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This video's information is out of date and is pushing discredited conspiracy theories.
Navalny's 'Putin's palace' claim has already fallen apart as the owner of the property has come forward (since over a week ago) and said they're developing it into a hotel that will open in 12 - 18 months. Other Russian journalists have visited and toured the property and filmed all the rooms on the inside, and they're all bare concrete, without any of the lavish decorations Navalny claimed there to be.
Following Navalny's poisoning and his 'Putin's palace' video, Navalny's trust-rating in Russia is at 5%, while Putin's latest approval rating is standing at 64% - according to US-funded Levada Centre (which is branded a foreign agent in Russia because it is US-funded).
https://twitter.com/Malinka1102/status/1357415295800004611
Navalny is a proud, far-right, anti-immigrant nationalist who is extremely xenophobic and has made racist comments, including celebrating the Holocaust by calling for a toast to it at an event in Moscow. He has also compared immigrants to tooth-rot and claimed they need to be deported to save Russia. He has also compared Muslims to cockroaches that need exterminating by shooting them.
https://youtu.be/DRP37r0Faao "Become a nationalist, deport immigrants!"
Navalny also says that to live in Russia a person must become a "true Russian", whatever that means. And he says that Crimea is rightfully a part of Russia and he wouldn't give it back if he were Russia's president - which is appropriate, but this view again shows that he is merely used as a convenient tool of the West, while he doesn't share the West's goals other than the goal of deposing Putin.
In short, the video is capitalizing on discredited conspiracy theories. Navalny's image as a champion of the people is entirely a Western propaganda construct. Navalny isn't feared by Russia's government. His sentencing is a result of a French cosmetics company accusing Navalny and his brother of embezzling $400,000 from the company. The French company, Yves Rocher, has said they stand by the charges and Russia's sentencing process.
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The video is filled with false information, though.
Navalny is a proud, far-right, anti-immigrant nationalist who is extremely xenophobic and has made racist comments, including celebrating the Holocaust by calling for a toast to it at an event in Moscow. He has also compared immigrants to tooth-rot and claimed they need to be deported to save Russia. He has also compared Muslims to cockroaches that need exterminating by shooting them.
https://youtu.be/DRP37r0Faao "Become a nationalist, deport immigrants!"
Navalny's 'Putin's palace' claim has already fallen apart as the owner of the property has come forward (since over a week ago) and said they're developing it into a hotel that will open in 12 - 18 months. Other Russian journalists have visited and toured the property and filmed all the rooms on the inside, and they're all bare concrete, without any of the lavish decorations Navalny claimed there to be.
Following Navalny's poisoning and his 'Putin's palace' video, Navalny's trust-rating in Russia is at 5%, while Putin's latest approval rating is standing at 64% - according to US-funded Levada Centre (which is branded a foreign agent in Russia because it is US-funded).
https://twitter.com/Malinka1102/status/1357415295800004611
Navalny also says that to live in Russia a person must become a "true Russian", whatever that means. And he says that Crimea is rightfully a part of Russia and he wouldn't give it back if he were Russia's president - which is appropriate, but this view again shows that he is merely used as a convenient tool of the West, while he doesn't share the West's goals other than the goal of deposing Putin.
In short, the video is capitalizing on discredited conspiracy theories. Navalny's image as a champion of the people is entirely a Western propaganda construct. Navalny isn't feared by Russia's government. His sentencing is a result of a French cosmetics company accusing Navalny and his brother of embezzling $400,000 from the company. The French company, Yves Rocher, has said they stand by the charges and Russia's sentencing process.
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The video is filled with disinfo, though.
Navalny is a proud, far-right, anti-immigrant nationalist who is extremely xenophobic and has made racist comments, including celebrating the Holocaust by calling for a toast to it at an event in Moscow, comparing immigrants to tooth-rot and claiming they need to be deported to save Russia, and comparing Muslims to cockroaches that need exterminating by shooting them.
https://youtu.be/DRP37r0Faao "Become a nationalist, deport immigrants!"
Navalny's 'Putin's palace' claim has already fallen apart as the owner of the property has come forward (since over a week ago) and said they're developing it into a hotel that will open in 12 - 18 months. Other Russian journalists have visited and toured the property and filmed all the rooms on the inside, and they're all bare concrete, without any of the lavish decorations Navalny claimed there to be.
Following Navalny's poisoning and his 'Putin's palace' video, Navalny's trust-rating in Russia is at 5%, while Putin's latest approval rating is standing at 64% - according to US-funded Levada Centre (which is branded a foreign agent in Russia because it is US-funded).
https://twitter.com/Malinka1102/status/1357415295800004611
Navalny also says that to live in Russia a person must become a "true Russian", whatever that means. And he says that Crimea is rightfully a part of Russia and he wouldn't give it back if he were Russia's president - which is appropriate, but this view again shows that he is merely used as a convenient tool of the West, while he doesn't share the West's goals other than the depose Putin.
In short, the video is capitalizing on discredited conspiracy theories. Navalny's image as a champion of the people is entirely a Western propaganda construct. Navalny isn't feared by Russia's government. His sentencing is a result of a French cosmetics company accusing Navalny and his brother of embezzling $400,000 from the company. The French company, Yves Rocher, has said they stand by the charges and Russia's sentencing process.
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@marasm5258 Because he's not mindless. He gave the girl encouragement and understanding rather than a personal opinion. Just saying 'Yes' or 'No' would be silly.
Just a heads-up for people: The accounts "White Wall", "William Sam", "Fi Bryar", "Fatty Hendo", and probably others, are all operated by the same person who pretends to be different people with them. They are extremely aggressive, impulsive, can be stalking, and difficult to explain things to. And they have no restraint or compunction against making lies of any size, big or small, even when you'd think it's impossible for them to not know that you know that they're lying. They don't accept correction and are unyielding in their initial insistence. I believe this is because they are on the spectrum.
This person has been extremely sensitive to any talk about Ukraine's large troll farm program and can spend an entire day, more than 10 hours straight, non-stop, saying the same inane or whitewashing comment about it. In general, they mentally block-out all information that doesn't tell them what they want to hear, no matter how inarguably and demonstrably factual it is. They will also pretend they didn't get answers they received to their questions just so that they can continue to badger someone with the already-answered question and pretend with themselves that they're "owning" someone for not getting an answer. It is as detached from reality and normal sanity as it sounds.
With each of their accounts, they show the same very poor English grammar and phrasing, and are sometimes completely unintelligible - especially when they become upset. Yet, even when they're at their very most incoherent, as in, posting fully unintelligible gibberish, they maintain an insistence that they're speaking perfect English. When they spend more time working out a post they can make it appear a bit more normal, though there's typically always some oddities in their writing style. Again, I believe they are on the spectrum and that their behaviour is a result of that.
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Just because someone makes a video doesn't mean the video is factual. And this video is filled with disinfo.
Navalny is a proud, far-right, anti-immigrant nationalist who is extremely xenophobic and has made racist comments, including celebrating the Holocaust by calling for a toast to it at an event in Moscow, comparing immigrants to tooth-rot and claiming they need to be deported to save Russia, and comparing Muslims to cockroaches that need exterminating by shooting them.
https://youtu.be/DRP37r0Faao "Become a nationalist, deport immigrants!"
Navalny's 'Putin's palace' claim has already fallen apart as the owner of the property has come forward (since over a week ago) and said they're developing it into a hotel that will open in 12 - 18 months. Other Russian journalists have visited and toured the property and filmed all the rooms on the inside, and they're all bare concrete, without any of the lavish decorations Navalny claimed there to be.
Following Navalny's poisoning and his 'Putin's palace' video, Navalny's trust-rating in Russia is at 5%, while Putin's latest approval rating is standing at 64% - according to US-funded Levada Centre (which is branded a foreign agent in Russia because it is US-funded).
https://twitter.com/Malinka1102/status/1357415295800004611
Navalny also says that to live in Russia a person must become a "true Russian", whatever that means. And he says that Crimea is rightfully a part of Russia and he wouldn't give it back if he were Russia's president - which is appropriate, but this view again shows that he is merely used as a convenient tool of the West, while he doesn't share the West's goals other than the depose Putin.
In short, the video is capitalizing on discredited conspiracy theories. Navalny's image as a champion of the people is entirely a Western propaganda construct. Navalny isn't feared by Russia's government. His sentencing is a result of a French cosmetics company accusing Navalny and his brother of embezzling $400,000 from the company. The French company, Yves Rocher, has said they stand by the charges and Russia's sentencing process.
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The reason Navalny was arrested upon his return to Russia is because he was serving that suspended prison sentence for embezzlement charges made by French cosmetics company, Yves Rocher. And the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled that Navalny and his brother's trial wasn't fair also dismissed Navalny's appeal that the charges were politically motivated.
While Navalny was in Germany receiving treatment, Russia's Penitentiary Service didn't require Navalny to adhere to their probation term which required him to check-in twice a month. But after he was discharged from the German hospital, and after the hospital published a report saying Navalny was fully recovered, Russia's Penitentiary Service told Navalny that he had to return to Russia and check-in again, otherwise he would be arrested upon his return to Russia and might have his suspended sentence turned into a prison sentence. Navalny chose to ignore the warning and stayed out of Russia a week or so beyond the date he was required to return. So, as he had been told would happen, he was arrested. And in his sentencing hearing, the German hospital's report of Navalny's full recovery was cited as evidence against Navalny's claim he couldn't have returned sooner.
Do you know what happens in the US when you skip bail and violate the terms of a suspended sentence? You're arrested and your suspended sentence is changed into a prison sentence. And as Navalny is a high-profile person, any exception made for him (and I don't know why he'd get an exception in this case) would affect Russia's prison authority's ability to apply their rules to others.
The depiction of Navalny as a champion of Russians is a Western propaganda construct. following his poisoning, Levada Centre reports his approval rating soared to 20%, while his disapproval rating also soared to 50%.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-idUSKBN26N1Z9
Here's an article on a Spanish-Jewish site featuring various anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant quotes made by Navalny:
https://itongadol.com/noticias/73171-moscow-mayor-hopeful-raises-jewish-fears-with-anti-semitic-remarks
And here's an undercover video recently released showing Navalny's top aide requesting $20 million in funding from a UK intel officer.
https://www.rt.com/russia/514291-navalny-aide-funding-alleged-british-spy/
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The video is filled with false information, though.
Navalny is a proud, far-right, anti-immigrant nationalist who is extremely xenophobic and has made racist comments, including celebrating the Holocaust by calling for a toast to it at an event in Moscow, comparing immigrants to tooth-rot and claiming they need to be deported to save Russia, and comparing Muslims to cockroaches that need exterminating by shooting them.
https://youtu.be/DRP37r0Faao "Become a nationalist, deport immigrants!"
Navalny's 'Putin's palace' claim has already fallen apart as the owner of the property has come forward (since over a week ago, I think) and said they're developing it into a hotel that will open in 12 - 18 months. Other Russian journalists have visited and toured the property and filmed all the rooms on the inside, and they're all bare concrete, without any of the lavish decorations Navalny claimed there to be.
Following Navalny's poisoning and 'Putin's palace' video, Navalny's trust-rating in Russia is at 5%, while Putin's latest approval rating is standing at 64% - according to US-funded Levada Centre.
https://twitter.com/Malinka1102/status/1357415295800004611
Navalny also says that to live in Russia a person must become a "true Russian", whatever that means. And he says that Crimea is rightfully a part of Russia and he wouldn't give it back if he were Russia's president - which is appropriate, but this view again shows that he is merely used as a convenient tool of the West, while he doesn't share the West's goals other than the depose Putin.
In short, the video is capitalizing on discredited conspiracy theories. Navalny's image as a champion of the people is entirely a Western propaganda construct. Navalny isn't feared by Russia's government. His sentencing is a result of a French cosmetics company accusing Navalny and his brother of embezzling $400,000 from the company. The French company, Yves Rocher, has said they stand by the charges and Russia's sentencing process.
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I would say that 80%+ of Johnny’s video is extremely-false information, and that it seems as though he started ‘researching’ just 2 weeks ago, and mostly just read some NYT articles (as an example of an outlet which never utters an honest word regarding anything related to Russia) and picked-up on some sneering anti-Putin conspiracy theories online, and then assumed he had it all worked out filled in the gaps with his imagination and put the concoction he’d come-up with into video form.
This isn't a matter of opinion and point-of-view, his video is primarily based in false ideas and narratives, of the sort that's inventive hearsay spread among sneering detractors. It’s largely opposite to the facts and is instead very sensationalist through sacrificing important facts.
Johnny claims that Navalny was arrested upon his return to Russia from recovering in Germany on "some old fake set of charges brought against him years ago that were thrown out later, they were totally fake". None of that is at-all true. The charges of embezzlement, brought by French cosmetics company Yves Rocher, were not fake and they weren't thrown-out - hence he had a suspended sentence. Navalny brought a complaint about the charges to the European Court of Human Rights, and the ECHR decided that the ruling against Navalny and his brother had been "arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable", but the ECHR didn't throw out the charges nor did they have the authority to. Additionally, the ECHR heard Navalny's appeal to have the charges construed as politically-motivated, but the ECHR dismissed Navalny's appeal of that. So, when he later calls Navalny's sentencing "politically-motivated", he's asserting something that wasn't deemed to be the case by the ECHR.
