HOPE Trump who loves social media is tracking his in his transition team's Trump Tower that he is billing you the taxpayer for....
THESE are his future partners HARD AT WORK fighting IS that he wants to work with?????
BREAKING
#ALEPPO RIGHT NOW.
Yeah, world! Let's support #Putin in #Syria! Will help for sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoNiK8A5dzE#…
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Russian information warfare hard at work and Trump does not seem to mind since a 1/3rd of the tweets supporting him come from a Russian company in Macedonia......he is overly impressed it seems by numbers and seems to never question if a real person is behind that tweet.....
Telling.
Only 1699 of the 5000+ accounts I blocked are still active.
Gives you an idea about professional & automated trolling accounts.
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Trump Should Learn From Obama's Mistakes
Trump Should Learn From Obama's Mistakes
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TOTALLY forgot this.....went back and dug it out of the past
Giuliani was kicked off Iraq Study Grp bc missed meetings to give paid speeches. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...all_dt_tw_top#
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Open challenge to anyone who voted for Trump and who follows SWJ on a regular basis...CARE to comment????
Bolton: Britain leaving the EU will strengthen Nato because together US and UK will "sort the Europeans out." Not exactly sure I follow his thinking here...BUT he is pushing for DoS...
If this is any indication of the coming Trump FP...WE are all in trouble....
Not a fan of Ron Paul.....but in this case I fully and massively agree with him....
Rand Paul slams John Bolton as potential secretary of state: 'The man is a menace' http://read.bi/2eX7Zt5
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RE: Trump and Syria
Trump the manOriginally Posted by OUTLAW 09
Firstly, Trump is a self-promoter. What we witnessed during the presidential campaign was Trump’s Apprentice persona campaigning for the presidency. Trump did his utmost to distinguish his positions from those of fellow Republicans as well as Democrats, seizing on as many wedge issues as possible. With respect to Putin, if there was an unspoken but popular sentiment that Obama and Clinton were engaging in a policy of appeasement toward Putin, Trump would have taken the opposite stance.
Secondly, the accusations that Trump was an agent of the Kremlin, ostensibly due to his reliance upon revenue and/or loans controlled by Russia, truly came to the fore when Clinton and Trump were pitted against one another. Paul Manafort certainly had some very disturbing ties to Russian oligarchs and the Russian-backed Party of Regions in Ukraine, but Manafort also had a long history advising the presidential campaigns of Ford, Reagan, Bush and Dole.
Thirdly, Trump knows that the American electorate does not comprehend the complexities of the Syrian Civil War or the nuances of opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by diplomatic and economic means. Indeed, Russia’s crimes in Ukraine and Syria gained the most attention after the fact, when the Democrats began tying Trump to Putin. Suddenly, every Democrat became an expert on Russian aggression and suddenly all the trolls from Olgino were challenged after years of posting misinformation at leisure. It was saddening to see that Syria, Donbas and Crimea only mattered in the context of a bitter election. The problem with Russian information warfare is that it takes too much time and effort to correct the propaganda and by that time the target audience is no longer receptive.
Fourth, Trump knows that the American people do not care for Obama’s incrementalism, which Clinton would merely continue, and it is understandable. If annexing Crimea was wrong Americans reason, then why not have it out in 2014? Why have another Cold War in which Crimea remains part of Russia? If Assad is a tyrant, then overthrow him. If Syria is too complicated and there are no good options, then leave it alone.
Fifth, Trump is a showman who is capable of saying one thing and doing something completely different, just like Putin. You might as well take Putin at his word.
The Free Syrian Army
I see that you agree with me that Riyadh, Doha, Amman and Ankara will shake off Obama’s constraints and ensure that the Assadists never win. While Hillary would have imposed a partial no-fly zone for Syrian military aircraft, she would have been under intense pressure to not allow TOWs to end up in Daesh/Al Qaeda hands.
The JCPOA
The Iranian violation was immaterial. What is material is that for all of the work on the agreement, it is neither an executive agreement nor a ratified treaty. Moreover, examining what befell Libya (2011) and Ukraine (2014), watching the North Koreans continue to advance despite the most crippling of sanctions, and watching India and Pakistan expand their arsenals, Iran never had a good reason to negotiate in good faith, especially when the United States could have changed its mind in 2016.
