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https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2022/05/ringwraytheon.html
Mom has birthday today
Happy birthday Mom
Rest in peace
She brought us out of USSR
I didn’t grow up with her in America
This is a very sick country
The guy I pay rent to sums it up best
“I want to kill everything out there”
Now the US admits it is a war against Russia in UKraine while Poland quietly annexes west UKraine I gather is called Galicia not to be confused with gaelic language of course
I miss my Mom. Missed her
when she was alive.
I miss Russia
They make it seem like a really terrible place ,
in the America empire of lies and wars
Who can forget yellowcake
Is it just me? Or does life keep getting worse the more wars we fight
Now why would that be?
This is the first war they brag of
Why do they brag?
I miss Russia, however bad it is
In America they always say how bad Russia is, for decades
Now it seems to me like America is a large part of what made Russia so bad if it is?
Is it?
The freedoms america brags of don’t seem to exist
It was all a lie mom
I found out when I tried
Will you please speak Russian
To me and teach me to cry and feel
My feelings again?
I haven’t been able to cry for a few years in America, notably since about 2002 or so, after disCog pre disCog wtc7 on after that day of demise
Not for lack of things to cry about
The saker says not to ? Well I am no important person, but I would be happy for a good cry…
Happy birthday Mom
I think maybe it is time for me to think how to go home
Someone told me today Moscow is ready for me…he is so funny
I don’t even know three words in Russian anymore
Ya Nisnaya harasho.
Talk to me in Russian Mom
Remind of when we still could have dreams of a better life somewhere….
Beautiful! Thank you for this post. It made me miss your mom too.
Happy Birthday to her. May she watch over you, and all good people.
nice text
Sergey Glazyev telegram channel
https://t.me/glazieview/1716
Translation:
The hanging of Hussein was broadcast on all world TV channels in 2006. The death of Colonel Gaddafi, torn to pieces by the crowd, was also broadcast on all TV channels of the world in 2011. Why do you think this is shown to the whole world? This is a demonstration execution so that all countries can see what will happen to those who want to leave the American financial system.
The US Federal Reserve System (in other words, the US Central Bank) is a private organization owned by 20 private US banks. This is their main business – to print the world’s money. To achieve this, the current owners of the Fed have spent a lot of time – decades, centuries, to be exact – and effort – here: World War 1, the coup in Russia in February 1917, and then World War 2 and the Bretton Woods agreements, etc. d. and, of course, the very creation of the Fed in 1907. The Federal Reserve System is a very smart, gigantic in volume and scale financial pyramid scheme.
One thing must be understood here – humanity is dealing with a brilliant, incredibly strong and ruthless group of people who have built the structure of the world in which we live. Their conceptual apparatus does not take into account such concepts as “humanism”, “kindness”, “compassion”, etc. The main thing is numbers, the main thing is profit, the main thing is the arithmetic of transactions. In a situation where it is necessary to destroy people, but make a big profit, there is no particular doubt for them what to do. In their own interests, they can level cities with the ground along with civilians. For them, the only truly meaningful result can only be profit.
And now Russia has challenged them. And the whole world is waiting for how it all ends. If Russia wins, the American financial system will lose half of the planet, China, India will also get out of the influence of the US Federal Reserve. But, for now, there is a deadly fight. We must win otherwise we will be destroyed.
Judging by the decisions being made at the highest level, everything in Russia has been calculated now. So don’t panic comrades! Yes, it will be difficult for 1-3 years, yes, there is still a lot of mess, prices will rise, some factories will stop, but soon such a powerful development of Russia will begin, which the world has not seen yet! But before building cities, for example, in Siberia, it is necessary to resolve the issues of the country’s security. Near our borders for decades, remove the main military threats, move the NATO military infrastructure away from our borders, this is what the Russian Army is doing now! Only forward! Our ancestors won and we will win!
I APPEAL TO REAL RUSSIANS WHO REALLY LOVES THEIR HOMELAND! Putin V.V. removes Russia from the influence of America and Europe. Himself out of the influence of the oligarchs. The process is underway. This does not suit the West. This does not suit some people in our country. Putin has many enemies. A coup d’état is being prepared. The overthrow of Putin is being prepared. America spares no expense for this, and there are people in the country who are ready to do it. Now RUSSIA is conducting an information war against Russia and against Putin. Part of this war is a deliberate attempt to create a negative attitude among Russians about what is happening in the country. Cause dissatisfaction with Putin’s policies. A dissatisfied people will more willingly support the coup. How do coups d’état and the overthrow of presidents end. we already know. A recent example is Ukraine. Maidan just wanted to change the president, and as a result, the whole country “Maidan” We have a choice. Support the president of RUSSIA, preserve the state, preserve peace and stability, defend the sovereignty and independence of RUSSIA. This is the main thing now.