He also says that the pretext for Navalny's arrest was that he violated his parole terms, and he adds, "Turns-out he couldn't report to parole, officers, because he was in a coma from being poisoned by the Russian government". That's a lie which I believe is absolutely impossible for him to not have known was a lie when he made his video, because Navalny only had to return and check-in with the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service by the end of his probation period, on December 29th. But Navalny was discharged from the German hospital on September 23rd. That's over 3 months of difference, where Navalny wasn't in a coma and wasn't hospitalized. Further, the German hospital made a report mid-December stating that Navalny had recovered - and that report was cited during his sentencing hearing to show that he was able to return and check-in despite him not doing so.
Not that Navalny needed to be reminded of his parole terms for it to be legally binding, he's an adult who is responsible for himself and not a child, but Russia's Penitentiary Service did give him a last-minute warning that he had to return to make the final check-in otherwise he would be arrested upon his return to Russia. For the 4 months he'd been away in Germany, including all the time he was in a coma and for a very long time after that, Navalny's not-checking-in twice a month as his parole conditions required wasn't held against him and was never even mentioned as leverage against him in any way.
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service could have required Navalny to return to Russia sooner, but the only check-in Navalny was absolutely required to do was the final one, by December 29th. Navalny knew that, but he chose to stay in Germany for 2.5 weeks beyond that date.
Do you know what happens in the US when you skip probation and violate the terms of a suspended sentence? You're arrested and your suspended sentence is changed into a prison sentence. And as Navalny is a high-profile person, any exception made for him (and I don't know why he'd get an exception in this case beyond the unofficial exemption from having to check-in while he was recovering in Germany) would affect Russia's prison authority's ability to apply their rules to others.
Just some select other issues I have with his video are these, though there are also others that I'm not listing here:
His video doesn't mention the corruption scandals Navalny has been embroiled in, his racism and fierce xenophobia, the fact that 5,000 or a few times that number of protesters, and around 1,000 protesters arrested in the Moscow metropolitan area, the population of which is over 20 million, is statistically insignificant, or that Navalny's top aide was recorded seeking $20 million in funding from UK spies offering billions of 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' payback when Navalny becomes Russia's president - which has been a serious goal of Navalny's even though Johnny downplayed it in his video.
What he said about Novichok, who has developed it, the idea that it's a signature, is also 100% false and more of a cartoonish kind of an imaginative narrative. Many countries, including the US, UK, Czech, Iran, and others, have made Novichok, and the US took over the USSR's supplies of Novichok in 1991 when the US was responsible for the dismantling of the USSR's Uzbekistan chemical facilities where Novichok was made and stored. The US showed interest in patenting weaponized Novichok in 2015, and held discussions with Russia on the matter. The method to create Novichok was put into a book by its creator that is publicly available and can be purchased through Amazon. Novichok is not prohibitively difficult to make and the former head of the OPCW and many chemical experts have refuted the claim otherwise. I could expand a huge amount on this topic alone in a standalone post.
Bluntly, his video is either horrendously under-researched, or it's lying and deliberate propaganda. I'm shocked by the number of false claims and deferrals to conspiracy theories and cartoon visions that are contained in it. This isn't something anyone who considers themselves to be a journalist should be doing. And it certainly isn’t anything worth praising. The fact that it is convincing people of complete falsehoods makes it all the worse.
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@omggom2488 As you request. I hope you'll read my response detailing significant false information in Johnny's video. And there's far more that I haven't addressed here.
I would say that 80%+ of Johnny’s video is extremely-false information, and that it seems as though he started ‘researching’ just 2 weeks ago, and mostly just read some NYT articles (as an example of an outlet which never utters an honest word regarding anything related to Russia) and picked-up on some sneering anti-Putin conspiracy theories online, and then assumed he had it all worked out filled in the gaps with his imagination and put the concoction he’d come-up with into video form.
This isn't a matter of opinion and point-of-view, his video is primarily based in false ideas and narratives, of the sort that's inventive hearsay spread among sneering detractors. It’s largely opposite to the facts and is instead very sensationalist through sacrificing important facts.
Here are just a few examples of his ignorance or lies, whichever they may be.
Johnny claims that Navalny was arrested upon his return to Russia from recovering in Germany on "some old fake set of charges brought against him years ago that were thrown out later, they were totally fake". None of that is at-all true. The charges of embezzlement, brought by French cosmetics company Yves Rocher, were not fake and they weren't thrown-out - hence he had a suspended sentence. Navalny brought a complaint about the charges to the European Court of Human Rights, and the ECHR decided that the ruling against Navalny and his brother had been "arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable", but the ECHR didn't throw out the charges nor did they have the authority to. Additionally, the ECHR heard Navalny's appeal to have the charges construed as politically-motivated, but the ECHR dismissed Navalny's appeal of that. So, when he later calls Navalny's sentencing "politically-motivated", he's asserting something that wasn't deemed to be the case by the ECHR.
He also says that the pretext for Navalny's arrest was that he violated his parole terms, and he adds, "Turns-out he couldn't report to parole, officers, because he was in a coma from being poisoned by the Russian government". That's a lie which I believe is absolutely impossible for him to not have known was a lie when he made his video, because Navalny only had to return and check-in with the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service by the end of his probation period, on December 29th. But Navalny was discharged from the German hospital on September 23rd. That's over 3 months of difference, where Navalny wasn't in a coma and wasn't hospitalized. Further, the German hospital made a report mid-December stating that Navalny had recovered - and that report was cited during his sentencing hearing to show that he was able to return and check-in despite him not doing so.
Not that Navalny needed to be reminded of his parole terms for it to be legally binding, he's an adult who is responsible for himself and not a child, but Russia's Penitentiary Service did give him a last-minute warning that he had to return to make the final check-in otherwise he would be arrested upon his return to Russia. For the 4 months he'd been away in Germany, including all the time he was in a coma and for a very long time after that, Navalny's not-checking-in twice a month as his parole conditions required wasn't held against him and was never even mentioned as leverage against him in any way.
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service could have required Navalny to return to Russia sooner, but the only check-in Navalny was absolutely required to do was the final one, by December 29th. Navalny knew that, but he chose to stay in Germany for 2.5 weeks beyond that date.
Do you know what happens in the US when you skip probation and violate the terms of a suspended sentence? You're arrested and your suspended sentence is changed into a prison sentence. And as Navalny is a high-profile person, any exception made for him (and I don't know why he'd get an exception in this case beyond the unofficial exemption from having to check-in while he was recovering in Germany) would affect Russia's prison authority's ability to apply their rules to others.
Just some select other issues I have with his video are these, though there are lots of others that I'm not listing here:
His video doesn't mention the corruption scandals Navalny has been embroiled in, his racism and fierce xenophobia, the fact that 5,000 or a few times that number of protesters, and around 1,000 protesters arrested in the Moscow metropolitan area, the population of which is over 20 million, is statistically insignificant, or that Navalny's top aide was recorded seeking $20 million in funding from UK spies offering billions of 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' payback when Navalny becomes Russia's president - which has been a serious goal of Navalny's even though Johnny downplayed it in his video.
What he said about Novichok, who has developed it, the idea that it's a signature, is also 100% false and more of a cartoonish kind of an imaginative narrative. Many countries, including the US, UK, Czech, Iran, and others, have made Novichok, and the US took over the USSR's supplies of Novichok in 1991 when the US was responsible for the dismantling of the USSR's Uzbekistan chemical facilities where Novichok was made and stored. The US showed interest in patenting weaponized Novichok in 2015, and held discussions with Russia on the matter. The method to create Novichok was put into a book by its creator that is publicly available and can be purchased through Amazon. Novichok is not prohibitively difficult to make and the former head of the OPCW and many chemical experts have refuted the claim otherwise. I could expand a huge amount on this topic alone in a standalone post.
Bluntly, his video is either horrendously under-researched, or it's lying and deliberate propaganda. I'm shocked by the number of false claims and deferrals to conspiracy theories and cartoon visions that are contained in it. This isn't something anyone who considers themselves to be a journalist should be doing. And it certainly isn’t anything worth praising. The fact that it is convincing people of complete falsehoods makes it all the worse.
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There is much disinfo in your video. Navalny is a far-right proud anti-immigrant nationalist who is extremely xenophobic and has made racist comments, including celebrating the Holocaust by calling for a toast to it at an event in Moscow, comparing immigrants to tooth-rot and claiming they need to be deported to save Russia, and comparing Muslims to cockroaches that need exterminating by shooting them.
https://youtu.be/DRP37r0Faao "Become a nationalist, deport immigrants!"
Navalny's 'Putin's palace' claim has already fallen apart as the owner of the property has come forward (since over a week ago, I think) and said they're developing it into a hotel that will open in 12 - 18 months. Other Russian journalists have visited and toured the property and filmed all the rooms on the inside, and they're all bare concrete, without any of the lavish decorations Navalny claimed there to be.
Following Navalny's poisoning and 'Putin's palace' video, Navalny's trust-rating in Russia is at 5%, while Putin's latest approval rating is standing at 64% - according to US-funded Levada Centre.
https://twitter.com/Malinka1102/status/1357415295800004611
Navalny also says that to live in Russia a person must become a "true Russian", whatever that means. And he says that Crimea is rightfully a part of Russia and he wouldn't give it back if he were Russia's president - which is appropriate, but this view again shows that he is merely used as a convenient tool of the West, while he doesn't share the West's goals other than the depose Putin.
In short, your video is capitalizing on discredited conspiracy theories. Navalny's image as a champion of the people is entirely a Western propaganda construct. Navalny isn't feared by Russia's government. His sentencing is a result of a French cosmetics company accusing Navalny and his brother of embezzling $400,000 from the company. The French company, Yves Rocher, has said they stand by the charges and Russia's sentencing process.
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@expirednachos Hi Lili. For a decent answer to your question, please see the post I just made right above this one. I could post a lot more, too. But YT will only let me include so much text and links before comments disappear. In addition to that comment, read this Jewish
https://itongadol.com/noticias/73171-moscow-mayor-hopeful-raises-jewish-fears-with-anti-semitic-remarks
Alexei Navalny, the so-called "defender of Russian democracy" known in the West for his opposition to President Vladimir Putin and who is running for Mayor of Moscow in the September 8 election, is raising fear and concern among Jews and other minorities in the capital with his anti-Semitic and xenophobic remarks.
In a party celebrating the anniversary of the newspaper The New Times, the 37-year-old Russian blogger suggested that they "make the first toast for the Holocaust"; he referred to religious Jews in his blog as: "dandies in fox hats and rags" and stated that "whoever wants to live in Russia has to become Russian – in the full sense of the word."
Calling for total foreigner cleansing, Navalny’s supporters threatened Jews and other minorities, who are afraid to openly come out against the candidate.
Jews are not the only ethnic minority on the "liberal candidate\’s" mind. In a video distributed in Moscow, he identifies dark skinned Caucasians as cockroaches and states that: though one can kill cockroaches with a shoe, when it comes to human beings, I recommend using a gun."
Alexei Navalny who regularly insists on taking part in the nationalistic demonstration "Russian Marsh" (Ruskiy Marsh), has incited the skinheads in the marsh, by elaborating his ideas on immigrants and foreigners in the country. He declared: "This is our country, and it is our duty to eliminate all the crooks who suck our blood … All immigrants are like dental caries, destroying the Russian public. There is no need to hit anybody – whoever is in our way will be deported by a strong hand. There is a need for full cleansing/disinfection."
When accused of being a dangerous nationalist, Navalny stated: "nationalism is dangerous only when it is in underground – when it is part of the government it becomes more moderate," adding that "the mayor of Rome is also a neo – fascist and so far, there were no pogroms in the city.’’
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Hi. I would say that the large majority of Johnny's video is false information. And I've made some responses to him that I hope he reads concerning inaccurate statements in the video. I'll included part of what I've mentioned to him below, after I mention a couple of other points.
Following Navalny's poisoning and 'Putin's palace' video, the owner of the property has come forward to say that they are developing it into a hotel which will open in 12 - 18 months. And after the Navalny video released, US-funded pollster Levada Centre surveyed Russians of their views concerning the video and reported that just 17% of Russians believe the claims in the video, while Navalny is considered trustworthy by just 5% of Russia's population. Levada also reports Putin's current domestic support level to be 64%.
Here is part of one of my responses to Johnny, detailing just a few issues I've found with the claims in his video:
"You claim that Navalny was arrested upon his return to Russia from recovering in Germany on "some old fake set of charges brought against him years ago that were thrown out later, they were totally fake". None of that is at-all true. The charges of embezzlement, brought by French cosmetics company Yves Rocher, were not fake and they weren't thrown-out - hence he had a suspended sentence. Navalny brought a complaint about the charges to the European Court of Human Rights, and the ECHR decided that the ruling against Navalny and his brother had been "arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable", but the ECHR didn't throw out the charges nor did they have the authority to. Additionally, the ECHR heard Navalny's appeal to have the charges construed as politically-motivated, but the ECHR dismissed Navalny's appeal of that. So, when you later call Navalny's sentencing "politically-motivated", you're asserting something that wasn't deemed to be the case.
You also say that the pretext for Navalny's arrest was that he violated his parole terms, and you add, "Turns-out he couldn't report to parole, officers, because he was in a coma from being poisoned by the Russian government". That's a lie which I believe is absolutely impossible for you to not have known was a lie when you made your video, because Navalny only had to return and check-in with the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service by the end of his probation period, on December 29th. But Navalny was discharged from the German hospital on September 23rd. That's over 3 months of difference, where Navalny wasn't in a coma and wasn't hospitalized. Further, the German hospital made a report mid-December stating that Navalny had recovered - and that report was cited during his sentencing hearing to show that he was able to return and check-in despite him not doing so.
