Daily Archives: 10. April 2023


10.04.2023 - 09:54 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

Berlin: Große Koalition will Staatstrojaner schon vor Straftaten

In Berlin wollen CDU und SPD der Polizei den Einsatz von Staatstrojanern erlauben, dabei darf sie das längst. Auf Nachfrage erläutert der Innensenat: Die Polizei darf zwar heute schon hacken, um Straftaten aufzuklären. Sie soll aber auch hacken dürfen, um zukünftige Straftaten zu verhindern.

10.04.2023 - 09:41 [ HuffingtonPost.co.uk ]

Rise of the Political Technologists: „Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible“ by Peter Pomerantsev

(May 22, 2015)

The conflict in Ukraine bears many hallmarks of Surkov‘s work. He even published a short story (under a transparent pseudonym, of course) about the possibilities of what he termed ‚non-linear war‘. In this constructed and stage-managed media landscape, Ukrainian officials and MPs are derided as fascists; the Russian soldiers fighting and dying in Ukraine are actually freedom fighters, defending the creation of ‚Novorossiya‘ – or they are not there at all; and, perhaps worst of all, the whole conflict was actually the result of Western expansion, of US imperialism.

10.04.2023 - 09:26 [ theAtlantic.com ]

The Hidden Author of Putinism: How Vladislav Surkov invented the new Russia

(November 7, 2014)

They repeat the great mantras of the era: The president is the president of “stability,” the antithesis to the era of “confusion and twilight” in the 1990s. “Stability”—the word is repeated again and again in a myriad seemingly irrelevant contexts until it echoes and tolls like a great bell and seems to mean everything good; anyone who opposes the president is an enemy of the great God of “stability.” “Effective manager,” a term quarried from Western corporate speak, is transmuted into a term to venerate the president as the most “effective manager” of all. “Effective” becomes the raison d’être for everything: Stalin was an “effective manager” who had to make sacrifices for the sake of being “effective.” The words trickle into the streets: “Our relationship is not effective” lovers tell each other when they break up. “Effective,” “stability”: No one can quite define what they actually mean, and as the city transforms and surges, everyone senses things are the very opposite of stable, and certainly nothing is “effective,” but the way Surkov and his puppets use them the words have taken on a life of their own and act like falling axes over anyone who is in any way disloyal.

10.04.2023 - 07:03 [ Sam Johnson / Youtube ]

HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis | FULL DOCUMENTARY

The cult documentary maker explores the falsity of modern life in his own inimitable style. Though he’s spent the best part of four decades making television, Curtis’s signature blend of hypnotic archive footage, authoritative voiceover and a seemingly inexhaustible appetite for bizarre historical tangents is better suited to the web, a place just as resistant to the narrative handholding of broadcast TV as he is. He argues that an army of technocrats, complacent radicals and Faustian internet entrepreneurs have conspired to create an unreal world; one whose familiar and often comforting details blind us to its total inauthenticity.

10.04.2023 - 06:50 [ Daniel Neun / Radio Utopie ]

Taktik des Terrorkrieges: Wahrnehmungs-Management, Verwirrung, gelenkte Querfront

(7. Juni 2017)

Folgende Beispiele sind entnommen der Dokumentation „Hypernormalisation“ des britischen Journalisten, Regisseurs und Genies Adam Curtis aus dem Jahre 2016, welche untenstehend eingebettet ist.

Ohne auf alle in der Dokumentation dargestellten Entwicklungen und Hintergründe einzugehen, beleuchtet diese u.a. die jahrzehntelange Taktik des „Wahrnehmungs-Managements“ (perception management), die Manipulation der Öffentlichen Meinung, die Lenkung vermeintlich verfeindeter oder sich gegenseitig bekriegender Gruppen durch die gleiche Hand (befördert durch die Unfähigkeit zu dreidimensionalem Verständnis von Politik, links vs rechts, progressiv vs reaktionär, oben vs unten) die gezielte Konfusion jedweder Opposition und die permanente Formwandlung der Macht und der Mächtigen, um sie nicht greifbar und damit unangreifbar erscheinen zu lassen.

Die untenstehenden und in der Dokumentation über die Jahrzehnte genannten Beispiele sind im Zuge der Entwicklung von informationstechnischer Technologie, weltweitem Einsickern von kapitalistischen (Denk)Strukturen und deren Verschmelzung (“Globalisierung”), sowie Terrorkrieg in den letzten bald sechzehn Jahren praktisch auf jedes Land bzw jede Region übertragbar.

10.04.2023 - 06:39 [ Haaretz ]

The Leaked Pentagon Memo: Russia’s Chaos Tactics Strike Israel‘s Mossad

Most probably, the U.S. intelligence community is not bugging its Israeli counterpart. But, as always, intelligence communities like to take known information from open sources and rephrase it to make it look like it’s secret.

10.04.2023 - 06:32 [ Haaretz ]

Poll Shows Netanyahu Crashing, Gantz Far Ahead, Lapid Second

A mere 25 percent of those polled said they wanted the current government to continue leading the country. Thirty-three percent said they support a unity government instead, and another 33 percent prefer another round of elections. Among Likud voters, just 43 percent want the government‘s term to continue, 35 percent prefer a unity government and 10 percent want a return to the polls.