Rising fascism in the US

Lash wrote:

Right now, Fox and the other outlets you mentioned are head and shoulders above your MSM—because they aren’t taking orders from the Security Industrial Complex.

Now that's comedy

No. They take orders from Rupert murdoch. Purely and simply for his profits and truth be damned.

I wouldn’t give anybody the amount of real estate in my head that you bunch of hyenas give me.

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I wouldn’t give anybody the amount of real estate in my head that you bunch of hyenas give me.

Um...don't flatter yourself. It's your ideas which attract comments, not you. If you stopped posting, you'd soon be forgotten. When's the last time anyone brought up coldjoint, giujohn, or gungasnake?

Lash wrote:

Richard Medhurst and Noam Chomsky discuss the dollar, the mechanism of US sanctions.

https://youtu.be/G2moK96-G2c

I think big changes are ricocheting across the globe. The bullying the US has always gotten away with wasn’t based on our own strength, but the strength we’ve derived from Saudi mostly—based on their acquiescence to our bargaining to make the dollar global oil currency.

If we’d appreciated that great coup and bent over for Saudi when asked (which we have done in glorious fashion for decades), we might have remained a stable country, but we stood on the shoulders of that favor and ruined other countries, used the favor to bark orders at the rest of the world. We took that favor and lunged back at the world with it, acting as though we were the power behind the petrodollar, and threatened the rest of the world with it.

The US has wielded sanctions like a nuclear weapon, threatening to cut off from this life blood any country that doesn’t do exactly as we command.

This is primarily why we are hated globally. We’ve been the bossy bully of the world. We’ve made life miserable for so many other countries, subverting the way of life they chose with coups and our own puppet regimes. We’ve caused so much death and destruction. We’ve been the undisputed tyrant of the world.

To add insult to injury, our govt claims all of this death and destruction was perpetrated in the pursuit of…democracy. It’s horseshit. Everyone knows it. The US govt has made the word democracy a joke.

People were afraid to laugh before, though. We held that loaded petrodollar gun to the heads of the entire world. ‘We’ll wreck your world with sanctions. Do as we say.’

But that gun was loaded for us daily by Saudi.

We’re still shouting orders and threats, waving our gun around, but today the world is laughing. They all know that today, Saudi handed us an unloaded gun.

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No, it’s tragedy because journalism’s primary function is to report events that the people need to know when power is hiding corruption—and the MSM—like you and the VBNMW crowd here—suppress, lie, avoid and misrepresent the evils being committed by this administration and the power behind him.

Lash wrote:

No, it’s tragedy because journalism’s primary function is to report events that the people need to know when power is hiding corruption—and the MSM—like you and the VBNMW crowd here—suppress, lie, avoid and misrepresent the evils being committed by this administration and the power behind him.

Ahhh, I gotcha. No true journalist, yeah?

Lash wrote:

No, it’s tragedy because journalism’s primary function is to report events that the people need to know when power is hiding corruption—and the MSM—like you and the VBNMW crowd here—suppress, lie, avoid and misrepresent the evils being committed by this administration and the power behind him.

Ahhh, I gotcha. No true journalist, yeah?

The Russian government allegedly hired a Moscow-based defense contractor to help its intelligence agencies enhance their cyber capabilities and spread disinformation online, according to corporate documents obtained by The Washington Post.

The documents, which contain more than 5,000 pages, suggest that the defense contractor, NTC Vulkan, aided Russian intelligence agencies with social media disinformation and “training to remotely disrupt real-world targets, such as sea, air and rail control systems.”

The Post, which has seen the documents in question, said that they contain “internal company emails, financial records and contracts that show both the ambition of Russia’s cyber operations and the breadth of the work Moscow has been outsourcing.”

The news outlets said that the documents were provided by an anonymous individual who shared it first with a German reporter. The German journalist then shared it with a group of news outlets that included The Post.

The anonymous whistleblower allegedly expressed outrage and disapproval of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“The company is doing bad things, and the Russian government is cowardly and wrong,” the individual allegedly said, referring to NTC Vulkan as the company.

“I am angry about the invasion of Ukraine and the terrible things that are happening there,” the whistleblower said. “I hope you can use this information to show what is happening behind closed doors.”

A number of Western intelligence officials and independent cybersecurity experts who reviewed the documents believe them to be authentic, The Post reported.

“These officials and experts could not find definitive evidence that the systems have been deployed by Russia or been used in specific cyberattacks, but the documents describe testing and payments for work done by Vulkan for the Russian security services and several associated research institutes,” The Post said.

Last year, cybersecurity firm Mandiant released a report that found that Russian-backed hackers launched several disinformation campaigns intended to demoralize Ukrainians and incite internal unrest.

In one of the campaigns, the hackers falsely claimed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky died by suicide in a military bunker in Kyiv because of his failure to keep his country safe from Russian invasion.

The report also found that Russian-backed actors used Telegram, a popular social media platform, to spread disinformation including that the Ukrainian government was corrupt and incompetent and that the country was unprepared for the war.

Mandiant said that the disinformation campaigns it identified happened at the same time as disruptive cyberattacks that targeted Ukrainian government websites.

Despite the Russian government’s attempts to launch destructive cyberattacks against Ukraine, many of them failed to be as damaging or were thwarted by the Ukrainians who have had significant assistance from the U.S. and the EU in shoring up their cyber defenses.

FBI had a 50% success rate in getting info censored.

Russia's FSB security agency said today that it had arrested Wall Street Journal Moscow correspondent Evan Gershkovich.

Until its downfall the ‘Third Reich’ wooed, persuaded, deceived and threatened its foreign correspondents. If all means of ‘direction’, ‘prescribed terminology’ and ‘press control’ failed, the regime did not hesitate to isolate, imprison and expel foreign journalists. Nevertheless, they remained a power which the National Socialist regime from a media historical perspective took account of in a modern way until the very end.

Just saying.