Defectors from an internet comment factory employing about 250 people, many of whom, surprisingly, turned out to be not brainwashed propagandists, but ordinary people in search of money.-@EuromaidanPress 2014 euromaidanpress.com/2014/11/02/the…
Around 250 people work 12-hour shifts, writing in blogs 24/7..This is a full-cycle production: some write the posts, others comment on them. Most often they comment each other in order to boost the ratings.—@EuromaidanPress 2014
By the way, they don’t tell you what you will be doing until you start. They tell you you’ll be writing in a blog, like a housewife but in an office. Yeah, a housewife wakes up and starts writing about Ukraine, right.—@EuromaidanPress 2014
Ep15 @radicalizedpod I read an email from Martin Sheil—former IRS criminal investigator—near the top of the show dissecting Russia sanctions. Check it out:
Also threading: “Swift is HUUUUGE!”
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Detaching major Russian banks from SWIFT which was announced is HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This will be devastating to the Russian economy which is rather paltry - maybe analogous to that of Portugal or Texas.
What is scary is the sanctions are backing Putin into a corner.—Marty
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He sounds more and more paranoid. He is also very enamored of his nukes, and I am getting concerned that he is like a cat caught up in a tree that may decide to take desperate measures. Here is something else: Will the Russian Generals allow Putin to take nuclear measures?-MS
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