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Hypermodernism; Corbyn; Wanger ideology; Corrupting English oligarchs; Germany goes all in; Magus of the Kremlin; Cost-Benefit Analysis of Ruschist Disinfolklore.
⚡️Those practising postmodern governance in England got no theoretical grounding in That French Muck.
Yet, they model contingency, cynicism, Enuf of Experts thru every pore. Letting Covid run amok is result.
https://medium.com/geopolitical-impact-of-early-warning-covid-19/covid-immunity-here-what-saves-us-from-covid-46f934beb905
Hyper-Modernism: Too Much (Covid), yet Never Enuf.
⚡️Corbyn Surfaces Chile “CIA” Coup to Distract from 9\11 Anniversary:
Nixon was impeached. Your party let Pinochet off the hook when Jack Straw was interior minister. Slava Ukrainia.
⚡️"Wagner" units have a unit mythology (culled from Wagner's operas) which taps into the common core of Indo-European religion forged in eastern 🇺🇦 by 2,500BCE. Along with language, this is part of ALL of our cognitive frameworks today. Getting Ruschism requires getting this.
⚡️Engaging new podcast on Ukraine by Zarina Zabrisky: Among this week's stories - how "Russian" opera is mostly Ukrainian, and one Opera director's odyssey to convince opera houses to put on Ukrainian shows.
https://spotify.link/76NLv5Fs0Cb
⚡️Magus of the Kremlin - Extract
"The goal is no longer for the manipulator to hide, but on the contrary to get caught. Why? Because, as Cardinal de Retz wrote, "everything that makes you believe in strength truly increases it…
“The art consists in the adversaries constructing the myth of your power themselves. The discovery of manipulation is then the supreme stage of manipulation...You also describe the strategy of destabilization of Western societies by the technique of the "iron wire”…
“Yes, to break a wire, you have to twist it both ways. So support the most opposed social groups. One of my characters explains it this way: "We don't have to convert anyone, just find out what people believe in and convince them even more...
“Animal advocates on one side and hunters on the other, the Black Panther of one side and white supremacists on the other, gay activists and neo-Nazis." In reality, it is a question of using antagonistic anger to amplify it..."
“Knowing that the algorithms that will do the job are the Americans who created them, not the Russians. Your character has this terrible sentence: "Is no limit to the creative capacity of a power as long as it respects the fundamental rules of each narrative construction..."
“The limit is not constituted by respect for the truth , but out of respect for fiction"…My character engages in politics according to conceptions stemming from artistic performance. And there, the Russians are very effective..."
“Russians don't claim to direct everything. They create conditions for things to happen, exploiting the opponent's weaknesses in extraordinary ways. Thus becomes very difficult to distinguish between what we ourselves generate by our conspiracy theories & what they drive..."
"There is no need to fabricate fakes: one will always find the story of a person cured of covid after rubbing a magic stone. There is no causality between the two things but the facts will be true: the person touched the stone and it healed..."
"Giving absurd weight to something that has none is even more effective than fake news. These kinds of tailor-made truths abound today on the internet. Famous maxim that everyone is entitled to their opinions but not to their facts is no longer valid in our media society..."
"I think that the elements that appear today at their peak were present from the beginning. The founding element of Putin's power is the press conference he gave after the bombings against apartment buildings in Moscow in 1999, where he said he would seek out terrorists…wherever they are, "even in the toilet". Suddenly an ascetic official turned into an Archangel of Death. It was naked violence that launched Putin. It is therefore not surprising today to find ourselves faced with naked violence..."
“Are you one of those who think that Putin should not be humiliated? I have no sympathy for this thesis. The great American historian TimothyDSnyder says that the difference between Putin & Zelensky is that Putin can create whatever reality he wants in his country..."
"Putin won't lose face whatever the circumstances. Whatever happens, he will make it a victory. So I think we had better confront him in a tough way, cos he only understands language of force..."
Giuliano da Empoli, "Magus of the Kremlin".
⚡️Corrupting English oligarch & Brexit Leader Mogg created Brexit minister by school chum Johnson.
Having trolled England into voting for Brexit self-annihilation his Brexit ministry in 2020 came up with a list of only 9 "Brexit" opportunities.
Here they are.
