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tord_dellsen@diasp.eu
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Chas Freeman Talks About the Attack on Russia's Strategic Defense System

Well I think there is a basic rule of statecraft in the nuclear age and that is that no great nuclear power can afford to appear to be undermining the nuclear deterrent or the strategic defense of a rival. And yet that is exactly what Ukraine apparently acting as a proxy for the United States is doing. It is attacking the Russian early warnings system which is an integral part of Russia's nuclear deterrent. And in this is a strategic assault on Russia, and it will probably draw a strategic reaction.

The fact that we have not seen a particular action from the Russians to date is not reassuring. It probably represents deliberations in Moscow about how to respond without starting World War 3, which is not an impossible outcome if this strategic rivalry continues un-controlled.

So this is a very serious development, it has as you indicated all the earmarks of a systematic effort to undermine Russian strategic security. Two attacks, two sites, I believe I may be poorly informed, that there are 10 such sites protecting Moscow. This represents an effort to knock out 20% of Russia's early warning system, it is not insignificant. And I also understand that unlike the United States which relies heavily on satellite space-born detection systems, the Russians are heavily dependent on these ground stations. So that the net effect of eliminating these is to reduce warning time very substantially, leaving the Russian leadership with almost no time to make a decision about how to respond to a detected possible attack.

This is particularly alarming because there have been in the past mistaken detections of such attacks and it has only been the actions of responsible officials on the Russian side - given the time to deliberate - that has prevented them from responding to a perceived nuclear attack with their own Counterattack on the United States and other targets.

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The most remarkable thing reflecting the strategic complacency and lack of intelligence of much of the West is the extent to which this danger has not been identified in the mainstream media. I know that your own executive intelligence review has and the Schiller Institute have issued a warning and covered this issue carefully, but that is not true of the mainstream media, which suggests a level of military and strategic illiteracy on the part of the current crop of journalists that is quite frightening.

--- How Close is Nuclear War After The Attack on Russia’s Strategic Defense System – IPC Meeting #52

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eileen@despora.de
Eileen Brophy

The Extradition Hearing of Julian Assange. The Power of Lies
The comments on Peter Oborne’s excellent article on Julian Assange in the Guardian last week are a damning indictment of the media’s ability to instil near universal acceptance of “facts” which are easily proven lies.
The Guardian chose as its “Guardian pick” to head the section a comment full of these entirely untrue assertions.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/extradition-hearing-julian-assange-power-lies/5781881

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The Extradition Hearing of Julian Assange. The Power of Lies - Global Research

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dredmorbius@joindiaspora.com
Doc Morbius (moved to Glasswings)

I love a good conspiracy yarn as much as anyone. @Will Hill and Dr. Roy Schestowitz seem to push far into paranoia territory

The latest is this from Will: "Microsoft mouthpiece uses an old Gnome2 screen and lack of details to vilify gnu/linux".

Referring to this Verge article: "Russian malware infiltrated the Nasdaq servers, says Businessweek"

In it, Will claims:

We are supposed to think the crackers used gnu/linux and that Nasdaq's gnu/linux servers were infested with "a mess of malware".

I read the article and returned puzzled. So I asked Will:

Um. Where exactly in all of this is the insinuation that Bad People Use Linux?

His response:

When is the last time you saw a Gnu/Linux desktop screenshot on the verge? This is the first time I have.

The image, by the way, is this one best I can tell, which Will describes as "an old Gnome2 screen".

So I plugged the image into Google's reverse image search to see where it might possibly have come from. You know, stock art or something.

Actually, the source is an earlier Verge piece: "This is the most secure computer you’ll ever own". Which is obviously about Windows ME, right?

Um, no.

Tails is the secure system that protected Edward Snowden. Here's how it works.

From the moment you boot up, your computer leaves footprints....

Not this computer, though. It's running Tails, an open-source operating system designed to leave as little trace as possible, launching version 1.0 today after more than five years of open development. It's an amnesiac system, which means it's completely fresh every time you boot up. There are no save files, no new programs, and most importantly, it becomes a blank slate the moment you shut down. It's the digital equivalent of buying a new computer for a single session and tossing it into the river once you're done....

The desktop looks and feels like Linux (Tails is based on the Debian distribution), but the programs all lead you to privacy by default.

Yeah. The Verge are trashing Linux and Tails is only something Teh Badz Guise use. Um. No.

So, is The Verge, is clearly a highly focused technology website, right? Um, no. From its about page:

[Its] mission is to offer in-depth reporting and long-form feature stories, breaking news coverage, product information, and community content in a unified and cohesive manner.

You'll also learn it was founded in 2011 and is associated with Vox Media. I don't have a strong sense about Vox, but there's a Wikipedia Vox Media article. One of my favorite media watchdog sites, Sourcewatch.org has no dirt on them.

So, but still, The Verge are really biased against Linux and totally favor like Microsoft and stuff, right?

Well, there's a site search function, and using it I find (counts as of recently):

And looking at the competition:

Which is about the sort of mix I'd expect from a mainstream news site. You might compare these against other such, say, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, BBC, All Things D, etc.

The response from Will so far has been crickets, while best I can tell, Roy Schestowitz has elected to block me, though I can't say when, as he's no longer among my contacts and his user page is blank viewed from a logged-in session but not when accessed from another session:
https://joindiaspora.com/u/schestowitz

As I said: I'm all for a good conspiracy yarn, and I can tell you a few. Many do include a reasonable amount of mental elasticity, but I'm finding Will Hill is reaching so far that he's encroaching on Elastigirl, Stretch Armstrong, and Plastic Man territory. I really hope he doesn't hurt himself.

As for credibility, yeah, that's pretty much all shot to hell.

People, that's all you've got here. Exercise it.

And a musical interlude: Kinks: Destroyer.

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