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'Revolution' in Russia? How The Economist Messed Up Fact-Checking in Article on Moscow Rallies

Zara Muradyan
Sputnik
Sun, 18 Aug 2019 16:42 UTC
The Economist:

The Economist: "Protests in Moscow show that Putin’s critics are getting stronger"
The British magazine has published an article about pro-opposition rallies in Moscow that kicked off six weeks ago, citing a young woman who said at a forum in "southern Russia this weekend" that the only solution to corruption and inequality is revolution. However, the youth event that The Economist wrote about took place three years ago.

In an article titled "Protests in Moscow show that Putin's critics are getting stronger", The Economist quoted a young Russian woman who said at "a state-organised forum in southern Russia" the past weekend, "We have only one solution - revolution. We are like an explosive cocktail. We are ready to go off".

The article was published on 15 August as thousands of people were preparing to take to the streets in Moscow for a sixth consecutive week to join an authorised rally staged by opposition political figures who failed to register as candidates for the upcoming local parliamentary elections.

The newspaper wrote that participants of the forum, including members of the youth wing of the governing United Russia party, voiced grievances over inequality and corruption.

The protests in the capital, The Economist assumed, would set off a chain reaction throughout the country, which poses a real "danger" to President Vladimir Putin.


Comment: That's what such rags and spies are banking on. And if they can influence things in that direction by posting fake news, they'll do that too.

More on the Moscow protests:
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War Whore

Pentagon to name new command center after Curtis 'Bombs Away' LeMay

Bill Gertz
The Washington Free Beacon
Fri, 16 Aug 2019 16:39 UTC
Offutt Air Force Base
© Reuters / U.S. Air Force/ Delanie Stafford
Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska
The U.S. Strategic Command, in charge of waging nuclear war, has a new command and control facility in Omaha that will bear the name of a famous warfighting Air Force general.

The top-secret Nuclear Command and Control Facility at Offutt Air Force Base will be named after the late Gen. Curtis LeMay and is one of the most secure buildings in the world, hardened against electromagnetic pulse attacks and wired with high-technology fiber optic communications lines.

The 900,000 square-foot facility is in the final stages of construction and will replace an aging 1950s-era command center 250 yards down the road.
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Bullseye

American and British naval presence in Gulf brings insecurity - Iranian commander


RT
Sun, 18 Aug 2019 21:44 UTC
marines
© U.S. Navy / Reuters / Adam Dublinske
American and British military posturing in the Persian Gulf undermines regional security, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's navy said. His warning comes as Gibraltar releases an Iranian tanker seized there by the UK.

"The presence of America and England in this region means insecurity," Alireza Tangsiri cautioned on Sunday, according to Iranian media. He also suggested that Iran could form a coalition with neighboring states to guarantee security in the Gulf.

Tangsiri's remarks coincide with Gibraltar's decision to release 'Grace 1,' an Iranian oil tanker that was boarded and seized by British Royal Marines there last month. Washington has ordered that the vessel -now renamed to 'Adrian Darya'- be recaptured once it leaves Gibraltar, accusing the ship of transporting oil to Syria to support the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
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Kashmir is "nuclear flashpoint" says Pakistan army after India's 'no first use' remark


Latestly
Sun, 18 Aug 2019 15:32 UTC
pakistan india
© PTI
A day after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that India's commitment to a 'No First Use' nuclear policy is subject to future circumstances, Pakistan army described the Kashmir issue as "nuclear flashpoint". Pakistan's Inter-Services Public Relations Director General Major General Asif Ghafoor on Saturday said: "Kashmir is definitely a nuclear flashpoint."

Ghafoor further said that the Pakistani armed forces are fully prepared to repulse any form of Indian aggression. "Kashmir dispute is a fight to be fought for long," he said. Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi termed Rajnath Singh's statement on "No First Use" nuclear policy as a "damning reminder of India's unbridled thirst for violence".

Comment: For insight into the situation in Kashmir, see:

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Propaganda

"Fake news": Huawei Vice President denies WSJ smear that it helped African governments spy on political opponents


RT
Sun, 18 Aug 2019 12:13 UTC
Andrew Williamson

Andrew Williamson
Huawei has never engaged in hacking activities, the company's vice president of strategy, Andrew Williamson, told RT after a report claimed its technicians helped African governments to snoop on political opponents.

RT America's Sara Montes de Oca spoke with Williamson after traveling to the telecommunication giant's headquarters in Shenzhen, China.

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that governments in Uganda and Zambia had allegedly enlisted Huawei's help to spy on dissenting voices, including tapping into opposition politicians' conversations, cracking encrypted communications, and conducting surveillance.

