Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Company Backed by J.D. Vance Gives Platform for Russian Propaganda
An interview of captive Americans done “under duress” appears on the Rumble web platform backed by J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel. Vance, a Republican, is running for Senate in Ohio.
Oct. 31, 2022
Popular Rumble videos this year have headlines like “Biden’s Invasion at the Southern Border Is Next Step to Global Government” and “George Soros’ Shocking New Plans.”
RT’s livestream has received nearly five million views since Rumble began hosting it in March. On Sept. 10, an RT report on Rumble mocked “Kiev’s flawed counteroffensive” as “incredibly unsuccessful,” even as Ukraine was on the cusp of sweeping gains. A more recent RT piece interviewed Ukrainians sympathetic to Russia on the front lines, including one woman saying, “I’m sure the Russian troops will not leave us.” Typical headlines seek to project a sense of competence onto Mr. Putin’s beleaguered military (“Russian sea-based missile strikes hit all designated targets”) and recklessness onto Ukraine and its Western allies (“Ukraine hits Donetsk civilian areas with over 200 NATO-supplied shells”).
Brian Doherty, an outside spokesman for Rumble, said the company’s platform was open to those who “hold politically unpopular views, so long as they comply with our content policies,” adding, “We cannot fight aggressive authoritarians by surrendering a key principle that separates us from them.”
He also pointed to instances when users on Twitter and YouTube shared video clips of Mr. Huynh talking on RT about his capture. But Rumble provides an official outlet for RT, while both Twitter and YouTube’s parent, Google, have taken steps to curb its content — though YouTube has been more aggressive. The company removed an RT clip within hours of being asked about it by The Times. Ivy Choi, a YouTube spokeswoman, said, “YouTube channels associated with Russian state-funded news channels are blocked on our platform, globally.”
Anna Belkina, RT’s deputy editor in chief, said that the company “always follows the highest journalistic principles in its reporting,” and that “interviewing inmates seems to be quite standard for The New York Times.” She added, “We hope that you’ve provided ample evidence that the inmates weren’t coerced or tortured.”
Mr. Drueke is a 40-year-old Army veteran who was working as a delivery driver in Alabama when the war broke out. Mr. Huynh is a 27-year-old former Marine. Both are from Alabama and were inspired by news coverage to travel to Ukraine and join other foreigners fighting on the ground. They were captured after coming under fire during a reconnaissance mission, and held for 104 or 105 days — they are not sure of the precise number — mostly in Donetsk, a Russian-occupied region in eastern Ukraine. They were freed in September as part of a prisoner exchange.
“Those interviews were very much under duress,” Mr. Drueke said after The Times sent him a link to the video, which he had not previously seen. He said that his captors were watching off camera, “pantomiming, scribbling things on paper, stopping the interview so they can tell us to try again.”
“We were stored in a closet in between interviews,” he said. “They bring us in the room, sit us down in front of a light and camera, where it felt like just another interrogation,” adding, “We didn’t even know if it was media or an interrogation.”
Mr. Huynh, after watching the video, said: “We know it’s a lie from our experience. We know that they’re just straight up putting words in our mouths.”
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20221101045329/https://www.nytimes.com/202
2/10/31/us/politics/jd-vance-peter-thiel-rumble.html Vance and Peter Thiel.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Awww... truth hurts, doesn't it, SECOND?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Quote:Murder and Pain go together, Signym. Too hard a concept for you to understand, Signym? Do you need "proof" and "evidence" and hundreds of hours of "unbiased testimony under oath from certified experts" of a relationship between Murder and Pain before you would believe it is true? Or is it all Western Propaganda smearing Russia's glorious reputation as an enlightened land bringing truth and justice, not Murder and Pain, to the world, including to Ukraine?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Awww... truth hurts, doesn't it, SECOND?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Ukraine warns Iran missiles will be 'difficult' to shoot down (that is the Murder and Pain, Signym. I do hope Iran is not overcharging Russia for the missiles.)
Iran is reportedly preparing to send about 1,000 additional weapons, including short-range ballistic missiles and more attack drones, to Russia for its war against Ukraine.
CNN first reported the deal, citing officials from a Western country that closely monitors Iran’s weapons program. Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yurii Ihnat told Ukrainian media that the Kremlin is buying the Iskander ballistic missiles from Iran because Russia is running out of them.
“It is theoretically possible to shoot them down but very difficult with the means we have at our disposal," Ihnat said. "We have air defense, not missile defense.”
He said he believes the missiles will be placed on the northern border with Ukraine to fire at targets across Ukraine. Iran already has been supplying Russia with explosive drones that have heavily damaged infrastructure, although the Ukrainian military says it is seeing increasing success in shooting them down.