The situation is very acute. We stand, and life will begin to change for the better. Then we will also remember about salaries, pensions, about thieves and about everything that has interfered and is preventing us from living a good life in recent decades. Be vigilant Russians! Let’s not “promide” our Motherland! Our children will be grateful to us later, they will say thank you!
Now it is not necessary to sow discord, but pray for our Motherland and our President!
P.S.
Who agrees, please send to groups and support our president!
– For them, the only truly meaningful result can only be profit.
More likely the name of the game is control.
Think about this scenario: EMP destroys civilization as we know it. Who will be the elite afterwards? Those in control.
Also here :
https://glazev.ru/articles/6-jekonomika/101674-a-seychas-rossija-brosila-im-vyzov
for those without TM. Microsoft Edge translate not too bad.
Glazyev knows exactly what is gong on.
“The Federal Reserve System is a very smart, gigantic in volume and scale financial pyramid scheme.”
To mention the $2 quadrillion debt of this transatlantic pyramid scheme would help – time is on Russia’s side.
Actually the FED/City of London is incredibly weak, about to implode. So a show of strength, sanctions, boomerangs to the back off their heads!
And EU citizens are being pounded with inflation.
There are supporters overseas who wish Russia the best luck and are 100% behind you, as victory will benefit the whole world on a larger scale. Thus we can only agree and support this agenda.
To “Know” anything, you actually have to be there experiencing it as it really is.
My Grandad was there, in the Trenches in World War 1
He survived the war, almost certain he was going to die.
He was from Scotland, but got offered a job in London, very close to where, my Mum and coincidentally our Children were born..(though both my wife and I were born in Lancashire), even both our Grandchildren were born in London
He taught music in Catford
WWI happenned, and he instantly volunteered
After 4 years of this sh1t, he was an officer and a gentleman, herding all these kids to their almost certain deaths (My Grandmother tried to stop him, and wrote him letters -please come home), but he wouldn’t..so she wrote, well I am gone, and she did. She left him with 6 kids, crying her heart out, to save him from almost certain death to become a Medical Missionary in Africa. She went alone (my Mum was not impressed)
After the war was over, he brought up my Mum and her older Brother (with his Mother) in North Western France
My mum used to tell me, how she was a peasent girl, growing up in France (born 1915)…
On my Mum’s 80th Birthday, my Niece who is a Musician, went through all our family archives, and found her Grandad’s musical notes, wrote on a scrap of paper, knowing he was soon going to die.
She said to her, and played it on her violin – All our family just simply loved Grannie – My Mum, she made 86, and died holding my hand
Why are we still doing this shit…all this war shit – even now…..come on.
Please Stop it.
We are supposed to be advancing as a human civilisation, and not going back 100 years to the start of World War 1.
I can’t do much about anything. I am 68 years old, been going to Music Festivals most of my life, with my wife. She is 64. We never did any of this war shit, yet travelled a lot of the world, often to foreign lands, when sometimes hardly anyone understood a word of English – yet we still made friends, by gestures, and sign language, and sharing what we had – maybe a bit of food.
The most generous people in the world we have found, were the poorest people. They would invite us in to their homes, cook us a meal, and let us stay the night. My wife and I have tried and have reciprocated, resulting in invitations…Please come and meet my family…
So all the love is there.
What is all this fighting all about Ukraine Vs Ukraine????
Come on…You guys are bothers and sisters ..much like we are in England vs Welsh, Scottish Northern Irish and the rest of Ireland..
We might argue and fight a bit, but we don’t try and kill each other (we actually rather like each other, and respect our different dialects)
So can you please stop doing it, and embarrassing us.
I hope Andrei, The Saker is O.K. he must be a bit wasted, and its O.K. to take some time off.
I always thought he was a nice man, and I have bought his book
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Thank You,
Tony
Tony, you are a decent human being. There’s not that many like you.
Sometimes you just have to laugh, I hope you can see the funny side of this:
https://off-guardian.org/2022/05/07/revelation-of-the-method/
John the First May 7, 2022 4:24 AM
Since mass democracy produces a totalitarian subhuman dumbed down culture, society becoming a totalitarian farce, transhumanist technology is required to safeguard at least a minimum level of the intelligence left.
