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March 10, 2017

45 has a lot in common Putin

Journalist: Russia's Interference Is An 'Assault On The Western Liberal Order



On Putin's tactics for creating false stories

This is one of Putin's tactics that he first learnt as a junior spy in Leningrad when he joined the KGB — essentially lying, if you're in the KGB. There's nothing wrong about it. It's simply a kind of tactic. It's a kind of operational strategy. And what we've seen, essentially, is that the Kremlin has kind of perfected these postmodern techniques, first of all, by squashing domestic criticism and taking over TV inside Russia, but really, over the last seven or eight years, willing this out to an English language audience through things like Russia Today, the English-language propaganda channel of the Kremlin.

The goal is essentially to persuade some people that the Kremlin's view of events is true, but also to kind of confuse and bamboozle everybody else by floating conspiracy theories, so there are 10 different explanations for an event, by doing fake news, by hiring armies of trolls. ... And so it's clever, it's clever because it allows, actually, the Russian regime to get away with all sorts of things, and increasingly, I guess, exploiting the openness of Western societies and America in particular.







http://www.npr.org/2017/01/26/511786803/journalist-russias-interference-is-an-assault-on-the-western-liberal-order

March 5, 2017

Kentucky Balanced Budget Bill is a Threat to the U.S. Constitution

I followed a link from indivisibleky.org on twitter Thom Hartman has talked about this on his show. http://indivisibleky.org/index.php/2017/03/04/urgent-call-to-unite-take-action-in-kentucky/

February 2, 2017

Alfalfa Club?

We have people distancing themselves from family and friends because of what is going on in this country. A man walked into a Mosque and killed people. Then the people that are stirring this pot all get together with the riches people in this country for a night of laughter makes me wonder what the hell?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/01/29/a-political-truce-is-called-at-the-104th-annual-alfalfa-club-dinner/?utm_term=.578ca358a4ab

January 24, 2017

Trump keeps saying there were 3,000,000 to 5,000,000

Illegal votes maybe the election should be investigated and maybe all the dirt that is there like purging of the voter rolls would come out. Maybe we should all call for an investigation.

January 21, 2017

New president of the USA

The most disliked person in the world.

January 20, 2017

Corporate Take Over

We are watching the CEO being installed into the office of the Corporate take over of the United States of America.

January 20, 2017

Democracy Now

On TV channel 375 Link on Direct TV
Online
https://www.democracynow.org/

Watch Democracy Now!'s special broadcast on inauguration day from 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. ET, covering the official inauguration proceedings and updates from actions taking place. On Saturday, we'll be live 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. from the Women's March.

January 20, 2017

Free Speech TV

Be sure if you want to see real coverage of the protests watch Democracy Now on Free Speech TV

January 20, 2017

How great would it be

If tomorrow at 12 the TV stations get hacked and we see the pp tape

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