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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Seeing as it's Halloween where I am, has there ever been a fan edit of the scene in Its The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown of the scene with Linus, with Sally beside him, suddenly shouting "There he is! The Great Pumpkin's rising out of the pumpkin patch!" and fainting, only for it to be Snoopy,, but Donald Trump edited in there?
That's an awfully specific question.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.The evidence is that US intelligence agencies - not just Democrats, but the agencies themselves - are saying that the hack was ordered by the Kremlin. Here's a UK newspaper with a good reputation reporting on it
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The US agencies said that some US states had detected attempts to breach their election systems, and that most of those attempts originated from servers operated by a Russian company. “However, we are not now in a position to attribute this activity to the Russian Government,” the statement said.
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US intelligence and the Obama administration had concluded over the summer that sophisticated Russian hackers were responsible for hacking the servers of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and leaking emails that embarrassed senior Democratic officeholders.
But for months, White House and other US officials have stopped short of publicly accusing Putin’s government, a rhetorical reluctance that Republicans have criticized and which has intensified a debate about how to deter digital attacks.
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Security firms believe a single operation is behind the attacks into the closed digital systems. The hacking group has been assigned different shorthand names by different analysts – including the flamboyant moniker Fancy Bear – as well as Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) 28 and the Sofacy group. Fancy Bear is believed to be operating under the aegis of the GRU, Russia’s largest intelligence service.
The US authorities' statement is here.
Some states have also recently seen scanning and probing of their election-related systems, which in most cases originated from servers operated by a Russian company. However, we are not now in a position to attribute this activity to the Russian Government.
So if you claim they hack didn't come from Russia, you're arguing against the US intelligence services.
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.Sure, but you're not several highly respected and independent US intelligence agencies, if you were and said that I'd give the possibility of a cheese moon serious consideration.
Shockingly enough US intelligence agencies don't tend to share how they gather their information with the public at large, so I don't know, but I trust said agencies wouldn't make this us, if you don't trust said agencies I'd be curious as to why.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranThat is a fair point, though: we're not given hard evidence. We're only given press releases from intelligence agencies. The public tends to trust these agencies to be truthful, but of course (especially on the US) they have a very bad track record about it. Perhaps we're too keen to trust the allegations against Russia?
That said, I do think it's quite a high standard for trusting news like this that we're not taking government agencies at their word, even in a situation where they have plausible reasons for why they must keep their hard evidence secret (for now).
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.So I take it that a while back Stein went on al-Jazeera and made an ass of herself. I just got linked to an article about it, and hoo boy, the comments directed at the host. If I never see the phrase "evil Muslim god believer" again it will be too soon. There's a reason I bailed on the militant atheist movement—some of these people would fit right at home in Trump's basket of deplorables.
Okay, thank you. Sincere here. So we do know it did orginate from Russia?
But that seemed to be about the DNC emails. Not to make light of it, but hasn't any fallout from that long been minimized? Do we know if the Podesta emails being released by wikileaks was carried out by the same... 'agencies?' hostile actors? Whatever the right word is.
edited 31st Oct '16 3:05:08 PM by TheWanted
All of that is true. Assange has his own agenda but the Russians use him and wikileaks to hurt the US and the West through the method I described.
Wikileaks is a Russian asset, not a direct front. There is a bit of a difference. Either way they're untrustworthy and are to be considered part of the Russian intelligence arm.
edited 31st Oct '16 3:24:04 PM by LeGarcon
Oh really when?Specifically, he's hiding in an Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid being extradited to Sweden where he is wanted on two counts of rape.
They've largely tolerated his presence but recently pulled his internet access due to his efforts to undermine the American election. Because they don't want to be associated with that.
edited 31st Oct '16 3:25:35 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.So the FBI is now looking into possibel Russian ties with Trump's former campaign manager
Please for the love of God, don't rush THIS out.
edited 31st Oct '16 3:30:08 PM by NoName999
I don't like that the graphic depicts Trump as the good guy.
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But we do it democratically, holding open deliberations trying to figure out who we should be hating.
edited 31st Oct '16 2:42:09 PM by TobiasDrake
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