This may be valuable for Justplain to see. :heart:
https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/28418
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https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/28418
https://tass.com/politics/1518241
Putin signs decree to give mobilization deferments to some groups of people
It is noted that a deferment also is granted to students of educational and research organizations on post-graduate programs for scientific and scientific-pedagogical professionals
MOSCOW, October 5. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said he had signed a decree to grant deferments from the partial military mobilization for some additional groups of people, including students that study on campus or have a mixed on-campus and off-campus schedule.
"Educational and research institutions that have government accreditation, programs of high and higher education, including internship programs and probation assistantship programs. When I say ‘have government accreditation’ that includes private educational institutions," the president said as he met with the finalists of the nationwide Teacher of the Year contest via video link.
A deferment also is granted to students of "educational and research organizations on post-graduate programs for scientific and scientific-pedagogical professionals, organizations engaged in educational activities under educational programs of secondary vocational and higher education, including post-graduate programs for scientific and scientific-pedagogical professionals, internship programs and probation assistantship programs located in the territories of innovative scientific and technological centers and institutions of spiritual education," Putin said.
https://tass.com/politics/1518239
Kadyrov announces promotion to Colonel General
Vladimir Putin also relayed congratulations with the Day of the city of Grozny, Teacher’s Day and the Day of the Chechen Youth
GROZNY, October 5. /TASS/. Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin has promoted him to the rank of Colonel General.
"I would like to share one more pleasant piece of news with you. The President of Russia awarded me with the rank of Colonel General. The decree number is 709. Vladimir Vladimirovich informed me and congratulated me personally," Kadyrov said on his Telegram channel Wednesday.
Putin also relayed congratulations with the Day of the city of Grozny, Teacher’s Day and the Day of the Chechen Youth.
"The head of state called me and asked to wish all the people of Chechnya welfare, luck and success in his name! Despite his workload, the commander-in-chief never forgets about important dates in our region," Kadyrov said.
The head of Chechnya noted that there will be no entertainment events due to the special military operation. Artists and art collectives will perform spiritual and patriotic songs, will praise heroes and will tell about feats of the defenders of the Homeland.
In late March of this year, Kadyrov was awarded with the rank of Lieutenant General. On April 7, Commander of the Russian National Guard North Caucasus District Sergey Zakharov presented Kadyrov with the presidential decree and his shoulder straps.
https://tass.com/politics/1518247
Russia retaliates by expelling Lithuanian Charge d'Affaires — Foreign Ministry
It was stressed that, depending on other unfriendly steps taken by Vilnius, Moscow reserves the right to take "additional measures of influence"
MOSCOW, October 5. /TASS/. Russia is expelling Lithuanian Charge d'Affaires Virginia Umbrasene in retailation, the diplomat has been ordered to leave the Russian territory within five days, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry’s statement issued on Wednesday.
"On October 5, a representative of the Lithuanian Embassy was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry. She was handed a note informing that in response to the unjustified explulsion of the Russian charge d'affaires in the Lithuanian Republic [Sergey Ryabokon], the Lithuanian charge d'affaires in Russia, Virginia Umbrasene, is declared persona non grata. She is ordered to leave the territory of our country within five days," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
In addition, Russia, given the hostile policy of Lithuania aimed at the collapse of humanitarian relations, freezes the activities of the cultural center of the Lithuanian diplomatic mission in Moscow: the House of Baltrusaitis.
The Russian Foreign Ministry stressed that, depending on other unfriendly steps taken by Vilnius, Moscow reserves the right to take "additional measures of influence."
On Monday, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry reported that Sergey Ryabokon, Russian Charge d'Affaires in Lithuania, was declared persona non grata. As the Foreign Ministry noted, this decision was taken in the light of the information received by the authorities, who concluded that the recent activities and statements of the Charge d'Affaires allegedly "are incompatible with his diplomatic status and are treated as interference in the affairs of the receiving party," that is, Lithuania. The diplomat was ordered to leave the country within five days.
No further info available yet.
https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1577665987079507969
Noises off, or does this fit into the picture too ?
This event, it is stated by Armenian expert Alex Thomson, took place INSIDE Armenia.
Armenian Defense Ministry Press Secretary Aram Torosyan says Video circulating social media, alleging to show Azerbaijani soldiers committing war crimes by EXECUTING Armenian POWs is AUTHENTIC, but it is still impossible to establish the incident's time and place.
