Comments on: When investigating Trump, Look Both Ways https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/12/26/investigating-trump-look-ways/ Wed, 27 Dec 2017 21:03:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/12/26/investigating-trump-look-ways/#comment-560051 Wed, 27 Dec 2017 21:03:04 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=28611#comment-560051 I do get worried when the documentation for various pieces of hardware, firmware, and software, for IOT devices, when you dig deep because you can’t find an answer in the obvious places to some technical question, are written in a combination of English, Turkish and Russian with a thin veneer of Chinese .

]]> By: Bernard J. https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/12/26/investigating-trump-look-ways/#comment-559944 Wed, 27 Dec 2017 02:30:53 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=28611#comment-559944 If we’re going to catalog a history of Russian interference, it would be worth remembering the hack of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. That episode was a major impetus for denialist propaganda that successfully resulted in a decade of delay on mitigating carbon emissions.

This is a significant component in the overall Russian/Putin shaping of the 21st century, and we ignore it at our peril when trying to understand how best to move forward.

]]> By: Douglas C Alder https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/12/26/investigating-trump-look-ways/#comment-559935 Wed, 27 Dec 2017 00:14:23 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=28611#comment-559935 Or that the Russians via a French tech firm may very well have infiltrated the FBI

https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrishamby/fbi-software-contains-russian-made-code-that-could-open-a

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/12/26/investigating-trump-look-ways/#comment-559929 Tue, 26 Dec 2017 22:31:18 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=28611#comment-559929 In reply to Obstreperous Applesauce.

Indeed.

]]> By: Obstreperous Applesauce https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/12/26/investigating-trump-look-ways/#comment-559919 Tue, 26 Dec 2017 20:47:36 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=28611#comment-559919 Not to mention Trump’s apprenticeship, steeped in political sliminess… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/12/26/investigating-trump-look-ways/#comment-559915 Tue, 26 Dec 2017 19:32:54 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=28611#comment-559915 In reply to SteveP.

Interesting question.

]]> By: SteveP https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/12/26/investigating-trump-look-ways/#comment-559911 Tue, 26 Dec 2017 18:53:17 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=28611#comment-559911 I wonder where Soviet born Orly Taitz figures into this. She touted her wacky birtherism from around 2008 or earlier. So why did she constantly attack Obama, and why did Trump pick up on the theme a few years later? Taitz has been a witting or unwitting messenger for some powerful non-US entity, possibly Russia or Israel, maybe both. Her constant barking of birther falsehoods numbed the senses and made it much harder to quickly and easily dismiss and sideline Trump as a completely idiotic eccentric crank when he came out as a birther. She helped allow his media persona to survive at a time when he should have been cast aside as nothing more than freak show entertainment. Now he is our president. Just as Russia and Israel wanted it. Strange.

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