiar to
readers, and this fluency with the core narrative gives credence to the incredible" ...benkler-faris-roberts-and-zuckerman, Columbia Journalism Review
out at Russia on Wednesday, accusing the government of President Vladimir V. Putin of demonstrating a “clear ambition to erode” international order and warning Russia to stay
out of the American elections. Russia plainly ignored that admonition."
https://www.buzzfeed.com/miriamelder/trumps-critics-are-letting-the-bigger-russia-story-slide?utm_term=.ivkEvpYmK#.hcPWrde61
THE UNPOSSIBLE FILES:
IMO, this has been happening for a decade. Russian troll network disinformation merging
their message with elements of the U.S. and Israeli Religious Right, the Trump friendly National Enquirer and Alex Jones occurred long before prominent Republican's like
Trump, Pat Buchanan, Rudy Giuliani, Ralph Peters, Rep. Steve King praised Putin for
his so-called moral and political leadership. Putin is Christian. At least he says he is.
The above more than take his word while questioning their own leader's religion and citizenship. None dare call it_____(guess)
their message with elements of the U.S. and Israeli Religious Right, the Trump friendly National Enquirer and Alex Jones occurred long before prominent Republican's like
Trump, Pat Buchanan, Rudy Giuliani, Ralph Peters, Rep. Steve King praised Putin for
his so-called moral and political leadership. Putin is Christian. At least he says he is.
The above more than take his word while questioning their own leader's religion and citizenship. None dare call it_____(guess)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-13/will-putin-and-trump-bond-over-oil
What else do all of them have in common? All are funded by oil and might want the
price of same to go to "at least" $75 a bbl. to bailout the oil economies of Texas, Alaska,
Kansas, Oklahoma, and last but not least, Russia. Iran, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela etc.
Putin and Russia might very well want Antarctica to melt for it's oil which means,
at least for them and for red states, global warming doesn't exist as a big problem.
They all know that it's caused by humans but economics causes them to "unknow"
inconvenient facts.
Kansas, Oklahoma, and last but not least, Russia. Iran, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela etc.
Putin and Russia might very well want Antarctica to melt for it's oil which means,
at least for them and for red states, global warming doesn't exist as a big problem.
They all know that it's caused by humans but economics causes them to "unknow"
inconvenient facts.
Gov. Sam Brownback of Kansas now looks like a genius in promoting tax cuts and supply-
side economics. It helps that his state of Kansas is the Koch Brothers home base. The
right wing put their faith in oil, in Putin, in Koch, in Exxon CEO and future Sec. of State,
Rex Tillerson, in Donald Fucking Trump and, last but not least, in fear and doom ultra-nationalism. A potent combination. A vindication of Czar Putin, Trump's financial,
cybernetic, hacking and financial backer of last resort. They won. It started before
Benghazi but they won.
"In a report dated May 21, Internet Research Agency commercial director
Svetlana Boiko discussed the progress of the trolling project’s $75,000 trial
period, which began April 10. The report says that during that period, the
trolls left more than 2,500 comments on 30 different news websites, tweeted
1,220 times from 12 accounts, wrote 85 Facebook posts, posted 175 times in an unspecified number of forums, and made five bizarre YouTube videos attacking
the U.S. government."
"Bizarre" YT videos attacking U.S.? Deliberately using "bizarre" "paranoid modes
of expression" as a means of spreading not misinformation but disinformation by
Psy-war troll farm networks whose deliberately demented content is offset by shear
numbers of You Tube channels, deliberately psychotic You Tube supporting
comments and further offset by officious British accented narrators. Thousands
of bogus YT channels, fake comments, blogs, fake news, fake (Above Top Secret)
forums and websites with "news" "government (implied U.S. government) doesn't
want you to know."
The above is now referred to as U.S. Cold War paranoid McCarthyism by so-called
journalistic gatekeepers like Glenn Greenwald and Max Blumenthal. The term Russophobia is seen in what's left of comment sections with all expected exaggerated
formality, feigned insult and pointed accusing finger of fake political correctness
thrown back at US liberals. Only slightly exaggerated: "At the end of the day sir,
have you no shame? With your insulting Russophobic baseless accusations.
Where's your proof? It is indeed a sad day." IOW, beyond satire and sarcasm.
of expression" as a means of spreading not misinformation but disinformation by
Psy-war troll farm networks whose deliberately demented content is offset by shear
numbers of You Tube channels, deliberately psychotic You Tube supporting
comments and further offset by officious British accented narrators. Thousands
of bogus YT channels, fake comments, blogs, fake news, fake (Above Top Secret)
forums and websites with "news" "government (implied U.S. government) doesn't
want you to know."
