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U.S. propaganda 101 - You're either with US or you're a troll

Julie Lévesque
Global Research
Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:57 UTC
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Foreign Policy Magazine recently had a column called Cranks, Trolls, and Useful Idiots, in which the author, Dalibor Rohac, hunts down "Russia's information warriors" who, he claims, have infested the web with their lies and propaganda on websites potentially paid for by the Russian government.

Rohac writes:
"Throughout the conflict in eastern Ukraine, these sites have systematically regurgitated Russian propaganda, spreading lies, half-truths, and conspiracy theories, often directly translated from Russian sources...

The Czech weekly Respekt published a feature article about the mysterious "news" site Aeronet (also known as AENews). Started in 2001 by aviation fans, the domain has changed ownership several times. Since the summer of 2014 it has regularly published articles accusing the new Ukrainian government of fascism and claiming that American and British mercenaries were fighting in eastern Ukraine. (Dalibor Rohac, Cranks, Trolls, and Useful Idiots, Foreign Policy, March 12, 2015)
First let's look at the weakness of the claims in the article.

The author accuses news outlets of doing exactly what he himself and the U.S. mainstream media in general does when reporting about foreign policy issues such as Ukraine: they "systematically [regurgitate U.S. propaganda, spread] lies, half-truths, and conspiracy theories." The advantage they have is that they don't need to translate anything. Apparently for Rohac an article written in Russian has to be Russian propaganda. It's that simple: Russians are just not producing any honest journalistic content. This argument about texts being "directly translated from Russian sources" is not only weak, it is xenophobic.
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Bill 2451: Poroshenko speaks in favor of internment camps for 'Anti-Ukrainians'

Marc Hopf
Russia Insider
Sun, 12 Apr 2015 13:40 UTC
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Return to the good old days?
The article originally appeared at RT Deutsch. Translated for RI by Kristina Aleshnikova

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has spoken in parliament (Verkhovna Rada) in favor of Bill 2451 "On the Legal Regime of Martial Law." This paves the way for comprehensive curfews as well as the construction of internment camps for "citizens whose native country threatens or is already actively participating in aggression against Ukraine."

The Ukrainian head of state submitted the document regarding an update to the legal regulation of martial law to parliament on April 3.

The draft, faithful to the Western orientation of its responsible legislative body, stipulates, among other things, the establishment of internment camps for those "citizens" living in Ukraine whose country of origin threatens or is already actively participating in "aggression against Ukraine."

Comment: Bearing witness to Ukraine's rapid descent into barbaric Nazism is absolutely frightening. Another Holocaust is pending.

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Russia prepares new humanitarian convoy for Donbas region


Sputnik
Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:48 UTC
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The Russian emergencies ministry is preparing a new humanitarian aid convoy for the east Ukrainian Donbas region, the ministry said in a statement Monday.

"Russia's Emergencies Ministry has started forming the 24th humanitarian aid convoy for residents of Donbas. This morning, 23 vehicles left Noginsky rescue center of Russia's Emergencies Ministry for Kovalevka village in the Rostov region carrying humanitarian aid to the residents of Donetsk and Luhansk regions," the statement said.

According to the ministry, more vehicles will join the convoy in the Rostov region before heading to Donbas.

Since August 2014, Russia has sent over 25,000 tons of humanitarian aid — mainly food products, medicine and construction materials — to the people in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, who have been suffering from a humanitarian crisis resulting from a military operation launched by Kiev authorities in Donbas in April, 2014.
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Hackers target Belgian press group, days after French cyber attack


Sputnik
Mon, 13 Apr 2015 08:10 UTC
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Unidentified hackers attacked the website of Le Soir, a French language Belgian newspaper, the director general of the daily said.

"Le Soir fell victim of a cyberattack," Didier Hamann said on his Twitter account Sunday.

According to Hamann, there is no immediate evidence that the incident is linked to the recent massive cyberattack against the French TV channel TV5Monde so far.

On Wednesday night, 11 channels, a website and social media accounts of TV5 Monde network were knocked out.

The hackers posted a statement on the TV5 Monde's Facebook page, saying that French President Francois Hollande had made a mistake in supporting the US-led international coalition carrying out airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq and Syria.

Both France and Belgium are members of the US-led operation. In February, Belgium pledged to send about 35 servicemen to Iraq to help train its army in the fight against the IS.
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Boat

Shock! Sweden confirms mystery 'Russian sub'...was in fact a workboat


RT
Mon, 13 Apr 2015 05:00 UTC
Swedish corvette HMS Visby
© Reuters / Marko SavalaARCHIVE PHOTO: Swedish corvette HMS Visby patrols the Stockholm Archipelago October 19 2014, searching for what the military says is a foreign threat in the waters
The unknown foreign vessel the Swedish Navy searched for near Stockholm last autumn was actually a "workboat," a senior navy official says. Local media had alleged a hunt was on to try and find a Russian submarine, which was believed to be in the area.

Swedish Rear Admiral Anders Grenstad told the Swedish TT news agency on Saturday that what was thought to be a vessel or a foreign submarine was actually just a "workboat."

The Swedish Navy changed the wording from "probable submarine" to "non-submarine" when referring to the reconnaissance mission connected to the unidentified vessel spotted in the Stockholm archipelago.

The massive hunt was used by the Swedish Defense Ministry to justify a six billion kronor ($696 million) hike in defense spending between 2016 and 2020.

The drama started after an amateur photograph of an alleged underwater vessel of unidentified origin was sent to the ministry. The man who took the photo raised the alarm because he thought he saw the object surface and disappear again.

