Thread: Brave New World

Just posting more crap from a known Russian shill. Next he will start putting up clips of Tucker Carlson.

It's way above your pay grade, Shitposter.

Originally Posted by sabang

It's way above your pay grade, Shitposter.

No its just shit.

Originally Posted by sabang

It's way above your pay grade, Shitposter.

Originally Posted by bsnub

No its just shit.

Yup.

Originally Posted by Norton

Damn Sab. Wtf is that. Suggestion. Rather than pasting a wall of text, how about a summary in your own words and a link to the site.

No-one is going to read that - why not take Nort's suggestion as it too you a bit to format the thing - but then you knew that.

Originally Posted by sabang

The Consortium Imposing the Growing Censorship Regime

Yea, you should stop doing so

Glen Greenwald is worth reading in full. I pasted it, then edited for size and colour. Not sure if norts saw the post edit version or not. Anyway, no apologies- worth reading in full.

Originally Posted by sabang

Not sure if norts saw the post edit version or not.

He didn't. Hence the wtf.

Originally Posted by sabang

Glen Greenwald is worth reading in full.

Nah. He isn't. He just talks the sort of shit idiots like you lap up.

Putin Gags Russian Officials Who Dared to Criticize War

The Kremlin has been icing out Russian politicians who have criticized the course of the war in Ukraine in recent days, blocking state media from quoting them even as Russian losses stack up, according to Russian news outlet Verstka.

The Kremlin has zeroed in on silencing a group of State Duma deputies who have been critical of the war and Russia’s military in recent months, according to Verstka, which cites a source close to the lower house and a source familiar at a media operation that received the instructions.

The list, which the first deputy head of the presidential administration Sergei Kiriyenko reportedly made, includes the head of the Duma's Defense Committee, Andrei Kartopolov, who last month called for the Kremlin to “stop lying” to the Russian people about the casualties Moscow has sustained in the war.


A senior member of the lower house of Russia’s parliament, Andrei Gurulev, is also on the alleged blacklist. Gurulev said that Russia’s defeat in Lyman just weeks after Ukraine’s successful counteroffensive in Kharkiv was a product of those surrounding Russian President Vladimir Putin being too fearful to bring him bad news.


“It’s a problem of total lies and positive reports from top to bottom,” Gurulev said.

The Kremlin has reportedly targeted at least three others for ostracism in state media, including Viktor Zavarzin, a deputy of the State Duma and member of the defense committee who has criticized sending children to war and has suggested the war effort is flagging. Andrei Krasov—who is Kartapolov’s first deputy and in charge of Russia’s political aims in Zaporizhzhia—and Nina Ostanina, the head of the committee on family, women and children who discussed ending Russia’s “partial mobilization” in October, are also named.


Moscow’s apparent blacklisting effort is just the latest sign the Kremlin has grown increasingly desperate for support back home and sensitive to criticism as setbacks and losses have exposed how poorly planned and executed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine is.

MORE Putin Gags Russian Officials Who Dared to Criticize War

^ Luckily they were only gagged and not given some special tea.

Originally Posted by misskit

^ Luckily they were only gagged and not given some special tea.

I'm sure the 'guidelines of behaviour' were made perfectly clear to them

Originally Posted by misskit

Really. I started reading it, then zzzzzzz.

Can I join zzzzzzzzzz

Who’s new world is braver?


Russian Culture Ministry bans ‘Famine’ documentary from theaters

The Russian Ministry of Culture has revoked the screening license issued to “Famine,” a documentary made by Alexander Alrkhangelsky, Maxim Kurnikov, and Tatiana Sorokina.


The film reconstructs the history of a famine that took millions of Russian lives during the Civil War in the 1920s. Affecting most severely the Volga and Southern Ural regions, the famine ended when the Soviet government appealed to the world community. The United States was one of the countries that heeded this call for help.


