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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.
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 ....
http://www.patribotics.blog
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Jester recented posted link about Steve Bannon's financials & connections to Cambridge Analytical
womanofthehills
Apr 2017
#52
Joseph Chancellor owned GSR, part of SCL, which owned Cambridge and now works at Facebook
HoneyBadger
Apr 2017
#18
She claimed Andrew Breitbart was murdered by Russians. She is a RW conspiracy loon.
m-lekktor
Apr 2017
#10
Disagree - she is very bright and she seems to have great intelligence connections
womanofthehills
Apr 2017
#53
Who cares if she is a Tory - she is working to get Trump out of the White House
womanofthehills
Apr 2017
#55
"Psychic warfare"? No. "Psychological Warfare". "Psychic" makes this post sound kooky. (nt)
FreepFryer
Apr 2017
#12
I have zero confidence in ANYTHING Mensch has to say. She's a far rightwing loon.
Foamfollower
Apr 2017
#22
I completely agree that she is a rightwing loon ex-MP, and has always been a rightwing loon, however
OnDoutside
Apr 2017
#39
Where is she "promoting her extremist agenda", so I can keep an eye out for it ?
OnDoutside
Apr 2017
#44
Russia has always hated America. Why would he change now. It all makes sense. And that's why
caroldansen
Apr 2017
#61