Remember how the Russians kidnapped innocent people off the street without an arrest warrant, took them to countries without laws, and tortured them to death, and claimed they had done nothing wrong?
Remember how the Russians got around the prohibition on torture by the in-house lawyers for the FSB simply changing the definition of ‘torture’, or sometimes simply saying ‘Russians don’t torture, so if we did it, it can’t be torture?’
Remember how the Russians did nothing at all after they heard the Saudi Arabians had chopped a journalist into tiny pieces, even though it went against every principle they espoused at great volume around the world?
Remember how the Russians used GCHQ to gather ‘dirt’ on UNSC members so they could be blackmailed to vote for a war, that Russian wanted for money and revenge?
Remember how the Russians installed the Shah of Iran, Saddam Hussein, Mubarak, and various other dictators around the world rather than let democratically elected governments rule who would not be subservient to them?
Remember how the Russians tortured prisoners to death in Abu Ghraib, Bagram, and GITMO and then covered it up, and when exposed punished no one but two corporals?
Remember how the Russian War Czar General Petraski, turned out to be a serial philanderer, and then claimed he did it not to ‘hurt his wife’, who he was very fond of?
Remember how one Russian President, when facing impeachment for not having sexual relations with an intern, launched a small war in the Middle East in order to change the domestic narrative? (Op Desert Lewinsky)
Those Russians. They love a war. They say they only do it to win elections and get donations from the big Russian armament manufacturers. Shameless.

Lucky we have honest Joe Biden, and Boris ‘Churchill’ Johnson on our side.

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Mar 18
If you insist the West is entirely truthful about this war, why do think Julian Assange is in prison?
Why does Snowden have to live in Russia, when his only crime was to assert that senior US officials lied to their own people in major public statements, and carried out other illegal and immoral acts in the name of ‘National Security’?
Nothing Assange and Snowden made public has been proved to be untrue.

If you shout ‘they are traitors!’, it’s suggests you value extreme nationalism over truth.
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Feb 25
‘Ukraine’ is why ‘Iraq’ mattered.

If we play fast and loose with the truth and the law, why wouldn’t our enemies?

We reap what we sow.

#Assange tried to point this out. He was jailed for it, instead of Blair and Bush.
The US doesn’t care anymore for the people of Ukraine than they did the people of Afghanistan in the 1980s.

The situation is simply an opportunity for them to destabilise a major rival. When they have done so, they will abandon Ukraine like they did Afghanistan.
It’s not the ‘invasion’ which is bad, because we know that some invasions, like ‘Iraq’, are ‘good’ (according to the West).
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Jan 22
This piece in the SMH is a good example of an ‘Information Operation’.

On the surface it reads reasonably, but there are a number of misleading subtexts ‘salted’ into the narrative, suggesting the West is under threat, but our Govts will ‘save us’.

1/

smh.com.au/politics/feder…
The main thrust is that China could attack us imminently. No evidence is offered, and the emphasis is on ‘could’. In the same way they we ‘could’ attack them.

The lawyers phrase for an unlikely event ‘can’t be ruled out’ is used.
2/
The maker of the key statement is painted as some ‘stateswoman’, here to give us the benefit of her insight’. She is given further ‘weight’ as a ‘possible future PM’. What’s not said, is that she is simply a ‘politician’, from a hugely unpopular and hypocritical party.
3/
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Jan 3
Rupert Murdoch’s @newscorpaus is fighting against a Royal Commission into media ownership (and political influence), claiming it is a ‘witch-hunt’.

However a look at today’s headlines from @australian show it is anything but.

#MurdochRoyalCommission
Todays story’s have the following subtexts:
1. China is a bad totalitarian Govt than even harms Aust share prices (not mentioning the boom they created for the past 20 years).

2. Renewables are bad. And Zero Emissions targets cause ruin for countries who adopt them (No evidence)
3. ‘COVID Crisis will soon be over’

4. The PM is a ‘calming influence’ and cutting through the ‘BS’ on COVID numbers.

5. These two likeable ‘Aussie Farmer Couple’ were Saved by the LNP Govts bailout plan. (Don’t mention ‘Hawaii’ or ‘Black Summer’)
Read 8 tweets
Dec 31, 2021
Seymour Hersh is right. For various reasons, which I will explain in this thread, Wikileaks did more to keep the US safe than those failed institutions of the CIA, FBI, and the corporate media.

If there had been a #Wikileaks in the 1980s and 1990s, there may never have been 9/11
As @StateDept knows, the US will eventual fail if it’s reputation around the world as corrupt and duplicitous reaches a critical mass. Powerful as they are, the US needs allies and markets to survive. Like ‘fossil fuels’, they are vulnerable to popular and progressive opinion.
In this regard the US at times needs protection from its own worst self: rapacious and unchecked nationalism and capitalism. In the 1960s & 70s this check came from mainstream journalism. Today it comes from independent journos with info from insider sources. like #Wikileaks
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Nov 3, 2021
The US Military thinks it’s been ‘clever’ with this verdict but actually shows how lost they have become.

If it’s ‘acceptable’ to target people without evidence they are dangerous, it means their ROE must allow for indiscriminate killing. For ‘show’.
I’ll explain..
The one ‘out’ the US had is this disgraceful incident would be if the weapon system misfired, or operator failed to hit the target he was aiming for.

But by admitting they hit the ‘correct’ target, it shows that their ID standards are not based on the necessary high standards..
Missile strikes are justified only in either ‘self-defence’ or if the target as positively identified as a Member of an Organised Armed Group.

Otherwise it’s murder under both US and Afghan law…
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