The ministry’s press release says that the film was banned in response to a public outcry, following “numerous complaints” from the public, whose members


point out that the film contains provocative and shocking audio-visual information. This, in the viewers’ opinion, can lead to an acute negative reaction in the society. In this connection, a decision was made to revoke the license.
Alexander Arkhangelsy, the screenwriter behind “Famine,” was among the first to learn that the film was being banned, and that it supposedly contains “information whose spread is prohibited by the federal law.” In a Facebook post, Arkhangelsky criticized the revocation:


What law is it, exactly, that forbids talking about the fact that there was a famine in 1921–1923? That more than five million people died, and that the world (far from the entire world, by the way) managed to overcome ideological barriers in solidarity with the suffering Russian people? And that, thanks to this, more than 10 million lives had been saved? This is a betrayal of our history and of our family memories.
Arkhangelsky pointed out that the film contains no narrative apart from quotations: the entire script is put together from the texts of documents found in Russia’s publicly accessible archives.


“Famine” is now banned from all Russian theaters. “We’re going to screen it in museums, galleries, and universities. We hope it might appear on YouTube towards the end of this year,” said the screenwriter.

https://meduza.io/en/news/2022/11/14...-from-theaters

The ministry’s press release says that the film was banned in response to a public outcry, following “numerous complaints” from the public

That would be a Mr. "Voldimir Puton" and a Mr. "Sargey Livrov" then.

I don't like history, it needs to be erased.

There.


Simple

Because Russia and Iran are both viewed as enemies of Washington, Western news media often feel comfortable publishing any old claim about them as fact regardless of sourcing or evidence.


Two false news reports went viral this week due to sloppy sourcing and journalistic malpractice. As usual they both featured bogus claims about U.S.-targeted nations, in this case Russia and Iran.

An article in Responsible Statecraft titled “How a lightly-sourced AP story almost set off World War III” details how the propaganda multiplier news agency published a one-source, one-sentence report claiming that Russia had launched a deadly missile strike at NATO member Poland, despite evidence having already come to light by that point that the missile had probably come from Ukraine. This set off calls for the implementation of a NATO Article 5 response, meaning hot warfare between NATO and Russia in retaliation for a Russian attack on one of the alliance members.


Mainstream news reports circulated the narrative that Poland had been struck by a “Russian-made” missile, which is at best a highly misleading framing of the fact that the inadvertent strike came from a Soviet-era surface-to-air missile system still used by Ukraine, a former Soviet state.

Headlines from the largest and most influential U.S. news outlets including The New York Times, CNN and NBC all repeated the misleading “Russian-made” framing, as did AP’s own correction to its false report that Poland was struck by Russia.

All current evidence indicates that Poland was accidentally hit by one of those missiles while Ukraine was defending itself from Russian missile strikes.

President Joe Biden has said it’s “unlikely” that the missile which killed two Poles came from Russia, while Polish President Andrzej Duda and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg both said it looks like it was an accidental strike from Ukrainian air defenses. Russia says its own missile strikes have been no closer than 35 km from the Polish border.

The only party still adamantly insisting that the strike did come from Russia is Ukraine, leading an exasperated diplomat from a NATO country to anonymously tell Financial Times: “This is getting ridiculous. The Ukrainians are destroying [our] confidence in them. Nobody is blaming Ukraine and they are openly lying. This is more destructive than the missile.”

It is very sleazy for AP to continue to protect the anonymity of the U.S. official who fed them a lie of such immense significance and potential consequence. They should tell the world who it was who initiated that lie so we can demand explanations and accountability.
Another false story that went extremely viral was one that Newsweek has been forced to extensively revise and correct that was initially titled “Iran Votes to Execute Protesters, Says Rebels Need ‘Hard Lesson’,” but is now titled “Iran Parliament Chants ‘Death to Seditionists’ in Protest Punishment Call.” The latest correction notice now reads,

“This article and headline were updated to remove the reference to the Iranian Parliament voting for death sentences. A majority of the parliament supported a letter to the judiciary calling for harsh punishments of protesters, which could include the death penalty.”

Moon of Alabama explains how the Newsweek piece was the springboard that launched the viral false claim that the Iranian government had just sentenced 15,000 protesters to death, which was circulated by countless politicians, pundits and celebrities throughout social media. This claim has been debunked by mainstream outlets such as NBC News, which explains that “There has been no evidence that 15,000 protesters have been sentenced to death. Two protesters had been sentenced to death as of Tuesday, although they can appeal, according to state news agencies.”