2+9=Electrocution
The Brexit Opportunity to die for is rendered by a combination of Brexit Opportunity 2 (more powerful vacuum cleaners) and 9 (reduce fixed wire testing regime).
Everyone has a Human Right to be electrified by the vacuum. Anyone solved the mystery of the missing 10th Brexit "opportunity"?
⚡️"Folk-Tale films embedded Communist values & a unifying ideology .... Hiding ideological education and indoctrination inside the cloak of ancient and disarming child-like stories was a key instrument of internal Russian propaganda..."
⚡️Germany To Go All-In On Military Aid to 🇺🇦
🇩🇪 State Secretary to Finance Minister Christian "You've Only Got A Few Hours" Lindner asks for increase from €3b to €15b for Ukraine this Monday. For this she needs approval of Budget Committee, but it will not refuse her...With the exception of the Left Party and the AfD, there is a cross-party majority in the Bundestag on the question of supporting Ukraine.
So far in the current financial year, Berlin has set aside 2.2 billion euros for “upgrading partner states in...security, defense and stabilization”. The German Ministry of Defense uses this money to pay for a large part of the arms deliveries to Ukraine, but also for the replacement of systems that were handed over from Bundeswehr stocks.
Many of us (including me) fought a VERY strong advocacy campaign to persuade Germany to fulfil its duty to Ukraine. We constantly reminded Scholz that his state murdered millions of Ukrainians, including 1m Ukrainian Jewish community members between 1941 and 1945. We helped German power brokers finally understand that their debt to “Russia” was in fact an historical debt to Ukrainians that can never be repaid. Finally a year after the full scale invasion its amazing to see that this campaigning, and Ukrainians victories in diplomatic and military and civilian battle spaces have persuaded Germany to assume the lead.
⚡️Cost - Benefit Analysis of Russian Disinfolklore Since March 2014.
Benefit: Trolled itself into an economy smaller than Chile. Trolled itself into continuing to occupy fractions of parts of Ukraine, while losing its army.
Cost: ~$20b on info-warfare.
Continue? да (Sure).
Ruschia is so badly governed that no-one with power does Return on Investment calculations. One US intelligence report calculated that Ruschia spent at least $300m interfering with U.S. democracy and other democracies around the world. Yet, all Ruschia has to show for this are the most stringent sanctions ever applied. As the Ukrainian meme goes “we are lucky that they are so stupid!” Drunk with printed out internet memes Ruschist info warfare has managed to inject directly into the blood streams of the leadership of leading powers, Ruschists miss the Wood for the trees. They’ve permanently destroyed their country by executing genocides in Ukraine and elsewhere, and only gained false hope from their own Disinfolklore reflected back at them that Something Will Turn Up to save them from the funks they’ve provoked themselves into.
⚡️Which "Western" Foreign Ministry Done NO Planning for Ukraine to Re-take Crimea🤦🏽♀️?
Tis no wonder that Ukraine would never accept a Crimea Compromise (Ukraine surrenders Crimea in return for NATO membership and security guarantees). This Minsk III model means Ukraine would have to rely on others who have failed it since 2014. Jamais!
⚡️@ZarinaZabrisky new podcast on Ukraine. From micro- to the macro- issues affecting Ukraine last week.
Solution to Ruschist info warfare campaigns promoting division, according to Odesa humanitarian expert?
"Truth. We must keep telling the truth."
⚡️Maybe Nobel prize winner Alvin Roth can design the perfect Covid market for us?
If we can just find a way to optimise immunity to Covid by being infected with maximal variants in the minimum amount of time then we can get back to Living Our Lives (unless we're dead or LC'd).
⚡️Russian disinfo surfaces deeply encoded mythical threats against itself as its rationale for genocide of Ukrainians (incl. Russian speakers):
1. Sexual. Kidnapping. Threats to fertility.
2. Disrupting food supply.
3. “Maim, hurt , kill” threats to so-called Russian individuals.
In http://www.disinfolklore.net I set out how we can fit these undercurrents into Dumèzil’s discovery of the tripartite conception of society and the Gods that permeates Indo-European civilisation: Sovereignty (magician-religious AND juridical aspect), Security (warriors), and Sustainability (fertility, tiller-breeder, food supply, population).