Cambridge Analytica became a US powerhouse thanks Mercer's laundered money and a judas goat named John Bolton

[doctorow]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/03/24/war-criminal-judas-goat.html

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[HMSGoose]

Well, that explains the Bolton nat sec position. Dollars to donuts Trump knows nothing about selecting a security advisor, he just had deals to pay back. Huh. I guess he does pay back some contractors…

[lulzwithpurrmaids]

I went to read the full article, and that page has a facebook script on it… Thank goodness for script & ad blockers!

[bunkyboar]

Drain The Smamp.

[dommerdoodle]

Yikes, the “deep state” Bannon always talks about is even deeper on his side…

[Keith_McClary]

What is all this nonsense? Everybody knows Putin dun it.

[Boundegar]

Yea, but the building contractors generally don’t have access to the pee tapes.

[Wanderfound]

Potentially relevant:

Jane Mayer

https://dealbreaker.com/2017/03/robert-mercer-pumped-for-nuclear-annihilation/

onetime senior employee at Renaissance recalls hearing Mercer downplay the dangers posed by nuclear war. Mercer, speaking of the atomic bombs that the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, argued that, outside of the immediate blast zones, the radiation actually made Japanese citizens healthier. The National Academy of Sciences has found no evidence to support this notion. Nevertheless, according to the onetime employee, Mercer, who is a proponent of nuclear power, “was very excited about the idea, and felt that it meant nuclear accidents weren’t such a big deal.”

[dommerdoodle]

Mercer’s type of thinking that MAD has got it wrong, is extraordinarily dangerous. Perhaps someone should use some radiation on him to show him its not “healthy” for living things.
Christ, what an idiot.

[Wanderfound]

Interesting story in The Guardian:

Cambridge Analytica's ruthless bid to sway the vote in Nigeria

Christopher Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower who spoke to the Observer, called it “post-colonial blowback”.

“The west found a way of firehosing disinformation into weak and vulnerable democracies. And now this has been turned back on us. This really is about our chickens coming home to roost.”

[RickMycroft]

And there’s his science expert.

Arthur Robinson

[FGD135]

Oh, good. He can volunteer for the Fukushima cleanup crew.

[armozel]

Oh and the story is getting a bit bigger on the Thiel-front.

Peter Thiel's Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook data,...

It looks like my hunch was/is right. If there’s anyone that knows enough to connect the dots now outside of the whistleblower in question it’s Peter Thiel (since he probably was in on this scheme).

[RickMycroft]

At this rate, it’ll probably turn out that Palantir sold social-bot tech to the Russians for the trifecta.