An article by The Cradle, “Fact check – Iran has not sentenced ‘15,000’ protesters to death,” explains that the Iranian parliament actually just signed a letter urging the Iranian judiciary to issue harsher sentences upon protesters who’ve been demonstrating against Tehran. Those sentences can include the death penalty as noted above, but up to this point have more often entailed prison sentences of five-to-10 years.

The Cradle also notes that even the “15,000” figure is suspect, as its sole source is an American organization funded by the U.S. government’s National Endowment for Democracy:

“Further muddying the waters, the figure of 15,000 protesters detained by Iranian authorities originates from the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).

US-based HRANA is the media arm of the Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI), a group that receives funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) – a CIA soft power front that has for decades funded regime-change efforts across the globe.”

Indeed, it’s public knowledge that NED is funded directly by the U.S. government, and that according to its own cofounder was set up to do overtly what the C.I.A. used to do covertly. It’s possible that the 15,000 figure could be more or less accurate, and it’s possible that a great many more Iranian protesters will be sentenced to death for their actions, but reporting such possibilities as a currently established fact is plainly journalistic malpractice.

In April, Newsweek published an article titled “Russians Raped 11-Year-Old Boy, Forced Mom to Watch: Ukraine Official.” In May, Newsweek published an article titled “Ukraine Official Fired Over Handling of Russian Sexual Assault Claims.” It was the same official. Newsweek made no mention of the fact that its source for its sexual assault story had just been fired for disseminating unevidenced claims about sexual assault. To this day its April report contains no updates or corrections.

Contrast this complete dereliction of journalistic responsibility with Newsweek’s extreme caution when one of its reporters tried to report on the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, or OPCW, scandal which disrupted the U.S. government narrative about an alleged chemical weapons attack by the Syrian government. Reporter Tareq Haddad was forbidden by his superiors to write about the many leaks coming out exposing malfeasance in the Douma investigation by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, on the basis that NED-funded Bellingcat had disputed the leaks and that other respectable outlets had not reported on them.

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting has published numerous articles documenting what Adam Johnson calls the North Korea Law of Journalism, which holds that “editorial standards are inversely proportional to a country’s enemy status.” In other words, the more unfavorably a foreign government is viewed by the U.S. empire, the lower the editorial standards for reporting claims about them. Because Russia and Iran are both viewed as enemies of Washington, Western news media often feel comfortable just publishing any old claim about them as fact regardless of sourcing or evidence.

We saw this highlighted during the insanity of Russiagate, where mainstream news outlet after mainstream news outlet was caught publishing unevidenced conspiratorial hogwash that it was often (though not even always) forced to retract. This was possible because when it comes to implicating Russia the evidentiary standards for reporting are much lower than they would be for implicating a government that is held in favor by the U.S.

And this is the case because the Western mainstream media are the propaganda services of the U.S.-centralized empire. They do not exist to tell people the truth, they exist to manipulate the public into hating the official enemies of the empire and into consenting to foreign-policy agendas that they would not otherwise consent to.

Imperial propagandists lower their editorial standards when reporting on official enemies not because they are bad at their job, but because they are very good at their job. It’s just that their job isn’t what we’ve been told.

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/11/1...ndards-vanish/

Way too much of this going on. Pressures from news media to be the first to break the news are the primary cause but regardless of cause, the hard work and time to make damn sure what is reported is correct must be done. Until it is STFU!

Originally Posted by Norton

Way too much of this going on.

It is just more of Sabangs propaganda crap. That women is a complete nutcase and a useful idiot of putin.

Originally Posted by sabang

The only party still adamantly insisting that the strike did come from Russia is Ukraine, leading an exasperated diplomat from a NATO country to anonymously tell Financial Times: “This is getting ridiculous. The Ukrainians are destroying [our] confidence in them. Nobody is blaming Ukraine and they are openly lying. This is more destructive than the missile.”

Indeed.

Originally Posted by sabang

When Journalism Standards Vanish

. . . totalitarian state run media propaganda is what you have.

Caitlin Johnstone: When Journalism Standards Vanish

Is this the title of her autobiography?

Originally Posted by bsnub

It is just more of Sabangs propaganda crap. That women is a complete nutcase and a useful idiot of putin.

Originally Posted by panama hat

. . . totalitarian state run media propaganda is what you have.

Doesn't matter who or where Sabs post came from. Fact is this is exactly what happened in this particular case.