So Musk is going to scan Twitter for live intelligence (scanned pre-democratic culture), he is going to scan-data-mine the democracy for the last remains of intelligence, and he needs all the computer power and network capacity possible to accomplish that (thus 5G and quantum computers). After that the idea is that they are going to implement the intelligence in robots and storage systems, so that after the democracy is given the lethal blow, the human race can safely continue its development. Transhumanism is the bridge, from the subhumanist level of democracy to humanity, a filter trying to distill an essence of intelligence left.
The authentication requirement is meant to prevent that the dumb demos and all kinds of drone-demos will anonymously multiply themselves by technological means (fake identities), which especially they have a tendency to do.
This might lead to overload the systems which already have a very hard job in finding any intelligence.
As a matter of fact there are a great many decent human beings, millions, T.O being a kind of round up personality as I read him, and of a very contemporary kind, that is, ordinary people, working class, intelligent and without pretensions. I know, I get on with them and we have a lot to say, sometimes funny, taking the mickey, talking about life, always honest. You can’t fake it….
Nothing against off-guardian but It kinda sounds condescending to select someone as being decent in order to promote an opinion piece, whether it’s true, funny or not, Why not reply to his post, it can’t hurt can it?
Perhaps it would, others also don’t talk much with the great unwashed masses..
But if you don’t love them you don’t care about anyone else on this planet either.
❤️❤️❤️❤️🇷🇺🇧🇾From italy 🇮🇹
What happened to the Nightvision sitreps? This was the best info on this site. Have they been discontinued, and if so why?
Missing them here too, what happened?
Well, I think he should get compensated somehow for his efforts.
Mabbe he realized, he has something to offer, that carries value and is in the process of monetizing it…
dunno
I hope we can find his website, if he starts any…
The trouble with NATO is that the individual decision makers have no accountability. Any member is free to to be stupidly belligerent, behind a shield of immunity. Consider the past actions of Turkey in Syria and Iraq, of Poland towards Russia, and of those nations who planned, funded, armed and staffed acts of war in the present conflict.
So how to deal with these Article 5 accomplices?
Perhaps there is an approach within the American legal concept of “jointly and severally liable.” That means that if a bunch of goons collaborate to do a wrong, you can hold all of the participants, or any of them, accountable for the entire misdeed. You can punish any or all of them, depending on who has assets, and who you can catch, and whom it’s valuable to punish.
For example, if Poland does belligerent harm, you deem that to be an action of NATO, and you spank a NATO member other than Poland. Maybe Belgium. Maybe Luxembourg. There are advantages to spanking someone “remote” from the active belligerence. There are also advantages to dispensing the spankings randomly.
A goal is to make it plain to nations that are parties to NATO that there will be a cost to them of not strenuously keeping their confederates under control.
A further goal is to make countries think hard about whether they would be more secure or less secure if they should join NATO. Right now, countries seem to think no harm can befall them if they join up. You want them to rethink that, to consider that if militant Nazi’s in Poland act out, that they might lose their own LNG terminals in consequence.
This is the khazarian operation nicely mapped out. Not complete, but digestible for most independent thinkers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IKThcTt8_M
Again, I highly recommend reading Isaac Asimov`s Foundation Trilogy.
Asimov was a khazar jew.
All aspects of this present state of the Russo-Uk-Nato war, the explicit military, economic details generally tend to obfuscate, muddy the big picture for most people just waking up to the war, that has been going on for milleniae.
Quote from video description:
(first a description of Israel being a useless desert)
– It is worth adding that Igor Berkut claims that 183 Jews from Haifa arrived in Ukraine in January 2017, and as Berkut continues, the first cornerstone for the foundation of the “Heavenly Jerusalem” was laid on the fertile Ukrainian soil. This founding group also started preparations for the accepting of the first 100,000 Jews from Israel. And by the end of 2022, the organizers plan to bring 6 million Jews from Israel and over 12 million from Russia, the USA and European Union countries to New Jerusalem. In another statement, Berkut adds: – The government of New Jerusalem – when it is officially proclaimed after the adoption of the law on the decentralization of Ukraine – will be entrusted to the Council of Protectors, consisting of 12 leaders.
—
What fits nicely into Jim Wald: “Leaked report: Israel acknowledges Jews in fact Khazars; Secret plan for reverse migration to Ukraine”
Well, from the quotes and also other public Ukrainian figures, its obvious that the most disgusting slime have been allowed to grow high in the Ukrainian Elite circles.
