Notices by Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr), page 2

Interesting The Intercept on how propaganda spreads in the West (with NYT+IDF):
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schwartz-october-7/

You don't need a grand conspiracy on the details. Sideline a few skeptical reporters, give resources to one compliant and inexperienced author, let them fall for the stories of some state actor posing as neutral civilian, publish the result, watch powerful people fall for it. Rinse, repeat.

#ManufacturingConsent posits that media shareholders tip the scales thus in pursuit of money/power.

«I'm the first president in this century to report to the American people that the United States is not at #war anywhere in the world».
https://apnews.com/article/biden-speech-transcript-campaign-withdrawal-432dc25a5af4ddebf75d73bfcc0fa72a

Until now I failed to notice that Peace is currently triumphing. My bad.

News reports on the use of highways to land F-16 planes seem unaware that the Finnish Air Force exercises regularly for this sort of thing.
https://puolustusvoimat.fi/en/-//1951206/baana-24-road-base-exercise-in-rovaniemi-and-ranua

«#Putin deliberately frames his operation in #Ukraine in the same way that the United States has framed its own regime-change operations in #Kosovo, #Iraq and #Libya, charging that Ukraine has committed human rights violations and is a terrorist state.»
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/08/russia-ukraine-war-possible-trajectories

"The Constitution of #Russia": error 404, page not found.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220307174404/http://en.kremlin.ru/acts/constitution

«If there's just 1% chance for us to stop this #war, I think that we need to take this chance. We need to do that. I can tell you about the result of this negotiations — in any case, we are losing people on a daily basis, innocent people on the ground [...] unfortunately, our dignity is not going to preserve the lives. So, I think we have to use any format, any chance in order to have a possibility of negotiating».
https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-20-22/h_12a9e3fa87cba15cdb904a35e8926b9e

«I had to use force to get them out. I lied to them, whatever I could think of, I said ‘there’s hot food waiting for you, electricity, mobile phone signal’ I lied and I’m not ashamed. I believe that the people I got out are in less danger than they were inside the city».
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/21/some-were-too-scared-to-leave-the-man-who-rescued-25-people-from-devastated-mariupol

About lies in #Ukraine and difficult decisions in a #war.

Just the other day I was reading #Popper on #Plato and #truth vs. #lies.

«The problem whether or not a good end justifies bad means seems to arise out of such cases as whether one should lie to a sick man in order to set his mind at rest ; or whether one should keep a people in ignorance in order to make them happy ; or whether one should begin a long and bloody civil #war in order to establish a world of peace and beauty.»

https://archive.org/details/opensocietyitsen0001popp_n9a8/page/286/mode/2up

The irresistible American classic, #RegimeChange abroad, soon released in a (#war) theater near you. From the producers of #Iran, #Cuba, #Venezuela, #Syria and more currently screening worldwide.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/26/biden-butcher-putin-cannot-be-allowed-to-stay-in-power

«Orbán’s stance on the #war has left #Hungary increasingly isolated among its western allies but has proved popular among voters, especially those in rural areas.»
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/03/viktor-orban-expected-to-win-big-majority-in-hungarian-general-election

#Ukraine

"Much has been said about the Russian shelling of Ukrainian towns. [...] The danger to civilians is no different under the barrels of Ukrainian artillery".

Who knew.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/18/world/europe/ukraine-forces-cluster-munitions.html

«Ukrainian forces set fire to grain fields around Mariupol so they could not be “stolen by the occupiers”, Sergiy Bratchuk, a spokesman for the Odesa regional military administration said».

Apparently this is what you do these days to prove you care about local farmers and global food security.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/30/volodymyr-zelenskiy-orders-evacuation-of-donetsk-region

Neoliberal western capitalism is already sending the bill for its "support", after the #IMF prepared the ground in February.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/04/ukraine-must-revamp-labour-laws-and-step-up-privatisation-to-fix-economy

If a state bombs a city after telling civilians not to evacuate it, is that a war crime?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/oct/20/russia-ukraine-war-ukraine-restricts-power-use-abundant-evidence-russia-using-iranian-drones-says-us-live?page=with:block-6350d8098f08eb546778aee9#block-6350d8098f08eb546778aee9

Today in totally unexpected #war news: «Finland's National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) said it has information that criminals in Finland have captured military arms, such as assault rifles, destined for Ukraine.»
https://yle.fi/news/3-12670239

What was that oft-repeated slogan about #NATO not taking orders from non-members?
https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-countries-must-ramp-up-arms-production-for-battles-ahead-ukraine-dmytro-kuleba/

Top EU "diplomat" boasting a military uniform.

#war #EUMAM

A lot is going on here.

How to to find the truth behind #war propaganda? The Guardian: this state is an ally of our state (aka "free") so what they say is likely true.

Oh silly me, I thought it would be harder than that.

What the #USA learnt from 40+ years of #war in #Afghanistan: let's replicate the experiment on the eastern border of the EU.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/08/us/politics/us-sanctions-russia-ukraine.html

#nt