The above is now referred to as U.S. Cold War paranoid McCarthyism by so-called
journalistic gatekeepers like Glenn Greenwald and Max Blumenthal. The term Russophobia is seen in what's left of comment sections with all expected exaggerated
formality, feigned insult and pointed accusing finger of fake political correctness
thrown back at US liberals. Only slightly exaggerated: "At the end of the day sir,
have you no shame? With your insulting Russophobic baseless accusations.
Where's your proof? It is indeed a sad day." IOW, beyond satire and sarcasm.
FROM THE ABOVE 2014 BUZZFEED LINK (forcing wider coverage):
"Russia’s campaign to shape international opinion around its invasion of
Ukraine has extended to recruiting and training a new cadre of online
trolls that have been deployed to spread the Kremlin’s message on the
comments section of top American websites."
"Plans attached to emails leaked by a mysterious Russian hacker collective
show IT managers reporting on a new ideological front against the West in the comments sections of Fox News, Huffington Post, The Blaze, Politico, and WorldNetDaily." (Fake newspeak: shocking, appalling and cause for concern)
"The bizarre hive of social media activity appears to be part of a
two-pronged Kremlin campaign to claim control over the internet, launching a million-dollar army of trolls to mold American public opinion as it cracks down on internet freedom at home."
Ukraine has extended to recruiting and training a new cadre of online
trolls that have been deployed to spread the Kremlin’s message on the
comments section of top American websites."
"Plans attached to emails leaked by a mysterious Russian hacker collective
show IT managers reporting on a new ideological front against the West in the comments sections of Fox News, Huffington Post, The Blaze, Politico, and WorldNetDaily." (Fake newspeak: shocking, appalling and cause for concern)
"The bizarre hive of social media activity appears to be part of a
two-pronged Kremlin campaign to claim control over the internet, launching a million-dollar army of trolls to mold American public opinion as it cracks down on internet freedom at home."
Not to mention an army of Russian hackers and trolls influencing the 2016
elections with help from the RNC, Wikileaks, and DNC incompetence
in failing to heed repeated FBI phone calls in Sept 2015 that high ranking
DNC computers and emails had been breached.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html?
_r=0
https://newrepublic.com/article/138019/right-giving-democracy
Explaining evangelical support for Trump via Jeet Heer of The New Republic:
"More recently, a virtual Vladimir Putin cult has arisen among religious conservatives longing for a return to cultural purity."
old comment sections are the least of new Cold War blizzard of lies tactics.
They are way down in terms of importance. Sowing fear and doubt by increments: hacking the internet, large corporations, banks, candidate emails. Soon to come: possible political blackmail of the Trump White House,
effusive praise of Putin by a growing number of Republicans, right wing governments across Europe. Which possibly means every country on Russia's
border, EU countries Italy and Merkel's Germany. Meet the new New World Order of oil elites.
The 2016 NYC explosions on 23rd Street three blocks from where I live
where no one was killed and all injured were released from the hospital
the next morning were a prelude to something worse. The Nov. 8th
election of Donald Trump.
The fact that the explosions occurred across the street from the home
of TPM editor and virulent Trump foe, Josh Marshall and his family
has to be an unfortunate coincidence. He and his family were elsewhere
at the time. Marshall was writing editorial after editorial critical of
Putin's relationship with Trump and Russian backing of New York City's
Trump Soho hotel.
Now the Republican base grinds clenched teeth as a Trump regime takes shape. Even as the WSJ suggested in response to the Trump rape tapes that, if elected, Trump would resign after taking the oath whether on his own or by prompting
by the RNC with VP Pense then taking the oath and Chief Justice Roberts
having to get it right a second time as he was forced to do whether deliberately
or through incompetence in 2009.
As liberal Keith Olbermann and conservative David Frum have
recently tweeted, the 25th Amendment Article 4 will be getting
a lot of scrutiny even as Trump concedes $25 million in restitution
regarding Trump U to NYS AG, Schneiderman. The only reason
it wasn't bigger was because statutes of limitations had run out.
If Trump had been defeated he wouldn't have paid the 25 million.
My personal and worldwide Nightmare Before Christmas continues for
four - eight more years with Trump's Republican Party much more of a
danger than he is with legislative powers much greater than the last
time they lost the popular vote and assumed a mandate to govern.
They will do so with or without the Soprano level R/ E gangster unless
he has something really terrible on them.