UPDATE: Armenia will use all international means to seek investigation into video showing execution of Armenian POWs - Armenian PM Pashinyan
https://www.brighteon.com/29869365-2...7-da566373e61a
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One caution for discerning members -
Some members who post may be either
a.) so fearful that they do not allow their conscious mind to ever consider any viewpoint (or stance) outside of the one they have to believe in (which is associated with the governance of the land they feel safe in living),
b.) they are significantly ideologically driven that if "the sociopolitical side" they believe emulates their core ideology tells them "who is the good guys and who is the bad guys," they will throw out their own capacity to think for themselves, abandon their own internal ethics (if they had any of significance), open to the cognitive dissonance and then root for who they are told are "the good guys" no matter how atrocious this "good guy" side's actions achieve.
c.) they are so void of any connectivity to their own conscience that they have crossed the line long ago in relation to their own corruption and thus would be completely willing and able to consciously act for "their side" in some form or another where they are also paid and/or receive some other perceived benefits for their actions - a paid disinfo agent is an example of this.
I would add d.) as a representation of a combination of two or even all three of the above.
I highly recommend discerning folks consider the ignore list when some of this ilk posts in this thread (and any other threads of this level of relevance). To respond in any way to someone as lost as the types I described above is to "feed the monster" and waste your time.
All the above is just my opinion and the advice I am taking (and offer to others).
I don't this we can know for sure what is the psychological drive behind other people's posts that are contrarian to our own beliefs. We do have a war going on, and yes, fear can be a motivator, no matter which side of the fence you are on.Quote:
Posted by Chester
This is certainly one of the busiest threads on Avalon right now if not the busiest. One complaint about it is that it is just a list of video links, tweets and articles from new outlets, all media from outside of Avalon. What are the original thoughts of the members here and how do they justify them?. I think there is plenty of space for both links to outside information and also for thoughtful the opinions of our own members, and the latter is driven by contrasting views.
Contrarian opinions offer us: (1) the possibility to teach us something we were wrong about, or, (2) a challenge that will force us to think about what we know is right and find a way to express that truth with more clarity in a way that is more comprehensible to people with whom we disagree.
And a word of the advice to the contrarians here too: you might need to delve a little deeper into the minds of the people you disagree with here. Ask yourself: why do the people you disagree with see the world the way they do? There is a lot of information here - you might need to read it a little more closely and focus on that in your rebuttals instead of just characterizing the people you disagree with.
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Posted by Ravenlocke
Uncovered: Box of gold teeth ‘pulled from Ukrainians’ at Russian torture chamber
What was the excuse for the Russians invading, Oh yea to de-Nazify Ukraine, hmm what does this (if its true) remind you of , yep !
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-un...090645157.html
It seems that the reinforcement of the Russian front lines is not going as smoothly as Mr. Putin had hoped, if these new reports have any merit:
source:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/vladim...r-off?ref=home
Putin’s Dueling Foot Soldiers Are Now Apparently Killing Each Other Off
Amid very public infighting between Russian groups, the Kremlin is reportedly trying to keep a lid on a Wagner mercenary shooting dead a lieutenant-colonel.
Allison Quinn
Updated Oct. 05, 2022 12:44PM ET / Published Oct. 05, 2022 12:42PM ET
AFP via Getty
While Ukraine’s military has been successfully chasing Russian troops out of one territory after another, Vladimir Putin’s foot soldiers have apparently been turning their weapons on each other as the Russian leader’s “special military operation” continues to come apart at the seams in spectacular fashion.
The Kremlin’s flailing bid to get an edge on the battlefield by deploying mercenaries from the Wagner Group—which now includes hundreds of prison inmates—has reportedly backfired as the private military force butts heads with the Russian military.
The growing conflict resulted in a Wagner fighter gunning down a lieutenant colonel in the Russian army—a deadly episode of “friendly fire” that the Kremlin is said to be trying to sweep under the rug, according to the human rights group Gulagu.net.
“They are trying to hush up the incident and prevent publicity. And this is not the first emergency of its kind,” the group quoted a source as telling the Gulagu.net hotline.
The incident was also reported by two other Russian Telegram channels, though no details were provided on when or where the shooting is said to have taken place.
Dan Ladden-Hall
The alleged shooting is not the only recent instance of infighting between Russian troops.
Earlier this week, a mass brawl broke out between newly drafted Russian troops and contract soldiers at a military base outside Moscow, Baza reported. Nearly two dozen contract soldiers are said to have taken a beating from the draftees and were rescued after locking themselves in a separate room and phoning police for help. The fight reportedly erupted after some of the contract soldiers demanded the newly arrived draftees hand over their mobile phones and gear.
The tumult seen between the troops has also visibly carried over to Russia’s wider information space, with pro-Kremlin military bloggers getting increasingly outspoken in their criticisms of top military command and Putin’s more radical allies publicly deriding those in charge of the war.
