I just finished watching "Active Measures," just released details the corruption of Trump, etc.

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and his rise to the presidency ... and the Russian ties. It is incredibly well done and is really a must watch!

https://www.activemeasures.com/

I watched it on Roku via FandangoNOW - www.fandango.com best $2.99 I've ever spent. I think it was just released this past week.

You can also go directly to www.fandango.com and watch it.

I first heard of it on MSNBC last night. It's both incredible and scary - and exceptionally well documented!

"ACTIVE MEASURES chronicles the most successful espionage operation in Russian history, the American presidential election of 2016. Filmmaker Jack Bryan exposes a 30-year history of covert political warfare devised by Vladmir Putin to disrupt, and ultimately control world events. In the process, the filmmakers follow a trail of money, real estate, mob connections, and on the record confessions to expose an insidious plot that leads directly back to The White House. With democracy hanging in the balance, ACTIVE MEASURES is essential viewing. Unraveling the true depth and scope of "the Russia story" as we have come to know it, this film a jarring reminder that some conspiracies hide in plain sight."

[imaginary girl]

1. Agree

Saw it last night on Hulu. Think it's available on itunes, too.

[EndGOPPropaganda]

2. While at it, watch "Brainwashing of My Dad" and "Icarus"

Icarus may be best movie of the year, all categories. So well done! Netflix.

And Brainwashing of My Dad is the Silver Spring or The Jungle of our time. Must. Watch. Amazon prime.

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3. Thanks!!! n/t

[hkp11]

11. Thanks!

Just watched The Brainwashing of My Dad on Prime. Very eye opening on how ppl get brainwashed with right-wing media and how right-wing media got a foot hold on radio and FOX.

[Amaryllis]

4. WHen Inconvenient Truth came out, I heard Gore in an interview say they had to find the balance

to show how serious it was without scaring people so much they felt hopeless and gave up. How does this movie do on that ?

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6. I think it just presented the truth, what was/is going on. It didn't leave me feeling helpless,

but rather they are being exposed.

[Amaryllis]

8. That's good. It's a difficult balance to strike. Educate people but dont make them feel like the

situation is hopeless .

[Thekaspervote]

5. Hulu is streaming it as well. If not interested in a subscription they do offer a free trial

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7. Thanks!!! n/t

[progree]

9. Somebody put the trailer in Video & Multimedia...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017508763

[oasis]

10. I gotta take some time to view. nt

[mopinko]

12. also on itunes. watched it tonight.

not that much new, but the history of it all was a kick in the head.

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14. Same here. A lot is what we knew from time to time, but this linked it all together into

one historical package. I was looking at the credits. An enormous number of people and sources pulled it together.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. Thanks. Why no wider viewing vehicle ?

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15. I think it was just released ... so it will probably get more visibility as time moves on.

Some said it's already now on Hulu and iTunes.

[smirkymonkey]

16. Just watched it on Hulu.

Excellent and very frightening.

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17. Yep!!! They did an incredible job of pulling it all together. I just can't imagine how anyone can

see this and walk away saying it's all fake and not of concern. tRump will and so will I bet many deplorables. A good many deplorables are too stupid to get what's going on and frankly a good many of them are IMO traitors.

[smirkymonkey]

18. I've also been recommending it to non-DU friends and family. I think it's that important.

One of the many things that stood out is why Putin did NOT want Hillary to be the President. She's been on to him for a long time.

[MariaCSR]

19. The most disturbing thing to me

Were all the assasinations. Shit was straight out of a spy movie.

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20. It really is. Assassinations like gangsters. Most people probably think of warfare with bombs, etc.

taking over a country. This is similar but no bombs and all ... and a lot worse!!! Extremely sinister and dangerous.

[VOX]

21. Some background: "Is This the Documentary That Can Take Down Trump?"

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/05/donald-trump-russia-documentary-active-measures-jack-bryan
How Jack Bryan parlayed rich-kid know-how into Active Measures, the very first feature-length doc about Trump and Russia
Vanity Fair / by TOM ROSTON
MAY 1, 2018
Jack Bryan was your average Upper East Side-raised son of a millionaire trying to get his filmmaking career started when Donald Trump began persistently popping up in his life. In New York City’s social circuit, Bryan’s father, Shelby Bryan—a telecom mogul and Democratic donor—was friendly enough with Trump, perhaps because both are relative outsiders (Bryan being from Texas, and Trump being Trump). On vacation in Palm Beach in 2008, the Bryan family was immersed in the scuttlebutt about how a then financially strapped Trump had curiously managed to sell a Palm Beach estate he’d bought for $41 million to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95 million. Around 2012, Shelby Bryan shared a car to the U.S. Open with the real-estate tycoon, after which he told his son, “That guy sure does like Russia.” The elder Bryan (who is also the longtime partner of Condé Nast’s artistic director, Anna Wintour) also brought his sons, Jack and Austin, on a golfing trip to the United Kingdom, where Trump gave them early access to his Trump International Golf Links course in Scotland and chatted with them after their game.

To Jack, Trump registered as a “harmless clown who would appear in the tabloids.” But as Trump’s political ambitions solidified, the younger Bryan began to take notice. A self-described “pragmatic lefty,” he had often texted with his friend and fellow politics junkie Marley Clements about world affairs. When Clements proposed that Russians may have been involved in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee during the summer of 2016, Bryan expressed skeptical interest.

Then, in March 2017, former F.B.I. agent Clint Watts testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that Trump himself had engaged in “active measures”—a term that describes the Russian propaganda tactic of using disinformation and manipulation of events to promote its foreign policy. That’s when Bryan said to Clements, “Somebody needs to make a film about this.”
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[Roland99]

22. Watching now. Reminds me of "The Power of Nightmares"

Remember that one? Uncovering the PNACers?

[Roland99]

23. It's so obvious to see links between Putin's actions and desires and certain world events

Just like Twitler’s tweets mimics F&F stories each morning

[Mr. Ected]

24. Decades of GOP allegations of crimes by the Clintons

Were rightfully deemed to be nasty partisan politics. There was no "there" there. Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars dumped into veritable partisan witch hunts. No wonder they shift so seamlessly into projecting such motivations on Democrats meaning to do the same against Trump and the Republican party.

Well, it ain't so. Sure, it's partisan in that it is basically confined to criminal acts perpetrated by Republicans in illegally co-oping Russians in laundering money, affecting election results, and all the other nefarious actions for which we are all still working in the dark. But it isn't partisan. It just isn't. My anger and frustration with many conservatives is that they have a huge blind spot when it comes to the sanctity of their own politicians. They're lazy. They believe that this is politics at play, not espionage, not treachery, not treason.

I wish for a moment politics would just disappear. I wish everyone could make sound, logical, objective determinations based on the facts, because our country has been compromised, our Constitution desecrated, but the partisans are blinded to it by the wool their politicians and media are pulling over their eyes.

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25. Agree!!! Well said!!! n/t

[kentuck]

26. I agree.

I watched it this morning. It makes a very complex conspiracy easier to understand.

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29. We knew most of the pieces from time to time, but they did a wonderful job of

connecting it all together. I have to admit, I was starting to get a bit lost with it all, but this cleared it up ... did a wonderful job.

[duforsure]

27. Some network should start showing this

2-3 times a week on tv for all to see and understand what we have in the White House now, a puppet of putin's.

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28. They should!!! I bet millions will never see it, and that's what they count on, low information

voters.