Looking back at the discrimination, banning, racism and sabotaging of all related to Russian in Ukraine, its quite telling to which extent the supporters of these cocaine sniffing Ukrainian slimes (the EU+Company) are willing to go.
Odessa was 30% Jewish not long ago … indicating Odessa is center for the Jewish population. Of course Odessa will be full of Jewish architecture and Jewish names. Yiddish is Jewish language, not Hebrew. Did Kafka speak Hebrew?? Of course not, it would be Yiddish. Do Jews know how to behave in a desert? Not at all. Israel is an environmental disaster. They have to go home.
Uncle Joe chopped off his toe and screamed an angry blow,
His tribe was woke, and spoke of a nasty toke,
one which could not be accepted.
To be fooled or to be cooled was the only question,
and the answer was one.
Uncle Joe wrapped his toe and climbed the Tallahatchie bridge,
do as I say or I’ll jump he muttered, stuttered, and suddenly fell flat off the bridge.
The tribe arrived, and contrived, that Uncle Joe had somehow survived, he was alive.
But only for a moment, as soon after, his soul darted off high and to the sky, never to be seen again,
and Uncle Joe sank into the river of fire taking the tribe, the vibe, and the hide, down with him.
Had such high hopes for the laboratory of the States…😌
Well, every abortion averted is a new beginning…so lets go Brandon!
Immunity could also be labelled anonymity, as both have many similar defining characterises.
As NATO operates as an organization, those with the most power, operate within it to a greater or lesser extent, by remaining hidden when deemed appropriate, and highly visible when it suits them. That’s an anonymity power-based monetary strategy.
Another form of retaining anonymity can be adopted for entirely different reasons : anonymous to remain humble. Humility involves non personal power for the good.
Evil dressed up as good is a way to present what is good, ‘shared values,’ desirable, group feel-good keep-safe propaganda for lies. It’s only gonna get more intense, Satan dressed as Geezus doing good next?
Regarding the “Makarov”, just an idea of what is going on there. And maybe it would make sense to close of the entire Azov sea so none of the Dolphins can come in.
I remember when the Yanks had “invested” in Thyssen Marine and in Kiel’s, Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft GmbH. That’s what Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft GmbH was renamed ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems GmbH at the end of 2012. These “super-investor” guys really arrived with their photocopying machines and made such funny faces as they found out that there are no more sketches :) laying around to grab up for free.
As the first three subs were delivered something strange was happened: A mysterious takeover of Thyssen Marine’s shipyard in the Athens, the Hellenic Shipyards S.A. by an Abu Dubai “investor group” called Abu Dhabi MAR (ADM).
What a surprise that all of a sudden the CEO of Abu Dhabi MAR (ADM)died in an accident with an Ultra light airplane in Morocco just a few days later after signing of the contract…. The subs are maintained there.
Well then Thyssen Marine got it’s money out before Greece was economically put in chains by the EU.
Anyway, these little “suby’s” have excellent properties in terms of dwell time under water and are very hard to track down. I can imagine that, given the small number of boats built, these little things we’re not really paid the attention the deserve. On top of it, they are capable to carry nukes…
And the new version, the Dolphins Class 2 is not even harder to detect
https://www.naval-technology.com/projects/dolphin/
Some stuff on Dolphin, and Type 212, etc> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin-class_submarine
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_212_submarine
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV5VDyBfIbA
and a docu>
https://youtu.be/CcgDyxADsiM U32 submarine on its journey from the Eckernforde naval base through the difficult-to-navigate Kiel Canal to Plymouth in England. (on the surface in realistic conditions, ie really nasty!)
This last, the docu, begs some technical questions about quality assurance at the builders…and it’s also worth watching in detail. Note poster in sub. Note fouled fuel – quality problem!
I suspect this site http://radio.garden/listen/wyomingpublicmedia/YGELcjzk (you move circle to whatever sender you like on globe) is also a tracker of some sort…but it’s quite nice. The url I gave is for the local stations (senders) in Laramie Wyoming, situated in a “valley” @ 7000 feet.
Minsk> http://radio.garden/visit/minsk/OKbHNN8d
Anyway, enjoy (with caution).
P
Russia’s “doomsday plane” appears in V-day parade rehearsal. A Russian Il-80 aircraft, which will serve as a strategic command post in the “doomsday” of a nuclear war, participated in a rehearsal of the upcoming Victory Day parade on Wednesday.
Together with strategic bombers and fighters, the Il-80 escorted by two MiG-29 jets flew over Moscow. Eight MiG-29SMT aircraft flew past the Red Square in a Z-shaped formation in support of the Russian troops participating in the military operation in Ukraine.