“The controversies surrounding the poorly executed partial mobilization, coupled with significant Russian defeats in Kharkiv Oblast and around Lyman, have intensified infighting between pro-Putin Russian nationalist factions and are creating new fractures among voices who speak to Putin’s core constituencies,” the Institute for the Study of War wrote in its Tuesday assessment.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, one of the most vocal critics of the Russian Defense Ministry’s approach in recent days, announced Wednesday that “kind and beloved” Putin “personally” notified him he was being promoted to the rank of colonel general, a move that may be seen by some as a signal the Russian president is siding with hardliners like Kadyrov over his own defense officials.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the puppetmaster behind the Wagner Group, has also emerged with that camp, echoing Kadyrov’s complaints about the Russian military after a humiliating retreat from Lyman over the weekend.
Sources close to the Kremlin told Meduza the Russian leader is reluctant to chastise them for ****-talking the military command because he considers both the Wagner mercenaries and Chechen battalions “effective” in the war.
Shannon
“Putin now finds himself in a dilemma. He cannot risk alienating the Kadyrov-Prigozhin camp, as he desperately needs Kadyrov’s Chechen forces and Prigozhin’s Wagner Group mercenaries to fight in Ukraine. Nor can he disenfranchise the MoD establishment, which provides the overwhelming majority of Russian military power in Ukraine and the institutional underpinnings needed to carry out the mobilization order and continue the war,” the ISW wrote.
After a series of catastrophic battlefield losses, Putin is now “interested in alternative methods of warfare” and those who offer them, one source told Meduza.
The very public discord between warring groups close to Putin has exposed glaring cracks in the Russian president’s war machine, even as Ukraine’s military plows ahead with a stunning counteroffensive to take back the country’s land. Ukraine reclaimed eight new villages in the Kherson region as of Tuesday night, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, and several others in Kharkiv, Luhansk, and Donetsk—territories that Putin, just days earlier, had proudly claimed were now part of Russia.
Asked on Wednesday to explain how Russia can claim territory from which its own troops retreated, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov offered an unconvincing response:
“There’s no kind of contradiction in this. [The territories] will be with Russia forever, they will be returned.”
No, they don't. The Daily Beast is NOT an authoritative source. (Of any kind! :) )Quote:
Posted by Fellow Aspirant
The Limits of Ukraine's Offensive and the High Price to Pay When it Ends
Update on Russian operations in Ukraine for October 5, 2022
- Latest US aid package falls far short of replacing steep Ukrainian losses amid continued offensives;
- Ukraine’s offensive has limited capabilities, will not achieve “victory” over Russian forces in territory deemed “Ukrainian” by Kiev;
- Ukrainian offensive is an “all-or-nothing” proposition, hoping to achieve psychological and political gains toward ending the conflict in ways Ukrainian military force cannot;
- Western analysts celebrate the psychological impact the offensive is having on pro-Russian media, pundits, and even prominent members of Russian society;
- In reality, Ukraine will be left overextended and vulnerable just as Russia’s 300,000-strong mobilization begins shaping the battlefield.
Also in the above video,
https://twitter.com/Navsteva/status/1577698397431242752
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Posted by Justplain
But Ukraine is "USA stuff".
Major problem.
They could have achieved "peaceful means" some other way than by shelling the Baby Twins for eight years.
I personally have no problem with violence. I would be glad to discuss with anyone why I might kill you or not. This is a subject that may deserve attention in the near future.
Stop calling us "koolaid drinkers" and telling us what we are thinking. I would just like to overthrow about eight governments in the next eight years. Sound familiar? Just different ones from what we were told.
These are terrible posts sounding as if you are trolling the thread. Can you tell us something we don't know??
Here is a little update on pass the buck:
The entirety of the discretionary budget for 2022 was $1.52 trillion.
This is the part that is useful to us, maybe:
The Department of Energy receives $46.1 billion in funding.
But:
Counting regular military spending, veterans affairs and foreign aid, the total military budget for the United States is $1.168 trillion per year. That does not include related spending, like money spent on the intelligence budget that funds three letter organizations...
US National Debt Tops $31 Trillion For First Time in History
The $31 trillion total debt amounts to $93,419 per person
That's per person, not taxpayer...but even if it is close to accurate...at 1%, that is $934 per year you have to pay for debt service.
In the U. S., you pay around a thousand dollars a year on interest and never touch this $31T principal debt. Whether or not you agree with the imbalance that siphoned most of it away from anything useful.
Those bastards do not have my permission, and, if lethal force was the only way to redress it, that is what would come out of this.
How do we de-nazify something "peacefully and constructively"?
Isn't that what 60s acid rock was unleashed to prevent??
We are the DoD, you eat boots.
And now what, I hold Russia accountable for whatever happened on Patrice Lumbumba Street? Right.
No, I would still just tend to dissolve the "United" union. These massacres don't affect my politics. Unfortunately my politics does not really affect anything. If it had, then none of this would have even been possible.
None of this is possible, and, it may take a few more years for our Dollar and our English stuff to finally disintegrate like so much ash, but what do you think it was made of?
