Рон Пол



В конце августа 2011 внимание диктаторов всего мира было приковано к Ливии, где, после взятия повстанцами Триполи, наступал конец режиму Каддафи. Ким Чен Ир совершил срочную поездку в Россию. В Америке между тем набирала обороты президентская предвыборная гонка. Дональд Трамп советовал прислушаться к Рону Полу.



Пол выделялся из республиканских кандидатов тем, что решительно выступал против интервенции и поддержки смены режима в других странах. В чем-то его позиция была обоснована.

“The current situation in Libya may be a short term victory for Empire, but it is a loss for our American Republic. And, I fear it may be devastating to the Libyan people.
There is no doubt that Moammar Gadhafi is a bad guy, and that he has brought harm and misery to his country. However, our involvement in another country's civil war is costly and unconstitutional.”
http://presidency.proxied.lsit.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=98770



Неудивительно, что главную информационную поддержку ему оказывали не в американских СМИ, а на канале Russia Today. Рон Пол стал несомненным кремлевским фаворитом.

Several websites feature a series of videos from RT, not limited to the Kokesh program, that are extremely favorable to Paul’s campaign. The channel features attractive female anchors who speak flawless English and claim to have America’s best interests at heart. Many observers agree the channel is far more effective than the heavy-handed Soviet propaganda of the Cold War years.
https://www.aim.org/aim-column/why-is-russian-tv-backing-ron-paul/

They read The Nation, Alex Jones, WorldNetDaily. It can seem like the entire Internet was created to convince the paranoid reader that he's right—you can't trust the bastards. RT goes one step further: You can trust the Russians more than you can trust those bastards. If no one else wants to create a TV channel for the despondent, here it is.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2011/06/pravda_will_set_you_free.html

Неизвестно, повлияла ли эта поддержка, но дела у Пола пошли неплохо, и по опросу Gallup он вышел на третье место после Митта Ромни и Рика Перри.

A new Gallup poll shows Barack Obama losing by 2% to Mitt Romney in a hypothetical race held "today". Mr Obama is tied with Rick Perry. But the really interesting news is that the president wins by just 2% against Ron Paul, the guy most media gatekeepers assume too unelectable to be worth covering.
https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2011/08/23/an-anybody-better-than-bachmann

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Герои нашего времени



До печально известного Алекса Джонса, "настоящего американца" по версии Дугина, добрались проклятые глобалисты.  Его канал в YouTube оказался под угрозой закрытия. Вдобавок от этого канала массово отрекаются рекламодатели. Вдобавок на Джонса подали иски его бывшие сотрудники, обвиняя его в сексуальных домогательствах, а также расистских и антисемитских высказываниях.

Alex Jones has had, to put it mildly, a terrible week. Not only did former InfoWars employees file complaints to accuse him of sexual harassment, discrimination, and bullying, but he also butted heads with YouTube in a big way. That is to say, the platform pulled a video from the Alex Jones Channel, and the platform’s “three strikes” policy meant that the account would inevitably be shuttered if the trend continued. The video in question involved Jones accusing Florida school shooting survivors of being “crisis actors.” Now, it looks like Jones racked up the other two strikes and shall pay the price.
As a result, Jones is now very upset because YouTube has frozen his channel and plans to fully delete it (and all of its content) on Sunday. He claimed to have received a warning about the impending shutdown while (also conveniently) announcing his new video page.
Jones is, of course, claiming censorship, although any First Amendment arguments really don’t apply in the case of a privately-run company like YouTube. However, there’s an another twist at work here. Over the past few days, Jones has been the subject of an advertiser exodus because several companies didn’t even realize their ads were running on Jones’ conspiracy-theory videos.

https://uproxx.com/news/alex-jones-youtube-channel-shutdown/



Казалось бы, ничего не предвещало таких проблем. Два месяца назад Джонс потирал руки, заманивая после отставки Стива Бэннона разочарованную аудиторию Breitbart.

