Active measures is a term used to describe political #warfare conducted by the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. The term, which dates back to the 1920s, includes operations such as espionage, propaganda, sabotage and assassination, based on foreign policy objectives of the Soviet and Russian governments against the United States and democratic western countries. Active measures have continued to be used by Vladimir Putin to control US politics through disinformation that enable controlling the Republican party.
“Putting up trade barriers with your neighbours can make you richer, said the Brexiters. You can simultaneously cut taxes and increase spending, and pay no price, said Truss. Rwanda is a safe country, said Rishi Sunak.”
“The 4th of July is a day of reckoning for the chaos and calamity the Conservatives have brought and for the harm they have done. On election day, the Tories don’t deserve merely to lose. They deserve to be punished.”
And Labour deserves to be punished for being Tories By Another Name. At least in Scotland, we have an alternative to vote for… if some people wouldn’t be so bloody feart.
If, like roughly a hundred million Americans, you regularly consume fascist propaganda in the guise of cable “news” (fox, newsmax, & other propaganda outlets) online disinformation publications, and the platform formerly known as Twitter, it’s likely that at least some of that fascist propaganda is originating in Moscow.
Kremlin documents reveal Russian trolls are targeting U.S. support for Ukraine and engaging in a significant campaign to undermine U.S. elections and discourage voting.
Wanted war criminal Putin- is trying to exploit America’s divisions over the war in Gaza
The effort includes artificial intelligence, fake social media accounts and a spike in state-sponsored Russian propaganda.
In its ongoing information war against the United States, Putin-KGB-FSV-
aka: Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKGB, NKVD and MGB --
has shifted its focus in recent months to the Israel-Hamas conflict, seeking to inflame existing divisions in the West and to portray Washington as fueling the violence, the sources said.
Kremlin's propaganda war includes artificial intelligence, fake social media accounts, Russian-generated bots on social media - longstanding tactics used by Moscow, as well as a spike in #propaganda from Russian state media.
This is why anyone who used the "genocide joe" a couple months back tag got a block/unfollow. I know an easily-manipulated bleating sheep when I see one.
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Trump claims he “never touched” Social Security and Medicare as president
FACT CHECK: Trump proposed a budget to cut Social Security and Medicare every single year he was in office. The reason it didn’t happen was because Democrats stopped him
"Trump’s appearance in Georgia … reflected a man not rooted in any kind of reality, one who struggled to remember his words and who was, by any definition, incoherent, disconnected, and frequently malicious. …
Watch his speeches. Share them widely. Don’t look away."
Peter Navarro is due to report to a federal prison on Tuesday after an appeals court ruled that his appeal wasn’t likely to overturn his conviction for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the #January6 attack that Trump supporters aimed at the US Capitol in 2021. #Navarro has maintained that he couldn’t cooperate with the committee because Trump had invoked executive #privilege. Federal judge Amit Mehta, who was appointed during Barack Obama’s presidency, barred Navarro from making that argument at trial, finding that he didn’t show Trump had actually invoked it.
His emergency application to the Supreme Court comes as the court separately prepares to hear arguments on whether Trump himself has presidential #immunity from charges alleging he interfered in the 2020 election that he lost to Joe Biden
Navarro was the second Trump aide convicted of misdemeanor congressional contempt charges. Former Trump White House chief strategist #Steve#Bannon previously received a four-month sentence but was allowed to stay free pending appeal by federal judge Carl Nichols, who was appointed by Trump.
Navarro – an economist and Trump’s trade adviser – was found guilty of #defying a #subpoena for documents and a deposition from the House committee that was investigating the January 6 attack. He also #promoted Trump’s #lies about how electoral fraudsters denied him victory against Biden and was given a four-month #prison sentence.
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@nicholas_saunders@skypunch Looks like I am not the only one, it happened to @rebeccawatson as well, and that was mstdn.social too - Is something going on with weird right-wing flagging, @stux ?
In the Republican response to Biden's #StateOfTheUnion address, Senator #KatieBritt told a heart-wrenching story about a woman who was a survivor of cross-border sex trafficking, and tried to blame that horrible crime on Biden.
Conspiracy theories begin and are fanned by corrupt politicians in the UK, supported by much of what passes as ‘the press'. It is not only the reporting of ‘facts' that harms, it is the way that when these claims are repeated, the media fails to call out the story teller (and yes BBC/C4/ITV I am talking about you).
#HunterBiden, ahead of a closed-door depo for the #GOP-led #impeachment inquiry of #POTUS, wrote an opening stmnt that was defiant, emotional & combative. “I am here today to provide the Cmtes w/the one uncontestable fact that should end the false premise of this inquiry: I did not involve my father in my business. Not while I was a practicing lawyer, not in my investments or transactions domestic or international, not as a board member, & not as an artist. Never.”
The testimony comes as #HouseRepublicans have struggled to uncover firm #evidence that Joe #Biden benefited from — or played a role in — the business pursuits of his family members. The testimony from #HunterBiden follows an appearance from President Biden’s younger brother James, who last wk testified that Joe Biden never played a role in his businesses. Several other fmr associates of Hunter & James Biden have made similar statements under oath.
"What a marvelous day of watching Republicans and their media enablers react in dramatic fashion to the explosive revelation that a key source – their main source, no less – of the bogus Biden bribery allegations underlying their impeachment push made it all up and was in bed with foreign intel services, including the Russians."
#Trump grotesquely likened a #civil#fraud judgment against him to #Navalny’s death. When asked by #FauxNews personality #LauraIngraham how he would come up w/ the $364 million in penalties, plus interest, in a #NewYork judge’s Feb 16 verdict, TFG replied: “It is a form of Navalny. It is a form of communism or fascism.”
#Trump —who maintained chummy relations w/ #Putin during his presidency & has repeatedly touted his friendship w/ the Russian #dictator — attempted to paint himself & his #legal woes as a sign of #political persecution, a tactic he has built a penchant for.
“And it’s a horrible thing, but it’s happening in our country too. We are turning into a communist country in many ways, & if you look at it, I’m the leading candidate,” he moaned during Tuesday’s event.
"We are fourteen years into the implementation of Obamacare and somehow, we aren’t facing a nationwide shortage of burial space to store all the bodies from the death panel’s reign of terror.
You remember the death panels, don’t you? …
The right-wing fearmongering doesn’t just go to ten, it goes all the way to ten thousand, every time.
This is not new and not just some Trump-era thing."
it's pretty magical how the GOP can fearmonger about the evil govt doing horrible things to you, but darling precious corporations would never ever no way
You can always trust a Tory to do the wrong things for the wrong reasons.
And when that fails - fake it. From 15 minute city hysteria to ULEZ paranoia they have realised by lying and taking any credit (depending on how the Daily Fail is blowing on that particular day) they can benefit. The rest of England (in this case) suffers.