Originally Posted by Norton

Way too much of this going on. Pressures from news media to be the first to break the news are the primary cause but regardless of cause, the hard work and time to make damn sure what is reported is correct must be done. Until it is STFU!

I stand by this, not just in this case but across the entire "news media".

November 18, 2022


AP's source claimed Russian missiles hit Poland. This seemed calculated to set off a frenzy and trigger NATO articles to create a wider war. Why won't the AP tell us n Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that a “senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people.”

This story ripped through big media outlets which blared “BREAKING NEWS” — see from CBS:who the

One story AP ran was not bylined and just one sentence: “A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people.” This violated AP’s already minimal rules: “Stories that use anonymous sources must carry a reporter’s byline.”

World War III was trending on Twitter.

Reuters would report by late afternoon “Poland Likely to Invoke NATO’s Article 4, Will Raise Missile Blast With UN – Officials.”

The Hill reported: “Biden convenes emergency meeting with G-7 allies after missile kills two in Poland.”

By Tuesday evening, the Washington Post would use the frenzy to queue up an extreme distillation of the NATO Charter: “Poland is a member of NATO. A strike on the country could thus invoke NATO’s Article 5, which states ‘an armed attack against one or more of [the members] in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all’ and force may be used.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would claim: “I have no doubt that it was not our rocket.”

But even as AP was putting out their false stories Tuesday afternoon, others were pointing to evidence that Russia didn’t fire the missiles that hit Poland. And others raised good points — some effectively arguing that AP shouldn’t have run with the story. Responsible Statecraft in “How a lightly-sourced AP story almost set off World War III” the following day gave a breakdown of how some of this played out, especially how local players falsified or tried to leverage the story.

On Wednesday morning, I contacted AP, asking a series of questions beyond the obvious. In particular, would the AP name the falsifying source? Nicole Meir from AP finally replied Wednesday evening, but didn’t answer any of the questions. She simply pointed me to the “Correction: Russia-Ukraine-War story” they had just issued.





But, a central question remains: Why is the AP still protecting a source it now says fed it false information?

FULL- https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/18/wh...-poland-story/



falsifying source is?

Originally Posted by sabang

But, a central question remains: Why is the AP still protecting a source it now says fed it false information?

Perhaps Putin would have them thrown out of a window, with him having run out of Polonium and all.

^^
AP Fires Reporter Behind Retracted ‘Russian Missiles’ Story

The Associated Press scared much of the world last Tuesday when it alerted readers that “a senior U.S. intelligence official” said “Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people.”

That report, which was widely cited across the internet and on cable news, was taken offline the following day and replaced with an editor’s note admitting the single source was wrong and that “subsequent reporting showed that the missiles were Russian-made and most likely fired by Ukraine in defense against a Russian attack.”


On Monday, the AP fired James LaPorta, the investigative reporter responsible for that story, Confider has learned.


The piece, which was originally co-bylined with John Leicester (who is still working at the AP), attributed the information to a single “senior U.S. intelligence official,” despite the AP’s rule that it “routinely seeks and requires more than one source when sourcing is anonymous.”

The only exception, according to its statement of news values and principles, is when “material comes from an authoritative figure who provides information so detailed that there is no question of its accuracy”—a situation that seemingly did not occur, as the report was fully retracted last Wednesday.


When reached for comment, an AP spokesperson did not comment on LaPorta’s ouster but instead wrote: “The rigorous editorial standards and practices of The Associated Press are critical to AP’s mission as an independent news organization. To ensure our reporting is accurate, fair and fact-based, we abide by and enforce these standards, including around the use of anonymous sources.”


LaPorta, a former Daily Beast contributor, declined to comment. His firing comes nearly a decade after the news wire fired reporter Bob Lewis over an erroneous report alleging then-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe lied to a federal investigator. That report, published in October 2013, was retracted two hours after it went up. Two editors were also fired for the mistake, including Lewis’ direct editor and the editor to whom he filed the flawed story.


It is unclear who edited LaPorta’s reporting in question or whether they faced any discipline for the error.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ap-fir...story?ref=home

“The rigorous editorial standards and practices of The Associated Press are critical to AP’s mission as an independent news organization".

So the Editor of that piece should be getting fired too.