The build-up to war on Russia

[Rory]

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It's funny how narratives change over time and how the enormous sacrifice Russia made for freedom is minimised or forgotten

[Elvis]

"They've been our enemy for 70 years" according to a post I saw on Reddit

Yes, and in US media I keep hearing Russia referred to as "our adversary" and "the enemy" etc.—an extraordinary characterization begging for trouble.

[MacCruiskeen]

NATO seeking to hire Russian-speaking actors for alliance’s MILITARY DRILLS in Bavaria

NATO is advertising for Russian-speaking actors to play civilians in military drills amid escalating tensions with Moscow.

By SIMON OSBORNE
20:56, Thu, Mar 30, 2017 | UPDATED: 21:34, Thu, Mar 30, 2017

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/786 ... imir-Putin

The casting call was posted by German recruitment agency Optronic HR GmbH, which specialises in enlisting extras for military exercises conducted by NATO and the US military.

It wants actors to represent Russian-speaking ‘Civilians on the Battlefield’, such as farmers or shopkeepers, in unspecified conflict regions.

The actors are needed for the upcoming exercises starting on April 28 at a US training base in Bavaria, southern Germany.

The job spec says Russian-speaking actors will provide a “realistic practice scenario and therefore ideal preparation for upcoming deployment of the soldiers to conflict regions”.

The ad also says 10 “villages” of 10 to 30 houses will be built for the war games, and applicants are expected to stay there for three weeks to create conditions for the US military “as close as possible to the real ones.”

Some 30 to 100 extras are required for each village, indicating the approximate scale of the exercise.

The actors are banned from leaving the territory of the training base during the drills, as well as from using mobile phones and other gadgets “for security reasons.” They are also banned from consuming alcohol.

The ad states the actors will be provided with special vests with infrared sensors for the military to calculate how many civilians “suffered” during the “fighting.”

Optronic HR GmbH states on its website: “Our objective is to familiarise soldiers with the language, religion, customs and morals of foreign cultures in different countries.

This approach develops the basis for successful exercises in a challenging environment and therefore ideal training results.”

NATO has repeatedly voiced concerns over what it dubbed “Russian aggression” following Moscow’s reunification with Crimea and its alleged role in the eastern Ukrainian crisis and has responded by carrying out a series of military exercises across eastern Europe.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/786 ... imir-Putin


RELATED: US piles pressure on Nato members as Rex Tillerson heads to Brussels to demand more cash

[Rory]

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[seemslikeadream]

no worries Donald Trump's in charge now

Donald Trump Is An International Law Breaker
By Colonel W. Patrick Lang

April 08, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - Donald Trump's decision to launch cruise missile strikes on a Syrian Air Force Base was based on a lie. In the coming days the American people will learn that the Intelligence Community knew that Syria did not drop a military chemical weapon on innocent civilians in Idlib. Here is what happened:

The Russians briefed the United States on the proposed target. This is a process that started more than two months ago. There is a dedicated phone line that is being used to coordinate and deconflict (i.e., prevent US and Russian air assets from shooting at each other) the upcoming operation.
The United States was fully briefed on the fact that there was a target in Idlib that the Russians believes was a weapons/explosives depot for Islamic rebels.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46827.htm

Lawrence Wilkerson interview.

A must-watch. Especially for the VERY LAST THING he says in the interview.

Wait for it. You'll see.

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?opt ... ival=18841

Inovo hired Mr. Flynn on behalf of an Israeli company seeking to export natural gas to Turkey, the filing said, and Mr. Alptekin wanted information on the U.S.-Turkey political climate to advise the gas company about its Turkish investments.Mr. Woolsey, who served as CIA director under President Bill Clinton, offered in September to advise the Trump campaign and opposed Hillary Clinton for president. He briefly served as a senior adviser to the transition team.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ex-cia-dir ... 1490380426

How the alt-right brought #SyriaHoax to America – DFRLab – Medium
Tracing the “false flag” claim back to a pro-Assad website
https://medium.com/dfrlab/how-the-alt-r ... 745118d1c9
2 days ago - Diagram of how the “false flag” claim spread. US President Donald Trump’s decision to launch strikes against Syria in the wake of a major chemical weapons attack provoked outrage from the far-right groups who were his most aggressive supporters. As rumors of the impending ...

