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>>3717135

Our Tax dollars at work.. FKers

The financial support that the U.S. State Department accords to anti-corruption efforts in Romania and other Eastern European countries does not stem from philanthropic generosity. When the Christian Science Monitor dug under the story’s surface, it found that the policy fits tightly into the broader ongoing power struggle in the region between the U.S. and Russia. U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic Andrew Schapiro emphasized the geopolitical aspect of the aid:

>>3717233

it is awfully interesting maybe part of a deal for releasing the pastor. hell of a movie were watching

French bishops meet victims of abuse for first time

France's Catholic bishops meeting in the holy city of Lourdes this weeken have for the first time met some of the victims of sexual abuse by priests.

Eight victims attended the Conference of Bishops; one of them who was abused at a summer camp in 1993 said they had not yet reconciled themselves to what happened.

"Reconciliation is at the end of the road, but for the moment I am not ready for it, because we are also representatives of all the victims and not all of them are ready to hear this apology, so we are not here to hear an apology, personally that would make me uncomfortable," Olivier Savignac said.

In countries across the world, from Chile to the United States and Australia, the Catholic church has been tainted as some of its priests have been exposed as paedophiles and abusers.

"This meeting is a beginning, not an end. We shouldn't think that once we do this everything will be settled, on the contrary. I hope it will be the start of many things," said Bishop Luc Crepy, head of the permanent commission to fight paedophilia in the Church.

The church has sometimes made the severity of the crimes even worse by covering up for some of the priests to protect its reputation.

https://www.euronews.com/2018/11/03/french-bishops-meet-victims-of-abuse-for-first-time

Just Wealthy Russians huh

Data leak affects thousands of wealthy Moscow residents

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thousands of wealthy Moscow residents who subscribed to a regional internet provider have had personal data including names, home addresses and mobile numbers posted online.

People affected by the high-profile data leak are all clients of Moscow-based internet provider Akado Telecom, a large telecommunications network owned by billionaire businessman Viktor Vekselberg, which said it had opened an inquiry into the incident.

Russian authorities have been paying close attention to such incidents following leaks that led to the publication of information about military intelligence agents accused of links to an attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Britain.

Reuters saw several hundred records on an international database and identified data including the mobile phone numbers and addresses of a high-ranking Russian government official, a well-known film director and a leading businessman's relative.

The data was uploaded to the database of RIPE NCC, a not-for-profit regional internet registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia, said IT specialist Vladislav Zdolnikov, founder of the TgVPN service, which offers VPNs for users of the Telegram messaging application.

RIPE NCC operates a public database listing which IP addresses have been allocated to different internet service providers. It should not, however, identify individual customers by name or other personal information.

Companies that are members of the registry, which include Akado Telecom, are responsible for loading data onto the database, said Aleksei Semenyaka, a RIPE NCC communications director.

He said Akado Telecom must have uploaded the customer details, which he confirmed could be accessed freely.

Akado Telecom said it had launched an internal investigation, but did not say whether it knew the private data of its clients had been published or whether the company had provided the information.

https://www.euronews.com/2018/11/03/data-leak-affects-thousands-of-wealthy-moscow-residents

>>3717483

>>3717483

Same Idea, it will be interesting to read

Wartime relations can cause a country to get down – as we saw in the United States during Vietnam – to a point where a large portion of the public doesn’t support the war. One of the ways countries, like the United States, curb this is by creating propaganda. In World War II, the United States ramped up the propaganda to get the public behind the war effort and to unite the country. The United States government’s efforts were a success, and the country saw a lot of growth following the war. This article looks at the types of propaganda used to help unite the war effort in the United States, during World War II.

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The United States government was not into the idea of propaganda at first. This was due in part to their propaganda efforts during World War I, which left a bad taste in the American public’s mouth. The U.S. adopted the “strategy of truth,” where they would release information, but not try and sway the public’s opinion regarding the war.

It would take businesses and media pressuring the United States government into putting out campaigns, for it to actually happen. Even so, the government still viewed it as them simply giving out information, as opposed to propaganda.

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/american-propaganda-world-war-ii.html

>>3717419

Were you taking a knee when you made that meme