Igor Delovski Board

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Y! - Alcoholism wave hits top officials and elite in Russia 'like never before' amidst war, media reports

"The governor of a region within Russia's Central Federal District of Russia
was already known to be a drinker before, but according to Verstka's source,
he has lately gone completely off the rails.

'The day begins with either searching for him or attempting to wake him up
with phone calls,' the source lamented.

There's even a person who has been assigned responsibility for the search.
Following a formal appearance at morning meetings, where the governor
merely 'maintains appearances' and sits there like a statue, the regional
leader proceeds to lunch, inevitably accompanied by a substantial amount
of alcohol."

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Jessica Adams - China, Evergrande and Astrology

"I'll talk more about this in a moment, and come back to questions about
world trade and economies, but you'd really have your eyes on July 29th
2023 until August 17th 2023, because the transiting True North Node goes
to 28 Aries; the transiting True South Node goes to 28 Libra; Neptune is at
27 Pisces and crucially transiting Pluto is at 28 Capricorn. This time around,
forces bigger than China are going to take over.

This time the story is economic. We're seeing a story building here, until it
hits a point of no return in July and August 2023. And it builds very soon, as
I write this, on 4th January 2022.

July 29th 2023 until August 17th 2023, is over a year into the future as I
line up these charts, but Aries, Libra and Capricorn transits (the cardinal
signs) are always war alerts. Why? Aries rules the army, navy and air force.
Libra rules allies in partnership (Australia and New Zealand together; the
United Kingdom and the United States, together). Libra also rules duels as
well as duets. So, China against Taiwan. Capricorn is always the men who
make war. The top 1% of wealth and power. This can either be sabre-rattling
or something worse."

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bi - I moved my family from California to Austin, Texas, and regretted it.

"A lot of people, including myself, move from California to Austin because of
the hype and the perception that California and Austin are reasonably
comparable in lifestyle. My family and I found that to be far from the case."

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Y! - Serial Killers & Zodiac Signs: The Most Likely To Murder

"Four signs - Cancer, Pisces, Sagittarius, and Scorpio - account for almost
40 percent of serial killers. Gemini and Taurus combined account for only
11 percent"

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Y - When the Soviet Navy Lost 16 Admirals in a Single Accident: The Tu-104 Crash at Pushkin

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Y! - The Spy War: How the CIA Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin

"Around 2016, the CIA began training an elite Ukrainian commando force --
known as Unit 2245 -- which captured Russian drones and communications
gear so that CIA technicians could reverse-engineer them and crack Moscow's
encryption systems. (One officer in the unit was Kyrylo Budanov, now the
general leading Ukraine's military intelligence.)"

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Y! - We're Election Astrologers. Here's Who We Predict Will Win The 2024 Race

"At the same time, Urban is predicting Trump will experience feeling crushed
around Election Day, but his influence will not go away. There's some
indications in his chart that show that the things that he ends up becoming
known for have not even happened yet."

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r - Was it essentially an open secret in the Antebellum South that
white men were raping slaves and often fathering their children?
Was there any social, church, or marital pressure not to do this?

"The sum is that you would likely turn a blind eye and pretend that your
husband wasn't routinely raping the enslaved women that he owned, and
deny to yourself the strong resemblance that many of the lighter skinned
black persons on the plantation might have to your spouse."

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r - Cezih opet ne radi

"Ja jesam lijecnik i mogu reci da je 100% kolega koje poznajem razvilo
zdravstvene ili socijalne probleme otkako je pocela raditi."

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Y! - Third Man Syndrome

"Third Man Syndrome Has Fascinated Me For Months, So Here Are 24 First-
Hand Accounts Of People Who Experienced It And Lived To Tell The Tale"

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Yuri Bezmenov: Psychological Warfare Subversion & Control of Western Society:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnpCqsXE8g

> Bezmenov described this process as 'a great brainwashing' that has four
basic stages. The first stage is called 'demoralization' which takes from 15 to
20 years to achieve. According to the former KGB agent, that is the
minimum number of years it takes to re-educate one generation of students
that is normally exposed to the ideology of its country -- in other words, the
time it takes to change what the people are thinking.

> Demoralization is a process that is 'irreversible.' Bezmenov actually
thought (back in 1984) that the process of demoralizing America was
already completed. It would take another generation and another couple
of decades to get the people to think differently and return to their patriotic
American values, claimed the agent.

