patrick.net

https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/not-out-woods-yet-assessing-operational-situation-ukraine?source=patrick.net

The war in Ukraine has been dominated by an effective and far-reaching information campaign led by the Ukrainian state. The Ukrainian narrative is dominating both the news and social media cycles, which are now of equal importance in forming public opinion. The narrative is littered with broken Russian convoys, farmers triumphantly towing boutique Russian air defence systems away from their hiding places, and harrowing footage of Russian tank formations being destroyed. And yet, by analysing three maps depicting the operational picture, including one released by the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) and two curated by open-source investigators – the Twitter account Jomini of the West and Konrad Muzyka’s Ukraine Conflict Monitor – it is apparent that Russian forces are making progress.

"information campaign" lol.

That means propaganda campaign with massive assistance from the US elite, whose corrupt interests are at threat in Ukraine. For example, Hunter's monthly payments from Burisima.

https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/reinventing-progress?s=r&source=patrick.net

In turbulent times, society becomes vulnerable to false meaning-makers who would rescue us from our bewilderment. They offer to collapse complication and chaos into simple explanations for what is happening. They tell you what is real and what is not, who is good and who is bad. They pose a single explanatory logic to tidy up the messiness of a chaotic world.

In arenas of dispute, all sides typically attempt this, pitting one narrative against another in what we now recognize as narrative warfare.

The most prevalent simplifying strategy is to identify a villain and blame everything on him. In geopolitics, this means erasing entire histories in order to blame Saddam Hussein, Bashar Al-Assad, Nicolas Maduro, or Vladimir Putin for the latest crisis. ...

A telling sign of this mentality is, when anyone reintroduces history or nuance into the conversation, to accuse them of “making excuses” for the narrative’s bad guy. When someone is obsessed with pinning causality onto the evil character of the story, they will hostilely reject any confounding context that dilutes that identification.

Side A: PUTIN BAD! PUTIN BAD!

Side B: Well, there's a lot of history to consider, such as the US-funded Maidan coup...

Side A: YOU ARE AN APOLOGIST FOR PUTIN! YOU ARE BAD! PUTIN BAD! PUTIN BAD!

https://mobile.twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/1505297342936670208?source=patrick.net

https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/18/bombing-mariupol-theater-ukrainian-azov-nato-intervention/?source=patrick.net

Civilians that escaped the city through humanitarian corridors have testified that they were held by Azov as human shields in area, and that Azov fighters detonated parts of the theater as they retreated. Despite claims of a massive Russian airstrike that reduced the building to ashes, all civilians appear to have escaped with their lives.

Video of the attack on the theater remains unavailable at the time of publication; only photographs of the damaged structure can be viewed. The Russian Ministry of Defense has denied conducting an airstrike on the theater, asserting that the site had no military value and that no sorties were flown in the area on March 16.

While the Russian military operation in Ukraine has triggered a humanitarian crisis in Mariupol, it is clear that Russia gained nothing by targeting the theater, and virtually guaranteed itself another public relations blow by targeting a building filled with civilians – including ethnic Russians.

Azov, on the other hand, stood to benefit from a dramatic and grisly attack blamed on Russia. In full retreat all around Mariupol and facing the possibility of brutal treatment at the hands of a Russian military hellbent on “de-Nazification,” its fighters’ only hope seemed to lie in triggering direct NATO intervention.

The same sense of desperation informed Zelensky’s carefully scripted address to Congress, in which he invoked Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech and played a heavily produced video depicting civilian suffering to make the case for a no fly zone.

By instigating Western public outrage over grisly Russian war crimes, Ukraine’s government is clearly aiming to generate enough pressure to overcome the Biden administration’s reluctance to directly confront Russia’s military.

But Kiev’s most emotionally potent allegation so far – that Russia deliberately bombed innocent children cowering inside a theater – has been undercut by testimonies from Mariupol residents and a widely viewed Telegram message explicitly foreshadowing a false flag attack on the building.

The first casualty of war is truth.

Paul Joseph Watson is pretty reputable.

One thing the Western Media will never bother with is any Ukrainian Atrocities. You can bring them photos and a few eyewitnesses right to their European Desk and they'd find excuses not to investigate, or maybe make one call to the Ukrainian Government, that will deny it, and they'll "Factcheck: Pants on Fire" the whole thing, like Biden's Laptop.

