BadPolitician

[badpolitico]

Journalism, Social Media and International Affairs.

The major part of people who inhabit our planet are connected with each other very closely. Even person from Boston, USA is in the stone’s throw from a person in Vladivostok, Russia. This all thanks to the globalization, or better say internet. 

If any shaheed blows himself up in the market place in Hong Kong, you will know about it in 5 minutes. All this because news and mass media are everywhere. Your father wakes up in the morning and turns on the TV to hear the latest news. Mass media is everywhere at anytime as soon as you contact with people. Even if you try to abstract from any news or mass media, you will not succeed in it, because any important news which are related to international or integral security and its violation or to the everyday’s life of you and your friend’s circle will anyway permeate into your life. 

Now you can ask a question: Why do i have to abstract from any mass media, or specifically from news? - Because every article, every interview, any information that spreads throughout the mass media is passed through the vision prism of its editor, and we do not know, who this publisher (magazine, newspaper) works for. So, almost in all cases we receive not objective or even truthful information. 

For example let’s take a recent situation with a Russian jet shot down by Turkey. Open the news from “Russian Today” and any Turkish news portal - you will see completely different information. This is not astonishing or surprising information, such practice has been taking place for a long time. Because every state cares about growing in the minds of their people a certain feeling that their country and it’s government are “the ones smart and beautiful standing in a white coat” and that they commit right decisions. 

So, lets make a little conclusion: You cannot trust anything. Any information that goes into your ears and eyes must be criticized and you must have your own thought and opinion on any subject in order not to be buried under the mountain of informational trash.

Think critically. 

[badpolitico]

Reviewing a documentary on the Secret Intelligence Agency NSA

Secret intelligence agencies. The word “secret” is a satire here. A real secret agency will not ever allow it’s operations and achievements to be revealed, like the majority of agencies we know about. These are intelligence agencies (CIA, FBI, MI, Massad, KGB, etc). These organizations are racing with each other on the track of internal and external security, on the methods and technologies of gathering, concealing and revealing information, all for sakes of their homelands. But not everybody knows about the actual impact they make on the international arena and the price they pay for it. 

The National Security Agency (NSA) is an intelligence organization of the United States government, responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligencepurposes – a discipline known as signals intelligence (SIGINT). 

For the first time the gates of NSA were opened for the documentary cameras, giving us a common knowledge about the way this organization works. The main idea of film goes about the code breaking, and capturing and transcripting information on the distance. The film highlighted the very interesting historical moments, like the tracing and capturing American citizens, who appeared to be Soviet spies and were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, and passing information about atomic bomb the Soviets; the “Enigma machine” a device made by Germans to encipher information, and the american response on this machine. The film shows us main points of studying and practicing the secure communication, better knows as “cryptography”. Generally, the documentary shows us, how this type of information gathering helps to secure and protect the homeland and to infiltrate and destroy enemies. The impact which was made by the NSA and it’s workers is huge but sometimes it is underestimated. The aspect of cryptographers work is not only the sitting in the basement and trying to solve the code. Sometimes the informations gathering process requires to be in a very close dislocation to the groups of armed guerillas, or being at the navy ship during the combat. 

A lot of people of this profession perished, but more lives were saved by their pains. The thing i learned from this film is that If you participate in the war actions, it is always a treat to your life, no matter if you are in the front trenches, or in the front of the computer far away.

“We make cryptanalysis sound like a clean, safe academic way to get intelligence, but we need to realize that people in this business must sometimes risk or even give their lives for their country,. In many ways they are the quietest of the silent heroes of the Cold War.” 

David Hatch. NSA Historian.

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The tip of the iceberg. The case of Arctic.

"The ice cover gradually loses its resilience, and now does not need as much heat, as in previous years, to melt. Sea ice cap, which previously was a thick layer of ice, now breaks up into small floes, more exposed to the action of warm ocean water. In the past Arctic glaciers have been a fortress, which could be attacked by ocean only from the outside. Now it looks as if the invaders have made a dig under it and the ice began to melt from the inside"-.. Walt Meyer said (Walt Meier) space flight Center NASA Goddard in Greenbelt (United States).

The melting of ice in Arctics has increased the interest of international actors to it. But, not in the case of Global Warming, rather because of the huge amount of resources that have been hidden and kept under the ice. The Arctic contains a huge number of undeveloped energy - oil and gas. According to the US Geological Survey, the Arctic oil reserves (both offshore and on the land) are nearly 90 billion barrels. According to the “British Petroleum data”, the world consumes more than 32 billion barrels every year. So, the accumulated oil will be enough for 3 years, while there is a demand for it.

I will not dive into the history in an attempt to understand the expedition of which country was the first and who is able or should claim their right on the territory or not. Every country which has access to it will try to gain as much territory and, accordingly resources, as possible. Still there are some unsolved cases, like Lomonosov’s Ridge on which three countries at the same time claim their rights: Russia, Canada and Denmark, and other small territories.

