Numerous emails that were classified CONFIDENTIAL that were turned over by Abedin on hard-copy. Many believe the reason they were not turned over in electronic format is because it would have been trivial to search for "(C)" to find classified emails.
Russia always is making the effort to propagandize the American public; it's in their DNA. My hunch is any propaganda only added a little noise to the echo chamber. The only surprise is how bad they have become at it. Back in the good 'ol cold war days, that's when you saw some good Russian propaganda. The only things Russia really wants now is a warm-water sea port and a block on the Qatar-Turkey natural gas pipeline.
And given the stakes here, I'd argue that it behooves us to assume that social media disinformation campaigns are a threat to the integrity of our democratic process and take steps to remedy them. Unless someone can satisfactorily prove that they aren't.
Seems like more and more, yesterday's fake news is gaining more and more credibility.
Do they even have anybody electable? I think they'd like to run Kennedy, but I don't think a rich white trust fund kid is going to resonate with the militant millennials.
I don't know what sand pile you have had your head buried in but the Unions have always been a bastion of the Democratic party line. I've never seen a UAW news letter endorse a Republican or Independent.
Democrats always say they are against Evil(tm) Corporations, but that's all blue smoke and mirrors, Democrats need the Unions and the Unions need Evil(tm) Corporations.
MSM outlet simply can't compete with the internet in regards to getting breaking stories out to the masses, what they should concentrate on is getting the news out later but have more thoroughly vetted the sources and investigational reporting that internet news simply doesn't have the manpower to do.
The days of "Stop the Presses!" are long over for MSM.
Workers in those parts of our government have seen Trump's brand of political rhetoric coming from the lips of far too many dictators and autocrats over the years, some of whom have been quite brutal. When they hear it coming from the mouth of someone running for President, they get scared sh*tless, and rightly so.
So basically unelected bureaucrats used to running amuck are frightened of a President who promised to drain the swamp. Somehow I'm not surprised.
How does one judge qualities like professionalism, bias and reliability without being vulnerable to bias themselves? I remember when sites parroting trump's claim of being wiretapped was labelled fake news, now we are trying to determine how the FBI got the FISA warrant to wiretap Trump.
Blue collar workers aren't less smart. They are less trained to think critically.
I'm pretty sure you've never seen a millwright tweeking a worn $100,000.00 die to squeeze out another 3 months of life out of it while keeping the parts within 0.005 inches tolerances or a Pipefitter build a 100 feet of 6 inch steel pipe welded from parts that has 5 bends and have the flanges land within an 1/8 of a inch and the bolt holes line up perfectly; and still think blue collar workers don't have developed critical thinking skills.
In America, the liberals have focused on the college educated while the conservatives focused on the blue collar workers, at least over the past 10-20 years.
It is harder to trick college educated people into believing false statements.
I don't except that College Educated are harder to trick than Blue Collar Workers as a broad statement. People can graduate college without ever taking a college level Math, Laboratory Science or Philosophy course. Taking 4 years of fluff courses only serves to give a person an over-inflated estimate of their critical thinking skills. Whereas the Blue Collar Worker is used to elitists trying to pull shit on him.
Additionally that attitude is a big reason why the Democrats got their asses handed to them in the last election.
They don't seem to have classified the news by either 'left' or 'right', but by whether it was sensational, extremist, conspiratorial, fake or otherwise junk. They then looked at who was sharing that news the most and identified them a 'right' by such things as the fact that was how they self-identified. I think you've skimmed the summary (if that) and read what you wanted to find.
If you are judging news sources based on 3 out of 5 in Professionalism, Style, Credibility, Bias and Counterfeit; then everything except maybe "The Christian Science Monitor" is fake news!
Oh come on, in Michigan, you have to opt out of voter registration when you get your Driver's License or State ID, $16.50, yeah that's an insurmountable barrier. If $16.50 is too rich for your blood, just wait for a voter registration drive and do it for free, they'll even do it at your local community center or church, they'll even have a free food giveaway at the same time.
