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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI just finished watching "Active Measures," just released details the corruption of Trump, etc.
and his rise to the presidency ... and the Russian ties. It is incredibly well done and is really a must watch!
https://www.activemeasures.com/
I watched it on Roku via FandangoNOW - www.fandango.com best $2.99 I've ever spent. I think it was just released this past week.
You can also go directly to www.fandango.com and watch it.
I first heard of it on MSNBC last night. It's both incredible and scary - and exceptionally well documented!
"ACTIVE MEASURES chronicles the most successful espionage operation in Russian history, the American presidential election of 2016. Filmmaker Jack Bryan exposes a 30-year history of covert political warfare devised by Vladmir Putin to disrupt, and ultimately control world events. In the process, the filmmakers follow a trail of money, real estate, mob connections, and on the record confessions to expose an insidious plot that leads directly back to The White House. With democracy hanging in the balance, ACTIVE MEASURES is essential viewing. Unraveling the true depth and scope of "the Russia story" as we have come to know it, this film a jarring reminder that some conspiracies hide in plain sight."
imaginary girl
(861 posts)Saw it last night on Hulu. Think it's available on itunes, too.
EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)Icarus may be best movie of the year, all categories. So well done! Netflix.
And Brainwashing of My Dad is the Silver Spring or The Jungle of our time. Must. Watch. Amazon prime.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)hkp11
(275 posts)Just watched The Brainwashing of My Dad on Prime. Very eye opening on how ppl get brainwashed with right-wing media and how right-wing media got a foot hold on radio and FOX.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)to show how serious it was without scaring people so much they felt hopeless and gave up. How does this movie do on that ?
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)but rather they are being exposed.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)situation is hopeless .
Thekaspervote
(32,773 posts)RKP5637
(67,111 posts)progree
(10,908 posts)oasis
(49,389 posts)mopinko
(70,120 posts)not that much new, but the history of it all was a kick in the head.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)one historical package. I was looking at the credits. An enormous number of people and sources pulled it together.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)RKP5637
(67,111 posts)Some said it's already now on Hulu and iTunes.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Excellent and very frightening.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)see this and walk away saying it's all fake and not of concern. tRump will and so will I bet many deplorables. A good many deplorables are too stupid to get what's going on and frankly a good many of them are IMO traitors.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)One of the many things that stood out is why Putin did NOT want Hillary to be the President. She's been on to him for a long time.
MariaCSR
(642 posts)Were all the assasinations. Shit was straight out of a spy movie.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)taking over a country. This is similar but no bombs and all ... and a lot worse!!! Extremely sinister and dangerous.
VOX
(22,976 posts)How Jack Bryan parlayed rich-kid know-how into Active Measures, the very first feature-length doc about Trump and Russia
Vanity Fair / by TOM ROSTON
MAY 1, 2018
Jack Bryan was your average Upper East Side-raised son of a millionaire trying to get his filmmaking career started when Donald Trump began persistently popping up in his life. In New York Citys social circuit, Bryans father, Shelby Bryana telecom mogul and Democratic donorwas friendly enough with Trump, perhaps because both are relative outsiders (Bryan being from Texas, and Trump being Trump). On vacation in Palm Beach in 2008, the Bryan family was immersed in the scuttlebutt about how a then financially strapped Trump had curiously managed to sell a Palm Beach estate hed bought for $41 million to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95 million. Around 2012, Shelby Bryan shared a car to the U.S. Open with the real-estate tycoon, after which he told his son, That guy sure does like Russia. The elder Bryan (who is also the longtime partner of Condé Nasts artistic director, Anna Wintour) also brought his sons, Jack and Austin, on a golfing trip to the United Kingdom, where Trump gave them early access to his Trump International Golf Links course in Scotland and chatted with them after their game.
To Jack, Trump registered as a harmless clown who would appear in the tabloids. But as Trumps political ambitions solidified, the younger Bryan began to take notice. A self-described pragmatic lefty, he had often texted with his friend and fellow politics junkie Marley Clements about world affairs. When Clements proposed that Russians may have been involved in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee during the summer of 2016, Bryan expressed skeptical interest.
Then, in March 2017, former F.B.I. agent Clint Watts testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that Trump himself had engaged in active measuresa term that describes the Russian propaganda tactic of using disinformation and manipulation of events to promote its foreign policy. Thats when Bryan said to Clements, Somebody needs to make a film about this.
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Roland99
(53,342 posts)Remember that one? Uncovering the PNACers?
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Just like Twitlers tweets mimics F&F stories each morning
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Were rightfully deemed to be nasty partisan politics. There was no "there" there. Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars dumped into veritable partisan witch hunts. No wonder they shift so seamlessly into projecting such motivations on Democrats meaning to do the same against Trump and the Republican party.
Well, it ain't so. Sure, it's partisan in that it is basically confined to criminal acts perpetrated by Republicans in illegally co-oping Russians in laundering money, affecting election results, and all the other nefarious actions for which we are all still working in the dark. But it isn't partisan. It just isn't. My anger and frustration with many conservatives is that they have a huge blind spot when it comes to the sanctity of their own politicians. They're lazy. They believe that this is politics at play, not espionage, not treachery, not treason.
I wish for a moment politics would just disappear. I wish everyone could make sound, logical, objective determinations based on the facts, because our country has been compromised, our Constitution desecrated, but the partisans are blinded to it by the wool their politicians and media are pulling over their eyes.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)kentuck
(111,102 posts)I watched it this morning. It makes a very complex conspiracy easier to understand.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)connecting it all together. I have to admit, I was starting to get a bit lost with it all, but this cleared it up ... did a wonderful job.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)2-3 times a week on tv for all to see and understand what we have in the White House now, a puppet of putin's.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)voters.