🇷🇺🇺🇸 #Russia|n Navy Pacific Fleet Project 864 (NATO: Vishnya-class) Kareliya|Карелия is operating near #Hawaii, monitoring missile tests, and has been for well over a week, per open sources.

Neither #NORAD or #USNavy tell us anything until we tell them; normal.

#ВМФ #Тф #OSINT
USNI got the scoop (h/t #OSINT)

Follow this story (I sure will) to see how many mainstream news orgs (CNN, NYT, WaPo, Fox, etc.) actually pick up this story and report on it.

It's not from their handlers at the White House or The Pentagon; it's an example of real journalism. 📰
Once the American media make it "public" (disclosed thanks to open sources, not #NORAD/#USNavy) the Russian media will report on the activities of the Russian Navy AGI, but will likely only repeat back what's been published by American sources.
NB: @Newsweek didn't publish a tweet about the Russian Navy ship that's been hanging out near Hawaii for way over a week; I guess they forgot?

Maybe they were asked nicely not to. 🕵️

newsweek.com/us-navy-tracks…
You've noticed the absence of CNN, MSNBC, Fox, NYT, WaPo, etc right? The story broke yesterday, they've had time. Newsweek had time, they published theirs today. I do not believe the gov't wants the public to know, or they'd have to explain the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
Here is a search explicitly for news, in the past day, with the words "#Kareliya" and "navy"; any article about this topic should have at least those two words in it, right?

Check in any time to see if any MSM defence correspondents have written ANYTHING.
duckduckgo.com/?q=Kareliya+na…
If I don't throw in the tag #AGI and #Russia|n Navy, I'm never going to find this thread again. 😂
William Cole's piece was syndicated, but still no coverage of the Russian Navy ship spying on U.S missile tests near Hawaii by @CNN, @FoxNews, @MSNBC, @CBSNews, @NBCNews @ABC, @BreitbartNews, @AlJazeera, @BBCNews, @abcnews, @CBCNews, @DefenseOne, etc. 🤷‍♂️

news.yahoo.com/russian-spy-sh…
Thank you @Newsweek for publishing AND tweeting the story to your followers, so the public might become informed.
Still not much coverage of the Russian Navy ship that was/is ~13NM off the coast of Hawaii, has delayed missile tests, and has been there for over a week.

Tell me again about your "free press". Image
If the #USNavy and #NORAD don't return calls about the Russian Navy AGI Karelia off the coast of #Hawaii, do journalists at the other news outlets who haven't published the story just sit on their hands and refuse to report on it? 🤔

Great way for officials to game the system.
Ah, much better. Image
⚠️ Hey, member how the U.S. framed a ~yearly intel gathering mission off the East Coast by the Russians in 2019? They'd been out there ~2 wks already. That was the 🇷🇺 Navy AGI Viktor Leonov, the sister ship to the Kareliya, the one near Hawaii, right now.
abcnews4.com/news/local/rus…
Spoiler: They missed.

mda.mil/news/21news000… Image
📰 William Cole is already on it for the Honolulu Star Advertiser.

staradvertiser.com/2021/05/29/bre…
See how many Duck Duck Go-indexed news articles were written about the 🇷🇺 #Russia|n Navy AGI Kareliya|Карелия off the coast of #Hawaii 🇺🇸 in the last week
Try to tell me the public isn't interested in reading abt a failed BMD test that 🇷🇺 was watching 📡🚀
duckduckgo.com/?q=Kareliya+na… Image
Predictably, @RT_com is taking the initiative to publish the information the Western MSM isn't, which will funnel more consumers to their version of the story, because of the vacuum left by Fox, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo, RFERL...

This is how you get ants. 👇
Let's recap and update

🇷🇺🇺🇸 #Russia|n Navy Pacific Fleet Project 864 (NATO: Vishnya-class #AGI) #Kareliya|Карелия arrived off the coast of #Hawaii around 2021-05-15 likely to monitor scheduled BMD testing, per open sources.

@USNINews broke the story 2031-05-26.

