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Stay focused.
1/ Don’t fall prey.
2/ The mind hack is ongoing.
TRENDING: Far-right Twitter tyrants are being given the boot.
“Unlike Mr Salvini, who critics said spent more time on Twitter than in his ministry, Ms Lamorgese has no social media presence and will adopt a much lower profile.”
independent.co.uk/news/world/eur… @Independent
“Unlike Mr Salvini, who critics said spent more time on Twitter than in his ministry, Ms Lamorgese has no social media presence and will adopt a much lower profile.”
independent.co.uk/news/world/eur… @Independent
1/ Austria did it in May.
“Austria will be governed by a technocratic administration of experts and senior civil servants until fresh elections scheduled for early September.”
theguardian.com/world/2019/may… @guardian
“Austria will be governed by a technocratic administration of experts and senior civil servants until fresh elections scheduled for early September.”
theguardian.com/world/2019/may… @guardian
Recall when a @washingtonpost reporter was brutally murdered and Trump lied while Kushner evaded... ya, me too.
1/ Rebooting my 2018 Op-Ed:
“The brutal slaying of Jamal Khashoggi, a progressive and critical voice of Saudi oppression, has given the world a profound pause. No small feat during a digital insurgency, when lies paper over facts at the rat-a-tat speed of machine-gun fury.”
“The brutal slaying of Jamal Khashoggi, a progressive and critical voice of Saudi oppression, has given the world a profound pause. No small feat during a digital insurgency, when lies paper over facts at the rat-a-tat speed of machine-gun fury.”
2/ “A careful examination of the facts reveals a number of disturbing revelations:
“The Saudis lied. Trump lied. Kushner evaded. And Khashoggi died. There’s a foul stench in this toxic soup of overt cover-up.”
“The Saudis lied. Trump lied. Kushner evaded. And Khashoggi died. There’s a foul stench in this toxic soup of overt cover-up.”
Anytime news breaks related to Trump, I view it through the lens of “how does this impact Putin.”
Here @ThePlumLineGS does an excellent job of summarizing the latest—juxtaposing it with 2016’s coordination with Russia & the ensuing obstruction corruption.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
Here @ThePlumLineGS does an excellent job of summarizing the latest—juxtaposing it with 2016’s coordination with Russia & the ensuing obstruction corruption.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
1/ So to remove fuzzy edges, I turn to my shortlist of global experts who faced down Russian aggression head on and/or study psych wars.
Former President of Estonia weighs in with this clarity:
“All chaos benefits Putin, but especially the collapse of rule of law.”-@IlvesToomas
Former President of Estonia weighs in with this clarity:
“All chaos benefits Putin, but especially the collapse of rule of law.”-@IlvesToomas
2/ “...except insofar as protection of property rights are concerned, especially property acquired with laundered money from criminal behavior at home. In fact, more even than NATO, this is Europe’s greatest security guarantee.”-@IlvesToomas
The people demand a perp walk.
448 reasons to arrest his treasony ass.
In scrutinizing global dictators, it’s clear their darkest characteristics are not that they are corruption-ridden gangsters, it’s that they believe in a fear-based worldview of strongmen, they believe that lies are more valuable than the truth and in compliance through violence.
1/ Power, by any memes necessary.
2/ ILL-FATED.
THE OLIGERKS: A work of fiction based loosely on fake events.
maewestside.tumblr.com/post/187749605… by me and @KeithAtRest
maewestside.tumblr.com/post/187749605… by me and @KeithAtRest
“It was day No. 3 of the Trial of the Century when fresh hell broke loose: 4 defendants—an American President, 2 GOP Senators & a Congressman—were on trial for treason after hatching a plot to drop dirty bombs on their own people and pin the blame on Hillary Clinton”-The Oligerks
2/ “The scheme was foiled by the President’s youngest son, who was hiding behind a plant in the War Room and recorded the entire conversation on his cell phone, having evaded his Secret Service detail by feigning boy problems.”-The Oligerks
SINISTER WARFARE: Each time I parse the “psych war” explainers by “Moscow Rules” author @KeirGiles it leads to more questions.
Please review the embedded thread on hybrid warfare, then refer to my Q & A with Giles below.
Since it’s a societal plague, we all must seek solutions.
Please review the embedded thread on hybrid warfare, then refer to my Q & A with Giles below.
