Russia! Russia!! Russia!!!

[kybkh]

Podesta is Manafort, Manafort is Podesta.

They both lobbied for the exact same Euro Center.

Ummm... because they are lobbyists, they lobby?

They are in it for the money, you know. I don't think that Manafort was lobbying for Mobutu Sese Seko because of ideological reasons.

Good that K-street feels at least some pressure from the Mueller probe.

Wait, did the narrative just change or did somebody forget to flush?

[Speaker to Animals]

This is the political equivalent of when terrorists accidently blow up their own houses while trying to make bombs. Anti-Trump fags are basically running around on fire right now. I suspect a very merry Christmas indeed.

[adwinistrator]

Papadopoulos was a "Proactive cooperator" after his arrest. He was wired up.

[kybkh]

He is not new news.

[kybkh]

From the book Ghost Wars

[Ex-California]

And that criminal Dianne Feinstein finally spills what the MUH RUSSIA endgame is all about

http://www.dailywire.com/news/23041/dem ... en-shapiro

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) complained that the platforms had been “misused.” She threatened, “you have to be the ones who do something about it — or we will.”

The Silicon Valley companies have too much power and too much freedom. Statists gonna statist

Here’s the question: is there more danger to the First Amendment from Russians buying ads on Facebook that touch on American politics, or from members of the federal government seeking to regulate the content that can be posted on Facebook and how such content is posted?

[kybkh]

Would it be safe to say if fewer people had internet access that such propaganda would be less effective?

The traditional notion of “going online” often evokes images of a desktop or laptop computer with a full complement of features, such as a large screen, mouse, keyboard, wires, and a dedicated high-speed connection. But for many Americans, the reality of the online experience is substantially different. Today nearly two-thirds of Americans own a smartphone, and 19% of Americans rely to some degree on a smartphone for accessing online services and information and for staying connected to the world around them — either because they lack broadband at home, or because they have few options for online access other than their cell phone.

http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/04/01/u ... e-in-2015/

[kybkh]

Even beyond smartphones, both African Americans and English-speaking Latinos are as likely
as whites to own any sort of mobile phone, and are more likely to use their phones for a wider
range of activities

http://www.pewinternet.org/files/old-me ... 041312.pdf

[SuburbanFarmer]

It appears that Twitter offered RT an "Election Specialist", if they chose to pay a base rate for advertising.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-0 ... ection-ads



https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz ... .eoeZeloGa

Twitter wanted RT to spend big ahead of the 2016 US election, offering a significant portion of its election-related ad inventory in return. The social media company offered the Russian state–owned television network up to a 15% share of voice ("SOV") on US election advertising — or the percent of all ads run on that topic — for $3 million.

RT's share of voice was 2% at the time of the pitch, according to a June 2016 email from a Twitter sales executive to RT staff members that RT shared with BuzzFeed News. The $3 million spent would multiply RT's share of voice more than sevenfold, but still leave it short of CNN's 56% and FOX's 32%. RT declined the offer.

[ssu]

Wait, did the narrative just change or did somebody forget to flush?

Nah, you just desperately try to make this thing about Hillary (like Trump) ...or something, I don't know. Cannot follow your logic here.

From the book Ghost Wars

Just see Charlie Wilson's War.

US News, from 2008:

U.S. officials had an even higher opinion of Haqqani, who was considered the most effective rebel warlord. "I adored Haqqani. When I was in Afghanistan, Haqqani was the guy who made sure I would get out," says Wilson. "He was a marvelous leader and very beloved in his territory."

Haqqani was also one of the leading advocates of the so-called Arab Afghans, deftly organizing Arab volunteer fighters who came to wage jihad against the Soviet Union and helping to protect future al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Today, U.S. military officials are not certain that Haqqani is alive, though he was featured in an undated video that recently surfaced. "Either way, the Haqqani we're fighting now is the son"—34-year-old Sirajuddin Haqqani—says the senior U.S. military official. "He gets a lot of benefit from his father's prestige."

Today, the Haqqani network is driving the recent rise in violence in eastern Afghanistan, according to U.S. military officials. Haqqani "is definitely the strongest" enemy in the border provinces of Paktia, Paktika, and Khost, known among military officials as p2k.