Month: June 2023

INTERVIEW: All I know is that Gonzalo was detained on May 1

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

INTERVIEW: I don’t know if my son is alive or whether he has been tortured, says Gonzalo Lira Sr. Zelensky claims Ukraine’s fight is about freedom. Well he’s not showing it to the rest of the world.

INTERVIEW: All I know is that Gonzalo was detained on May 1 via George Galloway

Previously:

Father of Gonzalo Lira, American jailed in Ukraine, speaks out against “political imprisonment”

The New York Times and the use of Nazi imagery by Ukrainian troops

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

This article was originally posted as a thread on Twitter.

The New York Times palms off the deep historical and present-day links of Ukrainian nationalism to Nazism and genocide as merely “thorny issues,” i.e., a public relations problem for media propagandists, who are trying to sell NATO’s proxy war as a struggle for democracy.

The New York Times and the use of Nazi imagery by Ukrainian troops

Related:

Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History (archived)

How to get arrested in Ukraine? Just wear the colors of the Russian Flag!

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

How to get arrested in Russia? Just wear blue and yellow

H/T: Emil Cosman

I’m calling BS on the story from Ukraine! Otherwise, they have 164,999 personnel left to arrest from the VKS! 🤦🏼‍♀️

Irony (or whataboutism?! 🤷🏼‍♀️):

American man wearing ‘Russia’ shirt detained in Ukraine ahead of Independence Day festivities, claims country’s cops are ‘Nazis’

Drugs And Arms Smuggling In Europe: A Source Of Financing Ukraine War

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Drugs And Arms Smuggling In Europe: A Source Of Financing Ukraine War

Another EU problem is arms smuggling from the war zone. According to Atlantico, Europe has been flooded with weapons transported from Ukraine along with flows of refugees. The most indicative fact cited by French journalists is that since the beginning of the Ukraine war, the price of a Kalashnikov assault rifle on the Marseille black market has collapsed from 2,500 to 300 euros.

Related:

Carpathian ‘gray zone’ narcotics are flooding Europe

NYT hypes China threat: They’re reading the internet

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

NYT hypes China threat: They’re reading the internet

That Beijing is mining publicly available information is not new or surprising but fear mongering about it in Washington is good for business.

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The Times was passing on findings from an analysis by threat intelligence company Recorded Future, which says a Chinese open-source intel company has been mining publicly available information from the Office of Net Assessment, a Pentagon think tank, and the U.S. Naval War College.

Related:

Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring

The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, […]

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