> In what is perhaps a most striking passage in the interview, here's how
Bezmenov described the state of a 'demoralized' person:

> 'As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter
anymore,' said Bezmenov. 'A person who was demoralized is unable to
assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him
with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures; even
if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him [a] concentration
camp, he will refuse to believe it, until he [receives] a kick in his fan-bottom.
When a military boot crashes his balls then he will understand. But not
before that. That's the [tragedy] of the situation of demoralization.'

https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/

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The Nerd Reich - 'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook

"In 2022, one of Peter Thiel's favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump
Administration in which the federal government would be run by a 'CEO' who
was not Trump and laid out a playbook for how it might work. Elon Musk is
following it."

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TheAtlantic - Russia and the Menace of Unreality

"At the NATO summit in Wales last week, General Philip Breedlove, the military
alliance's top commander, made a bold declaration. Russia, he said, is waging
the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen in the
history of information warfare."

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nyt - Here Are the Digital Clues to What Musk Is Really Up To

"In effect, this small DOGE crew has become sysadmins for the entire
government. Soon after O.P.M., they descended on the Treasury Department,
where every payment the government has made is stored: root access to the
economy (including many companies that are direct competitors to those of
Musk). Their efforts expanded recently to the I.R.S. and Social Security
Administration, both of which hold extremely personal, sensitive information:
root access to practically the entire American population."

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r - You're being targeted by disinformation networks that are vastly more effective than you realize. And they're making you more hateful and depressed.

"(I wrote this post in March and posted it on r/GenZ. However, a few people
messaged me to say that the r/GenZ moderators took it down last week,
though I'm not sure why. Given the flood of divisive, gender-war posts we've
seen in the past five days, and several countries' demonstrated use of
gender-war propaganda to fuel political division in multiple countries, I felt it
was important to repost this. This post was written for a U.S. audience, but
the implications are increasingly global.)

TL;DR: You know that Russia and other governments try to manipulate
people online. But you almost certainly don't how just how effectively
orchestrated influence networks are using social media platforms to make
you -- individually-- angry, depressed, and hateful toward each other. Those
networks' goal is simple: to cause Americans and other Westerners --
especially young ones -- to give up on social cohesion and to give up on
learning the truth, so that Western countries lack the will to stand up to
authoritarians and extremists.

And you probably don't realize how well it's working on you.

This is a long post, but I wrote it because this problem is real, and it's much
scarier than you think.

How Russian networks fuel racial and gender wars to make Americans fight one
another

In September 2018, a video went viral after being posted by In the Now, a
social media news channel. It featured a feminist activist pouring bleach on
a male subway passenger for manspreading. It got instant attention, with
millions of views and wide social media outrage. Reddit users wrote that it
had turned them against feminism.

There was one problem: The video was staged. And In the Now, which
publicized it, is a subsidiary of RT, formerly Russia Today, the Kremlin TV
channel aimed at foreign, English-speaking audiences.

As an MIT study found in 2019, Russia's online influence networks reached
140 million Americans every month -- the majority of U.S. social media
users.

Russia began using troll farms a decade ago to incite gender and racial
divisions in the United States

In 2013, Yevgeny Prigozhin, a confidante of Vladimir Putin, founded the
Internet Research Agency (the IRA) in St. Petersburg. It was the Russian
government's first coordinated facility to disrupt U.S. society and politics
through social media.

Here's what Prigozhin had to say about the IRA's efforts to disrupt the 2022
election:

Gentlemen, we interfered, we interfere and we will interfere. Carefully,
precisely, surgically and in our own way, as we know how. During our
pinpoint operations, we will remove both kidneys and the liver at once.

In 2014, the IRA and other Russian networks began establishing fake U.S.
activist groups on social media. By 2015, hundreds of English-speaking
young Russians worked at the IRA. Their assignment was to use those false
social-media accounts, especially on Facebook and Twitter -- but also on
Reddit, Tumblr, 9gag, and other platforms -- to aggressively spread
conspiracy theories and mocking, ad hominem arguments that incite
American users.