You can't legally be employed in the US without a valid social security card. You can't get Public Assistance without ID or at least shouldn't be able to. Why would getting a voter's ID be a problem?
Setting up these "Tax Dodges" take effort and expense. If they're spending a nickel to save a dime, they'll do it. If they are spending a nickel to save 3 cents, not so much. Now spending a nickel to save 6 cents, 5 cents or 4 cents that is where things start to get interesting.
Our garbageman comes twice a month and empties the dumpster and we write a check for the service once a month. The funny thing is, when we lived in the city, they collected more fore refuse removal, than what we are paying the same company for similar service as individuals!
There is really no reason for corporations to pay income taxes at all, eventually the profits are distributed to the shareholders as a dividend and taxed as Individual Income at higher rates than the Corporate taxes are!
We could withhold 30% of dividends and people could file for refunds on their federal income taxes. Foreigners could either chose to file US income taxes or walk away from the withholdings.
So those chaps making Nazi saultes, chanting "blood and soil", wearing swastikas and so on---what would you call them exactly?
If you want a good argument about it, I suggest you try arguing with this chap:
I've known both veterans of the Wehrmacht and little old Jewish Ladies with numbers tattooed on their forearms, those asshats posers you are talking about are Neo-Nazis,
If he changes the water for 100% hydrogen peroxide he might get high enough to see the edge. The real problem is when your up that high, the mind controll rays are real strong; if your not wearing at least 3 layers of tin foil they'll get through and all you'll remember is seeing round not flat!
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Influencing a few tens of thousands of people is easy, Influencing a few tens of thousands of the right people is orders of magnitude more difficult.
Numerous emails that were classified CONFIDENTIAL that were turned over by Abedin on hard-copy. Many believe the reason they were not turned over in electronic format is because it would have been trivial to search for "(C)" to find classified emails.
The real kicker was when a coworker insisted I watch this Fox News story accusing Hilary Clinton of murder..
But you have to admit there has been a lot of people dying that either knew the Clinton or was able to testify against them.
Russia always is making the effort to propagandize the American public; it's in their DNA. My hunch is any propaganda only added a little noise to the echo chamber. The only surprise is how bad they have become at it. Back in the good 'ol cold war days, that's when you saw some good Russian propaganda. The only things Russia really wants now is a warm-water sea port and a block on the Qatar-Turkey natural gas pipeline.
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And given the stakes here, I'd argue that it behooves us to assume that social media disinformation campaigns are a threat to the integrity of our democratic process and take steps to remedy them. Unless someone can satisfactorily prove that they aren't.
Seems like more and more, yesterday's fake news is gaining more and more credibility.
Do they even have anybody electable? I think they'd like to run Kennedy, but I don't think a rich white trust fund kid is going to resonate with the militant millennials.
Yes I have to agree with you, when I saw the quality of the Russian propaganda all I could think is "My how the Mighty have fallen!"
I don't know what sand pile you have had your head buried in but the Unions have always been a bastion of the Democratic party line. I've never seen a UAW news letter endorse a Republican or Independent.
Democrats always say they are against Evil(tm) Corporations, but that's all blue smoke and mirrors, Democrats need the Unions and the Unions need Evil(tm) Corporations.
MSM outlet simply can't compete with the internet in regards to getting breaking stories out to the masses, what they should concentrate on is getting the news out later but have more thoroughly vetted the sources and investigational reporting that internet news simply doesn't have the manpower to do.
The days of "Stop the Presses!" are long over for MSM.
Workers in those parts of our government have seen Trump's brand of political rhetoric coming from the lips of far too many dictators and autocrats over the years, some of whom have been quite brutal. When they hear it coming from the mouth of someone running for President, they get scared sh*tless, and rightly so.
So basically unelected bureaucrats used to running amuck are frightened of a President who promised to drain the swamp. Somehow I'm not surprised.
