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Researcher & writer based in Hong Kong. Former academic. Longform articles archived at https://lauraruggeri.substack.com and https://laura-ruggeri.medium.com. Email: lauraru852@yandex.ru
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Forwarded from Slavyangrad (Grigori Rasputin)
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Kiev metro: as part of a de-Russification campaign, name of "Lev Tolstoy" metro station is being destroyed.

Inna's note:  I could do many cruel jokes on this, like the train could come any moment, etc... but basically, I do prefere those people to believe that cancelling their past can change their future (not really).

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The Russian Security Council does not rule out the risk of nuclear war due to Biden's dementia
Russian Security Council: because of dementia, Biden may accidentally start a nuclear war

The issue of an "accidental" nuclear war caused by the US because of the memory problems of American President Joe Biden has become a concern, said Mikhail Popov, Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council.

"This issue is being widely discussed. Especially after the publication the other day of the report of special prosecutor Robert Hur, appointed to investigate the case of secret documents that Joe Biden and his entourage took out of the White House. The prosecutor described the US president as "an elderly man with memory problems, who in many cases can hardly remember basic facts and details," Popov said in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper.
At the same time, as Popov recalled, Biden is the only person in the United States who can authorize a nuclear strike.

In the difficult and nervous political situation in the United States, the price of managerial error has greatly increased. "And that price may include a global catastrophe," the Deputy Secretary of the Security Council added.

Concerns that the management of US nuclear weapons is in a dubious state periodically arise, Popov also said. The American nuclear shield, in fact, cracked after the secret hospitalization of Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin, he stated.
"The Minister of Defense is not in place, and no one knows where he is, who replaces him. According to the press, some of his duties were assigned to Deputy Minister Kathleen Hicks. But she was on vacation in Puerto Rico at that moment," said the Deputy Secretary of the Security Council.
According to him, this apparently prompted Mike Rogers, chairman of the US House of Representatives Committee on Armed Forces, to write to Austin with a request to testify before lawmakers.

In a situation like Austin's hospitalization, a sense of responsibility and official duty should be clarified, because we are not talking about a "banana republic", but about a state with nuclear weapons and constantly claiming to be a world hegemon, he added.
Last week, the United States published a report by Special Prosecutor Robert Hur on Biden's improper storage of classified documents. It says that the head of state could not remember the dates and was confused in details, so he kept the papers "because of an innocent mistake." The US president was described as a "sympathetic elderly man with good intentions and a weak memory." The Special Prosecutor decided that there was no need to open a criminal case against Biden.

At the end of December, the Pentagon chief underwent surgery to treat prostate cancer, and on New Year's Day returned to the hospital due to inflammation of the urinary tract and fluid accumulation in the abdominal cavity. He was discharged on January 15, worked from home for a while, and at the end of the month showed up at the department, but appeared noticeably thinner and haggard.
The hospitalization of the minister caused a scandal, because for several days his condition was hidden not only from the public, but also from President Joe Biden. Austin later admitted the mistake and issued a public apology.
On Monday, it became known that Austin was admitted to hospital again, he was in the intensive care unit due to bladder problems. (Source: RIA Novosti) @LauraRuHK https://ria.ru/20240214/voyna-1927207741.html
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Forwarded from Vanessa Beeley
Yesterday I managed to speak with a dear friend who has been displaced many times with his family, by the IOF. On the last occasion they were forced to evacuate Khan Younis on foot, to Rafah. An IOF tank crushed his car in front of him. Now, they are in Rafah. Two days ago the IOF bombing campaign was 300m from their rented apartment. 100 plus civilians were murdered.

He told me "Vanessa, I realise we never appreciated what we had before. We took everything for granted, the water from the tap, a pan to cook with, food. We were not thankful enough."

He also told me the collective trauma is so great "people are dead people walking in the streets. They lost their minds. It's a jungle, everyone starving and terrified".

People talk about decades to rebuild Gaza infrastructure. How many decades to rebuild souls?

