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In this first edition of the Russian Newspaper Monitor, a new weekly show produced by Newsbud, Professor Filip Kovacevic gives an overview of the Russian newspaper media scene. He also discusses the front-page news stories from Rossiyskaya Gazeta (RG), Izvestia, Kommersant, Pravda and Komsomolskaya Pravda on a whole variety of topics, including the Russian view of the U.S. policy in Syria, Putin's visit to Kazakhstan, the new generation of Russian strategic bomber aircraft patrolling the Pacific, the Russian military draft, and the political positions of the Russian Communist Party. Come and join us in this one-of-a-kind overview of Russian media landscape, and what’s been cooking there this past week.

2016/10/082016/10/06

Worth a Look: Books About Lies & Lying

Commerce, Corruption, Ethics, Government, IO Impotency, Media

A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age

American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies That the Government Tells Us

Clean House: Exposing Our Government’s Secrets and Lies

In Lies We Trust: How Politicians and the Media Are Deceiving the American Public

Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History

Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life

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2016/10/062016/10/05

Del Spurlock: The Clinton Co-Presidency Legacy — Lost Jobs, Broken Communities from NAFTA, Perpetual War with TPP

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government

Deputy Secretary of Labor who conceptualized the ‘Side Agreements” to NAFTA. First in a series on Mr. Obama's trade based quest for an American Protectorate over the Far East.

The Transpacific trade deal creates a military protectorate confronting China and has secret side deals permitting domestic and foreign corporations to over-ride sovereign and community interests of the American people. Jeff Faux gets it right from the beginning:

TPP: The “National Security” Sales Pitch

Like other trade deals since NAFTA, is the TPP also just a device for capitalists to drive down the wages of American workers?

2016/10/062016/10/05

Sepp Hasslberger: Criminal Insanity at FCC?

Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government

5G – the next mobile phone technology around the corner – has been given the official seal of approval and go-ahead for roll-out. The FCC has said ‘yes' to a technology that will use the 5 to 100 GHz microwave band… but questions of what all those high power microwaves will do to humans are being evaded…

5G Technology Approved: US FCC Evades Questions About Wireless Dangers

The Federal Communications Commission just rubber-stamped their rollout of “5G” cellular technology which, while increasing throughput, would blanket the planet with ultra-high microwave frequencies — 24Ghz and up.

The fact that these frequencies have never been tested as safe is not stopping corporate-government plans for building a “massive infrastructure.”

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2016/10/042016/10/03

Mongoose: $540M for Fake News? How Much Open Source Intelligence Could That Buy for Special Operations Forces?

IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Military

Pentagon paid PR firm 540mn to make fake terrorist videos

The Pentagon paid a UK PR firm half a billion dollars to create fake terrorist videos in Iraq in a secret propaganda campaign exposed by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. . . . The firm created television ads showing Al-Qaeda in a negative light as well as creating content to look as though it had come from “Arabic TV”. Crews were sent out to film bombings with low quality video. The firm would then edit it to make it look like news footage. . . . The firm also created fake Al-Qaeda propaganda videos, which were then planted by the military in homes they raided.

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2016/10/042016/10/02

Berto Jongman: Lessons Learned on Counter-Terrorism — A History of Failure

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Ineptitude, Military, Peace Intelligence

What lessons should be learnt from 15 years of counter-terror and stabilisation?

By aiding and abetting abuse, corruption and bad governance in Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan, Western actors fell into the ‘stabilisation trap’: trading away a long-term focus on rights and governance for short-term stability – but ultimately guaranteeing abusive governance, chronic instability and deep public resentment. As these examples show, ‘terrorists’ may not be the worst threat to stability in conflict contexts, and lasting peace in contexts like Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan will prove elusive without facing up to the cynicism and abuse of supposed ‘partners’.

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2016/10/032016/10/01

Berto Jongman: Fewer and Fewer Journalists…

Ineptitude, Media

Employment picture darkens for journalists at digital outlets

In 2005, for every one digital-only journalist, there were 20 newspaper journalists. In 2015, for every one digital-only journalist, there were four newspaper journalists.

In 2005, there were 69,900 journalists employed in these two industries. In 2015, there were 51,980, a decline of 26 percent. As a result, Americans have fewer journalists to provide news information.

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