The MAGA base has come to expect specific things from its news content, which Breitbart provided in relentless streams: a strong anti-establishment stance that included targeting the media and both major political parties, and a penchant for “triggering the libs,” a phrase used to ridicule progressive stances on cultural and social issues. Those are the elements that Trump weaponized to help him achieve victory.
After Trump took the White House, and following a year of reported chaos within the administration, the audience’s ethos now also includes unapologetic Trump loyalty, a defense mechanism that serves as a validation of their electoral choice. If Breitbart’s readers ultimately side with Trump and flee the website, Alex Jones’ Infowars seems like a prime candidate to pick up the disgruntled MAGA crowd by providing those readers the fix they’re looking for.
The fact is that Infowars has fewer constraints than Breitbart because it’s a financially independent outlet reportedly grossing close to $10 million a year -- not from advertisers, but from selling nootropic supplements and other merchandise. And this relative independence will only incentivize Jones to push forward on the path of bigotry, homophobia, and lies by pushing even more conspiracy theories and Trump propaganda that captivate the MAGA audience.

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/01/05/following-trump-bannon-feud-infowars-setting-itself-capture-breitbart-s-disillusioned-readers/218989

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Новости пропаганды



Канал RT наконец-то регистрируется в США иностранным агентом.

"Ни один журналист не будет чувствовать себя спокойно и комфортно, работая в СМИ, которое официально признано иностранным агентом. Это такое клеймо, (СМИ — ред.) вынуждено плашку вешать на все свои эфиры"
https://ria.ru/mediawars/20171109/1508515746.html

Не прошло и семи лет с тех пор, как Хиллари Клинтон на слушаниях в Конгрессе упомянула роль RT в качестве орудия в информационной войне.

“We are in an information war and we are losing that war. Al Jazeera is winning, the Chinese have opened a global multi-language television network, the Russians have opened up an English-language network. I’ve seen it in a few countries, and it is quite instructive.”
https://www.rt.com/news/information-war-media-us/



Расследование Buzzfeed показало, что сайт Алекса Джонса Infowars с завидной регулярностью тиражирует RT.

Over the past three years, conspiracy site InfoWars has copied more than 1,000 articles produced by Russian state-sponsored broadcaster RT to its website — all without the permission of RT.
According to data from social sharing tracking website BuzzSumo, there were at least 1,014 RT articles republished on InfoWars since May of 2014. The articles appeared on InfoWars with a byline credit to RT, but a spokesperson for the Russian broadcaster told BuzzFeed News that InfoWars did not have permission to re-publish its content.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/janelytvynenko/infowars-is-running-rt-content

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Технология успеха



Две научные статьи проливают дополнительный свет на Интернет-технологии, которые использовались на выборах 2016.

1. Исследователи из Microsoft Research обнаружили сильную корреляцию между уровнем потребления фейковых новостей (в нормальном значении этого термина) и голосованием за Трампа. График вверху говорит сам за себя.

We find that social media was the primary outlet for the circulation of fake news stories and that aggregate voting patterns were strongly correlated with the average daily fraction of users visiting websites serving fake news. This correlation was observed both at the state level and at the county level, and remained stable throughout the main election season.
http://erichorvitz.com/CIKM2017_fake_news_study.pdf



2. Исследователи из университетов Северной Каролины и Юты собрали свидетельства участия крупнейших Интернет-компаний (Фейсбук, Твиттер и Гугл) в избирательных кампаниях. Интересное наблюдение состоит в том, что если кампания Клинтон рассчитывала в основном на свои силы, кампания Трампа полагалась на помощь консультантов из компаний в оптимизировании своей Интернет-стратегии.

Trump was able to make up for his competitive staffing disadvantage against Clinton through leveraging the talent and expertise of firms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google. <...> The overarching sentiment echoed by representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google was that campaigns such as those of Sanders and Trump worked very closely with these firms, while Clinton’s much larger team dictated their advertising buys and strategy. As one representative of a firm stated, in a quote not for attribution (personal communication, date withheld), “Clinton viewed us as vendors rather than consultants.”
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2017.1364814

Можно предположить, что ошибка кампании Клинтон состояла в том, что они использовали те же приемы, которые помогли Обаме выиграть в 2012, в то время как технология machine learning в компаниях вроде Гугла и Фейсбука значительно ушла вперед в период между 2012 и 2016.

