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PsychoBabble

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Sat Apr 1, 2017, 12:27 AM Apr 2017

Mensch unravels the electoral database hack thread ... LATEST [View all]

I know Louise Mensch is thought of in various ways. She is not always right. But she HAS been at times, and so her latest is worth reading, hot off her blog. (If you are an affirmed Mensch hater, please just skip - there are better places to spend your time. Seriously.) If you want to consider her research/ideas, here goes:

I believe, in summary:

A Russian spy stole the Facebook data of hundreds of millions of Americans

From that data, Russia crafted propaganda messages via SCL and targeted them by Cambridge Analytica

Both of these were owned by Alfa Bank and Firtash, Russian agent and boss of Manafort;

In order to perfect the social media targeting Russia hacked the electoral voter databases of various key American states:

This information was fed back to Manafort and Cambridge Analytica / SCL via the means of the bank server in Trump Tower;

Manafort and Trump used terrifyingly accurate micro-targeting obtained firstly by Facebook theft but secondly by Russia obtaining the exact demographic profiles of voters through hacks of US state databases and passing it back to Cambridge Analytica.

This theory, if true, would directly connect the Russian state with the Trump campaign and mean that Trump colluded with Russian spies who were hacking America. He will be impeached for it.


This is just the summary. She has full explanation plus sources if you want to understand the full linkage from her perspective. Some of the relationships seem too close and long-standing to be coincidental, as we've discovered with much in the Russian investigation so far.

There has been evidence in other sources today that this micro-targeting was used selectively in just a few key states to swing the vote to Trump, even though it was not obvious to the naked eye/traditional polls that this approach would work.

If what she says is basically true, this was a very sophisticated, direct attempt, not only to interfere in US Democracy, but to directly affect the Presidential race.

I've written about this before as PSYCHIC WARFARE by Putin on Americans.

And so it comes to a fundamental point ... either we believe in democracy, or we don't. Political nonsense aside, if her basic research/conjecture eventually proves true, then those who at that point still try to defend Trump and the Republican path ARE traitors.

You either choose to ASSIST, or RESIST, the Russian incursion into American Democracy ....

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Plus these two things,... pkdu Apr 2017 #1
Interesting how the same actors always weave together, eh? PsychoBabble Apr 2017 #4
! Achilleaze Apr 2017 #8
Jester recented posted link about Steve Bannon's financials & connections to Cambridge Analytical womanofthehills Apr 2017 #52
Jared played critical role MedusaX Apr 2017 #2
Thx for the details PsychoBabble Apr 2017 #3
aboard enid602 Apr 2017 #26
I wonder if Cambridge Analytica sabotaged Cruz's campaign. Ilsa Apr 2017 #63
The Big Con pbmus Apr 2017 #5
V funny! PsychoBabble Apr 2017 #6
Zuckerberg would have to be involved also HoneyBadger Apr 2017 #7
Joseph Chancellor owned GSR, part of SCL, which owned Cambridge and now works at Facebook HoneyBadger Apr 2017 #18
I take what she says with a grain of salt FDRsGhost Apr 2017 #9
She claimed Andrew Breitbart was murdered by Russians. She is a RW conspiracy loon. m-lekktor Apr 2017 #10
She's a nutter for sure. FDRsGhost Apr 2017 #13
I disagree - she seems to have some great intelligence connections womanofthehills Apr 2017 #17
She's Alex Jones in duisguise FDRsGhost Apr 2017 #19
Important history, for sure - however PsychoBabble Apr 2017 #28
Broken clock scenario IMHO FDRsGhost Apr 2017 #32
Disagree - she is very bright and she seems to have great intelligence connections womanofthehills Apr 2017 #53
Louise Mensch is so anti Russian and anti Trump womanofthehills Apr 2017 #66
Yes, but she's telling us what we want to hear, so it's all good. alarimer Apr 2017 #34
Who cares if she is a Tory - she is working to get Trump out of the White House womanofthehills Apr 2017 #55
We need facts, not conjecture SecularMotion Apr 2017 #11
say what you will, she is often right. nt sarah FAILIN Apr 2017 #14
Her facts are not the issue SecularMotion Apr 2017 #15
No, she is not. That's the point. Many books Hortensis Apr 2017 #35
"Psychic warfare"? No. "Psychological Warfare". "Psychic" makes this post sound kooky. (nt) FreepFryer Apr 2017 #12
Dictionary.com PsychoBabble Apr 2017 #21
"Psychic warfare" has a specific meaning in a Russian context. (nt) FreepFryer Apr 2017 #23
CIA.gov FreepFryer Apr 2017 #25
She uses some pretty big gibraltar72 Apr 2017 #16
The BIG point is THIS: PsychoBabble Apr 2017 #20
I have zero confidence in ANYTHING Mensch has to say. She's a far rightwing loon. Foamfollower Apr 2017 #22
Evidence of misinformation please ? OnDoutside Apr 2017 #36
Everything she has said since Trump won the nomination. Foamfollower Apr 2017 #37
I completely agree that she is a rightwing loon ex-MP, and has always been a rightwing loon, however OnDoutside Apr 2017 #39
It's all been half truths or outright liues! Foamfollower Apr 2017 #41
So what's wrong with these statements ? OnDoutside Apr 2017 #42
All half truth bullshit. Foamfollower Apr 2017 #43
Where is she "promoting her extremist agenda", so I can keep an eye out for it ? OnDoutside Apr 2017 #44
Whenever she types or speaks. Foamfollower Apr 2017 #45
That isn't a good enough answer. "Just cos". OnDoutside Apr 2017 #46
When it comes to rightwing extremists like Mensch, yes, it is. Foamfollower Apr 2017 #47
Again, I don't accept your sweeping statement. Her work over OnDoutside Apr 2017 #48
Then I dismiss anything you ever have to say about anything. Foamfollower Apr 2017 #49
Post removed Post removed Apr 2017 #50
Speaking of Louise: "Fuck off, Vlad!" Leghorn21 Apr 2017 #58
I am finding both her blog, and her twitter feed, to be interesting reading. Lucinda Apr 2017 #24
me too - I just started following her a few weeks ago womanofthehills Apr 2017 #57
You know... yallerdawg Apr 2017 #27
This message was self-deleted by its author m-lekktor Apr 2017 #30
Sorry I burst your bubble :) FDRsGhost Apr 2017 #31
Hey... yallerdawg Apr 2017 #33
stolen information? enid602 Apr 2017 #29
Obviously Zuckerberg is complicit HoneyBadger Apr 2017 #38
Peter Thiel is your Facebook link OnDoutside Apr 2017 #40
Anyone else finding that her blog server is down? jmg257 Apr 2017 #51
Seems to be the case PsychoBabble Apr 2017 #54
A couple things...1) was facebook "illegally hacked". jmg257 Apr 2017 #56
I fill out these surveys fairly often to get access to paywalls HoneyBadger Apr 2017 #60
I have 2 specific complaints alwaysinflux Apr 2017 #59
Politico and Buzzfeed are possibly co conspirators HoneyBadger Apr 2017 #62
Are you kidding me??? alwaysinflux Apr 2017 #64
Buzzfeed has said that Cambridge Analytica story is a conspiracy theory HoneyBadger Apr 2017 #65
Russia has always hated America. Why would he change now. It all makes sense. And that's why caroldansen Apr 2017 #61
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