BeaverFever

Unlike you and many of your ilk I have a rewarding job, social and family life and have limited time for these never-ending line-by-line posts that take an hour to type out my phone… especially when all you do is repeat the same rebutted and debunked claims over and over. I only come on here briefly and try to make it no more frequent than every few days….once a day tops if there’s an actual interesting discussion…. Whenever I come on here your posts seem to be only be minutes old. So you can take pride in your internet lurking and getting the final word in on online arguments with strangers if you like…. it’s a little sad and pathetic if you ask me but we all have to settle for whatever we can get in life.

Yet Another example of how the MAGAverse and their propaganda networks are lousy with Russian operatives, sympathizers and the Kremlin’s useful id1ots spreading Putin’s disinformation. How many “isolated incidents” of Russian infiltration do the cultists need before they admit there’s a pattern?

Ex-Trump advisers help to grow pro-Russia website that spreads misinformation George Papadopoulos and others involved in Intelligencer, increasingly popular source of news in rightwing circles Amid the recent crackdown on Russian influence in American media, a group of former Trump advisers and operatives have quietly helped build a pro-Russian website that frequently spreads debunked conspiracy theories about the war in Ukraine, election fraud and vaccines. Working alongside contributors for Kremlin state media, the former Donald Trump policy aide George Papadopoulos, his wife, Simona Mangiante, and others have become editorial board members of the website Intelligencer, which is increasingly becoming a source of news for those in the rightwing ecosystem. .. “Since the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has increasingly been forced to rely on networks of proxies and influencers whose conspiracist ‘brand’ generates income and audiences through social media monetization and some of whom Russia has now been caught covertly subsidizing,” Briant said. The website’s opaque ownership structure makes it difficult to understand its financial backing, and there is no direct evidence of Kremlin funding. There is no corporate entity listed anywhere on the website, just a business address in Los Angeles. Although much of the website’s content focuses on issues relating to American politics, the site actually began in Australia, with a little-known media outlet called TNT Radio, which launched in 2022. Show hosts and guests frequently deny climate change, discuss culture war issues in the US, espouse pro-Russian viewpoints on the war in Ukraine, and spread conspiracy theories about Covid-19. Jennifer Squires, one of the station’s owners, explained in an interview that Intelligencer began as a way for TNT Radio to have a written publication to complement its radio station. To develop the new site, Squires said she turned to George Eliason, an American journalist who has lived in eastern Ukraine for more than 10 years. Eliason, who already had a show on TNT Radio at the time, has formerly appeared on RT and blames Kyiv for the war in Ukraine. But Squires said she and co-owner Mike Ryan quickly grew disillusioned with the website’s planned appearance, and sought to disassociate themselves from it. However, Eliason continued to develop it, involving several others who had previously appeared on his radio show. The site appears to have launched at the end of 2023 – and nearly half of Intelligencer’s board members are either former aides, surrogates or fake electors for Trump’s previous two campaigns. .,.. Perhaps the most well-known ex-Trump official is Papadopoulos, who served as a foreign policy aide on Trump’s 2016 campaign. In 2018, he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with a Kremlin-linked professor who told him Russia had dirt on Hilary Clinton. Mangiante, his wife, has written several posts for the site about debunked conspiracy theories involving the Bidens and Ukraine. In January, she posted an interview with a former Ukrainian lawmaker, Andrii Derkach, who repeated false claims of bribery about the Biden family in Ukraine. In 2020, the US placed sanctions on Derkach, calling him an active Russian agent; Derkach, who now is running for political office in Russia, previously met with Rudy Giuliani and purported to offer evidence of corruption against the Bidens. “Intelligencer appears to be one of several [Russia-friendly] operations targeting the upcoming US elections, leveraging a network of far-right figures and disinformation tactics,” Olga Lautman, a senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis, said. Mangiante, along with fellow board member Igor Lopatonok, appears to have parlayed this work into a new documentary about the Hunter Biden laptop saga called Hunter’s Laptop: Requiem for Ukraine. According to social media posts, the documentary premiered on 5 September at the Trump International hotel in Chicago. Eliason wrote the script, which was filmed by Lopatonok, who has frequently collaborated with Oliver Stone on prior anti-Ukrainian documentaries and fawning films of dictators. “Mr Lopatonok wanted fresh eyes from an investigative journalist and a different perspective for the story,” Eliason said. “Through the combined interviews, we were able to plumb deeper and raise questions that had not been asked before.” Eliason also said that the address listed on Intelligencer’s website was provided by Lopatonok. Lopatonok did not respond to requests for comment. However, he now appears to have implemented part of his business in Moscow. According to Russian corporate records, Lopatonok and his wife, Vera Tomilova, also an Intelligencer board member, registered a Global 3 Pictures LLC in Moscow in February. According to invitations for the Hunter Biden documentary premiere, the event was hosted by the Christian Orthodox Coalition, an organization which claims to educate Orthodox Christians on social and cultural issues. Four of the organization’s board members are also board members of Intelligencer, including Papadopoulos, Mangiante and Lopatonok. The fourth board member is Olga Ravasi, who was formerly the chairwoman of Serbs for Trump in 2020 and currently runs the Serbian American Voters Alliance political action committee. In March, Intelligencer posted about a Serbs for Trump kick-off event in Wisconsin with the state’s Republican senator Ron Johnson and former Trump acting director of national intelligence Ric Grenell. Three other editorial board members also have close connections to the Trump campaigns. Leah Hoopes and Greg Stenstrom, both from Pennsylvania, have written a book falsely alleging the 2020 election was stolen. Both of them have been litigants in court cases challenging the results of the election in Pennsylvania, and Hoopes was one of Pennsylvania’s fake electors, who falsely signed paperwork saying that Trump had won the election. Tyler Nixon, Roger Stone’s personal attorney, also serves on the board and hosts his own show on TNT Radio. The former Radio Sputnik journalist Lee Stranahan is also involved. Nixon, Hoopes, Stenstrom and Stranahan did not respond to requests for comment. Most of the site’s content appears to be created by Eliason, and Trevor Fitzgibbon, who was the spokesperson for American Values 2024, a Super Pac that supported Robert F Kennedy Jr’s presidential campaign. The website has several posts promoting Kennedy’s campaign. Eliason said that the website is funded out of pocket and the contributors contribute pieces because it “because it makes sense to them”. Many of the articles promote debunked conspiracy theories about vaccines and fraud in the 2020 presidential election, as well as stories that are aggressively anti-Ukrainian. In a May article, Eliason referred to those who voted for a $61bn aid package for Ukraine as “reprehensible”. However, the site has even more direct ties to Russia beyond its content. One of its board members is Anna Soroka, an adviser to Leonid Pasechnik, the head of the self-styled Luhansk People’s Republic. In February 2023, the US sanctioned Pasechnik, calling him the “Putin-appointed interim head of the former so-called Luhansk People’s Republic”. In 2020, Bellingcat found that Soroka had emailed back and forth with Maj Gen Andrey Ilchenko, who has been linked to Russia’s military intelligence agency known as the GR….. https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/19/intelligencer-pro-russia-website-trump

