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Google Says Russian Operatives Made 1,100 YouTube Videos During Campaign
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckrak...0%28TPMNews%29
Podesta thought he could cuck the Tuck
Google Says Russian Operatives Made 1,100 YouTube Videos During Campaign
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckrak...0%28TPMNews%29
You do know Podesta was working for Manafort, right?Podesta thought he could cuck the Tuck
Fox to Offer Twenty-Four-Hour Coverage of Bill Clinton’s Impeachment
NEW YORK —Calling it
a story “too hot for the other cable-news networks to handle,”
Fox News Channel announced on Tuesday that it would begin airing twenty-four-hour coverage of Bill Clinton’s 1998–99 impeachment.
Fox anchor Sean Hannity announced the programming change, telling viewers that Fox would devote all its resources to reporting the Clinton impeachment to the exclusion of all other news stories.
“This story has everything: sex, lies, and misdeeds at the highest levels of our government,”
Hannity said. “We are planning to flood the zone to bring it to you.”
Calling it
“the story Bill and Hillary Clinton don’t want you to hear,”
Hannity said Fox would be unstinting in its effort to get to the bottom of the impeachment.
“For years, this hushed-up chapter of our history has been shrouded in silence,” Hannity said. “That silence ends today.”
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/fox-to-offer-twenty-four-hour-coverage-of-bill-clintons-impeachment
If Trump seems hysterical now, just wait.
The intensity of Trump's frenzy underscores the peril in which the president now finds himself.
Beyond the indictments unsealed Monday morning, Trump does not know what special counsel Robert Mueller has uncovered;
which witnesses are flippable;
what financial do ents have revealed about the Trump business empire; and
whether, for example, Mueller finds support for an obstruction of justice charge from Trump's own public dissembling (e.g., hinting at non-existent tapes of former FBI director James Comey).
For someone who insists on holding all the cards and intimidating others, Trump finds himself in a uniquely powerless position.
Republicans should be saying publicly that efforts to fire Mueller and/or pardon indicted figures will commence impeachment proceedings.
Right now that is a theoretical question, but given how rattled Trump seems to be, we shouldn't rule out the possibility.
It should surprise no one that
congressional Republicans, who have demonstrated their spinelessness again and again, are silent.
They've got themselves fixated on tax reform, which they irrationally conclude will be imperiled if they try to head off Trump from doing something catastrophic with regard to Mueller or pardons.
if Trump is this hysterical now, one wonders what he'll be like if a stream of indictments relating to the campaign and/or obstruction of justice begins.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-trump-paul-manafort-20171030-story.html#testnws=politicsnow&track=_newsletter_p olitics-now___________20171031
Draining the swamp for trump.
It just has to be the democratic part of the swamp.
Manafort getting slayed led to the Podesta stuff. And now all these lobbyists for foreign countries are scared. That's good. But Manafort, that's bad because that's Trumps man.
Meanwhile Republicans and Trump need to keep their eye on the ball:
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/...e-trump-244380
Wake the fck up... WH fools. CC "why don't we try to have better relations?" Ohhh, no reason. Fcking with Democracy is just fine. We like authoritarians who kill political opponents and despise democracy. The Russians ain't so bad? We could be like them.
Boots thinking the Russians are all in on Trump as well...
When/if both sides get strung up because of Mueller's work, only your hardcores like Boots, Ducks, djohn, Chris et. al will be upset when this can be a real win for We the ing People...I hope this takes down "the establishment" as a whole as much as possible.
Manafort has as many passports as all Trump voters combined
Officer At Bank Where Manafort Hid His Money? Trump's Sec Of Commerce!
STEPHANIE RUHLE: Ali Velshi, put Russia aside.
You have nine detailed pages of a Paul Manafort money trail.
During the campaign, I went to see one of President Trump's largest Wall Street backers. He said,
"Donald Trump, when it comes to business is a sloppy guy. There's a lot of business he's not going to want to be revealed."