In 2017, U.S. intelligence found that Blacktivist, a Facebook and Twitter
group with more followers than the official Black Lives Matter movement,
was operated by Russia. Blacktivist regularly attacked America as racist and
urged black users to rejected major candidates. On November 2, 2016, just
before the 2016 election, Blacktivist's Twitter urged Black Americans:
'Choose peace and vote for Jill Stein. Trust me, it's not a wasted vote.'

Russia plays both sides -- on gender, race, and religion

The brilliance of the Russian influence campaign is that it convinces
Americans to attack each other, worsening both misandry and misogyny,
mutual racial hatred, and extreme antisemitism and Islamophobia. In short,
it's not just an effort to boost the right wing; it's an effort to radicalize
everybody.

Russia uses its trolling networks to aggressively attack men. According to
MIT, in 2019, the most popular Black-oriented Facebook page was the
charmingly named 'My Baby Daddy Aint Shit.' It regularly posts memes
attacking Black men and government welfare workers. It serves two purposes:
Make poor black women hate men, and goad black men into flame wars.

MIT found that My Baby Daddy is run by a large troll network in Eastern
Europe likely financed by Russia.

But Russian influence networks are also also aggressively misogynistic and
aggressively anti-LGBT.

On January 23, 2017, just after the first Women's March, the New York
Times found that the Internet Research Agency began a coordinated attack
on the movement. Per the Times:

More than 4,000 miles away, organizations linked to the Russian government
had assigned teams to the Women's March. At desks in bland offices in St.
Petersburg, using models derived from advertising and public relations,
copywriters were testing out social media messages critical of the Women's
March movement, adopting the personas of fictional Americans.

They posted as Black women critical of white feminism, conservative women
who felt excluded, and men who mocked participants as hairy-legged
whiners.

But the Russian PR teams realized that one attack worked better than the
rest: They accused its co-founder, Arab American Linda Sarsour, of being an
antisemite. Over the next 18 months, at least 152 Russian accounts
regularly attacked Sarsour. That may not seem like many accounts, but it
worked: They drove the Women's March movement into disarray and
eventually crippled the organization.

Russia doesn't need a million accounts, or even that many likes or upvotes.
It just needs to get enough attention that actual Western users begin
amplifying its content.

A former federal prosecutor who investigated the Russian disinformation
effort summarized it like this:

It wasn't exclusively about Trump and Clinton anymore. It was deeper and
more sinister and more diffuse in its focus on exploiting divisions within
society on any number of different levels.

As the New York Times reported in 2022,

There was a routine: Arriving for a shift, [Russian disinformation] workers
would scan news outlets on the ideological fringes, far left and far right,
mining for extreme content that they could publish and amplify on the
platforms, feeding extreme views into mainstream conversations.

China is joining in with AI

Last month, the New York Times reported on a new disinformation
campaign. 'Spamouflage' is an effort by China to divide Americans by
combining AI with real images of the United States to exacerbate political
and social tensions in the U.S. The goal appears to be to cause Americans
to lose hope, by promoting exaggerated stories with fabricated photos about
homeless violence and the risk of civil war.

As Ladislav Bittman, a former Czechoslovakian secret police operative,
explained about Soviet disinformation, the strategy is not to invent
something totally fake. Rather, it is to act like an evil doctor who
expertly diagnoses the patient's vulnerabilities and exploits them,
'prolongs his illness and speeds him to an early grave instead of curing
him.'

The influence networks are vastly more effective than platforms admit
Russia now runs its most sophisticated online influence efforts through
a network called Fabrika. Fabrika's operators have bragged that social
media platforms catch only 1% of their fake accounts across YouTube,
Twitter, TikTok, and Telegram, and other platforms.

But how effective are these efforts? By 2020, Facebook's most popular
pages for Christian and Black American content were run by Eastern
European troll farms tied to the Kremlin. And Russia doesn't just target
angry Boomers on Facebook. Russian trolls are enormously active on
Twitter. And, even, on Reddit.

It's not just false facts

The term 'disinformation' undersells the problem. Because much of Russia's
social media activity is not trying to spread fake news. Instead, the goal is
to divide and conquer by making Western audiences depressed and extreme.

Sometimes, through brigading and trolling. Other times, by posting hyper-
negative or extremist posts or opinions about the U.S. the West over and
over, until readers assume that's how most people feel. And sometimes, by
using trolls to disrupt threads that advance Western unity.