Or Obama's pallets full of cash.

We know the US Media in particular is totally biased, and the Ukraine War is the Democrats' last chance not to have a complete rout in the November Elections.

AmericanKulak says

One thing the Western Media will never bother with is any Ukrainian Atrocities.

Well, obviously. Why do you think Julian Assange is slowly being killed in incarceration?

AmericanKulak says

We know the US Media in particular is totally biased, and the Ukraine War is the Democrats' last chance not to have a complete rout in the November Elections.

I doubt it. The CIA will just steal the elections again. It was quite obvious in 2000, and since it was obvious and they got away with it, they'll just do it again.

richwicks says

I doubt it. The CIA will just steal the elections again. It was quite obvious in 2000, and since it was obvious and they got away with it, they'll just do it again.

I was thinking last night about that turd bucket, Paul Ryan. Clear his job was to Delay everything MAGA during the two years the Reps had the House and the Presidency. I'm wondering what 2018 irregularities looked like.

AmericanKulak says

richwicks says

I doubt it. The CIA will just steal the elections again. It was quite obvious in 2000, and since it was obvious and they got away with it, they'll just do it again.

I was thinking last night about that turd bucket, Paul Ryan. Clear his job was to Delay everything MAGA during the two years the Reps had the House and the Presidency. I'm wondering what 2018 irregularities looked like.

We're eventually going to end up with a populist dictator. SOMEBODY with a huge ego is going to recognize they can go down in history as "the greatest president ever", if they just wipe the slate clean. To do that, they will have to have nearly absolute power for a bit.

Trump made a good stab at it. He bypassed the media, pointed out it was garbage, showed the DOJ is partisan and corrupt, and demonstrated that the intelligence agencies are a bunch of traitors that just shit on Constitutional rights. 2024 will be interesting.

richwicks says

We're eventually going to end up with a populist dictator. SOMEBODY with a huge ego is going to recognize they can go down in history as "the greatest president ever", if they just wipe the slate clean. To do that, they will have to have nearly absolute power for a bit.

Trump made a good stab at it. He bypassed the media, pointed out it was garbage, showed the DOJ is partisan and corrupt, and demonstrated that the intelligence agencies are a bunch of traitors that just shit on Constitutional rights. 2024 will be interesting.

I flat out HOPED he would do this. Sadly, there are too many Milleys in the Military. The Deep State won't clean itself up, and as Bannon notes, they're not just going to hand you the keys even if you do win fair and square in an election.

It's funny how the "Deep State" went from a "Conspiracy Theory" to something along the lines of heroes resisting the unwashed hordes from ruining America in the WaPo right after the 2016 election.

It's remarkable it took 200+ years to get here. It usually happens a lot faster. Didn't Jefferson say a revolution every 40 years would probably be necessary? I'd say we went about 200 before things got obviously and truly terrible. I think of all the lost liberties, to buy dynamite at the hardware store or guns in the mail without ID, or for a bar owner to decide whether there would be ash trays or not. To say nothing of the fewer and fewer small stores and businesses than there were just 30-40 years ago.

Patrick says

Paul Joseph Watson is pretty reputable.

Not with me. I literally have no idea who he is. Besides, shouldn't real skeptic refrain from blindly believing anyone until solid proof is provided?

So, no video, I presume?

PS. You know that it's pretty easy to see if the person is being hanged to death for reals vs acting like he/she is being hanged. Especially if it's done w/o a drop, like the picture seems to suggest.

Eric Holder says

Patrick says

Paul Joseph Watson is pretty reputable.

Not with me. I literally have no idea who he is. Besides, shouldn't real skeptic refrain from blindly believing anyone until solid proof is provided?

So, no video, I presume?

Here:

https://rumble.com/c/PJW

Enjoy. Review his OLD stuff before you bother to look at his new stuff. That gives you a better idea of is he's worthwhile to listen to, and isn't just telling you what you might want to hear.

richwicks says

Eric Holder says

Patrick says

Paul Joseph Watson is pretty reputable.

Not with me. I literally have no idea who he is. Besides, shouldn't real skeptic refrain from blindly believing anyone until solid proof is provided?

So, no video, I presume?

Here:

https://rumble.com/c/PJW?source=patrick.net

Enjoy. Review his OLD stuff before you bother to look at his new stuff. That gives you a better idea of is he's worthwhile to listen to, and isn't just telling you what you might want to hear.

