#enemy
Details of '120,000 Russian soldiers' leaked by Ukrainian #media
source: https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/02/russian_soldier_leaks/
#Rumors swirled on the internet that activists were behind the disclosure. The Ukrainian news agency said the personnel records were obtained from "reliable sources." Whether or not the #database's contents is real, the impact on Russian military #morale – knowing that your country's enemies have your personal details and can contact your family if you're captured, killed, or even still alive – won't be insignificant.
#leak #cyberwar #war #internet #news #Ukraine #Russia #military #privacy #enemy #soldier
Everything that can #broadcast becomes a #target in the high-tech #war against a superior #enemy: #StarLink
source: https://tweet.lambda.dance/jsrailton/status/1497756272850001921
7/ Takeaway: early in a #conflict w/disrupted internet, #satellite internet feels like a savior.
But it quickly introduces very real, deadly new vulnerabilities
If you don't understand them, people die needlessly until they learn & adapt.
This has happened again. And again.
#Problem #Technology #Internet #Communication #military #news #warning #danger #Ukraine #Russia #Information #Musk
Know Your Enemy: How to Defeat Capitalism
https://socialistproject.ca/content/uploads/2022/02/know-your-enemy.pdf
https://socialistproject.ca/content/uploads/2022/02/know-your-enemy.mp3
We must put an end to #capitalism. To do that, we must know the #enemy – #capital. We will never defeat that enemy if we do not understand it – its effects, its strengths and weaknesses. If, for example, we don’t know capital as our enemy, then crises within capitalism due to overaccumulation of capital or the destruction of the #environment will be viewed as crises of the “economy” or of industrialization – calling for us all to sacrifice.
Indeed, so long as #workers do not see capital as their own product and continue instead to think of the need for healthy capitalists as common sense (and as in their own interest), they will hold back from actions that place capital in crisis. Even if we are successful in struggling to gain control of the state, even if we manage to take government away from capital, we’ll continue to think of capital as necessary if we don’t understand it.
Something important happens when you struggle along with others. You win sometimes, and you learn the importance of #uniting. But it’s not only that your prospect for victory improves. Also, you change. You begin the process of shedding those sides of yourself that capital has produced. You are changing your social relations: in place of separation, there is #solidarity. You know yourself as part of a #community and you come to recognize others as part of that community too. You change in another way in the process. You develop new capacities. It’s what #Marx called “ #revolutionary-practice” – the simultaneous changing of circumstances and human activity or #self-change.
#knowyourenemy-howtodefeatcapitalism #pamphlet #pdf #mp3 #ideology #movements #strategy #marxist #theory #global #humanity #earth #unity
If somebody comes along who is #charismatic and #honest this country is in real trouble because of the #frustration, #disillusionment, the justified #anger and the absence of any coherent response. What are people supposed to think if someone says ‘I have got an answer, we have an #enemy’? There it was the Jews. Here it will be the illegal #immigrants and the blacks. We will be told that white males are a #persecuted minority. We will be told we have to #defend ourselves and the honor of the nation. #Military force will be exalted. People will be beaten up. This could become an overwhelming force. And if it happens it will be more dangerous than Germany. The United States is the world power. Germany was powerful but had more powerful antagonists. I don’t think all this is very far away.
--- Noam Chomsky in 2010
Winning #judo silver in #Tokyo, Iranian defector Mollaei dedicates medal to #Israel
It was the first Olympic #medal for #Mollaei, two years after he left his native Iran, revealing that his national team coaches had ordered him to lose in the semifinals of the 2019 World Championships in Tokyo to avoid facing Israel’s Sagi Muki in the final. Mollaei subsequently moved to #Germany and then acquired Mongolian citizenship.
Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
' #AmyGoodman narrates a short video piece based on #NoamChomsky’s #book “ #ManufacturingConsent”, a seminal work on #mainstream #journalism and its role in the #mechanics of #power.' According to #Chomsky, media operate through #5 #filters: #ownership, #advertising, the #media #elite, #flak and the #common #enemy. #analysis #propaganda #machine #msm #profit #freedom #democracy
The Covidian Cult by C.J. Hopkins / October 13th, 2020
Source: https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/the-covidian-cult/
One of the hallmarks of #totalitarianism is mass conformity to a psychotic official #narrative.
Nazism and Stalinism are the classic examples, but the phenomenon is better observed in cults and other sub-cultural societal groups.
These narratives are invariably paranoid, portraying the cult as threatened or persecuted by an evil #enemy or antagonistic force which only unquestioning conformity to the cult’s #ideology can save its members from.
Moreover, cult leaders will often radically change these narratives for no apparent reason, forcing their cult members to abruptly forswear (and often even denounce as “heresy”) the beliefs they had previously been forced to profess, and behave as if they had never believed them, which causes their minds to further short circuit, until they eventually give up even trying to think rationally, and just mindlessly parrot whatever nonsensical gibberish the cult leader fills their heads with.
The cult leader isn’t trying to communicate. He is trying to disorient and control the listener’s mind.
If all this sounds familiar, good. Because the same #techniques that most cult leaders use to control the #minds of the members of their cults are used by #totalitarian systems to control the minds of entire #societies: Milieu Control, Loaded Language, Sacred #Science, Demand for Purity, and other standard mind-control techniques.
It is happening to most of our societies right now. An official narrative is being implemented. A totalitarian official narrative. A totally psychotic official narrative, no less delusional than that of the Nazis, or the Manson family, or any other cult.
This is what totalitarians and cult leaders count on, and exploit to implant their narratives in our minds, and why actual initiation rituals (as opposed to purely symbolic rituals) begin by attacking the subject’s mind with terror, pain, physical exhaustion, psychedelic drugs, or some other means of obliterating the subject’s perception of reality.
Nor can they perceive the delusional nature of the official “#Covid-19” narrative, no more than those in Nazi Germany were able to perceive how completely delusional their official “master race” narrative was.
Their initiation into the Covidian #Cult began in January, when the medical authorities and corporate #media turned on The Fear with projections of hundreds of millions of deaths and #fake photos of people dropping dead in the streets. The psychological conditioning has continued for months. The global masses have been subjected to a constant stream of #propaganda, manufactured #hysteria, wild speculation, conflicting directives, exaggerations, lies, and tawdry theatrical effects.
Facts do not matter to totalitarians and cult members. What matters is loyalty to the cult or the party.
What we are up against is not a misunderstanding or a rational argument over scientific facts. It is a fanatical ideological movement. A global totalitarian movement … the first of its kind in human history.
Instead of the #cult existing as an island within the dominant culture, the cult has become the dominant culture, and those of us who have not joined the cult have become the isolated islands within it.
I wish I could be more optimistic, and maybe offer some sort of plan of action, but the only historical parallel I can think of is how #Christianity “converted” the pagan world … which doesn’t really bode so well for us. While you’re sitting at home during the “second wave” lockdowns, you might want to brush up on that history.
Reposted from: https://diasp.org/posts/f9bf60e0f07d0138cc162a0000053625