By Kay Ebeling
In America, when Facebook started in '04 and Twitter in '06 we embraced them with abandon. In Russia they saw it as a wonderful way to
attack us. Imagine, a roomful of KGB guys, all military officers. Instead of the rigors of
war on the ground, they're in a comfortable office. All they have to do is surf the internet
using their trained English skills and go to Washington Post,
Alternet, all over the world. Open an account, create a profile, and start
commenting.
St. Petersburg, Russia |
Hillary
Clinton used the words "information warfare" while she was Secretary
of State.
Since
2013 I've seen the Russian footprint all over the internet. I read a lot and so have learned- especially in
Malcolm Nance books but several others since then- that around 2013, several Russian intelligence agents
moved into a brick building in St. Petersburg and started posting comments on
news stories in USA. I noticed the
arrival of the 'bots, as I read a lot online. As soon as an article showed up on a news site, the comments would fill
up with right wing knee-jerk reactions. Dozens of them. I'd wonder, could there really be this many people
who believe this? Either they are all unemployed or someone is paying them.
The anti-American
tenor underlying these messages was shocking and more obvious on Fox News, Twitter, and Facebook. Once
they saw how easy it is to get Americans to believe things that are not true, that
contradict our own history and Constitution, the intelligence operation got
more brazen. One America Network, 4chan, QAnon Comes out of nowhere without identifying its author and Americans believe it. It's astounding that we've allowed it to get this bad. This intelligence operation
included a deep reading of our own laws, finding ways to use them against us. Because of our First Amendment, we allowed
this brazen attack to continue, and become more brazen.
Brazen
brazen brazen. This week the Opposite World News reports the January sixth attack
was little more than tourists passing through the D.C. Capitol.
Since 2013
it's gotten so much worse. We're at the point
that mainstream media are finally pointing out, "the Big Lie" we even
have a sound byte for it. The Big Lie, they even say it on Morning Joe.
I'm waiting
for someone to point out: No one expected them to fly airplanes into our buildings
either.
Information
warfare got Donald Trump elected, he then prepared the way for environmental collapse,
he started a Rwandan 1994 radio messaging campaign to turn half of America against
the other half, and then the environmentally dying Earth produced Covid 19, with more new viruses to come as the planet heats…. Convenient,
exactly the kind of event the disinformation laid the groundwork for. A mutated media machinery
convinced half of America to be anti-mask and help spread a killer virus.
Now we have
character assassination at a level I haven’t seen since the beginning of the USSR
in early 1950s. Of course, one of the first victims would be Liz Cheney, daughter of Dick.
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