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Компенсация строгости



Прошло больше двух месяцев после того, как Трамп подписал закон о российских санкциях, но его администрация не спешит этот закон исполнять. Сенаторы Маккейн и Кардин были вынуждены обратиться к президенту с письмом.

U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Ben Cardin (D-MD) released the following statement today, ten days past the October 1st deadline by which the Trump Administration was to announce the implementation of sanctions on the Russia defense and intelligence sectors, as stipulated in the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, of which the Senators were chief authors and negotiators:
“The delay calls into question the Trump administration’s commitment to the sanctions bill which was signed into law more than two months ago, following months of public debate and negotiations in Congress. They’ve had plenty of time to get their act together.

https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/10/senators-mccain-cardin-question-administration-delay-in-russia-sanctions-implementation

В письме говорится, что недавняя продажа Россией Турции ракетных систем С-400 могла происходить в нарушение санкций.

Между тем на улицах Вашингтона и Нью-Йорка появилась провокативнвя реклама канала RT.



Но видимо ненадолго.

Свобода слова



Советский вотэбаутизм ("А у вас негров линчуют!") при всей своей тупости имел стратегическую направленность. Вместо того, чтобы критиковать Америку за отсутствие демократии (что было бы совсем глупо), ее критиковали за то, что демократия недостаточно совершенна и имеет погрешности.

В докладе 1985 г. о порочности моральной эквивалентности между США и СССР Джин Киркпатрик писала:

Unlike the fascists, Marxists, of course, do not attack our basic values forthrightly. Instead, they denounce our societies in terms of our own values. They do not postulate alternative values; they postulate a radical critique of our societies and institutions by expropriating our language, our values. Thus democracies are attacked as not truly democratic, because they cannot guarantee economic equality. The argument follows that this makes political equality impossible and in the absence of political equality, it has been asserted that there cannot be free elections or freedom of any sort. Or the absence of perfect political equality in an electoral system means that the elections are a fraud. Their point is that a regime whose practices systematically betray their basic values is obviously a failed regime. If our practices betray our own deepest values then we fail; we are a failed regime. If we pretend to hallow values which our practices do not perfectly achieve, then we are guilty of falsification. So we are both a failure and a fraud. Obviously, such a regime does not deserve the loyalty or affection of either its citizens or its friends. Thus, if the United States is a fraudulent, falsifying society which exploits its workers and subjugates all in a facade of democracy, then it is obviously not worthy of respect.
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-myth-of-moral-equivalence/



Несовершенство американской демократической системы в части свободы слова ныне эксплуатируется нацистскими троллями из alt-right. Появляясь в либеральных местах вроде Портленда и Беркли и провоцирую антифашистов на срыв митингов, эти люди получают возможность упрекать либералов, проповедующих толерантность, в отсутствии этой самой толерантности, а значит в "лицемерии".

Joey Gibson, ныне почетный гость Такера Карлсона на Fox News - один из таких успешных троллей.

After his senior football season, Gibson, a quarterback, got in trouble with the law. There was alcohol, probation violations and a break-in at a restaurant in Washougal.
He spent some time in jail, which led him to dropping out of school. For a time, Gibson was homeless, living in Portland, Seattle, Mexico, Hawaii, and making bad decisions, he said.
Then, one day, Gibson’s former middle school athletic director gave him a call and asked if he’d be willing to coach football.
“For some reason, that moment in time, before I’d even coached that first day, I decided I needed to clean my life up, because I was so excited to do that, but I can’t be around these kids and not be a good example,” he said.
He coached at Skyridge Middle School in Camas, got his high school equivalency diploma, and went to Central Washington University to earn a degree in psychology.
Gibson ended up coaching around the county, and got in on the house-flipping business at the start of the housing market crash.
A break in coaching gigs, he said, helped lead him to activism.
“I’ve always been passionate in terms of politics,” he said. “But it’s always been sitting in my house, complaining like everyone.”
He saw TV coverage of the June 2, 2016, violence at a Trump rally in San Jose, Calif., where protests turned to brawling.
What he saw, he said, was people being discouraged from participating in politics.
“That put a fire in me that I never experienced in my entire life,” he said. “Something changed in me at that moment in time, because at that point I decided that our country is not America anymore, and that was the first time I saw that.”

