Thursday 28th of March 2024

"the russians are in trump's pants.....".

The editor of [the] website (CONSORTIUM NEWS) is part of a secret list created by the organization Hamilton 68 that was fed to major media and Congress to identify so-called “Russian accounts” that were “sowing discord” in the United States. 

The list of 644 Twitter accounts was shared with Twitter executives who were unable to prove any links to Russia, reported  in his latest installment of the Twitter Files on Friday. 

“This was digital McCarthyism, taking people with dissident or unconventional opinions and mass-accusing them of ‘Un-American activities,’” writes Taibbi.

OF COURSE.

Hamilton 68 was created in 2017 by Clint Watts, a former F.B.I. counterintelligence officer and MSNBC analyst as a project of the German Marshall Fund and the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD), a bipartisan think-tank. 

On Hamilton’s advisory board sits former acting C.I.A. chief Michael Morell, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, and former editor of the neoconservative Weekly Standard Bill Kristol.

 

Twitter Pushes Back

Twitter executives were not taken in by Hamilton 68’s secret list of Twitter accounts, with Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth, saying in an email obtained by Taibbi: “I think we need to just call this out on the bullshit it is.” Twitter uncovered the secret list by analyzing Hamilton’s Application Program Interface (API) requests to reverse-engineer the list in late 2017, Taibbi reported.

 

READ MORE:

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/01/27/cn-editor-named-on-secret-disinfo-list/

 

BUT WHAT IS SADDER THAN AMERICANS TRYING TO FOOL AMERICANS, IS THAT THEY FOOL OTHER COUNTRIES WITH BRILLIANT BULLSHIT — INCLUDING UKRAINE AND ITS PEOPLE.... SO WE NEED TO VISIT THE SITE OF THE ALLIED GMF NEWS INFO.... NOW CELEBRATING!

This year the German Marshall Fund marks its 50th anniversary and the 75th anniversary of the Marshall Plan. These historic moments serve as an opportunity to highlight the achievements of one of the most important American diplomatic initiatives of the 20th century and how its legacy lives on today through GMF and its mission.

 

THE GERMANS ARE STILL PAYING THE INTEREST....

THE FRENCH ARE NOT BECAUSE GENERAL DE GAULLE WHO HATED THE ANGLO SAXONS TOLD THE AMERICANS TO PISS OFF, WHILE PAYING THE MARSHALL PLAN IN FULL (1964) AND DEVALUING THE FRANC BY A MASSIVE 10,000 PER CENT (A FRANC BECAME A CENTIME — THIS DID NOT MAKE MUCH DIFFERENCE TO THE LOCALS BUT ROBBED ALL THE ROBBER BARONS).

 

SO ON THIS GLORIOUS SITE OF THE GERMAN FOR THE MARSHALL PLAN (VOICES FROM UKRAINE) A FEW INTERVIEWS OF YOUNG UKRAINIANS WHO HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT THE PAST (WHY SHOULD THEY?) IS MADE TO MAKE US BELIEVE INTO THE ETERNAL BENEVOLENCE HAPPINESS OF AMERICAN RED PILLS:

 

What do you think the future holds for Ukraine, Sofiia?

“I do not know when the war will end, but I know that it will end with Ukraine’s victory. And I know that my people will rebuild the country, will cover for what was lost, and will become only stronger, wiser, and bolder from this. I have never been more proud to be Ukrainian.”

 

GUS SAYS:

AND SO YOU SHOULD BE PROUD OF BEING UKRAINIAN, LIKE EVERYONE IS PROUD TO BE WHATEVER. LIKE THE PEOPLE OF THE DONBASS ARE PROUD TO BE RUSSIANS — WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. 

AND SURE YOU DO NOT LIKE BEING BOMBED. 

NO-ONE DOES, INCLUDING THE PEOPLE OF THE DONBASS REPUBLICS WHO HAVE NOW OPTED TO BE INCORPORATED IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, BECAUSE THEY SPEAK RUSSIAN — WHICH USED TO BE ONE OF THE MAIN TWO OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF UKRAINE — AND BECAUSE THEY NEED SOMEONE TO STOP THE UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT FROM BOMBING THEM. 

SURE IT’S A LOSS FOR UKRAINE, BUT THESE REGIONS WERE NEVER “GALICIAN” (WESTERN UKRAINIAN). LET’S BE FRANK HERE, YOU NEVER ASKED ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE REVOLUTION IN 2014, HAVE YOU? 

YOU NEVER ASKED ABOUT THOSE RED AND BLACK FLAGS OF FASCISM MIXED WITH THE BLUE AND YELLOW FLAG OF UKRAINE WHICH WERE DELIBERATELY DESIGNED TO REPRESENT THE BLUE SKY AND THE WHEAT FIELDS OF FREEDOM. FAIR ENOUGH. DID YOU EVER ASK YOUR GOVERNMENT, LED BY A CERTAIN ZELENSKY, WHO PROMISED TO DO THIS AND THAT, TO STOP BOMBING THE DONBASS REGION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE MINKS AGREEMENTS?

YOUR FREEDOM IS PART OF A GEOPOLITICAL GAME DESIGNED TO REINFORCE WESTERN CONTROL AND DESTROY RUSSIA. YOU CANNOT FEEL THIS BECAUSE THE ROOT — SAY EVIL — DESIGN IS ENCRYPTED IN THE WANTS OF HAPPINESS AND FREEDOM YOU WISH FOR.  

