Senator @JeanneShaheen introduces bill to investigate Russian propaganda news outlet RT
http://politi.co/2mFYaoM
Here's how Russian hackers allegedly broke into millions of Yahoo accounts without passwords
http://read.bi/2noxQmz
Well worth reading as it is a really standard Russian procedure along with phishing attacks....
NOTE..SWJ had a recent good article on phishing attacks....
Senator @JeanneShaheen introduces bill to investigate Russian propaganda news outlet RT
http://politi.co/2mFYaoM
Europe headed for 'religion wars' despite Wilders' stumble, Turkish minister says
http://reut.rs/2mxiZ5c
"Religious wars" but he did not call for a jihad...
For the purists, "Yakında Avrupa'da din savaşları da başlar, başlayacak." -- the missing word is "jihad" (cihad in Turkish)
The really interesting thing is this type of Turkish rhetoric is actually turning off Turkish citizens living and working in other EU countries as they know it to be simply false...LARGE numbers of dual Turkish/Dutch citizens voted in record numbers for the current Dutch PM...for example.
THE REASON I POINT THIS OUT.....
This is the comment coming from basically a right wing neo Nazi fascist blogsite....that even US Congressman King often quotes in his tweets...as well as Brietbart.co and Infowars...both US based right wing white nationalist blogsites...
Voice_of_Europe
How many warnings do we need???
Turkish minister claims 'holy wars will soon begin in Europe'
NOW count the days until Brietbart.com and Infowars picks this comment up....
DOJ: Not only did FSB (Russia) not arrest internationally wanted hacker Alexi Belan, they recruited him for the Yahoo hacking attack.
Perfect example of Russian disinformation and propaganda....
GRU employed their Italian shill from Difesa, opened fire to mimic Ukraine Army attack to get a staged incident as a spin in foreign media.
Millions of US employee records leaked
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39278637#
On top of the 20M OMB Chinese hacked SF86s and fingerprints...
WOW...53M in total and yet the Trump WH is worried about a "Deep State"...
This text originally appeared in Russian on Colta, a leading Russian platform for comment and discussion.
Well worth the entire read.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-rus...alled-partners
The Kremlin’s so-called “partners”
Alexander Morozov 16 March 2017
For the Kremlin’s friends in the west, the reality of Russia’s actions is finally sinking in.
Before Crimea, everyone “cooperated with the Russians”. And until mid-2016, no one knew what to think or do with this history of cooperation. Sanctions hardly made a dent in this “cooperation regime”.
But beginning with the US presidential elections, important changes are taking place — and it’s hard to know what to call them or how to describe them. Externally, we see that people who were supposed to communicate with “the Russians” are losing their positions. And this is accompanied by public scandals. It’s not the case that these people cooperated with some questionable goals in mind, but they’d come into contact with a taboo — zashkvar in Russian criminal slang.
No one doubted the loyalty of US national security adviser Michael Flynn, but he resigned because of his “contacts” with the Russians. A few days ago, the vice-speaker of Lithuania’s parliament resigned. Mindaugas Bastys left because the Lithuanian security services refused him access to secret data. But the list of Russian citizens whom Bastys had contact with over the years doesn’t contain anything particularly shocking — representatives of Russian state corporations in Lithuania, the usual suspicious Russian businessmen and so on.
The recent hack of the email account of hitherto unknown Alexander Usovsky, who was working for the Kremlin in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Balkans, shows that Konstantin Malofeev, an Orthodox Russian businessman known for financing separatists in the Donbas, discussed or in fact conducted operations against elections in Bosnia and Poland.
October 2014: Alexander Usovsky discusses leaking an image of Milorad Dodik, pro-Russian president of Republika Srpska, meeting with Konstantin Malofeev. Source: bellingcat.
Malofeev’s activities are an extreme example of Russia’s openly subversive actions in other states. But when you look at Usovsky’s emails, and you’re aware of the state Russian affairs in Europe, you realise#that Malofeev’s strategy and tactics are no different from the actions of dozens and hundreds of similar actors beyond Russia’s borders. Before Crimea, for those who cooperated with the “Russians”, these activities looked like “supporting Russia’s interests”. Now these people are beginning to figure out what this really meant.
“What have we got ourselves involved in?” they asked themselves — people who’d performed one-off services or participated in “Petersburg Dialogue” (a German-Russian public form), the Valdai Club, the “Dialogue of Civilisations” (another public forum) and the dozens of other programmes where Russian money was involved.
