(Words fail): Russian spies posing as ISIS threaten to kill military wives' families, evidence shows

For a change I don’t know what to say. Except maybe we've crawled so far down the rabbit’s hole I wonder if we can ever find our way out again.

Russian spies posing as ISIS threaten to kill military wives' families, evidence shows

8:22 AM EDT WORLD
AP

PARIS -- Army wife Angela Ricketts was soaking in a bubble bath in her Colorado home, leafing through a memoir, when a message appeared on her iPhone from hackers threatening to slaughter her family. "Dear Angela!" the Facebook message read. "Bloody Valentine's Day!"

"We know everything about you, your husband and your children," the message continued, claiming that the hackers operating under the flag of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants had penetrated her computer and her phone. "We're much closer than you can even imagine."

Ricketts was one of five military wives who received death threats from the self-styled CyberCaliphate on the morning of Feb. 10, 2015. The warnings led to days of anguished media coverage of Islamic State militants' online reach.

Except it wasn't ISIS.

The Associated Press has found evidence that the women were targeted not by jihadists but by the same Russian hacking group that intervened in the American election and exposed the emails of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/us-military-wives-threatened-by-russian...

For the record, I don’t think the ‘RUSSIANS!’ Are this stupid. A lone Russian feeding into this country's dysfunctional mindset and current the current propaganda maybe some guy in front of a computer laughing and stirring up some more trouble just for sport.. The RUSSIANS! that really count? Not at all. They’re probably as cynically ‘amused’ as we here are.

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snoopydawg's picture

Of course people are going to believe that. Why? Because they have believed everything else even after it's been proven false.

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To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

- Kevin Alfred Strom

Or this Russian hacking group has nothing to do with the Kremlin

One or the other

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TheOtherMaven's picture

up the rabbit's arse....

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.

Steven D's picture

Aren't they.

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"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott

Russiagate is 24/7 in the elite media and cable news, but not much thought about by regular people. To normal people basics of living are taking up their attention. Can anybody actually track the names, indictments, accusations of this continuing hysteria?

What is needed is a false flag that will jar Americans into paying attention the same way 9-11 did. The false flag will have to be enough to effect daily life of many Americans. Of course, expect war as a result.

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@MrWebster

What is needed is a false flag that will jar Americans into paying attention the same way 9-11 did. The false flag will have to be enough to effect daily life of many Americans. Of course, expect war as a result.

This is what I'm afraid of.

We know they have done it before, as well as reframing or inflating actual attacks or events, to rally the people behind a war.

If they feel that it's the only way to remain in control they'd eagerly kill half of us off.

After all, it's much better to rule half the people than none no matter what the cost...

The psychopaths that be (running shit) are out of control and I fear that we are either approaching the point, or already past it, where the only thing that will effect change is the literal, not figurative, rolling of heads.

The corrupt permanent state may be too deeply embedded and may need to be excised like the cancer eating at the public body.

Will the surgery be painful and involve blood and a long recovery?

Absolutely, but it may be the only way to save this terminal patient.

This nation is suffering from cancer, the only question is what treatment are we willing to endure to save it?

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"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me

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@MrWebster

We should start a pool on the next false flag.

Which country will be targeted

When will it happen

Who does it

What's the reason for it

I've been thinking that one is going to happen during the World Cup which is coming up in June.

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CB's picture

Here's an article from The Duran.

Willing Slaves

Willing believers in lies are willing slaves, because lies are coercion of the mind, as opposed to coercion of the body (slavery by physical violence instead of by mental violence, which is called “lies”); and anyone who willingly complies with any type of coercion when escape from that coercion is available (and this is precisely the situation when the lie has been disproven and exposed and when the truth has already been clearly demonstrated) is a willing slave, of the mental type — a mental slave, instead of a physical slave; and a willing slave, to-boot, a participant in his or her own suckerdom.
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...Ultimately, to be a willing slave to lies, is to apply a different standard than truth/falsity. Apparently, many people do apply such false standards. Perhaps that’s why the U.S. and its allies are free to invade and destroy nations ad nauseum — nations, moreover, which had posed no threat to the attackers.

Willing slaves to lies, endanger far more people than merely themselves. Without a believing audience, the liars would be powerless.

During my years at DKos, I watched this very dynamic at play. As time went by, Obama's actions put the lie to his rhetoric but many refused to see it and still don't to this very day despite copious evidence. Hillary and her sycophants thought she could ride the Bamboozler's coattails to victory. But it was not to be. After eight years, Obama's bamboozle had become visible to many of the voters and she got a well deserved kick in the ass. Unfortunately, many cannot bring themselves to acknowledge they were bamboozled and continue to cling to the lies even to the point of constructing more lies in their rationalizations. They have become mental slaves to the lies, bound even tighter than physical chains.

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@CB Describe exactly the dynamic at dailykos. Kaine and Hillary were redefined as "progressives". Reminds me of what John Pliger once noted:

During the Cold War, a group of Russian journalists toured the United States. On the final day of their visit, they were asked by their hosts for their impressions. 'I have to tell you,' said their spokesman, 'that we were astonished to find after reading all the newspapers and watching TV, that all the opinions on all the vital issues were by and large, the same. To get that result in our country, we imprison people, we tear out their fingernails. Here, you don't have that. What's the secret? How do you do it?'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13629.htm

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