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@BillW,

So, you go quite immediately onto ignore.

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@BillW,

You okay there, Bill?

This is a must-read

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An investigation by The New York Times, and new research from the cybersecurity firm FireEye, reveals some of the mechanisms by which suspected Russian operators used Twitter and Facebook to spread anti-Clinton messages and promote the hacked material they had leaked. On Wednesday, Facebook officials disclosed that they had shut down several hundred accounts that they believe were created by a Russian company linked to the Kremlin and used to buy $100,000 in ads pushing divisive issues during and after the American election campaign.

On Twitter, as on Facebook, Russian fingerprints are on hundreds or thousands of fake accounts that regularly posted anti-Clinton messages. Many were automated Twitter accounts, called bots, that sometimes fired off identical messages seconds apart — and in the exact alphabetical order of their made-up names, according to the FireEye researchers. On Election Day, for instance, they found that one group of Twitter bots sent out the hashtag #WarAgainstDemocrats more than 1,700 times.

NYT

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@BillW,

blatham wrote:

I'm no fan of Ryan or McConnell but there's a very real danger here. Meadows was a key figure in the ouster of John Boehner. He was one of the architects of the 2013 government shutdown. He chairs the Freedom Caucus, the furtherest right of any congressional group. And he's tight with the Koch brothers.

Bannon has recently been working to cement ties between the Kock/libertarian/tea party crowd and the religious right crowd believing that cooperation between both groups is necessary to gain further control of the Republican Party.

To put all this another way, what we're looking at is a growing and well-organized and financed dynamic that is pushing the GOP further and further to the right and towards authoritarianism.
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BillW wrote:

.....and, White Supremacy - ohhh, I am suppose to be Politically Correct, AltRight.

It is a continuation of a quote from you. I am relearning how to use this app.

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Jesus christ

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On St. Martin, an official said 95 percent of the island was destroyed.

NYT

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@blatham,

blatham wrote:

Jesus christ

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On St. Martin, an official said 95 percent of the island was destroyed.
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We're watching the predictions closely - where I'm at in Durham NC I'm thinking will just be a Cat 1 storm by Tuesday or Wednesday when it hits.

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@snood,

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You okay there, Bill?

Do we know Bill? And if so, do you get what he's trying to say?

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@blatham,

yes yes we do

he's part of the original A2k family - back to 2002

much missed in between visits

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@ehBeth,

Ohhhhh. I am remembering. Sorry, Bill. I will correct my dumbness.

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@blatham,

Yes Bill goes way back with A2K. And I understood after he explained.

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@blatham,

And, you once said you would vote for me for President of the USA. back in 2002 or so....

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@BillW,

I am a fickle guy. Now I'm trying to get my memories correctly sorted. Are you in Austin? Friend of Perry?

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@blatham,

Just talked to my dad about this - he very much enjoyed his visits to St. Martin over the years. Extremely sobering.

We then got onto talk of what will happen when La Palma (Canaries) eventually crumbles. Even 10 years ago we would have said not in any of our lifetimes. But as 100 and 500 year storms are happening every year, and tidal erosion increases at a greatly increased pace ... ?

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and all Canadians should read The Right to Be Cold by Sheila Watt Cloutier.

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/the-right-to-be-cold-a-courageous-and-revelatory-memoir/article23449642/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&

if they haven't already

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at the very least, ask libraries to order it

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@blatham,

Lost contact with Perry and Lola. All others too, memory goes but can revive. We had a meet in Austin we a few others way back when. perry is from Houston. Hope everthing ids good with him.

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@BillW,

I can't quite remember who Perry is, which is embarrassing. I know I know him, have liked him.

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Perry was reporting doing fine about 5 days after landfall.

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@Lash,

Thanks Lash!

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@snood,

Very good article. It's going to make a lot of people very uncomfortable.

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@ehBeth,

I've not been to the Caribbean though have always wanted to. The photos I've seen have been awful where Irma hit square on. As to La Palma collapsing, I do not want to even think about that one.

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@old europe,

old europe wrote:

Very good article. It's going to make a lot of people very uncomfortable.

If their discomfort leads to some insight, that would be a good thing.

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