Sweden undertook an intense one-week search in late October, looking for possible "foreign underwater activity" near Stockholm. During the operation, the Swedish Navy reportedly used over 200 troops, helicopters, stealth ships and minesweepers to search the waters of the Baltic Sea.

Comment: See: "Russian" Sub in Sweden - Hysteria Deliberately Spread by Western Media - 'Cold War' Redux

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Bad Guys

US, Britain, France and Jordan refuse to name ISIL as separate terror group

FNR/AS/MHB
PressTV
Fri, 10 Apr 2015 23:32 UTC
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© file photoISIL Takfiri terrorist in Syria.
Russia says the United States, Britain, France, and Jordan have rejected Syria's proposal to add ISIL to the United Nations Security Council's sanctions list as a separate terrorist group.

"In the UN Security Council's Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee, the United States, Britain, France, and Jordan have blocked Syria's request supported by Russia to include the Islamic State (ISIL) terrorist group in the sanctions list as a separate group," read the statement issued by the Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday.

According to reports, ISIL Takfiri terrorist group is currently mentioned as al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI) in the UN's sanctions list.

Comment: Clearly they aren't terrorists unless the US says they are therefore ISIL can carry on.

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Cranking the war machine: U.S. to develop 6th-generation jet fighters to outrun Russia and China


Sputnik
Sun, 12 Apr 2015 20:28 UTC
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The US Air Force and Navy plan to pursue the development and acquisition of sixth-generation F/A-XX fighters; they consider the fleet of existing jets incapable of handling their Russian and Chinese fifth-generation counterparts, something which they feel constitutes a real threat to national security.

The Chinese Chengdu J-20 and the Russian Sukhoi T-50 PAK-FA are becoming a real threat to the US Air Force and Navy, according to The National Interest, an international affairs magazine.

"When you see these next-generation fighters, the PAK-FA out of Russia and the J-20 out of China, and some of their new missile technology, our advantage is dwindling," the magazine quotes one senior industry official as saying, without disclosing his name.

Neither of the two jets currently in service with the US Air Force and Navy, the Lockheed Martin F-35C Joint Strike Fighter and the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, can adequately handle new threats like the Chinese Chengdu J-20 or the Russian Sukhoi T-50 PAK-FA, the magazine cites "some industry insiders with deep knowledge of both jets" as saying.
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Cult

Those who collaborate with the Empire

Andre Vltchek
Counterpunch
Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:00 UTC
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Traitors from developing countries unite!

It is much easier to rule over those people who have lost all their dignity.

There is no reason to fear resistance where cynical consumerism, lack of knowledge, and constant anxiety are shaping the behavioral patterns of a nation; of most of its citizens.

The West made an art form out of controlling the world. Its once rough and simple 'divide and rule' tactics have reached, with time, great virtuosity. What Richter, Rostropovich or Argerich did for the art of Western classical music, people like Brzezinski, Kissinger and Negroponte matched with their brilliance in the art of destruction and terror.

In today's world, everything is upside down. Brothers fear brothers, guerilla fighters are made to spy on each other, and heroes who are fighting for the survival of the planet are labeled by Western regime as demagogues, strongmen or even terrorists.

The Empire successfully mobilized the most regressive elements in each society that it controls. It upheld religions, archaic family compositions and feudalist power structures in order to make rebellion almost impossible.

Comment: Vltchek does a spot-on job of explaining a rather large part of the global psychopathic contagion in political, social, and economic terms. The Elites who facilitate the aims and processes of Empire are in for a rather nasty ride, however. Among many, their gaping maw of greed, oppression and destruction has become more obvious than ever. And when their dam truly breaks, it will be broken Irrevocably.

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Snakes in Suits

Hillary Clinton: What to know about her recent controversies, scandals


RT
Fri, 10 Apr 2015 23:01 UTC
Hillary Clinton
© Reuters / Eduardo Munoz

Hillary Clinton, a former US secretary of state (and senator, and First Lady), will (has) reportedly announce her 2016 presidential run Sunday via social media. Expect these recent Clinton scandals to surface again (and again) for the duration of her candidacy.

State Department emails

The latest Clinton controversy stems from her use of a private email account and server -- which was found to be insecure for at least three months -- to conduct official business as US secretary of state. Clinton has said she used her private email account -- just as past secretaries of state have done -- as a matter of convenience.


Comment: Yup, this is the kind of person that will probably be chosen to lead the Democrats. Since she takes orders from the Council on Foreign Relations, she will be a shoo-in.



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Russia SITREP: Rising rubles, Western 'values', and Nazi confusion

Patrick Armstrong
Russia: Other Points of View
Fri, 10 Apr 2015 22:30 UTC
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WESTERN VALUES™. We're sure learning the difference between reality and rhetoric, aren't we? Constitutional order: Yanukovich leaves town and loses his position, Yemen president leaves town, keeps his. "I'm not going to draw parallels here" says Harf as she proceeds to. Freedom of speech: pianist cancelled because of her tweets or, as they might say, "Charlie? Qui est-il?".

AN ESSENTIAL READ. I highly recommend Vladimir Golstein's essay "Politics, Bullshit, and Ukraine". Putin & Co are telling the truth or lying; but in either case they believe there is a factual reality to be addressed. The other side is simply bullshitting: reality is whatever they say it is (vide Harf above). BS engenders conspiracy theories: obviously last year's coup was not about improving the life of Ukrainians so it must be about something else (my entries here). But read the whole essay, it's very illuminating.

THE RUBLE. Remember when it was on its way to complete destruction? Well it's now the best performing currency of the year. The Russian economy is stabilising. Predicting is tough - what you want to see often gets in the way.
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