#ВМФ #Тф #OSINT
🚨 Extremely Noteworthy ⚠️

The failed American BMD test is big news today, but the vast majority of American and Western news media have not reported on the Russian Navy's presence near #Hawaii, despite the news originating from open sources, confirmed by the #USNavy.
🇷🇺⚓🕵️#ВМФ
Check for yourself how few Western news media outlets have reported on the story in the past week.

(At least one Russian Navy vessel has been there since May 15, announced by @USNINews May 26)

duckduckgo.com/?q=Kareliya+na…
*2021-05-26 😂

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28 May
Oh yes, I remember @mikercarpenter, he was spreading #disinformation about the Russian Open Skies Treaty-certified plane spying on Chicago back in 2019, when they were in transit on their way to Cali, not taking pics at all.

He blocked me b/c I remembered that.

#OpenSkiesTreaty
It's like a trip down memory lane! I wonder what #disinformation @mikercarpenter has been spreading about the Open Skies Treaty since? Well he locked his account so you can't find out. Too bad for you.

#OpenSkiesTreaty

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23 May
This deserves a blog post, maybe a YouTube video, and has been said many many times before, but I'll try to make it concise.

The difference between #Propaganda, #Misinformation, and #Disinformation, in a bite size Twitter thread.
Misinformation is just a mistake.

Me: Hey Bob, Alice likes cheesecake.
Alice: I hate cheesecake.
Me: My bad, I was misinformed, I thought you LOVED cheesecake.

Telling Bob that Alice loved cheesecake had no ultietior motive, there was no malice, it was just a "whoops".
Disinfo is intentional misinfo; I know Alice hates cheesecake.

Me: Hey Bob, for her birthday, you should really get Alice a cheesecake, it's her favourite

(Bob gets a cheesecake and ruins Alice's birthday)

Me: Mission accomplished!

*Intentionally* feeding ppl #misinfo = lying
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20 May
🇨🇦⚔️ #StrongProudReady 🍿 ImageImageImageImage
One day the link in @2divca_2candiv's Twitter profile will be corrected.

Currently 404:
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Maybe in the future..?
🔗 army-armee.forces.gc.ca/fr/2-division-…

That would do nicely. ImageImageImage
One day the link in @5CdnDiv_5DivCA's Twitter profile will be corrected.

Currently 404:
🔗 army.forces.gc.ca/en/atlantic/in…

Maybe in the future..?
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That would do nicely. ImageImageImage
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6 Apr
Let's review what a fact is, what a Top Secret-classified source might be, what a Secret-classified intelligence report is, what misinformation is, and what disinformation is.
Your car is parked at home. It's location is a fact. You put it there. You may even see it out your windows, it is indisputably true, it is there, it is a fact, there is no tricks, no smoke or mirrors. It's just a #fact.
There is an American spy satellite (ha, many) circling the globe, it's capabilities are Top Secret, and the imagery it takes is Top Secret.

Using imagery from that satellite, a gov't analyst writes a Secret report that states your car is in your driveway, per Top Secret intel.
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5 Apr
🇨🇦🇷🇺🇺🇦 With all the chatter about RUSSIA! / UKRAINE! it's hard to keep facts straight, so I'm keeping an eye out for *unusual* aircraft movements that I can identify, so I can try to make a meaningful, reliable contribution, without using someone else's bouncy dash-cam footage.
What was yesterday?
Easter Sunday.
Do you know who works in the Canadian federal govt on a holiday?
Not many people, but the Canadian Forces are still flying; that's pretty normal, they don't take many breaks.

However, an RCAF CC-144 was flying; THAT'S not normal for a holiday.
🇨🇦 Royal Canadian Air Force CC-144D Challenger 144620 flew from Ottawa to #CFBBagotville to #RAFLuton on Friday 2021-04-02.

👉 globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=c2c1fb&l…
#C2C1FB #CFC3075 #RCAF
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5 Apr
🇺🇸 Because of charlatans we have to waste our time reminding the people who are just uninformed that yes, there are US Navy and USAF command and control planes that fly every day over their heads.
"Doomsday planes" are not "a sign".
Let's start with the E-4B Nightwatch.

thedrive.com/the-war-zone/3…
I've already published your secret decoder ring, you just need to check in on it, daily, to see it's always the same poop. Since some people didn't get the memo, let me spoon feed it to them, right down their throat.

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