skykiss, 22 days ago

Seditious "MAGA Biden impeachment witness indicted - he’s a Russian oligarch.

‘Hunter Biden’ troll was created by Ruschia to stop President Biden’s election AND to provide content to MAGA Republicans in their war against the United States.

US senators and congresspersons promoted evidence by Russian oligarch Smirnoff in its campaign to get Biden impeached.

Now Smirnof has been indicted by a Grand Jury after the Trump appointed Special Counsel found that Hunter Biden had never even been to Ukraine. Yet, Smirnoff alleged he’d seen Hunter Biden in Ukraine taking a bribe of $5m for his father. This was/is the basis for US Republicans in the Congress’s doomed attempt to impeach @potus.

America will never be free, until Ruschia is expelled from and defeated in #Ukraine "

🧵 from Decoding Trolls

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The indictment alleges that in March 2017, Smirnov reported to an FBI Agent that he had had a phone call with the owner of Ukrainian industrial conglomerate Burisma Holdings, Limited concerning Burisma’s interest in acquiring a U.S. company and making an initial public offering (IPO) on a U.S.-based stock exchange. Inreporting that conversation to the FBI Agent, Smirnov also noted that Businessperson 1, Public Official 1’s son, was a member of Burisma’s Board, a fact that was publicly known. The indictment alleges that Smirnov provided no information.
Three years later, in June 2020, the indictment alleges that Smirnov reported, for the first time, two meetings in 2015 and/or 2016. As alleged in the indictment, Smirnov falsely claimed that during these meetings, executives associated with Burisma, admitted to him that they hired Businessperson 1 to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems,” and later that they had specifically paid $5 million each to Public Official 1and Businessperson 1, when Public Official 1 was still in office, so that “[Businessperson 1] will take care of all those issues through his dad,” referring to a criminal investigation being conducted by the then-Ukrainian Prosecutor General into Burisma and to “deal with [the then-Ukrainian Prosecutor General].” As alleged in the indictment, the events that Smirnov first reported to the FBI Agent in June 2020 were fabrications. In truth and fact, the defendant had contact with executives from Burisma in 2017, after the end of the administration when Public Official 1 had no ability to influence U.S. policy and after the Ukrainian Prosecutor General had been fired in February 2016. The indictment alleges that the defendant transformed his routine and unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma in 2017 and later into bribery allegations agains: Official 1 after expressing bias against Publica 1and his presidential candidacy. & justice.gov
As further alleged in the indictment, when he was interviewed by FBIl agents in September 2023, Smirnov repeated some of his false claims, changed his story as to other of his claims, and promoted a new false narrative after he said he met with Russian officials. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison. Actual sentences for federal crimes are typically less than the maximum penalties. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after taking into account the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors. Court documents and information for this case is located on the website of the District Court for the Central District of California or on PACER= by searching for Case No. 2:24-cr-00091. An indictment contains allegations that a defendant has committed a crime. Every defendant is presumed to be innocent until and unless proven guilty iné Updated February 15, 2024 Y\ @ justice.gov @

skykiss, 22 days ago

How MAGA Began.

Steve Bannon and Chris Wylie created Cambridge Analytica (CA) Funded by fascist oligarchs who share the same ideology of using fake "traditionalist"/family values tropes to gain power.

In 2014 Cambridge Analytica began setting up fb Groups using issues to lure unsuspecting punters who are high on the Neurotic and low on the Consciousness OCEAN psychological spectrum.

When a group was large enough, Cambridge Analytica brought the group together In Real Life. In communities all over America.

They used long-tested Ruschian combat propaganda techniques to ignite division in crowds of people who became hooked, and these are the people who form MAGA & invaded the Capitol on Jan 6th.

Kremlin loyal Firtash, awaiting extradition to the U.S. from Vienna where he was arrested in March 2014, who funded Trump Campaign Manager Manafort's ten-year-long pro Russia project in Ukraine sat on Cambridge Analytica's parent company board.

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xs4me2, 22 days ago

@skykiss

Be warned of these toxic and evil bastards… in a normal world they should be convicted and behind bars…

skykiss, 22 days ago (edited 21 days ago)

Putin saw things differently: Ruschia launched its war against America because he felt he should have a frictionless journey to murdering or enslaving hundreds of millions of Europeans (including Ukrainians).

We have the receipts for when Ruschia began the entire Hunter Biden troll, for example. The Hunter Biden troll is one of Ruschia's main organising fictions that sucked in Americans and was supposed to deliver a second Trump administration.

The incantation "Hunter Biden" which led to Trump's first impeachment is 100% the product of a Ruschian combat #propaganda operation.

It's now so solidly a part of the minds of many fascist-republican Americans you could be mistaken for thinking there's something magical about it: it's not magical. Just "Cause" and "Effect" working in diabolical symphony using Ruschist Disinfolklore injected into the bloodstream of America. Derkach the Russian agent who started executing the Hunter operation is under US indictment but he is still at large.

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Putin kurva

#pysop

skykiss, 22 days ago

I recognise the family resemblance and MANA of Ruschist Disinfolklore in MAGA because as a diplomat I worked in Russia-occupied Ukraine for three years. My job was to collect and analyse what I now recognise as Russian Disinfolklore. It is identical to Trump-Brexit Disinfolklore. And I have invented "Counter Disinfolklore: Controlling War Magic" as an antidote to the nonsense. Counter Disinfolklore empowers us to see patterns in Disinfolklore, and to design Counter Disinfolklore. Like this. https://disinfolklore.substack.com/p/counter-disinfolklore

The result of this operation is what we see today in American GOP: them falling over one another to abandon the International Legal order introduced after the Holocaust.

American and Russian oligarchs are united in their cynical use of equality issues (women's right to choose; equal marriage; trans equality) as tools to provoke division, and win power through.

