Propaganda strategy now increasing works on a ‘flood the zone’ mentality. There’s too much information with the internet not just allowing but incentivising alternate media, the content economy, engagement farming etc to try and carefully control information.

So instead the strategy is the open all the taps on every pipe and spew as much sewage into the sphere as possible, while using the media-political establishment to relentlessly harras, smear, and victimise anyone on the other side of your issue.

It’s a strategy the British state-media establishment basically perfected 35-45 years ago and the internet just supercharged the amount of bandwidth you have to fill, but also the ease of doing it.

There are of course highly specific and more insidious propaganda projects and psychological operations directed at high value groups or individuals of course, but for the most part it’s a wall of noise, repeatition, and relentlessly attacking individuals to create a chilling effect.

I spent an embarrassing number of seconds looking around for the kitty.

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This is bullshit.

I asked someone I know, who has literally spent the last few years on the conference circuit talking about their cancer early signifier breakthrough, when I first saw an article on this over a week ago. Obviously I didn’t mention the Iran missle part. They didn’t know of anything particularly impressive or news worthy that had come out of Israel or really in general for over a year.

Posting this made me want to confirm that after dismissing it before, so I checked. There are dozens of articles, often featuring near identical wording, all pushed on the same day June 27th. There are no other even vaguely relevant news (including medical news) even discussing the possibility of an actual breakthrough compared to what’s commonly available before that. In fact you have to go back years to get any even vaguely keyword relevent articles.

This is fucking desperate. Maybe it’ll work on a couple of pop-sci Reddit libs who are already pretty pro-Israel, but no one else is going to buy this. Most people will simply go “yeah, right!”. And anyone in an even vaguely scientific field will know it’s bullshit for the same reason my friend did (and he did it without the Iran missile context).

If anything, blasting across media that you totally had a super secret miracle breakthrough but can’t prove any aspect of it is only going to make the international scientific and academic community extra wary of anything you claim in the future. Isreal is fucking it’s own reputation her with the people that actually matter in this space. It’s pathetic and desperate.

I genuinely think there’s a case to be made that RCT1+2 are some of the best games ever made. They’re absolutely two of my top favourites of all time.

Exactly. But in this case I’m talking about the ‘western liberal democracies’ which constantly fall back on the idea of a diplomacy that they never actually meaningfully attempt before washing their hands and going back to supporting genocide.

I don’t think so. If Israel succeeds you’ll see them double down & embark on a national cultural project to whitewash their crimes in a similar way many of post-Soviet Baltic states are about their Nazism now.

It was pointed out to her that this is totally false, including in immaculately sourced 500+ word multi-example threads by journalists. Naturally she ignored it.

Because she finds it easier to stand up for and internationalremoved sex trafficker, millionaire spy-heiress than brown people being genocided.

The time for talking about diplomacy was sometimes during the last 75 years. At this point a moral and practical country would be choking Israel in military & technology sanctions, arresting any & all members of the government & military who set foot within their borders, shooting down Israeli jets & drones to enforce a no fly zone, and bombing any & all Israeli military & paramilitary targets into dust.

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There’s loads of old Trots in British media too, they’re just ‘socially conservative’ neocons now though.

Exactly. Plus it’s a red meat political issue for the kind of reactionary gammons they’re exclusively chasing for votes now in the way that a private company isn’t (even though the RAF planes were owned by a hedge fund).

Not yet. It’ll be debated in the Lords later today & likely come into effect at Midnight on Friday night.

There’s also an online action meeting about next steps at 7pm UK time on Friday and if people are new to direct action there’s still a crash course online at 7pm UK time (but for international audiences) you can signup for tonight.

Here in the UK the Co-Op supermarket has dropped Israeli products entirely after it won a vote in their AGM. The banking & insurance side of the business already doesn’t do business with Israel.

Somehow there’s something even sadder (and just as disgusting) about these centrist melts doing the nostalgia ‘Return’ thing for an era as recent as the 90s. I have zero tolerance for the fascist longing for an imaginary 1950s that didn’t exist but at least it feels far enough away and there’s a lack of media of ordinary life that you can make it into kind of fantasy themepark of nostalgia. Somehow this shit is even more pathetic.

He was the Health Spokesman for them up until 2021. I don’t know what if anything he does now. He tried to become a Green MP candidate at one point but did pretty badly. He was like the sixth choice or something.

Yeah, they are better than most but there is only 4 of them.

Exactly. Even here in the UK we recently agreed to meet Trump’s demand for 5% of GDP on military spending and stalking about building a war economy, but even then we’re doing it by fudging the budgets to include not only traditional military spending as per NATO request but things like ‘border security’ and domestic surveillance. Lots of which won’t be used in service of Ukraine or missions abroad, but repression at home.

The timeline of the process over the next few days:

There’s also an online action meeting at 7pm (UK time) this Friday about broader resistance next steps and direct action introduction workshops online every evening this week before the process is finalised.