WHY VLADIMIR PUTINS RUSSIA IS BACKING DONALD TRUMP - Newsweek

[Bill USA]

.. this article has info I was not aware of...


http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-russia-hillary-clinton-united-states-europe-516895

In phone calls, meetings and cables, America’s European allies have expressed alarm to one another about Donald Trump’s public statements denying Moscow’s role in cyberattacks designed to interfere with the U.S. election. They fear the Republican nominee for president has emboldened the Kremlin in its unprecedented cybercampaign to disrupt elections in multiple countries in hopes of weakening Western alliances, according to intelligence, law enforcement and other government officials in the United States and Europe.

While American intelligence officers have privately briefed Trump about Russia’s attempts to influence the U.S. election, he has publicly dismissed that information as unreliable, instead saying this hacking of incredible sophistication and technical complexity could have been done by some 400-pound “guy sitting on their bed” or even a child.

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Western intelligence has also obtained reports that a Trump associate met with a pro-Putin member of Russian parliament at a building in Eastern Europe maintained by Rossotrudnichestvo, an agency under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that is charged with administering language, education and support programs for civilians. While the purpose of that meeting is unclear, and there is no evidence that Trump was aware it took place, it has become another fact that has alarmed officials from at least one NATO ally. Finally, Trump’s repeated glowing statements about Putin throughout the campaign—and his shocking comment that the Russians were not in Crimea—have perplexed some foreign officials, who fear that under a Trump presidency, the United States would no longer stand with Western Europe in regard to Moscow.

Trump and his campaign have also spread propaganda created as part of the Kremlin's effort, relying on bogus information generated through traditional Russian disinformation techniques. In one instance, a manipulated document was put out onto the internet anonymously by propagandists working with Russia; within hours, Trump was reciting that false information at a campaign rally. The Trump campaign has also spread claims from Sputnik, another news outlet identified by American intelligence as part of the Russian disinformation campaign. For example, almost immediately after the posting of an article by Sputnik attacking this Newsweek reporter, the Trump campaign emailed a link to the piece to American reporters, urging them to pursue the same story.
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[underpants]

1. Sanctions

[niyad]

2. k and r

[myrna minx]

3. K&R!

[randr]

4. A backlash against Putin must begin

and spread world wide. Putin, Trump, and Assad need to be seen as a collective threat to all free people.

[CousinIT]

5. I'm more interested in why Trump is so loyal to Putin.

THAT is the elephant in the room.

[pbmus]

6. Here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512675232

[Blue Idaho]

10. Must Read

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Thanks. Informative. . . nt

[uponit7771]

22. wow

[Locrian]

12. it's the money - it's always the money n/t

[Equinox Moon]

7. Regarding Russia impacting other countries

as it did in the US, might not be as effective because of shorter lengths of campaigns. Our Prez campaign is tooooooo loooooong. It afforded a lot of brewing time for fake news to spread, for example.

[Dawson Leery]

8. Europe has better media too.

[Equinox Moon]

9. How so?

[Amaryllis]

17. European media is less consolidated and thus more independent. Media consolidation

over time has been our undoing. Those of us who are older have seen it happen over the years.

[Equinox Moon]

19. Okay, thanks. I understand.

I wonder how Europe avoided the media merger (so far)? I believe we have x6 media moguls that own all of M$M. It is so very sad that America is a corporation owned by capitalism. It feels awful.

[Amaryllis]

21. You are right; 6 corporate media moguls own all of MSM.

Here: http://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-media-ownership-and-telecommunications/
Bernie on media ownership and telecommunications.

"When President Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 into law, it eased restrictions on media cross-ownership so that one company — or person — could own multiple media businesses (like broadcast stations, cable stations, newspapers, and websites). Though the law was intended to increase competition by reducing regulation, it instead “allowed large corporations to strengthen their dominance through mergers and buyouts.” "

[JohnnyRingo]

13. I think the disinformation campaign was most effective.

Learning now that The Kremlin was influential in the Brexit vote, I realize the same pattern: Flood social media with misleading bumper sticker slogans that become an anthem for the susceptible masses to consume wholesale, rinse, lather, and repeat.

"Free England", "Vote Leave", and "Hillary Lies", it works like a virus to infect the sentiments of the voting public. The article even mentions how this misinformation campaign was inadvertently consumed by Bernie supporters, to the point that DU breakaways even today continue to echo those "truths" on another site. The Russian propagandists made it common knowledge that everyone hates Hillary.

I asked one young (and uninformed) Trump voter what she meant when she said "Hillary lies". Her response was "Benghazi". I replied that if Hillary lied under oath at the hearings, when were Republicans going to charge her with perjury, or if she thought perhaps they were just too polite to do so. All she knew was "Hillary lies".

This shit works better than stuffing ballot boxes.

[J_William_Ryan]

14. Something else rightwing media and Russia have in common:

spreading disinformation.

[Turbineguy]

15. Trump should pull out.

He should abandon ship before everybody else takes the lifeboats.

[ghostsinthemachine]

16. K&R

[oasis]

18. Trump's tax returns would be another key piece to the puzzle. nt

[Hum]

20. Why?

This!