How does one judge qualities like professionalism, bias and reliability without being vulnerable to bias themselves? I remember when sites parroting trump's claim of being wiretapped was labelled fake news, now we are trying to determine how the FBI got the FISA warrant to wiretap Trump.
Blue collar workers aren't less smart. They are less trained to think critically.
I'm pretty sure you've never seen a millwright tweeking a worn $100,000.00 die to squeeze out another 3 months of life out of it while keeping the parts within 0.005 inches tolerances or a Pipefitter build a 100 feet of 6 inch steel pipe welded from parts that has 5 bends and have the flanges land within an 1/8 of a inch and the bolt holes line up perfectly; and still think blue collar workers don't have developed critical thinking skills.
In America, the liberals have focused on the college educated while the conservatives focused on the blue collar workers, at least over the past 10-20 years.
It is harder to trick college educated people into believing false statements.
I don't except that College Educated are harder to trick than Blue Collar Workers as a broad statement. People can graduate college without ever taking a college level Math, Laboratory Science or Philosophy course. Taking 4 years of fluff courses only serves to give a person an over-inflated estimate of their critical thinking skills. Whereas the Blue Collar Worker is used to elitists trying to pull shit on him.
Additionally that attitude is a big reason why the Democrats got their asses handed to them in the last election.
They don't seem to have classified the news by either 'left' or 'right', but by whether it was sensational, extremist, conspiratorial, fake or otherwise junk. They then looked at who was sharing that news the most and identified them a 'right' by such things as the fact that was how they self-identified. I think you've skimmed the summary (if that) and read what you wanted to find.
If you are judging news sources based on 3 out of 5 in Professionalism, Style, Credibility, Bias and Counterfeit; then everything except maybe "The Christian Science Monitor" is fake news!
One of the problems is the purging of the voter rolls is sporadic at best.
That is what we use, it makes sense to me, you can literally recount every vote on one machine by a seperate machine in minutes.
Oh come on, in Michigan, you have to opt out of voter registration when you get your Driver's License or State ID, $16.50, yeah that's an insurmountable barrier. If $16.50 is too rich for your blood, just wait for a voter registration drive and do it for free, they'll even do it at your local community center or church, they'll even have a free food giveaway at the same time.
You can't legally be employed in the US without a valid social security card. You can't get Public Assistance without ID or at least shouldn't be able to. Why would getting a voter's ID be a problem?
Setting up these "Tax Dodges" take effort and expense. If they're spending a nickel to save a dime, they'll do it. If they are spending a nickel to save 3 cents, not so much. Now spending a nickel to save 6 cents, 5 cents or 4 cents that is where things start to get interesting.
It's cute that you don't see government bureaucrats as autocratic psychopathic dictators, naive but cute.
Our garbageman comes twice a month and empties the dumpster and we write a check for the service once a month. The funny thing is, when we lived in the city, they collected more fore refuse removal, than what we are paying the same company for similar service as individuals!
There is really no reason for corporations to pay income taxes at all, eventually the profits are distributed to the shareholders as a dividend and taxed as Individual Income at higher rates than the Corporate taxes are!
We could withhold 30% of dividends and people could file for refunds on their federal income taxes. Foreigners could either chose to file US income taxes or walk away from the withholdings.
So those chaps making Nazi saultes, chanting "blood and soil", wearing swastikas and so on---what would you call them exactly?
If you want a good argument about it, I suggest you try arguing with this chap:
I've known both veterans of the Wehrmacht and little old Jewish Ladies with numbers tattooed on their forearms, those asshats posers you are talking about are Neo-Nazis,
If he changes the water for 100% hydrogen peroxide he might get high enough to see the edge. The real problem is when your up that high, the mind controll rays are real strong; if your not wearing at least 3 layers of tin foil they'll get through and all you'll remember is seeing round not flat!
I was thinking about an American reactor, California's electrical grid isn't known for it's robustness.