"If you want to be an arsonist, join the volunteer fire brigade." --old saying
This documentary seems to be doing exactly what it is complaining about. I don't think that creating controlled opposition, hiding black ops behind NGOs, or disinformation are particularly Russian ploys, although I'm sure they're learning something.
The soviet union however did use some of these techniques. And millions of communist party members left the country and came to the "west".
Some of them are old British tricks, like hiding black ops behind bogus "charities". Then when the enemy catches your spies and frog-marches them to the salt mines, you scream "human rights abuse!"
The dirtiest, sneakiest trick of all, dating from approximately the 19th century but refined over a long time, is to create conflict that resolves in a controlled way. The current racial tension here in the USA is a good example. The media are intentionally throwing fuel on the flames, and wealthy donors are helping fund radical groups.
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but from 2:16 in the 2nd half of the video he demonstrates how the UK is also using these same exact methods.
Right, and the documentary itself is one example! It might seem that criticizing the "financial oligarchs" of the UK is a very straightforward thing to do. But think about the context:
* The UK is hopelessly bankrupt; it is the most endebted society in the world, if you count public and private debt.
* It has an extensive social welfare system that a high ratio of its population are dependent on.
* Funds for its social welfare system are running out.
* Service levels are low. Wait lists are long.
* The country chronically runs trade deficits.
* The country chronically runs budget deficits.
How do you rally the population of a country like that to support what would otherwise be unpopular measures like increasing taxes to reduce the budget deficit, and reducing service levels to reduce government spending? AKA "austerity measures" such as were mentioned in the documentary?
You instead rally them for "soak the rich" programs, that are a cover for every change you really want to make. The truly rich oligarchs already having most of their assets offshore, and structured in tax-resisting legal entities. It's a trick.
It's comparable to the group here in the USA, "Occupy Wall Street", and its spinoffs like "Occupy Democrats". Many of my Facebook "friends" constantly post memes sponsored by those groups. The memes call for policies like dramatically higher taxes, ostensibly for the benefit of the poor.
But that's not how it works, at least not in the USA where deficit spending is financed by monetization of debt--a hidden tax if you will. The real impetus for higher taxes include:
* making sure that bonds get paid back. Because banks make money underwriting them and/or owning them.
* dampening rising consumer prices. If your discretionary funds are all taxed away, then you're not using them to bid up prices. This is "inside-the-beltway" thinking 101. The "wage price spiral" (which is a fallacy, but never mind...)
* preventing multi-generational capital accumulation by upstarts
These are all the concerns of banks, not "the poor". The people who are spreading these memes are useful dupes.
According to Prof. Michel Chossudovsky:
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The Occupy Wall Street Movement (OWS) was launched by Adbusters, a Vancouver based NGO.
Adbusters is funded by the Tides Foundation. The latter is in turn funded by a large number of corporate foundations and charities, including the Ford Foundation, Gates Foundation and the Open Society Institute. Ford is known to have links to US intelligence.
While Tides makes its name by facilitating large pass-through grants to outside groups, many of Tides’ grantees are essentially activist startups. Part of Tides’ overall plan is to provide day-to-day assistance to the younger groups that it “incubates.
(https://www.activistfacts.com/organizati...es-center/)
Wall Street foundations support the protest movement against Wall Street? How convenient.
I'm not saying the documentary is wrong. I'm saying it's using the very technique that it's pretending to complain about--and furthermore ascribing it to the Russians!
Does that sound plausible?