Despite everything, we could still joke about my poor Arabic and the craziness of his situation. In true war time style. Impossible to understand if you have not been in that situation. Humour is a survival mechanism.
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Russian historian Fursov on the reasons for the destruction of education in the West:

The struggle for traditional values is now taking on a completely different dimension. It is formally a struggle for the old, but since the main thing in post-capitalism is the alienation of the intellectual factors of production, the struggle for traditional values is a new form of class struggle in post-capitalist society.
Because values, education and information become the most important thing. It is no coincidence that in the last decades of the twentieth century the destruction of education is taking place in the West. My son studied in an American school, I taught in American universities, and not the worst - Yale, Columbia University, in England - Durham University. The level of destruction of education there - our school, even the current one, could not dream of the level of stupidity that exists in good public schools in the USA.
They need to destroy education, they need to create a generation of ticktockers - so that they are ready as objects of new exploitation. Part of this young ticktocker generation here can't read long texts. It's a problem with students now - many students, even in elite universities, can't read more than 5-6 pages.
The Chinese have a good saying: "If you can't read long texts, you work with your hands, not with your head". By the way, the same WEF recently published a little memorandum on what will be valuable in the future. The first is the ability to read long texts and the second is the ability to analyse them.
If they're dismantling the education system, they know what they're doing. What are Oxford, Cambridge and the Sorbonne today? For the middle class, it's a kind of postponed unemployment. We go back to the point that we have to break education in order to prepare people to be subjected to a new system, a post-capitalist system of exploitation.

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Indonesia votes for continuity. Former general Prabowo Subianto has claimed victory in Indonesia's presidential election, with early unofficial results giving him a huge lead.

"All the calculations, all the survey agencies, including the ones that are on the side of the other candidates, show that the Prabowo-Gibran pair won in one round,” he said, referring to his running mate Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the eldest son of outgoing President Joko Widodo. @LauraRuHK
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More than 200 foreign guests will attend "For the Freedom of Nations!", a forum against neocolonialism to be held in Moscow on February 15-17.
The forum will see the participation of delegations from the Central African Republic, China, North Korea, and South Africa and other countries.

Supporters of the fight against modern practices of neocolonialism will gather in Moscow said Andrey Klimov, First Deputy Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Forum, Deputy Chairman of the Commission of the General Council of United Russia on International Cooperation and Support of Compatriots Abroad.

"Delegations are already beginning to arrive in Moscow. In total, about 200 foreign citizens were accredited to the forum. They come from more than 50 countries of the world, and most of them represent about 60 political parties and public organizations, movements and some international organizations", Klimov said.

As the senator emphasized, the forum was conceived as a socio-political international event. He noted that the delegation from the Central African Republic, headed by President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, as well as a "large, important delegation" from the Communist Party of China and representatives of the DPRK aroused particular interest.

The forum will also be attended by a delegation from South Africa, represented by members of the African National Congress.

Among the participants of the forum will be more than 30 people holding the positions of leaders or deputy heads of political parties, most of whom are ruling their countries or are members of ruling coalitions. In addition, many guests hold prominent positions, from heads of State to members of the Government and heads of parliaments. Klimov stressed that, thus, the level of representation at the forum is very high.
He also emphasized that the time of the plenary session of the forum coincides with the Munich Security Conference.

"They expect 150 participants, and we already have 200," the senator said.
Klimov also said that Western countries, primarily the United States, are doing everything to silence the forum in Moscow, as well as directly impeding its work.
The founding meeting of the international inter-party forum of supporters of the struggle against modern practices of neocolonialism "For the Freedom of Nations!" will open tomorrow in Moscow. (Source: RIA Novosti) @LauraRuHK https://ria.ru/20240214/forum-1927299954.html
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Facebook And Instagram Flooded With Hundreds Of AI Spies

Hundreds of AI-generated personas were thrown off Facebook and Instagram, after Meta found they were being used to snoop on journalists and political activists.