Azor......these comments need to thoroughly be understood......It is interesting what you say about Trump
Now turn back the historical clock to 1933 I say a place called Germany....
1. Fragmented weak democracy...much like the current US
2. Millions of unemployed......BTW largely aggravated by the US instigated protectionism EXACTLY if you read between the Trump statements he wants to do...the US move in 30 has now been seen as causing a worldwide 30% reduction in all global economies on top of the global depression
3. then came along a "showman" and the world say "he is just a showman trying to get elected
4. BTW that "showman" also wanted to "restore Germany's greatdom" and is that not what he constantly heard Trump state over and over and over..."Make American Great".....
5....AND from late 33 to early 34...a total of eight months....there were no more German political parties...the police and security services all were Hitler's own....and instead of deportations talked about by Trump Hitler had concentration camps....
Now seriously go back and compare the early Hitler rhetoric to the current Trump rhetoric and what do you see and hear....
AND this is the serious part...now we the US have the KKK...the Aryan Nation militia groups...the alt Right ...basically all white supremacist ultra nationalists cheering on Trump and for the first time actually gaining fashionable mainstream media attention with their comments, statements and ideology....
Couple that with the exact Trump comments being actually implemented as far as they can without "upsetting American feelings that something is wrong with them"...and yet those that demonstrations against what they perceive to be the same drift I see....are condemned as terrorists....AND even the FBI admitted that after the election hate crimes registered against Muslims has hit in such a short period 67% over the previous year...
Yesterday one of the main "alt Right" media spokesperson carried on 300 radio stations stated...."Trump will build a wall and setup Muslim registries"....just as Hitler registered the Jews.....
The Arab saying...."history cannot be repeated twice"...is wrong after 1500 years....
As for the Russian "connection"....if it had not been for social media picking up on it far far far longer than US MSM and finding the Ukrainian connection documents which the FBI still has not requested from Ukraine....MSM would not have picked up on the story....
Secondly when this story should have been thoroughly discussed and debated before the election it was not and is now simply a CI matter....
Just for the record...when the "Trump Tower/Alpha bank server" story hit....watch just how MSM and a large number (roughly 50 fake news sites) pushed massively back on it and basically buried it again until after the election...that my friend is information warfare hard at work....
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Azor....one small step for mankind but one really big step for Americans.....
Finally US social media gaints are taking action what social media themselves have been saying is necessary...literally years ago....
Twitter announced they are removing all "alt Right" accounts...FB is soon to follow.....
AND the "alt Right" is screaming ...censorship and yes it is....freedom of speech and press are being violated but preaching hatred of minorities and white supremacy is verbal violence....and it should have been stopped years ago.....
I was once approached by German intelligence services in the 80s and privately asked if I could get the US intel community to help them track 20M USDs that were flowing into German to neo Nazi groups PER YEAR from the US...US response...bank and personal privacy laws..cannot help...
This was 30 years ago and just how does US neo Nazi groups get 20M USDs to spend every year and from Whom?
THIS is exactly how a country raised and nurtured under US views of democracy handle hate groups since WW2.....there are laws designed to stop hate groups from both left..right and Islamist....if their hatred threatens the existing government...just takes the Justice Minister's review and then they can be forbidden and all assets pulled in their members arrested.....if they continue their activities.....
Yesterday there were 85 raids all across German arresting over 200 and seizing assets......computers and other materials of a very active Islamist religious group that had recruited 140 young Germans for Syria....they claimed religious freedom...the German government ruled ...religious freedom yes..but hostile and subversive activities against Germany and the West no...therefore you lost your religious freedom security.
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3 days after being invited into the Trump team by right-wing Stephen Bannon, Marion Le Pen pledged French allegiance to Russia in Moscow...during a public press conference
And before you ask: She means the West's "intervention in Syria" of course.
Not the Russian one ...SERIOUSLY REMEBER I posted the Trump "alt right advisor" Bannon's own tweet from his personal account that he was immediately going to expand his private business into France and Germany to help build a QUOTE "White National Party UNQUOTE
AND I posted the Le Pen response to his offer to work with LePen's right wing nationalist party taken from her twitter account.
THEN when social media picked it up and then US MSM started asking the Trump campaign about the Bannon exchange with LePen.....WE HEARD the standard Trump response..."it ain't us and we have had no contacts with her"..JUST as he stated when challenged about his Russian contacts....
