Russia wants to upend Western democracy
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Putin approves law targeting journalists as 'foreign agents'
Vladimir Putin has signed a law that will allow Russia to declare journalists and bloggers as “foreign agents” in a move critics say will allow the Kremlin to target government critics.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-approves-law-targeting-jour
nalists-as-foreign-agents/ar-BBXGvc7?ocid=spartandhp
Dear comrades kiki, and sig. While you're bashing America, your homeland is crumbling. It's turning into one big gulag. A country that is just one big penal system. Don't forget to show your papers when you visit your relatives there.
Dos Vadanya
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Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.
Almost half of top foreign-policy experts think Russia will become a failed state or break up by 2033, according to a new survey
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/almost-half-of-top-foreign-policy
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I'm sure they'll be just as accurate as the rest of Biden*'s staff has been. Yanno... like on Inflation, and Crime, and the Border Crisis, Trump's Taxes, etc.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Exclusive: Putin-linked think tank drew up plan to sway 2016 U.S. election - documents
It recommended the Kremlin launch a propaganda campaign on social media and Russian state-backed global news outlets to encourage U.S. voters to elect a president who would take a softer line toward Russia than the administration of then-President Barack Obama, the seven officials said.
A second institute document, drafted in October and distributed in the same way, warned that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was likely to win the election. For that reason, it argued, it was better for Russia to end its pro-Trump propaganda and instead intensify its messaging about voter fraud to undermine the U.S. electoral system’s legitimacy and damage Clinton’s reputation in an effort to undermine her presidency, the seven officials said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-election-exclusive-idUSKB
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Iran recalls that it has not recognized Russia’s annexation of Crimea
Iranian Foreign Minister Hosein Amirabdolahian has recalled on Thursday that despite good relations between Tehran and Moscow, the country respected Ukraine's sovereignty and did not recognize Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iran-recalls-that-it-has-not-reco
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Originally posted by THG: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 2:37 PM
Putin approves law targeting journalists as 'foreign agents'
Vladimir Putin has signed a law that will allow Russia to declare journalists and bloggers as “foreign agents” in a move critics say will allow the Kremlin to target government critics.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-approves-law-targeting-jour
nalists-as-foreign-agents/ar-BBXGvc7?ocid=spartandhp
Dear comrades kiki, and sig. While you're bashing America, your homeland is crumbling. It's turning into one big gulag. A country that is just one big penal system. Don't forget to show your papers when you visit your relatives there.
Dos Vadanya
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Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.
Oops, right again.
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I have issues with extreme points of view myself rap. Many of those points of view come from you. However, Patton would roll over in his grave if he saw what you posted instead of coming together to push Putin back. What he represents in not democracy.
I ignored your silly post for a year, and now looking back, what have we found ?
What ' interference ' did the Russians actually do to our election ? To date, nothing. Oh, they " may have " tried , but functionally , there's nothing to show that their actions had 1 iotas worth of impact on who voted for either candidate.
Nothing.
Patton wanted to drive through Berlin and not stop until he reached Moscow. He never trusted the Russian govt. So how is it a shock to anyone that a former KGB man like Putin would change his spots ? Point is, this is nothing new ! Been going on for 70+ years.
She LOST. Get over it.
Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has led to the indictments of 31 people and three companies — that we know of so far.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a13122012/robert-mueller-russia-
investigation-charges/
That group is composed of four former Trump advisers, 26 Russian nationals rappy with much more to come. Still think it's much ado about nothing? As I've said, Patton would roll over in his grave reading what your opinion of all this is.
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Substack writer Matt Taibbi previously reported how top Democrats like California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, as well as Connecticut Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, kept promoting claims that the Kremlin had significant influence in public discourse despite being told otherwise by Twitter executives.
On Friday, Taibbi did a deep dive into their source, Hamilton 68, a so-called "dashboard" that purportedly monitored Russian bot activity.
Hamilton 68, which was spearheaded by former FBI special agent and MSNBC contributor Clint Watts, was operated by the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD), a "neoliberal think tank" founded in 2017 with an advisory council that includes Clinton ally John Podesta, former Obama-era acting CIA director Michael Morrell, former Obama official Michael McFaul and The Bulwark editor-at-large Bill Kristol.