DFRLab – Medium
https://medium.com/dfrlab
5 days ago - How the alt-right brought #SyriaHoax to America. Tracing the “false flag” claim back to a pro-Assad website · Go to the profile of @DFRLab.


See also...

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UW professor: The information war is real, and we’re losing it
Originally published March 29, 2017 at 6:30 am Updated March 30, 2017 at 11:04 am


Kate Starbird, a University of Washington assistant professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, with a domain network graph she developed looking at tweets relating to 2016 shootings. (Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times)
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http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-new ... losing-it/

Examining the Alternative Media Ecosystem through the Production of Alternative Narratives of Mass Shooting Events on Twitter
Kate Starbird, University of Washington, HCDE
http://faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/A ... aReady.pdf

The top forty users of the #SyriaHoax hashtag between 16:00 and 22:00 UTC, with the number of tweets. The total figure for these posts is 3,007.
In the process, the alt-right sites used the same arguments, backed up with the same evidence, and taken from the same sources, as the Al-Masdar original. This was not a case of the alt-right arguing on behalf of the Assad regime as much as amplifying it.https://medium.com/dfrlab/how-the-alt-r ... 745118d1c9

[Rory]

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[seemslikeadream]

Kushner Omitted Meeting With Russians on Security Clearance Forms
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/u ... rance.html

US to accuse Russia of complicity in Syrian chemical attack: report
http://nypost.com/2017/04/09/us-to-accu ... ck-report/


"We warned the Russians. The Russians warned the Syrians.

AND we did not destroy the chemical weapons."

[Rory]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the ... d6baac11df

When the WaPo are calling your theories, "fringe", "evidence free", maybe it's time to reassess

[seemslikeadream]

now a warning?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXsnlzhsoS4

[Rory]

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[DrEvil]

Louise Mensch is a despicable piece of shit.

The so-called explosive was lighter fluid with some bits of steel wire taped to the outside (not nails as some people are claiming), or as the police put it :"It had very little damage potential".

The police interviewed the kid two years ago for being online friends with a guy who's now in Syria, but he vehemently denied supporting IS specifically because of the violence they employed.

The most likely explanation is kids being kids and blowing stuff up in remote places just because.
(If we had these laws when I was a kid I would probably still be in jail. We used to blow up the sheriff's mailbox every new year. It was traditional.)

[MacCruiskeen]

Russia must choose between Assad and U.S., Tillerson says

Putin says he has intelligence that there are fake chemical attacks planned for Syria

The Associated Press Posted: Apr 11, 2017 6:59 AM ET Last Updated: Apr 11, 2017 1:12 PM ET

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson issued an ultimatum to Russia on Tuesday: Side with the U.S. and like-minded countries on Syria, or embrace Iran, militant group Hezbollah and embattled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. [...]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/tillerson- ... -1.4065233

"You are either with us or with the terrorists."

[MacCruiskeen]

"Russia Is Preparing For Hot War"- Video - Posted April 11, 2017

"I think this is the most dangerous moment in American-Russian relations since the Cuban Crisis" - Stephen Cohen, Professor emeritus of Russian studies at Princeton University and New York University



http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46838.htm

[Grizzly]

Damn, my insurance payments just went up. ¡suɐᴉssnR ǝɥʇ ǝq ʇsnW

[MacCruiskeen]

LOL, or something:

Trump says Nato 'no longer obsolete'

40 minutes ago
BBC From the section US & Canada

US President Donald Trump has said Nato is "no longer obsolete", reversing a stance that had alarmed allies.

Hosting Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House, Mr Trump said the threat of terrorism had underlined the alliance's importance.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39585029

Ah, right, "the threat of terrorism" has changed everything, suddenly.

It'll be exciting to see how #TheResistance responds to this latest "bold move" by the newly-Presidential President.