Anyone notice a trend developing...contacts with ultra nationalist parties/Moscow...then discovered....then asked about it..then denial....
Steve Bannon's admiration of France's National Front exceeds even that of UKIP:
This particular article gives great insight into the coming Trump FP....Trump via his surrogates believes that if the US threatens Russia with force to contain them...Putin will back down.....
https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder...qZ#.lqxxyx9Dxl
NOW one can understand the Bannon interest in ultra national parties in Europe....Donald Trump’s newly named chief strategist and senior counselor, Steve Bannon, laid out his global nationalist vision in unusually in-depth remarks delivered by Skype to a conference held inside the Vatican in the summer of 2014.
Well before victories for Brexit and Trump seemed possible, Bannon declared there was a “global tea party movement” and praised European far-right parties like Great Britain’s UKIP and France’s National Front. Bannon also suggested that a racist element in far-right parties “all gets kind of washed out,” that the West was facing a “crisis of capitalism” after losing its “Judeo-Christian foundation,” and he blasted “crony capitalists” in Washington for failing to prosecute bank executives over the financial crisis.
The remarks — beamed into a small conference room in a 15th-century marble palace in a secluded corner of the Vatican — were part of a 50-minute Q&A during a conference focused on poverty hosted by the Human Dignity Institute, which BuzzFeed News attended as part of its coverage of the rise of Europe’s religious right. The group was founded by Benjamin Harnwell, a longtime aide to Conservative member of the European Parliament Nirj Deva to promote a “Christian voice” in European politics. The group has ties to some of the most conservative factions inside the Catholic Church; Cardinal Raymond Burke, one of the most vocal critics of Pope Francis who was ousted from a senior Vatican position in 2014, is chair of the group’s advisory board.
The transcript begins 90 seconds into the then-Breitbart News chairman’s remarks because microphone placement made the opening mostly unintelligible, but you can hear the whole recording at the bottom of the post.
Continued
Kremlin's web of political influence in UK, France and Germany. Must-read report from Atlantic Council.http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/image..._web_1116.pdf#
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BUT WAIT..when it comes to punishing the Russian government for their war crimes and genocide in Syria the Obama WH is not different that the future Trump ME FP....
The @BarackObama government "worked secretly to delay" and "weaken" sanctions re #Russia and #Iran on #Syria ...https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...b75406#…
"The Obama admin failed to use the tools at its disposal to stop the suffering of innocent civilians in #Syria."
http://wapo.st/2fen3DS
The Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act passed the House, would sanction #Assad and those (#Iran and #Russia) that abet his mass-atrocities
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Sec. Leon Pannetta at @CSIS, on dealing with CVE in a #Trump Presidency:
"We're going to need to pray a lot."
Assad correctly interprets a sole focus by Trump on #IS as a pro-regime policy.
This is also current policy
Obama's reaction to Trump mirrors his reaction to foreign dictators, whom he was sure he could mollify with reason:
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Missing in Action
Pentagon officials have been preparing to welcome to Trump transition team, but nobody has shown up:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2607438/#
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Germany's top spook bemoans Russian intel interference in US electionhttp://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN13B14O?
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Prince Turki Bin Faisal at #MEIconf - says #IranDeal should remain. Any surprise to that opinion shows people haven't listened to #Saudi.
At #MEIconf, @jjz1600 reminds us that POTUS is not so much a "captain" as much as a "captive" of events that unfold. "You get no do-overs."
At @MiddleEastInst's #MEIconf, @jjz1600 gives impassioned speech on dangers resulting from #Trump's anti-Islam tendencies.
Cue: Applause.
Donald Trump’s presidential transition team is reportedly discussing a national registry of Muslims.
Reuters reports that anti-immigrant leader and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who is part of the Trump presidential transition team “said in an interview that Trump’s policy advisers had also discussed drafting a proposal for his consideration to reinstate a registry for immigrants from Muslim countries.”
Kobach told the news service he has been “in regular conference calls with about a dozen Trump immigration advisers“ for months.
Trump discussed the possibility of a Muslim registry during the presidential campaign.
Kobach cited a program called the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, or NSEERS, as his preferred model for the Trump Muslim registry system. NSEERS, which was created by George W. Bush and dismantled by the Obama administration, was described by Chris Rickerd, policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, as “An executive branch post-9/11 reaction that made people from predominantly Muslim countries to go through an arcane series of registration and other screening mechanisms. if they didn’t, they were punished. Thousands were hit with civil deportation consequences.
