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Russian Stooge Checklist From Friendly Neighborhood Thought-Police

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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.

 

“Russian Disinformation” Is The New “Racism”

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Revolver News [h/t LRC] explains why, with the refusal of the media establishment to admit that it blatantly and concertedly lied about the legitimacy of the Hunter Biden laptop and dismissed it as Russian propaganda,  the “Russian disinformation” label has replaced “racism” or “sexism” as the state-of-the-art term in cancel culture…

Why? Revolver argues it is because national security is a reason that allows the harshest repressive measures.

Well, that has always been true.

Some twenty years ago, political dissidents or even just free-thinkers were labeled “domestic terrorists,” a label which also invoked national security.  Then there was the War on Terror and dissidents got called “Jihadis” or “Islamofascists”.

So  the “Russian disinfo” label is NOT some new line being crossed. It’s the same old tired ploy….and actually not nearly as effective as “public health hazard” which can get you into quarantine camp, have you forcibly injected with poisons, and hospitalized against your will. I’ll take jail over that.

Anyway, Revolver recommends the following:

[with my comments on each recommendation below]

1. Never believe the “disinformation” scam ever again, for any reason. The intelligence services have entirely forfeited any and all public trust on this topic. At this very moment, hundreds of Republican lawmakers, pundits, and D.C. creatures are being herded like cattle into supporting greater censorship of Russia, China, or anyone “supporting” them. This is a grievous blunder. Indeed, lower-level establishment flunkies and stooges will only have themselves to blame when these new powers are turned back against them. Of course, the ability to wield these tools like a weapon over a cowed populace is exactly the real purpose of expanding such powers in the first place.

[Lila: Now, hmmmm.  Whom would that help? Never is too strong. Do you mean to say no other country or power will ever utilize disinformation against us?  What if the WEF or the EU employs disinformation, may we say so? Baby, bathwater, etc.]

2. Take the news out of the press’ hands. In hindsight, it was clearly a mistake for Rudy Giuliani to try and carefully release the laptop’s contents through press outlets. The story trickled out too slowly, and it was too easy for the press and Big Tech to unite in simply shutting out the New York Post entirely. If the laptop’s entire contents had simply been uploaded online for anybody to read, a la Wikileaks, suppressing the story would have been much harder, verging on impossible.

[Lila: And if you do upload it online, who do you suppose allows visibility on the net? The material could lie there and not be read by anyone. Actually,  a couple of videos of Hunter were uploaded online and that’s where I saw them. That doesn’t seem to have made a difference. The point is the general public still assesses the credibility of information based on who puts it out: how credentialed or well-regarded or prestigious, not on the merits. Wikileaks itself was initially promoted via a massive concerted effort of all the major media organs….just search Wikileaks on this blog.]

3. Defund the intelligence state. America’s intelligence agencies have essentially gone rogue. They spied on the Trump campaign in 2016 and sabotaged President Trump internally from 2017 onward. They constantly deliver preposterous lies in the guise of “expertise”, which is then used to justify mass censorship and the stripping of Americans’ rights. Oh, and they’re the same group behind warrantless espionage and the Iraq War and so much else. The intelligence agencies have become one of the chief impediments to American liberty, and they have declared American nationalists, populists, and conservatives a de facto enemy class. Breaking the power of these agencies should be the primary political goal of all decent Americans in the years to come. A good blueprint for a future Republican presidency? Declassify everything, so agencies can no longer conceal their blunders, lies, and outright crimes under the cloak of “national security.”

[Lila: Now, this I can fully endorse. Knowing the past is the best way to handle the future.]