As many as 900 fake profiles were created by Rome-based Cy4Gate and its subsidiary RCS Lab using artificial intelligence to generate the profile photo, according to Meta.

These accounts posed as everything from protesters, journalists and young women, the tech giant said.

The fakes would also try to trick people into sharing emails and phone numbers, and get them to click on phony links, the tech giant said. (Source: RT) @LauraRuHK
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Facebook e Instagram invasi da centinaia di account spia generati dall'Intelligenza Artificiale

Centinaia di profili generati dall'intelligenza artificiale sono stati banditi da Facebook e Instagram, dopo che Meta ha scoperto che venivano usati per spiare giornalisti e attivisti politici.

Secondo Meta, ben 900 profili falsi sono stati creati da Cy4Gate, con sede a Roma, e dalla sua sussidiaria RCS Lab, utilizzando l'intelligenza artificiale.

Secondo Meta, questi profili si spacciavano per manifestanti, giornalisti, giovani donne ecc. per ingannare i loro contatti e convincerli a condividere e-mail, numeri di telefono, informazioni private e a cliccare su link che infettavano i loro dispositivi elettronici. (Fonte: RT) Ovviamente si tratta solo della punta dell'iceberg visto che queste piattaforme sono da sempre usate dai servizi di intelligence. @LauraRuHK
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Back in 2012, seven of the top ten most popular films in China came from Hollywood. Last year, not a single US blockbuster of any description broke into the list of the ten highest-grossing movies in China. Over the same period, the film market generated 55 billion yuan at the box office, 83.77 percent of which was provided by domestically-produced films. These takings were a four-year peak. By contrast, the total Chinese market for foreign movies was worth just eight billion yuan. China seems to have fallen out of love with Tinseltown. @LauraRuHK https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202402/1307019.shtml?fbclid=IwAR11IJ8jgz8VHIFLrz4tZq5A4tyGTRPFLCiFZTpy3WshZLa3RkB-40RWvjs
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I "fact-checker" del regime di Kiev hanno inserito da tempo queste testate giornalistiche nella loro lista nera della "disinformazione russa". Non si capisce quale criterio abbiano usato per compilarla, visto che vi compaiono alcuni giornali e portali di cui tutto si puo' dire tranne che siano pro-russi. Altrettanto misteriosa e' la presenza sulla lista di Strategic Culture - non si tratta di una testata ne' italiana ne' tedesca eppure appare sotto le diciture "Germania", "Italia". L'inclusione di Byoblu tra i media tedeschi gia' da sola dovrebbe far capire a chiunque la cialtroneria dei "fact-checker": chi sostiene di monitorare la "propaganda russa" in realta' riceve finanziamenti generosi per lavorare con i piedi. @LauraRuHK https://rusdisinfo.voxukraine.org/blacklist
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China has outstripped the EU and the US in terms of total research output. So, what are the sore losers doing? They retract China's scientific papers because "Tibetans and Uighurs may have not given their informed consent" before spitting into a cup. No evidence of coercion is provided, the retraction is purely based on Western narratives of "human rights violations" in Xizang and Xinjiang. Who produced these fanciful narratives? US agencies, of course. @LauraRuHK
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The cost of being a US vassal keeps mounting. Japan - officially in recession - promised 15.8 billion yen (US$105 million) "to help rebuild Ukraine."
However, more Japanese are protesting that the money earmarked for Ukraine would be better spent on the elderly, the survivors of last month’s earthquake in central Japan and to reduce the national debt. @LauraRuHK
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⚡️Dichiarazione del Ministero degli Affari Esteri della Federazione Russa in merito all’ennesimo crimine commesso dal regime di Kiev
 
Il regime criminale di Kiev non smette di mostrare al mondo la sua natura neonazista.

Il 15 febbraio, in pieno giorno, le Forze armate ucraine hanno condotto un ennesimo, pesante attacco sui quartieri residenziali della città di Belgorod. Secondo le prime informazioni, ci sono stati 6 morti, tra i quali anche un bambino. Sono invece 17 i cittadini rimasti feriti, di cui 4 sono bambini. Sono stati danneggiati condomini, automobili, un negozio e un’attività industriale della zona. Dal punto di vista militare, si è trattato di un azione del tutto priva di senso.
 