Comment: It's clear from Huawei's continuing growth on the world stage that US attempts to smear the company just aren't working:

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Snakes in Suits

US Navy expert wants to overhaul 'Slav' navies for NATO schemes against Russia


RT
Thu, 15 Aug 2019 23:04 UTC
NATO navy
© Flickr/US Navy/Specialist 2nd Class Mark Andrew Hays
Ships from nine NATO countries sail during BALTOPS 2019 exercise in the Baltic Sea, June 2019
NATO's Eastern European member states have terrible navies that suffer from "legacy concepts" and equipment and can't do much against Russia, a prominent professor lamented, asking the US Navy to do something about it.

Though the Adriatic Sea is a "NATO lake" and the alliance's expansion in the Baltics and the Black Sea has brought it to Russia's doorstep, the navies acquired along the way are pretty much useless, argued Thomas-Durell Young, a lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

Young's article, titled 'NATO's selective naval blindness' and published in the most recent issue of the Naval War College Review, makes the case that the situation is "both serious and desperate," and that the navies of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Albania and Montenegro all suffer from not just old ships but "legacy concepts" when it comes to sea power.


Comment: That's a lot of countries the lecturer is hoping to use in NATO's demented aggression towards Russia.


Comment: See also:

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Iraq has closed its airspace even to US coalition flights after suspected Israeli raid

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sat, 17 Aug 2019 21:11 UTC
iraq bombing
© Associated Press
The blast in southwest Baghdad, August 12, 2019
In what is a severely under reported but perhaps the most alarming development out of the Middle East this week, Iraq's government has said it's ready to down any aircraft violating its airspace amid a blanket ban on 'unauthorized' flights not specifically approved by the prime minister's office. Military Times reported the day after Iraq closed its airspace on Thursday:
U.S. military officials in Iraq will now seek out Iraqi approval before launching any air operations, a move made a day after that nation's prime minister announced a ban of unauthorized flights, including those involving coalition forces fighting ISIS.

Comment: Israel is taking increasingly desperate measures to get the US-Iran war going.

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Vader

Just who is behind Hong Kong 'protests'?

Wei Xinyan and Zhong Weiping
The China Daily
Sat, 17 Aug 2019 17:21 UTC
It's not hard to imagine the United States' reaction if Chinese diplomats met leaders of Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter or Never Trump protesters.

On Aug 6, Hong Kong media reported two meetings between a US political counselor and separatist leaders. Julie Eadeh, who works at the US Consulate General in Hong Kong, was caught on camera meeting with opposition figures Martin Lee and Anson Chan.
hong kong protests us meddling ngos
© China Daily
Julie Eadeh,political unit chief of US Consulate General, meets with opposition figures Martin Lee and Anson Chan
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Propaganda

New York Times admits 'we built our newsroom' around #Russiagate and other lies

John Nolte
Breitbart News
Fri, 16 Aug 2019 18:09 UTC
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© Monica Schipper/Getty, Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty
New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet
New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet accidentally admitted to the whole wide world that for two years his far-left newspaper was "built" around spreading a hoax.

When I say "accidentally," what I mean is that he likely didn't know he was being secretly recorded and that his remarks would be made public.

He also admitted the Times' staff is loaded with left-wingers "who cheer us when we take on Donald Trump, but they jeer at us when we take on Joe Biden."

Yeah, there's a real shocker.
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Whistle

Media remains dead silent as Wikileaks insider explodes myths around Julian Assange

Greg Bean
MW
Fri, 16 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC
Julian Assange
© WLArtForce
Julian Assange
It is the journalists from The Guardian and New York Times who should be in jail, not Julian Assange, said Mark Davis last week. The veteran Australian investigative journalist, who has been intimately involved in the Wikileaks drama, has turned the Assange narrative on its head. The smears are falling away. The mainstream media, which has so ruthlessly made Julian Assange a scapegoat, is silent in response.

Greg Bean likens the revolutionary work of Julian Assange to that of Johannes Gutenberg who invented the printing press. Government reaction, 580 years later, is similarly savage.

Five hundred and eighty years ago, Johannes Gutenberg introduced the printing press to the world. That single act created a free press which gave birth to the concept of freedom of speech. The two are inextricably linked; printing is a form of speech.

Gutenberg's invention started the Printing Revolution, a milestone of the 2nd millennium that initiated the modern period of human history including the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Age of Enlightenment, and the Scientific Revolution, and began the knowledge-based economy that spread learning to the masses.

Such mass communication permanently altered the structure of society. Removing control of information from the hands of the powerful and delivering it into the hands of the disempowered.

Comment: For more on the referenced Mark Davis article above, see also:
The 'set up' of Julian Assange and why The Guardian and New York Times should be in jail

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