Not that Navalny needed to be reminded of his parole terms for it to be legally binding, he's an adult who is responsible for himself and not a child, but Russia's Penitentiary Service did give him a last-minute warning that he had to return to make the final check-in otherwise he would be arrested upon his return to Russia. For the 4 months he'd been away in Germany, including all the time he was in a coma and for a very long time after that, Navalny's not-checking-in twice a month as his parole conditions required wasn't held against him and was never even mentioned as leverage against him in any way.
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service could have required Navalny to return to Russia sooner, but the only check-in Navalny was absolutely required to do was the final one, by December 29th. Navalny knew that, but he chose to stay in Germany for 2.5 weeks beyond that date.
Do you know what happens in the US when you skip probation and violate the terms of a suspended sentence? You're arrested and your suspended sentence is changed into a prison sentence. And as Navalny is a high-profile person, any exception made for him (and I don't know why he'd get an exception in this case beyond the unofficial exemption from having to check-in while he was recovering in Germany) would affect Russia's prison authority's ability to apply their rules to others.
Just some select other issues I have with your video are these, though there are also some others that I'm not listing here:
Your video also doesn't mention the corruption scandals Navalny has been embroiled in, his racism and fierce xenophobia, the fact that 5,000 or a few times that number of protesters, and around 1,000 protesters arrested in the Moscow metropolitan area, the population of which is over 20 million, is statistically insignificant, or that Navalny's top aide was recorded seeking $20 million in funding from UK spies offering billions of 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' payback when Navalny becomes Russia's president - which has been a serious goal of Navalny's even though you downplayed it in your video.
What you said about Novichok, who's developed it, the idea that it's a signature, is also 100% false and more of that child's kind of a cartoonish narrative. Many countries, including the US, UK, Czech, Iran, and others, have made Novichok, and the US took over the USSR's supplies of Novichok in 1991 when the US was responsible for the dismantling of the USSR's Uzbekistan chemical facilities where Novichok was made and stored. The US showed interest in patenting weaponized Novichok in 2015, and held discussions with Russia on the matter. The method to create Novichok was put into a book by its creator that is publicly available and can be purchased through Amazon. Novichok is not prohibitively difficult to make and the former head of the OPCW and many chemical experts have refuted the claim otherwise. I could expand a huge amount on this topic alone in a standalone post (whether I'm going to I'm yet undecided)."
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Just a heads-up for people: The accounts "White Wall", "William Sam", "Fi Bryar", "Fatty Hendo", and probably others, are all operated by the same person who pretends to be different people with them. They are extremely aggressive, impulsive, can be stalking, and difficult to explain things to. And they have no restraint or compunction against making lies of any size, big or small, even when you'd think it's impossible for them to not know that you know that they're lying. They don't accept correction and are unyielding in their initial insistence. I believe this is because they are on the spectrum.
This person has been extremely sensitive to any talk about Ukraine's large troll farm program and can spend an entire day, more than 10 hours straight, non-stop, saying the same inane or whitewashing comment about it. In general, they mentally block-out all information that doesn't tell them what they want to hear, no matter how inarguably and demonstrably factual it is. They will also pretend they didn't get answers they received to their questions just so that they can continue to badger someone with the already-answered question and pretend with themselves that they're "owning" someone for not getting an answer. It is as detached from reality and normal sanity as it sounds.
With each of their accounts, they show the same very poor English grammar and phrasing, and are sometimes completely unintelligible - especially when they become upset. Yet, even when they're at their very most incoherent, as in, posting fully unintelligible gibberish, they maintain an insistence that they're speaking perfect English. When they spend more time working out a post they can make it appear a bit more normal, though there's typically always some oddities in their writing style. Again, I believe they are on the spectrum and that their behaviour is a result of that.
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@gazonchek8116 "In Russia, we have a company owned by Russian oligarchs that paid money to people like this to create the right opinion on the internet."
Sadly, that's normal everywhere. Israel's government has employed troll farms since 2008. In the US, since 2011, the US government spends $200 million per year on troll farms to do the same thing. The DNC also has their own troll farms. Canada has had troll farms since 2011. The UK government has a variety of aggressive troll farms and their online-discussion-disruption field guide leaked back in 2014, and what it instructs UK trolls to do is nasty. Ukraine has a large troll farm. Poland, China, and many other countries also have troll farms.
So, that "rabbit hole" you mentioned isn't unique to Russia, it's a widespread issue - and it was pioneered by Israel, the US, and Canada, and not Russia. Russia only started doing what the West and Israel were doing first.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks
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@fsho5260 What I've said isn't irrelevant. It shows:
- That Navalny's 'Putin's palace' story is already being credibly discredited
- That the Russian people don't trust Navalny (so, why should you?), with only 5% considering him trustworthy
- That the Russian people don't buy into Navalny's 'Putin's palace' story (so, why should you?)
- That Navalny's claim of being persecuted on political grounds isn't supported because there are legitimate grounds for what is happening, and the EUCR dismissed Navalny's appeal that the Yves Rocher charges against him are politically motivated
- That Navalny isn't the hero he's depicted as in Western propaganda media, so reporting which presents him as what he isn't should be suspect in all of its claims, because it is unreliable
One of the links I posted above deals with the issue of whether Russians think Putin is as corrupts as Navalny alleges. And, guess what? They don't give any special credence to his his claims - and why should they, given the track-record of Navalny's claims, and the fact his 'Putin's palace' story is already seemingly falling apart?
"Almost a third of those polled (29%) believe that Vladimir Putin has never abused his power. Another 24% are sure that even if such accusations are true, the country began to live better under him. 17% believe that Vladimir Putin is definitely guilty of abuses, 25% - that he is guilty as much as other high-ranking officials. "
By the way, it's likely that the US poisoned Navalny as a last-ditch effort to push EU countries to abandon Nord Stream 2.
https://sainomia.medium.com/the-obvious-false-flag-that-is-navalnys-poisoning-deef1d023bdb
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Just a heads-up for people: The accounts "White Wall", "William Sam", "Fi Bryar", "Fatty Hendo", and probably others, are all operated by the same person who pretends to be different people with them. They are extremely aggressive, impulsive, can be stalking, and difficult to explain things to. And they have no restraint or compunction against making lies of any size, big or small, even when you'd think it's impossible for them to not know that you know that they're lying. They don't accept correction and are unyielding in their initial insistence. I believe this is because they are on the spectrum.
This person has been extremely sensitive to any talk about Ukraine's large troll farm program and can spend an entire day, more than 10 hours straight, non-stop, saying the same inane or whitewashing comment about it. In general, they mentally block-out all information that doesn't tell them what they want to hear, no matter how inarguably and demonstrably factual it is. They will also pretend they didn't get answers they received to their questions just so that they can continue to badger someone with the already-answered question and pretend with themselves that they're "owning" someone for not getting an answer. It is as detached from reality and normal sanity as it sounds.
With each of their accounts, they show the same very poor English grammar and phrasing, and are sometimes completely unintelligible - especially when they become upset. Yet, even when they're at their very most incoherent, as in, posting fully unintelligible gibberish, they maintain an insistence that they're speaking perfect English. When they spend more time working out a post they can make it appear a bit more normal, though there's typically always some oddities in their writing style. Again, I believe they are on the spectrum and that their behaviour is a result of that.
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Do you know that 80%+ of your video is extremely-false information? I think I have to write a longer response to you about this at a later time. But what I've seen in this video makes it look like you just started 'researching' 2 weeks ago and simply read some NYT articles and some internet allegations and conspiracy theories from partial sources, and then assumed you had the facts and put them together in your video with a hefty dose of imagination thrown in. This isn't a matter of opinion and point-of-view, your video is primarily based in false ideas and narratives, of the sort that's inventive hearsay spread among sneering detractors. Your video is largely not factual and opposite to the facts. It is very sensationalist through sacrificing important facts.
For now, here's just a couple of examples of its false claims looked at in detail:
You claim that Navalny was arrested upon his return to Russia from recovering in Germany on "some old fake set of charges brought against him years ago that were thrown out later, they were totally fake". None of that is at-all true. The charges of embezzlement, brought by French cosmetics company Yves Rocher, were not fake and they weren't thrown-out - hence he had a suspended sentence. Navalny brought a complaint about the charges to the European Court of Human Rights, and the ECHR decided that the ruling against Navalny and his brother had been "arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable", but the ECHR didn't throw out the charges nor did they have the authority to. Additionally, the ECHR heard Navalny's appeal to have the charges construed as politically-motivated, but the ECHR dismissed Navalny's appeal of that. So, when you later call Navalny's sentencing "politically-motivated", you're asserting something that wasn't deemed to be the case.
You also say that the pretext for Navalny's arrest was that he violated his parole terms, and you add, "Turns-out he couldn't report to parole, officers, because he was in a coma from being poisoned by the Russian government". That's a lie which I believe is absolutely impossible for you to not have known was a lie when you made your video, because Navalny only had to return and check-in with the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service by the end of his probation period, on December 29th. But Navalny was discharged from the German hospital on September 23rd. That's over 3 months of difference, where Navalny wasn't in a coma and wasn't hospitalized. Further, the German hospital made a report mid-December stating that Navalny had recovered - and that report was cited during his sentencing hearing to show that he was able to return and check-in despite him not doing so.
Not that Navalny needed to be reminded of his parole terms for it to be legally binding, he's an adult who is responsible for himself and not a child, but Russia's Penitentiary Service did give him a last-minute warning that he had to return to make the final check-in otherwise he would be arrested upon his return to Russia. For the 4 months he'd been away in Germany, including all the time he was in a coma and for a very long time after that, Navalny's not-checking-in twice a month as his parole conditions required wasn't held against him and was never even mentioned as leverage against him in any way.
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service could have required Navalny to return to Russia sooner, but the only check-in Navalny was absolutely required to do was the final one, by December 29th. Navalny knew that, but he chose to stay in Germany for 2.5 weeks beyond that date.
Do you know what happens in the US when you skip probation and violate the terms of a suspended sentence? You're arrested and your suspended sentence is changed into a prison sentence. And as Navalny is a high-profile person, any exception made for him (and I don't know why he'd get an exception in this case beyond the unofficial exemption from having to check-in while he was recovering in Germany) would affect Russia's prison authority's ability to apply their rules to others.
Just some select other issues I have with your video are these, though there are also some others that I'm not listing here:
Your video also doesn't mention the corruption scandals Navalny has been embroiled in, his racism and fierce xenophobia, the fact that 5,000 or a few times that number of protesters, and around 1,000 protesters arrested in the Moscow metropolitan area, the population of which is over 20 million, is statistically insignificant, or that Navalny's top aide was recorded seeking $20 million in funding from UK spies offering billions of 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' payback when Navalny becomes Russia's president - which has been a serious goal of Navalny's even though you downplayed it in your video.
What you said about Novichok, who's developed it, the idea that it's a signature, is also 100% false and more of that child's kind of a cartoonish narrative. Many countries, including the US, UK, Czech, Iran, and others, have made Novichok, and the US took over the USSR's supplies of Novichok in 1991 when the US was responsible for the dismantling of the USSR's Uzbekistan chemical facilities where Novichok was made and stored. The US showed interest in patenting weaponized Novichok in 2015, and held discussions with Russian on the matter. The method to create Novichok was put into a book by its creator that is publicly available and can be purchased through Amazon. Novichok is not prohibitively difficult to make and the former head of the OPCW and many chemical experts have refuted the claim otherwise. I could expand a huge amount on this topic alone in a standalone post (whether I'm going to I'm yet undecided).
Bluntly, your video is either horrendously under-researched, or it's lying and deliberate propaganda. I'm shocked by the number of false claims and deferrals to conspiracy theories and cartoon visions that are contained in it. This isn't something anyone who considers themselves to be a journalist should be doing.
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Just a heads-up for people: The accounts "White Wall", "William Sam", "Fi Bryar", "Fatty Hendo", and probably others, are all operated by the same person who pretends to be different people with them. They are extremely aggressive, impulsive, can be stalking, and difficult to explain things to. And they have no restraint or compunction against making lies of any size, big or small, even when you'd think it's impossible for them to not know that you know that they're lying. They don't accept correction and are unyielding in their initial insistence. I believe this is because they are on the spectrum.
This person has been extremely sensitive to any talk about Ukraine's large troll farm program and can spend an entire day, more than 10 hours straight, non-stop, saying the same inane or whitewashing comment about it. In general, they mentally block-out all information that doesn't tell them what they want to hear, no matter how inarguably and demonstrably factual it is. They will also pretend they didn't get answers they received to their questions just so that they can continue to badger someone with the already-answered question and pretend with themselves that they're "owning" someone for not getting an answer. It is as detached from reality and normal sanity as it sounds.
With each of their accounts, they show the same very poor English grammar and phrasing, and are sometimes completely unintelligible - especially when they become upset. Yet, even when they're at their very most incoherent, as in, posting fully unintelligible gibberish, they maintain an insistence that they're speaking perfect English. When they spend more time working out a post they can make it appear a bit more normal, though there's typically always some oddities in their writing style. Again, I believe they are on the spectrum and that their behaviour is a result of that.
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@senyaiv " I just want the world to live in peace."
I want that too. That's why I post the truth because it is the truth. Disinformation doesn't create peace, but creates confusion, chaos, suspicion, anger, and other negative things - as can be seen in accusation of me being some 'Russian troll' just because I posted truth that is contrary to propaganda people have been told.
And that is why I've made comments in response to this video pointing-out issues with it, and why I've pointed-out the issue with the fictional narrative that troll farms are particularly a Russian thing - Russia was a late-comer to using troll farms. It's just that West, particularly the US and UK, have been effective in making propaganda to associate Russia with troll farms, despite that the US was using them years before Russia and spends far, far more money on them than Russia could possibly do.