Sometimes I wish I knew what might be in an FSB "lab". I am down the street from probably the world's biggest psyop which was originally designed to steal you after a nuclear strike. Now we just kind of game it at "South American countries" randomly. Pretty big budget for around eighty years now. But that probably doesn't really work, either.
Deprivation of economic opportunity still makes those military careers sound good.
If there was a chance one might have thought maybe Russia was "overreacting", that went out the window with finding a quarter-million man Ukrainian invasion force already in due progress. Is this a mistake? Did they not have this buildup back in February??
- WhistleblowerIn my eyes, we are peering here into the abyss of the consolidated activities of horizontal (inter-ministerial) and vertical integration of modern state propaganda: from the ministries—and their partnerships with transatlantic think tanks like the [London] ISD—down to the press, "fact-checkers", social media, "multipliers", "critical civil society" and so on. We're even stooping to making schools and primary school-aged children get involved.
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Alex Thomson, a chap I have much time and respect for, for not only his high intellect but also his truthfulness, talent and thoroughness, has provided a most illuminating piece that has been published on the UK Column website. One of his areas of expertise is his multi-lingual ability and he has clearly invested some time in providing this translation.
It's a thoroughly recommended read which sheds much light :flower:
Source: UK Column
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Leak: German Government's Ukraine war propaganda campaign
https://www.ukcolumn.org/sites/defau...&itok=BGSPDWt9
by ALEX THOMSON, EASTERN APPROACHES
Wednesday, 5th October 2022
The below is a translation, made with the permission of the author, of Part I (dated 29 September 2022) of Florian Warweg's exclusive article in NachDenkSeiten, a careful and reliable German new media platform. The original there contains several screenshots of the German document that has been leaked.
Leaked document: How the Federal German Government is working on "Gleichschaltung of the narrative" on the Ukraine war—Part I
NachDenkSeiten has exclusively been leaked an internal document of the German Government. We were able to verify the paper and we also know the identity of the whistleblower. The document gives an illuminating insight into the extent of the horizontal and vertical structures of—there is no other way to put it—propaganda by the German state at federal level, especially as regards the official involvement of media (e.g. Der Spiegel and Stern), Western social media corporations, educational institutions and so-called "fact-checkers". Even primary school children are being targeted. What emerges is a concerted attempt by the Federal Government to subject information to Gleichschaltung.
The document is entitled "Current Activities of Departments and Authorities against disinformation in connection with the RUS war against UKR", runs to ten pages, and meticulously lists the relevant activities of the federal ministries and subordinate authorities as of 27 June 2022. Moreover, these activities are altogether quite something.
In this first [published] part of its evaluation, NachDenkSeiten will concentrate on the role of the BMI (Interior Ministry), the AA (German Foreign Office), BPA (Federal Press Office) and BKM (Federal Commissar for Culture and the Media). In the second part, we shall look at the activities of the BMDV (Ministry for Digital Affairs and Transport) as well as the BMFSFJ (Ministry for Family Affairs) and the BMVg (Ministry of Defence) [all likewise at federal level].
Socialist-run Interior Ministry the hub for state propaganda activities
The list begins with the SPD-led Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) under Nancy Faeser. The BMI is to take the lead and coordinate the "identification of and defence against hybrid threats" in an "interdepartmental" manner. This will be led by the "UAG RUS/UKR" (UAG stands for "sub-working groups" in ministerial parlance). One of the undertakings in this regard is a situation report on "Hybrid Threats" with a focus on Russia-Ukraine, to be drafted every fortnight. However, the "Ten-Point Resilience Plan" listed in the document is particularly eye-catching.
The first point in this "plan" is concerted "linking to fact-checkers on federal government websites". Private "fact-checkers" such as Correctiv, or contribution-financed ones such as the ARD-Faktenfinder, financed mainly by the US billionaire and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, are to be massively advertised through the "websites of the Federal Government". So much for the vaunted "political neutrality" and "independence" of the fact-checkers.
Furthermore, pamphlets on "disinformation in the context of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine" are to be produced and sent to federal ministries and elected representatives in the Bundestag, Länder [states] and municipalities. The list is replete with the reference: "Distribution to multipliers in civil society is underway".
The fifth point in the "Resilience Plan" is also particularly revealing; it is devoted to cooperation with the press. Mention is made, for example, of a "Spiegel background discussion" on 31 March and the preparation of features and interviews with Interior Minister Faeser; explicit reference is made in this context to Stern and Tagesspiegel. It is also mentioned that the term "Anti-Disinformation Task Force" has successfully been embedded in [media] reporting. In the document, (Russian) "disinformation" is understood as anything that amounts to accurately reporting the official Russian position. And this is exclusively in relation to the Russian side. Neither official Ukrainian nor US talking points on the war in Ukraine are assessed by the German Government as "disinformation" per se in the same manner.