As the RAND think tank explained, the Russian strategy is volume and
repetition, from numerous accounts, to overwhelm real social media users
and create the appearance that everyone disagrees with, or even hates,
them. And it's not just low-quality bots. Per RAND,

Russian propaganda is produced in incredibly large volumes and is broadcast

or otherwise distributed via a large number of channels. ... According to a
former paid Russian Internet troll, the trolls are on duty 24 hours a day,
in 12-hour shifts, and each has a daily quota of 135 posted comments of at
least 200 characters.

What this means for you

You are being targeted by a sophisticated PR campaign meant to make you
more resentful, bitter, and depressed. It's not just disinformation; it's also
real-life human writers and advanced bot networks working hard to shift the
conversation to the most negative and divisive topics and opinions.

It's why some topics seem to go from non-issues to constant controversy
and discussion, with no clear reason, across social media platforms. And a
lot of those trolls are actual, 'professional' writers whose job is to sound
real.

So what can you do? To quote WarGames: The only winning move is not to
play. The reality is that you cannot distinguish disinformation accounts from
real social media users. Unless you know whom you're talking to, there is a
genuine chance that the post, tweet, or comment you are reading is an
attempt to manipulate you -- politically or emotionally.

Here are some thoughts:

Don't accept facts from social media accounts you don't know. Russian,
Chinese, and other manipulation efforts are not uniform. Some will make
deranged claims, but others will tell half-truths. Or they'll spin facts about
a complicated subject, be it the war in Ukraine or loneliness in young men, to
give you a warped view of reality and spread division in the West.

Resist groupthink. A key element of manipulate networks is volume. People
are naturally inclined to believe statements that have broad support.
When a post gets 5,000 upvotes, it's easy to think the crowd is right. But
'the crowd' could be fake accounts, and even if they're not, the brilliance
of government manipulation campaigns is that they say things people are
already predisposed to think. They'll tell conservative audiences something
misleading about a Democrat, or make up a lie about Republicans that catches
fire on a liberal server or subreddit.

Don't let social media warp your view of society. This is harder than it
seems, but you need to accept that the facts -- and the opinions -- you see
across social media are not reliable. If you want the news, do what
everyone online says not to: look at serious, mainstream media. It is not
always right. Sometimes, it screws up. But social media narratives are
heavily manipulated by networks whose job is to ensure you are deceived,
angry, and divided."

https://www.queensu.ca/artsci/news/how-russian-gender-based-disinformation-could-influence-the-2024-u-s-presidential-election

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-edition-1.4855614/viral-video-of-feminist-pouring-bleach-on-manspreaders-debunked-as-russian-propaganda-1.4855973

https://euvsdisinfo.eu/viral-manspreading-video-is-staged-kremlin-propaganda/

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook-troll-farms-report-us-2020-election/

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/14/europe/russia-yevgeny-prigozhin-internet-research-agency-intl/index.html

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR_6dibpDfo

"Russia's meddling in the United States' elections is not a hoax. It's the
culmination of Moscow's decades-long campaign to tear the West apart.
'Operation InfeKtion' reveals the ways in which one of the Soviets' central
tactics -- the promulgation of lies about America -- continues today, from
Pizzagate to George Soros conspiracies. Meet the KGB spies who conceived
this virus and the American truth squads who tried -- and are still trying --
to fight it. Countries from Pakistan to Brazil are now debating reality, and in
Vladimir Putin's greatest triumph, Americans are using Russia's playbook
against one another without the faintest clue."

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US.gov - Justice Department Disrupts Covert Russian Government-Sponsored Foreign Malign Influence Operation Targeting Audiences in the United States and Elsewhere

"In other instances, the perpetrators sought to create their own unique media
brands to promote Doppelganger content (e.g., Recent Reliable News). Among
the methods Doppelganger used to drive viewership to the cybersquatted and
unique media domains was the deployment of 'influencers' worldwide, paid
social media advertisements (in some cases created using artificial intelligence
tools), and the creation of social media profiles posing as U.S. (or other non-
Russian) citizens to post comments on social media platforms with links to the
cybersquatted domains, all of which attempted to trick viewers into believing
they were being directed to a legitimate news media outlet's website."