Since it’s a societal plague, we all must seek solutions.
1/ HYBRID WARFARE
A @KeirGiles Q & A:
HSC: What should we call this type of sinister warfare? ‘Hybrid’ sounds environmentally friendly, nicey, like ‘meddling’.
KG: “Writing about ‘hybrid warfare’ in 2019 is an anomaly, since most countries have already moved on from the term.”
A @KeirGiles Q & A:
HSC: What should we call this type of sinister warfare? ‘Hybrid’ sounds environmentally friendly, nicey, like ‘meddling’.
KG: “Writing about ‘hybrid warfare’ in 2019 is an anomaly, since most countries have already moved on from the term.”
2/ Con.
KG: “It was first applied to what Russia does after the seizure of Crimea and the beginning of operations in eastern Ukraine, because people who had long forgotten (or never knew in the first place) how Russia operates thought they were observing something entirely new.”
KG: “It was first applied to what Russia does after the seizure of Crimea and the beginning of operations in eastern Ukraine, because people who had long forgotten (or never knew in the first place) how Russia operates thought they were observing something entirely new.”
Another brilliant explainer on Russia’s aggression toward the West by author @KeirGiles.
His first point: the language “hybrid warfare” is way too innocuous to describe the damage wrought by the relentless electronic and information attacks target nations are facing.
Thread.
His first point: the language “hybrid warfare” is way too innocuous to describe the damage wrought by the relentless electronic and information attacks target nations are facing.
Thread.
1/ A WHOLE OF GOVERNMENT PROBLEM: The “hybrid challenge” from Russia is not just a military problem but a whole of government problem—its impact affects entire societies. Therefore solutions must be bigger than mere government efforts.
2/ AN IMPRESSIVE ARRAY: Russia uses the following to target nations with “hybrid warfare”:
* State agencies
* Military
* Private military co.’s
* NGOs
* Oligarchs
* State-controlled orgs such as the moto gang the “Night Wolves”
* Regulations, expats, cheating
* Organized crime
* State agencies
* Military
* Private military co.’s
* NGOs
* Oligarchs
* State-controlled orgs such as the moto gang the “Night Wolves”
* Regulations, expats, cheating
* Organized crime
TRUTH ACTIVISTS: To those who never waver from their commitment to truth, this thread’s for you.
To the courageous activists who stand up, show up and speak out, you are a beacon of strength.
You’re resisting right if you don’t fall prey to daily outrage
To the courageous activists who stand up, show up and speak out, you are a beacon of strength.
You’re resisting right if you don’t fall prey to daily outrage
1/ You’re a proper resistor if you read the Mueller Report.
2/ You’re resisting correctly if you’ve educated yourself on the nuances of psych war.
“The greatest challenge..is ‘beznadyoga’—a collective feeling of hopelessness that paralyzes efforts to overturn the status quo..It’s this aspect of the Russian psyche that the opposition—led by @Navalny smashed on Sunday after marathon protests”
politico.com/magazine/story… @politico
politico.com/magazine/story… @politico
“PURE POLITICAL REPRESSION”—Russian security services raided Kremlin critic @Navalny regional hqs after pro-Putin candidates suffered massive losses in Moscow elections. More than 1,000 officers across 40 towns raided dozens of Navalny activists”
theguardian.com/world/2019/sep… @guardian
theguardian.com/world/2019/sep… @guardian
Become a psych war expert.
As always, author @KeirGiles brings us up to speed on critical news of Russia’s ongoing aggression against the West.
Here, he parses why the French—after getting it right—are now getting it wrong.
Read his thread below and then read my Q & A to follow.
We gotta get this right.
Here, he parses why the French—after getting it right—are now getting it wrong.
Read his thread below and then read my Q & A to follow.
We gotta get this right.
1/ A Q & A with @KeirGiles
HSC: Why does the West continually get this wrong—handling Russia as if its not a perpetual aggressor.
KG: “There are two natural but unfortunate human tendencies at work here. The first is optimism.”
HSC: Why does the West continually get this wrong—handling Russia as if its not a perpetual aggressor.
KG: “There are two natural but unfortunate human tendencies at work here. The first is optimism.”
2/ Con.
KG: “The assumption that things by default ought to get better, not worse, and that includes Russian behaviour if only they are given a chance.”