Not a single person was ever prosecuted for terrorist charges while the system was in place.
Rickerd pointed out that NSEERS was an enormous waste of time and resources leading to “countless hours of law enforcement time spent on people who had no individual reason to be on the authorities’ radar.”
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the scourge of fake news on the internet could have swung the election to Trump:http://thebea.st/2fFksn3
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WHAT Trump needs urgently to understand about a very complex world right now.....there are people fighting and dying against Russia as they either fight Assad for their vision of a new country under the rule of law and good government and or Ukrainians fighting and dying daily to defend their country from a Russian invasion.........
THIS is the respect the Ukrainian people show to their war dead even after two years of war that we often miss seeing in the US MSM.......
There are heroes
who sacrifice themselves
and fight for everything we hold dear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LzX...ature=youtu.be
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Actually an interesting thesis as he is a solid well informed Russian SME.........
PODCAST: The Kremlin had a plan - and Donald Trump winning wasn't part of it, says @MarkGaleotti.
http://reut.rs/2fFMfUi
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As a student of history, mostly self-taught, I find the comparisons between Trump and Hitler to be yet another instance of reductio ad Hitlerum. There are many right-wing democratic populist politicians in Europe, including some leaders, and yet Trump has not been compared to any of those, nor even less murderous populist tyrants e.g. Mussolini, Chavez, Castro, Franco, Putin, etc.
The comparison between the contemporary United States and Wiemar Germany is equally ridiculous. The latter had weak and mistrusted institutions, had faced a series of armed rebellions, had to contend with a Freikorps that was larger and better armed than its humbled armed forces and police, was suffering from major economic problems and in which the overall sentiment was one of chaos and betrayal. Wiemar was more reminiscent of the Russian Republic’s Provisional Government, and Hitler’s seizure of power was more reminiscent of the Stalinist takeover of Czechoslovakia over 1945-1948.
If every Hitler comparison was true, then Nixon, Reagan, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr., would all have much in common with the Fuhrer. Yet now we are to believe that the Democratic media only cried wolf before, and that this time there is a wolf i.e. Trump.
White supremacists, including white nationalists, would support any candidate that promises to deport illegal aliens and improve border security. In whichever presidential election, one candidate is perceived to be tougher on the issue than the other.
With respect to terrorism and hate crimes, the FBI will issue a report for 2016 next year. I have seen all manner of commentary attempting to tie Trump’s rhetoric to a rise in anti-Muslim hate crimes, yet historically, they have been in fact tied to acts of Muslim terror. We have seen attacks in San Bernardino, Paris and Orlando that have coincided with a rise in anti-Muslim sentiment among Americans. Looking at the number of hate crime and terrorism attacks and deaths since September 11, 2001 (which would obviously skew the statistics), we can see that over 100 people have been killed in Muslim supremacist terrorism in the United States. In comparison, under 20 people have been killed in anti-Muslim hate crimes over the same period. This contrast is rather stark.
Nor do I believe that the mainstream media suppressed a story about Trump’s connections to the Kremlin. I have seen repeated news articles and opinion pieces on the matter to the extent that people might as well conclude that Trump is a “Manchurian Candidate” in addition to being a reincarnation of Hitler.
If you disagree with the First Amendment and believe in the state’s right to suppress hate groups and hate speech, then you would agree with deeming all Wahhabi and Salafi congregations as cults and banning them, correct?
Unfortunately, the German government is not necessarily the best judge of what is a threat and what is not. Today, Germans who oppose Merkel’s open border policy face official censorship and censure for discussing it on social media, in addition to being victims of migrant crime. Tomorrow, the German government may change and people or Turkish, Arab, Kurdish or African descent may find themselves forced to assimilate into Germans and censored and censured when they attempt to practise their cultures. Given your knowledge of history, you should know how rapidly German society can transform itself.
