Russian inforwars

[frogwoman]

Russia threatens to fine Wikipedia if it doesn't remove some details about the war

Russia's communications regulator says it will fine Wikipedia up to $47,000 for not complying with requests to take down information. It has made similar warnings to Google about YouTube videos.

www.npr.org

 

[teqniq]

What? How the fuck does it expect to fine Wikipedia?

 

[teqniq]

Russia threatens to fine Wikipedia if it doesn't remove some details about the war

Russia's communications regulator says it will fine Wikipedia up to $47,000 for not complying with requests to take down information. It has made similar warnings to Google about YouTube videos.

www.npr.org

Also from a link in that article they have threatened to fine Google over Youtube vids they don't like. Good luck with that:

Russian regulator says it will fine Google over Ukraine war videos

Russia may fine Google up to 8 million rubles.

www.theverge.com

 

[Flavour]

Insert joke about how worthless rubles are

 

[friedaweed]

PBS/CNN (Amanpour & Company) interviews Carole Cadwalladr. Interview focuses in the first instance on Russia and the Ukraine information war but covers a host of related topics including Trump and Brexit:

Bob on that. Cheers for posting.

 

[teqniq]

This will have to fit here for want of anywhere better to put it, Some people are calling it censorship (but it's additional information!) but for my part it's difficult to have any sympathy whatsoever:

Update:

 

[NoXion]

Update:

The Twat In The Hat

 

[Dogsauce]

Example of his wisdom, humility, and indefatigability.



‘being paid to act like an idiot’ LOL


Presume Farage is out of the RT camp now that he has his own TV channel so he doesn’t get a nice little tag like George?

 

[frogwoman]

Dunno where else to put this but

 

[bluescreen]

1984 basically

This reminds me. Gideon Rachman was writing about the cult of the political strongman in the weekend FT:

Early in Putin’s long reign in Russia, I met his spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, in the Kremlin. The screensaver on Peskov’s computer was a series of revolving quotations from George Orwell’s 1984 — “war is peace”, “freedom is slavery” and so on. When I asked Peskov about some of Putin’s recent repressive acts, he smilingly replied that “all our systems are imperfect”.

What war in Ukraine means for the age of the autocrat

The world’s strongmen are watching Vladimir Putin’s gamble play out in Ukraine — and the consequences of his success or failure will be global

www.ft.com

It's a chilling article. Rachman has a book The Age of The Strongman

 

[74drew]

The Twat In The Hat

Saw this and made me chuckle.

 

[frogwoman]

YouTube по требованию Роскомнадзора заблокировал видео с песней «Хотят ли русские войны». В Роскомнадзоре заявили, что их неправильно поняли — Meduza

Видеохостинг YouTube заблокировал в России самый популярный ролик с песней «Хотят ли русские войны» в исполнении советского актера и певца Марка Бернеса. На блокировку обратил внимание телеграм-канал «Можем объяснить».

meduza.io

YouTube block a pop video at the request of Russian authorities

 

[Supine]

YouTube по требованию Роскомнадзора заблокировал видео с песней «Хотят ли русские войны». В Роскомнадзоре заявили, что их неправильно поняли — Meduza

Видеохостинг YouTube заблокировал в России самый популярный ролик с песней «Хотят ли русские войны» в исполнении советского актера и певца Марка Бернеса. На блокировку обратил внимание телеграм-канал «Можем объяснить».

meduza.io

YouTube block a pop video at the request of Russian authorities

Link in English?

 

[frogwoman]

Link in English?

Can you put it in Google Chrome? I have settings on to offer an English translation

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

The Military Situation In The Ukraine

Part One: The Road To War For years, from Mali to Afghanistan, I have worked for peace and risked my life for it. It is therefore not a question of justifying war, but of understanding what led us to it. I notice that the "experts" who take turns on television analyze the situation on the

www.thepostil.com

Wasn't sure where to put this. A friend whose judgement I would normally trust is a great believer in Scott Ritter. I know he has had allegations of sexual abuse made against him in the past, and they may or may not be fabricated by an establishment who dislike him intensely, but leaving that aside, do any of his claims stack up?

 

[zahir]

The Military Situation In The Ukraine

Part One: The Road To War For years, from Mali to Afghanistan, I have worked for peace and risked my life for it. It is therefore not a question of justifying war, but of understanding what led us to it. I notice that the "experts" who take turns on television analyze the situation on the

www.thepostil.com

Wasn't sure where to put this. A friend whose judgement I would normally trust is a great believer in Scott Ritter. I know he has had allegations of sexual abuse made against him in the past, and they may or may not be fabricated by an establishment who dislike him intensely, but leaving that aside, do any of his claims stack up?

From that article:

The hospital in Mariupol occupies a dominant position, perfectly suited for the installation of anti-tank weapons and for observation. On 9 March, Russian forces struck the building. According to CNN, 17 people were wounded, but the images do not show any casualties in the building and there is no evidence that the victims mentioned are related to this strike. There is talk of children, but in reality, there is nothing. This may be true, but it may not be true. This does not prevent the leaders of the EU from seeing this as a war crime. And this allows Zelensky to call for a no-fly zone over Ukraine.

In reality, we do not know exactly what happened. But the sequence of events tends to confirm that Russian forces struck a position of the Azov regiment and that the maternity ward was then free of civilians.

Enough said really.

eta:

The mission of The Postil Magazine is to recoup a fading vision of humanity, namely, Classical Humanism, rooted in faith and reason. In other words, we work for the return of Christendom.