http://www.columbian.com/news/2017/jul/02/joey-gibson-aims-to-liberate-conservatives-via-his-patriot-prayer-group/

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Предвестники



Politico пишет о том, что разведка предупреждала администрацию Обамы о далеко идущих планах Путина еще весной 2014, когда оценивались ситуация после Крыма.

As early as 2014, the administration received a report that quoted a well-connected Russian source as saying that the Kremlin was building a disinformation arm that could be used to interfere in Western democracies. The report, according to an official familiar with it, included a quote from the Russian source telling U.S. officials in Moscow, "You have no idea how extensive these networks are in Europe ... and in the U.S., Russia has penetrated media organizations, lobbying firms, political parties, governments and militaries in all of these places."
That report was circulated among the National Security Council, intelligence agencies and the State Department via secure email and cable in the spring of 2014 as part of a larger assessment of Russian intentions in Ukraine, the official said.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/14/obama-russia-election-interference-241547



В длинной статье про Джулиана Ассанжа в New Yorker приводится интересная деталь о том, что центральный элемент вмешательства в выборы 2016 - решение выложить взломанную почту демократов было принято в ответ на публикацию разоблачений про Панамские бумаги. Путин воспринял это как американскую атаку на себя и решил запустить ответку.

On April 3rd, the reporters published their story, and four days later, visibly irked, Putin offered the first of several responses. He described the Panama Papers as an American-run operation. “They are trying to destabilize us from within,” he said. The Kremlin presented the leak as a personal blow, and as an effort to undermine Russian parliamentary elections. Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, in a forthcoming update of their book, “Red Web,” about the Russian Internet, make the case that the decision to target the American Presidential election with an information-warfare campaign likely originated at a high-level meeting that Putin called the following day. “There is a line you cannot cross, and this line is Putin’s family and his immediate friends,” Soldatov told me.
Within four days, entities that appeared to be fronts for Russian military intelligence began registering domain names for sites intended to release hacked information: first Electionleaks, and then the more general-sounding DCLeaks, which was hosted in a tiny village in Romania. By then, a hacking group known as Fancy Bear—which cybersecurity analysts believe is also controlled by Russian military intelligence—had initiated a wave of phishing attacks targeting American political figures.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/julian-assange-a-man-without-a-country

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Прищемленный хвост





Новые нападки Трампа на Адама Шиффа связаны с неплохим воскресным интервью на CBS.

JOHN DICKERSON: Congressman, you are a former prosecutor. What did you make of the president's comments to the New York Times that he thought it would be a violation if the special counsel went looking into his finances?
ADAM SCHIFF: Well, I had a couple impressions. First, the president is clearly worried that Bob Mueller's going to be looking into allegations, for example, that the Russians may have laundered money through the Trump organization. That is really something in my opinion he needs to look at. Because what concerns me the most is anything that could be held over the president's head that could influence U.S. policy. That would be among the most powerful form of kompromat. So I think it is something he needs to look at. It's something plainly the president is very concerned about but clearly within the scope of Bob Mueller's investigation. And I'll say this in light of all the talk about Jeff Sessions lately. It does concern me that the president should bring this up now if it's an indication that he wants to somehow push Sessions out and get in a new attorney general who would then take Rod Rosenstein's place as supervising the Mueller investigation. If this is part of a longer-term stratagem to define or confine the scope of the Mueller investigation, that would be very concerning.
<...>
JOHN DICKERSON: Has what you've looked at in the course of your work suggested that that pattern has more than just a possibility but that there's some evidence behind it?
ADAM SCHIFF: Well, I don't want to comment on the evidence. But I do think we need to look at each and every instrumentality the Russians have used elsewhere, some that we know that were used here, and determine, are there other ways that the Russians have sought to exercise influence? Because at the end of the day we need to make sure that our president is operating not in his personal best interests and not because he's worried about what the Russians might have but because what he is doing is in America's best interest. The fact that we have questions about this is in itself harmful. But we need to get answers to them so that the country can be confident that the chief executive's doing the nation's business first and foremost.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-rep-adam-schiff-on-face-the-nation-july-23-2017/