Whether you're talking about Paul Manafort or you continue the web, where was a lot of that money funneled through?
I mentioned it earlier. Cypress!
Wilbur Ross, Commerce Secretary, sits on the board of that bank. In 2014 he bought a stake in that bank.
ALI VELSHI: It could be a weird coincidence.
RUHLE: It could be a weird coincidence. But we can call Papadopoulos a coffee boy all day long.
But if you have 75 million bucks being laundered and by the way, your commerce secretary sits on that board,
I assure you, Robert Mueller is going to have more questions.
It doesn't matter, if the White House wants to deflect and distract.
Robert Mueller isn't getting distracted.
And in case you think Ross isn't hiding anything else?
Forbes reported last week that "between the November election and January inauguration,
he had quietly moved a chunk of assets into trusts for his family members,
leaving more than $2 billion off of his financial disclosure report—and therefore out of the public eye.
Ross revealed the existence of those assets, and the timing of the transfer, when Forbes asked why his financial disclosure form listed fewer assets than he had previously told the magazine he owned."
Must be nice to have those kind of problems, where to HIDE 2 billion dollars of your assets so federal government oversight can't look at where you got it.
Drain the swamp, Trump chumps!
http://crooksandliars.com/2017/10/of...ontent=2150820
Remember that Mnunchin "forgot" he had $100M stashed down in the Caribbean
Repugs, or Pootin, staffed up Trash's campaign and cabinet with 1%ers and criminals, ALL with deep Russian connections.
What are chances of innocent coincidence?
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Papadopoulos told Russians that Trump campaign gave him green light to set up meetings
An FBI affidavit shows that the 30-year-old adviser boasted that he got the go-ahead from his “side” when emailing with Russian operatives about potential meeting with high-level campaign officials.
According to the Washington Examiner, the affidavit was left out of the court do ents listing Papadopoulos’ guilty plea.
Though prosecutors did not provide a reason as to why the email was left out, it’s possible they did so because they believed he was lying.
Papadopoulos “allegedly sent the email shortly before the Republican National Convention in 2016 and noted that it would include ‘my national chairman and maybe one other foreign policy adviser,’ along with members of Putin’s office and Russia’s foreign ministry,” the Examiner‘s report noted.
“Papadopoulos then said it had been approved by ‘our side.'”
There’s no evidence to prove whether the meeting happened, or who the national chairman would be.
The Examiner‘s report also noted that Paul Manafort, who was indicted yesterday for conspiracy charges along with his deputy Rick Gates, was the campaign’s chairman at the time.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/pap...e+Raw+Story%29
Before and after Russia probe indictments, Fox News worked feverishly to discredit the investigation
Fox News went on an absolute tear against Mueller—with talking heads like
Sean Hannity demanding the special counsel resign.
They also engaged in one of the most transparent attempts at partisan propaganda-peddling the network had ever undertaken,
suddenly puffing up a conspiracy theory linking Hillary Clinton to uranium mining
that had never before taken root among conservatives because
it had always been a wee bit too stupid-sounding even for the Sean Hannity crowd.
(but not too stupid for Spurstalk assholes)
A week later, that push appears to be
clear evidence that Fox had information that indictments were forthcoming—and was seeking to undermine their impact.
This would be unthinkable for a "news" operation, but as a network devoted to propagandizing
the news in service to a narrow subset of the Republican agenda, it was unsurprising.
Vox took it upon themselves to analyze how the Fox network covered the Mueller investigation, the guilty plea of Trump campaign adviser Papadopoulos, and the indictment of campaign head Paul Manafort.
The Fox efforts to propagandize the news were robust, consisting both of substantive omissions.
Fox also talked significantly less about George Papadopoulos ... than its compe ors.
And contrafactual misdirections:
Both of these stories were used by Fox News to say the Mueller investigation is really about Clinton and the FBI.
Conservative news outlets bought into this framing and ran with it.