In conclusion, the Hitler smear and the GRU/SVR canard were efforts at negative campaigning that failed. They were attempts to scare American Jews and the historically ignorant into voting for Hillary Clinton, and to convince the foreign policy hawks to cross the aisle. Hitler has notoriety and name-recognition that other tyrants don’t, and Americans have forgotten how confronting Putin was a Cold War anachronism for both Obama and Hillary and how relations needed to be “reset”…
If, as John Kerry bloviates, global warming is the biggest threat to humanity, then they should have left Hitler and Putin out of it…
Last edited by Azor; 11-16-2016 at 09:47 PM. Reason: Title
I have yet to listen to the clip, but I will. I will say at the risk of assuming, that if Galeotti is claiming that Putin believed Hillary would win and was on the attack to prevent popular support for her more muscular foreign policy, I would agree. I think that Putin is more comfortable with a more aggressive incrementalist (Clinton) than with an unpredictable showman (Trump).
Azor...as an historian then you fully under the process by which facism slowly undermines a so called democracy....do I need to point to the current Hungarian and or Polish models where both countries did well under so called proWestern and proEU parties and both countries developed well actually in the last 25 years but then a slow but steady nationalist trend entered and now both are full scale nationalist and to a developing degree ultra nationalist government BUT still wanting naturally the EU cas flow to keep them in power.....
Secondly when talking recently to a good Russian friend a Jew who left Russia with his family for Germany in 1998 about the election...he stated...well you Americans have a tendency for radical shifts and this is one of those shifts....end of his comment.....
Thirdly, if you have been following the Ukrainian thread and lately this thread you will see I keep pounding away on the Russian non linear warfare model with the two critical cornerstones of cyber warfare and information warfare....
Russia is running circles around us with both right now and not a single pushback by the US...Obama WH nor the Republican Party...heck the RP stepped up and used the Russian hacking/wikileaks against the US as a weaponized attack system against Clinton and said thank you as we heard in both the Trump statements about asking Moscow to release the emails..and the Breitbart.com repeating a lot of the "fake news sites"..fake Clinto accusations.
Only two Senators feel it necessary to conduct an open hearing on the DNC hacking attacks and or fake news sites....
Fourthly, Russian info warfare....during the height of the campaign a large number of Trump voters when interviewed stated they get their information from social media.....WELL.....after our analysis of proTrump tweets...41% of those were sent by a Russian company based in Macedonia using teenage labor
So if Trump claimed as he often did that he has say 100,000 new followers following his account TEHN just how many of those accounts are Russian?
Fifth....you will be seeing far more on the "fake news accounts on social media...we and others have been tracking social media and conducting network analysis of those accounts and strangely right now 64% of those found came out of European servers largely via Russia and Belarus....
THEN is we take the official Russian propaganda media legally residing in the US Russia Today and Sputnik International ....one has a massive info war machine 24 X 7 X 365 hard at work on the same narrative....
Sixth..as a historian you know then the ideological differences and the historical differences between Whabbism...Salafists....Takfirists....Sufism...and especially a little discussed Islamic aspect.....Shia Revolutionary Islam...
You do realize that many believe Sufi's are a mystical peaceful group...BUT hey the Iraqi Sufi Order Naqshbandi was one of the largest Iraqi Sunni insurgent groups...is still in the fight and still lead by the Iraqi General al Duri
AND historically they have often been jihadists.....
BTW...German security services announced today that Europe wide there are an average of only FIVE per day drifting into Syria from Europe vs the previous 100 or more per day....
Seven.....the Germans go a lot further in protecting free speech and freedom of the press than Trump does right now as he has signaled his deep dislike or rather outright hatred of the US media...thus his constant twitter battles with NYTs and WaPo because he did not like their articles about him....he even wants to change some of the laws around protection of the press to a more UK like model which really does restrict the freedom of the press via the threats of being sued constantly...
Before a German government can restrict both it requires an investigation into the question of FDGO....their support for the basic principles of democracy and do they in words and deeds combat the FDGO..in the case of the raids against one of the largest religious protected German Salafist their recruiting 140 German youths to fight in Syria was basis enough........
So if you do believe in the concept of information warfare...then maybe we should as a government forbid Russia Today....Sputnik International and Brietbart.com to stop as they are nothing but propaganda tools.....
Azor....what you missed completely is that by Trump...Bannon...Giuliani and others around Trump using the classical dog whistles of racism...... sexism...white supremacy.....Trump and company have now made the ideology and doctrine of the KKK....the "alt Right...Aryan Nation...now fashionable for MSM...once when they were actually on the political fringe they are now acceptable and their talking points even repeated by Trump lending respectability to them.....would you not agree????
AND that is truly dangerous....
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