Пока Трамп нападает на Шиффа, канал RT ополчился против республиканского конгрессмена Эда Ройса, председателя комиссии по международным отношениям. В обоснование новых санкций против России Ройс пишет:

Vladimir Putin’s Russia has actively undermined U.S. national security for years. Putin has a long record of aggressive acts that threaten global stability. Russia’s disgraceful bombing campaign shored up the Assad regime, lengthening a civil war that has killed or displaced millions of people. It also continues to prevent peace by helping rebels in eastern Ukraine. While doing all of this, Putin has used disinformation and cyberattacks as weapons against democratic states, seeking to undermine elections – including here in the United States – and splinter the NATO alliance. Putin and his cronies must face serious consequences for these dangerous and threatening acts.
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/blog/week-house-set-ratchet-sanctions-north-korea-russia-iran/

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Джилл Стайн



Появление Джилл Стайн на знаменитом ужине в Москве в декабре 2015 (праздновании 10-летия Russia Today) было менее удивительным, чем появление на нем Майкла Флинна. На выборах 2012 канал RT любезно предоставил свою студию для президентских дебатов кандидатов от третьих партий Джилл Стайн и Гари Джонсона.
https://www.rt.com/usa/rt-third-party-debate-stein-249/

Если в 2012 Стайн, как кандидат Зеленой партии, набрала 0.36% голосов, то в 2016 уже около 1%. В Мичигане Трамп победил с отрывом в 0.3% в то время, как Стайн набрала 1.1%. В Висконсине Трамп победил с отрывом в 1%, Стайн набрала 1.1%. В Пенсильвании Трамп победил с отрывом в 0.7%, Стайн набрала 0.8%. Таким образом в ключевых штатах ей успешно удалось сыграть роль спойлера, оттянув на себя часть голосов альтернативных левых, недовольных Хиллари Клинтон.

На сегодняшний день никаких сожалений по этому поводу у Стайн и ее товарищей нет:

“In some ways, Trump is one of the best things to happen to this country because look at how many people are getting off their posteriors,” says Sherry Wells, the Green Party’s Michigan chairwoman. “So part of me is giggling.”
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/20/jill-stein-green-party-no-regrets-2016-215281



В сентябре 2016 знаменитые российские экологи Евгения Чирикова, которая в 2015 получила убежище в Эстонии, и Надежда Кутепова, которая в 2016 получила убежище во Франции, написали открытое письмо Джилл Стайн с критикой ее пропутинской позиции:

By silencing Putin’s crimes you are silencing our struggle. By shaking his hand and failing to criticize his regime you become his accomplice. By forgetting what international solidarity means you are insulting the Russian environmental movement.
https://therussianreader.com/2016/09/08/chirikova-kutepova-jill-stein-open-letter/

Ответ Стайн был довольно невразумительным.

Clinton accused Russia of hacking into the Democratic National Committee and even state election systems and warned that as president she would respond to “cyber attacks” with “serious political, economic and military responses.” War between the US and Russia is a horrifying prospect that would be disastrous for Americans, Russians, and the planet we share. Yet we seem headed down that dangerous path with the belligerent and hysterical anti-Russian rhetoric we now hear regularly from Clinton and her supporters, both Democrats and Republicans.
http://www.jill2016.com/jill_stein_russian_environmentalists

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Борьба с пропагандой

Вчера Джин Шахин воспользовалась моментом, чтобы выступить в Сенате с агитацией в пользу своего законопроекта о расследовании деятельности канала RT.