It's become a tradition for Republican's to use the #1 spot as a foil to
distract while the big boys, in this case Pense, Ryan and Tillerson
run the show. While the compliant mainstream and the subservient
to insanity right wing Breitbart, Drudge play "what will Pres. Donald J,
Melania (damn spellcheck) and Ivanka say today?"
elections with help from the RNC, Wikileaks, and DNC incompetence
in failing to heed repeated FBI phone calls in Sept 2015 that high ranking
DNC computers and emails had been breached.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html?
_r=0
https://newrepublic.com/article/138019/right-giving-democracy
Explaining evangelical support for Trump via Jeet Heer of The New Republic:
"More recently, a virtual Vladimir Putin cult has arisen among religious conservatives longing for a return to cultural purity."
Putin’s macho bearing, his hostility to LGBT rights, and his fusion of nationalism with support for the Russian Orthodoxy all make him an attractive figure to right-wing Christians disenchanted with Obama’s socially liberal America.
Franklin Graham, heir to the most influential American
evangelist, says Putin should be celebrated for taking
“a stand" to protect his nation’s children from the
damaging effects of any gay and lesbian agenda,” even as “America’s own morality has fallen so far on this issue.”
Rush Limbaugh cheers Putin for opposing “a full-frontal assault on what has always been considered normalcy.” Religious Right stalward Bryan Fischer, host of the radio program Focal Point, has hailed Putin as a “lion of Christianity.” Sam Rohrer, president of the America
Pastors Network, calls the Russian president “the moral
leader of the world.”.....Jeet Heer Oct 24, 2016
Disinformation soft news and comments on YT videos and on HuffPoevangelist, says Putin should be celebrated for taking
“a stand" to protect his nation’s children from the
damaging effects of any gay and lesbian agenda,” even as “America’s own morality has fallen so far on this issue.”
Rush Limbaugh cheers Putin for opposing “a full-frontal assault on what has always been considered normalcy.” Religious Right stalward Bryan Fischer, host of the radio program Focal Point, has hailed Putin as a “lion of Christianity.” Sam Rohrer, president of the America
Pastors Network, calls the Russian president “the moral
leader of the world.”.....Jeet Heer Oct 24, 2016
old comment sections are the least of new Cold War blizzard of lies tactics.
They are way down in terms of importance. Sowing fear and doubt by increments: hacking the internet, large corporations, banks, candidate emails. Soon to come: possible political blackmail of the Trump White House,
effusive praise of Putin by a growing number of Republicans, right wing governments across Europe. Which possibly means every country on Russia's
border, EU countries Italy and Merkel's Germany. Meet the new New World Order of oil elites.
The 2016 NYC explosions on 23rd Street three blocks from where I live
where no one was killed and all injured were released from the hospital
the next morning were a prelude to something worse. The Nov. 8th
election of Donald Trump.
The fact that the explosions occurred across the street from the home
of TPM editor and virulent Trump foe, Josh Marshall and his family
has to be an unfortunate coincidence. He and his family were elsewhere
at the time. Marshall was writing editorial after editorial critical of
Putin's relationship with Trump and Russian backing of New York City's
Trump Soho hotel.
Now the Republican base grinds clenched teeth as a Trump regime takes shape. Even as the WSJ suggested in response to the Trump rape tapes that, if elected, Trump would resign after taking the oath whether on his own or by prompting
by the RNC with VP Pense then taking the oath and Chief Justice Roberts
having to get it right a second time as he was forced to do whether deliberately
or through incompetence in 2009.
As liberal Keith Olbermann and conservative David Frum have
recently tweeted, the 25th Amendment Article 4 will be getting
a lot of scrutiny even as Trump concedes $25 million in restitution
regarding Trump U to NYS AG, Schneiderman. The only reason
it wasn't bigger was because statutes of limitations had run out.
If Trump had been defeated he wouldn't have paid the 25 million.
My personal and worldwide Nightmare Before Christmas continues for
four - eight more years with Trump's Republican Party much more of a
danger than he is with legislative powers much greater than the last
time they lost the popular vote and assumed a mandate to govern.
They will do so with or without the Soprano level R/ E gangster unless
he has something really terrible on them.
It's become a tradition for Republican's to use the #1 spot as a foil to
distract while the big boys, in this case Pense, Ryan and Tillerson
run the show. While the compliant mainstream and the subservient
to insanity right wing Breitbart, Drudge play "what will Pres. Donald J,
Melania (damn spellcheck) and Ivanka say today?"
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