In fact, even as Mueller was about to bring indictments, Fox News couldn’t stop talking about the investigation in the context of Clinton
And after the indictments were made public, Fox doubled down on their efforts to discredit not the indicted Trump aides, but the man who indicted them.
the efforts Fox took to preemptively attack Mueller on the eve of the released indictments, now that's interesting.
The urgent (and bizarre) focus on a new "Uranium One" conspiracy came just days before the Mueller investigation produced its first guilty plea from a member of the Trump campaign team;
outside observers can be forgiven for wondering whether the network had received advance information about the state of the Mueller probe that drove the new efforts to muddy the waters of the Russia election-hacking investigation.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1711434
A week of Fox News transcripts shows how they began questioning Mueller’s credibility
https://www.vox.com/2017/10/31/16571...er-credibility
Repugs have taken the Hannity "Hillary Uranium" bait (maybe they created it and told Hannity to run with it? ) and are opening "Benghazi / Christmas card list / Whitewater" investigations.
what a ey level of sack of
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Makes Things A Million Times Worse By Comparing Robert E. Lee To JFK
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended Robert E. Lee by comparing him to Washington, Jefferson, JFK, and FDR while ignoring that Robert E. Lee tried to destroy the nation that those presidents led.
“Look, all of our leaders have flaws, Washington, Jefferson, JFK, Roosevelt, Kennedy, that doesn’t diminish their contributions to our country,
and it certainly can’t erase them from our history, and
General Kelly was simply making the point that just because history isn’t perfect doesn’t mean that it’s not our history.”
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=266387&page=322&p=9176408#post917 6408
Lee leading a war to destroy the Union and preserve slavery puts him up there with all the other American Presidents.
Boots still lost in the election results.
Meanwhile the Russians keep trying to create havoc in a Democratic system. Trump seething because Manafort gets taken down for things that have zero to do with the election. Boots still wallowing in election misery. The Russians need to realize we can fck things up on our own with these two camps that can't think straight and only care about retribution against each other. Just keep creating as much psuedo boogeymen as possible.
The "deep state" ; boo!
Big _______ (fill in anything) ; boo!
And now finally Meuller does the citizens a favor and it goes unnoticed because both Republicans and Democrats are in the mix.
Whatever The Reports About Russian Trolls Buying Ads Is Initially, It's Way, Way Worse
it's always, always worse than first reported.
Yahoo just went through this having finally admitted that literally every email account was compromised way back in 2013 after having first said it was only a few hundred thousand accounts that were impacted.
Deloitte and Equifax followed this same playbook with their own breaches, trickling out little by little just how wide an impact those hacks had achieved.
Facebook itself estimated that 11.4 million people saw ads bought by the IRA over the course of two years or so, which is not the kind of number that sets off all four alarms at the democracy firehouse.
But Facebook has now given everyone a better idea of how much reach these ads actually had. And these numbers are far more alarming.
Facebook will inform lawmakers this week that roughly 126 million Americans may have been exposed to content generated on its platform by the Russian government-linked troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency between June 2015 and August 2017,
CNN has learned. In written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, a copy of which was obtained by CNN, Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch says that 29 million people were served content directly from the Internet Research Agency, and that after sharing among users is accounted for, a total of "approximately 126 million people" may have seen it.
Facebook does not know, however, how many of those 126 million people actually saw one of those posts, or how many may have scrolled past it or simply not logged in on the day that one of the posts was being served in their News Feed.
The inability to nail down just how many eyeballs viewed these ads is, of course, due to the nature of social media.
Buying the ads and targeting primary viewers of them is one thing, but it's the sharing and re-sharing of those ads that extend their reach exponentially.
And it's quite nice of Facebook to come right out and admit that it actually has no idea how many people viewed these ads, even as it offers up estimates to the contrary.
This is a feature of a social media platform like Facebook, not a bug.
