User talk:Mbilt

International Council for Democratic Institutions and State Sovereignity ICDISS
The beat goes on-"The Economist Aug 5 2006, page 48 'Disinformation'" "...its website is registered at a hotel address in Mexico with a phone that does not answer and operated from a server in Latvia. ...the ICDISS has no address and no telephone number...its report...(purporting) influential outside opinion conceding the case for independence (for Transdniestria) from well-known academics and international lawyers seemingly held during a conference at the Beacon Hotel in Washington DC, April 2006 has been rebutted by the Beacon Hotel which has no record of such a conference and the supposed attendees from Stanford, Oxford, Harvard, State Department....(etc, etc.)." The sentence in the article that aggrieves me most is the first-" Soviet propagandists were experts in the art of disinformation:planting specious stories in obscure corners of the media..." Dear me, they certainly had company (not always planting stories in 'obscure' corners). We can be justly proud of our own experts in our intelligence(?) communities' disinformation, but also, as an aside, creating fictitious entities-charities, businesses, civic organizations, radical movements--generally just having a whole bunch of fun and some wholesome competition with the 'other side' whoever they might be for the moment. Creative activity,(such as spinning a good yarn), should certainly command respect and admiration from delighted observers if it is well done. If it's clumsy and sophomoric, it's just fiddlesticks.