Came across this checklist on a site called Propornot, which purports to identify Russian disinformation sites.

Apparently that label fits a whole swathe of  dissident blogs/sites that are generally against the endless printing of money, against banker crimes and corruption, and against war without end:

3) Check to see whether the social-media account/commenter/outlet has a history of generally echoing the Russian propaganda “line” by using themes, arguments, talking points, images, and other content similar to those used by obvious Russian propaganda outlets. These themes include:

• How wonderful, powerful, innocent, and righteous Russia and Russia’s friends are: Putin, Donald Trump, Bashar al-Assad, Syria, Iran, China, radical political parties in the US and Europe, etc. Investigate this by searching for mentions of, for example, “russia”, on their site by Googling for “site:whateversite.com russia”, and seeing what comes up.
• How terrible, weak, aggressive, and corrupt the the opponents of Russia and their friends are: The US, Obama, Hillary Clinton, the EU, Angela Merkel, NATO, Ukraine, Jewish people, US allies, the “mainstream media”, and democrats, the center-right or center-left, and moderates of all stripes. Investigate this by searching for mentions of, for example, “NATO”, on their site by Googling for “site:whateversite.com NATO” and seeing what comes up.
• An obvious bias towards Russia and Russian-backed policy in foreign affairs, including:
  • How fantastic Brexit and Ukrainian/Georgian separatism is, but how terrible Chechen separatists are,
  • How advanced Russian technology is, and how dangerous Western technology is,
  • How great it is when Western secrets get exposed, but how terrible it is when Russian ones do,
  • How militarily powerful Russia and their friends are, and how weak and craven Russia’s enemies and their friends are, etc.
• How dangerous standing up to Russia would be: It would inevitably result in “World War 3”, nuclear devastation, etc, and regardless of who shot first or is bombing civilians where now, would be the West’s fault. Russian propaganda never suggests it would just result in a Cold War 2 and Russia’s eventual peaceful defeat, like the last time.
• Pre-emptive discouragement of critical analysis: Assertions about them “having the truth”, or the need to “wake up the sheeple”, or how the “mainstream media” can’t be trusted.
• Hyperbolic alarmism, anti-Western conspiracist insinuations, “Eurasianism”, racism, gold-standard nuttery and attacks on the US dollar, 9/11-trutherism, anti-Semitism, anti-“globalism”, anti-vax/anti-GMO paranoia, and generally ridiculous over-the-top assertions, which cites Russian propaganda outlets as “evidence”.

Really?That’s quite a lot of dissenting opinion to fit into one tent.

If I don’t like GMO foods that’s a RUSSIAN position?

Anti-globalism is RUSSIAN?

9/11 research is RUSSIAN?

The gold standard is RUSSIAN?

Look, bring back the Elders of ADL please. They were easy to figure out.

This is too, but in case it isn’t, here’s my totally free public service announcement:

Say your world-wide conspiracy to implement a totalitarian dictatorship using the pretext of a global pandemic ran into strong headwinds when everyone figured out who EXACTLY was pulling that scam by tracing their ideological, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, their business relationships and networks.….and  found they were NOT lizards….

Say the unwashed masses opened their eyes and said, yes, Virginia, there is a New World Order and it’s run by elite secret societies, Jewish banking families, Jesuits, European aristocrats, Nazis, Zionists, Fascists, and Communists who maybe were always the same thing, only we got fooled by the language….

THEN MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, it makes sense to switch our language around.

I mean, think about it.

If you keep shouting ANTI-SEMITE! at everyone, the proles start asking what’s a Semite? and next thing you know people are googling Khazaria, checking out mitochondrial DNA research, and liking Klaus Schwab threads on Twitter.

… Instead, what if the powers-that-be backed up and changed the binary to WEST versus RUSSIA?

That is, amazingly, the same switch that Big Bad Vlad pulled off in Russia, substituting a traditional anti-Western discourse for pre-Revolutionary and Stalinist anti-Semitism, to pull Russians together.

You’d think that would earn him some brownie points from our overlords.

But apparently not.