And, to the IRA's credit, it's a brilliant and inexpensive method for having some measure of influence in a foreign country's democracy.
Facebook builds a sharing tool and these folks take advantage of the very nature of that tool.
Facebook's attempt to downplay all of this all the more perplexing.
Nevertheless, Facebook says in its testimony that the posts from those pages represented "a tiny fraction of the overall content on Facebook."
"This equals about four-thousandths of one percent (0.004%) of content in News Feed, or approximately 1 out of 23,000 pieces of content," Stretch writes.
"Put another way, if each of these posts were a commercial on television, you'd have to watch more than 600 hours of television to see something from the IRA."
Except, as Facebook and Colin Stretch damned well know,
Facebook doesn't operate anything remotely like television. Nor do its ads. The engagement process of those ads is wildly different.
The ability to share those ads is not a feature of television.
The granular targeting for eyeballs of those ads is simply not something that can be achieved by television advertising.
The geographic targeting specifically, with an eye on influencing votes and the outcome of an election, is simply not a feature available to traditional television advertising.
I know why Facebook wants to pretend otherwise in this instance, but it simply isn't true.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...ay-worse.shtml
geographic targeting?
Like Pootin's cyber army targeting WI, MI, PA,
using demographic data received from Kushner and racist Mercer's Cambridge Analytica?
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Hundreds of Trump Organization secret subdomains are hosted in Russia
You may not be familiar with unhackthevote.com, but they’ve been on the front lines of the cyber war against hacking of our voting machines. Today they are breaking a major story on yet another close tie between Trump and Russia.
It’s beyond belief that our intelligence community — the NSA and the CIA — are unaware of this.
Which would certainly explain why those folks have been convinced of the Trump-Russia connection from the start of the 2016 campaign, if not earlier.
Here’s the thread from Mike Farb:
#unhackthevote
BOOM!
More than 250 Trump Organization Subdomains are in Communication with Computers in Russia!!
Thread.
1:23 PM - Oct 31, 2017
Replying to Mikefarb1
The Trump Organization, like most large organizations, has a lot of domains registered to it. Let's take a look.
Many of these domains have subdomains - like http://reservations.trumphotels.com . This is a normal practice. But we found something HIGHLY unusual.
1:24 PM - Oct 31, 2017
Replying to Mikefarb1
They don't have normal names.
They have names like http://fghft.721fifth.com .
Pretty much impossible for the normal user to stumble upon.
These subdomains are not open for normal web traffic. When you browse to them there is nothing there.
1:25 PM - Oct 31, 2017
Replying to Mikefarb1
The fact that they exist means they can be used for communication, if you know how.
Our team did a traceroute on these subdomains. Checking where traffic on these networks goes.
1:25 PM - Oct 31, 2017
All of these subdomains follow the same route to Moscow, then take a trip to Siberia, then finally arrive at a server in St. Petersburg. pic.twitter.com/8pR7Zxkmew
1:26 PM - Oct 31, 2017
The coordinates point to the place where the earth was flattened by a meteor explosion in 1908. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event …pic.twitter.com/LYzx99fh0s
1:28 PM - Oct 31, 2017
WTF. Why are there STILL Trump-Owned Subdomains That Can Communicate with Computers in Russia? It Gets More Interesting.
1:31 PM - Oct 31, 2017
Replying to Mikefarb1
All of the Russian IP's these domains are Routing through are owned by Hostkey.ru, also known as Mir Telematiki LTD. Who else uses them?