Every other President has managed to do it without a constant revolving door at the most senior levels of government and over 100 former staffers calling them the worst president ever, completely unfit for office and supporting the other party. You try to brush it off as if it’s nothing but this is absolutely unprecedented. He was a national and international laughing stock and bitterly divisive. He was a buffoon whose shrinking circle of professional staff tried to keep happy and distracted while they did their work. As leader he wasn’t effective at anything.

It’s clear to everyone except the right wing kool-aid drinkers that MAGA is a clown car of kooks weirdos grifters and hypocrites. Thee Trump cultists on this forum won’t have the balls to comment on this thread unless it’s to throw out a random whataboutery comment about some random democrat

Temporary irritation and ONE lady saying she has difficulty seeing which all medical doctors expect is also temporary. If anyone had done something to them like a spray you would have seen them react in real time. When someone pepper sprays you, you react immediately not later that evening and people in your immediate vicinity also are affected. HIS SKULL WAS FRACTURED. That’s a lot more serious than bad case of dry-eye, especially for an 80-yr old man Trump not suggesting a clever Halloween costume he was just trolling a 80-yr old man who had his skull fractured with a hammer Truth is, we all know you wouldn’t think that if an 80yr old republican had his skull fractured with a hammer. The fact that you claim eye irritation is serious but an 80yr old man getting his skull fractured as not serious shows how you selectively apply your supposed values.

It’s like the ridiculous “Barbaric culture practices” hotline the conservatives up here tried to introduce a few elections ago to fear-monger against Muslims. So if you were see a man beheading someone in the street you’d call 911 but should you ever happen to see a Muslim man beheading someone in the street, call the 1-800 number and leave a message to report the “barbaric cultural practice”. That was their big plan, and to accuse anyone who didn’t support it as approving of Muslims beheading people.

More fake news through the MAGA-net where everything is lie or exaggerated that gets embellished every time it’s passed on from dumbass to dumbass. You guys are so gullible. For the record, Nobody has gone blind.

LMAO! What a pathetic exaggeration. The alleged eye irritation was probably from some dumbass Trump supporter waving around a laser pointer or something. Plus you’re someone who thought it was hilarious foe Don Jr to joke about an 80 yr old man getting his skull fractured with a hammer Everyone see thru your bullshit.

That’s just from Laura Loomer’s cheap perfume, Eau de lunatique.

But Trump says “he only hires the best people “ Are you calling your cult leader a liar and saying he can’t be trusted to hire qualified people for the most important jobs in the country? Also few of these 111 people wrote books and they weren’t all fired. Many quit in disgust or frustration or actually managed to last until the end of Trump’s term.