Another aspect of the plan is "outreach into the parliamentary arena", i.e. influencing members of the Bundestag and state parliaments. This is not an unproblematic undertaking, given the established separation of powers between the executive and the legislature.
Likewise, the "resilience plan" has as a central point the "occasion-related" intensification of contacts and talks with the platform operators of social networks "in order to sensitise them to state-directed disinformation". The document explicitly mentions Twitter, Meta, Google and Telegram in this regard. The talks are to be held at "junior minister [Staatssekretär] level".
No less problematic is the plan to influence the "curricula in schools as well as the involvement of adult education centres and voluntary bodies".
Finally, the plan states that the work on the implementation of the "Action Plan of the Federation and the Länder [states] against Disinformation and for a Defensible Democracy" has begun.
German Foreign Office, Press Service and Office of Chancellor's Media Tsar also key actors in state propaganda and censorship efforts
In addition to the Ministry of the Interior, the German Foreign Office (AA) appears in the document as a protagonist in the supposed "fight against [Russian] disinformation". It is noticeable that the whole gamut of measures by the AA is couched exclusively in terms of "Russian disinformation", and emphatically creates the impression that "disinformation" and the shaping of narratives only come from one single country worldwide.
For instance, the German Foreign Office document on "Measures as part of the RUS/UKR communication concept" mentions:
According to this document, the AA primarily networks—"intensively and bilaterally"—with US counterparts on disinformation issues. Explicitly mentioned in this context are the International Partnership to Counter State-Sponsored Disinformation (IPCSD) and the Counter Foreign Interference Group (CFI).- Observation and analysis of current Russian narratives and disinformation
- Creation of a "living document" that "deconstructs/debunks classic and current
Russian narratives on the Ukraine war"
- Promoting projects to "build resilience to (especially Russian) disinformation [...]"
[Note by Alex Thomson: 'CFI' is a term used by other Western countries, including Australia. The leaked document screenshot embedded in the original article mentions "Counter Foreign Interference (CFI) Group" but this could well be an error for a similarly-named body, whether in the US, elsewhere or transnational. UK Column has reported on the scale of the British effort.]
The last point in the document concerning the activities of the AA is also revealing. It speaks of "[...] promoting the project proposals submitted by Deutsche Welle and DW Akademie for the expansion of reporting on UKR/RUS, as well as strengthening media competence [...]". We thus note that the German Foreign Office, a federal ministry led by the top Green politician Annalena Baerbock, is planning to fund projects of the [taxpayer-funded] German foreign broadcasting service, Deutsche Welle. How this is compatible with the Deutsche Welle Statute (DWG), which obliges [the broadcaster] to facilitate "an independent formation of opinion", would be just one of several questions raised by these Foreign Office plans revealed in the document.
The Federal Press Office (BPA), together with the Federal Foreign Office (AA), is in charge of the so-called "EG Desinformation" (when asked by telephone by NachDenkSeiten on 27 September what "EG" stands for in this context, the responsible head of service at the BPA could not provide any information). According to the document, the BPA is responsible for "raising awareness within the Government on the topic and dealing with disinformation". In addition, it offers "interdepartmental training" on disinformation. What is striking here is that the training is not provided by the BPA itself, but by private third-party providers such as the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and the Business Council for Democracy of the Hertie Stiftung [German tax-exempt foundation].
The ISD, with its expressly transatlantic orientation and its headquarters in London, has such illustrious board members as Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the management consultant Roland Berger, and the CEO of Axel Springer SE, Matthias Döpfner.
"Interdepartmental training" on disinformation for employees of the federal ministries is thus being carried out by a transatlantic lobby organisation whose "board" includes exposed plagiarists, and the head of Springer-Presse—speaking of disinformation—which regularly spreads fake news, as well as the private foundation of a department store tycoon. The federal authorities' approach to outsourcing probably doesn't get much better than this reduction to the absurd.
Finally, the document lists that the deputy government spokespersons regularly engage in "bilateral exchanges with Google/YouTube, Twitter, Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn to discuss the platforms' "respective strategies to combat disinformation, particularly in the context of the war in Ukraine".
That is to say that, according to the document, both the Interior and Foreign Ministries, as well as the Federal Press Office, each hold regular bilateral meetings (at junior minster [Staatssekretär] level) with the major platform operators on "Russian disinformation" regarding the war in Ukraine. The pressure to conform and censor that this all adds up to can be considered significant.
Six-year-olds on board
Another major player is the Federal Commissar for Culture and the Media (BKM), Claudia Roth, who reports directly to the Chancellor. She has a budget of over two billion euros, 400 employees, and is responsible for federal government media policy (and finances bodies including the German foreign broadcasting service, Deutsche Welle, as part of this framework).