Taibbi wrote Hamilton 68 "was the source of hundreds if not thousands of mainstream print and TV news stories in the Trump years."
But behind the scenes, Twitter executives trashed Hamilton 68 and deliberated whether they should publicly rebuke ASD.
"I think we need to just call this out on the bulls--- it is," Twitter's then-head of trust and safety Yoel Roth wrote in an October 2017 email, later writing in January 2018 that the dashboard
"falsely accuses a bunch of legitimate right-leaning accounts of being Russian bots."
"Virtually any conclusion drawn from it will take conversations in conservative circles on Twitter and accuse them of being Russian," Roth wrote in February 2018.
MORE AT https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/the-just-wont-stop-nyt-pushes-ne
w-claims-by-debunked-anti-russia-propagandist-clint-watts.html#more
Seems like our own deep state is doing a better job of upending democracy, AND they get to blame Russia for it!
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" It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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Putin wants to show his citizenry that democracy is no better than what they have. It's what keeps most Russians from taking to the streets to protest for something better.
Well, as this shit plays out with Trump the checks and balances of our democracy, are showing the Russian people our system and our rule of law is much better than what Putin offers. What he offers is no better than what is offered in the Middle East; bad and corrupt government.
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tick tock and then it's pay back.
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This post was a response to kiki and sig's posts concerning Putin's interfering in our elections. Judging by their posts they were busting with pride for Putin and Russia. I warned them it would come back to bust them in the ass. Well, it has.
I'm enjoying watching us take down Russia as payback by helping the Ukrainians. No one could have predicted the world would take Russia out as severely and as completely as it appears we have. And the world is not done yet.
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Mutiny and mayhem in Russia a probable boon for Ukraine
When Yevgeny Prigozhin turned his back on Russia’s war to assail his own military leaders in an armed revolt and march on Moscow, many Ukrainians described feeling incredulity and giddiness.
Ukraine’s military did appear to seize on the momentary turmoil created by Prigozhin’s efforts. Hanna Maliar, Ukraine’s deputy defense minister, announced a multipronged attack near Bakhmut, the city that the Wagner mercenary group had helped capture at the cost of thousands of lives.
Prigozhin shook the Russian establishment when he called Russia’s stated reasons for the invasion “lies” by military and government leaders.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/mutiny-and-mayhem-in-russia-a-pro
bable-boon-for-ukraine/ar-AA1d4KIx?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=9911fdf43d654d139a8fdc756da96e77&ei=22
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Quote:It doesn't seem like that, at all. It seems like you are a highly motivated promoter of conspiracy theories.
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Seems like our own deep state is doing a better job of upending democracy, AND they get to blame Russia for it!
Research reveals what kind of people fall for conspiracy theories
People can be prone to believe in conspiracy theories due to a combination of personality traits and motivations.
People who believe in conspiracy theories tend to be insecure and paranoid, suggests a new study.
Conspiracy theorists are also likely to be emotionally volatile and impulsive, according to the findings.
But they're not all mentally unstable, say psychologists.
They found that people can be prone to believe in conspiracy theories due to a combination of personality traits and motivations.
These include relying strongly on their intuition, feeling a sense of antagonism and superiority toward others, and perceiving threats in their environment.
The results of the study, published online in the journal Psychological Bulletin, paint a "nuanced" picture of what drives conspiracy theorists, according to lead author Shauna Bowes.
“Conspiracy theorists are not all likely to be simple-minded, mentally unwell folks – a portrait which is routinely painted in popular culture,” said Bowes, a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Emory University.
“Instead, many turn to conspiracy theories to fulfill deprived motivational needs and make sense of distress and impairment.”
She said previous research on what drives conspiracy theorists had mainly looked separately at personality and motivation.
The new study aimed to examine those factors together to arrive at a more unified account of why people believe in conspiracy theories.
The research team analyzed data from 170 studies involving more than 158,000 participants, mainly in the UK, USA and Poland.
They focused on studies that measured participants’ motivations or personality traits associated with conspiratorial thinking.
The team found that, overall, people were motivated to believe in conspiracy theories by a need to understand and feel safe in their environment and a need to feel like the community they identify with is superior to others.
More at https://talker.news/2023/06/26/research-reveals-what-kind-of-people-fa
ll-for-conspiracy-theories/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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