Regarding checking the validity of things I've claimed, here's a comment I made pointing-out a bunch of wild inaccuracies with Johnny's video. The things I say here aren't difficult to verify yourself, and I'll even provide the link to the ECHR ruling so you can easily check what I write concerning it:
https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{%22tabview%22:[%22document%22],%22itemid%22:[%22001-177665%22]}
"[Johnny claimed] that Navalny was arrested upon his return to Russia from recovering in Germany on "some old fake set of charges brought against him years ago that were thrown out later, they were totally fake". None of that is at-all true. The charges of embezzlement, brought by French cosmetics company Yves Rocher, were not fake and they weren't thrown-out - hence he had a suspended sentence. Navalny brought a complaint about the charges to the European Court of Human Rights, and the ECHR decided that the ruling against Navalny and his brother had been "arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable", but the ECHR didn't throw out the charges nor did they have the authority to. Additionally, the ECHR heard Navalny's appeal to have the charges construed as politically-motivated, but the ECHR dismissed Navalny's appeal of that. So, when you later call Navalny's sentencing "politically-motivated", you're asserting something that wasn't deemed to be the case.
You also say that the pretext for Navalny's arrest was that he violated his parole terms, and you add, "Turns-out he couldn't report to parole, officers, because he was in a coma from being poisoned by the Russian government". That's a lie which I believe is absolutely impossible for you to not have known was a lie when you made your video, because Navalny only had to return and check-in with the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service by the end of his probation period, on December 29th. But Navalny was discharged from the German hospital on September 23rd. That's over 3 months of difference, where Navalny wasn't in a coma and wasn't hospitalized. Further, the German hospital made a report mid-December stating that Navalny had recovered - and that report was cited during his sentencing hearing to show that he was able to return and check-in despite him not doing so.
Not that Navalny needed to be reminded of his parole terms for it to be legally binding, he's an adult who is responsible for himself and not a child, but Russia's Penitentiary Service did give him a last-minute warning that he had to return to make the final check-in otherwise he would be arrested upon his return to Russia. For the 4 months he'd been away in Germany, including all the time he was in a coma and for a very long time after that, Navalny's not-checking-in twice a month as his parole conditions required wasn't held against him and was never even mentioned as leverage against him in any way.
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service could have required Navalny to return to Russia sooner, but the only check-in Navalny was absolutely required to do was the final one, by December 29th. Navalny knew that, but he chose to stay in Germany for 2.5 weeks beyond that date.
Do you know what happens in the US when you skip probation and violate the terms of a suspended sentence? You're arrested and your suspended sentence is changed into a prison sentence. And as Navalny is a high-profile person, any exception made for him (and I don't know why he'd get an exception in this case beyond the unofficial exemption from having to check-in while he was recovering in Germany) would affect Russia's prison authority's ability to apply their rules to others.
Just some select other issues I have with your video are these, though there are also some others that I'm not listing here:
Your video also doesn't mention the corruption scandals Navalny has been embroiled in, his racism and fierce xenophobia, the fact that 5,000 or a few times that number of protesters, and around 1,000 protesters arrested in the Moscow metropolitan area, the population of which is over 20 million, is statistically insignificant, or that Navalny's top aide was recorded seeking $20 million in funding from UK spies offering billions of 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' payback when Navalny becomes Russia's president - which has been a serious goal of Navalny's even though you downplayed it in your video.
What you said about Novichok, who's developed it, the idea that it's a signature, is also 100% false and more of that child's kind of a cartoonish narrative. Many countries, including the US, UK, Czech, Iran, and others, have made Novichok, and the US took over the USSR's supplies of Novichok in 1991 when the US was responsible for the dismantling of the USSR's Uzbekistan chemical facilities where Novichok was made and stored. The US showed interest in patenting weaponized Novichok in 2015, and held discussions with Russia on the matter. The method to create Novichok was put into a book by its creator that is publicly available and can be purchased through Amazon. Novichok is not prohibitively difficult to make and the former head of the OPCW and many chemical experts have refuted the claim otherwise. I could expand a huge amount on this topic alone in a standalone post (whether I'm going to I'm yet undecided)."
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Just a heads-up for people: The accounts "White Wall", "William Sam", "Fi Bryar", "Fatty Hendo", and probably others, are all operated by the same person who pretends to be different people with them. They are extremely aggressive, impulsive, can be stalking, and difficult to explain things to. And they have no restraint or compunction against making lies of any size, big or small, even when you'd think it's impossible for them to not know that you know that they're lying. They don't accept correction and are unyielding in their initial insistence. I believe this is because they are on the spectrum.
This person has been extremely sensitive to any talk about Ukraine's large troll farm program and can spend an entire day, more than 10 hours straight, non-stop, saying the same inane or whitewashing comment about it. In general, they mentally block-out all information that doesn't tell them what they want to hear, no matter how inarguably and demonstrably factual it is. They will also pretend they didn't get answers they received to their questions just so that they can continue to badger someone with the already-answered question and pretend with themselves that they're "owning" someone for not getting an answer. It is as detached from reality and normal sanity as it sounds.
With each of their accounts, they show the same very poor English grammar and phrasing, and are sometimes completely unintelligible - especially when they become upset. Yet, even when they're at their very most incoherent, as in, posting fully unintelligible gibberish, they maintain an insistence that they're speaking perfect English. When they spend more time working out a post they can make it appear a bit more normal, though there's typically always some oddities in their writing style. Again, I believe they are on the spectrum and that their behaviour is a result of that.
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@JoeyGirardin My saying that most of Johnny's video is false information isn't me claiming to know what happened to Navalny. However, it is plausible that the US could have poisoned him as a last-ditch effort to push EU countries to abandon the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which the US has been desperately trying to shut-down and which is nearing completion. Once completed, it will ensure Russia-EU relations get stronger, Russia will have a lot of profits from it, while US influence in Europe will lessen and the US won't be able to sell its own more-expensive LNG to Europe.
The US has been sanctioning the development of NS2 for a long time and was cocky that the project would be halted. Shortly before Navalny's poisoning, Mike "We lied, we cheated, we stole" Pompeo was boasting that the US gov't would be successful in stopping NS2, with no hint as to how. As soon as Navalny was poisoned, the US gov't was demanding that EU countries break-off their support for NS2 to show Russia that this won't be tolerated. I haven't noticed take any other new measures against NS2. So, if that wasn't what Mike "We lied, we cheated, we stole" Pompeo was planning, then I haven't yet seen what else he was referring to.
https://sainomia.medium.com/the-obvious-false-flag-that-is-navalnys-poisoning-deef1d023bdb
Regarding Johnny's claim that the use of Novichok is like a "signature", and regarding the US and other countries' production of Novichok:
tass.com/politics/1000583
newscientist.com/article/2164202-exclusive-other-countries-could-have-made-russian-nerve-agent/
medium.com/insurge-intelligence/former-opcw-official-no-conclusive-proof-of-russian-complicity-in-salisbury-attack-1ae3749ba38e
Professor of organic chemistry at Cornell university:
https://twitter.com/DavidBCollum/status/998613563680882694
https://twitter.com/DavidBCollum/status/978435092103254016
Also see the NYT article linked-to in a response to that second Twitter post. It's concerning the US taking-over and cleaning-up the USSR's Uzbekistan facility where the USSR's Novichok was developed and stored.
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@Noah-lj2sg >> "Russia is in a messed up state due to putin, it isn't democracy"
Yet Russians say they've never had as good living conditions as they do now. If you look at where Russia was after the fall of the USSR, and compare it to now, it is beyond night and day. Regarding democracy, Russia is one and is much more of one than the US is. Though, when people say "democracy", especially when they're from the US, they often don't actually mean democracy at all, but mean some ambiguous sentiments which they associate with their own country. Russia isn't the US, that's true. And the US isn't a democracy.
Democracy means 'rule by the will of the people'. In Russia, the head-of-state is elected by the popular vote, and that makes it a democracy. In the US, the head-of-state is elected by a group of representatives in the electoral college - which means that the popular vote doesn't elect the US' head-of-state, and therefore the US isn't a democracy.
In Russia, there were 8 presidential candidates in the previous presidential election. In the US, there were 2. There is no democracy where there is no choice. Once again, here, Russia is much more of a democracy than the US is.
In Russia, there are 5 federal political parties in their legislature. In the US, there is just 2 - and the 2 parties are basically two heads of the corporate party, so nothing much changes depending on which party is incumbent. Here, yet again, Russia shows much stronger signs of being a democracy than the US is.
No Western democracy has overall term limits for the head of government / state, and term limits are an anti-democratic feature which prevent the people's will for who will be the head of state from being enacted. Germany's Chancellor Merkle has been in her position for about as long as Putin has been Russia's president. Yet, people don't bring that up as an issue. If the Russian people keep wanting Putin to be their president, then it is democracy, the 'rule by the will of the people' for him to continue to be Russia's president.
In Russia, pollsters keep confirming that Putin continues to hold the significant popular support - and at a much higher approval rating than most any Western politician. That is again an example of 'rule by the will of the people'. In the US, the president doesn't normally have that much domestic support.
Russia's presidential elections are monitored and validated by the OSCE, which has not found Russia's elections to be fraudulent, but instead "well-administered". The OSCE has criticized Russia's elections for featuring a lack of "serious" competition - but that lack of serious competition isn't due to a lack of candidates to choose from, but due to Putin's strong popularity dwarfing the prospects of other candidates, and Russian media focusing on Putin because he is popular (similar to how CNN became the Trump-channel throughout Trump's term because it caused their ratings to soar - and their ratings have plummeted since Trump left office).
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@senyaiv I checked my profile, and I don't see what you mean by "everyone can see that by clicking the profile pic circle". Could you explain?
By the way, just a heads-up, since you mentioned my profile and I noticed some comments on it from a particular person: The accounts "White Wall", "William Sam", "Fi Bryar", "Fatty Hendo", and probably others, are all operated by the same person who pretends to be different people with them. They are extremely aggressive, impulsive, can be stalking, and difficult to explain things to. And they have no restraint or compunction against making lies of any size, big or small, even when you'd think it's impossible for them to not know that you know that they're lying. They don't accept correction and are unyielding in their initial insistence. I believe this is because they are on the spectrum. Alternatively, they might work for a troll farm.
This person has been extremely sensitive to any talk about Ukraine's large troll farm program and can spend an entire day, more than 10 hours straight, non-stop, saying the same inane or whitewashing comment about it. In general, they mentally block-out all information that doesn't tell them what they want to hear, no matter how inarguably and demonstrably factual it is. They will also pretend they didn't get answers they received to their questions just so that they can continue to badger someone with the already-answered question and pretend with themselves that they're "owning" someone for not getting an answer. It is as detached from reality and normal sanity as it sounds.
With each of their accounts, they show the same very poor English grammar and phrasing, and are sometimes completely unintelligible - especially when they become upset. Yet, even when they're at their very most incoherent, as in, posting fully unintelligible gibberish, they maintain an insistence that they're speaking perfect English. When they spend more time working out a post they can make it appear a bit more normal, though there's typically always some oddities in their writing style. Again, I believe they are on the spectrum and that their behaviour is a result of that.
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@ElenaKomleva The fact that you've made one erroneous judgment call after another means that you aren't an informed person who knows how to tell the difference between credible and non-credible sources. And if you buy into the majority of claims of Johnny's video, which is a video blog, with most of the information in it being inaccurate, then you aren't going to be a well-informed person on the topic he discusses.
Your claim that Hasib and I are the same person again confirms, at least to me, that you aren't a person with good skills of judgment. And using your own logic, US, UK, Ukrainian, Canadian, etc troll farms exist, and they denigrate Russia, and the people who post comments that aren't anti-Russia, and, therefore, you must be a troll, yourself. And it's known that the US and UK specifically try to harm Russia via their propaganda:
"British Government Runs Secret Anti-Russian Smear Campaigns"
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/11/british-government-behind-secret-anti-russian-disinformation-campaign.html
Your latest comment is just random drivel, not focused on any topic and not responding to the matters which people have raised. In it, you present a conspiracy-theory about different posters being the same person (spoiler: we're not), and another about how previously you weren't receiving comments and now you are (maybe that has to do with the fact that you started making wild accusations, where you hadn't yet done that previously), and then falsely claim that everyone is suddenly talking about Navalny not being poisoned... but not a single person in this thread has claimed that Navalny wasn't poisoned [edit: I think one person has claimed that] (so, you are either a liar and disinformationist, or otherwise are delusional and so non-credible), and then throw in some random comment about Putin being an autocrat (how did the topic change to that?).
So, obviously, you are or have become unhinged. You are not exercising objective, clear-headed, and critical thinking skills. You're acting petty, insulting, and extremely prejudiced and unintelligent. I think that you need to reflect on your behaviour and the kind of person that you are. Dogmatic assumption of guilt, based on extreme biases and false information, isn't what an intelligent person does. Your assessments here have been nothing remotely resembling a state of being informed.
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@rugiletunaityte4037 Speaking of talking about things you don't understand, you shouldn't have said any of what you did in that post because you didn't get any of what you wrote correct. Russia's government hasn't admitted to poisoning Navlany - they've adamantly rejected the accusation. You've heard a video released by Navalny - one the Russian government says is BS and fake. Last I knew, denying something isn't the same as admitting to it. In fact, they're the complete opposite.