In the internal document seen by NachDenkSeiten, there is talk, among other ideas, of "setting up a Russian editorial office-in-exile in Riga [capital of Latvia]" and "if necessary, setting up a Ukrainian editorial office-in-exile in Kraków, Poland". According to the paper, the BKM seems to be playing a central and proactive role among the EU Council of Media Ministers in "taking action against Russian propaganda media".
Likewise, the BKM is taking a lead role in the negotiations on the Orwellian-sounding "European Media Freedom Act" and is seeking to focus on "disinformation" there.
According to the document, the BKM is also planning a new funding programme "with a focus on promoting news literacy among the general population to combat disinformation".
Another project that raises questions is the use of child reporters from the age of 6 against "disinformation", a term not specified further. The document states, among other things:
"Children's reporters — Strengthening the news competence, and thereby resilience to disinformation, of 6–14-year-olds through active media work."
Finally, reference is made to the Deutsche Welle project "Artificial Intelligence against Disinformation" (KID), in which "AI modules of digital forensics are to be used to improve the (partially) automated identification of manipulation and concerted disinformation campaigns". Brave new world...
Whistleblower's concerns
The whistleblower also explained to us what motivated him to make this leak. He told NachDenkSeiten that when this document arrived on his work computer, he was deeply shocked. For him, he said, this was "a concerted attempt at narrative synchronisation". He went on:
Furthermore, he told NachDenkSeiten that this document is only "the tip of the iceberg" and that the projects listed are not exhaustive. Everything listed in this document would still be a manageable leak for the Federal Government, he said, as it only included the measures that could be admitted to in [PR] communications if in doubt. The German public had no idea what else was going on behind the scenes, he added."In my eyes, we are peering here into the abyss of the consolidated activities of horizontal (inter-ministerial) and vertical integration of modern state propaganda: from the ministries—and their partnerships with transatlantic think tanks like the [London] ISD—down to the press, "fact-checkers", social media, "multipliers", "critical civil society" and so on. We're even stooping to making schools and primary school-aged children get involved."
Finally, something about the presumed author of this internal document. According to the metadata of the original Word document, this German government list was compiled by a person whose name we are withholding out of respect for his private life, but whose curriculum vitae provides interesting insights into who draws up such "interdepartmental" papers on this topic.
Practically nothing can be found out about the author online, but what little can be found speaks for itself. On LinkedIn, there is a post thanking the author of the document "Current Activities of Departments and Authorities against disinformation in connection with the RUS war against UKR", written by BwConsulting (BwConsulting is the in-house consulting company of the Federal Ministry of Defence) for the partnership, and the author has also written a reference book on the management of NATO and EU military operations.
Addendum by Alex Thomson
Part II can be read in the original German here. The final screenshot embedded in Part II speaks of the Bundeswehr (German armed forces) involving “young people in particular” in dialogue on security policy, with a package on “hybrid threats” delivered in concert with the Security Policy Academy (BAKS) and another package planned on “Society and Resilience”, to be delivered in concert with the Bertelsmann Stiftung.
The text in the screenshot goes on to state that “youth officers” of the Bundeswehr, “specially trained in teaching methods”, are—apparently already—being dispatched to schools to “raise awareness of security policy and defence policy” through “direct dialogue”.
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https://www.rt.com/news/564123-bolto...-change-putin/
John Bolton wants US to push for ‘change regime’ in Russia
Former White House national security adviser John Bolton insisted on Wednesday that only “regime change” in Moscow can achieve long-term US objectives in Europe. He proposed funding Russian “dissidents” who could team up with mid-level officers to overthrow President Vladimir Putin in a coup.
“There is no long-term prospect for peace and security in Europe without regime change in Russia,” Bolton argued in an article titled “Putin Must Go,” which was published by the online journal 1945.
Change “must involve far more than simply replacing Putin,” according to Bolton. “The whole regime must go.”
Bolton actually opened the article by quoting President Joe Biden, who said in March, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.” Biden’s aides had scrambled to walk that back, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken arguing that “we do not have a strategy of regime change in Russia – or anywhere else, for that matter.”
The very next day, however, Biden insisted he wasn’t backpedaling, and that his remarks were not “articulating a policy change” but “expressing moral outrage… and I make no apologies for it.”
While serving as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Bolton championed regime-change policies for Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran – and derailed Trump’s diplomacy with North Korea, after which he was dismissed in September 2019. Yet the official US position on Havana, Caracas, and Tehran has not changed since Biden took office.
Regime change has been the US goal in Russia for years
Regime change has been the US goal in Russia for years
The Kremlin reacted to Biden’s remarks by calling him a “victim of many delusions.” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the question of who should be in power in Russia is not up to any US citizen, but for Russians to decide.
