Posted on 05/26/2019 2:44:44 AM PDT by Olog-hai
New players are exploiting internet lawlessness to disrupt democracy at this week’s European elections, says a new report that points a finger at far-right populists and cyber militias.
With the vote running from May 23-26, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) investigated the role of covert digital propaganda in Britain, France, Germany, Italy Spain and Poland.
“New actors are taking advantage of the lawlessness of the internet, often aligned with hostile states such as Russia, as well as American special interests, but also creating their own, pan-European campaigns,” said the report released Friday.
Populist parties, far-right cyber militias and religious groups are “adapting the tactics more notoriously used by states”, the London-based think tank said.
Covert Kremlin campaigns in the 2016 US election may have inspired European actors who “have taken some pages out of the (President Vladimir) Putin playbook and are using deceptive and automated Twitter accounts to boost their causes and attack their opponents.” […]
But European officials told AFP this week there had not yet been any disruptive activity to justify a pan-European alert, and no indications of a flood of fake news or disinformation. …
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Are globalists trying to make excuses for their anticipated losses...and planning to set up a coup?
Looks like the deep state is setting up the narrative that its winning is inexorable and anything less is vote tampering.
Fixed it.
Expect to see this @ullshit claim everytime the globalists take a hit. They just can’t accept the fact that they are not worshipped by everyone
Yes, it looks like they are going to void the elections if it doesn’t turn out the way they want it to.
Funny, I thought this was going to be a story on Articles 11 and 13.
Go figure.
Translation: despite censorship efforts, the truth about mass Islamic immigration is getting out there, Europeans are realizing that the official media have been lying to them, and they are starting to reject the globalist agenda.
EU election results should start being reported around noon, Eastern time.
ding-ding-ding ... we have a winner!!
Centralization of credit in the hands of the state by means of a national bank with state credit and an exclusive monopoly.That of course is the fifth plank of communism. And why does the EU have a separate “court of auditors”? Sounds like yet another unaccountable politburo to me.
National Parliaments contribute actively to the good functioning of the Union:Now imagine the US Constitution making similar demands upon the states? There is a reason why we have the Tenth Amendment. The Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union makes it plain that all of the policies that make a state sovereign are stripped away from any member state of the EU (save one).
- through being informed by the institutions of the Union and having draft legislative acts of the Union forwarded to them in accordance with the Protocol on the role of national Parliaments in the European Union;
- by seeing to it that the principle of subsidiarity is respected in accordance with the procedures provided for in the Protocol on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality;
- by taking part, within the framework of the area of freedom, security and justice, in the evaluation mechanisms for the implementation of the Union policies in that area, in accordance with Article 70 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and through being involved in the political monitoring of Europol and the evaluation of Eurojust's activities in accordance with Articles 88 and 85 of that Treaty
- by taking part in the revision procedures of the Treaties, in accordance with Article 48 of this Treaty;
- by being notified of applications for accession to the Union, in accordance with Article 49 of this Treaty;
- by taking part in the inter-parliamentary cooperation between national Parliaments and with the European Parliament, in accordance with the Protocol on the role of national Parliaments in the European Union.
I will never understand, especially after the passage of those articles, why in Hades the UK didn’t leave a vapour trail Brexiting.
Well, look at Ireland and their protestations of “independence” vis-à-vis the United Kingdom, but yet they are mostly subservient to the EU and its draconian social and economic rules, even where they gleefully vote for stuff like homosexual marriage and abortion against their (presumed) long-standing national character. Too many still want to believe the big lie, until it affects them to the point where their lives depend on it.
As for the UK itself, Theresa May was a Remainer, as was David Cameron who promised the referendum on voting to leave the UK in the first place (I hate that EU-conceived term “Brexit”). May was put in there to ensure the UK was in as weak of a position as possible. Instead of going with Article 50 (so many parts of the EU treaties are a disaster, so why trust this part?), the proper route should have been invoking “clausula rebus sic stantibus” due to not only the nature of the EU treaties but the actions of the EU government with respect to them.
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