Russia holds military parades on May 9 to commemorate the Soviet Union’s victory in the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany. About 11,000 people, 131 types of weapons and military equipment as well as 77 aircraft will participate in the main parade on the Red Square this year marking the 77th anniversary of the victory.
Military parades will be held in 28 Russian cities, involving almost 65,000 people, about 2,400 types of weapons and military equipment as well as more than 460 aircraft.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/LIVE-Russia-to-Destroy-NATO-Vehicles-Carrying-Arms-in-Ukraine-20220504-0011.html
link pictures…
https://eurasiantimes.com/flying-kremlin-russias-aircraft-for-potential-nuclear-wa/
‘Flying Kremlin’: Russia’s Powerful Aircraft Designed For A Potential ‘Nuclear War’ Spotted Over Moscow
EUROPE
By
Ashish Dangwal
May 4, 2022
Vladimir Putin’s special “Doomsday” command and control aircraft – the Ilyushin Il-80 – has been spotted flying about Moscow in recent days amid growing concerns in the West that Russia could launch a nuclear attack.
In “Oh Brother Where Art Thou” (a film I recommend) we have a wonderful line of dialogue…” Friend, sumayer foldin’ money’s cummin’ unstole.” https://youtu.be/81eU8Rq7j58 …well in an entirely different line…enjoy (?) the film 2K/mule ( https://www.bitchute.com/video/iv6LTEPEHI5P/ ) Remember though, it’s all totally untrue and commie propaganda! (well, somebody said…)
Seriously though, the flow of history of empire may have tide, but the direction is a matter of nature, and the nature of empire…spells the way to the sea… it’s an East Wind that drives the seas.
The fubar’d ‘lection might be seen as a signal of fubar’d empire, and the collapse of the cryptonazi ambitions, at least in metaphysics…like Stalingrad…after that the direction was established…
Senile Mr 10% “draw” 81 million? why not 101 billion? (gimme the chalk!) But perhaps it will be a matter at trial, flow of history has eddy and swirl, nuances of whims of Fates.
Comrade H Turner regularly calls the overwhelmingly legitimate prez “illegitimate”…shameful!
Rain to-day @ Anoxia…
I didn’t know where else to post this, so it goes here:)
Video from Kiev of Trudeau attempting to raise the Canadian flag in Ukraine.
Needless to say, it goes very wrong. This is the level of excellence among the elites in Ottawa.
https://twitter.com/The_Real_Fly/status/1523500806657429505?cxt=HHwWgsCyva36x6QqAAAA
Priceless, loved the look on the face of the lady who walks by them……only thing missing was a few low yield Russian missiles landing in the background, for effect…just to see that little POS dictator flinch.
Cheers M
More good news on the route, Orcs withdrawing…translates at site.
https://warnews247.gr/ektakto-h-archi-tou-telous-gia-to-kievo-sto-ntonbas-espase-i-voreia-amyntiki-grammi-epese-to-frourio-tis-popasnagia/
Cheers
A little lovely thing .. Summer.
It all looks delicious, but there are two things that I love. Right in the beginning, how they cut and serve that pineapple and a little in, look at those very beautiful icecreams!
https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1522961263621738497
I’m for grilled kebabs today or rather tomorrow to give them a bit of time in the marinade. What with? decisions, decision – couscous because it is fast? rice because it is cheap? (Has the rice kernels shrunk? I only find little small ones instead of long ones?) slices of italian polenta because it is easy and I can pre-make it? But definitely slices of ripe tomato with a drizzle of olive oil and lime and flecks of sweet basil.
Quality of food is fast reducing. We still get good stuff as we have local supply, but in general, just lower quality. We’re close to the fishing beach but cannot get fat big shrimps – only little tiny ones that are only good for salad or ceviche and takes hours to clean. My husband spent a lot of time in Japan and he usually has some sushi grade tuna and we make sushi rolls and sashimi – the tuna which we pay an arm and a leg for, is just as if it was sawdust and now stuck together with meat glue. Husband bought some pork chops a while ago and those things were meatglued with little extra bone stuck in the top so it could look like a chop. I took it back and did not really make a big noise but made my voice clear that they cannot mark these things as pork chops because they just aint! Stuff comes out of laboratories these days.
So, chicken kebabs because we still get good organic chicken – with pineapple and sweet peppers and mushrooms on the kebab stick.
Suitable? Shall we prepare that?
Here it is Asparagus Season!