"Transferring missiles to RF, Iran knows that it will attack our cities. Teaching Russians to use drones, it knows that they will attack energy sector," Ukraine presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak tweeted. "Tehran is an accomplice of aggression in Europe and must be officially recognized as such."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/11/01/live-ukraine-russ
ia-war-updates/10657861002/
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Awww... truth hurts, doesn't it, SECOND?
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HOW RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA WORKS
Shut up, don't think, just trust us - and we all will reach to the stars!
Welcome to the world of Russian propaganda.
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Awww... truth hurts, doesn't it, SECOND?
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HOW RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA WORKS
Shut up, don't think, just trust us - and we all will reach to the stars!
Welcome to the world of Russian propaganda.
Sounds like MSNBC to me.
Do try to remember how they've been lying to you for the last 6 months when Democrats get their asses handed to them next week.
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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
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Quote:Although the sitting President's party usually loses seats in a midterm election, the 2010 election resulted in the highest losses by a party in a House midterm election since 1938.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Do try to remember how they've been lying to you for the last 6 months when Democrats get their asses handed to them next week.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_House_of_Representati
ves_elections
Remember the Tea Party, 6ix? They hated Obama and they swung the Legislature in 2010. But did that change anything? It did not for people like you. 6ix, you were drunk and unemployed in 2010. You will be drunk and unemployed and stuck in the same old house in 2022. Nothing changes for you when Republicans take power. But for me, my taxes will decrease. Yours won't because you don't pay any. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates that 57% of U.S. households paid no federal income taxes for 2021.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/25/57percent-of-us-households-paid-no-fed
eral-income-tax-in-2021-study.html
https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/tpc-number-those-who-dont-pay-f
ederal-income-tax-drops-pre-pandemic-levels
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First broadcast on Oct 25, 2022 -- “Putin’s Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes” draws on original footage; interviews with Ukrainian citizens and prosecutors, top government officials and international war crimes experts; and a vast amount of previously unpublished evidence obtained and verified by the AP — including hundreds of hours of surveillance camera videos and thousands of audio recordings of intercepted phone calls made by Russian soldiers around Ukraine's capital city, Kyiv.
The 90-minute documentary traces a pattern of atrocities committed by Russian troops in Ukraine, focusing on areas near Kyiv, such as Bucha, where some of the most shocking carnage was found.
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Again, Russia threatens to nuke the world:
Medvedev says only Russian victory in Ukraine will prevent «global war» provoked by West
The former president of Russia and current vice president of the Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, has accused Western powers of pushing the world towards a "global war" that can only be avoided with a Russian victory in the conflict in Ukraine.
"Let's call a spade a spade. Western countries are pushing the world to a global war, and only Russia's complete and final victory is a guarantee against global conflict," Medvedev has asserted on his Telegram channel.
The former Russian president pointed out that the argument defended by the West that "Russia cannot be allowed to win the war" entails supporting Ukraine's theories about the full recovery of its territories, which would "threaten the existence" of Russia.
"The Kiev regime has mentioned Ukraine's goal in the war: the return of all the territories that previously belonged to them (...) This is a threat to the existence of our state and the collapse of today's Russia," he said.
According to Medvedev, these threats to Russia would be a justification to be able to apply Article 19 of the Fundamentals of the State Policy of the Russian Federation, which delves into Russia's nuclear capabilities as a deterrent to threats to its sovereignty.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/medvedev-says-only-russian-victor
y-in-ukraine-will-prevent-%C2%ABglobal-war%C2%BB-provoked-by-west/ar-AA13C9CN
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Although the sitting President's party usually loses seats in a midterm election, the 2010 election resulted in the highest losses by a party in a House midterm election since 1938.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Do try to remember how they've been lying to you for the last 6 months when Democrats get their asses handed to them next week.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_House_of_Representati
ves_elections
Remember the Tea Party, 6ix? They hated Obama and they swung the Legislature in 2010. But did that change anything? It did not for people like you. 6ix, you were drunk and unemployed in 2010. You will be drunk and unemployed and stuck in the same old house in 2022. Nothing changes for you when Republicans take power. But for me, my taxes will decrease. Yours won't because you don't pay any. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates that 57% of U.S. households paid no federal income taxes for 2021.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/25/57percent-of-us-households-paid-no-fed
eral-income-tax-in-2021-study.html
https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/tpc-number-those-who-dont-pay-f
ederal-income-tax-drops-pre-pandemic-levels
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I'm sober and retired. I'm doing just as well under your President* that stole the election as I was under Trump. Arguably better.
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Quote:Sure thing, 6ix, about your super successful life. And you didn't need to be a college graduate because those professors who think they are smarter than you didn't teach anything that you couldn't learn faster from the internet. (I knew youngsters who dropped out of high school while I stayed to graduate. They said school doesn't teach the practical things they will learn outside of school. Turned out they did NOT learn practical things that could make money. Oh, well. Things happen. Their plans changed.)
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm sober and retired. I'm doing just as well under your President* that stole the election as I was under Trump. Arguably better.
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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
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