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1,000 Paid Russian Trolls

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Friday, March 31, 2017 7:37 PM

1,000 Paid Russian Trolls Spread Fake News On Hillary Clinton, Senate Intelligence Heads Told

A former FBI agent testified that President Donald Trump helped spread fake news by embracing the stories against his opponents.


Senate intelligence committee leaders have received reports that Russia hired at least 1,000 trolls to spread fake news stories to hurt Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton during the presidential election.


“What really concerns me [are reports] there were upwards of 1,000 paid internet trolls working out of a facility in Russia, in effect taking over a series of computers which are then called botnets that can generate news down to specific areas,” said Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. He appeared Wednesday with GOP intel chair Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) at a press conference before committee hearings began.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/russian-trolls-fake-news_us_58dde6
bae4b08194e3b8d5c4


And this is what SIG, 1KIKI and dreamtrove/sockpuppet are all about. These fake news stories are all over our threads, put there by SIG and 1kiki. These two have cut and pasted enough fake news here to fill an encyclopedia.

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Friday, March 31, 2017 7:43 PM

Lol. I openly support them. Can I get a check? I'd rather be a paid Russian troll.

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Friday, March 31, 2017 8:07 PM

Like the VOA and paid American trolls (THUGR) never attempt to interfere with ... anything.

How droll!



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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake

THUGR IS A DEEP-STATE TROLL

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Friday, March 31, 2017 8:12 PM

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Originally posted by G:
"1,000??!?" That's all? I'd have thought the number was much, much higher. Come on Puttie!



Here we are again G.

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SIG says I'm a deep state troll. oh my.

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Friday, March 31, 2017 8:16 PM

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Originally posted by DREAMTROVE:
Lol. I openly support them. Can I get a check? I'd rather be a paid Russian troll.

Did you vote for Trump?

Sen. Mark Warner said in the latest case, the paid trolls apparently focused on swing states in an attempt to influence votes there — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — where people were “reading during the waning days of the election that “‘Clinton is sick,’ or ‘Clinton is taking money from whoever for some source’ … fake news.”

Warner said it’s crucial that investigators determine if voting results were actually affected. Each of the three states narrowly fell to Trump.

“An outside foreign adversary effectively sought to hijack the most critical democratic process, the election of a president, and in that process, decided to favor one candidate over another,” Warner said.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Friday, March 31, 2017 8:25 PM

So now you not only seek to delegitimize Trump (because of these phantom "russian connections" that you keep hyperventilating about) you also seek to delegitimize Trump VOTERS and anyone with an opposing view?

Anti-democracy and anti-free speech much?





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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake

THUGR IS A DEEP-STATE TROLL

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Friday, March 31, 2017 8:26 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Like the VOA and paid American trolls (THUGR) never attempt to interfere with ... anything.

How droll!

So now you not only seek to delegitimize Trump (because of these phantom "russian connections" that you keep hyperventilating about) you also seek to delegitimize Trump VOETERS and anyone with an opposing view?

Anti-democracy and anti-free speech much?

A Russian would be foolish to vote for the candidate promoted on VOA (Voice of America) as best for America. An American was a fool to vote for candidate Trump, promoted on RT (Russia Today) as best for Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Friday, March 31, 2017 8:40 PM

I'm going to go with "fake news" on this one.

Here's the story: Clint Watts told three senators that he thinks it's Russia
He said he has been on this case since 2014.

Clint Watts, is this guy.
http://www.fpri.org/2014/09/seven-flaws-in-the-u-s-strategy-to-counter
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He wrote a lot about Syria and the mideast, all with a solid anti-Shia bias.

That's FPRI. Who are they? A pro-war lobby. They hate Russia because Russia is in their way. So is Trump.

So, Clint. He says "I got trolled, I looked into it. It was Russia."

Let's check that out.

Huh, you're writing is pretty good, and you're fairly objective.

Okay, several problems here. You got trolled, on the internet? Wow.

Next, you looked into it? You're an investigative reporter. You look into things. And then you write about them. Why did you never mention this one until now?

Maybe it wasn't worth anything to say Shia were trolling you. There are more Shia than Russians, and they have an obvious reason to troll you. Maybe it's not even the same Shia trolling you, maybe they're all individually offended.

But Russia. So, it's campaign season, time to Butter up.

Specifically, what did Clint say about Russian trolls in 2014? Nothing. 2015? Nada. 2016? Aug 15th, "Russians are on twitter, lying." Late November, 2016: Russian trolls. Ah, lost the election and now we see it.