“Carefully assisting Russian dissidents to pursue regime change might just be the answer,” Bolton argued, in a twist to Peskov’s logic. “The key is for Russians themselves to exacerbate divisions among those with real authority, the siloviki... Once regime coherence and solidarity shatter, change is possible.”
Bolton claimed that “Russians are already discussing it, quietly, for obvious reasons” and brushed off concerns that Russia is a nuclear power, saying “that is no more an argument against seeking regime change than against assisting Ukrainian self-defense.”
He also accused Moscow of subverting the US government “for many decades” and blowing up its own Nord Stream pipeline.
“Washington’s obvious strategic objective is having Russia aligned with the West, a fit candidate for NATO, as we hoped after the Soviet Union’s breakup,” Bolton argued. The US goal “of a peaceful and secure Europe… remains central to our national interests. This is no time to be shy,” he concluded.
An outspoken neoconservative who believes in American unilateralism, Bolton held government positions under Republican presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. The Biden administration claims that Iran plotted to have him assassinated.
Corbett Report:. 'Putin has accomplished everything he set out to prevent'-
https://corbettreport.substack.com/p...ates-from#play
When you look at your source and are well-informed of this sources track record for massive, intentional disinformation, then a discerning individual would have doubts about its validity and not post such crap.Quote:
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Third strike for me (ignore list addition completed).
Folks, the feature's there for a reason. If everyone ignored the compromised and/or witting dis-info agents, they would get nothing but echo chamber responses. Beyond the compromised and/or witting dis-info agents stands plenty of space for intelligent debate as to this war, reasons each side my put forth in any attempt to justify the actions by their side of choice, but this can only be done if folks are honest and broadly informed. Those who only get their information from professional propagandists (on EITHER SIDE) should post elsewhere. This is a serious thread.
Great post and now I have a second opinion as to why I am utilizing the ignore list feature (again for this same member).Quote:
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Posted by Justplain
But Ukraine is "USA stuff".
Major problem.
They could have achieved "peaceful means" some other way than by shelling the Baby Twins for eight years.
I personally have no problem with violence. I would be glad to discuss with anyone why I might kill you or not. This is a subject that may deserve attention in the near future.
Stop calling us "koolaid drinkers" and telling us what we are thinking. I would just like to overthrow about eight governments in the next eight years. Sound familiar? Just different ones from what we were told.
These are terrible posts sounding as if you are trolling the thread. Can you tell us something we don't know??
Here is a little update on pass the buck:
The entirety of the discretionary budget for 2022 was $1.52 trillion.
This is the part that is useful to us, maybe:
The Department of Energy receives $46.1 billion in funding.
But:
Counting regular military spending, veterans affairs and foreign aid, the total military budget for the United States is $1.168 trillion per year. That does not include related spending, like money spent on the intelligence budget that funds three letter organizations...
US National Debt Tops $31 Trillion For First Time in History
The $31 trillion total debt amounts to $93,419 per person
That's per person, not taxpayer...but even if it is close to accurate...at 1%, that is $934 per year you have to pay for debt service.
In the U. S., you pay around a thousand dollars a year on interest and never touch this $31T principal debt. Whether or not you agree with the imbalance that siphoned most of it away from anything useful.
Those bastards do not have my permission, and, if lethal force was the only way to redress it, that is what would come out of this.
How do we de-nazify something "peacefully and constructively"?
Isn't that what 60s acid rock was unleashed to prevent??
We are the DoD, you eat boots.
And now what, I hold Russia accountable for whatever happened on Patrice Lumbumba Street? Right.
No, I would still just tend to dissolve the "United" union. These massacres don't affect my politics. Unfortunately my politics does not really affect anything. If it had, then none of this would have even been possible.
None of this is possible, and, it may take a few more years for our Dollar and our English stuff to finally disintegrate like so much ash, but what do you think it was made of?
Sometimes I wish I knew what might be in an FSB "lab". I am down the street from probably the world's biggest psyop which was originally designed to steal you after a nuclear strike. Now we just kind of game it at "South American countries" randomly. Pretty big budget for around eighty years now. But that probably doesn't really work, either.
Deprivation of economic opportunity still makes those military careers sound good.
If there was a chance one might have thought maybe Russia was "overreacting", that went out the window with finding a quarter-million man Ukrainian invasion force already in due progress. Is this a mistake? Did they not have this buildup back in February??
I also agree with Shaberon’s response to that post of Mr. Plain. And, no disrespect to the latter, I am thankful for it having been seen by by the former. I have not blocked anyone here, not like back on LL where there were some seriously offensive and useless posters. I’ve talked to this irritant of yours, presented what I thought was a good counter. I hope that you will unblock yourself, and invest some energy in saying how you think different. Justplain is not a bad guy.Quote:
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Thank you to everyone trying to help Justplain understand the full situation of what is going on.