WTF!! This IP Address Goes to the Same ISP and Purported Physical Location as Two IP Addresses Used by http://WikiLeaks.org !! pic.twitter.com/WpwCTagcuW
1:32 PM - Oct 31, 2017
Replying to Mikefarb1
WTF!! This IP Address Goes to the Same ISP and Purported Physical Location as Two IP Addresses Used by http://WikiLeaks.org !! pic.twitter.com/WpwCTagcuW
Here are the Details about the IP Address that the Trump subdomains pass through. pic.twitter.com/mhY7C1n5Dt
1:33 PM - Oct 31, 2017
Replying to Mikefarb1
Wikileaks also routes through the supposed Siberian server, although certain signs point to it being very near the Kremlin, in Moscow. pic.twitter.com/vAHKxRKBKF
Trump network traffic includes filenames in “leetspeak”, like http://n1cEG1rLSatTh1Sw33kEND988.html1.zip
Nice girls at this weekend 988?
WTF?
1:34 PM - Oct 31, 2017
Replying to Mikefarb1
What does this even mean? We have figured out a few of these codes, we think. Still unsure about a lot of them.
For a detailed walkthrough, Please Read Our First Self Published Article at https://www.unhackthevote.com/our-research/trumps-connections-to-russia-they-are-just-a-ping-away/ …
1:35 PM - Oct 31, 2017
Well, I suppose this could be a big nothingburger. But I wouldn’t bet on it.
UPDATE: I’m promoting one of my own comments to the diary, because it may be pertinent.
I’m a software engineer, and you don’t create a subdomain without a good reason.
One thing you can do is to use it as a blind drop that bypasses normal internet mail protocols.
For example, you could set up a directory on the secret server and dump a file there (via ftp) for another party to find and read.
This totally bypasses all email addresses and conventions such as POP3 or IMAP.
You wouldn’t know there was communication going on unless you hacked the username/password combo of one of the server’s superusers.
And let me add that if the server is physically located next to you, you don't even need ftp to dump data there:
you just create the file on the drive itself, or plug in a thumb drive, and boom, there it is, ready to be picked up and read by the intended party. Which is why having a server in Russia looks very, very su ious.
UPDATE 2:
And of course I should have realized this before.
When you want to set up a botnet, in order to flood Facebook or Twitter or any other social media with a bunch of comments or links to Fake News,
you need thousands of accounts, and
each one of those accounts will need to be hosted on server.
And if you want all those thousands of bot accounts to flood the zone at the same time, you need a lot of servers. Hmmmm …
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre
Last edited by boutons_deux; 11-01-2017 at 09:38 AM.
He is almost certainly worth much less than he claims to be, probably much less.
The comical act of fundraising and holding rallies for the 2020 election is getting him some money from the Trumpanzees who think he can walk on water. Rubes are important to any con man, and I have little doubt he will use that money to benefit himself personally before he uses it for his actual campaign.
just like Trash
I worked for Paul Manafort. He always lacked a moral compass.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...nl_most&wpmm=1
This guy really doesn't GAF anymore.
Debunked.
Hillary wasn't voting on it, the people who did vote said they would have unanimously voted the same way today. The guy who gave the money sold his stake in the company before he gave the money, and gave the money before Clinton was even Secretary of State.
What is sad is that it took me almost a minute before I realized this was satire. That is how laughable Fox "news" has become. It's where credibility goes to die.Fox to Offer Twenty-Four-Hour Coverage of Bill Clinton’s Impeachment
NEW YORK —Calling it
a story “too hot for the other cable-news networks to handle,”
Fox News Channel announced on Tuesday that it would begin airing twenty-four-hour coverage of Bill Clinton’s 1998–99 impeachment.
Fox anchor Sean Hannity announced the programming change, telling viewers that Fox would devote all its resources to reporting the Clinton impeachment to the exclusion of all other news stories.
“This story has everything: sex, lies, and misdeeds at the highest levels of our government,”
Hannity said. “We are planning to flood the zone to bring it to you.”
Calling it
“the story Bill and Hillary Clinton don’t want you to hear,”
Hannity said Fox would be unstinting in its effort to get to the bottom of the impeachment.
“For years, this hushed-up chapter of our history has been shrouded in silence,” Hannity said. “That silence ends today.”
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/fox-to-offer-twenty-four-hour-coverage-of-bill-clintons-impeachment
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