Navalny was arrested when he returned to Russia in line with the warning he was given while he was still in Germany that, if he didn't return to Russia by a certain date to check-in with the Russian prison authority, in accordance with the terms of his suspended prison sentence, he would be arrested and his suspended sentence could be changed to a prison sentence. Russia's prison authority only warned Navalny that he had to return to Russia to comply with the terms of his suspended prison sentence after he had been discharged from the German hospital, and after the doctors had published a report declaring him fully recovered. Navalny was warned but he decided to stay in Germany anyway until after the date he had to return by was passed.
Navalny had a suspended prison sentence due to a conviction for embezzlement in charged made against him and his brother by French cosmetics company Yves Rocher, which accused the brothers of taking $400,000 from the company. French company Yves Rocher has said they stand by the charges and the sentencing process in Russia. The European Court of Human Rights which ruled the trial of Navalny and his brother to be lacking fairness also dismissed Navalny's appeal that the charges were politically motivated. Do you know what happens in the US when you skip bail and violate the terms of a suspended sentence? You're arrested and your suspended sentence is changed into a prison sentence. And as Navalny is a high-profile person, any exception made for him (and I don't know why he'd get an exception in this case) would affect Russia's prison authority's ability to apply their rules to others. Hopefully you now have a reality-based idea of why Navalny was arrested when he returned to Russia.
So, in your post, you are smugly talking about things you don't understand, while telling others to not do that. That might be something to reflect on.
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@TheHappyCatsTail Don't just mention the IRA, but all the state troll-farms out there: The US', Israel's, the UK's Canada's, Ukraine's, China's, Poland's, etc. Did you know that Russia was actually a late-comer to the scene? Troll farms were pioneered by Israel (2008), the US (2011), and Canada (2011). Out of all of them, the US, which has budgeted $200 million per year since 2011 on social media disinformation efforts, has by far the largest.
Here's a document that leaked from the UK's troll farm program in 2014. It instructs its trolls on how to manipulate and deceive people in conversations online using the 10 so-called "principles" of Deception, Herd-mentality, Distraction, Dishonesty, Time, Consistency, Flattery, Need and Greed, Social Compliance, Reciprocity:
https://theintercept.com/document/2014/02/24/art-deception-training-new-generation-online-covert-operations/
So, if you can, tell me how you assess one topic to be a "landmine" for Russia concerning such activities when that topic is going to be even more of one for Russia detractors? The US has more internet trolls than any other country and could dwarf Russia's trolls on any topic by itself. But put the US, UK, Ukraine, and Canada's trolls together, and then what do you get? Keep that in mind when evaluating what you read in topics like this one.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/11/british-government-behind-secret-anti-russian-disinformation-campaign.html
https://www.newsweek.com/35000-volunteers-sign-ukraines-information-army-first-day-310121
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-students-get-2000-spread-state-propaganda-facebook
To keep things in perspective, Russia probably couldn't afford to match just half of the US' own troll farm efforts if it wanted to.
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@TheHappyCatsTail While other states' social media propaganda and disinformation programs do certainly work as single groups, the fact that they additionally work in coordination with each-other makes them all the more powerful, encompassing, and effective - and so all the more important to be on guard against, I would think. That they are more sophisticated than what someone's expectation of a troll farm might be doesn't change what they're doing, which is presenting themselves falsely and using misleading information to trick people into believing narratives that suit their own governments and the geopolitical objectives which their governments have in common with their military partners.
Atlantic Council, which is effectively the propaganda and disinformation branch of NATO (an anti-Russia military alliance), works with the UK's Institute for Statecraft and "Integrity Initiative" to spread anti-Russia messaging online and to sway elections in foreign countries. That doesn't mean that the UK doesn't also have the 77th Brigade and Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group, and other groups which focus more on the UK's specific interests. It also doesn't mean that the Institute for Statecraft and "Integrity Initiative" don't also manipulate social media on behalf of specifically the UK government's interests in addition to their other manipulation campaigns.
https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
All that really means is that there are ominous layers to the disinformation scheme of states which are partnered together.
Same with the US: While the US will also be engaged through Atlantic Council and other social media propaganda partnerships with NATO countries, the US also furthers its own specific goals with its own troll farms. They're just extremely-sophisticated and well-equipped troll farms, but still troll farms nonetheless. From The Guardian's 2011 reporting on a leaked US contract for the US' social media propaganda program:
"the software could allow US service personnel, working around the clock in one location, to respond to emerging online conversations with any number of co-ordinated messages, blogposts, chatroom posts and other interventions. Details of the contract suggest this location would be MacDill air force base near Tampa, Florida, home of US Special Operations Command"
"Centcom's contract requires for each controller the provision of one "virtual private server" located in the United States and others appearing to be outside the US to give the impression the fake personas are real people located in different parts of the world."
"It also calls for "traffic mixing", blending the persona controllers' internet usage with the usage of people outside Centcom in a manner that must offer "excellent cover and powerful deniability". "
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@i-am-art Navalny simply played both sides of the Crimea debate - he believes Crimea, and even all of Ukraine are a rightful part of Russia. But since the decision isn't in his hands to change one way or the other, Navalny appeased his Western backers by criticizing the referendum and saying another should be held and then whatever the Crimean people decided should be accepted - and he said that knowing full-well that the overwhelming majority of the Crimean population had always wanted to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia and would always vote to rejoin Russia.
I'll add, contrary to what Johnny Harris said in his video here, Crimea wasn't annexed but acceded to Russia. And there was no invasion of Crimea. Also, Crimea's referendum and accession to Russia were fully lawful by all international and domestic law, the UN's charter, and even Ukraine's law (via the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights treaty, which Ukraine is signatory to), although Ukraine was a non-factor at that time as its constitution had already been overruled and nullified as a result of the US-backed coup, which meant that Ukraine didn't exist as a legal entity and Crimea was stateless and free to do as it pleased.
Since 2016, the large majority of the world has refused to call Crimea occupied - there's been a UNGA vote on the matter each December since then, and not a single one reach anywhere close to majority support in favour of calling Crimea occupied. Only 63 governments, out of 195, and representing just 17% of the world's population, still claim that Crimea is occupied. That 17% claiming Crimea is occupied is basically NATO and the countries which are dependent upon it.
Here are a couple of resources on the topic, though there's more to be said about the legal aspects of Crimea's referendum and accession to Russia that isn't contained in these links:
https://www.quora.com/Did-the-great-majority-of-people-in-Crimea-wish-their-land-to-return-to-the-Russian-Federation/answers/158756133
https://www.quora.com/Did-Russia-invade-Ukraine/answers/161900115
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@i-am-art If you research the information I have provided and the links I have given, you will discover that things are as I've said I can help you out a bit here:
1. Navalny has used language is associated with the view that Ukraine is a part of Russia. However, as it isn't a confirmed thing, I have said "and even" rather than a definitive statement: "he believes Crimea, and even all of Ukraine are a rightful part of Russia"
2. I said: "Since 2016, the large majority of the world has refused to call Crimea occupied - there's been a UNGA vote on the matter each December since then, and not a single one reach anywhere close to majority support in favour of calling Crimea occupied". All of that is perfectly true. The UNGA votes calling Crimea "occupied" are calls for support from UNGA members to put their voice behind that position. Support is an affirmative action, and where it isn't given, there isn't support. It is the truth that the large majority of the world doesn't support the view that Crimea is occupied.
3. No. The overwhelming majority of Crimeans wanted to leave Ukraine and join Russia. This fact had been verified by pollsters around the world and the UN continuously from 1991 until 2014, and support for the decision for Crimea to rejoin Russia has been polled by pollsters from around the world from 2014 until today.
See this link for a summary of the polling done in Crimea over the decades. Everything is fully sourced with links to the original poll reporting, and screenshots of the relevant data:
https://www.quora.com/Did-the-great-majority-of-people-in-Crimea-wish-their-land-to-return-to-the-Russian-Federation/answers/158756133
4. Everything you have referenced under this point is as stated in the Quora link, which is meticulously sourced to the first-hand, authoritative sources. If you choose to ignore the information and the sources for it, then you are blocking out truth, facts, and reality out of prejudice and bias. And so, you would have fooled yourself.
There is nothing flawed in what I've said and the sources I've given. Therefore, your claim of "there's so much disinformation in your comment", which was prejudiced knee-jerk reactivity, was unwarranted.
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Do you know that 80%+ of your video is extremely-false information? I think I have to write a longer response to you about this at a later time. But what I've seen in this video makes it look like you just started 'researching' 2 weeks ago and simply read some NYT articles and some internet allegations and conspiracy theories from partial sources, and then assumed you had the facts and put them together in your video with a hefty dose of imagination thrown in. This isn't a matter of opinion and point-of-view, your video is primarily based in false ideas and narratives, of the sort that's inventive hearsay spread among sneering detractors. Your video is largely not factual and opposite to the facts. It is very sensationalist through sacrificing important facts.
For now, here's just a couple of examples of its false claims looked at in detail:
You claim that Navalny was arrested upon his return to Russia from recovering in Germany on "some old fake set of charges brought against him years ago that were thrown out later, they were totally fake". None of that is at-all true. The charges of embezzlement, brought by French cosmetics company Yves Rocher, were not fake and they weren't thrown-out - hence he had a suspended sentence. Navalny brought a complaint about the charges to the European Court of Human Rights, and the ECHR decided that Navalny's trial had been unfair and arbitrary, but the ECHR didn't throw out the charges nor did they have the authority to. Additionally, the ECHR heard Navalny's appeal to have the charges construed as politically-motivated, but the ECHR dismissed Navalny's appeal of that. So, when you later call Navalny's sentencing "politically-motivated", you're asserting something that wasn't deemed to be the case.
You also say that the pretext for Navalny's arrest was that he violated his parole terms, and you add, "Turns-out he couldn't report to parole, officers, because he was in a coma from being poisoned by the Russian government". That's a lie which I believe is absolutely impossible for you to not have known was a lie when you made your video, because Navalny only had to return and check-in with the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service by the end of his probation period, on December 29th. But Navalny was discharged from the German hospital on September 23rd. That's over 3 months of difference, where Navalny wasn't in a coma and wasn't hospitalized. Further, the German hospital made a report mid-December stating that Navalny had recovered - and that report was cited during his sentencing hearing to show that he was able to return and check-in despite him not doing so.
Not that Navalny needed to be reminded of his parole terms for it to be legally binding, he's an adult who is responsible for himself and not a child, but Russia's Penitentiary Service did give him a last-minute warning that he had to return to make the final check-in otherwise he would be arrested upon his return to Russia. For the 4 months he'd been away in Germany, including all the time he was in a coma and for a very long time after that, Navalny's not-checking-in twice a month as his parole conditions required wasn't held against him and was never even mentioned as leverage against him in any way.
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service could have required Navalny to return to Russia sooner, but the only check-in Navalny was absolutely required to do was the final one, by December 29th. Navalny knew that, but he chose to stay in Germany for 2.5 weeks beyond that date.
Do you know what happens in the US when you skip probation and violate the terms of a suspended sentence? You're arrested and your suspended sentence is changed into a prison sentence. And as Navalny is a high-profile person, any exception made for him (and I don't know why he'd get an exception in this case beyond the unofficial exemption from having to check-in while he was recovering in Germany) would affect Russia's prison authority's ability to apply their rules to others.
Just some select other issues I have with your video are these, though there are also some others that I'm not listing here:
Your video also doesn't mention the corruption scandals Navalny has been embroiled in, his racism and fierce xenophobia, the fact that 5,000 or a few times that number of protesters, and around 1,000 protesters arrested in the Moscow metropolitan area, the population of which is over 20 million, is statistically insignificant, or that Navalny's top aide was recorded seeking $20 million in funding from UK spies offering billions of 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' payback when Navalny becomes Russia's president - which has been a serious goal of Navalny's even though you downplayed it in your video.
What you said about Novichok, who's developed it, the idea that it's a signature, is also 100% false and more of that child's kind of a cartoonish narrative. Many countries, including the US, UK, Czech, Iran, and others, have made Novichok, and the US took over the USSR's supplies of Novichok in 1991 when the US was responsible for the dismantling of the USSR's Uzbekistan chemical facilities where Novichok was made and stored. The US showed interest in patenting weaponized Novichok in 2015, and held discussions with Russian on the matter. The method to create Novichok was put into a book by its creator that is publicly available and can be purchased through Amazon. Novichok is not prohibitively difficult to make and the former head of the OPCW and many chemical experts have refuted the claim otherwise. I could expand a huge amount on this topic alone in a standalone post (whether I'm going to I'm yet undecided).
Bluntly, your video is either horrendously under-researched, or it's lying and deliberate propaganda. I'm shocked by the number of false claims and deferrals to conspiracy theories and cartoon visions that are contained in it. This isn't something anyone who considers themselves to be a journalist should be doing.
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Novichok was created by the USSR. But since 1991, many countries have made it, and the US patented weaponized Novichok in 2015. Czech, Iran, UK, US, and many other countries are known to have made Novichok. And when the USSR's research facilities in Uzebekistan, where their Novichok was made, were dismantled when the USSR dissolved in 1991, the US was responsible for the dismantling of the facilities and the destruction of its chemical stockpiles, and the US took charge of the USSR's Novichok at that time.
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@whitewall1948 I have chosen to disengage with you over your apparent au.tism challenges. It seems telling yourself things that aren't reality is a part of the self-assurance you crave and need to feel OK. That is unfortunate, but it would be wrong for me to agitate what you have no control over.