Important thing to mention: the extraction of resources in Arctics is extremely difficult and dangerous for the environment. The chance of accidents rises significantly because of the climate. The ability to eliminate the consequences of the oil spill, as well as its effectiveness is complicated by numerous storms and high waves. The consequences of oil split are very hard to eliminate. 

So, the retired Coast Guard admiral Roger Rufus said: "The spilled oil irrevocably pollutes the water. It is impossible anywhere in the world to clean the affected water more than 3, 5, or 10 percent, and so even more in the ice. "

So, the arena of international relations is gaining a new territory for politic struggle - The Arctic. And this territory in future is likely to become a “hot-spot” and even a conflict place. While the countries, related to the Arctic issue, are taking part in “resource race” they should consider that they can cause a tough consequences not only for the countries close to the Arctic, but for the whole world

[badpolitico]

Contemporary IR theories. (non)Western approach. Evolution. Pink Floyd. A sofa philosopher’s notes.

Recently had a discussion with my colleagues about non-western IR theories. Firstly, i came to conclusion that all non-western ideas are actually based on the thoughts of western scholars, and that there are no more theories to be produced both by west and non-west, because we’ve come to an end, which is called “liberal democracy”. But later i realized that there’s a big thing for us to deal onwards, which is associated with the rapid growth of asian economy and civilization at all. I will try to describe it later. Let’s move closer to the case of this note.

We all know such things as “liberalism” “realism” “marxism” and other popular and not, western and non-western political systems. For you to choose. So, the thing i want bring to you, is that it does not matter what is the name of the theory, it’s approach (materialistic/idealistic), the place of origin and other factors which are common in distinguishing this theories. They all suck. Brief information for those, who is in the tank: all systems have the task to maintain order, because people by their nature are chaotic, and there will be a chaos without the system which will control us, and the power which will maintain this system. People by their nature are consumers, their desire is to satisfy their needs. That’s why people are easy to control. (What will happen if the person’s need are thinking, expression and developing? Pablo Picasso will happen. Mozart will happen. Shakespeare will happen.) Moving on.

Since the dawn of the human race, there have been factors aimed to make people stupid and smart, and people have always had a choice which to consume. So. Now the 1st factor has more ways of distribution, because now the governing elements are trying to make people more stupid, allowing them freely and consciously choose 1st factor and not to feel stupid because the majority does the same way. So, we came to a little conclusion that people are “nation of sheep ruled by wolves owned by pigs” (c) Unknown author. Listen the Pink Floyd’s “Animals” album. People, themselves, are creatures with unlimited potential, and now this potential is being massively buried by the culture of consumption. What i am going to say, is that any of political system which i know suck. (If you know one which you think doesn’t, please let me know in comment section, because my knowledge of IR and history is far from perfect ). This potential has to be directed. Only the minority of people can use their potential and direct it back on track. So, we have a race with unlimited potential and a bunch of state-making theories which bury it. (Actually, we cannot fully blame the system for making people dumb, but it has a big role in it ) What i am proposing is the ideology, based on liberalism, which is aimed on making people develop themselves. To exclude the social ballast which is slowing the overall growth of intelligence between people, in order to continue our evolution and not to be buried under the wrecks of our cities, destroyed by nuclear capabilities. 

The case of actual ideology i’m proposing I will try to take up in the next notes.

[sexyclassicrock]

[badpolitico]

[sexyclassicrock]

Jimi being Hendrix x2

[entropy-of-mind]

Спор идет не о пустяках, а о том, быть ли безумным или нет

Эпиктет

(via entropy-of-mind)

Причем здесь фотография джипа?

[badpolitico]

In our city you can see everything

[badpolitico]

5 abandoned places. A good place to play hide'n'seek

[daneckstein]

Just spent an amazing four days in this off the grid A-frame deep in the Sierras.  

Sierra National Forest, CA

[anotherlostwish]

[hyperouranios]

[irakalan]

MÉDITATIONS”  & “DANS LES NUAGES

PHOTOGRAPHER LAURENCE DEMAISON 

French photographer Laurence Demaison - “The photographic work of Laurence Demaison is exclusively constituted by self-portraits from 1993 to 2009. Since 2010 she occasionally uses mannequins or dolls. The used techniques – shot, development, print – are analogicals and realized by the author. No particular manipulation intervenes beyond the shot (except chemical inversion of films for some series)”.

Photo of a series “Méditations"  - 1/2/3/4

Photo of a series “Dans les nuages"  - 5/6/7/8/9/10

[theserbianprince-deactivated202]

All I want to do is go on road trips and have sex.

Just with you though.  (via wildnothin)

[misswallflower]

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

Leo Tolstoy (via youngfolksociety)