Muller
has finally come down with thirteen indictments today. The defendants are accused of running the
Russia-based Internet Research Agency, a propaganda operation based in St.
Petersburg that leveraged social media platforms as part of an alleged attempt to
spread divisive content to American audiences leading up to the election. The material here is only a bare bones
outline of the totality of their activities.
Executives
at Facebook have already revealed that the company unwittingly sold $100,000 in
political advertisements to the Internet Research Agency before the election,
many of the ads designed to exploit political and social divides in the United
States. Twitter has also identified over 3,800 accounts and 50,000 bots linked
to the Russian troll farm. The
indictment contains new details that show the sophistication of the alleged operation,
which is said to have employed hundreds of people and was supported by an
annual budget of millions of dollars. According
to the indictment, the influence operation against the presidential election
dates back to 2014. The defendants allegedly created false U.S. personas to
reach Americans online through social media pages and groups, and also in some
cases used stolen U.S. identities to post content. There efforts went beyond posting divisive
content online from a remote location in Russia. Some of the Russians are also accused of
fraudulently obtaining visas in an effort to travel to the United States to
gain intelligence for their operations.
Two
of the defendants are said to have successfully obtained visas and traveled to
a number of states, including Nevada, Illinois, Michigan, and New York, in
summer 2014. The travel was used to produce an “intelligence report,” the
indictment states. Beginning in 2016,
they also allegedly staged rallies from their location in Russia by
masquerading as U.S. grassroots activists who could not attend the events in
person. This included two rallies in New York, one dubbed “March for Trump” and
another “Down With Hillary,” that were held in June and July. The indictment contains the bombshell
allegation that some of the defendants through false American identities
communicated with “unwitting individuals associated with the Trump campaign”
and other political activists in order to coordinate their political efforts. But to sum it up it’s clear that Trump’s
statement of “maybe the Russians were not involved” is false.
I had the Gary and Shannon show on and there
was a second more major FBI tip on this Nicholas fellow that they ignored
saying that he was going to shoot up a school.
They learned of his arsenal of guns and that police had been to his
house over thirty times for violent behavior.
Under Florida law you can’t take his guns away from him. “Lex Luther” the Florida governor wants the
FBI director fired. I don’t agree. This would only give President Trump an even
clearer opportunity to pick a hand-picked stooge to replace him. Now they plan to tear down the whole “Freshman
building” which is massive and is three floors.
I disagree. I think the easiest
way to forget something is to forget it.
Just patch the bullet holes or re-plaster whole walls or paint the rooms
a different color or rearrange the desks or something. You don’t have to tear down the whole
building because this will only reinforce people’s memories beyond what it
would ever be before. At the same time
they won’t replaces roads, bridges and water-works of our crumbling
infrastructure. They don’t have the
funding to do that but they will come up with funding for this, which is money
which could be much better spent paying teachers a decent salary or updating
text books or what have you. Shannon
said that students should not even come back to collect their back packs filled
with books and notebooks. It was a
shooting not an outbreak of leporacy or something. They aren’t going to change the gun
laws. That’s the country’s way of saying
“Well, too bad but these things happen”.
And if they don’t change the gun laws they can and will happen again and
again. Of course the one act of
President Trump was to sign a bill making it easier for mental patients to get
guns.
This
morning I had Thom Hartman on. Around
nine thirty I checked the lunch and dinner menus and did not change either of
them. I don’t particularly remember what
topics Thom covered. I went out for
snacks after ten and got juice and a graham cracker. I had “Days
of our Lives” on the NBC site. But they
aren’t covering what we want to know and that’s John Black’s murderous
activities. From what I have seen I
still have no idea why the ISA wants Steve Johnson dead or the necessity of
killing two other people to try and cover up the crime. But around twenty to eleven I switched back
to Thom Hartman till ten to eleven (and maybe it was longer than that). I went to lunch then on impulse came back
here to make sure I had two and not just one VHS box in the drawer. We had beef and cheese sandwiches. I had Jerry’s slice of roast beef but it
still wasn’t enough meat. We had a
green salad with that and orange sherbet for dessert. I had thought of doing a retrospective of the
year 1998 (twenty years ago) but people don’t care what thoughts I have because
they’re already bored with the stuff I’ve written already. There are four “Mom” updates and I seriously
doubt anybody cares.
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