Just a heads-up for people: The accounts "White Wall", "William Sam", "Fi Bryar", "Fatty Hendo", and probably others, are all operated by the same person who pretends to be different people with them. They are extremely aggressive, impulsive, can be stalking, and difficult to explain things to. And they have no restraint or compunction against making lies of any size, big or small, even when you'd think it's impossible for them to not know that you know that they're lying. They don't accept correction and are unyielding in their initial insistence. I believe this is because they are on the spectrum (autism).
This person has been extremely sensitive to any talk about Ukraine's large troll farm program and can spend an entire day, more than 10 hours straight, non-stop, saying the same inane or whitewashing comment about it. In general, they mentally block-out all information that doesn't tell them what they want to hear, no matter how inarguably and demonstrably factual it is. They will also pretend they didn't get answers they received to their questions just so that they can continue to badger someone with the already-answered question and pretend with themselves that they're "owning" someone for not getting an answer. It is as detached from reality and normal sanity as it sounds.
With each of their accounts, they show the same very poor English grammar and phrasing, and are sometimes completely unintelligible - especially when they become upset. Yet, even when they're at their very most incoherent, as in, posting fully unintelligible gibberish, they maintain an insistence that they're speaking perfect English. When they spend more time working out a post they can make it appear a bit more normal, though there's typically always some oddities in their writing style. Again, I believe they are on the spectrum and that their behaviour is a result of that.
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@alhakimov5480 BTW, I just did read a bit more of your post and now I'm going to call you out even further: You're not a Canadian, so stop lying. We're not brainwashed by US propaganda like you are and we haven't swallowed the debunked nonsense that you're peddling. Bluntly, based on your effort here, you couldn't pass as a Canadian if your life dependent on it. And in attempting such non-passable BS, you've proven that you're a troll. You picked the wrong fake identity to go with. I would say that if you were a Canadian, then you must work at one of Canada's troll farms (and Canada has had them as long as the US has, sadly, which is years longer than Russia has had them). But, you're not a Canadian - and if you were, you'd be a complete traitor and embarrassment to my country.
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@stivvits1067 FYI, there are such things as US, Ukrainian, Israeli, UK, Canadian, Polish, etc trolls. They're literally paid by their governments to post propaganda in social media that's in favour of their governments, while attacking the opponents of their governments and their governments' policies. Troll farms were pioneered by Israel, the US, and Canada - not Russia.
Since 2011, the US government has budgeted $200 million per year for troll farms. And an official US gov't troll-farm contract that was published online showed that the US uses "sophisticated" technology to monitor and respond to online discussions in real time, and tag-team comments sections with multiple paid trolls at once, with each paid troll using multiple fake accounts and each of their fake accounts having their IPs disguised to appear as though they're posting from different places.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks
And over 35,000 Ukrainians signed-up for Ukraine's troll-farm program on the first day that it launched.
https://www.newsweek.com/35000-volunteers-sign-ukraines-information-army-first-day-310121
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Here's a partial review of Johnny's video that I posted in another comment: I would say that 80%+ of Johnny’s video is extremely-false information, and that it seems as though he started ‘researching’ just 2 weeks ago, and mostly just read some NYT articles (as an example of an outlet which never utters an honest word regarding anything related to Russia) and picked-up on some sneering anti-Putin conspiracy theories online, and then assumed he had it all worked out filled in the gaps with his imagination and put the concoction he’d come-up with into video form.
This isn't a matter of opinion and point-of-view, his video is primarily based in false ideas and narratives, of the sort that's inventive hearsay spread among sneering detractors. It’s largely opposite to the facts and is instead very sensationalist through sacrificing important facts.
Here are just a few examples of his ignorance or lies, whichever they may be.
Johnny claims that Navalny was arrested upon his return to Russia from recovering in Germany on "some old fake set of charges brought against him years ago that were thrown out later, they were totally fake". None of that is at-all true. The charges of embezzlement, brought by French cosmetics company Yves Rocher, were not fake and they weren't thrown-out - hence he had a suspended sentence. Navalny brought a complaint about the charges to the European Court of Human Rights, and the ECHR decided that the ruling against Navalny and his brother had been "arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable", but the ECHR didn't throw out the charges nor did they have the authority to. Additionally, the ECHR heard Navalny's appeal to have the charges construed as politically-motivated, but the ECHR dismissed Navalny's appeal of that. So, when he later calls Navalny's sentencing "politically-motivated", he's asserting something that wasn't deemed to be a confirmed fact by the ECHR.
He also says that the pretext for Navalny's arrest was that he violated his parole terms, and he adds, "Turns-out he couldn't report to parole, officers, because he was in a coma from being poisoned by the Russian government". That's a lie which I believe is absolutely impossible for him to not have known was a lie when he made his video, because Navalny only had to return and check-in with the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service by the end of his probation period, on December 29th. But Navalny was discharged from the German hospital on September 23rd. That's over 3 months of difference, where Navalny wasn't in a coma and wasn't hospitalized. Further, the German hospital made a report mid-December stating that Navalny had recovered - and that report was cited during his sentencing hearing to show that he was able to return and check-in despite him not doing so.
Not that Navalny needed to be reminded of his parole terms for it to be legally binding, he's an adult who is responsible for himself and not a child, but Russia's Penitentiary Service did give him a last-minute warning that he had to return to make the final check-in otherwise he would be arrested upon his return to Russia. For the 4 months he'd been away in Germany, including all the time he was in a coma and for a very long time after that, Navalny's not-checking-in twice a month as his parole conditions required wasn't held against him and was never even mentioned as leverage against him in any way.
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service could have required Navalny to return to Russia sooner, but the only check-in Navalny was absolutely required to do was the final one, by December 29th. Navalny knew that, but he chose to stay in Germany for 2.5 weeks beyond that date.
Do you know what happens in the US when you skip probation and violate the terms of a suspended sentence? You're arrested and your suspended sentence is changed into a prison sentence. And as Navalny is a high-profile person, any exception made for him (and I don't know why he'd get an exception in this case beyond the unofficial exemption from having to check-in while he was recovering in Germany) would affect Russia's prison authority's ability to apply their rules to others.
Just some select other issues I have with his video are these, though there are also others that I'm not listing here:
His video doesn't mention the corruption scandals Navalny has been embroiled in, his racism and fierce xenophobia, the fact that 5,000 or a few times that number of protesters, and around 1,000 protesters arrested in the Moscow metropolitan area, the population of which is over 20 million, is statistically insignificant, or that Navalny's top aide was recorded seeking $20 million in funding from UK spies offering billions of 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' payback when Navalny becomes Russia's president - which has been a serious goal of Navalny's even though Johnny downplayed it in his video.
What he said about Novichok, who has developed it, the idea that it's a signature, is also 100% false and more of a cartoonish kind of an imaginative narrative. Many countries, including the US, UK, Czech, Iran, and others, have made Novichok, and the US took over the USSR's supplies of Novichok in 1991 when the US was responsible for the dismantling of the USSR's Uzbekistan chemical facilities where Novichok was made and stored. The US showed interest in patenting weaponized Novichok in 2015, and held discussions with Russia on the matter. The method to create Novichok was put into a book by its creator that is publicly available and can be purchased through Amazon. Novichok is not prohibitively difficult to make and the former head of the OPCW and many chemical experts have refuted the claim otherwise. I could expand a huge amount on this topic alone in a standalone post.
Bluntly, his video is either horrendously under-researched, or it's lying and deliberate propaganda. I'm shocked by the number of false claims and deferrals to conspiracy theories and cartoon visions that are contained in it. This isn't something anyone who considers themselves to be a journalist should be doing. And it certainly isn’t anything worth praising. The fact that it is convincing people of complete falsehoods makes it all the worse.
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I would say that 80%+ of Johnny’s video is extremely-false information, and that it seems as though he started ‘researching’ just 2 weeks ago, and mostly just read some NYT articles (as an example of an outlet which never utters an honest word regarding anything related to Russia) and picked-up on some sneering anti-Putin conspiracy theories online, and then assumed he had it all worked out filled in the gaps with his imagination and put the concoction he’d come-up with into video form.
This isn't a matter of opinion and point-of-view, his video is primarily based in false ideas and narratives, of the sort that's inventive hearsay spread among sneering detractors. It’s largely opposite to the facts and is instead very sensationalist through sacrificing important facts.
Here are just a few examples of his ignorance or lies, whichever they may be.
Johnny claims that Navalny was arrested upon his return to Russia from recovering in Germany on "some old fake set of charges brought against him years ago that were thrown out later, they were totally fake". None of that is at-all true. The charges of embezzlement, brought by French cosmetics company Yves Rocher, were not fake and they weren't thrown-out - hence he had a suspended sentence. Navalny brought a complaint about the charges to the European Court of Human Rights, and the ECHR decided that the ruling against Navalny and his brother had been "arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable", but the ECHR didn't throw out the charges nor did they have the authority to. Additionally, the ECHR heard Navalny's appeal to have the charges construed as politically-motivated, but the ECHR dismissed Navalny's appeal of that. So, when he later calls Navalny's sentencing "politically-motivated", he's asserting something that wasn't deemed to be the case by the ECHR.
He also says that the pretext for Navalny's arrest was that he violated his parole terms, and he adds, "Turns-out he couldn't report to parole, officers, because he was in a coma from being poisoned by the Russian government". That's a lie which I believe is absolutely impossible for him to not have known was a lie when he made his video, because Navalny only had to return and check-in with the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service by the end of his probation period, on December 29th. But Navalny was discharged from the German hospital on September 23rd. That's over 3 months of difference, where Navalny wasn't in a coma and wasn't hospitalized. Further, the German hospital made a report mid-December stating that Navalny had recovered - and that report was cited during his sentencing hearing to show that he was able to return and check-in despite him not doing so.
Not that Navalny needed to be reminded of his parole terms for it to be legally binding, he's an adult who is responsible for himself and not a child, but Russia's Penitentiary Service did give him a last-minute warning that he had to return to make the final check-in otherwise he would be arrested upon his return to Russia. For the 4 months he'd been away in Germany, including all the time he was in a coma and for a very long time after that, Navalny's not-checking-in twice a month as his parole conditions required wasn't held against him and was never even mentioned as leverage against him in any way.
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service could have required Navalny to return to Russia sooner, but the only check-in Navalny was absolutely required to do was the final one, by December 29th. Navalny knew that, but he chose to stay in Germany for 2.5 weeks beyond that date.
Do you know what happens in the US when you skip probation and violate the terms of a suspended sentence? You're arrested and your suspended sentence is changed into a prison sentence. And as Navalny is a high-profile person, any exception made for him (and I don't know why he'd get an exception in this case beyond the unofficial exemption from having to check-in while he was recovering in Germany) would affect Russia's prison authority's ability to apply their rules to others.
Just some select other issues I have with his video are these, though there are also others that I'm not listing here:
His video doesn't mention the corruption scandals Navalny has been embroiled in, his racism and fierce xenophobia, the fact that 5,000 or a few times that number of protesters, and around 1,000 protesters arrested in the Moscow metropolitan area, the population of which is over 20 million, is statistically insignificant, or that Navalny's top aide was recorded seeking $20 million in funding from UK spies offering billions of 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' payback when Navalny becomes Russia's president - which has been a serious goal of Navalny's even though Johnny downplayed it in his video.
What he said about Novichok, who has developed it, the idea that it's a signature, is also 100% false and more of a cartoonish kind of an imaginative narrative. Many countries, including the US, UK, Czech, Iran, and others, have made Novichok, and the US took over the USSR's supplies of Novichok in 1991 when the US was responsible for the dismantling of the USSR's Uzbekistan chemical facilities where Novichok was made and stored. The US showed interest in patenting weaponized Novichok in 2015, and held discussions with Russia on the matter. The method to create Novichok was put into a book by its creator that is publicly available and can be purchased through Amazon. Novichok is not prohibitively difficult to make and the former head of the OPCW and many chemical experts have refuted the claim otherwise. I could expand a huge amount on this topic alone in a standalone post.
Bluntly, his video is either horrendously under-researched, or it's lying and deliberate propaganda. I'm shocked by the number of false claims and deferrals to conspiracy theories and cartoon visions that are contained in it. This isn't something anyone who considers themselves to be a journalist should be doing. And it certainly isn’t anything worth praising. The fact that it is convincing people of complete falsehoods makes it all the worse.
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@ElenaKomleva I thought that I might have received an apology for your assumptions about me and your accusations after I proved that I am as I said. But, instead, you're switching gears / deflecting from your errors of judgment and trying to protect your sense of entitlement to be indignant. Cut the BS. I said specific things, which are all true. You responded with conspiracy theories, accusations, and insults. Now your theories, accusations, and insults are proven to be false. Where is your remorse? Or, are you an unapologetic liar? And now you have the arrogance to say that my correctly calling you out on your erroneous judgment isn't decent behaviour, after you just falsely judged and accused me and others in this thread? You not only are uninformed and with poor judgment, but you're also a hypocrite.
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@ElenaKomleva Ironically, I haven't said anything about Putin. I have, however, pointed-out specific falsehoods concerning specific topics. And what I have said is true. Judging your intelligence and skills of perception isn't simply a matter of who Navalny is and what he's doing, or what Russia is. It's a matter of how you behave and present yourself when there are things you clearly don't know (including who I am, why I'm posting, and what I know), how receptive you are to truthful information you're unaware of, how gracefully you correct yourself (if you even do correct yourself, which you haven't done). What I see in your responses is that you are intellectually and emotionally immature, and too arrogant to accept when you were wrong.
And as a side-note: In Canada and the US, sometimes retired people have to rummage in garbage bins because they don't have or receive enough money. In Canada and the US, a protest permit is also required for protesting in cities, on private property, in large groups, or when making loud noises.