Secondo quanto riferito dal Ministero della Difesa della Federazione Russa, nello stesso giorno, sopra il territorio della regione di Belgorod, i sistemi di difesa antiaerea hanno abbattuto 14 missili ucraini “Vampire”, provenienti da sistemi missilistici a lancio multiplo.
 
❗️Il Ministero degli Affari Esteri della Federazione Russa condanna fermamente questo mostruoso crimine commesso ai danni della popolazione e delle infrastrutture civili. Su questo crimine verranno svolte le dovute indagini, e coloro che lo hanno commesso saranno puniti duramente.
 
È evidente che i nazisti di Kiev, che stanno subendo una sconfitta dopo l’altra sul campo di battaglia, sfogano con ferocia tutta la loro rabbia sulla popolazione civile russa. Tale atto terroristico compiuto dai banderisti ucraini ha nuovamente messo in luce il ruolo criminale dell’”Occidente collettivo” capeggiato dagli USA, che sta continuando a fornire armamenti letali in grande quantità a un regime dalle tendenze fasciste; un regime che, a sua volta, punta queste armi contro dei civili assolutamente innocenti.
 
☝️Esortiamo la comunità internazionale a condannare questo vergognoso atto criminale. Abbiamo intenzione di avviare le attività per la presa in esame di quanto accaduto presso il Consiglio di Sicurezza dell’ONU, nonché presso altre istituzioni internazionali.
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Russian forces are preparing to capture the Donbass stronghold of Avdeevka, which has been used by the Ukrainian military as a launching ground for attacks on Donetsk since 2014, many of which targeted civilians. So, what is Kiev doing? It ramps up terrorist attacks on civilians. On Thursday its forces attacked the Russian city of Belgorod, which is located about 40 km away from the border. The Ukrainian missile strike left at least seven people dead, including a one-year-old baby, and injured 18 more, including four children, according to the authorities. The attack also damaged 128 apartments, 15 residential homes, an industrial enterprise, four shops and over 30 cars, Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.

Kiev’s attack had “absolutely no military meaning,” the Russian Foreign Ministry stressed in a statement. @LauraRuHK
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Forwarded from International Reporters
On 15 February 2024, while Ukraine was heavily bombing the Russian town of Belgorod (killing several civilians, including a baby), France censored around twenty French-language Telegram channels for “disinformation”. The timing of this censorship clearly indicates that Paris no longer wants the French to know that Ukraine is deliberately killing civilians with weapons supplied to it by Western countries.

https://www.ir-press.ru/2024/02/15/france-censors-telegram-channels-on-the-day-ukraine-does-a-bloodbath-in-belgorod/
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Forwarded from l'AntiDiplomatico
🔴 “Israele ha osato e ha chiesto qualcosa che ora non è più tollerabile neanche per i suoi propagandisti”.

Patrick Lawrence. Un grande giornalista. Una grande esclusiva de l'AntiDiplomatico di cui siamo profondamente orgogliosi.

👉La sua intervista

https://www.lantidiplomatico.it/dettnews-egemonia_9_il_genocidio_a_gaza_e_il_collasso_della_propaganda_occidentale__patrick_lawrence/51962_53047/
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Two suspicious deaths. No forensic examination yet, but apparently the West already knows everything about one of them. @LauraRuHK
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⚡️Avdeyevka has fallen. Located north of Donetsk, it was a heavily fortified area of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. From Avdeyevka they shelled the city. Not anymore.
Commander-in-chief Syrsky has just announced the complete withdrawal of Ukrainian troops. ▪️This is excellent news: the liberation of Avdeyevka brings huge relief to the population of Donetsk and will allow Russian forces to push further to the west, making it harder for Kiev to attack Russian towns and cities. @LauraRuHK
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