I’ve also noticed that the prevalence of mental illness is also suspiciously high at Trump rallies 🤔

Your whack job WEF conspiracy nonsense is amusing but still you Putin-supporting nutjobs don’t seem to understand that you can’t jail people who haven’t committed any crimes simply because you don’t like them or disagree with their policies

What decade of additional money? Most of the Harper defence spending was to pay for the Afghanistan mission not rebuild the military from the Mulroney-Chretien-Martin cuts and freezes. Stuff has been in terrible shape for decades. That’s Canada for you. If things calm down w Russia and China I expect most of these recently announced military investments and acquisitions will be cancelled

And they took heavy casualties and failed to seize their objective which is why they don’t do it it anymore Combat SAR is a very small number of specialized helos and personnel involved, very different from air assault BVS-10 is much bigger, slower, noisier, requires more maintenance and logistics, cannot fit inside a chinook in fact at 12,500 kg it barely makes the chinook’s 12,700 kg max payload. It’s not a light vehicle which is the capability the army s looking for with this procurement. Not everything has to be an armoured combat vehicle.

I heard a rumour from a complete random stranger that her cousin’s neighbour’s mailman’s sister’s former roommate’s boyfriend had an overdue library book. LOCK HER UP!!!!

In Ukraine airborne and air assault units are all fighting as ground forces because air defence on both sides has all but completely removed helicopters from the conflict and made parachute drops a suicide mission As you say our light forces currently use MRZRs and DAGORS in the summer and other vehicles in winter. Nobody has ever said those other winter vehicles are going away so why the outrage that this vehicle will replace or operate alongside the MRZR and DAGOR?

So for doing completely legal things that you don’t like. No wonder you’re a Putin admirer

Oh if some random stranger posted it on social media it must be absolutely true. Just like those 2020 election fraud affidavits MAGAs are so hopelessly and pathetic gullible. It is absolutely hilarious. Trump lost the debate get over it. Kamala didn’t dictate that Trump say crazy shit about immigrants eating dogs or having a meltdown over people leaving his rallies early.

For what exactly? Because you don’t like her?

Not any more. Against a near-peer threat it’s much further. And it’s not just about long range Air Defence systems it’s also about the proliferation of MANPADS which SEAD aircraft can’t detect or suppress. A couple of times now I’ve posted content from task and purpose where they say Drop Zones/LZs could be up to 100km from the objective in a conflict against China or Russia due to air defence. Once again all the allied nations are adopting these “ultra light” vehicles that can be slung under Blackhawks or carried inside Chinooks. At the same time, vehicles like Humvee have been replaced by larger heavier vehicles that can no longer be carried this way. The new JLTV can only be slung under a Chinook. Canada is not an anomaly. CANSOFCOM has DAGORs, who knows maybe the permanent Light vehicles will be a DAGOR too, there are several options to choose from these days. From what Ive seen, the future light vehicle will have weapons and a combat role. But footage of 101st Airborne hunter-killer teams using this very same light has been shared in this thread If not for this exact vehicle then one of the other light vehicles like DAGORS or Flyers. They’ve definitely lobbied foe this capability, which is what you’re arguing against. And I doubt they’re being forced to take it to Latvia if they don’t want it there. As for what the troops will say in winter I don’t know, what do they say now with their MRZR ATVs? I doubt those are any warmer.

Convoy scum, typical right wing “fake tough guys” who will yell vulgar insults from a distance but whose genitals retract into stomach when they’re confronted. “Who me I didn’t say anything!” Shameful coward. Not to mention they’re disrupting a family -friendlyTerry Fox ceremony with their vulgarity. What a disgrace to Canada

This is the kind of “woke nonsense” that is truly objectionable, the other stuff is just a distraction. Even this I think people just roll their eyes and carry on.

The tampon directive was for the entire federal government it wasn’t targeted at the military specifically. And while it’s fair to question how far a government needs to go on transgender issues, it’s not that big of deal. A man saw a tampon, oh no..

DND Releases RFI for Canadian Patrol Submarine Project (CPSP) with Responses Due by November 18th The Royal Canadian Navy’s (RCN) four Victoria-class submarines are showing their age, although they are expected to remain in service well into the 2030s. Mindful that the Canadian procurement process is typically a long and arduous process, the Department of National Defence (DND) has created the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project (CPSP) to look into replacements for the existing sub fleet. It’s been reported that the RCN is readying itself for the purchase of up to 12 new submarines at a cost of $60 billion, according to National Defence and industry sources. When it comes to buying new subs under the CPSP, the RCN needs “at least eight” and possibly 12, said VAdm Topshee, during aninterview with CDR in 2023. “If you want to have a single line of tasking with a submarine in the Pacific, you need four boats based in Victoria,” he explained. “You want to guarantee the availability of a submarine to do anything you need it to do in the Atlantic, so you need four boats based in Halifax. [Then] if you also want to be able to do the Arctic, you better find a place to put [another] four boats between those two places.” On September 15th, Canada officially released an RFI to industry for the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project. Submission of Responses to the questions included in the Annexes to this RFI, by 18 November 2024. Possible contenders include: Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems-Canada – Offering the Type 212CD Navantia – Offering the S-80 Read our latest cover story on Navantia. Hanwha Ocean/HD Hyundai Heavy Industries – Offering the Ahn Changho-class Saab/Damen Shipyards – C-71 https://canadiandefencereview.com/dnd-releases-rfi-for-canadian-patrol-submarine-project-cpsp-with-responses-due-by-november-18th/