The very best new spuds as well.
Norwegian Salmon fillets sound good, or real beef.
That decision I must chew on….
Used to be asparagus season here also, we’d be picking right now….this year, the river has just started to recede, the asparagus patch has emerged from the deluge. Just the most horrible weather here, was in the green house planned on planting some corn, cabbage…..too cold, pouring rain…..did I mention the horrible weather.
@bonbon…..fillets, farmed or fresh?
Cheers M
Price fluctuates – sometimes wild salmon is actually cheaper than farmed.
Even Alaska salmon turns up.
First they sell Peru asparagus, probably to whet the appetite, then arrives local, although a huge migrant worker contingent.
Prices look inflated this year. Soon it will be a luxury item for Brussels MEP’s.
Brother Gonzalo speaks for brief 10 minutes…says decision already taken bigbig RF cut off of commodities …and AZE kaputski NLT 30 Sept 2022. (remembering Putin Speech to-day> “so that there is no place in the world for torturers, death squads and Nazis.”), evidently if we accept Gonzalo’s inside infomat….the bigbigplan is indeed global denazification in a multiyear SMO.
I recall “Long Telegram” based strategy on defects of internal contradiction of USSR., this time what State have these “internal contradictions”?
Mercouris expect Ukraine to be invaded before end of May by, presumably, nazi army west Polish Division, so to say. I’ll see what odd Stumpy will give…
Gonzalo> https://youtu.be/nXnOFXUmVv0
It might be naive to assume either fella is mistaken.
Elon Musk has apparently provided Starlink tech to Kiev.
Russian Space Agency Chief Rogozin said he will have to answer in an adult manner to accusations.
Then Musk tweeted an ominous “If I die under mysterious circumstances, it was nice to know you,”
Was this for Rogozin or D.C after buying Twitter?
Why at times RT and other Russian sites do not adhere to a Russian perspective. Others, including myself, have wondered at this variance. This is a form of manipulation using the broad array of Russian-affiliated media featuring both sides of a coin to promote an agenda. The abstract here focuses on BLM but rest assured targets are varied.imo
Playing Both Sides: Russian State-Backed Media Coverage of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
Samantha Bradshaw, Renée DiResta, Carly MillerFirst Published February 28, 2022 Research Article
https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612221082052
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Abstract
Russian influence operations on social media have received significant attention following the 2016 US presidential elections. Here, scholarship has largely focused on the covert strategies of the Russia-based Internet Research Agency and the overt strategies of Russia’s largest international broadcaster RT (Russia Today). But since 2017, a number of new news media providers linked to the Russian state have emerged, and less research has focused on these channels and how they may support contemporary influence operations. We conduct a qualitative content analysis of 2,014 Facebook posts about the #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) protests in the United States over the summer of 2020 to comparatively examine the overt propaganda strategies of six Russian-linked news organizations—RT, Ruptly, Soapbox, In The NOW, Sputnik, and Redfish. We found that RT and Sputnik diverged in their framing of the BLM movement from the newer media properties. RT and Sputnik primarily produced negative coverage of the BLM movement, painting protestors as violent, or discussed the hypocrisy of racial justice in America. In contrast, newer media properties like In The NOW, Soapbox, and Redfish supported the BLM movement with clickbait-style videos highlighting racism in America. Video footage bearing the Ruptly brandmark appears in both traditional and new media properties, to illustrate, in real time, civil unrest across the US. By focusing on overt propaganda from the broad array of Russian-affiliated media, our data allows us to further understand the “full spectrum” and “counter-hegemonic” strategies at play in contemporary information operations.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19401612221082052
Dark is the Night – Mark Bernes,
from the movie “Two Soldiers”
https://youtu.be/HjmmxX5U2VM
Translation of lyrics –
Dark is the night,
only bullets are whistling in the steppe,
Only the wind is wailing through the telephone wires,
stars are faintly flickering …
In the dark night, my love,
I know you are not sleeping,
and, near a child’s crib,
you secretly wipe away a tear.
How I love the depths of your gentle eyes,
How I want to press my lips to them!
This dark night separates us, my love,
and the dark, troubled steppe has come to lie between us.
I have faith in you, my sweetheart.
That faith has shielded me from bullets
in this dark night …
I am glad, I am calm in deadly battle:
I know you will meet me with love,
no matter what happens.
Death is not terrible,
we’ve met with it more than once in the steppe …
And now here it looms over me once again,
You await my return,
sitting sleepless near the cradle,
and so I know that nothing will happen to me!