BBC News: The disinformation tactics used by China

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I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it:
The disinformation tactics used by China – www.bbc.co.uk/news/56364952
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Who truly was the most dishonest president?

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Former President Donald Trump was often accused of having a complete disregard for the truth. Yet some of his predecessors’ falsehoods ranged from the bizarre to the horrifying. So how does Trump truly compare?

When Saddam Hussein invaded the oil-rich emirate of Kuwait in August 1990, President George HW Bush snarled: “This will not stand.”

But as US troops were scrambled to the Gulf, the American public was dubious about the justification for military action.

The Kuwaiti government-in-exile promptly hired a US public relations firm, Hill & Knowlton, whose Washington DC office was run by Bush’s former chief of staff.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56246507

 

Happy New Year!

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It has been a rough year for the most of us and I just know it has been rough and may be still is, for you. May I despite wish you a very happy New Year, hoping that things will turn for the better for you and your family!

For Reuser’s Information Services it has been a difficult year. Many international OSINT training programmes were cancelled or postponed, we even had to cancel some of our very popular OSINT Pathfinder training programmes due to the pandemic.

Nevertheless, there is also good news. We were invited to partner up with Triangular Group Academy (TGA) which we decided to do. TGA has a proven record of organising training programmes. Their high reputation and wide experience in intelligence means we have full confidence that the synergy between two expert companies will result in better service and better products for our national and international customers.

  1. This year alone, we offer eight full RIS OSINT Training Programmes in The Hague, The Netherlands like we always did. Learn Arno’s OSINT Methodology how to do proper research in open sources to find the best of the best on a systematic, planned and structured way. The first one, now scheduled for February 2021 is already fully booked. We also offer this highly popular training programme as an in-house programme for those who have more specific requirements.
  2. In addition, we also offer a range of 3-hour online OSINT workshops on a variety of OSINT subjects. Want to learn how to construct Smart Queries that will get exactly what you want and will work in any Internet search engine or online database? Choose the Smart Queries for Smart Searching workshop and you will be amazed how much there is to learn.

    Or may be you’d like to learn how to search the world wide web anonymously? When doing market intelligence research, or publishing on international crime, you probably need to be as anonymous as possible. This workshop will share techniques and procedures to do just that. Choose the Anonymous Searching workshop and you will learn techniques and tools you have not thought of yourself.
  3. Obviously we offer all our training programmes and workshops online. Please contact us for the possibilities.

We have many more workshops and training programme solutions for you and we cordially invite you to try one or two. Don’t wait too long please, the first range is scheduled for early February 2021.

If you have any questions or requirements, please do not hesitate to contact Marlin van Hal at mvh@triangulargroup.com, or +31 6 2726 6286, or simply reply to this mail.

Hope to see you soon!