This is also the New Humanism, couched in the great tradition of Erasmus of Rotterdam and Sir Thomas More – deep learning, informed by deep faith.

We seek to feed the mind with good ideas, in that good ideas are expressions of a celebratory soul. The West needs reseeding with good ideas because it is in the process of losing its soul.

There is a heavy pall of cultural fatigue smothering the West. It is a true Dark Age, where wisdom is confused with information, truth is problematized as spin, faith is ridiculed as superstition, language is tightly controlled, and reason is shouted down by weaponized emotion.

We recognize that human beings cannot live without ideals, without transcendence, without truth. In effect, there can be no humanity without God.

There is a great hunger for deeper faith, for purer enlightenment, for greater virtue, for sharper reason, and for good ideas. In other words, a hunger for truth.

Our task is to rediscover spiritual and intellectual excellence, as expressed in merit. And it is through excellence that humans achieve their greater, eternal purpose – moral beauty. In this way, civilization is the embodiment of both good ideas and virtue.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

From that article:


Enough said really.

Yeah I noticed that and other things, like his taking everything the Kremlin says at face value. But is there any truth in what he says about the Donbas, for example? About shelling of civilians and the like? Or about the conduct of Ukrainian troops going back to 2014? Or is it all to be discounted?

BTW I noticed elsewhere today that Ritter has been saying that the media should not be calling the atrocities in Ukraine war crimes until a full, proper and detailed investigation is carried out for every individual allegation.

 

[zahir]

From his wikipedia entry:

On April 6, 2022, Ritter was briefly suspended from Twitter for violating its rule on "harassment and abuse" after he posted a tweet with unsubstantiated claims accusing Ukraine of "crimes against humanity," questioning events surrounding the Bucha massacre and calling Biden a "war criminal" for "seeking to shift blame for the Bucha murders" to Russia. American-backed sources have indicated that Russia was likely responsible for the killings.[58]

 

[zahir]

Yeah I noticed that and other things, like his taking everything the Kremlin says at face value. But is there any truth in what he says about the Donbas, for example? About shelling of civilians and the like? Or about the conduct of Ukrainian troops going back to 2014? Or is it all to be discounted?

How would you even start to try and sift out any truth from the fiction in his writing?

 

[LDC]

The Military Situation In The Ukraine

Part One: The Road To War For years, from Mali to Afghanistan, I have worked for peace and risked my life for it. It is therefore not a question of justifying war, but of understanding what led us to it. I notice that the "experts" who take turns on television analyze the situation on the

www.thepostil.com

Wasn't sure where to put this. A friend whose judgement I would normally trust is a great believer in Scott Ritter. I know he has had allegations of sexual abuse made against him in the past, and they may or may not be fabricated by an establishment who dislike him intensely, but leaving that aside, do any of his claims stack up?

That's depressing. I have been a bit shocked at the absolute shit people are sharing approvingly without even the most cursory checking of the sourse in the last month or so over Ukraine. I mean ffs, even before Ukraine have a look at his form; RT contributor, Syria conspiracist, right wing conservative, etc. Even ignoring the sex charges!

 

[Dystopiary]

Russian TV pundit Nikita Danyuk, normalising the talk of "denazification" beyond Ukraine:

"Of course I think it's unlikely to be implemented, but I've got the impression that the denazification operation should in one way or another take place not only in Ukraine because what we're now seeing in the Baltics is an outright honouring of the Nazis"


Same guy on TV talk show "Vremya Pokazhet" ("Time Will Tell", main political daytime TV show), back in February, 2 days before the invasion:

"This Ukraine, an 'error 404' country which has been living in this cocoon, in this myth which it created for itself and which, this myth, is now collapsing."

 

[frogwoman]

Sovоlyov is the one whose swimming pool in Tuscany just got turned red

 

[Flavour]

Lake Como in Lombardy, not Tuscany, but a lovely action by the comrades in Italy all the same frogwoman

 

[frogwoman]

Disinformation: A National Security Threat?. Episode: Disinformation: A National Security Threat? Podcast Republic . Media: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream...disinformation-a-national-security-threat.mp3 .

Bat shit crazy revelations in an Irish military podcast (!) The Russian Internet Research Agency promoted a protest against Donald Trump in 2017 which was more successful than the normal anti Trump protests, and even turned up at protests themselves.

 

[zahir]

Video having a go at analysing redfish and its approach of targeting a leftist audience without really making the pro-Russian line explicit.

 

[frogwoman]

Jeez

 

[NoXion]

Jeez

I wonder what must go wrong in one's life to end up becoming that kind of professional bullshitter and regime arselicker.

 

[IC3D]

From that article:


Enough said really.

eta:

There is a very grim propoganda video deploring the west not sending more arms. It shows the hospital in Mariopul and has infants and children recieving cpr. Certainly looks like the aftermath of a Russian strike.

 

[two sheds]

I wonder what must go wrong in one's life to end up becoming that kind of professional bullshitter and regime arselicker.

No difference at all between Putin and Trump worshippers:

something about looking from pig to man and man to pig ....

 

[Dystopiary]

This would be just as relevant in the thread Russian Imperialism pre-2022, but I'll put it here because of how it's affecting people now.
This thread's an important read about how ethnic Russians in nations that were part of the USSR often see things.



It seems that these people are useful to Putin, even though he doesn't give a shit about them.