Шахин была одной из первых, кто поддержал опытного Бена Кардина в его законопроекте об ужесточении санкций в отношении России. Следующая остановка для законопроекта - комиссия по международным отношениям, которая вчера проводила слушания на тему The European Union as a Partner Against Russian Aggression: Sanctions, Security, Democratic Institutions and the Way Forward.
https://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/the-european-union-as-a-partner-against-russian-aggression-sanctions-security-democratic-institutions-and-the-way-forward-040417

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Ветераны АНБ



Когда в 2015 канал RT праздновал своё десятилетие, среди десяти своих самых удачных интервью они назвали интервью 2012 г. с Биллом Бинни, бывшим сотрудником АНБ. Интервью озаглавлено "NSA Whistleblower: Everyone in US under virtual surveillance, all info stored, no matter the post". На YouTube у него более миллиона просмотров.
https://www.rt.com/news/324109-rt-10-biggest-interviews/

Билл Бинни действительно провёл много лет в АНБ, а в 2001 разругался с руководством и уволился, став whistleblower.

Binney spent most of his career at the agency. In 1997, he became the technical director of the World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group, a division of six thousand employees which focusses on analyzing signals intelligence. By the late nineties, the N.S.A. had become overwhelmed by the amount of digital data it was collecting. Binney and his team began developing codes aimed at streamlining the process, allowing the agency to isolate useful intelligence. This was the beginning of ThinThread. <...> When Binney heard the rumors, he was convinced that the new domestic-surveillance program employed components of ThinThread: a bastardized version, stripped of privacy controls. “It was my brainchild,” he said. “But they removed the protections, the anonymization process. When you remove that, you can target anyone.” He said that although he was not “read in” to the new secret surveillance program, “my people were brought in, and they told me, ‘Can you believe they’re doing this? They’re getting billing records on U.S. citizens! They’re putting pen registers’ “—logs of dialled phone numbers—“ ‘on everyone in the country!’ “
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/05/23/the-secret-sharer

За десять лет после своего увольнения Бинни окончательно рехнулся на идее, что правительство следит за всеми без разбору и что АНБ прослушивает и хранит копии всех емайлов, когда-либо кем-либо отправленных. После чего его радостно обнаружили на канале RT, где он стал предвестником Сноудена и засветился, как участник VIPS.



Бредни Трампа про то, как его прослушивал Обама, стали звездным часом для Бинни. Помимо RT его заметили в National Enquirer. А вчера он появился сразу на двух респектабельных программах - у Алекса Джонса в Infowars и у Такера Карлсона в прайм-тайм Fox News.
https://www.infowars.com/former-nsa-chief-obama-illegally-surveilled-trump/
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5372091164001/
До этого он уже успел побывать гостем на радиопередаче другого популярного трампогандиста Fox News Шона Хэннити.

Не знаю, как правильно назвать явление, когда программа "Вести недели с Дмитрием Киселёвым", RT, National Enquirer, Infowars и Fox News сливаются в пропаганде теорий заговора про американские спецслужбы с целью затушевать заговор российских спецслужб. Возможно, историки будущего найдут этому подходящее название.

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Одно из примечательных явлений на выборах 2016 - реди крупнейших газет, которые поддержали Хиллари Клинтон, оказались многие давние бастионы консерватизма, которые никогда раньше в своей истории не поддерживали демократического кандидата, и на всех предыдущих выборах неизменно поддерживали республиканцев. При этом только одно печатное издание с тиражом больше 75 тысяч поддержало Трампа: National Enquirer.

Удивительные слова поддержки для Клинтон поступили из некоторых журналов.



1. Журнал The Atlantic сделал это в третий раз в своей истории. Два предыдущих раза: Авраам Линкольн и Линдон Джонсон.