KG: “The assumption that things by default ought to get better, not worse, and that includes Russian behaviour if only they are given a chance.”
“Hey you really missed something at the Kremlin this morning, Mac.”
“Ya, how is the old Kremlin?”
“Same old rat trap, full of stuffed shirts double-crossing the masses. Some day the people are gonna get wise and take it apart brick by brick.”-Comrade X, 1940 MGM
cc @SobolLubov
“Ya, how is the old Kremlin?”
“Same old rat trap, full of stuffed shirts double-crossing the masses. Some day the people are gonna get wise and take it apart brick by brick.”-Comrade X, 1940 MGM
cc @SobolLubov
“The communists have ideas. But they found out you can't run a govt with everybody going around having ideas. So what is happening, communists are being executed so that Communism should succeed.”
“Ya I know. They keep it up long enough it’ll be a great country.”-Comrade X, 1940
“Ya I know. They keep it up long enough it’ll be a great country.”-Comrade X, 1940
@navalny👆🏼
ST. PETERSBURG, 2015: “Of course, if every day you are feeding on hate, it eats away at your soul. You start really believing in it. You have to be strong to stay clean when you spend your whole day submerged in dirt.”-Russian troll
theguardian.com/world/2015/apr… @guardian @shaunwalker7
theguardian.com/world/2015/apr… @guardian @shaunwalker7
“After two months of working in the troll agency, Marat began to feel he was losing his sanity.”-@guardian 2015 archives
“The most prestigious job in the agency is to be an English-language troll, for which the pay is 65,000 roubles. Last year, the Guardian’s readers’ editor said he believed there was an ‘orchestrated pro-Kremlin campaign’ on the newspaper’s comment boards.”-@guardian 2015
“The people at the heart of Vote Leave who cheated and broke the law are running the country..I’m staggered that as an MP I feel powerless and you as a journalist have been shouting about it and nobody is interested”-@IanCLucas to @carolecadwalla
theguardian.com/politics/2019/… @guardian
theguardian.com/politics/2019/… @guardian
“Cummings played a central role in a scheme that resulted in Vote Leave being judged to have broken the law. A scheme that constitutes the greatest electoral fraud perpetrated in Britain for (100 yrs)—Cummings refused to come before parliament to answer questions”-@carolecadwalla
“Our electoral laws rest on a gentleman’s agreement. An agreement Cummings threw a stick of dynamite at..It’s not his genius we should be debating—it’s our own stupidity. There is smash-&-grab of our democracy going on in real time. And this silence is complicity”-@carolecadwalla
“Prince is responsible for..outsourcing militaries to cheap, specialized labor pools and skirting traditional regulations meant to ensure accountability for armed forces.”
albawaba.com/news/mapping-e… @AlBawabaEnglish
albawaba.com/news/mapping-e… @AlBawabaEnglish
“His journey from hiring mercenaries to help the U.S. occupation in Iraq to China..includes stops around the world to train Colombian mercenaries to help make a private army for the U.A.E. and outfitting crop duster planes with missiles to be fired at Armenians.”-@AlBawabaEnglish
“South Africans have stepped in to supply the army with two helicopters, and Erik Prince is in the thick of it.”
africaintelligence.com/ion/corridors-… @AFRICANINTELLIG
africaintelligence.com/ion/corridors-… @AFRICANINTELLIG
THE WAY WE WERE: Take a trip back to 2016 with me for a reminder of the way we were and everything that has changed.
Decide what’s worth fighting for.
Let’s start here. We once had a President who was universally loved—welcome wherever he went.
bbc.com/news/world-us-… @BBCNews
Decide what’s worth fighting for.
Let’s start here. We once had a President who was universally loved—welcome wherever he went.
bbc.com/news/world-us-… @BBCNews
1/ Eight years into his presidency, Obama’s approval rating was sky high: “More than 70% of people in 18 countries polled by Globescan think that his election was a good thing.
Of the 19 countries surveyed, only the Russians had a negative view of him.”-@BBC
We’ll get to that.
Of the 19 countries surveyed, only the Russians had a negative view of him.”-@BBC
We’ll get to that.
2/ We knew who our allies were and we firmly aligned with long-standing Western values.
We were looking forward to witnessing our first female President work with those allies.
