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Wrong continent, tho survived

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 20:59:43 +0000

In reply to Wait, what? So you were the

Wrong continent, tho survived the LA earthquakes

Wait, what? So you were the

jollyroger — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 20:39:01 +0000

In reply to I've largely lost track, but

Wait, what? So you were the guy that those assholes were actually trying to off when they started blasting away on the freeway near San Fran?

sites targeting U.S.military

artappraiser — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 20:37:55 +0000

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sites targeting U.S.military peeps from a piece today @ The Hill:

[....] The Oxford University study found that three websites with Kremlin ties — Veteranstoday.com, Veteransnewsnow.com and Southfront.org — engaged in “significant and persistent interactions” with the U.S. military community, McClatchy highlighted Monday.

“We’ve found an entire ecosystem of junk news about national security issues that is deliberately crafted for U.S. veterans and active military personnel,” professor Philip Howard, who led the research in the study, told the newswire.

“It’s a complex blend of content with a Russian view of the world — wild rumors and conspiracies.” [....]

Holy shit, that's Liv Tyler!.

jollyroger — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 20:34:50 +0000

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Holy shit, that's Liv Tyler!....as to the rest, more to come.

WaPo also had this piece of

artappraiser — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 19:57:51 +0000

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WaPo also had this piece of reporting yesterday from Shusary, Russia: The notorious Kremlin-linked ‘troll farm’ and the Russians trying to take it down

including a picture of the queen bee troll hunter:

Caption Lyudmila Savchuk in her apartment in St. Petersburg, in 2015. “I wanted to take down this factory of lies,” she says. (Dmitry Lovetsky/AP)

I was reluctant to label her a female superhero because she looks so exhausted.

Speaking of forensics, Google

moat — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 16:15:53 +0000

In reply to 100's of millions of reads,

Speaking of forensics, Google just googled it.
The stain spreads ever larger.

Thanks Michael, very much

artappraiser — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 17:15:28 +0000

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Thanks Michael, very much appreciate learning this and yes, his definition is still capturing the essence.

As far as "I know it when I see it" current examples, Dana Milbank @ WaPo did this great list today which I recommend, especially for those who can't stomach keeping track of winger media: A dispatch from Deep State Command He has clearly been making a list, checking it twice, on Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and everyone at Breitbart media.

I particularly like this "Operation Endgame" example from Milbank, as it truly explains nearly everything troubling about our current world. First noting that Jones feels that O.J.'s release from prison in Nevada coming 20 hrs. before the Las Vegas massacre is not a coincidence, he goes on to point out:

"The whole thing has the hallmarks of being scripted by deep-state Democrats and their Islamic allies using mental-patient cutouts,” Jones reported. At this, a cheer went up at Deep State Command. As always, representatives of the various deep-state entities — intelligence officials; bureaucrats from the Justice Department, Education Department, EPA and NASA; journalists; globalists; Jews; sundry elites; and the Prince of Norway — were on duty. As luck would have it, I was doing my monthly shift that day.

We weren’t cheering about the deaths, mind you. But such American carnage is unavoidable, given the goal of Operation ENDGAME, our plan to euthanize 80 percent of the world’s population so global elites can live forever using advanced technology.

Yes, the effort to insert

moat — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 00:59:42 +0000

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Yes, the effort to insert themselves into so many different conversations not directly tied to a result is a disturbance. The scope of work involved with such deception is as frightening as any particular outcome it produces.

In terms of dystopian parallels, it is more Fahrenheit 451 than Manchurian Candidate.

I've largely lost track, but

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 19:14:15 +0000

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I've largely lost track, but sure they've morphed - half the countries are part of the EU now, and much of the basic catching up technology wise is handled, whereas populism and cronyism go on forever. Slovakia, Hungary have continual political problems, but it's the non-East Europe Greece that had the financial meltdown. Standard of living is low in CEE and Balkans, but not so bad as to contribute to the unrest.

That's really cool. What is

Michael Wolraich — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 18:37:44 +0000

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That's really cool. What is OSI up to now? Have they morphed since the 90s?