In its founding statement, The Atlantic promised that it would be “the organ of no party or clique,” and our interest here is not to advance the prospects of the Democratic Party, nor to damage those of the Republican Party. If Hillary Clinton were facing Mitt Romney, or John McCain, or George W. Bush, or, for that matter, any of the leading candidates Trump vanquished in the Republican primaries, we would not have contemplated making this endorsement. We believe in American democracy, in which individuals from various parties of different ideological stripes can advance their ideas and compete for the affection of voters. But Trump is not a man of ideas. He is a demagogue, a xenophobe, a sexist, a know-nothing, and a liar. He is spectacularly unfit for office, and voters—the statesmen and thinkers of the ballot box—should act in defense of American democracy and elect his opponent.

2. Журнал Foreign Policy сделал это впервые в своей полувековой истории. На всех других выборах до этого он исправно избегал занимать стороны в политике.

Hillary Clinton is a quality candidate who is unquestionably well-prepared to lead this country. What is more, we do not think it is a small thing that by her election she will be righting a deep wrong that has compromised U.S. democracy since its inception: the exclusion of women from its highest offices. Were she to be elected as this country’s first woman president, not only would it be historic and send an important signal about both inclusiveness and Americans’ commitment to electing candidates who have distinguished themselves on their merits, but she would enter office having already put down one great threat to the United States of America — the grotesque and deeply disturbing prospect of a Donald Trump presidency.

Между тем National Enquirer вписался за Трампа не на шутку. Они даже, возможно впервые в своей истории, заплатили хорошие деньги за скандальную сальную историю не для того, чтобы ее напечатать, а для того, чтобы ее замять.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/national-enquirer-shielded-donald-trump-from-playboy-models-affair-allegation-1478309380

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Доклад американских спецслужб говорит, что хакерские взломы были не единственным методом российского вмешательства в американские выборы.

Moscow’s influence campaign followed a Russian messaging strategy that blends covert intelligence operations—such as cyber activity—with overt efforts by Russian Government agencies, state-funded media, third-party intermediaries, and paid social media users or “trolls.”
https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf

Сенатор Марк Уорнер говорил: "there were close to 1,000 Russian internet trolls, actual people, working trying to manipulate our news".

Среди троллей, которые распространяли "fake news" (фальшивые новости в прямом смысле этого слова) про Хиллари Клинтон было две категории: те, кто агитировал за Трампа, и те, кто агитировал за Берни Сандерса. Обращая внимания на первую категорию, не следует упускать из вида вторую. Создание раскола внутри демократов было одной из главных тактических задач российской спецоперации.

Каждую категорию троллей можно дополнительно разделить на три подвида:

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Maxine Waters представляет в Конгрессе южный Лос Анжелес и является одним из наиболее непримиримых противников Трампа.

В последние дни они несколько раз появлялась по телевизору в интересных ролях.

12 января, во время регулярной трансляции заседаний Конгресса по каналу CSPAN, трансляция внезапно прервалась во время выступления Уотерс, и вместо CSPAN на экранах телезрителей появился канал RT. В другое время на подобную техническую неполадку не обратили бы особого внимания, но сейчас это несколько шокировало.

Had Mr. Burke and others who were watching C-Span online at the time not been interrupted, they would have heard Ms. Waters mention Russia and President-elect Donald J. Trump several times before she ended her turn on the floor.

In a phone interview Thursday, she was perplexed. She said no one had satisfactorily explained “how this happened or why it happened, or if it’s happened before.”

“I just think it’s strange,” Ms. Waters said. “At a time when our intelligence agencies are very confident and basically have confirmed that Russia hacked the D.N.C. and other political interests, and then we have, while I’m on the floor of the House, talking about Trump and Russia, I get interfered with and interrupted by Russia Today.”

“It’s strange. It’s odd,” she said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/business/media/cspan-russia-today.html

13 января, после брифинга с директором ФСБ Коми за закрытыми дверями по вопросу вмешательства России, Уотерс вышла к репортерам и раздраженно сказала: "The FBI director has no credibility".
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4646033/maxine-waters-says-fbi-director-credibility

17 января, в интервью MSNBC Уотерс произнесла длинную тираду о том, почему она собирается вместе со многими другими демократическими конгрессменами бойкотировать церемонию инаугурации Трампа.

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