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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
MISSED THIS, just read it, deserves it's own post because: it's basically an ACCUSATION OF WAR BY RUSSIA AGAINST AMERICAN CIVILIANS!
A new campaign appears to be spreading falsehoods about the potential for forced inoculations against Covid-19.
By Julian E. Barnes @ NYTimes.com, Aug. 5
The cartoon posted on the far-right discussion forum showed police officers wearing Biden-Harris campaign logos on bulletproof vests and battering down a door with a large syringe. A caption read in part, “In Biden’s America.”
The cartoon appears to be an example of the latest effort in Russian-aligned disinformation: a campaign that taps into skepticism and fears of coronavirus vaccination to not just undermine the effort to immunize people but also try to falsely link the Biden-Harris administration to the idea of forced inoculations. The image was one of several spotted by Graphika, a company tracking disinformation campaigns.
Both Russia and China have worked to promote their own vaccines through messaging that undermines American and European vaccination programs, according to the State Department’s Global Engagement Center. But in addition to overt messaging promoting their own vaccines, Moscow has also spread conspiracy theories. Last year, the department began warning about how Russia was using fringe websites to promote doubts around vaccinations.
It is difficult to quantify the amount of disinformation being produced at any time by the Russians or other adversarial powers, government officials and outside experts said. But the rise of the Delta variant of the coronavirus — and shifting scientific advice on how to defend against a more infectious strain and the need for booster shots or masks — has created an atmosphere for misinformation to more easily spread, experts said [....]
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I like how the cartoon is a twofer, meant to attract both lefties and righties, being anti-police and anti-vax. Interestingly very similar to the way Boogaloos sympathizers think Russian (and Chinese) propagandists, coming from more authoritiarian societies, do seem to oddly get the extreme libertarian anarchist mindset and its danger to the whole American project.
Edit to add: Here is the lede to the article I first saw on the NYT Aug.11 Coronavirus Live Update page:
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/17/2021 - 10:34pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/18/2021 - 11:31am
also from Pew:
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/18/2021 - 11:33am
Note whole thread, starting here:
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/19/2021 - 7:53pm
Found further down:
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 08/20/2021 - 12:18am