Okay, so how about you articles on Russia? Some story about how jihadists hate Russia, in 2015. That's it. Okay, so why now. Oh, I see. FPRI said a lot about Russia. Maybe their opinion, not yours.

Getting to know FPRI better. What did you guys think of Russia before this happened? Oh, you hated her. When did you state hating her? 1955. When you were created. To hate Russia. So, you were the propaganda arm of the cold war? Your entire focus was hating Russia, spreading propaganda, and dismissing Russian counterparts, who, sure, were doing the same thing.

Okay, making sense now. Must've sucked for you in 1989 when the wall came down. Oh, yeah, I see. It really did suck for you. So you went on hating Russia, and in 1991, you switched focus to the middle east. Makes sense.

But someone beat the But Russia drum and you popped right up as experts on Russian propaganda. Okay, you probably are that. And you're smart guys and pretty honest. There's just this part of you I still don't quite trust. You hate Iran, constantly. And their entire religion, including a couple hundred million other people who are in it. And Russia. Because it's why you exist.

So, the obvious is that anti-Russian propaganda trolls ACTUALLY DO pay Clint's salary, with no conspiracy theory required, just a little investigative googling.

That said, it does beg the question, are there anti paid anti-Russia trolls out there on the internet?

As for pro-Russian trolls, there are a lot of Russians out there, and millions of them speak English, I'm sure there are quite a few of them. It's just this is like the islamic terrorism narrative: sure they exist; is that why we're hearing of them, or is it because the ones telling us were already obsessed with hating their target.

Still, if the Russians want to pay me for saying so, I'll show them where to send the money.

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Friday, March 31, 2017 8:41 PM

Second, why do you think that what's good for America is bad for Russia and what's good for Russia is bad for America?

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Friday, March 31, 2017 9:08 PM

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A Russian would be foolish to vote for the candidate promoted on VOA (Voice of America) as best for America. An American was a fool to vote for candidate Trump, promoted on RT (Russia Today) as best for Russia.
FIRST OF ALL< SECOND:

YOU HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO FIND MUCH OF ANYTHING ON RT ABOUT EITHER HILLARY OR TRUMP, HAVE YOU? Yet despite the lack of evidence on your part, you just take the meme that you've been given and use it as if it were true. I could say quite a few negative things about that, but I'm sure you'll come to the same conclusions yourself.

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As far as Trump being bad for America: That's your OPINION, SECOND.

You need to stop elevating your opinion to "universal truth".

Because, in my opinion, Trump is an EXCELLENT President!

If you were to look at events with less partisan eyes - IF SUCH WERE POSSIBLE- you would have noticed that the Trump administration has managed to get the various deep-state actors to out themselves, so now all of the sudden there's squabbling and bickering and illegal snooping and dirty-work all out in the open, with people pointing fingers at each other and trying to jump from the nasty mess and whistle-blowers and Wikileaks coming forward and telling us all of the dirty deeds that are being done to the Office of the President, his appointees, and to us.

And with all of the mud-slinging going on, the media is a confused mess, with real news, fake news, breaking news, sheer propaganda, and brilliant reporting coming at us from ALL directions. Wonderful! It's time that the MSM's monopoly on mainstream opinion was well-and-truly broken.

DISRUPTION IS GOOD. It's time to rip the bandage off that nasty mess and take a look at what's squirming underneath.

Podesta Hits Daily Caller With Cease-And-Desist Letter Over Alleged Financial Disclosure Violations
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-30/podesta-hits-daily-caller-cea
se-and-desist-letter-over-alleged-financial-disclosure
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President Obama’s Own Defense Deputy Admits Obama White House Spied on Candidate/President-Elect Trump…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/03/28/oh-my-president-obamas
-own-defense-deputy-admits-obama-white-house-spied-on-candidatepresident-elect-trump
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BUT ... If Evelyn Farkas Resigned in 2015, How Did She Have Access to Trump-Russian Intelligence?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-29/if-evelyn-farkas-resigned-201
5-how-did-she-have-access-trump-russian-intelligence


McCain Furious At Rex Tillerson For Saying Assad Can Stay
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-31/mccain-furious-rex-tillerson-
saying-assad-can-stay


Michael Flynn Seeks Immunity In Exchange For Testifying To Congress, FBI
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michael-flynn-testimony_us_58dd889
fe4b0e6ac7093b323?5m79oc7olzxhl4n29&
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Hellz-a-poppin', hon. Keep your eyes open and your wits about you, and you will see some interesting things, and it's not all good news for the DNC and its ties to anti-American globalists. Be prepared to start categorizing Beltway habitues into unfamiliar categories.


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THUGR IS A DEEP-STATE TROLL

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