I'm not really interested in people making faces and talking in dramatic voices. All I want is the video of people being hanged. I can't find it in the collection you referenced. Are you sure it's there?

Eric Holder says

I'm not really interested in people making faces and talking in dramatic voices.

Then ignore him.

He's basically a satirist and I don't find him very informative. You asked for video of him, I was just giving you that. Very few people are worth paying attention to really. It's all basically just black entertainment anyhow.

People are taking sides on this, and nobody fully appreciates the situation. I can see Russia's point of view, and I haven't agreed with any of the US' wars in 2 decades.

Eric Holder says

All I want is the video of people being hanged.

Me too! But in the United States.

Eric Holder says

All I want is the video of people being hanged. I can't find it in the collection you referenced. Are you sure it's there?

I interjected. I'm not Patrick, also, anything can easily be faked, especially during war. Even video is meaningless at this point.

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/theres-going-to-be-a-very-rude-awakening?source=patrick.net

The United States support the good guys.

Check this one out: Masked Man appears to "Testify" about Russian Evil, appears in person in hoodie and glasses, article is written by "Guest Author". Fearmongering to the Max.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/syrian-eyewitness-details-crimes-against-144518020.html?source=patrick.net

Onvacation says

The United States support the good guys.

The guy being executed murdered an entire family, starting with the grandmother and ending with the 10-year old boy, at on-base officer housing on an ARVN military compound He was being executed after a hot pursuit. Assassinating officers is one thing, killing their families is not. His extra judicial death was Fine and dandy by me.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IUfG1HG-4XQ&source=patrick.net

Revolver links. The censoring force, it is powerful. I can't click on a single one of those links and get anything. These are the people who think we should be supporting their criminal enterprises in Ukraine.

https://off-guardian.org/2022/04/02/ukraine-vs-yemen-a-contrast-in-media-coverage/?source=patrick.net

Ukraine was intended to be part of GloboCap Inc, which is why there is so much shrieking in the media about the invasion.

Saudi Arabia is already part of GloboCap Inc, which is why there is media silence about its invasion of Yemen.

Former President George W. Bush met with illegal aliens this week to promote his amnesty and legal immigration expansion agenda, snubbing Angel Families who have lost loved ones to illegal alien crime in the process.

On Tuesday, Bush and former first lady Laura Bush met with illegal aliens Gerardo Casas, Rebeca Gurrola, and Dip Patel — all of whom are enrolled in former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — as well as mass migration advocates from Jewish Family Service of San Diego and the American Nursery & Landscape Association.

Specifically, Bush touted his efforts over the last year in lobbying Republicans in Washington, D.C. to work with President Joe Biden on not only passing amnesty for illegal aliens but also expanding legal immigration levels beyond the 1.2 million green cards and 1.5 million temporary work visas given out to foreign nationals every year.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/30/george-w-bush-meets-with-illegal-aliens-to-promote-amnesty-snubbing-angel-families/?source=patrick.net

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/06/09/hawley-and-grassley-receive-evidence-from-whistleblower-showing-dhs-intent-to-weaponize-social-media-to-control-information/

Thanks to a DHS whistleblower who has come forward to Senators Josh Hawley and Chuck Grassley, we are now seeing the direct evidence of how the Fourth Branch of Government, specifically the Dept of Homeland Security, were planning to take control over public discussion on Big Tech platforms.

Absolutely nobody would believe this ...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/your-right-to-conceive-babies-could-be-at-risk-if-roe-v-wade-is-overturned/ar-AAYMbpN?ocid=U521DHP&li=BBnb7Kz

would they???

Misc says

Absolutely nobody would believe this ...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/your-right-to-conceive-babies-could-be-at-risk-if-roe-v-wade-is-overturned/ar-AAYMbpN?ocid=U521DHP&li=BBnb7Kz

would they???

From that article: This is the woman that claims she might be prevented from having a child through IVF if Roe v. Wade is over-turned:



Despite my earlier stance, upon further examination, I do not oppose Roe v. Wade being over-turned.

AmericanKulak says

Onvacation says
The United States support the good guys.

The guy being executed murdered an entire family, starting with the grandmother and ending with the 10-year old boy, at on-base officer housing on an ARVN military compound He was being executed after a hot pursuit. Assassinating officers is one thing, killing their families is not. His extra judicial death was Fine and dandy by me.

