You're not missing a ton. I reposted the important stuff. RT tends to be pro-zionist in the way they voice/write these articles so it's not like they have super great coverage. Though credit where it's due they do platform in their opinion sections anti-zionist voices at times.
BBC bans ‘high-risk’ broadcasts after Bob Vylan - Russia Today
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The BBC has announced that it will no longer broadcast or livestream performances deemed ‘high risk’. The British public broadcaster faced backlash after airing a set by punk-rap duo Bob Vylan at the Glastonbury Festival, during which the group chanted against the Israeli military.
The group’s lead vocalist encouraged the crowd to chant “Death, death to the IDF” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine must be, will be, inshallah, it will be free” during the performance last weekend. Videos circulating on social media show the crowd echoing the chants, with some waving Palestinian flags.
“We deeply regret that such offensive and deplorable behaviour appeared on the BBC and want to apologise to our viewers, listeners, and in particular the Jewish community,” the broadcaster said in a statement released on Thursday.
The BBC noted that the band was classified as ‘high risk’ ahead of the festival, along with six other acts, but was still permitted to perform with “appropriate mitigations.” The company admitted to “errors” in the compliance processes and confirmed that Bob Vylan’s set has been permanently removed from BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds.
The outlet pledged to provide on-site editorial policy support at major music festivals and events moving forward. It also announced plans to issue clearer guidance on the criteria for withdrawing a livestream.
Probably. On the other hand they do like radicalizing people so they can use them as an excuse to outlaw or further surveil or attack organizations so it's not impossible they were really hoping to paint MLK with the communist brush and if they had to literally turn people into communists around him to get that to work they were quite willing to do so. Hoover in particular was desperate for it so absolutely wouldn't have been beyond trying to create some communists if it meant giving him more ammo to take down the civil rights movement and MLK.
unless they're literally just been lying they've been struggling really badly to do this, they constantly keep missing their production targets by a ton
Production capacity is not yet online. Shockingly it takes time to build factories and get them producing, however the work has been put in, ground has been broken and Ukraine increasingly has a skilled workforce for this kind of thing. They're not online right now but likely will be as I said within 3 years if not less which is plenty of time for the China conflict or any plans by Europe to do a charge at Russia in future as they keep talking up a war with Russia being inevitable.
placing your fancy new arm production facilities (even underground ones) within striking range of Russia's missiles while planning to go to war against them again would be so stupid
Three things
I really have to wonder if it isn't intentional at times like these. I know the way the bourgeois electoral theatrics work is it isn't something that should be consciously known by the participants but the Democrats at times REALLY seem to be openly taking a fall and planting their face while wearing a smirk and then saying "aww shucks" with a comic laugh to their base full of fools while winking at the Republicans and the camera.
‘- massive expansion in terms of dollars and terror of state power against immigrants. I’ve been skeptical about efforts to terrorize, imprison, and deport immigrants due to the critical function they serve in the economy, but now…. I don’t know
I am genuinely beginning to think they want to do a return to white supremacy thing. They kick out the immigrants, immiserate the population including white people, take their healthcare, force the neurodivergent to work and then exploit those groups to fill the roles previously filled by immigrants while whipping people up with "at least we're a white nation and can be great again" rhetoric which the hogs will be excited about. Of course they won't kick them all out, it's not possible or desirable but they'll use the terror to further suppress their wages and living conditions and any chance of bargaining power, push them into a pseudo-slavery like arrangement. They'll push them to back of house, they'll push them out of view where they can be exploited in the worst conditions out of sight while pushing the aforementioned whiter workers under more exploitation into the front of house work immigrants previously did so the ILLUSION of the immigrants being gone is maintained.
Eh they've been building capacity though.
Among other things I just can't see this Ukraine situation ending with a total Russian victory. I think Russia captures the entire eastern oblasts that voted to secede plus maybe a buffer area or cordon sanitaire as they've called it and the Ukrainians agree to stop attacking Russia, to stop contesting (but not formally recognize) the eastern oblasts Russia has annexed plus Crimea, and to keep troop levels lower and/or to not move them within a certain distance of the cordon sanitaire or Belarus.
I don't see full denazification, I don't see full disarmament.
What I do see is the west has already started and used the war economy of Ukraine to jump-start arms production factories in western Ukraine. What I see is the west turning western Ukraine into a bunch of heavily exploited, but quite competent and experienced and low cost weapons makers for the west. They plan to turn it into their war factory for the coming war with Russia and/or China and I do think that within the next 3 years they'll have that capacity operational and be able to use it against China or Russia and it will be significant in the amount of production capacity it will give them and the ability it will give the west to stay in a long fight.
Filling Ukraine with arms factories really is a win-win for the capitalists as they get the increased money from the increased "defense" spending but by spending it in a devastated rump state of a country they stretch their dollars a lot further, can actually meet the needed quotas for weapons for the western war machine against China/Russia WHILE also pocketing still record profits.
That number apparently also allows up to 1.5% of it to be spent on things like highways and bridges in support of infrastructure necessary for troop movements. But to be honest even a 1% bump in GDP towards arms is a pretty big amount.
without anyone questioning why they don't use the broad, sweeping powers exercised by Trump to do Literally Anything Good.
"We must protect and rebuild the institutions and we cannot do that by breaking more rules like our adversaries" is what they'll say once they get into power. Before they get into power all kinds of vague promises of justice and doing this and that. But darn it the Parliamentarian will rule against them and they refuse to be just like the enemy they fight in effectively getting things done. They're going to set an example of their ideals!
The question I have is, how long until these services begin to capitulate to the state and down rank or shadow-ban these kinds of broadcasts?
Immediately the moment someone fires a gun back at and kills one of these feds. They'll say that they caused the death and are putting other lives at risk and threaten them heavy-handedly and they'll all fold like cards or be targeted by other elements of the state. Some will obviously fold far before that.
Such a good chant. Going to have to look into his music now.
Also more seriously, this guy is a hero and braver than the troops. He's put himself at risk against the entire zionist propaganda apparatus, against the British state which has already shown a willingness to criminalize and prosecute musicians, something he knew before going on given who followed him.
True but also I think in a war with China those won't matter as much as some combination of drone production, missile production capacities, ability to get those through the enemy defenses (counter-jamming, electronic warfare, tactics, etc) AND/OR your ability to take down drones and missiles effectively and not too expensively (resource-wise not cost-wise). The US isn't going to fight a ground war against China in a conventional sense. It's going to be on the high seas, a world war probably across many island chains with naval logistic and control of the seas and air more important. But who knows.
So drones + fighters + other air assets + missiles + naval assets and the ability to leverage them, use electronic warfare, dirty tricks, secret weapons, combined arms, etc to overcome the enemy and strike deep and hard or maintain superiority.