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Kremlin-financed media outlet RT (formerly Russia Today) is little more than a propaganda machine controlled by Russian intelligence agencies. yet...Anyone shocked by the Kremlin-funded news station RT in all of this probably never heard of Voice of America, a U.S. government-funded news service that broadcast the American response to Soviet propaganda during the Cold War.  The Ruse seem quite able actors in this field - The US seems a ready audience. This stuff is taking me back to college days. I took a class on World Press at BU led by Larry Martin - actually L awrence Martin-Bittman , a former Czech Intelligence Agent - who had a unique view on "News". Martin-Bittman later wrote a memoir The KGB and Soviet Disinformation. There he wrote "Deception is a relatively easy game, particularly against anyone willing to be deceived. " One of Martin-Bittman's acts as part of Czech intelligence was to forge a letter from Cardinal Spellman to a W,German Anti-Commun...

We will pay for the wall, then we will bill Mexico. Trump knows the art of the deal. I have gotten tired with rednecks, excuse me, rural americans to the point where I wonder: Wont they spend their time in gyms with weights and Fox News (on Trump Gym vouchers, in case you didnt hear about the replacement for Obamacare)...and leave it to Trump to drive over to Walmart parking lot and get some migrant day workers to build the wall? 

When Arnold quotes Lincoln to Trump, I listen - The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the cause of our union. https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/arnold-schwarzenegger-fires-back-donald-172626379.html

I came Twitter as I was.. as I was asked to by my employers. That is how JackIVaughan on Twitter happened. Later I adopted a Smiling Jack persona there. I gathered followers, many related to technology. It spread out over time to encompass sports, music etc too. Thereafter my employers asked me to create a Twitter account that explicitly named them. So I had two accnts, and the new one like the former, gained technology related followers. Then I formed a third account, dedicated to Tom Paine and politics. (I shut it down after the 2016 Democratic election debacle, which social media, I think, had a hand in.) I didnt and still dont think it is my place to inflict my political point of view on people that followed me for technology chatter. I feel somewhat similarly about Facebook - it seems more a place to show pics of the grandkids and recall high school schenanigans, rather than do politics (to a point). And there are some folks who use Facebook that way that I would like to pie. So...

Wednesday will be a real world, brick and mortar DoS assault on the news-cycle itself. It's a code the GOP has learned from watching the Russians.  http://nydn.us/2iPaovu