A headline such as this wasn’t even a remote possibility.
theguardian.com/world/2019/may… @guardian
We were looking forward to witnessing our first female President work with those allies.
A headline such as this wasn’t even a remote possibility.
theguardian.com/world/2019/may… @guardian
“Attempts to influence the U.S. presidential election didn't come out of nowhere; they followed a period of Russia testing (&) escalating the scale and audacity of its cyber..campaigns, and gradually discarding deniability.”-@KeirGiles
military.com/daily-news/201… @Militarydotcom
military.com/daily-news/201… @Militarydotcom
1/ “A key factor in the brazenness of the attempted election manipulation in 2016-17 was the failure of the United States to respond to what had gone before. It was a failure of deterrence which, as always with Russia, invited more overt and ambitious attacks.”-@KeirGiles
2/ “The gap in the West's defenses has come about not through a failure of NATO, but because of two decades when the threat from Russia was less apparent, and governments and societies just forgot it was there.”-@KeirGiles to @JosephVMicallef
Oh this is rich. Treasony felon plays victim card.
“Flynn’s new defense team cast him as a victim of unscrupulous FBI and counterintelligence investigators and asked a federal judge in Washington to find prosecutors in contempt”
washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is… @washingtonpost #LockHimUp
“Flynn’s new defense team cast him as a victim of unscrupulous FBI and counterintelligence investigators and asked a federal judge in Washington to find prosecutors in contempt”
washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is… @washingtonpost #LockHimUp
An olde Nixon trick, except treasony.
Man, I musta been pissed that day. But yeah, lock him up.
Just a reminder: if a headline starts with “Trump Says...” presume what follows is false—distracting, demoralizing, dismissive, disdaining.
Stay vigilantly rooted in truth.
Stay vigilantly rooted in truth.
Trump was installed by billionaire data thieves to cut taxes, kill regulations and lift sanctions. Every piggy utterance is distraction.
And while we lurch from outrage to outrage—doing nothing to get rid of Trump and his denialism installers—another whale dies.
FBI WARNING 2014: “Though it may sound alarmist, losses of technology are a real danger..diverted technology could affect the primacy of the United States in both economic and military terms and it could compromise our nation’s security”
bizjournals.com/boston/blog/st… @FBI @bizjournals
bizjournals.com/boston/blog/st… @FBI @bizjournals
1/ “THE GENESIS OF THE WARNING ABOUT THE RUSSIANS”: “The FBI observed a new pattern of Russian government-funded businesses increasing their footprint in Boston and Silicon Valley by seeking joint ventures with U.S. companies & academic institutions.”-@FBIBoston @bizjournals 2014
2/ “Partnerships were primarily promoted by the Skolkovo Foundation..The Foundation may be a means for the Russian govt to access our nation’s sensitive or classified research, development facilities and dual-use technologies with military and commercial applications.”-@fbi 2014
"My daughter is 5 years old," she says in an interview with NPR. "I want her to live in a country where human rights and freedoms are respected, where the courts are independent, and where there is a free press.”-@SobolLubov💜
npr.org/2019/08/21/752… @npr @Lucian_Kim
npr.org/2019/08/21/752… @npr @Lucian_Kim
Clearly, the people want change and the courage of @SobolLubov is inspiring.
💌
Attention all media execs attempting to rehab Trump arse-lickers, your kompromat is showing.
1/ MIND HACK: Putin’s psych war on democratic nations is far less effective with a less-dumb-and/or complicit media.
2/ MEDIA MATTERS: The French media and leaders aren’t dumb and/or complicit.
PRISONER TSAR: In weaving together my evidentiary thread: “A Layperson’s Guide to Trump Russia: It’s komprocated”, I encouraged readers to view the @frontlinepbs documentary on Putin’s rise to power. It’s an essential framework, predating Russia’s psych war on America.
A review.
A review.
1/ UNEMPLOYED SPY: The film documents how Putin went from “unemployed spy to modern day tsar.”
“There has always been corruption in Russia, but building it into such a meticulous system was something only Mr. Putin has managed to do.”-Andrey Zykov
“There has always been corruption in Russia, but building it into such a meticulous system was something only Mr. Putin has managed to do.”-Andrey Zykov
2/ ABUSE OF POWER: Zykov, a former police investigator, gathered evidence of corruption from Putin’s early years in St. Petersburg, and posted it on YouTube.