Nobody knows what another member and their family may have been through in the past. Justplain has stated that is wife and son are Russian and he deserves the respect of having his own views even if others may not agree with him, and hopefully a fuller view can be had as everyone looks deeper into the history and how things have changed in the present now.
Here is a link to a post by RunningDeer:
Special Report: Reset in Ukraine, Part 2 with Karel Van Wolferen (1:30:00)September 28, 2022
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Karel van Wolferen is an author, journalist, professor, publisher and one of the most respected voices in the Netherlands on geopolitics.
In March, I visited Karel for a wide ranging discussion on his views about events in the Ukraine and how they relate to the push for central control globally. We so enjoyed our discussion, I returned on April 15 to continue our discussion….and debate!
"For the ghouls saying they don't see destruction [from Ukrainian shelling], I'm subtitling clips of destroyed apartment buildings and houses." - Eva Bartlett
The last census in Ukraine was in 2001, conducted under the pro-Russian president Leonid Kuchma. These are the narodnosc results as percentages for the regions Putin has just annexed.
Donetsk Region
Ukrainians 56.9
Russians 38.2
Greeks 1.6
Belarussians 0.9
Tatars 0.5
Armenians 0.3
Jews 0.5
Azerbaijanians 0.2
Luhansk Region
Ukrainians 58.0
Russians 39.0
Belarussians 0.8
Tatars 0.3
Armenians 0.3
Kherson Region
Ukrainians 82.0
Russians 14.1
Belarussians 0.7
Tatars 0.5
Moldavians 0.4
Armenians 0.4
Crimean Tatars 0.2
Zaporizhzhia Region
Ukrainians 70.8
Russians 24.7
Bulgarians 1.4
Belarussians 0.7
Jews 0.2
Armenians 0.3
Tatars 0.3
Georgians 0.2
In none of the regions Putin has just annexed were Russians a majority in 2001, let alone a 99.7% majority. Apparently 6.4 million Ukrainians have simply vanished.
(Mod comment: academic, and a somewhat fallacious comment; around 10 million have actually either fled, sought citizenship status in Russia and other European countries, or I may helpfully add, been murdered, disappeared or sacrificed by successive Kievan regimes. He - Craig - may have been on the Lagavulin when he wrote this - Tintin)
For completeness here were the 2001 results for Crimea:
Russians 58.3
Ukrainians 24.3
Crimean Tatars 12.0
Belarussians 1.4
Tatars 0.5
Armenians 0.4
Jews 0.2
Poles 0.2
Moldavians 0.2
Azerbaijanians 0.2
Thanks Justplain for this very interesting interview. Eye opener for sure. MUST SEE!Quote:
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The most shocking to me is that the covid jab is mandatory for the entire Russian military personnel, including the new 300,000 conscripts? Those conscripts who refuse the jab face 10 years in prison!?? And the Sputnik injection they use in Russia is just a version of the dangerous Astra Zeneca jab that many countries have abandoned for being unsafe. But Russia does not compile safety data on this 'clot-shot'? I'd like to believe that none of this is true, but it all seems quite factual. (Would like to hear from anyone here who knows otherwise.)
The one thing not discussed in this interview is Russia's claim of USA sponsored bioweapons labs in Ukraine. Probably because they're known to exist, not only in Ukraine but also in many countries around the world.
At any rate, there is so much happening so quickly these days, that trying to keep up might leave one in a state of confusion. I've often wondered if that is in fact the goal of the major players.
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Posted by RizottoThanks Justplain for this very interesting interview. Eye opener for sure. MUST SEE!Quote:
Posted by Justplain
The most shocking to me is that the covid jab is mandatory for the entire Russian military personnel, including the new 300,000 conscripts? Those conscripts who refuse the jab face 10 years in prison!?? And the Sputnik injection they use in Russia is just a version of the dangerous Astra Zeneca jab that many countries have abandoned for being unsafe. But Russia does not compile safety data on this 'clot-shot'? I'd like to believe that none of this is true, but it all seems quite factual. (Would like to hear from anyone here who knows otherwise.)
The one thing not discussed in this interview is Russia's claim of USA sponsored bioweapons labs in Ukraine. Probably because they're known to exist, not only in Ukraine but also in many countries around the world.
At any rate, there is so much happening so quickly these days, that trying to keep up might leave one in a state of confusion. I've often wondered if that is in fact the goal of the major players.
I have been thinking about the situation with covid vaccines in Russia for some time now and here is the answer.
I'm not surprised.
Sometimes it seems to me that all this is The Shelling of Mainila incident al over again or simply a systematic Russification of the neighboring countries that would eventually result in a newly conquered land.
But Im probably wrong eh.. :decision: