#China Sows #Disinformation About #Hawaii Fires Using New Techniques

Beijing’s #InfluenceCampaign using #ArtificialIntelligence is a rapid change in tactics

Until now, China’s #influence campaigns have been focused on amplifying #propaganda defending its policies on #Taiwan & other subjects. The most recent effort…, suggests that #Beijing is making more direct attempts to sow #discord in the #UnitedStates.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/us/politics/china-disinformation-ai.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The foundation of fascist propaganda is always false equivalence

If they can fool you that the other side are just as bad as they are, then they can do whatever they want

If the US media had a clue what was going on the only thing they would say about Hunter Biden is that he's a tool of false equivalence to enable the continuation of Trump's fascist overthrow

And then go back to reminding the public that Trump has been laundering money for the mafia for 30+ years

#fascism
#propaganda
#trump

@BenHoare plenty of propaganda in US, too, about heat pump efficiency in US Midwest where winter cold is as low as Nordic countries. Biden administration’s Infrastructure legislation (the replacement for a more thorough Green New Deal), however, includes rebates for heat pumps to encourage them throughout the country. #heatpumps #fossilfuel #GreenNewDeal #Biden #oil #capitalism #propaganda

"If Washington, London, Paris, and Berlin had not been spooked by Russian propaganda, then the Ukrainians might have expelled the Russians earlier, and the war might be over.

Death, horror and terror have been the result every time outsiders hesitated to aid Ukraine...

👀 Resistance doesn’t provoke Putin; weakness does."👀
~@anneapplebaum
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/elon-musk-let-russia-scare-him/675282/

#Russia #Ukraine #War
#RussiaUkraineWar
#Putin #Propaganda #Politics #Cowardice #News #WorldNews

"Between 2014 and 2022, the United States and European nations, fearing they might provoke Russia attack, limited or banned weapons sales to Ukraine. This too proved to be a terrible, consequential mistake:

Had the Russians actually been afraid of the Ukrainian army, they might never have launched the full-scale invasion at all."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/elon-musk-let-russia-scare-him/675282/

#Russia #Ukraine #War
#RussiaUkraineWar
#Putin #Propaganda #Politics #Cowardice #News

"The Russians do this for a reason: Fear of escalation is designed to create self-deterrence—and it works. In 2014, Western leaders, fearing escalation, advised Ukraine not to fight back when Russia invaded Crimea. This advice... convinced the Russians to continue their invasion of eastern Ukraine. They stopped only when the Ukrainians fought back."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/elon-musk-let-russia-scare-him/675282/

#Russia #Ukraine #War
#RussiaUkraineWar
#Putin #Propaganda #Politics #Cowardice #News

"Musk is not alone: Many people in Washington, and in Berlin, Brussels, and other European capitals, including people who support Ukrainian sovereignty and who want Ukraine to win the war, have also been cowed by conversations with Russian ambassadors, by threats issued by Russian leaders, or by the pictures of nuclear explosions shown on Russian state television."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/elon-musk-let-russia-scare-him/675282/

#Russia #Ukraine #War
#RussiaUkraineWar
#Putin #Propaganda #Politics #Cowardice #News

#BipartisanTrickleDown: Defining #poverty as a #cultural rather than an #economicproblem comported with the #ColdWar #propaganda that extolled an American #wayoflife in which the promise of #endlessgrowth had supposedly overcome class tensions

#RightToWork #AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs #guaranteedbasicincome

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/inequality-poverty-unemployment-johnson/

Greenwald exposes “fraudulent” WaPo disinformation study, David Frum, and ADL #propaganda to silence dissent
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-09-10-greenwald-exposes-fraudulent-wapo-disinformation-study.html

“Don’t start no SHIT won’t Be NO SHIT!” ~ Rosa Parks as Captain Ibrahim Traoré comes up on his one year. We all have negativity in the air and some small boys want negativities in your chests. I see #France is in the #Propaganda and #MissInformation game with their #FakeNews #BurkinaFaso #NEWS #Africa #WestAfrica #ECOWAS 👉🏽https://focusnewsafricacom.wordpress.com/2023/09/09/burkina-faso-dont-start-no-shit-captain-ibrahim-traore-coming-up-on-1-year-dont-act-up/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ

We have studied quite a lot of #propaganda #posterart, the characters, colors, visual tonality, and of course in historic context about the artists, their intentions & ideology, too. This #UncleSam propaganda publication is kind of a confused reply to the weirdness of "FOSS propaganda" pictures and a #neoDADA #SVG approach to deal with a phenomenon like that. I know #VCAN & #ICAN but do #UCAN can support LOVE & PEACE, kind of #pacifism without #MIC influencer spin on #peaceforukraine

G20 face-lift: Delhi removes poor people, but not poverty

As tulips were flown in and posters of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi went up, thousands of poor people in India’s capital have been displaced amid a strategic beautification drive. Experts say the $112 million face-lift has come at a hefty cost to the city’s most vulnerable people.

