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Excellent report, Ken! As if some far-off foreign government could drop a few hundred Ks of social media messages and somehow undo the indoctrinating effect of that propaganda bath our own government has marinated us in for centuries..

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Exactly. Companies are paid huge sums of money to influence voter attitudes here and they can barely move the needle. You're gonna tell me the Kremlin can?

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Malign influence? Look no further than the takeover of AM radio by Rush Limbaugh and his many clones, emitting a constant stream of hatred of government that started so long ago and steeped so many minds in rage, ready for a leader that we now have before us. We are lying in a bed whose preparation was deliberate and successful. Harris is not the person who might be able to get us out of it. America is in a fix no matter who wins on Nov. 5. We are at a low point in American history, liberty and justice for all forgotten in all out support of ethnic cleansing empowered by great wealth that our Supreme Court has decreed is speech, magically protecting money with the first amendment! The outlook is grim.

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I personally would rather be aware that foreign governments are trying to influence our election rather than not even be made aware of that fact, so I am glad the news media (including you!) is making me aware. Whether those foreign governments are effective in their efforts is a separate question.

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Good piece! I’m in Europe, and it’s a phenomenon that happened here as well during the EU elections (in particular regarding Russian interference). Intelligence agencies blaming foreign entities is one thing (don’t they always?), but I wonder why politicians stress foreign threats while completely ignoring obvious domestic ones.

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Perfect perspective and balance Ken. The one constant in the universe is that bureaucracy will always protect its image, hence the win-win scenarios. I can affirm every warning report has a little switch on it that can help spin it either direction.

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Plenty of historical precedent for this sort of thinking in the US already eg uppity Blacks before the Civil War being influenced by "outsiders", more uppity Blacks (curiously, also from south of the old Mason-Dixon line) being influenced by even more insidious outsiders during the civil rights movement. Ruling class elites whose boots are on people's necks can't fathom what all the screaming's about: after all, those elites don't see a problem.

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Yeah it reminds me of J Edgar Hoover being convinced the USSR was behind the civil rights movement

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There are, in excess, of 330,000,000 American citizens and this report highlights that 1/330,000,000th of the population was contacted by some Persians. Really?? I have read too many reports that consist mainly of speculation and not actual events.

Keep these coming Ken, your insight is solid as you are exposing the Projections of our bureaucratic nitwits .

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Those that rule us do not want us to know what they do in our name.

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“That was also the case with the Iranian intelligence officer who provided me with the hacked copy of the J.D. Vance candidate vetting dossier that I went on to publish earlier this month.”

Just curious as to why you would say this - unless you’re being sarcastic.

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I've always been transparent about the provenance of the Vance dossier, since day one.

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fair enough Ken. Actually didn’t know it came from there but OK fair enough you being transparent works.

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I laugh sardonically at the corporate media when they bleat, “Russia, Russia, Russia, China, China, China, Iran, Iran, Iran”. (Just today, the NYT published “How Russia, China and Iran Are Interfering in the Presidential Election”.) The only country that is interfering in U.S. elections is Israel, and they boast about it.

I find great irony in U.S. claims of foreign election meddling when the U.S. is trying to exact regime changes in Lebanon and Georgia, for example. But interference from the U.S. is laudable because we’re The Great and the Good.

Good work, Ken.

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