All these political, cultural and media contacts are nothing compared to the scale of cooperation in business
Members of Russian émigré organisations (which refused to work with the “Russian world” programme fairly early on) have told me that, at the start, they were taken in by film director Nikita Mikhalkov’s initial cultural projects. They sincerely supported the director’s appeal to Russians abroad.
But around 2008 these émigré organisations felt that they were beginning to be recruited into an ideological support campaign for the Kremlin. Many people continued travelling to Moscow for émigré congresses, but already as “observers”. They already decided back then that this was the “New Comintern” and it was wrong to accept their grants. Other people continued to accept the money happily, and sailed off together with the Kremlin in the direction of Crimea.
Money talks
But all these political, cultural and media contacts are nothing compared to the scale of cooperation in business.
For more than a decade, millions of people across the world have been involved in networks of “Russian money”. After all, the large-scale capital flow out of Russia, the partial reinvestment of these funds back into the country through offshore structures and into infrastructure outside of Russia (companies, shares, property, yachts and so on) – this is the gigantic money-moving machine of Putin’s corporate state, which is operated by millions of people (solicitors, politicians, parliamentary deputies, cultural professionals, translators and so on).
March 2014, Crimea. CC BY-2.0 Sasha Maksymenko / Flickr. Some rights reserved.
As a result, by the time Crimea happened, the Kremlin had a significant lobby at its disposal. This doesn’t mean that people were actually “bought” (to use the language of anti-corruption). People merely “cooperated” and received certain bonuses for this cooperation. If you once took money from an old friend in your past, then, even if you see it in a critical light now, you’ll still maintain your loyalty to him or her in public. Who would want to start a scandal about the misdeeds of someone who once helped, let’s say, to finance your new home? You’d keep quiet.
The retrospective starts now
In other words, for over a decade — since roughly 2004, after Khodorkovsky’s Yukos company was seized — the Russian economy kept its (hard to measure) foreign networks well-oiled.
This wasn’t about corruption in the narrow sense. Of course, in the west, this was seen as economic interaction with a particular kind of “eastern” economy, where everything is accompanied by “signs of gratitude”, “kickbacks”, exchange of various bonuses and preferences, trips to the sauna, hunting expeditions with helicopters and so on. And this wasn’t criminal activity as such. It was seen as part of the “specifics” of dealing with the country. Russia is far from the only economy that operates this way — i.e. through “partnership”. The world’s largest companies opened offices and factories in Russia. And until recently, this was a privileged economy incorporated into the BRICS system.
Putin used Crimea to draw people who’d been involved in partnership into a one-off mobilisation. The Russian president made it necessary for all these “partners” to define their position
Crimea turned the results of this ten-year-long support into a problem. Obviously, Putin used Crimea to draw people who’d been involved in partnership into a one-off mobilisation. The Russian president made it necessary for all these “partners” to define their position. Putin’s “partners” (he often pronounces the word with irony) are often understood in the diplomatic context. But in reality Putin has other “partners” in mind — those millions of people who have for years sat on Russian contracts, Russian money and other forms of interaction with “the Russians”.
Unreliable partners
Now these “partners” have big problems. And I note sadly that their problems are not due to Crimea (as such), the sanctions or counter-sanctions regimes, nor the ambiguity of past participation in toxic projects with “the Russians”. The problem for them is that Putin does not want to stop.
This community would have sighed with relief if Putin had just “signed over the assets to his name”, i.e. taken Crimea and stopped there. But the extreme ambiguity that characterised 2014-2017 continues to be maintained and even expanded: it wasn’t Putin who shot down MH17, but some people working for Konstantin Malofeev; Putin didn’t murder Boris Nemtsov, it was a few Chechen security officers; it wasn’t Putin who hacked the US Democratic Party’s servers, but some hackers — possibly Russian, possibly not (but from Russian servers); Putin didn’t organise the coup attempt in Montenegro, but some unknown individuals; it wasn’t Putin who organised the campaign to destabilise and destroy Ukraine as a state, but Russian presidential adviser Sergei Glazyev; it was some guy named Alexander Usovsky who organised pro-Russian demonstrations in European states (with cash from patriotic Russian businessmen), not Putin. And so on.#
Now everyone is looking back on this time and asking themselves: who were really “partnering” with? Maybe it was Russian intelligence?