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2023/0907/G20-face-lift-Delhi-removes-poor-people-but-not-poverty

#delhi #g20 #demolitions #bulldozers #homelessness #displacement #BJP #diplomacy #propaganda #poverty #india

Soldiers on leave now govt’s marketing agents, by order of Army HQ!

Last week, media reports said that the Indian Army had passed an order to all its soldiers going on leave – soldiers are authorised 60 days of annual leave – to spend time doing “social service” to enhance “nation-building efforts”. What are they supposed to do? The Army HQ’s list of suggestions: Talk to the local community about Modi government schemes. Sushant Singh writes.

https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/soldiers-on-leave-now-govts-marketing-agents-by-order-of-army-hq-2680096

#IndianArmy #IndianNavy #IndianAirForce #BJP #NarendraModi #propaganda #GovtSchemes #IAF #hindutva #nationalism #HinduNationalism #labour #elections2024 #india

Climate Change: Why Facts Don't Matter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMCL_ooDWJ0

#climatescience #climatechange #climatecrisis #climatecatastrophe #climatedenialism #propaganda #capitalism #bigoil #fossilfuels #polycrisis #polykrisis

Il ritorno al nucleare “per garantire l’indipendenza energetica del Paese” è uno dei cavalli di battaglia della propaganda leghista in vista delle elezioni europee 2024.
Matteo Salvini sostiene che in Italia ci siano le risorse e il know-how per costruire una centrale “di ultima generazione” in soli 5 anni.
Sul blog una mia riflessione su alcune delle ragioni per cui il nucleare di ritorno è poco o nulla credibile

#nucleare #politica #propaganda

https://tinyurl.com/5cnpfpmc

Benieuwd of de VVD iets gaat doen met het draagvlak wat mensen vandaag bij de #a12blokkade laten zien. Tegelijkertijd moet ik denken aan het draagvlak dat 10.000'en in 2020 lieten zien voor Black Lives Matter en hoe politici daar niets mee deden omdat het hun agenda's niet uitkwam.
Daarom vertrouw ik het gebruik van 'draagvlak' niet bij heel veel politieke beslissingen. Het lijkt me veel te vaak een smoes.

#draagvlak #propaganda #PolitiekeOnwil

“#NATO Chief Openly Admits #Russia Invaded #Ukraine Because of NATO #Expansion”

by Caitlin Johnstone in @substack

“During a speech at the #EU #Parliament’s foreign affairs committee on Thursday, NATO Secretary General Jens #Stoltenberg clearly and repeatedly acknowledged that #Putin made the decision to invade Ukraine because of fears of NATO expansionism.”

“Stoltenberg’s remarks would probably have been classified as Russian propaganda by plutocrat-funded ‘disinformation experts’ and imperial ‘fact checkers’ if it had been said online by someone like you or me, but because it came from the head of NATO as part of a screed against the Russian president it’s been allowed to pass through without objection.”

#US #Imperialism #PermanentWarComplex #Propaganda #Warmongering #NarrativeControl

https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/nato-chief-openly-admits-russia-invaded?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

"""
[PragerU] videos that compare climate activists to Nazis, portray solar and wind energy as environmentally ruinous and claim that current global heating is part of natural long-term cycles will be made available to young schoolchildren in Florida, after the state approved their use in its public school curriculum.
"""

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/10/florida-ron-desantis-climate-vidoes-school-curriculum

#prageru #florida #ClimateChange #propaganda #indoctrination

Can’t wait to read “What is post-branding? How to Counter Fundamentalist Marketplace Semiotics,” by Oliver Vodeb and Jason Grant.

“Part design experiment, part critical theory, and part how-to-manual, What is Post-Branding? introduces a creative counter to branding’s neoliberal orthodoxy.”

https://www.setmargins.press/books/what-is-post-branding/

#Brand #Branding #Activism #Design #Principles #Philosophy #Culture #HumanExperience #Propaganda #Capitalism

Can’t wait to read “What is post-branding? How to Counter Fundamentalist Marketplace Semiotics,” by Oliver Vodeb and Jason Grant.

“Part design experiment, part critical theory, and part how-to-manual, What is Post-Branding? introduces a creative counter to branding’s neoliberal orthodoxy.”

https://www.setmargins.press/books/what-is-post-branding/

#Brand #Branding #Activism #Design #Principles #Philosophy #Culture #HumanExperience #Propaganda #Capitalism