A MARSHALL PLAN FOR UKRAINE? BEAUT! A WARNING THOUGH. A FEW OF THEM THOUGH: 

FIRST. A MARSHALL PLAN IS NOT AN OPTION TO FREEDOM. THE DEBT IS NEVER PAYABLE — ONLY THE INTEREST AT WHATEVER INTEREST (USUALLY HIGHER THAN MARKET VALUE) YOUR CREDITOR WANTS. IN THIS CASE, A MARSHALL PLAN WOULD BE ADDED TO THE ENORMOUS AMERICAN DEBT TO THE WORLD. 

SECOND. YOUR COUNTRY, NOW INDEBTED TO THE AMERICANS, HAS TO FOLLOW ORDERS AND WITHIN 15 YEARS FROM NOW WOULD BECOME THE MAIN BATTERING RAM AGAINST RUSSIA FOR FLIMSY AND INVENTED REASONS.

THIRD. AS SUCH YOU WOULD BE ON THE FRONT LINE OF BEING NUKED, AFTER THE PENTAGON AND WASHINGTON. 

FOURTH. THE FREEDOM YOU ENJOYED PRIOR TO THE RUSSIAN INTERVENTION, WAS AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHER PEOPLE BEING KILLED IN THE DONBASS. THE COUNTRY YOU COME FROM, SAY WESTERN UKRAINE, OWES ITS “FREEDOM” AFTER HAVING KILLED MANY JEWS, POLES AND RUSSIANS AND BEING FORGIVEN FOR THESE CRIMES (THEY ARE CRIMES, AREN’T THEY?) BY A WESTERN SIDE THAT NEEDS YOU TO DESTROY RUSSIA.

FIFTH. IF THIS DOES NOT BOTHER YOU, ENJOY. BUT UKRAINE CANNOT WIN. THE WEST DOES NOT HAVE THE MORAL RIGHTS ON THIS ISSUE. RUSSIA DOES. NOT ONLY THIS BUT RUSSIA HAS MIGHT ON ITS SIDE AS WELL — A MIGHT THAT RUSSIA HAS BEEN RELUCTANT TO USE AGAINST PEOPLE, BECAUSE YOUR UKRAINIAN PEOPLE MIX IN WESTERN UKRAINE IS ABOUT 30 PER CENT RUSSIANS AND 70 PER CENT GALICIANS — DEPENDING ON THE REGIONS OF WESTERN UKRAINE.

SIX. YOU SHOULD DEPLORE THAT THE WEST PUSHED RUSSIAN INTO WHAT THEY DID NOT WANT TO DO — VIA RESPECTING THE MINSK AGREEMENTS WHICH YOUR GOVERNMENT UNDER ZELENSKY DID NOT WANT TO DO.

SEVEN. LIKE PREVIOUS UKRAINIAN (WESTERN) PRESIDENTS, ZELENSKY WANTED WAR. YOUR GOVERNMENT WANTED WAR AND… GUESS WHAT, IT GOT IT. AND YOU WILL SUFFER SOME MORE. POSSIBLY DIE NEXT. THERE YOU GO. BUT FOR THE AMERICANS AND THEIR MARSHALL PLAN, YOUR COUNTRY IS BUT A PAWN THAT WILL BE SACRIFICED TO THE NEXT GAME “PHASE”: DESTROY RUSSIA.

YOU DON’T WANT TO DESTROY RUSSIA, DO YOU? OH, YOU DO.... I'VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU: RUSSIA IS DESTROYING YOU, WITH REGRETS NONETHELESS.... THE AMERICAN EMPIRE DID NOT GIVE MUCH CHOICE TO RUSSIA....

 

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addendum.....

By Matt Taibbi / Racket

Hamilton 68 responded to a #TwitterFiles thread Friday with a series of claims, including that their site was always intended to be understood as “nuanced,” that they always maintained that “witting or unwitting” accounts could be on their list, and that “some accounts we track are automated bots, some are trolls, and some are real users.”

They could also have inserted the disclaimer added to the new Hamilton 2.0 page, which as a helpful reader noted this morning, includes in red font a blaring warning to all that it would INCORRECT to label anyone or anything that appears on their dashboard “as being connected to state-backed propaganda”:

 

 

Thank heaven for the Wayback Machine. Here’s what was written on the original Hamilton page:

These accounts were selected for their relationship to Russian-sponsored influence and disinformation campaigns, and not because of any domestic political content.

We have monitored these datasets for months in order to verify their relevance to Russian disinformation programs targeting the United States.

…this will provide a resource for journalists to appropriately identify Russian-sponsored information campaigns.

High on that original page, the Hamilton founders explained they monitored two types of accounts:

There are two components to the dashboard featured here.

The first section, “Overt Promotion of Content,” highlights trending content from Twitter accounts for media outlets known to be controlled by the Russian government.

The second section, “Content Tweeted by Bots and Trolls,” highlights themes being pushed by Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence campaigns.

The Hamilton list tracked overt Russian media on the one hand, and “bots and trolls” on the other. Note the difference between that language and the language Friday: “Some accounts we track are automated bots, some are trolls, and some are real users.” That Hamilton Friday was also trying to distance itself from headlines about “bots” is particularly grotesque, given that it was so overt in identifying the composition of its list this way at the start.

I encourage everyone to read language from the original site, then look at Friday’s ironically named “Fact sheet,” and compare for yourselves.

 

READ MORE:

https://scheerpost.com/2023/01/29/matt-taibbi-hamilton-68-brief-addendum/

 

 

READ FROM TOP.

 

SEE ALSO: https://scheerpost.com/2023/01/28/matt-taibbi-move-over-jason-blair-meet-hamilton-68-the-new-king-of-media-fraud/ 

 

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