This list is growing by the day. And yet the Kremlin is not distancing itself from any of this with the previous energy so understandable to its so-called “partners”. The Kremlin doesn’t conduct investigations into any of these issues, but an ambiguous game that can be clearly read as “covering” all of its “own people”.
Thus, the previous decade of developing relationships transforms before our eyes into an “invitation to complicity”. Now everyone is looking back on this time and asking themselves: who were really “partnering” with? Maybe it was Russian intelligence? Or maybe from the very beginning this was just a trick to recruit us for dubious lobbying campaign?
Ambiguity rules
This is all scarily new. Everything that’s happening before our eyes regarding the US State Department and pro-Russian politicians in Europe reveals a complex problem — the borders between lobbying, partnership, espionage, propaganda influence and corruption are being washed out.
Thus a situation arises whereby it is impossible to distinguish between real partnership from participation in a campaign to distort “the borders of the permissible”. Just yesterday you were a “Christian Democrat” developing a partnership with the Russian Federation, and today you’re just a silent participant in the degradation of the very norms of European political culture.”
Continued...
Three years ago, I wrote that Putin was in the process of creating a rightwing Comintern. It’s since become known as the “black Comintern”. But now I think that the current situation is not only more complex, but worse. .
Continued....
Moscow opens a new front in the information war against Ukraine in Belarus:
https://informnapalm.org/en/moscow-o...aine-belarus/#
Kremlin Trolls CI
@KremlinTrolls
One of the better twitter sites for the identification of Russian twitter trolls...
https://twitter.com/KremlinTrolls?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Outlaw,Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
I don't disagree that it is a risk, and while it won't parallel Nazi Germany, it will still present a threat to democracy. However, that will only happen if our judicial and legislative branches fail to check the executive branch.
I find it odd that after two years of attacking Obama, you are now championing him? As for Trump conning blind people to vote for him, that was hardly the case for the majority. Most who voted in that direction wasn't for Trump, but against Clinton, a known liar, and an advocate of failed policies. What is really sad is that the Democrats and Republicans didn't put forth better candidates.
Regardless of America's buyer's remorse, we do have a resilient system, and we could very well suffer through a four year lame duck Presidency, or see Pence take the seat of the irrational behavior continues. The underlying issue is this creates seams that the Russians will pour into like water, then expand like ice to further divide us. This is hardly unique to the U.S., the same is happening in Western Europe. Our current political and economic systems are failing too many people, so it needs to change. The key to the future is who will lead that change? Inexperienced populists who simply seek to dismantle in a reactionary fashion, or gifted leaders with a strategic vision for the 211st Century.
Reference Trump's "wolf" accusations of being wiretapped by former Obama WH....
Russian crime operations....
LONG read but fully worth the time to understand Russian criminal activities and how it costs the Russian GDP....
Russia’s great daylight bank robbery
Solid @bneeditor @bneintellinews piece on B$ bank shenanigans & needed reform
http://www.intellinews.com/long-read...D7BZuE.twitter
Russia is in the midst of a massive anti-corruption drive to stamp out institutionalised stealing that has already costs the country some 5% of GDP, but has caused little comment. The robbers have until recently gotten away with their crimes with impunity and many of them are to be found living openly in luxury in London. But the crackdown is gathering momentum and starting to affect the Russian elites. Above all, the campaign is targeting Russia’s deeply corrupt banking sector.
The state has been nervous about closing banks, afraid of sparking a financial crisis. But bank owners have been blithely stealing from their depositors. When the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) finally gets round to shuttering a dodgy bank it typically finds at least a $1bn hole in the balance sheet and the owners long gone. As the first RUB1.4mn ($23,555) of deposits are covered by an insurance scheme the clean-up has already cost the government about $50bn, with approximately 200 more banks to close over the next two years. Last year alone, the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) that is responsible for the reform launched 236 criminal cases against banks and won 25 of them.#
Russia's corporate governance comes in from Caveman era
Reminder that imperialism, kleptocracy & normality co-exist
http://www.intellinews.com/russian-c...A8riMw.twitter
Deeper and deeper and deeper it goes and there were absolutely no Russian contacts....come on get real...
Flynn received payments from Russian cyber security firm Kaspersky and Russian air cargo firm Volga-Dnepr:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mike-fl...eaming_stream#
Kaspersky itself is a Russian security software company that has often stated it has no ties to the Russian intelligence services BUT two of it's employees (FSB officers) were recently arrested for spying for the CIA....
BUT Kaspersky sits inside Russia????