So, Ukraine is central to everything we see in geopolitics today, including the future prosperity of America.

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#PutinIsaWarCriminal

skykiss, 22 days ago

Excerpts from chrisinsilico mea culpa, Mindfuck. He was in the room when MAGA and all this nonsense began. What Unites Ruscism, Axis of Misogyny, Paleo-Conservative & Anti-Woke campaigns?

They want to destroy the post-World War II legal order.

The consensus that aspiration towards equality of opportunity for everyone is the ONLY legitimate goal for democratic societies.

Anti-Equality rhetoric's Other categories of humans: Women, Trans, Remainers, Immigrants, Ukrainians.

Then they use this Othering to win power to roll-back the legal order instituted after WWII.

These instruments are a total package. Any rhetoric proposing to unpick parts of this complex indicates ignorance or strategic goal of reversing the post-WWII legal order.

Genocide Convention.

Refugee Convention.

Laws of War.

Equality Conventions (ICCPR & ICESCR).

Human Rights laws.

Anti-Discrimination laws.

Putin's russian nazi apparatus is focussed on provoking division over the post-WWII legal order's preservation.

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Putin suka khuylo

Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to B messages, to achieve maximum engagement. Now CA had users who (1) self- identified as part of an extreme group, (2) were a captive audience, and (3) could be manipulated with data. Lots of reporting on Cam- bridge Analytica gave the impres- sion that everyone was targeted. In fact, not that many people were tar- geted at all. CA didn’t need to create a big target universe, because most elections are zero-sum games: If you get one more vote than the other guy or girl, you win the elec- tion. Cambridge Analytica needed to infect only a narrow sliver of the population, and then it could watch the narrative spread. Once a group reached a certain number of members, CA would set up a physical event. CA teams would choose small venues—a cof- fee shop or bar—to make the crowd
feel larger. Let’s say you have a thousand people in a group, which is modest in Facebook terms. Even if only a small fraction shows up, that’s still a few dozen people. A group of forty makes for a huge crowd in the local coffee shop. Peo- ple would show up and find a fel- lowship of anger and paranoia. This naturally led them to feel like they were part of a giant movement, and it allowed them to further feed off one another’s paranoia and fears of conspiracy. Sometimes a Cam- bridge Analytica staffer would act as a “confederate”—a tactic com- monly used by militaries to stir up anxieties in target groups. But most of the time, these situations unfolded organically. The invitees were selected because of their traits, so Cambridge Analytica knew generally how they would react to one another. The meetings took place in counties all across the
Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to B United States, starting with the early Republican primary states, and people would get more and more fired up at what they saw as “us vs. them.” What began as their digital fantasy, sitting alone in their bedrooms late at night clicking on links, was becoming their new reali- ty. The narrative was right in front of them, talking to them, live in the flesh. Whether or not it was real no longer mattered; that it felt real was enough. Cambridge Analytica ultimately became a digitized, scaled, and automated version of a tactic the

skykiss, 22 days ago

American fake christians, evangelical conservatives, oligarchs and extreme nationalists in England, France, Germany,... all are united.

They minimize the reversal of the legal order that was brought in to prevent another holocaust.

They say it's a "Cultural War."

No it's not. It's the restarting of the Second World War. They're trying to relitigate the peace settlement, in favour of today's most powerful humans.

Apart from everything else, their success in destroying the institutions which promote the realisation of equality of opportunity will entrench today's most powerful in position for perpetuity.

Or until a war.

Remember: Violations of human rights are trip-wire for conflict and war. Every war in history has been "justified" by human rights breaches. A more equal society is not just about culture. It's about a peaceful world.

Putin's Internet Research Agency created drove and initiated division in England and in USA that delivered Brexit and Trump.

"Brexit" was the Komromat.

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#ArrestPutin

Soviet active measures involving U.S. race relations during the civil-rights era took two forms: commissioning hate crimes and forging race-based hate letters. Both had the same strategic aim: to divide American society. Following violent riots in the summer of 1965 in a predominantly black district of Los Angeles, Andropov personally approved KGB active measures to exploit relations in other black communities in major U.S. cities. Taking inspiration from a similar KGB operation in West Germany,4? its New York residency paid American agents to paint swastikas
This Cultural War (Conservatives mystic traditionalists vs Transnational cosmopolitan elite) troll is used by Putin as War Magic: it conceals the base motivations for his war of pillaging and self-survival in labyrinthine layers of NONSENSE that earnest Putin-Understanders get trapped inside. They neuter themselves as they try to "understand" Putin's bogus history lessons. Putin laughs all the way to the torture chambers where he watches his torturers extricate toe nails from, say, Sri Lankan students or his soldiers castrating conscious Ukrainian soldiers.

skykiss, 22 days ago (edited 21 days ago)

England's establishment was split into two by a Russian Active Measure operation. The pro-Brexit side became complicit in the conspiracy against English democracy that was constructed in Putin's IRA Petersburg troll factory.

The pro-Brexit side through Russian War Magic and its own complicity in the Great Brexit troll became willing to sacrifice England's constitution, cohesive society, reputation as creator and propagator of human rights and, even, its own food supply on the Altar of Putin's Brexit lies.

Similarly, Trump itself operates as the Russia-created kompromat in the USA.

Those who fell for the Trump Troll, rather than expose their own complicity in a Russian Active Measure, even today, defend the Jan 6th Coup and an #insurrectionist criminal defendant, the biggest criminal in American history.

Americans were deceived by the Merchant of Death Putin's mind warfare. This highlights the weakness of Republicans, who succumb to the destructive forces of hatred & fascism.
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#RussiaIsATerroristState

trainman, 21 days ago

@skykiss I doubt that a Trump supporter can understand 90% of this.