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@ElenaKomleva What I have said is true, and what experts have assessed generally doesn't conflict with what I've said - but it does conflict with what Johnny's video says. For example, Johnny claimed in his video that the charges against Navalny in the Yves Rocher case were tossed-out and fake. But that's not true at all. The charges were real and the French cosmetics company which issued them, Yves Rocher, stands by them. Navalny petitioned the ECHR about the charges and his Russian trial, and the ECHR ruled that the verdict in the Russian trial was arbitrary and unreasonable, but they didn't toss the charges out and they declined Navalny's argument that the charges were politically motivated. The ECHR also ordered Russia to pay monetary compensation to Russia. But the charges weren't fake, and they weren't thrown-out. Navalny's probation violation wasn't over non-existent charges but over real charges.
That's not me disagreeing with the 'experts', that's me testifying what the expert in this case, the ECHR, actually said and did, which is very different than what Johnny claimed they did.
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@Vokabre Most of the most-popular news in the West is state-sponsored. That in itself doesn't mean anything. The most popular news station in the world, BBC, is state-owned, state-funded, and state-run. State-sponsored Western news includes: BBC, CBC, CNN, Washington Post, Euro News, Deutsche Welle, France 24, Radio France, NPR, PBS, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, RAI, RTVE, ARD... and many others including around 1,400 additional US outlets which are funded by the US government through Corporation For Public Broadcasting.
In general RT is a great news source, with many big names from BBC, NYT, NBC, CNN, The Guardian, and other places having left to work at RT and said that RT allows for much more freedom to report the news truthfully, while outlets like NBC, BBC, NYT would tell their hosts and reporters what to say and what they can't say. RT's reporting of Navalny is certainly more fact-based than this video.
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@olgai6337 Putin hasn't invaded any country while president. Instead, he's helped Syria, Venezuela, Crimea, South Ossetia and save or protected them from invasions and attempted coups by foreign states. Since 2001, the US and UK have murdered between 5 and 7+ million people in the Middle East, destroyed entire countries, overthrown many governments including Ukraine's, threatened many more countries, destabilized economies killing dozens of thousands to try force revolts against governments, persecuted truth-tellers... But Russia under Putin hasn't invaded any country, hasn't killed any millions of people, and rather than use Russia's military to create wars has used it to respond to acts of aggression and protect the victims. So, how is Putin a villain in that picture of world affairs?
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@halva9357 In these comments, I've addressed Johnny's video about Navalny and his 'Putin's palace' video. Navalny's video contains a lot of ideas and allegations. But ideas and allegations are ideas and allegations, and not proof of something. Regarding Johnny's video about Navalny, here's some of what I've said about it:
I would say that 80%+ of Johnny’s video is extremely-false information, and that it seems as though he started ‘researching’ just 2 weeks ago, and mostly just read some NYT articles (as an example of an outlet which never utters an honest word regarding anything related to Russia) and picked-up on some sneering anti-Putin conspiracy theories online, and then assumed he had it all worked out filled in the gaps with his imagination and put the concoction he’d come-up with into video form.
This isn't a matter of opinion and point-of-view, his video is primarily based in false ideas and narratives, of the sort that's inventive hearsay spread among sneering detractors. It’s largely opposite to the facts and is instead very sensationalist through sacrificing important facts.
You might be wondering why I said that Johnny's video "is almost entirely inarguably-false in its claims". Or, you might have taken that comment as more confirmation bias that I fit whatever cartoonish depiction of a paid troll you might have. But it's true: Johnny's video is horrendously under-researched, or otherwise he's deliberately lying about 80%+ of what he says in the video.
Here are just a few examples of his ignorance or lies, whichever they may be.
Johnny claims that Navalny was arrested upon his return to Russia from recovering in Germany on "some old fake set of charges brought against him years ago that were thrown out later, they were totally fake". None of that is at-all true. The charges of embezzlement, brought by French cosmetics company Yves Rocher, were not fake and they weren't thrown-out - hence he had a suspended sentence. Navalny brought a complaint about the charges to the European Court of Human Rights, and the ECHR decided that the ruling against Navalny and his brother had been "arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable", but the ECHR didn't throw out the charges nor did they have the authority to. Additionally, the ECHR heard Navalny's appeal to have the charges construed as politically-motivated, but the ECHR dismissed Navalny's appeal of that. So, when he later calls Navalny's sentencing "politically-motivated", he's asserting something that wasn't deemed to be the case by the ECHR.
He also says that the pretext for Navalny's arrest was that he violated his parole terms, and he adds, "Turns-out he couldn't report to parole, officers, because he was in a coma from being poisoned by the Russian government". That's a lie which I believe is absolutely impossible for him to not have known was a lie when he made his video, because Navalny only had to return and check-in with the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service by the end of his probation period, on December 29th. But Navalny was discharged from the German hospital on September 23rd. That's over 3 months of difference, where Navalny wasn't in a coma and wasn't hospitalized. Further, the German hospital made a report mid-December stating that Navalny had recovered - and that report was cited during his sentencing hearing to show that he was able to return and check-in despite him not doing so.
Not that Navalny needed to be reminded of his parole terms for it to be legally binding, he's an adult who is responsible for himself and not a child, but Russia's Penitentiary Service did give him a last-minute warning that he had to return to make the final check-in otherwise he would be arrested upon his return to Russia. For the 4 months he'd been away in Germany, including all the time he was in a coma and for a very long time after that, Navalny's not-checking-in twice a month as his parole conditions required wasn't held against him and was never even mentioned as leverage against him in any way.
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service could have required Navalny to return to Russia sooner, but the only check-in Navalny was absolutely required to do was the final one, by December 29th. Navalny knew that, but he chose to stay in Germany for 2.5 weeks beyond that date.
Do you know what happens in the US when you skip probation and violate the terms of a suspended sentence? You're arrested and your suspended sentence is changed into a prison sentence. And as Navalny is a high-profile person, any exception made for him (and I don't know why he'd get an exception in this case beyond the unofficial exemption from having to check-in while he was recovering in Germany) would affect Russia's prison authority's ability to apply their rules to others.
Just some select other issues I have with his video are these, though there are also others that I'm not listing here:
His video doesn't mention the corruption scandals Navalny has been embroiled in, his racism and fierce xenophobia, the fact that 5,000 or a few times that number of protesters, and around 1,000 protesters arrested in the Moscow metropolitan area, the population of which is over 20 million, is statistically insignificant, or that Navalny's top aide was recorded seeking $20 million in funding from UK spies offering billions of 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' payback when Navalny becomes Russia's president - which has been a serious goal of Navalny's even though Johnny downplayed it in his video.
What he said about Novichok, who has developed it, the idea that it's a signature, is also 100% false and more of a cartoonish kind of an imaginative narrative. Many countries, including the US, UK, Czech, Iran, and others, have made Novichok, and the US took over the USSR's supplies of Novichok in 1991 when the US was responsible for the dismantling of the USSR's Uzbekistan chemical facilities where Novichok was made and stored. The US showed interest in patenting weaponized Novichok in 2015, and held discussions with Russia on the matter. The method to create Novichok was put into a book by its creator that is publicly available and can be purchased through Amazon. Novichok is not prohibitively difficult to make and the former head of the OPCW and many chemical experts have refuted the claim otherwise. I could expand a huge amount on this topic alone in a standalone post.
Bluntly, his video is either horrendously under-researched, or it's lying and deliberate propaganda. I'm shocked by the number of false claims and deferrals to conspiracy theories and cartoon visions that are contained in it. This isn't something anyone who considers themselves to be a journalist should be doing. And it certainly isn’t anything worth praising. The fact that it is convincing people of complete falsehoods makes it all the worse.
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@halva9357 This video, Johnny's, the one who we're both commenting in the comments section for and the one I have commented on, isn't Navalny's video, but is Johnny's video about many things including Navalny's video. I have addressed the actual video. And in my large previous comment to you, I didn't give my own opinion on Navalny, I gave a critique of the misinformation in Johnny's video, which is the video I have commented on and which is the video you are making your comment in the comments section of. In my previous comment, I have not relied on someone who isn't from Russia as a source for matters concerning Russia. I have relied on the first-hand sources relevant to the specific matters I have commented on. I haven't dealt in opinions, but in facts.
That you asked me to review all of Navalny's own video doesn't mean I have agreed to do that for you here. Here, I have responded to Johnny's video, as this is the comments section for Johnny's video and that is what I have been interested in doing so far.
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@valeremkin5188 "White Wall" is a paid propaganda troll who uses multiple accounts to spam gibberish in broken English. They've been exposed numerous times before. Here's a warning that I wrote about them previously:
Just a heads-up for people: The accounts "White Wall", "William Sam", "Fi Bryar", "Fatty Hendo", and probably others, are all operated by the same person who pretends to be different people with them. They are extremely aggressive, impulsive, can be stalking, and difficult to explain things to. And they have no restraint or compunction against making lies of any size, big or small, even when you'd think it's impossible for them to not know that you know that they're lying. They don't accept correction and are unyielding in their initial insistence. I believe this is because they are on the spectrum.
This person has been extremely sensitive to any talk about Ukraine's large troll farm program and can spend an entire day, more than 10 hours straight, non-stop, saying the same inane or whitewashing comment about it. In general, they mentally block-out all information that doesn't tell them what they want to hear, no matter how inarguably and demonstrably factual it is. They will also pretend they didn't get answers they received to their questions just so that they can continue to badger someone with the already-answered question and pretend with themselves that they're "owning" someone for not getting an answer. It is as detached from reality and normal sanity as it sounds.
With each of their accounts, they show the same very poor English grammar and phrasing, and are sometimes completely unintelligible - especially when they become upset. Yet, even when they're at their very most incoherent, as in, posting fully unintelligible gibberish, they maintain an insistence that they're speaking perfect English. When they spend more time working out a post they can make it appear a bit more normal, though there's typically always some oddities in their writing style. Again, I believe they are on the spectrum and that their behaviour is a result of that.
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Just a heads-up for people: The accounts "White Wall", "William Sam", "Fi Bryar", "Fatty Hendo", "George", "Lloon Burg", and probably others, are all operated by the same person who pretends to be different people with them. They are extremely aggressive, impulsive, can be stalking, and difficult to explain things to. And they have no restraint or compunction against making lies of any size, big or small, even when you'd think it's impossible for them to not know that you know that they're lying. They don't accept correction and are unyielding in their initial insistence. I believe this is because they are on the spectrum.
This person has been extremely sensitive to any talk about Ukraine's large troll farm program and can spend an entire day, more than 10 hours straight, non-stop, saying the same inane or whitewashing comment about it. In general, they mentally block-out all information that doesn't tell them what they want to hear, no matter how inarguably and demonstrably factual it is. They will also pretend they didn't get answers they received to their questions just so that they can continue to badger someone with the already-answered question and pretend with themselves that they're "owning" someone for not getting an answer. It is as detached from reality and normal sanity as it sounds.
With each of their accounts, they show the same very poor English grammar and phrasing, and are sometimes completely unintelligible - especially when they become upset. Yet, even when they're at their very most incoherent, as in, posting fully unintelligible gibberish, they maintain an insistence that they're speaking perfect English. When they spend more time working out a post they can make it appear a bit more normal, though there's typically always some oddities in their writing style. Again, I believe they are on the spectrum and that their behaviour is a result of that.
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Just a heads-up for people: The accounts "White Wall", "William Sam", "Fi Bryar", "Fatty Hendo", and probably others, are all operated by the same person who pretends to be different people with them. They are extremely aggressive, impulsive, can be stalking, and difficult to explain things to. And they have no restraint or compunction against making lies of any size, big or small, even when you'd think it's impossible for them to not know that you know that they're lying. The don't accept correction and are unyielding in their initial insistence. I believe this is because they are they are on the spectrum.
This person has been extremely sensitive to any talk about Ukraine's large troll farm program and can spend an entire day, more than 10 hours straight, non-stop, saying the same inane or whitewashing comment about it. In general, they mentally block-out all information that doesn't tell them what they want to hear, no matter how inarguably and demonstrably factual it is. They will also pretend they didn't get answers they received to their questions just so that they can continue to badger someone with the already-answered question and pretend with themselves that they're "owning" someone for not getting an answer. It is as detached from reality and normal sanity as it sounds.
With each of their accounts, they show the same very poor English grammar and phrasing, and are sometimes completely unintelligible - especially when they become upset. Yet, even when they're at their very most incoherent, as in, posting fully unintelligible gibberish, they maintain an insistence that they're speaking perfect English. Though, when they spend more time working out a post they can make it appear a bit more normal, though there's typically always some oddities in their writing style. Again, I believe they are on the spectrum and their behaviour is a result of that.
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@whitewall1948
That you're begging for my attention following the exposure of your 4 fake accounts ("White Wall", "William Sam", "Fi Bryar", "Fatty Hendo"), which you tried to pretend were 4 different people (but not well at all, since you said the same things with each of them, used the same taunts at the same time, with the same broken English, and all shared the same uncommon gross ignorances... which resulted in some spectacular breakdowns when it was pointed-out), means you are desperate to try to score some point back. Which, you know, is never going to happen. What you did, you did to yourself. And by desperately begging for my attention, you're showing you're in pain, but rather than healing you're just humiliating yourself even more.
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@whitewall9594 What's funny here is that in the end, no matter what I say and no matter what you say, Ukraine will still have that propaganda farm / troll farm operating, and I'll know it, and I'll know you're desperate to have it not be called a troll farm. And that won't change things.