BUT WAIT...Flynn only recently registered as a foreign agent for his Turkish ties BUT forgot his Russian ties....
EU Mythbusters
✔
@EUvsDisinfo
Pro-Kremlin media use homophobic hate speech to promote negative views of the West:
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/homophobic-ha...n-russian-tv/#
Bill..after two solid years of bashing the lack of any strategic strategy on the part of Obama I have not changed that stance in the least....
Right now the US does not have an effective DoS and or SoS who has been basically sidelined by Bannon/Kushner/Preibus...has now a budget that "deconstructs" using Bannon's on words EPA....FEMA...CG and the list does not end....
When we accept as a public the words from a white nationalist who states he is a Leninist and wants to destroy the "establishment" and then changes that to "deconstruction" we are in serious trouble.
When the majority of Trump voters refuse to accept the evening news or read MSM in favor of an right wing white nationalist/white supremacist echo chamber on social media and the internet then we really are in serious trouble.....
When truth and facts become "alternative facts" we are in serious trouble....
When people applaud when Trump states a blatant lie that a former President illegal wiretapped him and then refuses to apologize and openly admit he basically lied we are in serious trouble....
WHEN one party blocks completely any government movement for eight long years because they did not like a black man winning AND then selling it as being the fault of the other political party then we have a serious problem.....
WHEN we have conspiracy myths ruling over fact and truth then we are in serious trouble....
When a President refuses to accept the simple principle that Russian hackers were hard at work and turns around and then praises that same nation state...then we have a serious problem....
When a President openly states "we will have everyone covered by healthcare and it will be a beautiful thing"...and then the reality is 24M will lose it in 2026 then we are in serious trouble.....
When a President talks about progress BUT really only provides "motion" and sells it as a success with people applauding himl AND no one challenges him on it..we are in serious trouble....
AND especially when a US President deliberately and openly attacks the rule of law...IE the judiciary then we are in serious trouble...
WHEN fewer and fewer Americans actually vote allowing a minority President full and complete control of government we are in serious trouble...minority meaning he got fewer general votes by 3M yet "won"....
WHEN the US President is willing to take the US into a possible trade war that will hurt the US and the global trading nations then we have a serious problem...
YES we are sliding and sliding badly into an interesting form of fascism...one condoned in fact by democracy......
I will stand by that statement...as we will see more of it in the coming months....
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 03-16-2017 at 05:50 PM.
Bill when the RP and Trump has been bashing Obamacare for eight long years and that his plan is "beautiful" and then this comment comes from him....he is basically lying to his own voters yet they do not call him out...
Why is that....?
This literally happened...
Tucker Carlson: "The counties who voted for you will do far worse under your plan"
Donald Trump: "Oh, I know..."
BUT then he continues to lie YET no one calls him out...therein lies the problem inside the US...no one steps up and talks truth to power....no one takes any responsibility for anything...
Trump says he got wiretap info from reading about wiretapping in NYT/@BretBaier report (NYT/Baier didn't report Obama had Trump wiretapped)
Another lie.....
Bill..and this is someone acting democratically in the face of the rule of law????
Gov. Mike Huckabee
Verified account
#
@GovMikeHuckabee
Hoping @POTUS tells Hawaii judge what Andrew Jackson told overreaching court-"I'll ignore it and let the court enforce their order."
Volga Dnepr who paid Flynn also happens to be an arms speditioner to hard to reach locations.
Not only that but in 2016 Pentagon cancelled all prior cooperation with Volga Dnepr due to unlawful arms trading. Did Flynn lobby for it?
"Subcontractor activities Counter to US Interests, Support to anti-US Regimes, Weapons Proliferation" << Pentagon's assessment of Volga Dn.
and this company paid 12 k to @GenFlynn? There must be an innocent explanation.
Flynn received 11K from Kaspersky a Russian security software company AT the same time he held a TS/SCI clearance without notifying DoD...
Flynn is paid by subsidiary of cyber-security Kaspersky Labs.
Eugene Kaspersky worked in the KGB.
Trump taps Flynn as NSA, 3 wks. later ...
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 03-16-2017 at 06:43 PM.
Favoured #KremlinTroll tactic is to set up fake twitter fights. One plays good cop, the other bad cop.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.dai...ain-West.html#
Kremlin Trolls CI @KremlinTrolls
. @IntersectionEN editors were groomed by the Kremlin for government service.
Studied together => got married => setup Intersection
IntersectionEN has been one of the most active Russian fake news aggressive trolling twitter sites....
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