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Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, has Died at age 89:
Billionaire, philanthropist and former presidential candidate Ross Perot has died, CBS News has confirmed. He was 89.
Perot died in Texas, the state where he was born, surrounded by family.
[...] In 1992, Perot made a name for himself when he became the most successful non-major party presidential candidate in 80 years, amassing 19 percent of the popular vote, running against President George H.W. Bush and Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton.
As a boy in Texarkana, Texas, Perot delivered newspapers from the back of a pony. He earned his billions in a more modern way, however — by building Electronic Data Systems Corp., which helped other companies manage their computer networks.
Yet the most famous event in his career didn't involve sales and earnings; he financed a private commando raid in 1979 to free two EDS employees who were being held in a prison in Iran. The tale was turned into a book and a movie.
Perot first became known to Americans outside of business circles by claiming that the U.S. government left behind hundreds of American soldiers who were missing or imprisoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Perot fanned the issue at home and discussed it privately with Vietnamese officials in the 1980s, angering the Reagan administration, which was formally negotiating with Vietnam's government.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ikanreed on Tuesday July 09 2019, @08:45PM (1 child)
Here's a thing that I do wish some of my erstwhile allies would internalize. The Russia media manipulation is a secondary side effect of a right wing media machine that already had a long history of occasionally creating, and more often amplifying, outright lies both for clicks and for ideological reasons, and a mainstream media that would run with any story that got enough traction and only slightly less credulity than your facebook aunt.
Russia may have leveraged that phenomenon, but the underlying problem is an engine of credulity. And trying to externalize the blame for our broken media system ignores that anyone with modest resources and a will to deceive can and do do the same. Not just geopolitical rival nations.
Russia should be a "Look at where our interactions with online misinformation have left us. Vulnerable to foreign manipulation." warning. Not a generic boogeyman to blame for misinformation existing in the first place. Sure, the Seth Rich shit is a lie, but it's a lie that could just as easily have originated at truepatriotblog.us as totally-a-real-news-site.mk.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @09:52PM
This is the source of your info: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Sorcha_Faal [rationalwiki.org]
What a hilarious troll of the fake news and their believers.