If you aren't invested in Ukraine, then it is utterly meaningless for you to obsess over Ukraine's troll farm and what it's called. There is no meaning in you doing so, no motivation, no purpose, no accomplishment, apart from you having a personal vested interest in what it is and what it's called. You haven't explained what that interest is, yet. And that is extremely suspicious. No normal, sane, rational person goes on about a thing for 10 hours without a reason for why they're doing so. You have continued to hide your reason for doing so.
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@whitewall1948 Except that you didn't expose me for any lying. Ukraine has a troll farm. It doesn't matter what term some article used to describe Ukraine's troll farm, Ukraine's troll farm is a troll farm. You have been devastated endlessly, and you clearly can't bear to hear Ukraine's troll farm referred to as the troll farm that it is. But it is a troll farm, your desperate deflections of that fact notwithstanding.
This is semi-incoherent: "You call me Ukrainian because you’re a Russian troll it’s simple, Ukrainian social media I was never on it did you find my name on it know as I just exposed your very own link that you provided, you’re more Ukrainian more Ukrainian then me."
Strange, you think it's unfair to identify you as a Ukrainian, when it's clear that you are completely obsessed with whitewashing Ukraine's troll farm, but you think that someone calling you a Ukrainian makes them a Russian. Hmm... hypocrisy much? The moment I start trying to whitewash Russia's troll farm, as you're doing for Ukraine's, maybe you'll have a reason to suspect me of being Russian.
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@whitewall9594 So, you don't know what a troll is. I already know that. I've explained it to you ad nauseum:
"A state-run social media manipulation program where thousands of employees post anonymously online to further the government's interests without disclosing that they're posting on behalf of the government, is a troll farm. It is a psyops. And it is an information army. The article calls Ukraine's troll farm an "information army". And an army is something that does combat. And an information army is something that does combat with information. The way that's done is by attacking viewpoint and pushing others - all clandestinely. That is being a troll. When you hide your purpose and have an ulterior motive that isn't disclosed to those you aim to manipulate, you're trolling."
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Who cares if the article uses the term "troll farm"? It's still a troll farm, and that's what a troll farm is. An article doesn't have to use the word "troll farm" - Troll Farm isn't even an official description, it's a label given to operations, typically by opponents of it. The UK's "Integrity Initiative" troll farm, for which there was leaked official documents details their instructions of how to confuse and destabilize conversations online, was never called a "troll farm" by "Integrity Initiative", the UK government, or UK MSM articles reporting about it. But it was a troll farm.
You keep saying 'article doesn't say troll farm', but it's never mattered whether it does or doesn't. If a car magazine talks about a specific car model without using the word "car" to refer to it, it's still a car. Whether the article uses the term which describes what that type of operation is, is irrelevant. That operation is a troll farm.
Ukraine's troll farm is a troll farm.
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@whitewall1948 Why would I post something from the Newsweek article talking about it being a troll farm? I've already answered your interest on that matter:
You keep saying 'article doesn't say troll farm', but it's never mattered whether it does or doesn't. If a car magazine talks about a specific car model without using the word "car" to refer to it, it's still a car. Whether the article uses the term which describes what that type of operation is, is irrelevant. That operation is a troll farm.
Who cares if the article uses the term "troll farm"? It's still a troll farm, and that's what a troll farm is. An article doesn't have to use the word "troll farm" - Troll Farm isn't even an official description, it's a label given to operations, typically by opponents of it. The UK's "Integrity Initiative" troll farm, for which there was leaked official documents details their instructions of how to confuse and destabilize conversations online, was never called a "troll farm" by "Integrity Initiative", the UK government, or UK MSM articles reporting about it. But it was a troll farm.
A state-run social media manipulation program where thousands of employees post anonymously online to further the government's interests without disclosing that they're posting on behalf of the government, is a troll farm. It is a psyops. And it is an information army. The article calls Ukraine's troll farm an "information army". And an army is something that does combat. And an information army is something that does combat with information. The way that's done is by attacking viewpoint and pushing others - all clandestinely. That is being a troll. When you hide your purpose and have an ulterior motive that isn't disclosed to those you aim to manipulate, you're trolling."
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The charges by which Navalny and his brother were sentenced - Navalny with a suspended sentence and his brother with a prison sentence, were made by French cosmetic company Yves Rocher. The charges were not fake and, contrary to what Johnny Harris says in his video, they weren't thrown-out. Navalny went to the European Court of Human Rights to protest the charges, and the ECHR ruled that the trial was unfair and arbitrary, but the ECHR didn't toss-out the charges, nor did it have the authority to. Navalny also appealed that the court consider the charges politically motivated, but the ECHR denied Navalny's appeal.
Honestly, a lot of what is said in Johnny Harris' video is not true at all. One other example is that he says Navalny couldn't check-in with the Russian Penitentiary Service because he was in a coma. But there was over 3 months between the time that Navalny was out of his coma and discharged from the hospital, and when he had to check-in by. Navalny was not required to check-in with the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service while he was still recovering in Germany. It was only required after the German hospital reported Navalny was recovered, which was 3 months after he was discharged from the hospital.
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@Justlookingg What you have said is false, Svetlana. I already gave the truthful details of the Yves Rocher case in my comment above. And anybody can verify it for themselves. I'll including the ECHR ruling in a link. The ECHR did not rule the Yves Rocher case illegal. It ruled that Russia had denied Navalny and his brother their right to a fair trial and that Russia must pay Navalny and his brother 76,000 EUR and 460,000 Rubles in damages. But it didn't dismiss the charges and didn't have the authority to. Additionally, the ECHR dismissed Navalny's appeal to have the charges deemed politically motivated.
Yves Rocher has stood by the charges against Navalny, saying, "its Russian subsidiary "acted in accordance with the practices and procedures of all international and independent companies and the more general principle of business ethics.""
The ECHR ruling is here: https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{%22tabview%22:[%22document%22],%22itemid%22:[%22001-177665%22]}
There's the actual court itself saying what I said, Svetlana, and it contradicts the falsehood that you have written and smeared me with. So, you have spoken disinformation. I don't know if you're lying or just ignorant or disinformed to the point that you aren't qualified to be talking on the subject. But either way, you owe me an apology. Please do a better job to inform yourself in the future.
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Just a heads-up for people: The accounts "White Wall", "William Sam", "Fi Bryar", "Fatty Hendo", "Lloon Burg", "Beth Perkins", and probably others, are all operated by the same person who pretends to be different people with them. They are extremely aggressive, impulsive, can be stalking, and difficult to explain things to. And they have no restraint or compunction against making lies of any size, big or small, even when you'd think it's impossible for them to not know that you know that they're lying. They don't accept correction and are unyielding in their initial insistence. I believe this is because they are on the spectrum.
This person has been extremely sensitive to any talk about Ukraine's large troll farm program and can spend an entire day, more than 10 hours straight, non-stop, saying the same inane or whitewashing comment about it. In general, they mentally block-out all information that doesn't tell them what they want to hear, no matter how inarguably and demonstrably factual it is. They will also pretend they didn't get answers they received to their questions just so that they can continue to badger someone with the already-answered question and pretend with themselves that they're "owning" someone for not getting an answer. It is as detached from reality and normal sanity as it sounds.
With each of their accounts, they show the same very poor English grammar and phrasing, and are sometimes completely unintelligible - especially when they become upset. Yet, even when they're at their very most incoherent, as in, posting fully unintelligible gibberish, they maintain an insistence that they're speaking perfect English. When they spend more time working out a post they can make it appear a bit more normal, though there's typically always some oddities in their writing style. Again, I believe they are on the spectrum and that their behaviour is a result of that.
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@bethperkin2762 Oh my. I just checked the automatically-withheld comments for my YT page, and wow... this "Beth Perkins", "White Wall", "William Sam", "Fi Bryar", "Fatty Hendo", "Lloon Burg", etc unstable poster hasn't figured-out that they can't make comments on my YT page regardless of how many alt accounts they make. They're going nonstop with creating new accounts to get around a ban on my YT page and post comments there, without realizing that which account they're posting from has nothing to do with the block on their comments, and that all their comments are automatically blocked regardless of which account they use. What a total dummy! HAHAHA!!
They haven't been smart enough to realize they've been burning literal days of their time making new alt accounts all day long and posting things which nobody, including myself, ever sees (unless I check if there's been any automatically-withheld comments). The unintelligence of this "Beth Perkins", etc, person is record-setting. They're a failure of everything they tried to be, haha.
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Just a heads-up for people: The accounts "White Wall", "William Sam", "Fi Bryar", "Fatty Hendo", "Lloon Burg", "Beth Perkins", and probably others, are all operated by the same person who pretends to be different people with them. They are extremely aggressive, impulsive, can be stalking, and difficult to explain things to. And they have no restraint or compunction against making lies of any size, big or small, even when you'd think it's impossible for them to not know that you know that they're lying. They don't accept correction and are unyielding in their initial insistence. I believe this is because they are on the spectrum.
This person has been extremely sensitive to any talk about Ukraine's large troll farm program and can spend an entire day, more than 10 hours straight, non-stop, saying the same inane or whitewashing comment about it. In general, they mentally block-out all information that doesn't tell them what they want to hear, no matter how inarguably and demonstrably factual it is. They will also pretend they didn't get answers they received to their questions just so that they can continue to badger someone with the already-answered question and pretend with themselves that they're "owning" someone for not getting an answer. It is as detached from reality and normal sanity as it sounds.
With each of their accounts, they show the same very poor English grammar and phrasing, and are sometimes completely unintelligible - especially when they become upset. Yet, even when they're at their very most incoherent, as in, posting fully unintelligible gibberish, they maintain an insistence that they're speaking perfect English. When they spend more time working out a post they can make it appear a bit more normal, though there's typically always some oddities in their writing style. Again, I believe they are on the spectrum and that their behaviour is a result of that.
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@bethperkin3200 It's said that imitation is the clearest form of flattery, so thanks for quoting what I told you again. It underscores that you know you don't have the intelligence or grasp of the English language to think of anything to say, yourself, and that you think your own behaviour, which I identify in my comments you keep copy-pasting, is a humiliation of yourself.
"I can't even imagine how destroyed you must feel to have spent more than half a year thinking about me, to come back begging me for my attention and spamming endless comments hoping to salvage something you can't salvage because you didn't have it to begin with. Your life must be nothing but pain and humiliation.
You're far too enraged to see clearly or think competently, as made evident by the fact you've been spending all your time making alt accounts and trying to post on my YT page, without ever realizing that all your comments are automatically withheld from the page. Hahaha!! You literally spent hours, and hours, and hours, making accounts and posts that nobody could ever see, and the whole while you never clued into it. I don't know which words would even describe that level of stupidity and obliviousness. How very sad for you."
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Just a heads-up for people: The accounts "White Wall", "William Sam", "Fi Bryar", "Fatty Hendo", "Lloon Burg", "Beth Perkins", and probably others, are all operated by the same person who pretends to be different people with them. They are extremely aggressive, impulsive, can be stalking, and difficult to explain things to. And they have no restraint or compunction against making lies of any size, big or small, even when you'd think it's impossible for them to not know that you know that they're lying. They don't accept correction and are unyielding in their initial insistence. I believe this is because they are on the spectrum.
This person has been extremely sensitive to any talk about Ukraine's large troll farm program and can spend an entire day, more than 10 hours straight, non-stop, saying the same inane or whitewashing comment about it. In general, they mentally block-out all information that doesn't tell them what they want to hear, no matter how inarguably and demonstrably factual it is. They will also pretend they didn't get answers they received to their questions just so that they can continue to badger someone with the already-answered question and pretend with themselves that they're "owning" someone for not getting an answer. It is as detached from reality and normal sanity as it sounds.
With each of their accounts, they show the same very poor English grammar and phrasing, and are sometimes completely unintelligible - especially when they become upset. Yet, even when they're at their very most incoherent, as in, posting fully unintelligible gibberish, they maintain an insistence that they're speaking perfect English. When they spend more time working out a post they can make it appear a bit more normal, though there's typically always some oddities in their writing style. Again, I believe they are on the spectrum and that their behaviour is a result of that.
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Just a heads-up for people: The accounts "White Wall", "William Sam", "Fi Bryar", "Fatty Hendo", "Lloon Burg", "Beth Perkins", and probably others, are all operated by the same person who pretends to be different people with them. They are extremely aggressive, impulsive, can be stalking, and difficult to explain things to. And they have no restraint or compunction against making lies of any size, big or small, even when you'd think it's impossible for them to not know that you know that they're lying. They don't accept correction and are unyielding in their initial insistence. I believe this is because they are on the spectrum.
This person has been extremely sensitive to any talk about Ukraine's large troll farm program and can spend an entire day, more than 10 hours straight, non-stop, saying the same inane or whitewashing comment about it. In general, they mentally block-out all information that doesn't tell them what they want to hear, no matter how inarguably and demonstrably factual it is. They will also pretend they didn't get answers they received to their questions just so that they can continue to badger someone with the already-answered question and pretend with themselves that they're "owning" someone for not getting an answer. It is as detached from reality and normal sanity as it sounds.
With each of their accounts, they show the same very poor English grammar and phrasing (except when copy-pasting my comments), and are sometimes completely unintelligible - especially when they become upset. Yet, even when they're at their very most incoherent, as in, posting fully unintelligible gibberish, they maintain an insistence that they're speaking perfect English. When they spend more time working out a post they can make it appear a bit more normal, though there's typically always some oddities in their writing style. Again, I believe they are on the spectrum and that their behaviour is a result of that.
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