@AmericanKulak - we know the Gulf of Tonkin Incident never happened, and we certainly know our government lies to us regularly now, so how are you certain what you said is true?

I'm not saying it's not, I'm saying we have an entirely non trustworthy government that will lie to us and doesn't deserve our respect at this point. I'm not so certain they were any different 50 years ago.

A government that has to lie to or will needlessly lie to us, is not worthy of being our government. We don't have a worthy government at this point. I hope this changes before I'm dead.

richwicks says

This is the woman that claims she might be prevented from having a child through IVF if Roe v. Wade is over-turned

She looks like people on old analog TV's when the vertical hold was misaligned.

richwicks says

propaganda to demonize Russia.

Its the neo marxist globalists and woke that hate Russia and especially Putin. Its a global culture war. Russia is not pro-LGBTQ+XYZ+PI.

It is a white Christian nation that supposedly turned its back to socialism. That makes it even a more target by the Woke's and neo-marxist globalists.

Same left wing authoritarians admire the Chicoms.

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https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/its-not-about-you-its-about-me?publication_id=323914&post_id=77791726&isFreemail=true

el gato malo
2 hr ago
“your mask protects me!”

“you need to get vaccinated to stop the spread and make society safe!”

“stay home, save lives!”

these were the endless refrains of the moralizing mandates of coviddom.

this was grade A prime propaganda whose purpose was simple:

to invert the morality of personal health choices and induce people to to things that they did not believe to serve their best interest by framing it as the collective good and therefore an ethical duty.

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This is from around 1994, maybe 1995 because OJ Simpson is briefly mentioned. I remember this, dimly. I must have seen it in college.

It was shown once. What you are seeing is an ancient archival of it. Isn't digital preservation great? If you record an audio file in lower bit rates in MP3, you'll lose information, if you record it in higher bit rates, you don't. There's a floor to digital reproduction. You can reduce it, but unless you decrease the bit rate, you don't lose information.

So a copy (even with a different encoder) of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy....

doesn't reduce quality, unless it's PURPOSELY reduced. Wasn't possible with analog and you have to purposely fuck up the copy. You have to try, really hard, to make it unviewable. AVI->h.264->h.265->XVID->AVI doesn't reduce quality, unless you force it. A transcription will not reduce quality, it might increase the file size, but that's it, and you have to use an old codec to do that, or an inferior one.

You have to get below Shannon's law, and that can only be done with a really lousy codec (which I don't think exists now), or by intentionally reducing the bit rate. We have permanent preservation, IF we have permanent storage. Permanent storage is the last thing to do.

War propagandists have a long history of portraying the enemy's evil abuse of babies. In order to enrage Americans enough to want to go fight 'over there,' propagandists often used artist depictions of what they claimed was actually happening; German soldiers killing babies and children with their bayonets.

At the start of the Ukraine war, recall the mainstream media depicting dead children, all at the hands of the evil Russians.



The following is a classic in war propaganda. George H. W. Bush repeated this lie over and over again in an attempt to justify his, and the alliance's, illegal invasion of Iraq.

In this video, (fake) Nurse Nayirah describes the despotic Iraqi soldiers breaking Kuwaiti hospital incubators and throwing babies on the floor to die. The hearing was conducted by holocaust survivor Rep. Tom Lantos, a fervent proponent of of Israeli hegemony in the Middle East. (Israel had a long standing policy to remove Saddam Hussein from power and diminish Iraq's position in the Middle East). It turned out that the 15 year old nurse Nayirah was not a nurse at all, but rather, the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United States.

Here's the video of Nayirah's testimony. The little girl was quite the actress.

(Video appears in the article. Youtube will not provide a direct link to the video).

https://citizentruth.org/fake-news-1990-that-ignited-gulf-war-sympathy/

Good explanation of what kind of bullshit the government does to derail conversation and how propaganda is done on the Internet.


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If you recognize the techniques, point them out. Once you see how propaganda is done, it's much easier to spot.

richwicks says

how propaganda is done on the Internet

Good stuff. I've always like Corbett. I've been able to recognize most of these tactics, but never thought about putting names to them. When I see them, I typically just ignore the poster from that point on, but I probably should point them out for others' benefit.